Re: time dependant

2000-03-09 Thread Arnold G. Reinhold
At 10:56 AM -0500 3/8/2000, Steven M. Bellovin wrote: >In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Matt Crawford" writes: >> >> If you're going to trust that CryptoSat, inc. hasn't stashed a local >> copy of the private key, why not eliminate all that radio gear and trust > > CryptoTime, inc. not to publish

RFC 2792 on Key and Signature Encoding for KeyNote (fwd)

2000-03-09 Thread P.J. Ponder
from the RFC distribution list: A new Request for Comments is now available in online RFC libraries. RFC 2792 Title: DSA and RSA Key and Signature Encoding for the KeyNote Trust Management System Author(s): M. Blaze, J. Ioannidis, A. Keromytis

/. Mozilla Crypto Released for Windows, Linux

2000-03-09 Thread Eugene Leitl
http://www.mozillazine.org/ Thursday March 9th, 2000 Mozilla Crypto Released for Windows, Linux! The first crypto-enabled builds of Mozilla have come online. Currently there are Windows and Linux builds available - a Mac version will be available soon. Enabled in these initial builds are SSL,

Re: Looking for a cryptographic primitive

2000-03-09 Thread Victor Duchovni
      You posit the difficulty of obtaining additive inverses, this would suggest that they need to exist, and you likely want addition to be commutative, so you at least have a ring.     What actual algebraic properties do you need?  The possible choices from most specialized to least specialize

Re: Looking for a cryptographic primitive

2000-03-09 Thread Greg Rose
At 05:50 9/03/2000 -0800, bram wrote: >Does anybody know of a field in which a + b and a * b can be computed >quickly but (and this is important) it's computationally intractable to >compute the additive inverse of a? If you literally mean "field", there must be a multiplicative identity, called

Re: Looking for a cryptographic primitive

2000-03-09 Thread Victor Duchovni
      Every finite field F is a finite abelian group under addition, and so has a minimal annihilator or characteristic p which must be prime with the property that a + ... + a (p times) = 0 for every element a of F.  So     -a = a + ... + a (p-1 times).     Now this is supposed to be hard to com

Electronics Industry Backs Digital Signature Bill (was Re:Edupage, 8 March 2000)

2000-03-09 Thread R. A. Hettinga
At 6:57 PM -0700 on 3/8/00, EDUCAUSE wrote: > ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY BACKS DIGITAL SIGNATURE BILL > The American Electronics Association (AEA) recently sent a letter > to the Senate Democratic leadership, urging legislators to enact > the Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act,

UK RIP Bill: Scrambling for Safety 2000, 22/3/00, REGISTRATION OPEN

2000-03-09 Thread Caspar Bowden
[apologies for any duplication owing to multiple lists etc.] === PLEASE REDISTRIBUTE WIDELY - PLEASE REDISTRIBUTE WIDELY === http://www.fipr.org/sfs2000

Re: Looking for a cryptographic primitive

2000-03-09 Thread bram
On Thu, 9 Mar 2000, bram wrote: > Does anybody know of a field in which a + b and a * b can be computed > quickly but (and this is important) it's computationally intractable to > compute the additive inverse of a? > > [Bram: All fields of n elements are isomorphic to all other fields of > n ele

Looking for a cryptographic primitive

2000-03-09 Thread bram
Does anybody know of a field in which a + b and a * b can be computed quickly but (and this is important) it's computationally intractable to compute the additive inverse of a? I need it for a technique I'm working on. -Bram [Bram: All fields of n elements are isomorphic to all other fields of