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Re: [Cryptography] Ah, The Circles of Life
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kent Borg)
Wed Nov 6 14:46:21 2013
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Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2013 14:20:19 -0500
From: Kent Borg <kentborg@borg.org>
To: Steven Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
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On 11/06/2013 02:13 PM, Steven Bellovin wrote:
> What makes you think that purely random parameters are good? Sometimes
> they aren't -- think s-boxes.
Yes, only when they are.
-kb, the Kent who was only noting that some free association starting
from Schneier can easily lead back to Schneier.
P.S. I didn't say where the article was:
https://www.schneier.com/
http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/10/a-relatively-easy-to-understand-primer-on-elliptic-curve-cryptography/
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