905 reputation
13
bio website callas.org/jon
location Hilbert Space
age
visits member for 1 year, 3 months
seen 13 hours ago
stats profile views 18

Cryptographer. Co-author of OpenPGP, DKIM, syslog-sign, ZRTP, the Skein hash function, Threefish cipher, and other things.

Businessman. Co-founder of PGP Corporation, Silent Circle, World Benders, and others. Presently CTO at Entrust.

Software engineer. Worked at the above as well as Apple, DEC, NASA, and others.


Mar
14
answered CBC - a canonical mode, even though there are streaming modes
Mar
14
answered How to generate successive stream-cipher keys?
Mar
14
answered Predicting values from a Linear Congruential Generator
Mar
14
comment Is it safer to generate your own Diffie-Hellman primes or to use those defined in RFC 3526?
Thank you for the clarification, poncho. I was trying not to get into the details, but the gist of it. But you are correct, I should have been more weasely.
Mar
6
awarded  Teacher
Mar
6
answered How do public key rings work in cryptographic applications?
Mar
6
answered Is it safer to generate your own Diffie-Hellman primes or to use those defined in RFC 3526?