NIST Special Publication 800-108 Recommendation for Key Derivation Using Pseudorandom Functions

2008-11-08 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
From: Sara Caswell [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: undisclosed-recipients:; Subject: NIST Special Publication 800-108 Recommendation for Key Derivation Using Pseudorandom Functions Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2008 08:57:40-0500 Dear Colleagues: NIST Special Publication 800-108 Recommendation for Key Derivation

Re: ADMIN: no money politics, please

2008-11-08 Thread zooko
Hey folks: you are welcome to discuss money politics over at the p2p- hackers mailing list: http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers I'm extremely interested in the subject myself, having taken part in two notable failed attempts to deploy Chaumian digital cash and currently

Re: Bitcoin P2P e-cash paper

2008-11-08 Thread Hal Finney
Bitcoin seems to be a very promising idea. I like the idea of basing security on the assumption that the CPU power of honest participants outweighs that of the attacker. It is a very modern notion that exploits the power of the long tail. When Wikipedia started I never thought it would work, but

This is a test. This is only a test...

2008-11-08 Thread Peter Gutmann
From the DailyWTF: In my previous alert, I included the text of a phishing email as an example [of phishing emails that people shouldn't reply to]. Some students misunderstood that I was asking for user name and password, and replied with that information. Please be aware that you

Re: This is a test. This is only a test...

2008-11-08 Thread Ben Pfaff
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Gutmann) writes: From the DailyWTF: In my previous alert, I included the text of a phishing email as an example [of phishing emails that people shouldn't reply to]. Some students misunderstood that I was asking for user name and password, and replied with

Re: Bitcoin P2P e-cash paper

2008-11-08 Thread Satoshi Nakamoto
Ray Dillinger: the currency is inflationary at about 35% as that's how much faster computers get annually ... the inflation rate of 35% is almost guaranteed by the technology Increasing hardware speed is handled: To compensate for increasing hardware speed and varying interest in running