I'm waiting to see if I'm validated by others recognizing value in
this research approach, like by acceptance by the math journal which
has the paper, or for de-validation, by someone being able to find
something actually wrong with it, which is why I keep checking math
newsgroups.

But there is no doubt about it being a brilliant little approach.

What I did was to just add one more congruence to the traditional
difference of squares so that instead of just having x^2 = y^2 mod T,
where T is the target composite (mathematicians often use "N"), I use
two congruences:

x^2 = y^2 mod p

and

z^2 = y^2 mod T.

And I find I get these nifty little relations that give f_1 mod p and
f_2 mod p, where f_1*f_2 = nT.

If modern mathematicians were an ounce of what they present themselves
as then such a simple but remarkably powerful approach would get an
objective consideration, or if it's not new, someone could cite a
source where that approach has been done:

The way it works with the mathematical community on Usenet is I come
up with a mathematical argument and I stress mathematical proof and
getting to the real issues and figuring out what's happening.

Some people come back in reply and call me names.

Others assert that I'm stupid, or an idiot, or crazy and that I don't
know anything but trivial math.

Some others reply claiming to care about what is true, but always
muddying the waters versus actually clearing things up.

And some actually directly lie about details and I can even at times
show exactly where they lie but the group as a whole just ignores
them.

THAT is the modern mathematical community on Usenet.

James Harris

C12-GAMMA; a free/open-source E-mail security tool for BSD/Linux:

http://www.leopard.uk.com/cion

[ probably the most important cryptography software ever written;
because it contains the CipherPacket source-code/algorithm ]

CFP: The 2008 International Conference of Manufacturing Engineering
and Engineering Management (ICMEEM 2008)
From: IAENG - International Association of Engineers

Draft Paper Submission Deadline: 6 March, 2008
Camera-Ready papers & Pre-registration Due: 31 March, 2008
ICMEEM 2008: 2-4 July, 2008, London, U.K.
http://www.iaeng.org/WCE2008/ICMEEM2008.html

The conference ICMEEM'08 is held under the World Congress on
Engineering 2008. The WCE 2008 is organized by the International
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The conference proceedings will be published by IAENG (ISBN:
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I am interested in brushing up on modern cryptographic techniques.

I'm familiar with "Applied Cryptography: Protocols, Algorithms, and
Source Code in C: Protocols, Algorithms and Source Code in C" by Bruce
Schneier - but note that this book is now 13 years old.

I'm looking for a text-book that will serve not only as a refresher,
but also maybe inspiration in the context of designing and
implementing a domain-specific "provably secure" (as far as that is
possible :-) ) protocol for a niche application.

I'm interested not only in the implementation of hashes; shared and
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applied in combination. I'd be interested in establishing not only
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receipts that document an interaction rather than mere transmission.

MULTICONF-08 Final call for papers

The 2008 MULTICONF (website: www.PromoteResearch.org ) will be held
during July 7-10 2008 in Orlando, FL, USA. We invite draft paper
submissions and the deadline for paper submission is very close. The...