SECURITY WIRE DIGEST, VOL. 2, NO. 4, JAN. 31, 2000

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Fwd: Cipher-Saber

Does anyone know a good advocacy page for crypto freedom in the UK? I'd like to comply with the following request. Arnold Reinhold >Subject: Cipher-Saber > >Hi there, > >I'm a comp-science student in the UK, and a friend of mine just e-mailed >your page URL to me. I like it, and I'm just about

Intro to differential & linear cryptanalysis?

I'm teaching a course in crypto this semester, and I'm trying to give my students a thorough background on some deeper topics. There isn't much on differential and linear cryptanalysis in Schneier or in the Handbook of Applied Cryptography, but I'd like to give them a grounding in the topic. Can

Re: Intro to differential & linear cryptanalysis?

perry metzger wrote: > I'm teaching a course in crypto this semester, and I'm trying to > give my students a thorough background on some deeper topics. > > Can anyone suggest some papers or other source materials on the > area to use in the course? matsui's crypto '94 paper is pretty straightfor

Re: legal status of RC4

Um. I found the tone of your reply to my contribution uncalled for and very offensive, and it's made the business of composing a reply that bit less pleasant. I hope you don't feel the need to address other contributors here that way too often. I don't think I want to name the company, the prod

Re: Intro to differential & linear cryptanalysis?

Douglas Stinson's book "Cryptography: Theory and Practice" has a short section on linear cryptanalysis that gives a three and six round worked example. This discussion seems to me about right for an undergraduate introduction. [Unfortunately, its a graduate class, but... -Perry] Don Davis wrot

Re: Intro to differential & linear cryptanalysis?

perry metzger wrote: > The Biham&Shamir book is out of print. Do you have references > to the papers you mention? URLs or whatever... the matsui paper is on pg 1 of the crypto '94 proceedings, ed. by yvo desmedt. unfortunately, my copy of b&s is still packed, so i can't look up their self-citat

Special Guests for DCSB Tomorrow: Paycash (from Russia), andOlivier Hance

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 In addition to Suzan Dionne Balz's excellent DCSB talk "The Law of Digital Cash tomorrow", we will have also have a short talk from Victor Dostov and Ivan Kouznetsov of Paycash, the well-known Russian digital cash underwriter, who is in the US on othe

Re: Special Guests for DCSB Tomorrow: Paycash (from Russia), and Olivier Hance

At 10:15 AM -0500 on 1/31/00, R. A. Hettinga wrote: > Suzan Dionne Balz's excellent DCSB talk "The Law of > Digital Cash tomorrow" Woops. Typo. That's "The Law of Digital Cash" tomorrow Not so's you'd notice the difference, of course. :-). Cheers, RAH - R. A. Hettinga The In

new mailing list for smartcards

A while ago, I suggested setting up a new mailing list for discussion about smartcards in e-commerce. People seemed to think this was a good idea, and I've finally got round to setting it up. Please join if you're interested via the web at