On Jan 29, 2009, at 11:17 PM, Ivan Krstić wrote:
I'd find mobile e-mail just as useful if it went through a proxy
that stripped out _everything_ that's not plaintext. I open
attachments on my phone about once in a blue moon, and wouldn't miss
the ability if it were gone.
As a postscript,
Multiple responses inline:
On Jan 26, 2009, at 11:26 AM, Paul Hoffman wrote:
I too would like to hear more information on this, particularly the
crypto that is known to be used on the Edge.
See sections 'Secure Speech Processing' and 'Interoperability' of
Perry wrote:
pgut...@cs.auckland.ac.nz (Peter Gutmann) writes:
I wonder what a classified USB cable is. Perhaps it's an
unclassified USB
cable with the little three-prong USB logo blacked out by the
censors.
I would imagine it is a tempest shielded cable, and appropriately
altered
Jerry Leichter wrote:
I commented earlier that $3200 seemed surprisingly cheap. One of the
articles on this claimed this was absurdly expensive - typical DoD gold
plating. Well ... the real price of a standard Blackberry is a couple
of hundred dollars, and put one in a room with a speaker
Jerry Leichter leich...@lrw.com writes:
There's a Classified USB Cable for file transfer with Classified PC
I wonder what a classified USB cable is. Perhaps it's an unclassified USB
cable with the little three-prong USB logo blacked out by the censors.
Peter.
pgut...@cs.auckland.ac.nz (Peter Gutmann) writes:
Jerry Leichter leich...@lrw.com writes:
There's a Classified USB Cable for file transfer with Classified PC
I wonder what a classified USB cable is. Perhaps it's an unclassified USB
cable with the little three-prong USB logo blacked out by
On Jan 28, 2009, at 2:03 PM, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
There's a Classified USB Cable for file transfer with Classified
PC
I wonder what a classified USB cable is. Perhaps it's an
unclassified USB
cable with the little three-prong USB logo blacked out by the
censors.
I would imagine it
I know next to nothing about the state of the art of secure cell
devices; do list members have any (public) knowledge or informed
speculation about the mechanism behind the unclassified/classified
switches? Are we talking two entire separate CPUs with a mutex-
shared screen/keyboard? Or
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 04:18:39PM -0500, Jerry Leichter wrote:
An email system for the White
House has the additional complication of the Presidential Records
Act: Phone conversations don't have to be recorded, but mail messages
do (and have to
On Mon, 26 Jan 2009 02:49:31 -0500
Ivan Krstić krs...@solarsail.hcs.harvard.edu wrote:
Finally, any idea why the Sectéra is certified up to Top Secret for
voice but only up to Secret for e-mail? (That is, what are the
differing requirements?)
I actually explained (my take on) that
At 2:49 AM -0500 1/26/09, Ivan Krstiç wrote:
There are still conflicting reports about whether the hardware is an altered
RIM BlackBerry or a different device, though the most likely contender for the
latter option appears to be the General Dynamics Sectéra Edge, which features
a trusted
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 02:49:31AM -0500, Ivan Krsti? wrote:
Finally, any idea why the Sect?ra is certified up to Top Secret for
voice but only up to Secret for e-mail? (That is, what are the differing
requirements?)
I know no specific details but strongly suspect the difference in
On Jan 26, 2009, at 2:49 AM, Ivan Krstić wrote:
[A]ny idea why the Sectéra is certified up to Top Secret for voice
but only up to Secret for e-mail? (That is, what are the differing
requirements?)
I have no information, but a guess: Phone conversation encryption, at
all levels, has been
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