On Sep 6, 2010, at 10:49 PM, John Denker wrote:
If you think about the use of randomness in cryptography, what
matters
isn't really randomness - it's exactly unpredictability.
Agreed.
This is a very
tough to pin down: What's unpredictable to me may be predictable to
you,
It's easy to
On Tue, 7 Sep 2010 22:22:57 -0400 Jerry Leichter leich...@lrw.com
wrote:
On Sep 6, 2010, at 10:49 PM, John Denker wrote:
It's easy to pin down. If it's unpredictable to the attacker,
it's unpredictable enough for all practical purposes.
I was talking about mathematical, even philosophical,
Hi.
Just subscribed to this list for posting a specific question. I hope the
question I'll ask is in place here.
We do a web app with an Ajax-based client. Anybody can download the client and
open the app, only, the first thing the app does is ask for login.
The login doesn't happen using
On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 10:22:57PM -0400, Jerry Leichter wrote:
But there isn't actually such a thing as classical thermodynamical
randomness! Classical physics is fully deterministic. Thermodynamics uses
a probabilistic model as a way to deal with situations where the necessary
On 8 September 2010 16:45, f...@mail.dnttm.ro wrote:
Hi.
Just subscribed to this list for posting a specific question. I hope the
question I'll ask is in place here.
We do a web app with an Ajax-based client. Anybody can download the client
and open the app, only, the first thing the app
f...@mail.dnttm.ro writes:
The idea is the following: we don't want to secure the connection,
Why not?
Using HTTPS is easier than making up some half-baked scheme that won't work
anyway.
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