Re: [cryptography] three crypto lists - why and which

2013-10-01 Thread Collin RM Stocks
On 09/30/2013 06:27 AM, Adam Back wrote: I am not sure if everyone is aware that there is also an unmoderated crypto list, because I see old familiar names posting on the moderated crypto list that I do not see posting on the unmoderated list. The unmoderated list has been running continuously

Re: [cryptography] The Unbreakable Cipher

2013-10-01 Thread Collin RM Stocks
On 09/25/2013 03:51 PM, Jonathan Katz wrote: On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 1:30 PM, Greg Rose g...@seer-grog.net mailto:g...@seer-grog.net wrote: On Sep 25, 2013, at 9:40 , Jonathan Katz jk...@cs.umd.edu mailto:jk...@cs.umd.edu wrote: Every cipher is breakable, given enough traffic: in

Re: [cryptography] Chaos theory

2013-09-26 Thread Collin RM Stocks
On 09/22/2013 10:23 PM, coderman wrote: if you're looking for general research in complexity / chaos, shortcut to perusing: Santa Fe Instutute series[0] then AKNOS[1] from there you'll be able to traverse the myraid particulars of interest... best regards, 0. Santa Fe Institute Series

[cryptography] Chaos theory

2013-09-22 Thread Collin RM Stocks
Sorry that this question is only tangentially related to cryptography. Then again, a lot of the stuff here is only tangentially related. Could anybody here link me to some good resources on chaos theory? I'm not looking for anything specifically about certain chaotic systems (like the Lorentz

Re: [cryptography] Compositing Ciphers?

2013-09-13 Thread Collin RM Stocks
On 09/06/2013 08:27 PM, Jeffrey Walton wrote: Hi All, With all the talk of the NSA poisoning NIST, would it be wise to composite ciphers? (NY Times, Guardian, Dr. Green's blog, et seq). I've been thinking about running a fast inner stream cipher (Salsa20 without a MAC) and wrapping it in AES