Re: DESCHALL Classic Client Source Code Released

. All of the goodies are at http://www.interhack.net/projects/deschall/. Very cool, but the webserver seems to be down. -- Med vänlig hälsning, Yours Joachim Strömbergson - Alltid i harmonisk svängning. Kryptoblog

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

of countermeasures against access driven cache attacks on AES http://eprint.iacr.org/2007/282.pdf -- Med vänlig hälsning, Yours Joachim Strömbergson - Alltid i harmonisk svängning. Kryptoblog - IT-säkerhet på svenska http

Re: using SRAM state as a source of randomness

situation to (2), how should the RFID unit avoid the fixed bits when generating a key based on the random bits? Would it be ok to simply run the power on memory state through a cryptographic hash function, ignoring the fixed bits? -- Med vänlig hälsning, Yours Joachim Strömbergson - Alltid i

Re: using SRAM state as a source of randomness

functionality that checks the randomness of the initial SRAM state after power on. But somehow I don't think a good test suite and extremely low cost devices (for example RFID chips) are very compatible concepts. -- Med vänlig hälsning, Yours Joachim Strömbergson - Alltid i harmonisk svängning

Re: using SRAM state as a source of randomness

to use this in a secure, practical and cost efficient way. -- Med vänlig hälsning, Yours Joachim Strömbergson - Alltid i harmonisk svängning. Kryptoblog - IT-säkerhet på svenska http://www.strombergson.com/kryptoblog

Re: using SRAM state as a source of randomness

is the manufacturing process, electrical and environmental changes (accidental or deliberately) will all affect the RNG, and there is no easy way for the (low cost) device to know how good or bad quality of the RNG is. -- Med vänlig hälsning, Yours Joachim Strömbergson - Alltid i harmonisk

Re: 307 digit number factored

doing an efficient implementation in HW of ECC and not stepping on Certicom patent toes. SW implementations are probably ok though. -- Med vänlig hälsning, Yours Joachim Strömbergson - Alltid i harmonisk svängning

Re: CPRNGs are still an issue.

into the virtualization domain. After all, replacing physical stuff with SW is the whole point of virtualization. Does anybody know what VMware, Parallels etc do to support entropy for sources like this, or is it basically a forgotten/skipped/ignored feature? -- Med vänlig hälsning, Yours Joachim

Re: SHA-3 Round 1: Buffer Overflows

for embedded platforms was (somewhat) effected. That is, secure implementations might have different requirements than what mighty have been stated, and we want to select an algorithm based on the requirements for a secure implementation, right? -- Med vänlig hälsning, Yours Joachim Strömbergson - Alltid

Attempts at finding a new TCP sequence generator for uIP

Aloha! uIP [1] is a very compact TCP/IP stack for small, networked connected, embedded devices. (The code size for uIP including TCP and ICMP on the AVR processor is about 5 kBytes.) Unfortunately, the TCP sequence number generator in uIP is a bit simplistic - basically a monotonically

Re: [Cryptography] Hashes into Ciphers (was Re: FIPS, NIST and ITAR questions)

vänlig hälsning, Yours Joachim Strömbergson - Alltid i harmonisk svängning. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.18 (Darwin) Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http

Re: [Cryptography] NSA and cryptanalysis

hälsning, Yours Joachim Strömbergson - Alltid i harmonisk svängning. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.18 (Darwin) Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http

Re: [Cryptography] Seed values for NIST curves

correctly EC as such is sound and provides clear benefits compared to RSA. We just need curves that have completely open, traceable and varifiable specifications. - -- Med vänlig hälsning, Yours Joachim Strömbergson - Alltid i harmonisk svängning

Re: [Cryptography] real random numbers

entropy estimators by getting rid of them. [1] https://www.schneier.com/book-practical.html - -- Med vänlig hälsning, Yours Joachim Strömbergson - Alltid i harmonisk svängning. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG

Re: [Cryptography] [cryptography] RSA equivalent key length/strength

to an end and I'm not certain the report will be updated anymore. Would be a loss since having updated estimates on keys and what algorithms to use is really helpful (IMHO). - -- Med vänlig hälsning, Yours Joachim Strömbergson - Alltid i harmonisk svängning