Re: [cryptography] 100 Gbps line rate encryption

2013-07-16 Thread William Allen Simpson
On 6/22/13 8:24 PM, Greg Rose wrote: On Jun 22, 2013, at 15:31 , James A. Donald jam...@echeque.com wrote: On 2013-06-23 6:47 AM, Peter Maxwell wrote: I think Bernstein's Salsa20 is faster and significantly more secure than RC4, whether you'll be able to design hardware to run at line-speed

Re: [cryptography] 100 Gbps line rate encryption

2013-07-16 Thread Thor Lancelot Simon
On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 03:23:01AM -0400, William Allen Simpson wrote: On 6/22/13 8:24 PM, Greg Rose wrote: On Jun 22, 2013, at 15:31 , James A. Donald jam...@echeque.com wrote: On 2013-06-23 6:47 AM, Peter Maxwell wrote: I think Bernstein's Salsa20 is faster and significantly more secure

Re: [cryptography] 100 Gbps line rate encryption

2013-07-16 Thread Sandy Harris
William Allen Simpson william.allen.simp...@gmail.com wrote: A quick question: what are our current options for 100 Gbps line rate encryption? Are we still using variants of ARC4? The European Union's Estream contest gave two small portfolios of ciphers, four for software implementation and

Re: [cryptography] 100 Gbps line rate encryption

2013-07-16 Thread Matthew Green
The use of RC4 should be avoided even with the drop-N due to biases that occur later in the key stream. You should also be extremely careful about mixing IVs with the key. At a minimum you ought to use a modern cryptographic hash function -- there's no evidence that repeating key setup is

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2013-07-16 Thread John Young
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Re: [cryptography] Message

2013-07-16 Thread Tony Arcieri
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Re: [cryptography] Message

2013-07-16 Thread coderman
On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 10:27 AM, John Young j...@pipeline.com wrote: -BEGIN PGP MESSAGE- ... -END PGP MESSAGE- you know you can use openssl for symmetric encryption, right John? ;) [NSA can neither confirm nor deny it received your message...]

Re: [cryptography] [liberationtech] Heml.is - The Beautiful Secure Messenger

2013-07-16 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 5:04 AM, coderman coder...@gmail.com wrote: ... in short: rather than considering just one or another type of attack, these agencies should be assumed to be using all of them with the exploit method tailored to the particular access needs and target difficulty of

[cryptography] New Bletchley Park and Ethics of Cyber Warfare

2013-07-16 Thread John Young
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