Ileana : Thanks for the paper. On 22/02/2013 06:05 p.m., Ileana wrote: > Your argument to use sha-512 versus sha1 would in theory be better for > your application...and certainly altering successive inputs to the hash > (which would certainly increase the entropy), but without a mathematical > analysis of your application, I would not use it myself. encipherment > with xor to plaintext assumes one side of the xor is statistically > random, and that finding a pattern is a difficult problem. > > You need to demonstrate mathematically that the input to the > sha(whatever) function does not create a predetermination or reduced > domain of the output either directly or showing it equivalent to > existing derivative (i.e. you show us a paper!) > Well, the idea came to my mind while I was typing yesterday, so it's 1 day old. I do not type that fast. I promise I will write a paper, which I will finish in one or two years, when my little kid becomes 4 years old and I have more free time. :-) Maybe you would like to co-author the paper with me...
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