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Forward secure sealing

Forward secure sealing

Posted Nov 16, 2012 5:24 UTC (Fri) by zooko (subscriber, #2589)
Parent article: Forward secure sealing

I'm interested in such topics. I work on the Tahoe-LAFS secure distributed filesystem, and we have some ideas about how to implement similar-sounding semantics:

https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/795

So, I'd like to read up on "forward secure sealing" or "Forward Secure Pseudo Random Generators". Maybe the way it is done would shed light on the security or efficiency properties of the way we are designing Tahoe-LAFS.

But unfortunately, I can't seem to find a peer-reviewed article, or even non-peer-reviewed documentation about how "Forward Secure Pseudo Random Generators" actually work.

I've read this article and the discussion threads, searched with Google Scholar, Google Search, and http://eprint.iacr.org. With the latter I find five publications by Bertram Poettering, but none of them seem to be about this.

Can someone hook me up with a paper or doc about it?


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