Ian Grigg wrote:
Has anyone kept up to date with AES modes?
http://csrc.nist.gov/CryptoToolkit/modes
http://csrc.nist.gov/CryptoToolkit/modes/proposedmodes/
I'm looking for basic mode to encrypt blocks (using AES)
of about 1k in length, +/- an order of magnitude. Looking
at the above table (2nd
Zooko provided a bunch of useful comments in private mail,
which I've edited and forward for list consumption.
Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn wrote:
EAX is in the same class as CCM. I think its slightly better. Also
there is GCM mode, which is perhaps a tiny bit faster, although maybe
not if you have to
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Does anyone know the details of the certificate generation algorithms
used by various CAs?
In particular, Verisign's is very long and I seem to remember someone telling
me it was a hach but I don't recall the details...
Thanks,
-Ekr
Eric Rescorla [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
In particular, Verisign's is very long and I seem to remember someone telling
me it was a hach but I don't recall the details...
It's just a SHA-1 hash. Many CAs use this to make traffic analysis of how
many (or few) certificates they're issuing
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Sun, 10 Oct 2004 18:16:21 -0700, Eric Rescorla
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
ekr Does anyone know the details of the certificate generation
ekr algorithms used by various CAs?
Variants I've heard of are:
- A simple counter starting at 0 (well, actually, I know this
