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A bit concerned about relying on claims made in unpublished crypto papers

A bit concerned about relying on claims made in unpublished crypto papers

Posted Sep 7, 2012 9:55 UTC (Fri) by paulj (subscriber, #341)
In reply to: A bit concerned about relying on claims made in unpublished crypto papers by Fowl
Parent article: Forward secure sealing

just a rearrangement of well-known, understood and time-tested primitives.

Agreed, hence why I wrote "new cryptographic protocols". I meant that this is a new protocol using cryptography, not new cryptographic protocols. Sorry. Although, exactly what the protocol is is unclear. It seems you need to read the code to figure that out (?).


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A bit concerned about relying on claims made in unpublished crypto papers

Posted Sep 7, 2012 10:29 UTC (Fri) by paulj (subscriber, #341) [Link]

Gah... s/\(not new cryptographic\) protocols/\1 primitives/

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