[Cryptography] Infinite Noise or Firebug?

Bill Stewart billstewart at pobox.com
Mon Nov 17 17:42:34 EST 2014


At 08:18 AM 11/17/2014, Bill Cox wrote:
>Peter and I have bounced a couple names back and 
>forth.  What do you think of Modular 
>Multiplication Loop?  It is more descriptive of 
>the function than Infinite Noise Multiplier, or 
>Firebug.  Other variations might be Mod2 
>Multiplication/Multiplier Loop, Analog Modular Multiplier, etc.

A name like that implies that it'll do Modular 
Multiplication for a user who wants a series of 
modular multiplications done quickly, and that's 
not at all what you're doing.  What you're doing 
for the user is generating random noise.



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