• “a significant breakthrough in quantum computation would spell doom for all these systems (ECC-192 or RSA-2048).”

    European Network of Excellence for Cryptography, "D.AZTEC.2 Alternatives to RSA", July 2005

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  • “When will we be secure? Nobody knows for sure – but it cannot happen before commercial security products and services possess not only enough functionality to satisfy customers’ stated needs, but also sufficient assurance of quality, reliability, safety, and appropriateness for use. Such assurances are lacking in most of today’s commercial security products and services.”

    Brian Snow, Former Technical Director of the US National Security Agency (NSA), "We need Assurance", 2005

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  • "Today’s systems must anticipate future attacks. Any comprehensive system – whether for authenticated communications, secure data storage, or electronic commerce – is likely to remain in use for five years or more. It must be able to withstand the future: smarter attackers, more computational power, and greater incentives to subvert a widespread system. There won’t be time to upgrade it in the field."

    Bruce Schneier, "Why Cryptography Is Harder Than It Looks", 1997
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bibliography: Encryption-based protection protocols for interactive user-computer communication
Friday, 28 November 2008 09:56
Authors: Stephen Kent
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Date: 1976
Keywords: symmetric key exchange
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Abstract: This thesis develops a complete set of protocols, which utilize a block cipher, e.g., the NBS data encryption standard (DES), for protection interactive user-computer communication over physically unsecured channels. The use of the block cipher protects against disclosure of message contents to an intruder, and the protocols provide for the detection of message stream modification and dental of message service by an intruder.
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Citation: Stephen Kent, “Encryption-based protection protocols for interactive user-computer communication”, M.S. Th., EECS Dept., M.I.T., 1976; also available as Tech. Rep. 162, Lab. for Comptr. Sci., M.I.T., Cambridge, Mass., 1976.
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