Re: Status of attacks on AES?

2006-06-12 Thread Travis H.
On 6/8/06, Max [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What they need is just to provide an access to their distinguisher in the form of blackbox. To prove its meaningfulness, the distinguisher must show consistent results in distinguishing AES-encrypted data (say, for a fixed plaintext without repeating

Chinese WAPI protocol?

2006-06-12 Thread Richard Salz
Today in slashdot (http://it.slashdot.org/it/06/06/12/0710232.shtml) there was an article about China wanting to get WAPI accepted as a new wireless security standard. Has anyone looked at it? /r$ -- SOA Appliances Application Integration Middleware

Use of TPM chip for RNG?

2006-06-12 Thread Hal Finney
Finding a good source of random bits is a frequent problem in cryptographic applications. Recently many computers have begun shipping with a TPM chip, which among other things includes a hardware RNG. Does anyone know of Windows software which can use the TPM for this purpose? Perhaps via MS

Re: Chinese WAPI protocol?

2006-06-12 Thread Aram Perez
Hi Richard, I have not looked at WAPI, but they have been trying to get it approved for a number of years, check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WAPI (has link to algorithm) and http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,199082,00.html. Regards, Aram Perez On Monday, June 12, 2006, at 03:25PM,

Chinese WAPI protocol?

2006-06-12 Thread David Wagner
Richard Salz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Today in slashdot (http://it.slashdot.org/it/06/06/12/0710232.shtml) there was an article about China wanting to get WAPI accepted as a new wireless security standard. Has anyone looked at it? Adam Perez wrote: I have not looked at WAPI, but they have been

Re: Chinese WAPI protocol?

2006-06-12 Thread Aram Perez
Hi Folks, My apologies on stating that the Wiki page had a link to the algorithm. I saw the link but didn't click on it to see if in fact there was a description of the actual algorithm. Regards, Aram Perez On Monday, June 12, 2006, at 06:45PM, David Wagner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip]