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  • Why do we ship cryptography?

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    Why do we ship cryptography?

    In three words: because we can.

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    +cryptography utilized in OpenBSD can be classified into various +aspects, described as follows.

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  • SSH soon built in

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    SSH soon built in

    What is the first thing most people do after installing OpenBSD? They install Secure Shell (ssh) from the ports tree or the packages on @@ -93,7 +91,7 @@ But this way almost everyone will get ssh built-in.

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  • Pseudo Random Number Generators

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    Pseudo Random Number Generators

    A Pseudo Random Number Generator (PRNG) provides applications with a stream of numbers which have certain important properties for system security:

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  • Cryptographic Hash Functions

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    Cryptographic Hash Functions

    A Hash Function compresses its input data to a string of constant size. For a Cryptographic Hash Function it is infeasible to find: @@ -171,7 +169,7 @@

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  • Cryptographic Transforms

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    Cryptographic Transforms

    Cryptographic Transforms are used to encrypt and decrypt data. These are normally used with an encryption key for data encryption and with @@ -207,7 +205,7 @@

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  • International Cryptographers Wanted

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    International Cryptographers Wanted

    Of course, our project needs people to work on these systems. If any non-American cryptographer who meets the constraints listed earlier is @@ -216,7 +214,7 @@

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  • Further Reading

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    Further Reading

    A number of papers have been written by OpenBSD team members, about cryptographic changes they have done in OpenBSD. The postscript @@ -234,14 +232,12 @@ slides. -

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