Dimitri Vulis <dlv@bwalk.dm.com> writes on cpunks-flames:
Adam Back <aba@dcs.ex.ac.uk> writes on cpunks-flames:
Mr William H. Geiger III "Author of E-Secure" writes on cpunks:
<sigh> for the benifit of those misfortunate enough to be still working
dumb terminals I have disabled my PGP script until I have time to add a
word wrap routine to it.
<sigh> it is you who were demonstrating your ineptitude by spewing
120+ line length postings. Why is it so difficult for you to keep
under 80 chars? Would you like some technical assistance? Notice how
near every one else apart from yourself is managing to keep under 80
chars?
Notice how near every one else apart from yourself bends over for the NSA,
and is willing to use a 40-bit key "escrowed" with the feds? Why is it so
difficult for you to keep under 40 bits? Would you like some technical
assistance? Why are you setting yourself apart from the Internet community
that so happily embraces GAK? Why do you desire "privacy" for your traffic
when everyone else does not? What have you got to hide? Are you looking to
transmit child pornography, bomb-making instructions, and/or cannabis
legalization propaganda? We better have a look at your hard disk soon.
btw Dimitri, a crypto question:
Diffie-Hellman key generation, there are two main ways of generating
the diffie-hellman prime modulus, method 1:
p = 2q+1
where q is a prime also.
And method 2:
p = r.2q+1
where q is a prime and r is a randomly generated number.
With method 1, the security parameter is the size of p in bits (or
size of q, as they are related).
With method 2, there are two security parameters, size of q and size
of p in bits.
Method 2 has the advantage that key generation is faster as it is
quicker to generate new random numbers r, than to repeatedly generate
trial prime q as you have to do in method 1. However is the security
weaker in method 2? What size of p and q do you have to use to get
the same security as for same size of p in bits as in method 1? What
should be the relationship between the size of p and q?
(this isn't cpunks, this is cpunks-flames, so your non-crypto pledge
shouldn't hold, besides Sandy has a stated policy of killing the whole
thread, so I thought it amusing to continue your crypto relevance in
moving on to technical topics rather than political)
My advice is to stay clear of any cryptosystem that relies on factoring
being hard. I'll send you pointers to some very interesting new work
based on the zeta function in private e-mail when I dig it up (please
remind me if/when I forget this promise). I'm reluctant to say anything
crypto-relevant on this defunct mailing list because last time I did,
the moderator repeatedly cited it as evidence that his moderation works.
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Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM
Brighton Beach Boardwalk BBS, Forest Hills, N.Y.: +1-718-261-2013, 14.4Kbps
Adam Back
Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM