> I don't follow. For RSA, the only difference between encryption and
> decryption, and public and private key, and hence between chosen
> plaintext and chosen ciphertext, is the arbitrary naming of one of
> a pair of mutually-inverse values as the "private" key and the other
> as the "public" key
My department would like to conduct departmental votes in some automated way.
We're looking for free software, (or modestly-priced software) to do this.
Anyone know of such a thing? I've done some searching without any luck.
We don't have the usual requirements of a full-blown voting package
(f
> >It is taught by good people, but I find it a bit strange they are all
> >Microsoft employees. This is perhaps because U. Wash doesn't have any
> >cryptographers.
>
> I hardly think that you can discount the skills of Josh Beneloh and
> Brian LaMacchia.
>
Who is discounting? I said they are
Oops, I forgot about Neal! :embarrassed:
He's a top-notch mathematician, has a couple of books on crypto (or
crypto-related topics) and even wrote a controversial article with Menezes
recently that was discussed on this mailing list.
But I don't think he teaches a crypto class at UW?!
On Tue,
changes in the fall: they hired an excellent young cryptographer
named Yoshi Kohno.
==
Prof. John R. Black www.cs.colorado.edu/~jrblack
Computer Science 430 UCB [EMAI
> On 5/10/06, John R. Black <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >I skimmed this. The start of the article says that after 3 rounds AES
> >achieves perfect diffusion?!
>
> No, it says their old ASD could not distinguish encrypted data from
> random after 3 rounds.
>
On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 10:30:40AM -0500, Marcos el Ruptor wrote:
>
> http://defectoscopy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3
>
> Expect new attacks soon enough.
>
I skimmed this. The start of the article says that after 3 rounds AES
achieves perfect diffusion?!
A simple square attack (that I teach in
Perhaps the worst security hole I know of is with United Airlines EasyCheckIn
machines at the airport: you swipe a credit card and it does a fuzzy match
to find flyers that day whose name is close to yours.
My name is John Black. I often get a menu to choose from: "are you flying to
Dulles? To
