[cryptography] Is this a feature?

Opera will autorepair damage to the certificate repository, a missing Certificate Authority is considered damage. Opera ships with a list of frequently used certificates, and if any of these are missing they will be added the next time the repository is read from disk. Other certificates will be

Re: [cryptography] Is this a feature?

Opera does allow individual CAs to be explicitly distrusted, so that connections would cause a warning. or even be completely blocked (The certificate is valid, but permission denied.). On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 2:54 AM, Jeffrey Walton noloa...@gmail.com wrote: Opera will autorepair damage to the

Re: [cryptography] Is this a feature?

On 23/01/13 03:54 AM, Jeffrey Walton wrote: Opera will autorepair damage to the certificate repository, a missing Certificate Authority is considered damage. Opera ships with a list of frequently used certificates, and if any of these are missing they will be added the next time the repository

[cryptography] Keccak and the one algorithm to rule them all

If one skims this presentation by Joan Daemen, co-inventer of Keccak, it seems that the algorithm can also be used for the other modes -- encryption, (h)mac, authenticated encryption as well as message digest. http://www.hyperelliptic.org/DIAC/slides/PermutationDIAC2012.pdf If so, we may be