In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Russell Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> One could increase the difficulty of decryption by three or four
> doublings by intermixing random data with plaintext in a message.
If I understand correctly:
To double the cost of exhaustive keysearch with this method
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Bram Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The problem is to find a form of hashcash which can't be paralellized.
Your technique appears to be a more complicated -- but closely
related -- variant of the construction given in the following paper:
``Time-lock puzzles
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
John Gilmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have a well-founded rumor that a major Silicon Valley company was
> approached by NSA in the '90s with a proposal to insert a deliberate
> security bug into their products. They declined when they realized
> that an alle
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> So I'm curious about what all methods do folks currently use (on NT and unix)
> to generate a random seed in the case where user interaction (e.g. the ol'
> mouse pointer waving or keyboard tapping approaches) isn't a viable option?
Does anyone know anything about the ``Stambler Internet Security
Patents''? Apparently, Leon Stambler is claiming that he owns patents
covering basic SSL technology---particularly the handshaking process.
Seems like a stretch.
I'm wondering whether I should be worried about any potential impact
