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Re: Regal eagle / American cloud

From "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.c++
Subject Re: Regal eagle / American cloud
Date 2020-03-03 01:31 -0800
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On 3/2/2020 11:11 PM, David Brown wrote:
> On 02/03/2020 22:24, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
>> On 3/2/2020 1:21 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
>>> On 3/1/2020 1:47 PM, David Brown wrote:
> 
>>>> Anything in the cryptographic world can be "dangerous".  A little 
>>>> knowledge can be a very bad thing here.  You are far better off 
>>>> forgetting you ever heard of "Diffie-Hellman" or key exchange - use 
>>>> a good TLS implementation and let people who know what they are 
>>>> doing implement the security.  (The authors of such software are not 
>>>> infallible either, so track updates and fixes for the software.)
>>>
>>> Fwiw, I have an experimental symmetric cipher. If you get some really 
>>> free time perhaps you can take a look at it:
>>>
>>> https://groups.google.com/d/topic/comp.lang.c/a53VxN8cwkY/discussion
>>>
>>> http://funwithfractals.atspace.cc/ct_cipher
>>>
>>> https://pastebin.com/raw/feUnA3kP
>>> (C version with hardcoded secret key)
>>>
>>> I can get it to work with traditional HMAC, however its way too slow. 
>>> Using an optimized HMAC that can take a digest without destroying its 
>>> internal state makes things go a lot faster.
>>
>> Fwiw, the folks over on sci.crypt are telling me that its beyond their 
>> experience to properly perform crypto analysis on. Perhaps you can 
>> help tear it apart!?
> 
> No, I am don't have the knowledge or experience with cryptography to do 
> an analysis, nor do I have enough maths background (I'm fine with the 
> workings of RSA, but analysis of hashes and encryptions is beyond me).
> 

Damn! If you happen to know any experts, please show this to them, on 
your free time. Fwiw, have you tried to run my C code?

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Re: Regal eagle / American cloud "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> - 2020-02-09 12:54 -0800
  Re: Regal eagle / American cloud woodbrian77@gmail.com - 2020-02-27 20:19 -0800
    Re: Regal eagle / American cloud Mr Flibble <flibbleREMOVETHISBIT@i42.co.uk> - 2020-02-28 16:50 +0000
      Re: Regal eagle / American cloud "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> - 2020-02-28 15:34 -0800
    Re: Regal eagle / American cloud "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> - 2020-02-28 15:37 -0800
      Re: Regal eagle / American cloud woodbrian77@gmail.com - 2020-02-28 16:24 -0800
        Re: Regal eagle / American cloud Melzzzzz <Melzzzzz@zzzzz.com> - 2020-02-29 03:48 +0000
          Re: Regal eagle / American cloud "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> - 2020-02-28 21:33 -0800
            Re: Regal eagle / American cloud Mr Flibble <flibbleREMOVETHISBIT@i42.co.uk> - 2020-02-29 06:28 +0000
              Re: Regal eagle / American cloud "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> - 2020-02-28 22:34 -0800
                Re: Regal eagle / American cloud Melzzzzz <Melzzzzz@zzzzz.com> - 2020-02-29 06:51 +0000
                Re: Regal eagle / American cloud Mr Flibble <flibbleREMOVETHISBIT@i42.co.uk> - 2020-02-29 07:34 +0000
                Re: Regal eagle / American cloud "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> - 2020-02-28 23:40 -0800
                Re: Regal eagle / American cloud David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2020-03-01 14:46 +0100
                Re: Regal eagle / American cloud "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> - 2020-03-01 12:59 -0800
                Re: Regal eagle / American cloud David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2020-03-01 22:47 +0100
                Re: Regal eagle / American cloud red floyd <no.spam@its.invalid> - 2020-03-01 22:14 -0800
                Re: Regal eagle / American cloud woodbrian77@gmail.com - 2020-03-03 08:06 -0800
                Re: Regal eagle / American cloud "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> - 2020-03-02 13:21 -0800
                Re: Regal eagle / American cloud "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> - 2020-03-02 13:24 -0800
                Re: Regal eagle / American cloud David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2020-03-03 08:11 +0100
                Re: Regal eagle / American cloud "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> - 2020-03-03 01:31 -0800
                Re: Regal eagle / American cloud "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> - 2020-03-03 01:33 -0800
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                Re: exception with distinct data members and concatenated what Paavo Helde <myfirstname@osa.pri.ee> - 2020-12-08 22:13 +0200
                Re: Regal eagle / American cloud "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> - 2020-02-28 23:38 -0800
              Re: Regal eagle / American cloud Melzzzzz <Melzzzzz@zzzzz.com> - 2020-02-29 06:50 +0000
                Re: Regal eagle / American cloud "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> - 2020-02-28 23:32 -0800

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