[16658] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: entropy depletion (was: SSL/TLS passive sniffing)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Taral)
Fri Jan 7 16:27:16 2005
X-Original-To: cryptography@metzdowd.com
X-Original-To: cryptography@metzdowd.com
Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 21:20:56 -0600
From: Taral <taral@taral.net>
To: Enzo Michelangeli <em@em.no-ip.com>
Cc: cryptography@metzdowd.com, John Denker <jsd@av8n.com>
In-Reply-To: <00e201c4f3ca$c6332340$0200a8c0@em.noip.com>
--zYM0uCDKw75PZbzx
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Disposition: inline
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 04:35:05PM +0800, Enzo Michelangeli wrote:
> By how much exactly? I'd say, _under the hypothesis that the one-way
> function can't be broken and other attacks fail_, exactly zero; in the
> real world, maybe a little more.
Unfortunately for your analysis, *entropy* assumes that there is
infinite compute capacity. From an information-theoretic point of view,
there is NO SUCH THING as a perfect one-way function.
--=20
Taral <taral@taral.net>
This message is digitally signed. Please PGP encrypt mail to me.
A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting.
Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail?
--zYM0uCDKw75PZbzx
Content-Type: application/pgp-signature
Content-Disposition: inline
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux)
iD8DBQFB3gAYtOVKlL8cHDcRAtzDAJoDelBpDLPBpgOJTKtadJeNGtg9cQCfQnYm
9UiShr7gWxNtFNJcsZobk30=
=Q/fm
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
--zYM0uCDKw75PZbzx--
---------------------------------------------------------------------
The Cryptography Mailing List
Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to majordomo@metzdowd.com
