Fling: to be snake oil, or not to be snake oil?

2000-07-10 Thread Ryan Tool
Has anyone heard of the new internet protocol fling. This is what their site says: Fling is a new suite of internet protocols that perform the function of DNS, TCP, and UDP in a manner that's both untraceable and untappable. Fling protects clients from servers, servers from clients, and both fr

New hash function definitions

2000-07-10 Thread John Kelsey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I've been thinking about the requirements for hash functions. I've heard that NSA is currently designing a 256-bit wide SHA1 replacement, and I've been thinking about some things it would be nice to change from the way SHA1 and MD5 and such functions work. I

Re: Fling: to be snake oil, or not to be snake oil?

2000-07-10 Thread David Honig
At 09:52 AM 7/10/00 -0500, Ryan Tool wrote: > >Has anyone heard of the new internet protocol fling. This is what their >site says: > >Fling is a new suite of internet protocols that perform the function of DNS, >TCP, and UDP in a manner that's both untraceable and untappable. Fling >protects clie