----- Forwarded message from Zooko O'Whielacronx <zoo...@gmail.com> -----
Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2013 16:56:47 +0000 From: Zooko O'Whielacronx <zoo...@gmail.com> To: Tahoe-LAFS development <tahoe-...@tahoe-lafs.org> Subject: Re: [tahoe-dev] proposal: add padding Reply-To: Tahoe-LAFS development <tahoe-...@tahoe-lafs.org> No, no, we rely on the correctness of our encryption to hide all information about the plaintext from an attacker who doesn't know the encryption key. Therefore, the pad bytes are all just zero bytes, and we believe that this pattern gives nothing useful to the cryptanalyst. (Our encryption is currently AES. I hope in the future to upgrade it to AES⊕XSalsa20 — see #1164 and wiki:OneHundredYearCryptography.) https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/1164# use XSalsa20+AES-128 encryption https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/wiki/OneHundredYearCryptography Regards, Zooko _______________________________________________ tahoe-dev mailing list tahoe-...@tahoe-lafs.org https://tahoe-lafs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tahoe-dev ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://ativel.com http://postbiota.org AC894EC5: 38A5 5F46 A4FF 59B8 336B 47EE F46E 3489 AC89 4EC5 _______________________________________________ cryptography mailing list cryptography@randombit.net http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptography