Re: Merkle-Winternitz-HORS signature scheme for Tahoe-LAFS [correction]

2010-07-09 Thread David-Sarah Hopwood
David-Sarah Hopwood wrote: [snip] > There could also be a concern that point 4 above is similar to > on-line/off-line signatures as patented by Even, Goldreich and Micali > (U.S. patent 5016274, filed in 1988; expires on 14 May 2011). Ah, I calculated the expiration date incorrectly. It was filed

Merkle-Winternitz-HORS signature scheme for Tahoe-LAFS

2010-07-09 Thread David-Sarah Hopwood
[cc:d to cryptography list from the tahoe-dev list. See , and http://allmydata.org/pipermail/tahoe-dev/2010-June/004496.html> for context.] Brian Warner wrote: > On 6/23