Re: [Cryptography] Elliptic curve question

On 2013-10-08 03:14, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote: Are you planning to publish your signing key or your decryption key? Use of a key for one makes the other incompatible.� Incorrect. One's public key is always an elliptic point, one's private key is always a number. Thus there is no reason

Re: [Cryptography] Iran and murder

On 2013-10-08 02:03, John Kelsey wrote: Alongside Phillip's comments, I'll just point out that assassination of key people is a tactic that the US and Israel probably don't have any particular advantages in. It isn't in our interests to encourage a worldwide tacit acceptance of that stuff.

Re: [Cryptography] Crypto Standards v.s. Engineering habits - Was: NIST about to weaken SHA3?

On 2013-10-11 15:48, ianG wrote: Right now we've got a TCP startup, and a TLS startup. It's pretty messy. Adding another startup inside isn't likely to gain popularity. The problem is that layering creates round trips, and as cpus get ever faster, and pipes ever fatter, round trips become a

Re: [Cryptography] /dev/random is not robust

On 2013-10-15 10:35, d...@deadhat.com wrote: http://eprint.iacr.org/2013/338.pdf No kidding. ___ The cryptography mailing list cryptography@metzdowd.com http://www.metzdowd.com/mailman/listinfo/cryptography

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