Re: [cryptography] Matt Blaze Testimony on Encrytion

2015-04-30 Thread Patrick Mylund Nielsen
On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 3:14 PM, John Young j...@pipeline.com wrote: Matt Blaze testified yesterday at the House hearing on encryption http://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/4-29-2015-IT-Subcommittee-Hearing-on-Encryption-Blaze.pdf Others too:

Re: [cryptography] Gogo inflight Internet uses fake SSL certs to MITM their users

2015-01-08 Thread Patrick Mylund Nielsen
On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 6:35 PM, Jon Callas j...@callas.org wrote: Well, I'll be. I am on a Gogo-enabled flight even as we squeak, and I just turned my VPN off to go get you one of their certs. They're letting me get to YouTube and Vimeo just fine now. I guess someone got some sense. It was

Re: [cryptography] Password Blacklist that includes Adobe's Motherload?

2013-11-14 Thread Patrick Mylund Nielsen
On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 5:57 PM, Ben Laurie b...@links.org wrote: On 14 November 2013 03:29, shawn wilson ag4ve...@gmail.com wrote: This is the only thing I've seen (haven't really looked): http://stricture-group.com/files/adobe-top100.txt I have to ask: snoopy1 more popular than snoopy?

Re: [cryptography] urandom vs random

2013-08-16 Thread Patrick Mylund Nielsen
On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 11:42 AM, Tony Arcieri basc...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 6:32 AM, shawn wilson ag4ve...@gmail.com wrote: I thought that decent crypto programs (openssh, openssl, tls suites) should read from random so they stay secure and don't start generating

Re: [cryptography] urandom vs random

2013-08-16 Thread Patrick Mylund Nielsen
On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 12:03 PM, Tony Arcieri basc...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 8:47 AM, Patrick Mylund Nielsen cryptogra...@patrickmylund.com wrote: Not for nothing, but that refers to both random and urandom, showing one problem with the entropy estimation, and another

Re: [cryptography] urandom vs random

2013-08-16 Thread Patrick Mylund Nielsen
On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 3:30 PM, Tony Arcieri basc...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 9:18 AM, Patrick Mylund Nielsen cryptogra...@patrickmylund.com wrote: Yes, but they aren't talking about urandom. Your reply made it sound like random is weak, but the paper points to both

Re: [cryptography] [liberationtech] Heml.is - The Beautiful Secure Messenger

2013-07-13 Thread Patrick Mylund Nielsen
On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 3:29 PM, ianG i...@iang.org wrote: On 12/07/13 21:54 PM, Patrick Mylund Nielsen wrote: On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 2:48 PM, James A. Donald jam...@echeque.com mailto:jam...@echeque.com wrote: On 2013-07-13 12:20 AM, Eugen Leitl wrote: It's worth noting

Re: [cryptography] [liberationtech] Heml.is - The Beautiful Secure Messenger

2013-07-12 Thread Patrick Mylund Nielsen
On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 2:48 PM, James A. Donald jam...@echeque.com wrote: On 2013-07-13 12:20 AM, Eugen Leitl wrote: It's worth noting that the maintainer of record (me) for the Linux RNG quit the project about two years ago precisely because Linus decided to include a patch from Intel to

Re: [cryptography] [liberationtech] Heml.is - The Beautiful Secure Messenger

2013-07-12 Thread Patrick Mylund Nielsen
On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 1:38 AM, William Yager will.ya...@gmail.com wrote: not trusting your hardware is a great place to start. Heh, might as well just give up. http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/ken/trust.html (I know what you meant, just couldn't resist.) On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 7:20 PM,

Re: [cryptography] Interesting Webcrypto question

2013-03-03 Thread Patrick Mylund Nielsen
It is a good thing that Swartz killed himself, like his hero Wallace. Both of them needed killing. This is the stupidest thing I have read in a long time. Shut the fuck up. It is Jewish leftists like Rahm Israel Emanuel that seek the destruction of Israel. Israel is disliked in most countries

Re: [cryptography] openssl on git

2013-01-28 Thread Patrick Mylund Nielsen
To rephrase, I don't understand why anyone would push their /home/user / backup git repository to a public one on GitHub :) On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 3:49 AM, ianG i...@iang.org wrote: On 28/01/13 05:36 AM, Eitan Adler wrote: On 27 January 2013 21:34, Patrick Mylund Nielsen cryptography

Re: [cryptography] openssl on git

2013-01-27 Thread Patrick Mylund Nielsen
I don't understand how you can accidentally check in ~/.ssh to your repository, or at least not notice afterwards. Hopefully the OpenSSL authors won't do that! On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 9:29 PM, d...@geer.org wrote: offtopic to list purpose, but perhaps timely to this thread

Re: [cryptography] Just how bad is OpenSSL ?

2012-10-30 Thread Patrick Mylund Nielsen
I would be happy to volunteer to move everything to Github. But it really is really, really easy to do, and the maintenance required is minimal. That or git+redmine or git+JIRA would be my suggestion. On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 3:28 PM, Ben Laurie b...@links.org wrote: On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 2:21

Re: [cryptography] Just how bad is OpenSSL ?

2012-10-30 Thread Patrick Mylund Nielsen
: Thank god... On Oct 30, 2012 7:50 AM, Ben Laurie b...@links.org wrote: On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 2:39 PM, Patrick Mylund Nielsen cryptogra...@patrickmylund.com wrote: I would be happy to volunteer to move everything to Github. But it really is really, really easy to do, and the maintenance

Re: [cryptography] anyone got a how not to use OpenSSL list?

2012-10-24 Thread Patrick Mylund Nielsen
Related: https://crypto.stanford.edu/~dabo/pubs/abstracts/ssl-client-bugs.html http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~shmat/shmat_ccs12.pdf On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 10:26 PM, travis+ml-rbcryptogra...@subspacefield.org wrote: On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 08:56:29PM +0100, Patrick Mylund Nielsen wrote: One

Re: [cryptography] anyone got a how not to use OpenSSL list?

2012-10-10 Thread Patrick Mylund Nielsen
Hah. I'm surprised the term security theater wasn't coined earlier! On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 9:29 PM, Warren Kumari war...@kumari.net wrote: On Oct 10, 2012, at 3:56 PM, Patrick Mylund Nielsen cryptogra...@patrickmylund.com wrote: One thing that I've sadly seen more times than I can shake

Re: [cryptography] Data breach at IEEE.org: 100k plaintext passwords.

2012-09-25 Thread Patrick Mylund Nielsen
It's interesting how the level of technical expertise of an organization's members seems to have almost no bearing on how sophisticated the organization's infrastructure is. On a related note, I was recently surprised to learn that even the IACR stores passwords in plain text. On Tue, Sep 25,

Re: [cryptography] any reason PBKDF2 shouldn't be used for storing hashed passwords?

2012-08-15 Thread Patrick Mylund Nielsen
One curious note is that NIST recommends PBKDF2 for master key derivation, and specifically write, The MK [PBKDF2 output] shall not be used for other purposes. Perhaps the document was meant to document just KDFs. Since the hashes are one-way anyway, I don't see it making a difference for use as