-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hello patrick@Verity.COM (Patrick Horgan) and cypherpunks@toad.com, jirib@cs.monash.edu.au and futplex@pseudonym.com, privsoft@ix.netcom.com ...
(0) PrivaSoft actually uses a key longer than 9 digits, and someone just made
JB (that's me!) wrote:
Could it be 9 hex digits = 36 bits?
PH wrote:
A nine digit number, 999,999,999 can be stored as 0x3b9ac9ff. Note that this is ...
I meant "what if it's mis-reported and actuall goes up to FFF,FFF,FFF?".
The information contents a clear message
This is a strange title (I suspect "of" dropped out), but it might well sum it all up :-)
Nah, I suggested they reformat into 80 columns and suggested a different title for this section, but they went with it. They wanted it fer sure. I just don't know what it means.
Well, if this is actually what they wanted to say, then the interpretation I was alluding to was that the contents of the message is [sent in the] clear. ...
This can at most buy you a constant factor - useful, but not very. ... Someone else on this list mentioned that an edge detection algorithm ... It could give you a quick go/no go.
Don't forget that in most cases it'll be obvious that it's the wrong key - only when it isn't would you submit the thing to a second-level analyzer to check for edges/characters etc. ...
The cryptographic engine can be customer-furnished and customer integrated, ... What do they mean by this bit? ...
They mean that if you don't feel secure with theirs, you could use yours in their framework...
What, at the end of a release praising the security of their own thing?
it's the pluggable encryption that NSA has had such a hard time with but seems to be in favor of now.
Alternatively their whole *framework* is bogus so NSA isn't concerned about what encryption you use in the middle. Just another possibility. Ah well... Jiri - -- <jirib@cs.monash.edu.au> <jiri@melb.dialix.oz.au> PGP 463A14D5 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2i iQCVAwUBMIyCvSxV6mvvBgf5AQFjkwQA1tr1wqgXDCwf3MWhCVJCmmNWQvyA1fHl 4LR7KXxZyPwcBnPFtD9/+sdgL7opnK8E79AXMzgxNJJhvvggHz5dzFmrM6AjKLoK CiQcIVuZSZ66pxaS+S5bH5R3ZSO/IrbOkt5l1RYuSlow6UCyEcsjbiWSnfaIzdnY nhvFhDsgfyM= =ZXzd -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----