Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261221AbVDQAkA (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Apr 2005 20:40:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261222AbVDQAj7 (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Apr 2005 20:39:59 -0400 Received: from abraham.CS.Berkeley.EDU ([128.32.37.170]:40458 "EHLO abraham.cs.berkeley.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261221AbVDQAjx (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Apr 2005 20:39:53 -0400 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Path: not-for-mail From: daw@taverner.cs.berkeley.edu (David Wagner) Newsgroups: isaac.lists.linux-kernel Subject: Re: Fortuna Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2005 00:37:51 +0000 (UTC) Organization: University of California, Berkeley Distribution: isaac Message-ID: References: <20050416111033.28308.qmail@science.horizon.com> <20050416150609.GC17029@certainkey.com> Reply-To: daw-usenet@taverner.cs.berkeley.edu (David Wagner) NNTP-Posting-Host: taverner.cs.berkeley.edu X-Trace: abraham.cs.berkeley.edu 1113698271 29040 128.32.168.222 (17 Apr 2005 00:37:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@abraham.cs.berkeley.edu NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2005 00:37:51 +0000 (UTC) X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test76 (Apr 2, 2001) Originator: daw@taverner.cs.berkeley.edu (David Wagner) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 626 Lines: 8 Jean-Luc Cooke wrote: >The part which suggests choosing an irreducible poly and a value "a" in the >preprocessing stage ... last I checked the value for a and the poly need to >be secret. How do you generate poly and a, Catch-22? Perhaps I'm missing >something and someone can point it out. I don't think you're missing anything. What you say matches my understanding as well. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/