Re: Who cares about side-channel attacks?

2008-11-01 Thread Ray Dillinger
On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 16:32 +1300, Peter Gutmann wrote: > Look at the XBox > attacks for example, there's everything from security 101 lack of > checking/validation and 1980s MSDOS-era A20# issues through to Bunnie Huang's > FPGA-based homebrew logic analyser and use of timing attacks to recover de

Bitcoin P2P e-cash paper

2008-11-01 Thread Satoshi Nakamoto
I've been working on a new electronic cash system that's fully peer-to-peer, with no trusted third party. The paper is available at: http://www.bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf The main properties: Double-spending is prevented with a peer-to-peer network. No mint or other trusted parties. Participants

Re: the skein hash function

2008-11-01 Thread Peter Gutmann
Bill Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >A quick google-look at ASICs showed a number in the range of 300K-20M gates, >so hash-trees could probably get speedups of up to 20-100x if you can keep >from becoming input-speed-bound. The 300K chips were about $6, 5M at $50 and >350MHz, which is somewha

Fw: SHA-3 lounge

2008-11-01 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
Begin forwarded message: Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 16:38:29 -0400 From: "Jean-Philippe Aumasson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Multiple recipients of list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: SHA-3 lounge Hi, This is to announce the creation of a "SHA-3 lounge", at http://131002.net/sha3lounge/ Best, JP