Re: CRCs and passphrase hashing

2006-09-03 Thread Leichter, Jerry
Look up the paper "Fingerprinting by random polynomials" by Michael Rabin. -- Jerry On Fri, 25 Aug 2006, Travis H. wrote: | Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 20:12:30 -0500 | From: Travis H. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | To: Cryptography | S

CRCs and passphrase hashing

2006-08-27 Thread Travis H.
Howdy! I was talking to Terry Ritter, and he was explaining to me that when he needed to make some keys from a user-supplied passphrase, he computed various CRCs over the passphrase, and used those as derived keys. I'd like to know more about it, and I was wondering if anyone knew of any work th