Re: [Lightning-dev] faster NIKE Sphinx or more secure KEM Sphinx

2023-09-05 Thread David Stainton
Hi Laolu, Finally someone who understands! I very much enjoyed reading your reply. > Re Kyber, what's the current state of production-ready implementations? > Language wise, the most popular LN implementations today are written in > either: C, Go, Rust, or Scala/Kotlin. I ask as most of the

Re: [Lightning-dev] faster NIKE Sphinx or more secure KEM Sphinx

2023-09-05 Thread Olaoluwa Osuntokun
Hi David, Happy to see that you're still working to push the state-of-the-art when it comes to mixnets! > Sphinx is essentially twice as fast if we eliminate the "blinding trick" > and only have one group operation per hop, the DH. In order to make that > work you'd also have to store the group

[Lightning-dev] faster NIKE Sphinx or more secure KEM Sphinx

2023-09-01 Thread David Stainton
Greetings, The Sphinx cryptographic packet format as it was originally published in the 2009 paper ( https://www.freehaven.net/anonbib/cache/DBLP:conf/sp/DanezisG09.pdf ) has a very compact packet format but in exchange, performance is sacrificed. Certainly when mixminion was around in 2002 this