Re: NYC events and cell phones

2001-09-20 Thread Allen Ethridge
[Moderator's note: I was under the impression most base stations did the crypto in hardware, so the answer would be no, no performance gain for such equipment. Besides, the main concern would be open channels, not CPU load. Anyone know better? --Perry] It's my understanding that functions like

Re: chip-level randomness?

2001-09-20 Thread Nomen Nescio
Ted Tso writes: It turns out that with the Intel 810 RNG, it's even worse because there's no way to bypass the hardware whitening which the 810 chip uses. Hence, if the 810 random number generator fails, and starts sending something that's close to a pure 60 HZ sine wave to the whitening

New encryption technology closes WLAN security loopholes

2001-09-20 Thread R. A. Hettinga
--- begin forwarded text Status: U From: Somebody Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 08:53:52 +0100 Subject: New encryption technology closes WLAN security loopholes TO: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [1] New encryption technology closes WLAN security loopholes Next Comm has launched new wireless LAN security

Surge of New Technologies Erodes U.S. Edge in Spying

2001-09-20 Thread R. A. Hettinga
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/20/national/20SPY.html?todaysheadlines September 20, 2001 THE ESPIONAGE BUSINESS Surge of New Technologies Erodes U.S. Edge in Spying By WILLIAM J. BROAD or decades, the United States used its technical expertise to gather electronic signals and eavesdrop

Re: Please make stable NON-US homes for strong crypto projects

2001-09-20 Thread Udhay Shankar N
At 12:01 PM 9/16/01 -0400, Sandy Harris wrote: Just taking a minute to plug http://munitions.vipul.net/ snip A quick check of the site shows one mirror in Canada, the rest in Europe. An Asian, Australian or Latin American mirror might be a good idea. Volunteers? Some Indian mirrors will be

nettime Pirate Utopia, FEED, February 20, 2001

2001-09-20 Thread R. A. Hettinga
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Re: chip-level randomness?

2001-09-20 Thread David Wagner
Bill Frantz wrote: At 2:17 PM -0700 9/19/01, Theodore Tso wrote: It turns out that with the Intel 810 RNG, it's even worse because there's no way to bypass the hardware whitening which the 810 chip uses. Does anyone know what algorithm the whitening uses? Just like von Neumann's unbiasing

Re: nettime Pirate Utopia, FEED, February 20, 2001

2001-09-20 Thread Grant Bayley
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Re: nettime Pirate Utopia, FEED, February 20, 2001

2001-09-20 Thread Adam Back
Also it's interesting to note that it appears from Niels Provos and Peter Honeymans paper that none of the currently available stego encoding programs are secure. They have broken them all (at least I recognise the main stego programs available in their list of systems their tools can attack),