On 26/04/12 04:47 AM, Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn wrote:
https://plus.google.com/108313527900507320366/posts/cMng6kChAAW
*“On the limits of the use cases for authenticated encryption**”*
*What is authenticated encryption?*
“Authenticated Encryption” is an abstraction that is getting a lot of
On 2012-04-28 4:05 PM, ianG wrote:
the cryptographer's push for AE mode is simply the creation of a more
perfect hammer, when our real worries are about the building, not the nail.
Well said. Cryptographers have a habit of building a fortress with three
entirely impregnable walls and one
On 2012-04-29 4:02 AM, Benjamin Kreuter wrote:
That is assuming that all messages are the same size, which is not
generally the case. If Alice, Bob, Carol, and Dave are users, and
Alice sends a 150KB encrypted message, Bob sends a 20KB encrypted
message, and then at some random point in the
