AMDs new instructions for parallelism and support för side-channel attacks?

2007-08-14 Thread Joachim Strömbergson
Aloha! I just saw om EE Times that AMD will start to extend their x86 CPUs with instructions to support/help developers take advantage of the increasing (potential) parallelism in their processors. First out are two instructions that allows the developer to get info about instruction

John Young and Cryptome

2007-08-14 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
http://www.radaronline.com/from-the-magazine/2007/08/cryptome_john_young_radar_anthony_haden_guest_1.php --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb - The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending

Re: Fwd: Potential SHA 1 Hack Using Distributed Computing - Near Miss(es) May be Good Enough

2007-08-14 Thread Paul Hoffman
At 11:00 PM -0700 8/13/07, Aram Perez wrote: Anyone know more about this? I have the same question. I could not find any description of *why* they think that finding near-misses is going to help the research. It's not clear if they are taking their own path, or trying to improve Wang's