Atmel security IC

1999-10-11 Thread Keith Dawson
On 1999-09-29 Atmel announced a partnership with IBM to make crypto processors for the IBM PC 300 PL. From the press release [1]: The hardware core of the security system is a cryptographic processor developed by Atmel that can both store secret keys in nonvolatile memory, and compute

desirable properties of secure voting

1999-10-11 Thread Ed Gerck
List: In reference to the recent discussions on voting, I am preparing a list of desirable properties of voting, as a secure protocol. Of course, it may not be desirable or even possible for a particular election process to include *all* of them -- the objective is just to have a list of

Re: crypto camouflage in software

1999-10-11 Thread Rick Smith
"paul a. bauerschmidt" wrote: one password will decrypt correctly, many other passwords will produce alternate, valid-looking keys to fool an attacker. is this an example of security through obscurity (a thought which many frown upon, it seems)? At 05:12 PM 10/8/99 -0700, Ed Gerck

Re: desirable properties of secure voting

1999-10-11 Thread Anonymous
On Sat, 09 Oct 1999 20:35:15 -0700, Ed Gerck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In reference to the recent discussions on voting, I am preparing a list of desirable properties of voting, as a secure protocol. Of course, it may not be desirable or even possible for a particular election process to

Amsterdam conf Nov27: SIGINT in Europe during Cold War

1999-10-11 Thread John Gilmore
From: IACR Newsletter [EMAIL PROTECTED] IACR Newsletter Vol. 16, No. 3, Fall 1999. Published by the International Association for Cryptologic Research Christian Cachin, Editor http://www.iacr.org/newsletter/ ... SIGINT in Europe During the Cold War

unbreakable code? with cash prizes

1999-10-11 Thread John Gilmore
[I'm just forwarding this with the expectation that someone might want to try for the prize. I don't know anything about the code. -gnu] Date: Sat, 9 Oct 1999 13:32:22 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan Barnum Scrivener [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: unbreakable code? Hello again friends. In my

Re: desirable properties of secure voting

1999-10-11 Thread Greg Broiles
On Mon, Oct 11, 1999 at 07:40:16PM +0200, Anonymous wrote: 2. Robustness: Dishonest voters, other participants or outsiders can't disturb or disrupt an election. Votehere's system depends on a coalition of mutually suspicious parties to tally the vote (they mutually share the necessary

Re: unbreakable code? with cash prizes

1999-10-11 Thread Ben Laurie
John Gilmore wrote: [I'm just forwarding this with the expectation that someone might want to try for the prize. I don't know anything about the code. -gnu] No, no. You are forwarding it with the expectation that we'll all shout "snake oil" loud enough to deafen you. BTW, I offer $1,000

forwarded: Trusted Computing Platform Alliance Invites Companies to Join

1999-10-11 Thread Perry E. Metzger
Thought this would be of interest. --- Start of forwarded message --- Message-Id: v04220811b427ed6c7d1a@[158.130.13.28] Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 15:41:43 -0400 From: David Farber [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: IP: Trusted Computing Platform Alliance Invites Companies to Join