Greg,

I notice something that is very interesting to me, and maybe I need to
do some additional work on my own, but I'm going to try to sleaze past
that by asking you.

http://www.ecrypt.eu.org/stream/endofphase3.html

Sometime when Nessie streaming project became eSTREAM, it seems all
candidates have abandoned the function of authentication (MAC, HMAC,
etc).

Apparently, the task of including that is either insanely difficult,
or all of you are dropping that in the interest of performance. Am I
missing something?

Your comments and anyone else (Mr. Goldstein of Salsa20 particularly)
would be off the hook.

http://www.permanentprivacy.com/how-it-works.htm

Mr. Scott,

This looks like something to defer to a text expert like you.
Perhaps this is a product of bijective behavior?

They (PP) claim that they process the text/data prior to encrypting
with AES such that even if you have brute forced the key to give the
correct blob of plaintext/data, you will not be able to discern the
correct set of text/data and that one page of text, if brute forced
will produce among zillions of pages of garbage, also it will produce
every page of data ever written.

They got Peter Schweitzer of Harvard to check out their method
(possibly implementation, etc...) who, according to Mr. Robert
Silverman "Pubkeybreaker" is a Harvard undergrad who has cryptographic
expertise.

This product uses language that everyone, including myself, brands as
"snake oil".

I just wonder what your take is on their treatment of plaintext prior
to encryption.

Thank you.

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Hi,

I just wanted to know the current cryptographic status of both RSA and RC4.

I note that they are still in use in SSL with browsers.

Firefox uses AES for the asymmteric encryption, but IE7 still uses RC4.

W.r.t RSA, I seem to remember some talk about a break through in factoring,
but I was hoping a current cryptographer around here could give a quick
summary.

Thanks!

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Dear Colleague,

On Wed, 9 Jul 2008 21:16:05 -0700, Mike Easter wrote:

Those that would like, you can check the veracity of your DNS server
using Dan's website

RIAA and MPAA hire these pathetic shills to post to newsgroups and
blogs telling us that we can't make backups of our software DVDs,
that we can't rip a song off the music CD we just paid full price
for to play on our MP3 player while jogging, etc., etc. All bogus.
When you expose these slimeballs for what they are, they crawl back
under a rock and you never hear from them again. Morons.

"You say you want the power to time-shift and space-shift TV
and radio? You say you want tomorrow's innovators to invent
new TV and radio gizmos you haven't thought of yet, the same
way the pioneers behind the VCR, TiVo, and the iPod did?

"Well, that's not what the entertainment industry has in mind.
According to them, here's all tomorrow's innovators should
be allowed to offer you:

"customary historic use of broadcast content by consumers
to the extent such use is consistent with applicable law."

"Had that been the law in 1970, there would never have been a VCR.
Had it been the law in 1990, no TiVo. In 2000, no iPod.

http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2006/01/new-senate-broadcast-flag-bill-would-freeze...

Hi,
well it's a quizz that i had in some security course in uni but i
couldnt and no one could help solving it so far!!
and here is the quizz

Alice >> Bob:
65537,376781096648655171476075046480384036003069767135878367046892404899787642486409
Bob >> Alice:
282833517591435239342270053773279218579315796727277426826963893552262154129057
03846548...

Hi, I was wondering what can be the simplest asymmetric algorithm
around, for "educational purposes", not meant to protect important data
but more on understanding all the steps involved. I would like then to
implement all of this in a FPGA-style hardware implementation, where the
resources are limited.

Thank you