Re: Double Encryption Q

2008-04-21 Thread Martin James Cochran
If your original mode of operation is secure, then this should be secure. The reduction: Consider algorithm A that tries to break the double encryption mode of operation (DM) in the IND-CPA setting. We can construct an algorithm B that tries to break the original mode of operation (OM)

Re: 2factor

2008-04-21 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
On Wed, 16 Apr 2008 14:07:49 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Which seem to be aimed at a drop in replacement for SSL (with a working example using Firefox and Apache). They seem to rest on a key exchange or agreement based on a shared secret. As opposed to, say, RFC 4279,

TextTell - 1983 - Encrypted Text Transmission

2008-04-21 Thread Nap van Zuuren
In my collection I have : TextTell - 1983 - Encrypted Text Transmission via Acoustic Coupler to Telephone mouthpiece ( for Transmission ) and Telephone receiver ( for Reception ) Forbidden by the (then West) German BKA for showing at CeBIT 1983 fair at Hannover Photos on

Re: Cruising the stacks and finding stuff

2008-04-21 Thread Victor Duchovni
On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 08:02:28PM -0700, Allen wrote: Granted A5/1 is known to be very weak, but how much weaker than AES-128? Ten orders of magnitude? I haven't a clue ... This is usually the point where I stop reading. Of course 10 orders of magnitude is ~33 bits, so unless the A5 attacks

Re: Cruising the stacks and finding stuff

2008-04-21 Thread Perry E. Metzger
Victor Duchovni [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 08:02:28PM -0700, Allen wrote: Granted A5/1 is known to be very weak, but how much weaker than AES-128? Ten orders of magnitude? I haven't a clue ... This is usually the point where I stop reading. Of course 10 orders of

quantum cryptography broken?

2008-04-21 Thread travis+ml-cryptography
http://www.kurzweilai.net/news/frame.html?main=/news/news_single.html?id%3D8471 Quantum cryptography broken KurzweilAI.net, April 20, 2008 Two Swedish scientsts, Jorgen Cederlof, now of Google, and Jan-Ake Larsson of Link In a paper published in IEEE Trans. Inf Theory, 54: 1735-1741 (2008), they