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| | neilmadden.blog
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| | This is the third part of my series on Key Encapsulation Mechanisms (KEMs) and why you should care about them. Part 1 looked at what a KEM is and the KEM/DEM paradigm for constructing public key encryption schemes. Part 2 looked at cases where the basic KEM abstraction is not sufficient and showed how it...
| | wootfish.github.io
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| | Previously: Theseus: A Robust System for Preserving and Sharing Research Resisting Sybil Attacks in Distributed Hash Tables Securely Finding Friends via DHT Dead Drops Distributed Search in Theseus The State of Theseus, One Month In Theseus Protocol v0.1 Overview Bloom Filter Parameters for Distributed Search Brief Summary Theseus will use the Noise Protocol Framework. This will allow all network traffic to be encrypted, with flexible authentication and many other desirable properties as detailed below. This post explicitly obsoletes theTheseus Protocol v0.1 Overview. That overview deliberately lacked specifics on message encryption. It was expected that said specifics would necessitate some changes, and this has indeed proven to be the case. A v0.2 specific...
| | soatok.blog
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| | Recently, it occurred to me that there wasn't a good, focused resource that covers commitments in the context of asymmetric cryptography. I had covered confused deputy attacks in my very short (don't look at the scroll bar) blog post on database cryptography., and that's definitely relevant. I had also touched on the subject of commitment...
| | soatok.blog
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| Programmers don't understand hash functions, and I can demonstrate this to most of the people that will read this with a single observation: When you saw the words "hash function" in the title, you might have assumed this was going to be a blog post about password storage. (Passwords are the most common knee-jerk reaction...