Re: [cryptography] the spell is broken

2013-10-02 Thread d.nix
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Callas' blog post: http://silentcircle.wordpress.com/2013/09/30/nncs/ On 10/2/2013 8:41 AM, ianG wrote: http://www.infoworld.com/print/228000 October 02, 2013 Silent Circle moves away from NIST cryptographic standards, cites NSA concerns The

Re: [cryptography] the spell is broken

2013-10-02 Thread d.nix
rather than an important technical choice. The message is we react to a deeper class of threat than our users understand. Fair enough, but I'd hardly stop using AES or the larger SHA-2 variants on the back of recent news. -Jared On Oct 2, 2013, at 12:29 PM, d.nix d@comcast.net

Re: [cryptography] the spell is broken

2013-10-02 Thread d.nix
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Correction; Callas worked on Threefish, not Twofish, however the Schneier connection still holds given their past and present associations... On 10/2/2013 11:50 AM, d.nix wrote: Yeah, it may well be just marketing. The one thing that gives me

Re: [cryptography] [Cryptography] What is Intel® Core™ vPro™ Technology Animation

2013-09-22 Thread d.nix
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 9/22/2013 2:23 PM, Jerry Leichter wrote: On Sep 21, 2013, at 10:05 PM, d.nix wrote: Hah hah hah. Uh, reading between the lines, color me *skeptical* that this is really what it claims to be, given the current understanding of things

[cryptography] Fwd: Re: What is Intel® Core™ vPro™ Technology Animation

2013-09-22 Thread d.nix
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - Original Message Subject: Re: What is Intel® Core™ vPro™ Technology Animation Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2013 05:56:48 +0200 From: To: cypherpu...@cpunks.org Security Evaluation of Intel's Active Management Technology VASSILIOS VERVERIS

[cryptography] What is Intel® Core™ vPro™ Technology Animation

2013-09-21 Thread d.nix
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hah hah hah. Uh, reading between the lines, color me *skeptical* that this is really what it claims to be, given the current understanding of things... http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/enterprise-security/what-is-vpro-technology-video.html -