thanks for all your support, I have managed to make LTC lib to communicate with BouncyCastle crytographic system in Java. In stead of modifying LTC source...
... Tom ... That's one solution. Ideally some form of PKCS #1 key format would be more ideal. Right now I have no inclination to write one myself. For the...
As a result of my first phase profiling of the LTC functions (rsa_encrypt_key() and rsa_decrypt_key()) consumes about 500 malloc () calls. Has anyone done any...
Tom St Denis wrote: or the record the methods I endorse myself for interoperation are ... It needn't even be code. A published struct per key type would...
bert hubert
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... Sure you want to do that? It is generally considered prudent to separate code from opinion. While I'm no lover of patents it helps nobody to proudly point...
bert hubert
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Aug 5, 2004 1:37 pm
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... website ... separate ... Why? My code *is* my opinion. ... which ... celebre ... First, I doubt they will sue [in this case "They" is mostly RSA and ...
I tuned down the website. Doesn't mean I like any of you GRMF just that I can't possibly offend anyone. I mean afterall I owe LibTomCrap to you people. I...
... Oh darn, that offends me -- I liked the pictures and in-your-face comments. I thought Bert's questions and suggestions were pretty mild. But maybe you...
... Why? It's your website, and thus the place to vent your own opinions! (Was it on a seperate linked page? I forget) Personally, if you just link to it off...
Daniel Richards
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Aug 5, 2004 6:51 pm
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... For most people, yes. For some people it just doesn't work. If they feel that they can't say something in the bluntest, straightest, in-your- face way,...
... website ... separate ... in-your- ... madder! ... Mostly I'm just pissed off and wanted to vent ;-) You never know how much something is worth until you...
... Well, I generally consider myself part of an open source ecosystem. I use all this nice open source software and I contribute to it. ... Yeah - know what...
... interest in ... still ... ecosystem. I ... The problem I find is most projects fall into two camps 1. Libraries 2. End user applications. Most libraries...
LTC 0.98 is out.... ;-) I'm having a good morning so I figured I would pass around the charm... Sports fixes to PKCS [nothing major], hmac and PRNG as well ...
Hi Tom, You mentioned you used MSVC to test in Windows. I notice that in LTC if you enable LTMSSE to take advantage of the assembly code, the MSVC can't parse...
... LTC if you ... can't parse the ... i.e., __asm { ... LTMSSE. Yes? ... You assume correctly. I'm not a huge fan of MSFT [in case you didn't notice] so...
Tom In the past you recommended I use PKCS 5 #2 to generate my hmac key, cipher key, and cipher iv from a 16 byte key. I was looking at the new sober code in...
It should be noted that hashsum.c in demos/ won't compile because it's using the wrong header file. (mycrypt_custom.h instead of mycrypt.h) So to get it to...
Daniel Richards
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Aug 8, 2004 2:26 am
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Going for a "2-fer" here ;-) First, yeah go wild with hashsum and if you submit a copy back to me I'll add it into the mix. Maybe add some MAC'ing to it as an...
... Not necessary with SOBER-128; it's been extensively analysed for related-key attacks. But it certainly can't hurt, and is absolutely necessary for ciphers...
Greg Rose
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Aug 8, 2004 3:56 pm
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... random ... absolutely ... grounds ... I stand corrected. Generally though it's just a good idea since passwords are usually of low entropy you don't want...
... Not really, since I agreed that you should hash anyway... ... If the password is of low entropy, it doesn't matter whether you hash it or not. Hashing it...
Greg Rose
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Aug 8, 2004 8:15 pm
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<snip> [to make light of the situation]... Speaker1: I think your 3 cent titanium tax goes too far! Speaker2: And *I* think your 3 cent titanium tax doesn't...
Greg and Tom, I have been thinking about all of this, and have a few questions: (forgive the newbie questions about crypto:) Lets say I use sober to key with a...
... from /dev/random. ... byte ... would ... the ... of ... I wouldn't worry about it. Essentially it reduces to [in your case] predicting the 16 byte...
J from Peersec let me toy with his AMD64 and now 60-bit digits is fully supported [well on GCC platforms with the 128-bit integer extensions]. There were two...
... only need RSA and padding. ... It calls rand_prime [an LTC function] which interfaces with the LTM random prime functions. You need a PRNG for the keygen...
For anyone who doesn't read sci.crypt I'm in the middle of adding new multipliers to LTM. They replace the mul/sqr comba routines. The idea of the change is...