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

[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

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

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

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 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

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