Adding a nounce before hashing as covert channel

[Werner Koch]

On Wed, 11 Dec 2024 22:39, Jacob Bachmeyer said:

> The problem is that strong algorithms *become* weak without advance
> warning.  Therefore, it is necessary to take measures to reduce the

But we don't know in which way they become weak.  You can't exclude that
a new weakness is leveraged by the extra random salt [1].


Salam-Shalom,

   Werner



[1] We are talking about a salt and not a nonce (number-used-once).

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