RE: Paul Brown on Solitiare randomness flaw?

1999-09-14 Thread Arnold Reinhold
At 2:01 PM +0200 9/14/99, Kuehn, Ulrich wrote: Hi, please find here included a mail from Holger Klawitter, the author of one of the mentioned palm cipher programs... He would have liked to recieve the critique himself. Ulrich --- [quoted form Holger

RE: Paul Brown on Solitiare randomness flaw?

1999-09-14 Thread Kuehn, Ulrich
Hi, please find here included a mail from Holger Klawitter, the author of one of the mentioned palm cipher programs... He would have liked to recieve the critique himself. Ulrich --- [quoted form Holger Klawitter [EMAIL PROTECTED]]

Re: Paul Brown on Solitiare randomness flaw?

1999-09-10 Thread Arnold Reinhold
At 5:05 PM -0400 9/9/99, Thomas W. Kellar wrote: I wrote a rc4 based encryption/decryption program for my TI86. You can enter an alphabetic key (up to 256 characters). Enter some uppercase only alphabetic plaintext, then it displays decimal numbers representing the encryption of the plaintext.

Re: Paul Brown on Solitiare randomness flaw?

1999-09-09 Thread Thomas W. Kellar
I wrote a rc4 based encryption/decryption program for my TI86. You can enter an alphabetic key (up to 256 characters). Enter some uppercase only alphabetic plaintext, then it displays decimal numbers representing the encryption of the plaintext. In decrypt mode you enter your key, then the

Re: Paul Brown on Solitiare randomness flaw?

1999-09-09 Thread Bill Stewart
At 09:23 AM 9/8/99 -0400, Arnold Reinhold wrote: BTW, several of these units also permit assembly language programming. The 83/83+ is Z80 based. The 89/92+ are 68000 based, with 188K of RAM. PGP isn't out of the question on those. ... Staples stocks the TI-83+ at $92.99. So for under a hundred

Re: Paul Brown on Solitiare randomness flaw?

1999-09-09 Thread Arnold Reinhold
At 8:32 PM -0700 9/8/99, Bill Stewart wrote: At 09:23 AM 9/8/99 -0400, Arnold Reinhold wrote: ... Staples stocks the TI-83+ at $92.99. So for under a hundred bucks and a little time spent in TIBasic programming you can own an off-the-shelf coding machine using strong encryption, interoperable

Re: Paul Brown on Solitiare randomness flaw?

1999-09-08 Thread Arnold Reinhold
At 1:49 PM -0400 9/6/99, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 6 Sep 1999, Arnold Reinhold wrote: If a field worker might have access to a computer in country but would not be in a position to use PGP, I'd suggest CipherSaber, which is based on RC4 and is simple enough to program from memory

Re: Paul Brown on Solitiare randomness flaw?

1999-09-06 Thread Anonymous
[I have my doubts about the reality of this description -- the entire stego description seems like fantasy, especially given the low bandwidths available into many countries, and the obviousness of the whole thing. However, I'm forwarding it in spite of my bogometer beeping... Caveat Lector...

Re: Paul Brown on Solitiare randomness flaw?

1999-09-06 Thread Anonymous
Perry writes: I have my doubts about the reality of this description -- the entire stego description seems like fantasy, especially given the low bandwidths available into many countries, and the obviousness of the whole thing... I think that you misunderstand the purpose of the

Re: Paul Brown on Solitiare randomness flaw?

1999-09-06 Thread mgraffam
On Mon, 6 Sep 1999, Arnold Reinhold wrote: If a field worker might have access to a computer in country but would not be in a position to use PGP, I'd suggest CipherSaber, which is based on RC4 and is simple enough to program from memory (see http://ciphersaber.gurus.com). Almost all PCs

Re: Paul Brown on Solitiare randomness flaw?

1999-09-04 Thread William H. Geiger III
In v04210152b3f61485313b@[192.168.248.7], on 09/03/99 at 05:20 PM, Dave Del Torto [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Does anyone (or you, Bruce?) have a URL handy to/for an paper (by Paul Brown in the UK?) speculating on a RNG weakness in Solitiare's (Bruce's playing card cipher)? I've been searching

Paul Brown on Solitiare randomness flaw?

1999-09-03 Thread Dave Del Torto
Does anyone (or you, Bruce?) have a URL handy to/for an paper (by Paul Brown in the UK?) speculating on a RNG weakness in Solitiare's (Bruce's playing card cipher)? I've been searching the web unsuccessfully. The paper may mention it as "Pontifex", as it was referred to in "Cryptonomicon."