Adding a nounce before hashing as covert channel

[Jacob Bachmeyer]

On 12/12/24 05:15, Werner Koch wrote:
> 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]

So that would make adding salted signatures neutral:  they protect 
against one class of unknown attacks but could also enable another class 
of unknown attacks.

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

Now I have to ask:  how is a salt different from a nonce?


-- Jacob

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