Re: Intuitive cryptography that's also practical and secure.

2007-02-04 Thread Joseph Ashwood
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Re: OT: SSL certificate chain problems

2007-02-04 Thread Victor Duchovni
On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 01:57:04PM +1300, Peter Gutmann wrote: > Victor Duchovni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >What I don't understand is how the old (finally expired) root helps to > >validate the new unexpired root, when a verifier has the old root and the > >server presents the new root in

Re: data under one key, was Re: analysis and implementation of LRW

2007-02-04 Thread Vlad \"SATtva\" Miller
Allen wrote on 31.01.2007 01:02: > I'll skip the rest of your excellent, and thought provoking post as it > is future and I'm looking at now. > > From what you've written and other material I've read, it is clear that > even if the horizon isn't as short as five years, it is certainly > shorter tha

Re: Intuitive cryptography that's also practical and secure.

2007-02-04 Thread Alexander Klimov
On Tue, 30 Jan 2007, Leichter, Jerry wrote: > This is a common misconception. The legal system does not rely on > lawyers, judges, members of Congress, and so on understanding how > technology or science works. It doesn't rely on them coming to > accept the trustworthiness of the technology on an

quantum computer announcement

2007-02-04 Thread dan
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Re: Private Key Generation from Passwords/phrases

2007-02-04 Thread Allen
Alexander Klimov wrote: [snip] (Of course, with 60K passwords there is almost for sure at least one "password1" or "Steven123" and thus the salts are irrelevant.) I'm not sure I understand this statement as I just calculated the HMAC MD5 for "password1" using a salt of 7D00 (32,000 decim

Re: News.com: IBM donates new privacy tool to open-source Higgins

2007-02-04 Thread "Hal Finney"
John Gilmore forwards: > http://news.com.com/IBM+donates+new+privacy+tool+to+open-source/2100-1029_3-6153625.html > > IBM donates new privacy tool to open-source > By Joris Evers > Staff Writer, CNET News.com > Published: January 25, 2007, 9:00 PM PST > > IBM has developed software designed