Re: combining entropy

2008-10-29 Thread Ben Laurie
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 7:55 PM, Leichter, Jerry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2. The Byzantine model. Failed modules can do anything including cooperating by exchanging arbitrary information and doing infinite computation. So in the Byzantine model I can

Re: combining entropy

2008-10-29 Thread Bill Stewart
This isn't enough. Somehow, you have to state that the values emitted on demand in any given round i (where a round consists of exactly one demand on all N member and produces a single output result) cannot receive any input from any other members. Otherwise, if N=2 and member 0 produces true

Skein announced

2008-10-29 Thread Stephan Somogyi
The Skein team has announced its submission to the NIST hash competition: http://www.schneier.com/skein.html s. - The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending unsubscribe cryptography to [EMAIL PROTECTED]