Re: 5x speedup for AES using SSE5?

2008-08-26 Thread Ilya Levin
Brian Gladman wrote: > But a fully byte oriented implementation runs at about 140 cycles/byte > and here the S-Box substitution step is a significant bottleneck. > ... > It is also possible that the PPERM instruction could be used to speed up > the Galois field calculations to produce the S-Box mat

Re: Ransomware

2008-06-11 Thread Ilya Levin
Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Agreed, but..., well there is the small matter of figuring out /who/ is > doing it and that just might require some small bit of technology. Certainly, it is not mutual exclusive. However factor an RSA key hardly can help with that. > At least two defects in thi

Re: Ransomware

2008-06-10 Thread Ilya Levin
Leichter, Jerry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Computerworld reports: > > http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9094818 > > on a call from Kaspersky Labs for help breaking encryption used by some > ransomeware: Code that infects a system, uses a public key

Re: Declassified NSA publications

2008-04-29 Thread Ilya Levin
On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 12:22 AM, Steven M. Bellovin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://www.nsa.gov/public/crypt_spectrum.cfm > I know this is silly but I could not resist to comment on some NSA redacts: http://www.literatecode.com/2008/04/29/nsaredact/ Ilya

Re: Elcomsoft trying to patent faster GPU-based password cracker

2007-10-26 Thread Ilya Levin
I'm not affiliated with Elcomsoft and don't know their real intentions, but what they are trying to do is perfectly reasonable. Once they release a commercial product with such feature it is only a matter of time until Microsoft or some other patent troll will run for a patent and start suing. So,

Re: solving the wrong problem

2005-08-09 Thread Ilya Levin
ot; > doesn't give any real image. Perhaps, but sometimes rubbish just better be named rubbish without any metaphorical allusions. For everyone's good. -- Ilya Levin http://www.literatecode.com - The Cryptography Mail

Re: solving the wrong problem

2005-08-07 Thread Ilya Levin
John Denker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So, unless/until somebody comes up with a better metaphor, > I'd vote for "one-picket fence". "Nonsense fence" maybe less metaphoric but more clear. -- - Ilya O Levin http://www.literatecode.com