[cryptography] ZKPs and other stuff at Zero Knowledge Systems (Re: Zero knowledge as a term for end-to-end encryption)

2013-02-13 Thread Adam Back
I dont think its too bad, its fairly intuitive and related english meaning also. At zero-knowlege we had a precedent of the same use: we used it as an intentional pun that we had zero-knowledge about our customers, and in actuality in one of the later versions we actually had a ZKP (to do with

Re: [cryptography] Q: CBC in SSH

2013-02-13 Thread Bodo Moeller
On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 12:52 PM, Peter Gutmann pgut...@cs.auckland.ac.nzwrote: active use of ECC suites on the public Internet is practically nonexistent That's not entirely accurate; try www.google.com. Bodo ___ cryptography mailing list

Re: [cryptography] Q: CBC in SSH

2013-02-13 Thread Harald Hanche-Olsen
[Bodo Moeller bmoel...@acm.org (2013-02-13 14:26:56 UTC)] On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 12:52 PM, Peter Gutmann pgut...@cs.auckland.ac.nzwrote: active use of ECC suites on the public Internet is practically nonexistent That's not entirely accurate; try www.google.com. I didn't know that.

Re: [cryptography] [zfs] Edon-R hashing and dedup

2013-02-13 Thread Eugen Leitl
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Re: [cryptography] [zfs] Edon-R hashing and dedup

2013-02-13 Thread Eugen Leitl
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Re: [cryptography] Q: CBC in SSH

2013-02-13 Thread Bernhard Amann
On Feb 13, 2013, at 3:22 PM, Peter Gutmann pgut...@cs.auckland.ac.nz wrote: Bodo Moeller bmoel...@acm.org writes: On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 12:52 PM, Peter Gutmann pgut...@cs.auckland.ac.nzwrote: active use of ECC suites on the public Internet is practically nonexistent That's not

Re: [cryptography] Q: CBC in SSH

2013-02-13 Thread Bernhard Amann
Those are some pretty odd stats... Camellia is almost as popular as 3DES? Well, it is what we see :). And all in all Camellia is even more popular than 3DES in our data set (there are some more less popular cipher suites for both 3DES and Camellia). It is pretty close though. Bernhard

Re: [cryptography] Zero knowledge as a term for end-to-end encryption

2013-02-13 Thread Tony Arcieri
On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 10:27 PM, ianG i...@iang.org wrote: AFAIK, the term 'least authority' as used by Tahoe-LAFS folks does not refer to 'zero knowledge' as per cryptographic protocols, but to the concept of least authority as derived from the 'capabilities' school of security thought. I