Skype reverse-engineering details]

2006-12-21 Thread Travis H.
Some very juicy details here: http://www.blackhat.com/presentations/bh-europe-06/bh-eu-06-biondi/bh-eu-06-biondi-up.pd -- Cryptography is nothing more than a mathematical framework for discussing various paranoid delusions. -- Don Alvarez URL:http://www.subspacefield.org/~travis/ --

gang uses crypto to hide identity theft databases

2006-12-21 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
http://www.zdnet.co.uk/misc/print/0%2C100169%2C39285188-39001093c%2C00.htm --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb - The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending unsubscribe cryptography to

Startup to launch new random number generator from space

2006-12-21 Thread Udhay Shankar N
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6142935.html British start-up Yuzoz has announced that it will be launching its beta service in the next two weeks--an online random-number generator driven by astronomical events. Working with data from satellites and observatories, Yuzoz will use the

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] VT receives NSF grant for SDR security (fwd)

2006-12-21 Thread Jay Sulzberger
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 10:24:44 -0500 From: David P. Reed [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org Subject: Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] VT receives NSF grant for SDR security Greg - I think the concept of software defined radio being explored by

news story - Jailed ID thieves thwart cops with crypto

2006-12-21 Thread dan
http://news.com.com/Jailed+ID+thieves+thwart+cops+with+crypto/2100-7348_3-6144521.html Jailed ID thieves thwart cops with crypto By Tom Espiner Story last modified Tue Dec 19 06:46:45 PST 2006 Three men have been jailed in the U.K. for their part in a massive data theft operation. One

Re: ATM vulnerability

2006-12-21 Thread Florian Weimer
I hesitate to use the syllable crypto in describing this paper, but those who have not seen it may find it interesting. http://www.arx.com/documents/The_Unbearable_Lightness_of_PIN_Cracking.pdf Or profitable. In a weired sense, yes. If I understand the paper correctly, the authors show

Re: Startup to launch new random number generator from space

2006-12-21 Thread Ben Laurie
Udhay Shankar N wrote: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6142935.html British start-up Yuzoz has announced that it will be launching its beta service in the next two weeks--an online random-number generator driven by astronomical events. Working with data from satellites and

Re: Skype reverse-engineering details]

2006-12-21 Thread lorenzo
On 12/18/06, Travis H. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Some very juicy details here: http://www.blackhat.com/presentations/bh-europe-06/bh-eu-06-biondi/bh-eu-06-biondi-up.pd the file extension is pdf (or was it some sort of security-trough-obscuring the file name? :) ) -- :lorenzo grespan GPG Key

How important is FIPS 140-2 Level 1 cert?

2006-12-21 Thread Saqib Ali
Hello All, I would like to know how much weight people usually give to the FIPS 140-2 Level 1 certification. If two products have exactly same feature set, but one is FIPS 140-2 Level 1 certified but cost twice. Would you go for it, considering the Level 1 is the lowest. saqib

Re: Skype reverse-engineering details]

2006-12-21 Thread Jeff . Hodges
Yes, that's a very interesting slide deck. An alternative URL to the talk is in this blog posting.. Skype.exe innards revealed... http://identitymeme.org/archives/2006/04/06/skypeexe-innards-revealed/ =JeffH - The

U.S. to Declassify Secrets at Age 25

2006-12-21 Thread Perry E. Metzger
The New York Times has an article on the coming automatic declassification of most US government documents over 25 years old. I wonder if some interesting nuggets in the history of DES might become available: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/21/washington/21declassify.html -- Perry E. Metzger

Re: gang uses crypto to hide identity theft databases

2006-12-21 Thread Jim Gellman
Well this just sucks if you ask me. According to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), which confirmed that Kostap had activated the encryption after being arrested, it would have taken 400 computers twelve years to crack the code. Scales linearly, right? 4,800 computers'll get it in a year?

Re: news story - Jailed ID thieves thwart cops with crypto

2006-12-21 Thread james hughes
On Dec 20, 2006, at 8:44 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://news.com.com/Jailed+ID+thieves+thwart+cops+with+crypto/ 2100-7348_3-6144521.html [...] According to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), which confirmed that Kostap had activated the encryption after being arrested, it