Call for Papers
and
Call for Session Proposals

The 2007 World Congress in Computer Science,
Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing
WORLDCOMP'07
(composed of 24 Joint Conferences)
June 25-28, 2007, Las Vegas, USA

Dear Colleagues:

You are invited to submit a draft paper and/or a proposal to organize
a session/workshop. All accepted papers will be published in the
respective conference proceedings. The Academic Co-sponsors of
WORLDCOMP'07 include: MIT Media Lab, MIT; Harvard University's
Statistical Genomics and Computational Biology Lab; Texas Advanced
Computing Center, The University of Texas at Austin; Statistical and
Computational Intelligence Lab of Purdue University; and University of
Iowa's Medical Imaging HPC Lab. A more complete list of sponsors can
be found below.

is this a good way to generate a nonce?

generate a number using VB rng, xor with date and time then run it through a
secure rng?

Brian Tung wrote:

I'm crossposting this to sci.crypt, where a post with this subject line
has led to a fairly long thread. Maybe someone there - including Mr.
St. Denis himself - can enlighten us to what has really happened. He
has been the target of forgery attacks before (for that matter, so have
I on one occasion) and so there can be an explanation for this.

John Savard

I am looking for a free encryption library that I can use in a
cross-platform commercial product (first for Windows, then Mac and
Linux).

A quick search revealed two immediate candidates: LibTomCrypt (public
domain) and Libgcrypt (LGPL). Both are open source:

http://libtomcrypt.com/features.html

http://directory.fsf.org/security/libgcrypt.html

Which one, in your experience, would be more suitable for someone who
has never used a crypt libray before? And why?

(I have started reading the "Handbook of Applied Cryptography" by A.
Menezes et. al but I have don't intend to re-invent the wheel...)

Which one is better documented (for the API user) in your opinion?
Which one has less cross-platform issues?
Which one has less bugs?
Which one is more widely used?
Which one performs better (speed)?
Do they differ in level of security?
Are there any other issues/criteria that I overlooked?