Re: I'll show you mine if you show me, er, mine

2005-03-09 Thread James A. Donald
-- However, techniques that establish that the parties share a weak secret without leaking that secret have been around for years -- Bellovin and Merritt's DH-EKE, David Jablon's SPEKE. And they don't require either party to send the password itself at the end. They are heavily

Re: SHA1 broken?

2005-03-09 Thread Riad S. Wahby
Tyler Durden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Then again, if you're looking for sheer, brute performance and design cycle times are not a limiting factor, ASICs are often the way to go. Even in a Variola Suitcase, however, I'd bet some of the trivial functions are off-loaded to an FPGA, though, for

Re: SHA1 broken?

2005-03-09 Thread Tyler Durden
Ah. You meant as a principal in general. Of course the prevailing wisdom is to go from FPGAs to ASICs when you have heavy tasks. In Telecom equipment, however, there's a few issues that basically 'require' FPGAs. First, the standards change quite a bit, depending on which area you're in. For

Re: [p2p-hackers] good-bye, Mnet, and good luck. I'm going commercial! plus my last design doc (fwd from zooko@zooko.com)

2005-03-09 Thread Eric Cordian
Zooko writes: I am about to accept an exciting job that will preclude me from contributing to open source projects in the distributed file-system space. I will miss the Mnet project! Good luck without me! Is there a network currently running? At one time, I had 5 gig of Mnet