[cryptography] beginner crypto

2013-12-28 Thread ianG
On 29/12/13 02:35 AM, RossMcFarlane wrote: Hi everyone, I don't want to waste your time but I'd love to learn some more about cryptography, I was recommended this mailing list but its aimed well above my standard. Yes, this is about crotchety old war armchair cryptographers fighting decades

Re: [cryptography] good key stretching practice?

2013-12-28 Thread Kevin
On 12/28/2013 6:35 PM, RossMcFarlane wrote: Hi everyone, I don't want to waste your time but I'd love to learn some more about cryptography, I was recommended this mailing list but its aimed well above my standard. I'm based in the UK 17 years old and to be pointed in the direction of some goo

Re: [cryptography] good key stretching practice?

2013-12-28 Thread Kevin
On 12/28/2013 6:02 PM, Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: On Dec 28, 2013, at 2:01 PM, Kevin wrote: Hello list. What is the best key stretching method that can be used? Best for what? If you are trying to stretch from a password to a key and wish to add some resistance to password cracking then curre

Re: [cryptography] good key stretching practice?

2013-12-28 Thread RossMcFarlane
Hi everyone, I don't want to waste your time but I'd love to learn some more about cryptography, I was recommended this mailing list but its aimed well above my standard. I'm based in the UK 17 years old and to be pointed in the direction of some good resources would be great, I've watched a lot

Re: [cryptography] good key stretching practice?

2013-12-28 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Dec 28, 2013, at 2:01 PM, Kevin wrote: > Hello list. What is the best key stretching method that can be used? Best for what? If you are trying to stretch from a password to a key and wish to add some resistance to password cracking then currently your “mainstream” choices are scrypt, PBKD

Re: [cryptography] good key stretching practice?

2013-12-28 Thread fred concklin
Check out PBKDF2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PBKDF2 Good table if you're not satisfied: http://crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/6697/bcrypt-vs-key-stretching-md5 On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 10:01 PM, Kevin wrote: > Hello list. What is the best key stretching method that can be used? > > --

[cryptography] good key stretching practice?

2013-12-28 Thread Kevin
Hello list. What is the best key stretching method that can be used? -- Kevin ___ cryptography mailing list cryptography@randombit.net http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptography