Cryptography

Saving passwords on disk
Can anyone tell me if there are "reasonably" safe ways of storing passwords on disk? For example, my e-mail client clearly saves my passwords somewhere. If it doesn't store them as plain text, it probably encrypts them. But then the key must be stored somewhere... etc. I can't see how this can be done safely. Or... 19 May 2010 20:30

On the Beale ciphers
I found this pretty nifty site that describes an approach that I have not seen before to decoding book ciphers (in particular Beale 1), using Markov chains. It is here: http://thepasqualian.com/?p=1796 Any thoughts? Are we a step closer to finding the treasure? ... 14 May 2010 00:52

3D shapes of the Prime Number Sums - 3D_solids.JPG (0/1)
<A HREF="http://mister-computer.net/index.htm">WEB Site"</A> -- Yours truly RD email mr.computer(a)pobox.com ... 13 May 2010 19:23

gem of a paper
http://eprint.iacr.org/2008/100 Found a thesis today, anyone interested in learning ECC [the sort of curves used by NIST] it's worth a read. From a university in my home town too yay hehehe. Tom ... 12 May 2010 21:26

Curve25519-based SRP?
Does anyone know of any Curve25519-based SRP implementations? I'd like to use SRP, but the environments where I'd like to use it are very space and time constrained so adapting SRP to Curve25519 would be beneficial (and I don't think I trust my current abilities to do it correctly). ... 12 May 2010 21:26

how to perform strong file encryption in VBScript?
does someone know code examples how to perform strong file encryption with VBScript? (any strong algorithm, AES, triple DES, etc) ... 13 May 2010 07:11

Deobfuscate file
How to deobfuscate file stroed inside Array %b=Array(c(077),c(090),c(144),c(000),c(003),c(000),c(000),c(000),c(004),c(000),c(000)::this line is 248413 characters long::c(000),c(000),c(000),c(000 ),"") Is this binary or ASCII strings obfuscated? ... 12 May 2010 16:59

sphlib-2.0
I have just released sphlib-2.0. It can be downloaded from there: http://www.saphir2.com/sphlib/ sphlib is an open-source library of implementations of various hash functions. Hash functions are implemented in C and in Java. The C code is portable and optimized; it can optionally be compiled with optimizati... 11 May 2010 17:55

PLEASE IGNORE
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I beam formula
Can anyone help me withe the roswell I beam formula? Unsolved Mysteries - The UFO Files 2of4 part 1/9 Roswell i beam found. Time 8:26 roswell video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPdSQbUrjPg Carl Sagan on the cosmic Rosetta Stone http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W46HNESNhcg The formula found and deco... 11 May 2010 15:40