A recent press release about a new cryptographic product, Permanent
Privacy (P.P.), mentioning my name, has led to a slew of
dramatically mistaken reports. Corrections: I have never had a
cryptography-related connection to Harvard. I had nothing to do with
the press release.
Concerning
On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 04:14:33PM -0600, Matt Ball wrote:
From a little bit of off-line discussion, I think I've got a restatement of
the problem that is more suitable to those with a stronger programming
background than mathematical background:
If someone uses the __random32 function
Florian Weimer writes:
I've got a function f : S - X x S where S = (Z/2Z)**96 and
X = (Z/2Z)**32. Suppose that s_0 is fixed and (x_i, s_i) = f(s_{i-1}).
(f implements a PRNG. The s_i are subsequent internal states and the
x_i are results.)
Now f happens to be linear. I know the values of
On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 12:03:50PM -0400, Victor Duchovni wrote:
On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 04:14:33PM -0600, Matt Ball wrote:
From a little bit of off-line discussion, I think I've got a restatement of
the problem that is more suitable to those with a stronger programming
background than
[News report below.]
This highly classified little-publicized multi-billion dollar vague
program to secure Federal computers seems doomed to failure. People
like you and I, in the unclassified private sector, design and build
and program all those computers and networks.
But of course we've
Dear people of the Cryptography mailing list:
The Hack Tahoe! contest (http://hacktahoe.org ) has already led a
security researchers to spot a flaw in our crypto design. This
release fixes that flaw.
Regards,
Zooko
ANNOUNCING Allmydata.org Tahoe, the Least-Authority Filesystem, v1.2
