Re: [cryptography] Q: CBC in SSH

2013-02-16 Thread ianG
On 16/02/13 16:19 PM, Peter Gutmann wrote: I wrote: Those are some pretty odd stats... Camellia is almost as popular as 3DES? To which Yaron Sheffer pointed me to: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10378066/which-algorithm-is-stronger-for-tls-aes-256-or-camellia-256 which says: The rea

Re: [cryptography] Bitmessage

2013-02-16 Thread Natanael
This is precisely how I2P eepsites work. The true addresses are [52 characters of b32 encoded checksum of public key].b32.i2p while the hosts.txt file is a list of these with their readable [sitename].i2p domains. You can modify your own lists as you wish. I2P Messenger and Bote mail could be comb

Re: [cryptography] Bitmessage

2013-02-16 Thread James A. Donald
On 2013-02-17 4:49 AM, Jonathan Warren wrote: A primary goal has been to make a clean and simple interface so that the key management, authentication, and encryption is simple even for people who do not understand public-key cryptography.

Re: [cryptography] Bitmessage

2013-02-16 Thread Jonathan Warren
> Having an explicit motivation ("threat model" in security protocol parlance) would help in analyzing if this feature provides the desired benefits. You should also figure out what problems the cluster model doesn't solve and explicitly identify them. For an example of a threat model see section

Re: [cryptography] Bitmessage

2013-02-16 Thread Adam Back
With no criticism to the idea and motivation there are similarities with having a reply-to of a newsgroup such as alt.anonymous.messages, which is used as a more secure alternative to reply blocks. To pickup those messages anonymously you'd ideally need to be able to unobservably download newsgro

Re: [cryptography] Bitmessage

2013-02-16 Thread Andy Isaacson
On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 01:49:18PM -0500, Jonathan Warren wrote: > Hello everyone, I would like to introduce you to a communications protocol I > have been working on called Bitmessage. I have also written an open source > client released under the MIT/X11 license. It borrows ideas from Bitcoin and

[cryptography] Bitmessage

2013-02-16 Thread Jonathan Warren
Hello everyone, I would like to introduce you to a communications protocol I have been working on called Bitmessage. I have also written an open source client released under the MIT/X11 license. It borrows ideas from Bitcoin and Hashcash and aims to form a secure and decentralized communications pr

Re: [cryptography] Q: CBC in SSH

2013-02-16 Thread Peter Gutmann
I wrote: >Those are some pretty odd stats... Camellia is almost as popular as 3DES? To which Yaron Sheffer pointed me to: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10378066/which-algorithm-is-stronger-for-tls-aes-256-or-camellia-256 which says: The reasoning is contained in the NSS library source c