Re: [cryptography] non-decryptable encryption

2012-07-05 Thread Givonne Cirkin
Thanks for all those who gave constructive criticism. The revised article is available at Cornell's archive: http://arxiv.org/abs/0912.4080 Givon _ You @ 37.com - The world's easiest free Email address !

Re: [cryptography] non-decryptable encryption

2012-06-20 Thread Givonne Cirkin
yes. just with a specific choice of key. --- jam...@echeque.com wrote: From: James A. Donald jam...@echeque.com To: givo...@37.com CC: cryptography@randombit.net Subject: Re: [cryptography] non-decryptable encryption Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2012 10:48:01 +1000 On 2012-06-19 8:03 PM, Givonne Cirkin

Re: [cryptography] non-decryptable encryption

2012-06-20 Thread Givonne Cirkin
...@echeque.com, cryptography@randombit.net Subject: Re: [cryptography] non-decryptable encryption Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2012 08:30:59 -0400 (EDT) The digit sequence 0.1234567891011121314151617181920212223... (or its equivalent in binary, hex, or your other favorite base) never repeats, but provides

Re: [cryptography] non-decryptable encryption

2012-06-20 Thread Givonne Cirkin
don't trust abbreviaters!) --- bill.stew...@pobox.com wrote: From: Bill Stewart bill.stew...@pobox.com To: givo...@37.com Cc: cryptography@randombit.net Subject: Re: [cryptography] non-decryptable encryption Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2012 19:44:21 -0700 At 03:56 AM 6/18/2012, Givonne Cirkin wrote: Hi

Re: [cryptography] non-decryptable encryption

2012-06-20 Thread Florian Weingarten
On 06/20/2012 06:54 PM, Givonne Cirkin wrote: curious, why don't some ppl trust link shortners? is that a generation gap thing. Because there are serious privacy issues with most of them. http://w2spconf.com/2011/papers/urlShortening.pdf ___

Re: [cryptography] non-decryptable encryption

2012-06-20 Thread The Fungi
On 2012-06-20 09:54:33 -0700 (-0700), Givonne Cirkin wrote: curious, why don't some ppl trust link shortners? is that a generation gap thing. 2nd. ur guesses are wrong. i was born in the USA. my parents were born in the USA. my native language is English. [...] Perhaps this is also a

Re: [cryptography] non-decryptable encryption

2012-06-20 Thread Natanael
: Natanael natanae...@gmail.com, cryptography@randombit.net cryptography@randombit.net Subject: Re: [cryptography] non-decryptable encryption Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2012 18:20:13 +0200 Natanael natanae...@gmail.com wrote: One: On the second paper, you assume a prime number as long as the message

Re: [cryptography] non-decryptable encryption

2012-06-20 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 12:54 PM, Givonne Cirkin givo...@37.com wrote: curious, why don't some ppl trust link shortners?  is that a generation gap thing. Someone recently played a trick on Full Disclosure. Something about advanced notice of an Apple Update. It was a bitty link to a eVote

Re: [cryptography] non-decryptable encryption

2012-06-19 Thread Jon Callas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I am reminded of an article my dear old friend, Martin Minow, did in Cryptologia ages ago. He wrote the article I think for the April 1984 issue. It might not have been 1984, but it was definitely April. In it, he described a cryptosystem in which

Re: [cryptography] non-decryptable encryption

2012-06-19 Thread Jon Callas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Jun 19, 2012, at 12:09 AM, Jon Callas wrote: * PGP Signed: 06/19/2012 at 12:09:46 AM I am reminded of an article my dear old friend, Martin Minow, did in Cryptologia ages ago. He wrote the article I think for the April 1984 issue. It

Re: [cryptography] non-decryptable encryption

2012-06-19 Thread Natanael
understand why is it clear to some they get it right away. why do others not see it? i thought i was clear to use the sequence up until the first repeat. --- jam...@echeque.com wrote: From: James A. Donald jam...@echeque.com To: cryptography@randombit.net Subject: Re: [cryptography] non

Re: [cryptography] non-decryptable encryption

2012-06-19 Thread Natanael
. but a good deterent. --- natanae...@gmail.com wrote: From: Natanael natanae...@gmail.com To: givo...@37.com Cc: cryptography@randombit.net, jam...@echeque.com Subject: Re: [cryptography] non-decryptable encryption Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2012 12:07:26 +0200 What I think people react

Re: [cryptography] non-decryptable encryption

2012-06-19 Thread Jonathan Thornburg
The digit sequence 0.1234567891011121314151617181920212223... (or its equivalent in binary, hex, or your other favorite base) never repeats, but provides no security whatsoever. One-time pads need nonrepeating sequences *which the adversary can't predict*. -- -- Jonathan Thornburg [remove

Re: [cryptography] non-decryptable encryption

2012-06-19 Thread Givonne Cirkin
absolutely true. i mentioned (in my article) that after explaining the masking. --- jth...@astro.indiana.edu wrote: From: Jonathan Thornburg jth...@astro.indiana.edu To: jam...@echeque.com, cryptography@randombit.net Subject: Re: [cryptography] non-decryptable encryption Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2012

Re: [cryptography] non-decryptable encryption

2012-06-19 Thread James A. Donald
On 2012-06-19 8:03 PM, Givonne Cirkin wrote: i don't understand why is it clear to some they get it right away. why do others not see it? i thought i was clear to use the sequence up until the first repeat. This is just one time pad. ___

Re: [cryptography] non-decryptable encryption

2012-06-18 Thread jd.cypherpunks
Natanael natanae...@gmail.com wrote: One: On the second paper, you assume a prime number as long as the message is secure, and give an example of a message of 500 characters. Assuming ASCII coding and compression, that will be just a few hundred bits. RSA (using primes too) of 1024 bits is