Re: [cryptography] beginner crypto
Cryptography Engineering is a good, up to date resource: https://www.schneier.com/book-ce.html On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 4:17 PM, Jeffrey Goldberg jeff...@goldmark.orgwrote: On Dec 29, 2013, at 3:56 PM, yersinia yersinia.spi...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 7:28 PM, code elusive code.elus...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 11:35:28PM +, RossMcFarlane wrote: I'd love to learn some more about cryptography [1] https://www.coursera.org/course/crypto [2] https://www.coursera.org/course/crypto2 Very nice as a crypto courses. I can also vouch for this. The first one (in addition to stuff I’d sort of picked up on my own) a few years back put me in a position where I can now read a lot of the primary literature in cryptology. The math for cryptography isn’t hard, but it is abstract and does require being able to think mathematically. I found “Understanding Cryptography” http://wiki.crypto.rub.de/Buch/ excellent for understanding the math. But note that it takes a different approach than the crypto course, and you should not rely on that book alone. If anyone points you (Ross) to Applied Cryptography, I’d recommend that you stay away. It was valuable at its time, but it is of historical significance only at this point. Cheers, -j ___ cryptography mailing list cryptography@randombit.net http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptography ___ cryptography mailing list cryptography@randombit.net http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptography
Re: [cryptography] good key stretching practice?
Check out PBKDF2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PBKDF2 Good table if you're not satisfied: http://crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/6697/bcrypt-vs-key-stretching-md5 On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 10:01 PM, Kevin kevinsisco61...@gmail.com wrote: Hello list. What is the best key stretching method that can be used? -- Kevin ___ cryptography mailing list cryptography@randombit.net http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptography ___ cryptography mailing list cryptography@randombit.net http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptography
Re: [cryptography] Cypherpunks mailing list
I made cypherpu...@librelist.com. Nice and non-controversial. Feel free to post there. On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 1:39 PM, Ted Smith te...@riseup.net wrote: On Mon, 2013-03-25 at 21:28 +0100, Eugen Leitl wrote: On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 07:03:04PM +0100, Adam Back wrote: But my point actually was b...@al-qaeda.net??? Come on that is watch list Of course it is pure watch list bait. That's the point. bait and an invitation NOT to join list blah, whatever it is about. If you think it's a deterrent, then it's not the right list to join, anyway. I think I should be on any watch list known to man, if not, they've been asleep at the wheel. And it would be self-DoS, which is precisely the point. I think the name of the recently-created list aptly demonstrates this point: crypto-politics, not cypherpunk. They're decidedly different meme pools: one produces key escrow, the other produces Wikileaks and OpenPGP. -- Sent from Ubuntu ___ cryptography mailing list cryptography@randombit.net http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptography ___ cryptography mailing list cryptography@randombit.net http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptography
