Re: going around the crypto

1999-08-17 Thread Enzo Michelangeli
- Original Message - From: Peter Gutmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, August 14, 1999 6:03 AM Subject: Re: going around the crypto [...] Smart cards with thumbprint readers are one step in this direction, although they're currently prohibitively expensive.

Re: linux-ipsec: Re: Summary re: /dev/random

1999-08-17 Thread John Denker
Hi Ted -- At 11:41 PM 8/14/99 -0400, you wrote: standard Mathematician's style --- encrypted by formulae guaranteed to make it opaque to all but those who are trained in the peculiar style of Mathematics' papers. ... someone tried to pursuade me to use Maurer's test ... too memory

semantics of /dev/{u}random

1999-08-17 Thread William Allen Simpson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Catching up, and after talking with John Kelsey and Sandy Harris at SAC'99, it seems clear that there is some consensus on these lists that the semantics of /dev/urandom need improvement, and that some principles of Yarrow should be incorporated. I think that

Re: linux-ipsec: Re: Summary re: /dev/random

1999-08-17 Thread Thomas Roessler
On 1999-08-14 12:27:30 -0700, Bill Frantz wrote: It bothers me when people who are in favor of strong crypto automatically assume that anything which makes strong crypto easier will automatically be export controlled. This assertion is clearly wrong. The thing which most makes strong