Some thoughts...
On 26/09/13 23:08 PM, zooko wrote:
Let me just mention that this conversation is AWESOME. I only wish the folks
over at Perry's Crypto List (http://www.metzdowd.com/pipermail/cryptography/)
knew that we were having such a great conversation over here.
On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at
On 26/09/13 23:09 PM, Jeffrey Goldberg wrote:
I’m suggesting that when offering advice to application developers on what
sorts of systems to use, we should explicitly consider how easy it is for them
to screw it up and how bad things get when they do.
They should be given something that
On Wed, 2013-09-25 at 10:11 -0400, John Young wrote:
[Answer to the question:] Does there exist an unbreakable cipher
would be this, Every cipher is breakable, given enough traffic, and
every cipher is unbreakable, if the traffic volume is restricted
enough.
[End quote]
Is this
On Sat, 28 Sep 2013, Mansour Moufid wrote:
XTS-AES must be rekeyed after each terabyte; [[...]]
This reminds me of a question I wanted to ask the more knowledgable
crypto-folk on this list: What is currently known about the security
of AES-XTS mode? Is there a good up-to-date survey paper
