Re: [cryptography] /dev/random is not robust

2013-10-16 Thread Florian Weimer
http://eprint.iacr.org/2013/338.pdf Isn't this straight from the crypto paper construction kit? Make up some criterion, show that a popular primitive or implementation lacks it, demonstrate that a new construction has it. Talk about the standard model. Do not provide any explicit bounds.

[cryptography] my comment to NIST about reduced capacity in SHA-3

2013-10-16 Thread Zooko Wilcox-OHearn
Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2013 15:45:27 -0400 From: zooko zo...@zooko.com To: Multiple recipients of list hash-fo...@nist.gov Subject: Re: On 128-bit security Folks: Here are my personal opinions about these issues. I'm not expert at cryptanalysis. Disclosure: I'm one of the authors of BLAKE2 (but not