Re: [cryptography] New cipher modification

2013-11-10 Thread Taral
a web page or even putting the text inline would suffice. - Taral ___ cryptography mailing list cryptography@randombit.net http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptography

Re: [cryptography] very little is missing for working BTNS in Openswan

2013-09-12 Thread Taral
, Z makes me *less* secure than no BTNS at all. -- Taral tar...@gmail.com Please let me know if there's any further trouble I can give you. -- Unknown ___ cryptography mailing list cryptography@randombit.net http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo

Re: [cryptography] What project would you finance? [WAS: Potential funding for crypto-related projects]

2013-07-02 Thread Taral
I think DANE will help with that. But that's blocked on having enough/easy DNSSEC-capable registrars. - Taral On Jul 2, 2013 3:26 AM, Adam Back a...@cypherspace.org wrote: I think it time to deprecate non-https (and non-forward secret ciphersuites.) Compute power has moved on, session

Re: [cryptography] What project would you finance? [WAS: Potential funding for crypto-related projects]

2013-07-01 Thread Taral
? A BTNS implementation. There aren't any. ___ cryptography mailing list cryptography@randombit.net http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptography -- Taral tar...@gmail.com Please let me know if there's any further trouble I can give you

Re: [cryptography] Ripple a.k.a. OpenCoin

2013-06-25 Thread Taral
which adds some anonymity. They also use a weird hash. (First half of sha512.) The only reason I can think of is they expect computing first half of sha512 is harder than sha256. With some hard work this could be false. On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 5:40 PM, Taral tar...@gmail.com wrote: Has

Re: [cryptography] Ripple a.k.a. OpenCoin

2013-06-25 Thread Taral
, who is in charge of Ripple's crypto: http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/10220/what-is-the-relationship-between-the-ripple-secret-key-and-the-wallet-name-passp/10224#10224 That's about the payvault/local blob storage system for storing the secret. Nothing to do with this. -- Taral tar

Re: [cryptography] Ripple a.k.a. OpenCoin

2013-06-25 Thread Taral
persist, so I'm just not clear on your specific points of confusion. On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 7:11 PM, Taral tar...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 5:08 PM, Clark Minor cla...@mit.edu wrote: Why use secp256k1 and ripemd160 (I think that's what you mean by odd hash)? I think the main

Re: [cryptography] Interesting Webcrypto question

2013-03-04 Thread Taral
these distribution channels, script injection and tampering is not a high risk because its part of the application bundle. Can you mitigate the risk with the Chrome webstore too? Perhaps via some kind of chain-of-trust or attestation scheme. -- Taral tar...@gmail.com Please let me know if there's any further

Re: [cryptography] London Hum Used to Timestamp Recordings

2012-12-14 Thread Taral
On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 5:56 AM, mhey...@gmail.com mhey...@gmail.com wrote: I hope they kept that recording secret. Anybody can start recording now and then backdate things like recorded verbal agreements. I think you underestimate the difficulty of *removing* hum from a recording. -- Taral

Re: [cryptography] Chrome to drop CRL checking

2012-02-07 Thread Taral
with a reason. Information about the Google CRLSet format is welcome. A glance at the code says the dump is of the form: spki hash serial serial serial And it looks like it's been updated: % ./crlset dump crlset | grep '^ ' | wc -l 3809 -- Taral tar...@gmail.com Please let me know

Re: [cryptography] Bitcoin observation

2011-07-06 Thread Taral
available interfaces expose this, however. -- Taral tar...@gmail.com Please let me know if there's any further trouble I can give you.     -- Unknown ___ cryptography mailing list cryptography@randombit.net http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo

Re: [cryptography] Bitcoin observation

2011-07-05 Thread Taral
. Actually, it's pretty easy to create a transaction whose outputs are obviously unsatisfiable. -- Taral tar...@gmail.com Please let me know if there's any further trouble I can give you.     -- Unknown ___ cryptography mailing list cryptography@randombit.net

Re: [cryptography] Bitcoin observation

2011-07-05 Thread Taral
by the exchange and transfer them to /dev/null. Sorry. It is not clear that the Mt Gox software would allow the creation of such a transaction. I was speaking from the protocol level. -- Taral tar...@gmail.com Please let me know if there's any further trouble I can give you.     -- Unknown