[cryptography] fwd: Paillier Crypto

2013-08-05 Thread dan
> http://9ac345a5509a.github.io/p2p-paillier/ > > This is a form of Homomorphic Encryption that might actually scale, > given the right cloud backend. It verges on the spookiness of > Quantum. > > Support logic that might shed light on the true performance of > Paillier. > > http://plaintext.crypt

Re: [cryptography] [Bitcoin-development] Preparing for the Cryptopocalypse

2013-08-05 Thread William Whyte
Just to be clear, NIST haven't endorsed NTRU for use, but they did speak favourably of it in a report on quantum-secure crypto. William On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 7:04 AM, Eugen Leitl wrote: > - Forwarded message from Gregory Maxwell - > > Date: Sun, 4 Aug 2013 23:41:57 -0700 > From: Greg

Re: [cryptography] [Bitcoin-development] Preparing for the Cryptopocalypse

2013-08-05 Thread Eugen Leitl
- Forwarded message from Gregory Maxwell - Date: Sun, 4 Aug 2013 23:41:57 -0700 From: Gregory Maxwell To: Peter Vessenes Cc: Bitcoin Dev Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Preparing for the Cryptopocalypse On Sun, Aug 4, 2013 at 8:30 PM, Peter Vessenes wrote: > I studied with Jeffrey

Re: [cryptography] HKDF salt

2013-08-05 Thread Michael Rogers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/08/13 16:00, Jack Lloyd wrote: > On Thu, Aug 01, 2013 at 10:16:51AM +0100, Michael Rogers wrote: > >> My understanding of the above is that the salt doesn't increase >> the entropy of HKDF's output from the adversary's point of view, >> since th