M-209 for sale on EBay

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Input requested for second edition of Firewalls and Internet Security

[slightly (but only slightly, I hope) off-topic] We've just about finished the draft manuscript for the second edition of Firewalls and Internet Security (this time by Bill Cheswick, Steve Bellovin, and Avi Rubin). Given the tremendous change in the market (including both the prevalence

CFP -- IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy

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Confidentiality as a goal of old telegraph codes

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SEC weighing civil injunction against RSA

RSA, Inc., in a filing, reported that the SEC is considering seeking an injunction against it and some of its officers. The filing did not say what the injunction was about. --Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb (me) http://www.wilyhacker.com

NIST standardizes HMAC

On April 3, NIST announced that it had issued FIPS 198, on HMAC. See http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/fips/fips198/fips-198.pdf --Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb Full text of Firewalls book now at http://www.wilyhacker.com

password-cracking by journalists...

A couple of months ago, a Wall Street Journal reporter bought two abandoned al Qaeda computers from a looter in Kabul. Some of the files on those machines were encrypted. But they're dealing with that problem: The unsigned report, protected by a complex password, was created on

quantum computer factors number

A quantum computer has been built that has actually factored a number: 15. It's not a very interesting number from a cryptographic perspective, but it is real. http://www.nature.com/nature/links/011220/011220-2.html --Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb

private-sector keystroke logger...

shut down, but I'm sure we can all think of other ways to export information like that. --Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb Full text of Firewalls book now at http://www.wilyhacker.com

California appeals court holds that DeCSS code is protected speech

SAN FRANCISCO (November 2, 2001 6:20 p.m. EST) - Publishing software code to decrypt and copy digital movies is protected by the First Amendment as an expression of free speech, a California appeals court ruled. The state's 6th Appellate District in San Jose found Thursday that Andrew Bunner's

DES cracked by teenagers?

According to http://www.hk-imail.com/inews/public/article_v.cfm?articleid=28867intcatid=1, some teenagers reportedly cracked an encryption technology called Data Encryption Standard (DES). I'm skeptical, but I thought I'd toss it out. Anyone have any details? --Steve Bellovin