[cryptography] SafetyLock™

2013-03-14 Thread Tony Arcieri
Someone pasted this in #crypto on Freenode. It's rather hilarious: http://www.onyxscientificinc.com/SafetyLockEncryptionInfo.pdf I can't tell what my favorite feature is, the fact I can use up to 9,999 keys per "file", the fact that keys are minimum 1 megabit long, or the fact that it uses FRACTA

Re: [cryptography] Sodium. (Was: Re: NaCl Documentation?)

2013-03-14 Thread Tony Arcieri
On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 12:53 AM, Joachim Strömbergson < joac...@strombergson.com> wrote: > There is a new implementation of NaCl by Frand Denis called Sodium that > tries to be more portable and user friendly. Just want to clarify one thing: Sodium isn't a "reimplementation" so much as a repaca

Re: [cryptography] Cryptographers win Turing award

2013-03-14 Thread Kevin W. Wall
On Mar 14, 2013 7:52 AM, "ianG" wrote: > ACM Press release is helpful: > http://www.acm.org/press-room/news-releases/2013/turing-award-12 > Wikipedia is too: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Probabilistic_encryption > better copy of the 1984 article: > http://groups.csail.mit.edu/cis/pubs/shafi/19

[cryptography] random extractor hobby algorithm

2013-03-14 Thread Krisztián Pintér
dear list, if you want to send me to hell, please first read the disclaimers on the bottom please. now let's just dive in. i propose an algorithm for smoothing a weak random stream of bytes. it is a combined-cycle rc4, that is, we continually feed the rc4 with the random input stream as "pass

[cryptography] [FoRK] ELF .so encryption contract work, probably resulting in open source

2013-03-14 Thread Eugen Leitl
- Forwarded message from "Stephen D. Williams" - From: "Stephen D. Williams" Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2013 19:43:06 -0700 To: Friends of Rohit Khare , fo...@lig.net, ge...@lig.net, Michael Tiemann , fosdwn...@lig.net Subject: [FoRK] ELF .so encryption contract work, probably res

Re: [cryptography] Cryptographers win Turing award

2013-03-14 Thread ianG
I admit to total ignorance, and have an intuition that this is probabilistically unacceptable. Of anyone wishes to explain the significance of their work, I'd be grateful. Meanwhile, here are the things I've decrypted: http://amturing.acm.org/award_winners/goldwasser_8627889.cfm Shafi Goldw