Proofs of security

[R. A. Hettinga]

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Status: RO
Date: Sun, 6 Oct 2002 20:27:58 -0400
From: Adam Shostack <adam at homeport.org>
To: cypherpunks at lne.com
Subject: Proofs of security
User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i
Sender: owner-cypherpunks at lne.com

Has anyone done any research into how much better new cryptosystems
with proofs of security do, as opposed to their unproven cousins?  It
seems that having a proof of security doesn't actually improve the
odds that a system will survive attacks.  But thats my intuition, not
a proven fact. ;)

Has anyone read a stack of papers and done some statistics?



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