Re: Book on cryptography for programmers

2000-08-14 Thread David Honig
At 03:02 PM 8/11/00 -0400, John R Levine wrote: All of the discussion of algorithms is fine, but it seems to me that the most important topic in such a book is how to avoid building yet another crypto system with a ten-ton steel door and a cardboard back wall. I would include some horror stories

Re: What would you like to see in a book on cryptography for programmers?

2000-08-14 Thread Bill Stewart
On Thu, 10 Aug 2000, Michael Paul Johnson wrote: What would you like to see covered in a practical book on cryptography for programmers? - Some fundamentals of groups and fields. - Provide all your code examples on the web. At 03:37 PM 8/10/00 -0400, dmolnar wrote: * Discussion of crypto

Using signature-only certs to authenticate key exchanges

2000-08-14 Thread Enzo Michelangeli
If I use a signature-only cert to authenticate a D-H key exchange (e.g., in IPSEC, or SSL with ephemeral DH ciphersuites) am I in violation of any licensing condition and/or, when applicable, export regulation? I'm asking because MS seems to suggest that for Win2K's IPSEC stack a signature-only