This idea was stolen from bruce schneider's "street performer protocol"
The 1st person to implement this in the real world was stephan king, unfortunately for the open source world this initial experiment failed miserably. The never ended up releasing the final chapters to the book, many people who had put in their $1 or $2 never got it back because the escrow said it would cost more than the money they were getting back to get the money back to them. Which makes you wonder how on earth was it possible for people to send in $1 or $2 donations. Atm i think shamir is the only guy in the world that has proposed a decent and fair protocol for online companies to be able to handle transactions with unit prices of about $1 etc....
The algorithm proposed by the Israelis is a extended method of a generlaised non-linear cipher defunct by a group of cryptographers last year.
More info can be obtained from Bruce Schnier's snake oil documents and also by looking at the cryptogram news-letter.
Arash
For people that are aware at the moment in the world of cryptography there is a weakest
link problem occurring. As the proverb goes, "the chain is only as strong as its weakest link"
and in this situation cryptography also falls into this category or conundrum. This is an inevitable
problem for all cryptographic protocols.
From the very beginning of the Caesar ciphers till today it has been concluded that any kind
of encryption system requires keys, even the theoretically unbreakable OTP methods require keys.
Today's key exchange protocols are all based on discrete log methods which are susceptible to
factoring. Even though the symmetric ciphers of today are unbreakable with 256 and 512 bit key
sizes, getting those keys on both machines for protocol to work, is not a secure a task as it is
meant to be hence the weakest link paradox, AES, RC-X etc are all very strong but depending on 1
method which is common to them all KEY EXCHANGE. Get that right and a lot of people will be out of
a job ha ha ha ha ha ha:D.
Hence it can be concluded that until the key exchange problem is solved there is no way anyone
can say they have developed an "unbreakable" crypto-system.
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This idea was stolen from bruce schneider's
"street performer protocol"
The 1st person to implement this in the real world was stephan king,
unfortunately for the open source world this initial experiment failed
miserably. The never ended up releasing the final chapters to the book,
many people who had put in their $1 or $2 never got it back because the
escrow said it would cost more than the money they were getting back to
get the money back to them. Which makes you wonder how on earth was it
possible for people to send in $1 or $2 donations.
Atm i think shamir is the only guy in the world that has proposed a decent
and fair protocol for online companies to be able to handle transactions
with unit prices of about $1 etc....
Arash
The algorithm proposed by the Israelis is a extended method of a generlaised non-linear cipher defunct by a group of cryptographers last year.
More info can be obtained from Bruce Schnier's snake oil documents and also by looking at the cryptogram news-letter.
Arash
For people that are aware at the moment in the world of cryptography there is a weakest :D.
link problem occurring. As the proverb goes, "the chain is only as strong as its weakest link"
and in this situation cryptography also falls into this category or conundrum. This is an inevitable
problem for all cryptographic protocols.
From the very beginning of the Caesar ciphers till today it has been concluded that any kind
of encryption system requires keys, even the theoretically unbreakable OTP methods require keys.
Today's key exchange protocols are all based on discrete log methods which are susceptible to
factoring. Even though the symmetric ciphers of today are unbreakable with 256 and 512 bit key
sizes, getting those keys on both machines for protocol to work, is not a secure a task as it is
meant to be hence the weakest link paradox, AES, RC-X etc are all very strong but depending on 1
method which is common to them all KEY EXCHANGE. Get that right and a lot of people will be out of
a job ha ha ha ha ha ha
Hence it can be concluded that until the key exchange problem is solved there is no way anyone
can say they have developed an "unbreakable" crypto-system.
Arash Partow