Re: Book on cryptography for programmers

On Fri, 11 Aug 2000, John R Levine wrote: * Don't try to invent a new crypto systems. Amateurs can't write secure crypto systems, as often as not professionals can't either. By the way, I would extend this to include "don't try to write your own new crypto code, unless you really, really

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

On Thu, 10 Aug 2000, Michael Paul Johnson wrote: What would you like to see covered in a practical book on cryptography for programmers? * Practical random number generation -- /dev/random, entropy gathering daemon, Yarrow, etc. Some examples of bad random number generation to put

Re: Extracting Entropy?

Wagner's proposal considering H as a random oracle, and then onto constructions with real hash functions. -dmolnar

Re: NTRU Public Key Cryptosystem

On Mon, 17 Apr 2000, dmolnar wrote: Hi, Is it known how tightly related NTRU is to the shortest vector problem? Is there a reduction known yet from SVP to NTRU, or is it still in a ^^^ my mistake -- from NTRU to SVP is what I should have written