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| From | Mok-Kong Shen <mok-kong.shen@t-online.de> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.programming |
| Subject | Re: Researches in quantum computing seem to progress only extremely slowly |
| Date | 2015-09-03 01:04 +0200 |
| Organization | albasani.net |
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Am 03.09.2015 um 00:52 schrieb Robert Wessel:
> On Thu, 3 Sep 2015 00:28:33 +0200, Mok-Kong Shen
> <mok-kong.shen@t-online.de> wrote:
>
>> Am 03.09.2015 um 00:18 schrieb Robert Wessel:
>>> On Thu, 3 Sep 2015 00:03:52 +0200, Mok-Kong Shen
>>> <mok-kong.shen@t-online.de> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Am 02.09.2015 um 23:52 schrieb Robert Wessel:
>>>>> On Wed, 2 Sep 2015 22:50:52 +0200, Mok-Kong Shen
>>>>> <mok-kong.shen@t-online.de> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Am 02.09.2015 um 15:00 schrieb Kaz Kylheku:
>>>>>>> On 2015-09-02, Mok-Kong Shen <mok-kong.shen@t-online.de> wrote:
>>>>>>>> In my code PROVABLEPRIME
>>>>>>>> (http://s13.zetaboards.com/Crypto/topic/7234475/1/) there is no seed
>>>>>>>> to be input by the user at all. When the Python session starts, the
>>>>>>>> system employs the current time to seed its built-in PRNG. So each
>>>>>>>> time one uses the code to e.g. generate RSA keys, one gets a different
>>>>>>>> pair by chance. Certainly one could question the security of that from
>>>>>>>> an "exact" standpoint (I mean in the sense of proofs of pure math),
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The "exact standpoint" here is quite obvious and it is that a sample of the
>>>>>>> current time (even if it includes micro or nanoseconds from a high resolution timer,
>>>>>>> and not only the "seconds sine epoch" or whatever) simply has too few bits of
>>>>>>> entropy to generate good RSA keys.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I must admit that I yet have doubt on such application of the entropy
>>>>>> argument (i.e. without regard to how an amount of entropy is actually
>>>>>> being employed in the processing) due to a paradox that I put up
>>>>>> and described in a recent another thread: AES-128 in counter mode has
>>>>>> an input of max 128 bits of entropy but its ouput is commonly used to
>>>>>> e.g. xor n plaintext bits with n >> 128. The average entropy that is
>>>>>> contained in one ciphertext bit thus can't be greater than 128/n,
>>>>>> which is negligible for even moderately large n. Does that imply that
>>>>>> AES in CTR mode is totally broken?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> No, it simply means that you don't need to do more than about 2**128
>>>>> work to break it with a known plaintext attack of sufficient size
>>>>> (where "sufficient" may be as little as 16 bytes). But that's not
>>>>> broken, since that's what we were assuming anyway. Sure, it's not a
>>>>> OTP, but it was never meant to be.
>>>>
>>>> I don't yet understand. One expands a sequence of 128 bits somehow
>>>> to a sequence of n bits with n >> 128. If the input 128 bits have
>>>> a total "entropy" of 128, then it can certainly also be asked how
>>>> much entropy the output n bits have in total and hence the average
>>>> value of entropy of each output bit.
>>>
>>>
>>> If there's 128 bits of entropy going in, that's what's coming out.
>>> Spread over however many bits you output. IOW, if you encrypt
>>> something with AES-128 in whatever mode (ignoring any nonce or IV),
>>> there will be only 2**128 possible decryptions of the message, no
>>> matter how long it might be.
>>
>> But you are ignoring the "entropy" in your 2nd sentence. My paradox
>> is however centered on "entropy". Each input bit is assumed to have
>> 1 bit of entropy. After spreading, the average entropy can't be
>> larger than 128/n. What is wrong in that calculation logically?
>> That's what I like very much to know from you or Kylheku.
>
>
> I wouldn't use the word average, but there would be about 128/n bits
> of entropy per output bit.
>
> That's not really at question, or very interesting. If I take a
> gallon of milk, and divide it evenly between 1024 containers, I'll
> have an eighth of an ounce of milk in each container.
>
> I have perhaps missed some part of this discussion.
>
> If this has to do with CS vs. non-CS PRNGs, the difference is that
> non-CS PRNGs make it trivial(-ish) to extract the original data
> ("entropy") from the stream, or equivalently, allow the prediction of
> future outputs from existing ones without excessive work. For example
> you can seed and LFSR with some amount of entropy, but if you have
> some output from it, you can work it backwards to determine what that
> initial seed (or at least the initial state derived from that seed)
> was.
The paradox I had also posted previously elsewhere and is thus not
specifially constructed for the CSPRNG issue. If the paradox as such
can't be resolved, then I would say that employing entropy to treat
the security of crypto schemes seems to have some fundamental logical
problems in general.
M. K. Shen
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Researches in quantum computing seem to progress only extremely slowly Mok-Kong Shen <mok-kong.shen@t-online.de> - 2015-09-01 13:09 +0200
Re: Researches in quantum computing seem to progress only extremely slowly Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2015-09-01 14:23 +0000
Re: Researches in quantum computing seem to progress only extremely slowly Mok-Kong Shen <mok-kong.shen@t-online.de> - 2015-09-01 20:00 +0200
Re: Researches in quantum computing seem to progress only extremely slowly Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2015-09-01 18:43 +0000
Re: Researches in quantum computing seem to progress only extremely slowly Mok-Kong Shen <mok-kong.shen@t-online.de> - 2015-09-02 10:48 +0200
Re: Researches in quantum computing seem to progress only extremely slowly Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2015-09-02 13:00 +0000
Re: Researches in quantum computing seem to progress only extremely slowly Mok-Kong Shen <mok-kong.shen@t-online.de> - 2015-09-02 22:50 +0200
Re: Researches in quantum computing seem to progress only extremely slowly Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2015-09-02 21:31 +0000
Re: Researches in quantum computing seem to progress only extremely slowly Mok-Kong Shen <mok-kong.shen@t-online.de> - 2015-09-02 23:46 +0200
Re: Researches in quantum computing seem to progress only extremely slowly Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2015-09-02 21:58 +0000
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Re: Researches in quantum computing seem to progress only extremely slowly Mok-Kong Shen <mok-kong.shen@t-online.de> - 2015-09-03 00:03 +0200
Re: Researches in quantum computing seem to progress only extremely slowly Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2015-09-02 17:18 -0500
Re: Researches in quantum computing seem to progress only extremely slowly Mok-Kong Shen <mok-kong.shen@t-online.de> - 2015-09-03 00:28 +0200
Re: Researches in quantum computing seem to progress only extremely slowly Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2015-09-02 17:52 -0500
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Re: Researches in quantum computing seem to progress only extremely slowly Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2015-09-02 18:29 -0500
Re: Researches in quantum computing seem to progress only extremely slowly Mok-Kong Shen <mok-kong.shen@t-online.de> - 2015-09-03 01:04 +0200
Re: Researches in quantum computing seem to progress only extremely slowly Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2015-09-02 18:25 -0500
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Re: Researches in quantum computing seem to progress only extremely slowly Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2015-09-02 18:53 -0500
Re: Researches in quantum computing seem to progress only extremely slowly Mok-Kong Shen <mok-kong.shen@t-online.de> - 2015-09-03 02:16 +0200
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Re: Researches in quantum computing seem to progress only extremely slowly Mok-Kong Shen <mok-kong.shen@t-online.de> - 2015-09-03 03:03 +0200
Re: Researches in quantum computing seem to progress only extremely slowly bartekltg <bartek@gmail.com> - 2015-09-03 03:14 +0200
Re: Researches in quantum computing seem to progress only extremely slowly Mok-Kong Shen <mok-kong.shen@t-online.de> - 2015-09-03 03:17 +0200
Re: Researches in quantum computing seem to progress only extremely slowly bartekltg <bartek@gmail.com> - 2015-09-03 03:30 +0200
Re: Researches in quantum computing seem to progress only extremely slowly Mok-Kong Shen <mok-kong.shen@t-online.de> - 2015-09-03 03:36 +0200
Re: Researches in quantum computing seem to progress only extremely slowly bartekltg <bartek@gmail.com> - 2015-09-03 04:13 +0200
Re: Researches in quantum computing seem to progress only extremely slowly Mok-Kong Shen <mok-kong.shen@t-online.de> - 2015-09-03 04:19 +0200
Re: Researches in quantum computing seem to progress only extremely slowly bartekltg <bartek@gmail.com> - 2015-09-03 04:32 +0200
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Re: Researches in quantum computing seem to progress only extremely slowly Mok-Kong Shen <mok-kong.shen@t-online.de> - 2015-09-04 21:50 +0200
Re: Researches in quantum computing seem to progress only extremely slowly Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2015-09-04 20:33 +0000
Re: Researches in quantum computing seem to progress only extremely slowly Mok-Kong Shen <mok-kong.shen@t-online.de> - 2015-09-04 23:45 +0200
Re: Researches in quantum computing seem to progress only extremely slowly bartekltg <bartek@gmail.com> - 2015-09-05 01:24 +0200
Re: Researches in quantum computing seem to progress only extremely slowly Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2015-09-07 00:50 -0500
Re: Researches in quantum computing seem to progress only extremely slowly Mok-Kong Shen <mok-kong.shen@t-online.de> - 2015-09-07 14:14 +0200
Re: Researches in quantum computing seem to progress only extremely slowly bartekltg <bartek@gmail.com> - 2015-09-07 15:57 +0200
Re: Researches in quantum computing seem to progress only extremely slowly Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2015-09-07 12:19 -0500
Re: Researches in quantum computing seem to progress only extremely slowly Mok-Kong Shen <mok-kong.shen@t-online.de> - 2015-09-08 23:47 +0200
Re: Researches in quantum computing seem to progress only extremely slowly bartekltg <bartek@gmail.com> - 2015-09-09 02:28 +0200
Re: Researches in quantum computing seem to progress only extremely slowly Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2015-09-04 20:23 +0000
Re: Researches in quantum computing seem to progress only extremely slowly bartekltg <bartek@gmail.com> - 2015-09-05 00:55 +0200
Re: Researches in quantum computing seem to progress only extremely slowly "Chris M. Thomasson" <nospam@nospam.nospam> - 2015-09-04 17:11 -0700
Re: Researches in quantum computing seem to progress only extremely slowly bartekltg <bartek@gmail.com> - 2015-09-05 02:31 +0200
Re: Researches in quantum computing seem to progress only extremely slowly "Chris M. Thomasson" <nospam@nospam.nospam> - 2015-09-04 20:15 -0700
Re: Researches in quantum computing seem to progress only extremely slowly bartekltg <bartek@gmail.com> - 2015-09-03 00:35 +0200
Re: Researches in quantum computing seem to progress only extremely slowly bartekltg <bartek@gmail.com> - 2015-09-03 00:42 +0200
Re: Researches in quantum computing seem to progress only extremely slowly Mok-Kong Shen <mok-kong.shen@t-online.de> - 2015-09-03 00:46 +0200
Re: Researches in quantum computing seem to progress only extremely slowly bartekltg <bartek@gmail.com> - 2015-09-03 00:54 +0200
Re: Researches in quantum computing seem to progress only extremely slowly Mok-Kong Shen <mok-kong.shen@t-online.de> - 2015-09-03 01:11 +0200
Re: Researches in quantum computing seem to progress only extremely slowly bartekltg <bartek@gmail.com> - 2015-09-03 01:21 +0200
Re: Researches in quantum computing seem to progress only extremely slowly Mok-Kong Shen <mok-kong.shen@t-online.de> - 2015-09-03 01:28 +0200
Re: Researches in quantum computing seem to progress only extremely slowly bartekltg <bartek@gmail.com> - 2015-09-03 02:01 +0200
Re: Researches in quantum computing seem to progress only extremely slowly Mok-Kong Shen <mok-kong.shen@t-online.de> - 2015-09-03 02:22 +0200
Re: Researches in quantum computing seem to progress only extremely slowly bartekltg <bartek@gmail.com> - 2015-09-03 02:51 +0200
Re: Researches in quantum computing seem to progress only extremely slowly Mok-Kong Shen <mok-kong.shen@t-online.de> - 2015-09-03 02:57 +0200
Re: Researches in quantum computing seem to progress only extremely slowly bartekltg <bartek@gmail.com> - 2015-09-03 03:08 +0200
Re: Researches in quantum computing seem to progress only extremely slowly Mok-Kong Shen <mok-kong.shen@t-online.de> - 2015-09-03 03:31 +0200
Re: Researches in quantum computing seem to progress only extremely slowly bartekltg <bartek@gmail.com> - 2015-09-03 03:45 +0200
Re: Researches in quantum computing seem to progress only extremely slowly Mok-Kong Shen <mok-kong.shen@t-online.de> - 2015-09-03 03:54 +0200
Re: Researches in quantum computing seem to progress only extremely slowly bartekltg <bartek@gmail.com> - 2015-09-03 04:18 +0200
Re: Researches in quantum computing seem to progress only extremely slowly Mok-Kong Shen <mok-kong.shen@t-online.de> - 2015-09-03 04:24 +0200
Re: Researches in quantum computing seem to progress only extremely slowly Johannes Bauer <dfnsonfsduifb@gmx.de> - 2015-09-03 07:23 +0200
Re: Researches in quantum computing seem to progress only extremely slowly Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2015-09-02 16:14 -0500
Re: Researches in quantum computing seem to progress only extremely slowly Mok-Kong Shen <mok-kong.shen@t-online.de> - 2015-09-02 23:23 +0200
Re: Researches in quantum computing seem to progress only extremely slowly Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2015-09-02 21:33 +0000
Re: Researches in quantum computing seem to progress only extremely slowly Mok-Kong Shen <mok-kong.shen@t-online.de> - 2015-09-02 23:54 +0200
Re: Researches in quantum computing seem to progress only extremely slowly bartekltg <bartek@gmail.com> - 2015-09-02 23:22 +0200
Re: Researches in quantum computing seem to progress only extremely slowly Mok-Kong Shen <mok-kong.shen@t-online.de> - 2015-09-02 23:32 +0200
Re: Researches in quantum computing seem to progress only extremely slowly bartekltg <bartek@gmail.com> - 2015-09-03 00:22 +0200
Re: Researches in quantum computing seem to progress only extremely slowly "Chris M. Thomasson" <nospam@nospam.nospam> - 2015-09-01 13:23 -0700
Re: Researches in quantum computing seem to progress only extremely slowly Mok-Kong Shen <mok-kong.shen@t-online.de> - 2015-09-02 11:04 +0200
Re: Researches in quantum computing seem to progress only extremely slowly Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2015-09-02 02:22 -0500
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