Re: indeterministic cryptosystems and mix-nets

2000-05-09 Thread dmolnar
On Mon, 8 May 2000, Wei Dai wrote: On Sun, May 07, 2000 at 01:27:31PM -0400, dmolnar wrote: 1) is the term "indeterministic cryptosystem" formally defined anywhere? It sounds kind of like "probabilistic encryption" which is a standard term. Maybe they're the same thing? That

Re: indeterministic cryptosystems and mix-nets

2000-05-09 Thread dmolnar
On Mon, 8 May 2000, Wei Dai wrote: Can you elaborate on how "recipient-hiding" might help? Almost forgot - I started thinking about the idea last term in Rivest's class and asked him about it one day. He suggested looking at probabilistic encryption , which I conflated with semantically

Re: indeterministic cryptosystems and mix-nets

2000-05-09 Thread dmolnar
On Tue, 9 May 2000, dmolnar wrote: public modulus might be recipient-hiding. David posted some definitions for this to sci.crypt a few weeks ago, which I plan to look at after finals are done here. :-/ He also indicated that he's trying to extend the Abdalla-Bellare-Rogaway DHAES scheme to

Re: Blowfish or 3DES?

2000-05-09 Thread David Honig
At 04:19 PM 5/8/00 -0700, Bill Stewart wrote: At 09:53 AM 05/08/2000 -0400, David Honig wrote: You don't mention the longer exposure time of BFish, though the AES algs get intense scrutiny now; I probably should have. I figured that most of the learning that happened with scrutinizing