[5524] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: Paul Brown on Solitiare randomness flaw?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William H. Geiger III)
Sat Sep 4 10:41:46 1999
From: "William H. Geiger III" <whgiii@openpgp.net>
Date: Fri, 03 Sep 1999 22:01:08 -0500
To: Dave Del Torto <ddt@openpgp.net>
In-Reply-To: <v04210152b3f61485313b@[192.168.248.7]>
Cc: coderpunks@toad.com, cryptography@c2.net,
Bruce Schneier <schneier@counterpane.com>
In <v04210152b3f61485313b@[192.168.248.7]>, on 09/03/99
at 05:20 PM, Dave Del Torto <ddt@openpgp.net> said:
>Does anyone (or you, Bruce?) have a URL handy to/for an paper (by Paul
>Brown in the UK?) speculating on a RNG weakness in Solitiare's (Bruce's
>playing card cipher)? I've been searching the web unsuccessfully. The
>paper may mention it as "Pontifex", as it was referred to in
>"Cryptonomicon." The implication is that it may not be as secure as I'd
>hoped, and that I should *not* train some human rights people on how to
>use it in the field...
Hi Dave,
I did some searching through my digital library. Take a look at:
http://www.hedonism.demon.co.uk/paul/solitaire/index.html
--
---------------------------------------------------------------
William H. Geiger III http://www.openpgp.net
Geiger Consulting Cooking With Warp 4.0
Author of E-Secure - PGP Front End for MR/2 Ice
PGP & MR/2 the only way for secure e-mail.
OS/2 PGP 5.0 at: http://www.openpgp.net/pgp.html
Talk About PGP on IRC EFNet Channel: #pgp Nick: whgiii
Hi Jeff!! :)
---------------------------------------------------------------
