[cryptography] blinding is in libgcrypt but NOT in gnupg?

2013-08-22 Thread Jake
as you all know, I have been trying to find blinding for GnuPG, and someone to help implement it as a seperate (external) operation. I was told that blinding was used in RSA decryption to repel timing attacks. But I couldn't find it anywhere in the GnuPG source code. /* We use blinding by

Re: [cryptography] enabling blind signatures in GPG

2013-08-22 Thread Jake
ble for anyone to take a snapshot of opinion, guaranteeing accuracy of sentiment and one-person one-vote. I have everything figured out except the blinding. I am glad to give more detail to anyone interested but I can't do anything until I get blinding working because it&#

Re: [cryptography] enabling blind signatures in GPG

2013-08-21 Thread Jake
start from scratch. -jake On Sun, 18 Aug 2013, Steve Weis wrote: Hi Jake. This is not GPG-related, but I worked on an OpenID-based private federated login system called PseudoID that used blind signatures. Basically, an identity provider will check your real identity, then issue you a blindly-si

[cryptography] enabling blind signatures in GPG

2013-08-18 Thread Jake
have a very positive effect on democracy in the world, and hopefully make politicians into simple clerks whose job is simply to count the opinions and follow the will of the people. take care, -jake ___ cryptography mailing list cryptography@randombi