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Re: [Cfrg] Mishandling twist attacks

Adam Back <adam@cypherspace.org> Thu, 01 January 2015 13:32 UTC

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Dan Bernstein wrote:
> P.S. Happy new year, everybody! Let's try to get the whole Internet
> properly authenticated and encrypted in 2015.

Amen to that and I think the chairs comments were off-base also FWIW.

Few have contributed as much focussed and tightly argued technical
signal to this list than you have. It'd be kind of nice if microsoft
would be a little more responsive on list also so we dont have to have
analysis in absentia.

Adam

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