David Kahn's "Seizing the Enigma" is back in print. However, it's
only available from Barnes and Noble -- their publishing arm is doing
the reprint. According to the preface, the new edition corrects minor
errors, but didn't give any details.
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Seizing-the-E
Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn wrote:
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> [removing Cc: tahoe-dev as this subthread is not about Tahoe-LAFS.
> Of course, the subscribers to tahoe-dev would probably be interested
> in this subthread, but that just goes to show that they ought to
> subscribe to cryptogra...@metzdowd.com.]
>
> On Monday,2
* David Wagner:
> (Do note that factoring is not NP-complete.)
It's also possible to factor an n-bit number in O(n^k) integer
additions, substractions, multiplications, divisions and comparisons
to zero, for some smallish fixed value of k (an observations which is
due to Schönhage, IIRC). So you
Jerry Leichter wrote:
>> If current physical theories are even approximately correct,
>> there are limits to how many "bit flips" (which would
>> encompass all possible binary operations) can occur in
>> a fixed volume of space-time.
> The physical arguments to which I was referring say *nothing*
James A. Donald wrote:
For password-authenticated key agreement such as TLS-SRP
or TLS-PSK to work, login has to be in the chrome.
Regrettably, login in the (non-customizable) chrome is unusable; this is
why *everyone* now uses cookies instead of HTTP authentication. Just
asking the user for
