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[linux-security] Re: "Flavors of Security Through Obscurity"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joseph S D Yao)
Tue Jun 2 08:21:35 1998
From: Joseph S D Yao <jsdy@gwyn.tux.org>
To: linux-security@redhat.com
Date: Mon, 1 Jun 1998 13:58:47 -0400 (EDT)
In-Reply-To: <199806010749.JAA00972@cave.BitWizard.nl> from "Rogier Wolff" at Jun 1, 98 09:49:19 am
Reply-To: jsdy@tux.org
Resent-From: linux-security@redhat.com
> As a reference, read the chapter on random numbers (a good random
> number generator can serve as a cryptographic engine) in "the art of
> computer programming" by Donald Knuth, published 1972 (or
> thereabouts). ...
You are referring to the volume on numerical algorithms.
Recently updated and re-published. I ran out and got a copy, but
somehow I don't have as much time to read it now as then ... ;-) I
believe the first two volumes are out, and there was some talk of more
than the initial three becoming available [there were originally seven
or eight planned, IIRC].
> P.S. Future posts with "I've designed this fancy cryptographic
> algorithm" will be ignored...
I trust you will at least look at them before trashing them ... you
never know just where true inspiration will strike. ;-) There have
been several brilliant mathematicians who didn't come up through
acknowledged channels.
Joe Yao jsdy@tux.org - Joseph S. D. Yao
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