Schneier on Security

Lord Illingworth • May 6, 2006 12:43 AM

I make the beats for MC Plus+. Mad love to all the real CS gangstas. A few key points on the lyrics:

"DES is wrong if you listen to NIST"
"Bruce used its fame to make a few grand"

Look for the new MC Plus+ album "Chip Hop" in a month or two. And for all you hip hop heads out there, we're trying to bring mad flavor on this next joint. Good ears on the cat that caught the B5 sample.

Lord Illingworth • May 12, 2006 12:58 PM

First, there actually *is* a clean version of Alice and Bob. Is that someone that people would like available?

Second, for those who wanted all the lyrics. (Lyrics for the other songs are all printed inside the jacket of the album, should you care to purchase it.)

Alice and Bob

Alice is sending her message to Bob
Protecting that transmission is crypto’s job
Without the help of our good friend Trent
It’s hard to get that secret message sent

Work tries to deposit a check of your salary
But with no crypto it’ll be changed by Mallory
You think no one will see what it is you believe
But you should never forget there’s always an Eve

(Chorus)
‘Cause I’m encrypting sh*t like every single day
Sending data across the network in a safe way
Protecting messages to make my pay
If you hack me, you’re guilty under DMCA

DES is wrong if you listen to NIST
Double DES ain’t no better, man, that got dissed
Twofish for AES that was Schneier’s wish
Like a shot from the key, Rijndael made the swish

But Blowfish is still the fastest in the land
And Bruce used its fame to make a few grand
Use ECB and I’ll crack your cipher text
Try CFB mode to keep everyone perplexed

(Chorus)

Random numbers ain’t easy to produce
Do it wrong and your key I’ll deduce
RSA only public cipher in the game
Creating it helped give Rivest his fame

If we could factor large composites in poly time
We’d have enough money to not have to rhyme
Digesting messages with a hashing function
Using SHA-1 or else won’t cause dysfunction

(Chorus)