Strong Crypto Kit [was: Enigma kit]

grarpamp grarpamp at gmail.com
Wed Aug 2 21:13:42 PDT 2017


On Wed, Aug 2, 2017 at 5:34 AM, Peter Gutmann <pgut001 at cs.auckland.ac.nz> wrote:
> https://www.tindie.com/products/lpaseen/meinenigma-hybrid-kit/
>
>   This is an electronic replica of the Enigma crypto machine used during WWII
>   by the Germans to encrypt all the military communications. It is intended to
>   be as close to the real one as economically possible.

While cool, at the end of the day it implements broken crypto,
on relatively closed inauditable core chip. So it's an unusable
coffee table conversation piece.

Why not put the $300 towards an open discrete implementation of at
least some well known secure symmetric cipher, buildable in a year
or so of casual hobby time. Or even order it premade so long as
full audit and test vector is completable similarly by self.
A contract investment by builders in cryptocurrency could pay for
the design dev and parts making things basically free.

#OpenFabs
#OpenHardware

Why? Because cryptos should give a fuck...
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1945661.0


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