Re: [cryptography] Isn't it odd that...

2013-01-30 Thread ianG
On 30/01/13 06:40 AM, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote: ...despite all the attacks we've seen on compresion-before-encryption, and all the timing atatacks we've seen on encryption, and the highly data-dependent computational effort associated with compression (including in widespread,

[cryptography] Isn't it odd that...

2013-01-29 Thread Thor Lancelot Simon
...despite all the attacks we've seen on compresion-before-encryption, and all the timing atatacks we've seen on encryption, and the highly data-dependent computational effort associated with compression (including in widespread, hardware-accelerated, and valuable applications like lossy video

Re: [cryptography] Isn't it odd that...

2013-01-29 Thread Nico Williams
On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 9:40 PM, Thor Lancelot Simon t...@panix.com wrote: ...despite all the attacks we've seen on compresion-before-encryption, and all the timing atatacks we've seen on encryption, [...] ..we haven't really seen any known-plaintext key recovery attacks facilitated by