Re: A new PKC, and some conjectures

2000-03-06 Thread staym
You might want to look at Hall et al's Reaction Attacks, http://www.counterpane.com/reaction_attacks.html Basically, you take a valid message and tweak it to see where it becomes invalid. Leave the seed value entirely alone, and just add powers of two to one of the integers you send until it to

Re: A new PKC

2000-03-06 Thread David Honig
At 09:53 PM 3/5/00 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >Perhaps this solves a little problem we've been playing with: > >We have an untrusted user that needs a key to unlock a file for >processing. Is there anyway we can transmit a key to the program that >processes the file and allow the program

Re: A new PKC, and some conjectures

2000-03-05 Thread dmolnar
On Sat, 4 Mar 2000, bram wrote: > > I've written up a public key encryption algorithm I came up with and some > thoughts on it at > > http://www.gawth.com/bram/essays/simple_public_key.html Here's an idea I just had towards an attack on the system. I'm not sure it goes all the way through.

Re: Proving truth & falisty, was A new PKC, and some conjectures

2000-03-05 Thread dmolnar
On Sun, 5 Mar 2000, Jim Choate wrote: > > > On Sun, 5 Mar 2000, dmolnar wrote: Just a note - the conjecture is due to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and can be found on his web page. My apologies if including it in my post caused any confusion. > > > > Conjecture - For any axiomatic system, there exi

Re: Re: Proving truth & falisty, was A new PKC, and some conjectures

2000-03-05 Thread Jim Choate
On Sun, 5 Mar 2000, dmolnar wrote: > On Sun, 5 Mar 2000, Jim Choate wrote: > > > On Sun, 5 Mar 2000, dmolnar wrote: > > Just a note - the conjecture is due to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and can be found on > his web page. My apologies if including it in my post caused any > confusion. Actualy I shou

Re: A new PKC

2000-03-05 Thread bram
On Sun, 5 Mar 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Perhaps this solves a little problem we've been playing with: > > We have an untrusted user that needs a key to unlock a file for > processing. Is there anyway we can transmit a key to the program that > processes the file and allow the program to

Re: A new PKC, and some conjectures

2000-03-05 Thread bram
On Sun, 5 Mar 2000, Tim May wrote: > This is starting to look like a variant of the old "we share a large set of > numbers--"one time pad"--and then the message includes a set of bits > specifying an entry point into this set of numbers." In this case, the > shared PRNG is not only security thro

Untrusted users accessing sensitive resources (Was "A new PKC")

2000-03-05 Thread Jim Choate
On Sun, 5 Mar 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Perhaps this solves a little problem we've been playing with: > > We have an untrusted user that needs a key to unlock a file for > processing. Is there anyway we can transmit a key to the program that > processes the file and allow the program t

Re: A new PKC, and some conjectures

2000-03-05 Thread Tim May
At 6:07 PM -0800 3/5/00, dmolnar wrote: >On Sun, 5 Mar 2000, bram wrote: > >> During encryption, the encrypter has to pick a bunch of random 0 or 1 bits > >Here "a bunch" = k, right ? > >> to determine whether to include each of the public key integers in each >> sum. Rather than doing that rando

Re: A new PKC

2000-03-05 Thread jeffkoch
Perhaps this solves a little problem we've been playing with: We have an untrusted user that needs a key to unlock a file for processing. Is there anyway we can transmit a key to the program that processes the file and allow the program to unlock the file for processing such that the key canno

Re: A new PKC, and some conjectures

2000-03-05 Thread bram
On Sun, 5 Mar 2000, dmolnar wrote: > On Sun, 5 Mar 2000, bram wrote: > > > During encryption, the encrypter has to pick a bunch of random 0 or 1 bits > > Here "a bunch" = k, right ? k times number of bits sent, yes. > > to determine whether to include each of the public key integers in each

Re: A new PKC, and some conjectures

2000-03-05 Thread dmolnar
On Sun, 5 Mar 2000, bram wrote: > During encryption, the encrypter has to pick a bunch of random 0 or 1 bits Here "a bunch" = k, right ? > to determine whether to include each of the public key integers in each > sum. Rather than doing that randomly, she picks a seed for a standard > cryptog

Re: A new PKC, and some conjectures

2000-03-05 Thread bram
David Molnar wrote: > > On Sat, 4 Mar 2000, bram wrote: > > > I've also posted some very provocative conjectures at > > > > http://www.gawth.com/bram/essays/wild_cryptographic_conjectures.html > > I'm not sure I understand the first one...would you help me out? Using zero knowledge techniques

Re: A new PKC, and some conjectures

2000-03-05 Thread bram
> On Sat, 4 Mar 2000, bram wrote: > > > I've written up a public key encryption algorithm I came up with and > > some thoughts on it at > > > > http://www.gawth.com/bram/essays/simple_public_key.html > > If I just send you the final sum, how do you know it was generated > correctly by adding

Proving truth & falisty, was A new PKC, and some conjectures

2000-03-05 Thread Jim Choate
On Sun, 5 Mar 2000, dmolnar wrote: > > Conjecture - For any axiomatic system, there exists a function which > > runs in a practical amount of time which takes as inputs a statement in > > that axiomatic system and a fixed length string, > > > such that given a proof of any statement in the ax

Re: A new PKC, and some conjectures

2000-03-05 Thread dmolnar
On Sat, 4 Mar 2000, bram wrote: > > I've written up a public key encryption algorithm I came up with and some > thoughts on it at > > http://www.gawth.com/bram/essays/simple_public_key.html If I just send you the final sum, how do you know it was generated correctly by adding stuff in the

Re: A new PKC, and some conjectures

2000-03-05 Thread dmolnar
On Sat, 4 Mar 2000, bram wrote: > I've also posted some very provocative conjectures at > > http://www.gawth.com/bram/essays/wild_cryptographic_conjectures.html > I'm not sure I understand the first one...would you help me out? > Conjecture - For any axiomatic system, there exists a functi

A new PKC, and some conjectures

2000-03-04 Thread bram
I've written up a public key encryption algorithm I came up with and some thoughts on it at http://www.gawth.com/bram/essays/simple_public_key.html I've also posted some very provocative conjectures at http://www.gawth.com/bram/essays/wild_cryptographic_conjectures.html You might find them in