Re: Rumpelstiltskin hash-tree algorithm

"Rob Meijer" <rmeijer-qWit8jRvyhVmR6Xm/[email protected]>
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Here is a follow up post that I created to address Zookoo's comment on my
first post. It explains in a few steps how and why we get at the final 3
hashing operations with one (or two) secret salts. I've left out the part
on using HMAC as I understood from others that mostly confuses the base
concepts.

http://minorfs.wordpress.com/2014/03/21/rumpelstiltskin-and-his-children-part-2/

On Mon, February 24, 2014 07:16, Rob Meijer wrote:
> On Thu, February 20, 2014 16:51, Karp, Alan H wrote:
>> Very clever.  I hadn't thought of using Rumplestiltskin as a way to
>> explain capabilities, but I will be using it in the future.
>
>
> Good to hear you will be using Rumpelstiltskin in the future, than I will
> have finally payed you back for using your Solitaire (and Sokoban an a
> Linux spin-off) for many years ;-)
>
>
>
>> A couple of minor points.
>>
>> The figure with the circles is hard to see with the dark background.
>>
>> "so non is used" is repeated, and what does "non" mean?  Is it a nonce?
>>
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