Why I can't sleep soundly with blockchain, being the cypherpunk

2017-08-29 Thread Sergey Matveev
dia.org/wiki/Ghash.io#51.25_attack_controversy [1] http://gost.cypherpunks.ru/en2814789.html [2] http://gost.cypherpunks.ru/enMeshing.html [3] https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki/Problems [4] https://tonyarcieri.com/on-the-dangers-of-a-blockchain-monoculture [5] https://www.activism.net/cypherpunk/manifesto.h

Re: Vulnerability of OpenSource Software download mechanisms: VLC

2017-07-03 Thread Sergey Matveev
rovides a false sense of >security. If your threat model includes the CIA, reliance on HTTPS is a >fundamental error in the "game over" category. -- Sergey Matveev (http://www.stargrave.org/) OpenPGP: CF60 E89A 5923 1E76 E263 6422 AE1A 8109 E498 57EF

Re: GOST cryptography -- Russian Federation's crypto algorithms

2016-10-22 Thread Sergey Matveev
>Current standards are standards, not "western standards". There is no "world" or "common" standards. Standards are always related to something. >And why should >we use somehing like this: https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/071.pdf? What is the problem? S-box is not randomly chosen? Does it hurt this

GOST cryptography -- Russian Federation's crypto algorithms

2016-10-22 Thread Sergey Matveev
Here is consolidated information about modern russian crypto algorithms: http://www.cypherpunks.ru/gost/English.html Worth altenative to western standards.

Re: SHA-3 and GOST-R/Stribok

2016-09-19 Thread Sergey Matveev
*** xorc...@sigaint.org [2016-09-19 23:25]: >Anyone know of some good reference material comparing and contrasting >these hash functions? As Wikipedia says ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streebog ), Streebog uses Merkle-Damgård construction and mathematically is more closed to SHA1/SHA2 and simi