authentication protocols

2002-03-28 Thread John Saylor
Hi I'd like to find an authentication protocol that fits my needs: 1. 2 [automated] parties 2. no trusted 3rd party intemediary ['Trent' in _Applied_Crypto_] Most of the stuff in _Applied_Crypto_ requires that third party. It may be an impossible task, nothing seems obvious to me. Pointers,

ciphersaber-2 human memorable test vectors

2002-03-28 Thread Adam Back
A while ago I wrote some code to search for human readable test vectors for Arnold Reinhold's ciphersaber-2 (http://ciphersaber.gurus.com). Ciphersaber-2 is designed to be simple enough to be implemented from memory, to avoid the risk of being caught with crypto software on your computer for use

One for the snakeoil file.

2002-03-28 Thread Trei, Peter
[Note: I'm just passing on posts from sci.crypt. I've not confirmed this independently It appears that not every product which uses smart cards is secure - pt] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Philippe Mestral) Newsgroups: sci.crypt Subject: I've

Re: 40 teraflops (fwd)

2002-03-28 Thread Bill Stewart
Unfortunately, the article that Bob Hettinga excerpted from the South China Morning Post is a pay-only article. http://www.es.jamstec.go.jp/ - Japanese government site. http://www.es.jamstec.go.jp/esc/eng/ - Good page http://www.es.jamstec.go.jp/esrdc/eng/menu.html - The ES center

Re: 1024-bit RSA keys in danger of compromise

2002-03-28 Thread Bill Stewart
At 05:38 PM 03/23/2002 -0800, Lucky Green wrote: While the latter doesn't warrant comment, one question to ask spokespersons pitching the former is what key size is the majority of your customers using with your security product? Having worked in this industry for over a decade, I can state

distributed.net looking for a new ISP.

2002-03-28 Thread Trei, Peter
Distributed.net, which has won several of the RSA Secret Key challenges, and is currently 73% of the way through the RC5-64 contest, has lost it's ISP. Peter Trei From their front page: - start quote We need your help! URGENT: We have recently learned that our

Re: 1024-bit RSA keys in danger of compromise

2002-03-28 Thread Eric Murray
Here's the distribution of RSA key sizes in SSL servers, as recorded by my SSL server survey in June 2000 and June 2001 RSA Server Key size Key bits2000 2001 2048 .2% .2% 1024 70% 80% =