Am Donnerstag 29 Juli 2010, 21:47:01 schrieb Richard Salz:
At shutdown, a process copies /dev/random to /var/random-seed which is
used on reboots.
Is this a good, bad, or shrug, whatever idea?
I suppose the idea is that all startup procs look the same ?
Indeed. The boot process of a machine
On Jul 29, 2010, at 22:23, Anne Lynn Wheeler wrote:
On 07/28/2010 10:34 PM, d...@geer.org wrote:
The design goal for any security system is that the number of
failures is small but non-zero, i.e., N0. If the number of
failures is zero, there is no way to disambiguate good luck
from
Paul Tiemann paul.tiemann.use...@gmail.com writes:
What if... Firefox (or other) could introduce a big new feature (safety
controls) and ask you up front: Do you want to be safer on the internet?
The problem is that neither the browser vendor nor the users will see it like
this. For the user
Perry,
The administration wants to add just four words -- electronic
communication transactional records -- to a list of items that the
law says the FBI may demand without a judge's approval. Government
Would that really make that much of a difference? In Germany,
at least, the
Bill Stewart wrote:
Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2008 7:30 AM
To: Cryptography List
Subject: Re: the skein hash function
Snip
So if Skein becomes popular, ASIC accelerator hardware
may be practical for higher-speed applications.
I see another strong point for Skein:
Deterministically
Steven Bellovin s...@cs.columbia.edu writes:
When I look at this, though, little of the problem is inherent to PKI.
Rather, there are faulty communications paths.
Oh no my Lord, I assure you that parts of it are excellent! :-).
[...] how should the CA or Realtek know about the problem? [...]
On Fri, 30 Jul 2010 09:38:44 +0200 Stefan Kelm sk...@bfk.de wrote:
Perry,
The administration wants to add just four words -- electronic
communication transactional records -- to a list of items that
the law says the FBI may demand without a judge's approval.
Government
Would that
On 07/28/2010 11:52 PM, Pat Farrell wrote:
A lot of the smart card development in the mid-90s and beyond was based
on the idea that the smart card, in itself, was the sole authorization
token/algorithm/implementation.
some ssl, payment, smartcard trivia ...
those smartcards were used for the
On Jul 30, 2010, at 3:58 08PM, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
On Fri, 30 Jul 2010 09:38:44 +0200 Stefan Kelm sk...@bfk.de wrote:
Perry,
The administration wants to add just four words -- electronic
communication transactional records -- to a list of items that
the law says the FBI may demand
