Re: 307 digit number factored

2007-05-24 Thread Victor Duchovni
On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 06:34:26PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: * Victor Duchovni: That's good of you not to expect it, given that zero of the major CAs seem to support ECC certs today, and even if they did, those certs would not work in IE on XP. We are not talking about this year

SSL certificates for SMTP

2007-05-24 Thread Paul Hoffman
At 6:34 PM +0200 5/23/07, Florian Weimer wrote: * Victor Duchovni: That's good of you not to expect it, given that zero of the major CAs seem to support ECC certs today, and even if they did, those certs would not work in IE on XP. We are not talking about this year or next of course. My

Re: dnssec?

2007-05-24 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
Anne Lynn Wheeler wrote: for other topic drift ... a recent post with some DNS related trivia ... more than a decade before DNS (about half-way down the post mentioning former MIT student) http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007k.html#33 Even worse than UNIX and for other topic drift, old email

Re: 307 digit number factored

2007-05-24 Thread James A. Donald
-- Anne Lynn Wheeler wrote: So one of the proposals (somewhat backed by the domain name certification authority industry) is that domain name owners place a public key on file when they register a domain name with the domain name infrastructure. They all future communication with the

Re: 307 digit number factored

2007-05-24 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
James A. Donald wrote: The problem is organizational. To get one decision centrally made and imposed on everyone requires a central body capable of making decisions and imposing them on everyone, and before it can get that authority, that central body usually has to raze Atlanta and burn the

crypto maxims

2007-05-24 Thread Travis H.
I have posted my ideas on defensive use of crypto here: https://www.subspacefield.org/security/cgi-bin/moin.py/CryptoMaxims This is not about cipher design, it's more about protocol design and implementation. Everyone here is welcome to edit it as they see fit; questions and answers, discussion

Re: 307 digit number factored

2007-05-24 Thread StealthMonger
Anne Lynn Wheeler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: of course ... the whole licenses/credentials/certificates are an offline world paradigm licensing, credentialing, and certifications can be validated with online, real-time operations ... obsoleting any requirement for supporting offline

Re: 307 digit number factored

2007-05-24 Thread Perry E. Metzger
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Gutmann) writes: I would go further and say that for most applications of PKCs/PKI today, 1024- bit RSA keys are not a risk at all, or more specifically that on a scale of risk they're so far down the list that they're close to negligible. As numerous security HCI

Re: SSL certificates for SMTP

2007-05-24 Thread Peter Saint-Andre
Paul Hoffman wrote: At 6:34 PM +0200 5/23/07, Florian Weimer wrote: But no one is issuing certificates which are suitable for use with SMTP (in the sense that the CA provides a security benefit). No one? I thought that VeriSign and others did, at least a few years ago. FWIW, last year we

Re: 307 digit number factored

2007-05-24 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
re: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm27.htm#14 307 digit number factored http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm27.htm#15 307 digit number factored http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm27.htm#16 dnssec? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm27.htm#17 dnssec? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm27.htm#19 307 digit