On 2014-04-09, at 7:17 PM, [email protected] wrote:
> http://threatpost.com/crypto-model-based-on-human-cardiorespiratory-coupling/105284 > > This is nonsense, right? Yep. > Unbounded in the sense of relying on secrecy of the unbounded number of > algorithms? The distinction between algorithm and parameter (along with other things) seem muddled. I commented on it is a few posts in sci.crypt. Here are trimmed highlights. Jeffrey Goldberg wrote in Message-ID: <[email protected]>: > […]the 60 item bibliography of their paper cites only one source in > cryptography (and that is on quantum key exchange). > > Somehow the first sentence of the paper doesn't inspire confidence either: > > "It is often the case that great scientific and technological discoveries are > …" > > […] > What I see as I glance over this paper is that people who have been caught up > in the fadish understanding of "chaos theory" see that they get PRNGs out of > their dynamical systems (true enough). > > But quite emphatically, the PRNGs that you get from most of this non-linear > dynamical systems are not cryptographically appropriate. Indeed, there are > tests that can distinguish whether the random sequences is likely to be from > such a system. If I understand correctly, even their noise filtering > component depends on exactly that technology. Cheers, -j
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