[Cryptography] ideas for (long) Nothing up my sleeve numbers

Viktor Dukhovni cryptography at dukhovni.org
Wed Apr 2 15:31:12 EDT 2014


On Wed, Apr 02, 2014 at 01:39:23PM -0400, Arnold Reinhold wrote:

> Sounds like what you want is not a classic "nothing up my sleeves"
> number, which may indeed have polynomially recognizable underlying
> structure, but something truly random. Doing a "Hail Mary pass" of
> combining everything under the sun leaves open the possibility of
> selecting a set of choices with some hidden property.

No, he seems to want N.U.M.S *and* lacking problematic structure.

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	Viktor.


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