The recent breakthrough on the 'crank' is claimed to have implications
on cryptography:
http://www.math.wisc.edu/~ono/mahlburg.html
Though the math itself quickly becomes a thorny tangle to the lay
person,
the broad outlines of Mahlburg's work can be understood and appreciated
as well as
David Wagner wrote:
Seecure Science Corporation writes:
Secure Science is offering a preview of one of the 3 ciphers they will
be publishing througout the year. [...] This cipher is [...]
provably just as secure as AES-128.
Adam Shostack writes:
Really? How does one go about proving the
John Kelsey writes:
| I think a bigger issue here is a sort of rational (to the bureaucrat) risk a
| versity: if he declassifies something and it turns out he's leaked somethin
| g valuable (in the eyes of his boss), he's in trouble. As long as there's
| no cost to stamping secret or
Have you looked at their scheme?
http://www.securescience.net/ciphers/csc2/
The way to come up with a cipher provably as secure as AES-128 is to use
AES-128 as part of your cipher -- but their scheme does not do anything
like that.
I am very skeptical about claims that they have a mathematical
On Mar 25, 2005, at 11:55, Florian Weimer wrote:
Does anyone have info on the cost of sub-ordinate CA cert with a name
space constraint (limited to issue certs on domains which are
sub-domains of a your choice... ie only valid to issue certs on
sub-domains of foo.com).
Is there a technical option
On Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 04:02:36PM -0600, Matt Crawford wrote:
There's an X.509v3 NameConstraints extension (which the higher CA would
include in the lower CA's cert) but I have the impression that ends
system software does not widely support it. And of course if you don't
flag it
On Mar 25, 2005, at 16:06, Adam Back wrote:
There's an X.509v3 NameConstraints extension (which the higher CA
would
include in the lower CA's cert) but I have the impression that ends
system software does not widely support it. And of course if you
don't
flag it critical, it's not very
http://online.wsj.com/article_print/0,,SB72077661889592,00.html
The Wall Street Journal
March 25, 2005
U.S. BUSINESS NEWS
TSA Finds Data
On Air Passengers
Lacked Protection
By AMY SCHATZ
Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
March 25, 2005; Page A4
A new government report says
