Re: France Allows 128 Bit Crypto

1999-01-20 Thread Clive D.W. Feather
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Michael Motyka [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes - To supplement the current legal framework by the introduction of obligations, together with penal sanctions, concerning the handing-over to the legal authorities, when they require it, of the cleartext version of

RE: France Allows 128 Bit Crypto

1999-01-20 Thread Black Unicorn
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Clive D.W. Feather Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 1999 4:14 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: France Allows 128 Bit Crypto In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Michael Motyka [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes

Intel announcements at RSA '99

1999-01-20 Thread Steve Bellovin
Intel has announced a number of interesting things at the RSA conference. The most important, to me, is the inclusion of a hardware random number generator (based on thermal noise) in the Pentium III instruction set. They also announced hardware support for IPSEC.

Draft FIPS 46-3 Up

1999-01-20 Thread John Young
Jim Foti at NIST has put the Draft FIPS 46-3 at: http://csrc.nist.gov/fips/dfips46-3.pdf (209K) We offer an HTML version: http://jya.com/dfips46-3.htm (49K + 35K images)

Re: France Allows 128 Bit Crypto

1999-01-20 Thread Alan Olsen
On Jan 19, 10:40pm, Black Unicorn wrote: Subject: RE: France Allows 128 Bit Crypto -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Michael Motyka Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 1999 8:31 PM To: Enzo Michelangeli Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL

Re: Intel announcements at RSA '99

1999-01-20 Thread Ben Laurie
Steve Bellovin wrote: Intel has announced a number of interesting things at the RSA conference. The most important, to me, is the inclusion of a hardware random number generator (based on thermal noise) in the Pentium III instruction set. They also announced hardware support for IPSEC. An

RE: France Allows 128 Bit Crypto

1999-01-20 Thread Russell Nelson
Black Unicorn writes: WOAH. Are you sure you know what you are doing? You're close to imposing a duty to decrypt punishable by penal sanctions (read jailtime). This is precisely the WRONG way to go. Sure, because you can't tell the difference between someone who is unable to decrypt

RE: France Allows 128 Bit Crypto

1999-01-20 Thread AI mailer v .1 alpha
On Wed, 20 Jan 1999, Black Unicorn wrote: It says "handing-over ... of the cleartext version". In other words, a power to request plaintext under warrant. Not the key. If you accept the sense in a law to allow law enforcement to seize documents with a search warrant, then you should

Re: Intel announcements at RSA '99

1999-01-20 Thread David Honig
At 08:56 PM 1/20/99 +, Ben Laurie wrote: Steve Bellovin wrote: Intel has announced a number of interesting things at the RSA conference. The most important, to me, is the inclusion of a hardware random number generator (based on thermal noise) in the Pentium III instruction set. They

[RRE]Authenticity, Social Accountability and Trust

1999-01-20 Thread Robert Hettinga
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Re: A different take on Intel's RSA announcements

1999-01-20 Thread Jamie Fifield
On Wed, 20 Jan 1999, Rob Lemos wrote: http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2189721,00.html From this article: "This kills theft," said one cryptographer at this week's RSA Data Security Conference, who had been briefed by Intel on its plans. "As soon as you

Re: A different take on Intel's RSA announcements

1999-01-20 Thread Tom Weinstein
Rob Lemos wrote: http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2189721,00.html This just seems like FUD to me. ID numbers should help detect theft and fraud. They aren't going to compromise privacy. I expect it's going to behave just like the debugging registers. Nobody is going to be able

Re: Intel announcements at RSA '99

1999-01-20 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ben Laurie writes: Steve Bellovin wrote: Intel has announced a number of interesting things at the RSA conference. The most important, to me, is the inclusion of a hardware random number generator (based on thermal noise) in the Pentium III instruction set.

RE: France Allows 128 Bit Crypto

1999-01-20 Thread Chuck Robey
On Wed, 20 Jan 1999, AI mailer v .1 alpha wrote: On Wed, 20 Jan 1999, Black Unicorn wrote: It says "handing-over ... of the cleartext version". In other words, a power to request plaintext under warrant. Not the key. If you accept the sense in a law to allow law enforcement to