Re: [viff-devel] SMCL security notion

2008-07-25 Thread Janus Dam Nielsen
In the paper on page two, lower left, we write that each server party execute identical copies of the server program inn lock-step. Based on this assumption it is reasonable to consider the server as having a single well-defined state. However in Viff this is no longer true due to parallelism.

[viff-devel] [issue44] Update NEWS with info on two player runtime

2008-07-25 Thread Martin Geisler
New submission from Martin Geisler [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The release notes in the NEWS file should be updated with information about the two player runtime found in viff.paillier. -- messages: 130 nosy: mg status: unread title: Update NEWS with info on two player runtime

[viff-devel] [issue45] Documentation for viff.paillier

2008-07-25 Thread Martin Geisler
New submission from Martin Geisler [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The code for the Paillier crypto system needs documentation, as does the runtime based on it. -- messages: 131 nosy: mg status: unread title: Documentation for viff.paillier VIFF Issue Tracker

[viff-devel] [issue47] New mailinglists

2008-07-25 Thread Martin Geisler
New submission from Martin Geisler [EMAIL PROTECTED]: We now have three mailinglists (see http://lists.viff.dk/) but the documentation only mentions viff-devel. -- messages: 133 nosy: mg status: unread title: New mailinglists VIFF Issue Tracker

[viff-devel] [issue46] Doc update needed: players can start in any order

2008-07-25 Thread Martin Geisler
New submission from Martin Geisler [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The players can now be started in any order and the documentation needs to be updated to reflect that. At least the installation guide is outdated. -- messages: 132 nosy: mg status: unread title: Doc update needed: players can start

[viff-devel] [issue49] Test OpenSSL under Mac OS X

2008-07-25 Thread Martin Geisler
New submission from Martin Geisler [EMAIL PROTECTED]: As far as I know nobody has tested the SSL functionality of VIFF since we switched to PyOpenSSL almost two weeks ago (rev facc9f1f0bb1). Please test it and close this bug if it works. -- messages: 135 nosy: mg status: unread title:

[viff-devel] [issue48] Test PyOpenSSL under Windows

2008-07-25 Thread Martin Geisler
New submission from Martin Geisler [EMAIL PROTECTED]: As far as I know nobody has tested the SSL functionality of VIFF since we switched to PyOpenSSL almost two weeks ago (rev facc9f1f0bb1). Please test it and close this bug if it works. -- messages: 134 nosy: mg status: unread title:

[viff-devel] [issue50] Stop reconnecting after X failed attempts

2008-07-25 Thread Martin Geisler
New submission from Martin Geisler [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Add an option which will make the players stop trying to reconnect after a certain number of attempts. This is will be important for Issue 40 so that we can run a set of players from a script and exit with an error if the network is down or

[viff-devel] Why all the bug reports?!

2008-07-25 Thread Martin Geisler
Because I wanted to remind you guys that there are many low-hanging fruits where you can help... The documentation updates should be especially easy. I also keep reminding myself that I should look into or update all these different things -- now there is at least a chance that someone will help

[viff-devel] [issue55] Speedup for ComparisonToft07Mixin

2008-07-25 Thread Martin Geisler
New submission from Martin Geisler [EMAIL PROTECTED]: In http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.cryptography.viff.devel/241 Tomas Toft writes: [...] Nice speedup. It's also possible to do a similar thing for ComparisonToft07Mixin. In the two-fields variation we need the same bit in Zp and