Proposal (was Summary re: /dev/random)

In an ealier message I wrote: > Conclusions I've reached that I hope there's agreement on: > > More analysis is needed, especially in the area of how > to estimate input entropy. > [SNIP] > > Yarrow's two-stage design, where the output from > hashing the pool seeds a pseudo-random number > gen

Re: Summary re: /dev/random

Sandy Harris writes: > Conclusions I've reached that I hope there's agreement on: > > More analysis is needed, especially in the area of how > to estimate input entropy. > > (Yarrow does this quite differently than /dev/random. > I'm not convinced either is right, but I've nothing > else to propo

palm crypto

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IP: Text of Letter from Rep. Bob Barr to Sandy Berger

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IP: Protecting Computers, and Privacy

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Summary re: /dev/random

This is an attempt to summarize a wide-ranging discussion and see if we have a consensus. There's been much discussion on at least three lists: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] of design of random number generators in general and Linux /dev/random in particular.

Re: US Urges Ban of Internet Crypto

At 02:05 PM 7/29/99 -0400, Robert Hettinga wrote: >The more money people make with internet commerce, the fewer legs >totalitarians will have to stand on when they call for the >criminalization of strong cryptography. I wish I could agree with you. I think, however, that your thesis holds only

Re: House committee ditches SAFE for law enforcement version

At 12:26 PM -0700 7/26/99, Rick Smith wrote: >At 10:48 AM 7/26/99 -0700, Tom Perrine wrote: > >>I'll take that I worked on systems to handle highly-classified >>data in full multi-level environements (A1 candidates). > >Been there, done that. Got the scars. At least we got Uncle Sam to pay th

[RRE]Anonymous Communication on the Internet

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Re: And now, a java encoder ring!

Andreas Bogk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >Udhay Shankar N <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>For me, the highlight of the JavaOne Developer Conference in San >>Francisco last March was Dallas Semiconductor's iButton with Java -- aka >>the Java Ring, a wearable computer that ran Java. It allegedly had