[E-Lang] Combining strong authentication and secrecy protocols.

[zooko@mad-scientist.com]

> I am pleased to have run across an idea from Xerox called CBCC. I 
> don't have the precise details of their code but the idea is 
> extraordinarily simple. If you include a simple checksum in the 
> plaintext and code and decode using CBC check the sum then you have 
> strong authentication.


Also see the work on "encryption with message integrity for free" for
symmetric encyption, mostly done in the context of chaining modes for
AES.


http://csrc.nist.gov/encryption/modes/workshop1/index.html#proposals

http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/rogaway00ocb.html
http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/384472.html
http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/381592.html
http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/knudsen00block.html


And a very stimulating discussion of related techniques...

http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/bellare-encodethenencipher.html


Regards,

Zooko

P.S.  I haven't read about CBCC yet, so I don't know how much overlap
there is here.