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I'm not really a cryptographer, I just play one on the internet.

Seriously, I'm just a programmer and mathematician interested in puzzles and information security. I don't have any kind of formal crypto training, but I've picked up a few things here and there over the years. Topics I'm particularly interested in include protocol design and analysis, classical ciphers and information-theoretically secure crypto techniques such as one time pads and secret sharing schemes.

Please consider any (original) code I post to Stack Overflow (and other Stack Exchange sites) to be released under CC-Zero unless stated otherwise. You may do whatever you want with it and don't have to credit me in any way, although of course that would be nice.


Apr
6
answered Efficient and stateless anti-forgery method
Apr
5
answered Why is the IV passed in the clear when it can be easily encrypted?
Apr
4
answered Can I use a one time pad key twice with random plaintext?
Mar
29
asked Can you make a hash out of a stream cipher?
Mar
27
answered Is RSA padding needed for single recipient, one-time, unique random message?
Mar
25
answered Is compressing data prior to encryption necessary to reduce plaintext redundancy?
Mar
25
answered What is the PRG period of stream ciphers such as RC4 or Salsa20?
Mar
20
answered Is it generally possible to employ brute force methods when the encryption scheme is not known? Why or why not?
Mar
20
answered If plaintext is random, how does it affect my choice of encryption algorithm?
Mar
17
answered What is the purpose of using different hash functions for the leaves and internals of a hash tree?
Mar
16
answered How does a “Tiger Tree Hash” handle data whose size isn't a power of two?
Mar
7
wiki created collision-resistance excerpt
Mar
7
wiki created collision-resistance description
Mar
7
wiki created 2nd-preimage-resistance description
Mar
7
wiki created 2nd-preimage-resistance excerpt
Mar
7
wiki created preimage-resistance excerpt
Mar
7
wiki created preimage-resistance description
Jan
27
answered RS Erasure Coding and Shamir's Secret Sharing
Jan
15
answered Key space size when either of two public keys are valid for authentication?
Jan
13
answered How can one securely generate an asymmetric key pair from a short passphrase?