Re: [cryptography] [zfs] [Review] 4185 New hash algorithm support

2013-10-21 Thread Joachim Strömbergson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Aloha! Eugen Leitl wrote: The reason is purely for dedup and pretty much nothing else. As such, we only need a hash with a good pseudo-random output distribution and collision resistance. We don't specifically need it to be super-secure. The

Re: [cryptography] [Cryptography] Mail Lists In the Post-Snowden Era

2013-10-21 Thread Adam Back
On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 06:55:52PM -0400, Peter Todd wrote: Note that you can use broadcast encryption to efficiently encrypt the messages to multiple recipients. (a deployed example is in the AACS video encryption) Or more simply keep people's PGP keys on file and have the mail server encrypt

Re: [cryptography] funding Tor development

2013-10-21 Thread Kyle Maxwell
On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 4:18 AM, Ben Laurie b...@links.org wrote: On 14 October 2013 14:36, Eugen Leitl eu...@leitl.org wrote: Guys, in order to minimize Tor Project's dependance on federal funding Why? Is that not self-explanatory after everything that happened in the federal government

Re: [cryptography] [zfs] [Review] 4185 New hash algorithm support

2013-10-21 Thread CodesInChaos
If that is all you want, have you considered SipHash? It is much faster than the other algorithms, yet more secure than CityHash, Murmurhash and friends. And it provides an IV/salt to make it per instance unique. Is SipHash really that fast in this context? AFAIK it's only much faster for

Re: [cryptography] funding Tor development

2013-10-21 Thread Ben Laurie
On 21 October 2013 16:57, Kyle Maxwell ky...@xwell.org wrote: On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 4:18 AM, Ben Laurie b...@links.org wrote: On 14 October 2013 14:36, Eugen Leitl eu...@leitl.org wrote: Guys, in order to minimize Tor Project's dependance on federal funding Why? Is that not

Re: [cryptography] funding Tor development

2013-10-21 Thread Kelly John Rose
I think it simply reduces to a desire to not be beholden to political interests. Regardless, I think if they can get the money from the Feds as well as other sources, they will have more money and more resources to build a good program and thus be a better product. The real problem only arises

Re: [cryptography] funding Tor development

2013-10-21 Thread Kyle Maxwell
On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 2:18 PM, Kelly John Rose i...@kjro.se wrote: I think it simply reduces to a desire to not be beholden to political interests. Regardless, I think if they can get the money from the Feds as well as other sources, they will have more money and more resources to build a

Re: [cryptography] funding Tor development

2013-10-21 Thread Kelly John Rose
On that note, I really would love to hear from a lawyer as to why accepting bitcoin or anonymous donations would be problematic. Unless they start laundering money, I don't see that really being an issue. On 21/10/2013 3:41 PM, Kyle Maxwell wrote: On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 2:18 PM, Kelly John Rose

[cryptography] FreeBSD crypto and security meta

2013-10-21 Thread grarpamp
https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-security/2013-October/007226.html http://www.freebsd.org/news/status/report-2013-07-2013-09.html#AES-NI-Improvements-for-GELI http://www.freebsd.org/news/status/report-2013-07-2013-09.html#Reworking-random(4)

Re: [cryptography] FreeBSD crypto and security meta

2013-10-21 Thread coderman
On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 1:45 PM, grarpamp grarp...@gmail.com wrote: ... http://www.freebsd.org/news/status/report-2013-07-2013-09.html#Reworking-random(4) the interesting bit: FreeBSD's CSPRNG also allowed for certain stochastic sources, deemed to be high-quality, to directly supply the

Re: [cryptography] funding Tor development

2013-10-21 Thread John Young
Unless a billionaire steps up to fund Tor it will be a while before small contributions can supplant federal funding. It now comes from DoD through a contractor and from the State Department's principal propaganda agency, Braodcast Board of Governors, through a named front, Internews. Since this