Re: [cryptography] Merkle Signature Scheme is the most secure signature scheme possible for general-purpose use

2010-09-09 Thread Ben Laurie
On 13/06/2010 05:21, Zooko O'Whielacronx wrote: Folks: Regarding earlier discussion on these lists about the difficulty of factoring and post-quantum cryptography and so on, you might be interested in this note that I just posted to the tahoe-dev list: 100-year digital signatures

Re: [cryptography] real world illustrations of Kerckhoff's principle?

2010-09-09 Thread travis+ml-rbcryptography
On Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 12:12:42PM -0700, travis+ml-rbcryptogra...@subspacefield.org wrote: A few things leap to mind: Skipjack and LEAFblower LANMAN password hashing http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/So-You-Hacked-Our-Site!.aspx http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A5/1 Also The Art of Intrusion