Re: [cryptography] NIST Randomness Beacon

2013-12-21 Thread Joachim Strömbergson
numbers stations. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numbers_station Or the NIST Randomness Beacon. Anybody tested it with Dieharder yet - or is it too much of a dead duck anyway to not waste time on it. - -- Med vänlig hälsning, Yours Joachim Strömbergson - Alltid i harmonisk svängning

[cryptography] Mixing RdRand with other CPU-based entropy sources?

2013-12-19 Thread Joachim Strömbergson
/dakarand/ [3] http://jytter.blogspot.se/ [4] http://www.chronox.de/ - -- Med vänlig hälsning, Yours Joachim Strömbergson - Alltid i harmonisk svängning. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.22 (Darwin

Re: [cryptography] State of the art in block ciphers?

2013-12-03 Thread Joachim Strömbergson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Aloha! (Added the list as recipient since I assume not replying to list was a mistake - if not I apologize to SandyH.) Sandy Harris wrote: Joachim Strömbergson joac...@strombergson.com wrote: The question is then - what is state of the art

Re: [cryptography] Quality of HAVEGE algorithm for entropy?

2013-11-29 Thread Joachim Strömbergson
Joachim Strömbergson - Alltid i harmonisk svängning. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.22 (Darwin) Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

Re: [cryptography] Quality of HAVEGE algorithm for entropy?

2013-11-29 Thread Joachim Strömbergson
, it would be very interesting to see the comparison between them. - -- Med vänlig hälsning, Yours Joachim Strömbergson - Alltid i harmonisk svängning. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.22 (Darwin

[cryptography] State of the art in block ciphers?

2013-11-29 Thread Joachim Strömbergson
is state of the art in block cipher design? What would be the candidates to complement AES in SSL/TLS? - -- Med vänlig hälsning, Yours Joachim Strömbergson - Alltid i harmonisk svängning. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version

Re: [cryptography] Quality of HAVEGE algorithm for entropy?

2013-11-28 Thread Joachim Strömbergson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Aloha! coderman wrote: On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 10:09 AM, Joachim Strömbergson joac...@strombergson.com wrote: ... I have concerns though on embedded SSL stacks that use Havege as entropy source on MCUs such as AVR32 and ARM. ... On an x86-based

Re: [cryptography] Quality of HAVEGE algorithm for entropy?

2013-11-28 Thread Joachim Strömbergson
and then having RdRand from your Haswell CPU generating data at Gbps speed, will the microphone entropy matter? - -- Med vänlig hälsning, Yours Joachim Strömbergson - Alltid i harmonisk svängning. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version

Re: [cryptography] [zfs] [Review] 4185 New hash algorithm support

2013-10-23 Thread Joachim Strömbergson
gains compared to MD5 for long messages. Besides that the fact that you _never_ shall use MD5 for new designs and unless forced to. A reduced round even less so. -- Med vänlig hälsning, Yours Joachim Strömbergson - Alltid i harmonisk svängning

Re: [cryptography] FreeBSD crypto and security meta

2013-10-22 Thread Joachim Strömbergson
and Schneier as an upgrade or alternative to Yarrow. Initially a choice will be presented, and decisions on the future of the CSPRNG processing algorithms in use will be made in the future as needs arise. Nice! FreeBSD ftw. ;-) - -- Med vänlig hälsning, Yours Joachim Strömbergson - Alltid i harmonisk

Re: [cryptography] [zfs] [Review] 4185 New hash algorithm support

2013-10-21 Thread Joachim Strömbergson
it per instance unique. https://131002.net/siphash/ Designed by DJB and Aumasson, the latter the designer of BLAKE and BLAKE2 which you referred. (Sorry to butt in and if I might have suggested something you already know.) - -- Med vänlig hälsning, Yours Joachim Strömbergson - Alltid i harmonisk

[cryptography] Sodium. (Was: Re: NaCl Documentation?)

2013-03-12 Thread Joachim Strömbergson
/announcing-sodium-a-new-cryptographic-library/ https://github.com/jedisct1/libsodium -- Med vänlig hälsning, Yours Joachim Strömbergson - Alltid i harmonisk svängning

Re: [cryptography] Intel RNG

2012-06-20 Thread Joachim Strömbergson
that the whole chain works as intended with KATs for the PRNG part. This would still not prove that Intel, when MUXing in data from (1)/(2) into the PRNG actually does something completely different. -- Med vänlig hälsning, Yours Joachim Strömbergson - Alltid i harmonisk svängning

Re: [cryptography] Intel RNG

2012-06-19 Thread Joachim Strömbergson
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