US DOD Crypto related SBIRS

2002-10-15 Thread reusch
More detailed descriptions of these Office Of The Secretary Of Defense (OSD), Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) solicitations are further down the page. Directly clicking on the links yields some login prompt. http://www.acq.osd.mil/sadbu/sbir/solicitations/sbir031/osd031.htm

Re: open source CAs?

2002-10-15 Thread Stefan Kelm
Stefan, Overview: http://munitions.vipul.net/dolphin.cgi?action=3Drendercategory=3D08 My browser displays an empty page on that link. You might want to try http://www.pki-page.info/#TOOLS which lists many CA toolkits, many of which are not open source, though. Cheers,

Re: Microsoft marries RSA Security to Windows

2002-10-15 Thread Arnold G. Reinhold
I can see a number of problems with using mobile phones as a second channel for authentication: 1. It begs the question of tamper resistant hardware. Unless the phone contains a tamper resistant serial number or key, it is relatively easy to clone. And cell phones are merging with PDAs. If

Re: Microsoft marries RSA Security to Windows

2002-10-15 Thread Ed Gerck
Arnold G. Reinhold wrote: I can see a number of problems with using mobile phones as a second channel for authentication: Great questions. Without aspiring to exhaust the answers, let me comment. 1. It begs the question of tamper resistant hardware. Unless the phone contains a tamper

Re: Microsoft marries RSA Security to Windows

2002-10-15 Thread bear
On Wed, 9 Oct 2002, Joseph Ashwood wrote: Unfortunately, SecurID hasn't been that way for a while. RSA has offered executables for various operating systems for some time now. I agree it destroys what there was of the security, and reduces it to basically the level of username/password, albeit

Re: open source CAs?

2002-10-15 Thread Joris Ballet
i made a small gui wrapper around openssl. http://users.skynet.be/ballet/joris/SimpleCA/ nothing fancy, just the basics. joris. Stefan Mink wrote: if you find others, please post... tschuess Stefan -- Joris Ballet [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Input requested for second edition of Firewalls and Internet Security

2002-10-15 Thread Steve Bellovin
[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 of

Re: Microsoft marries RSA Security to Windows

2002-10-15 Thread Arnold G. Reinhold
At 8:40 AM -0700 10/11/02, Ed Gerck wrote: Arnold G. Reinhold wrote: I can see a number of problems with using mobile phones as a second channel for authentication: Great questions. Without aspiring to exhaust the answers, let me comment. 1. It begs the question of tamper resistant

Digital Identity Forum programme

2002-10-15 Thread R. A. Hettinga
--- begin forwarded text Status: RO User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/10.1.0.2006 Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 15:16:44 +0800 Subject: Digital Identity Forum programme From: David G.W. Birch [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Bob Hettinga [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Digital Bearer Settlement List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi

Re: Microsoft marries RSA Security to Windows

2002-10-15 Thread Ed Gerck
[I'm reducing the reply level to 2, for context please see former msg] Arnold G. Reinhold wrote: At 8:40 AM -0700 10/11/02, Ed Gerck wrote: Cloning the cell phone has no effect unless you also have the credentials to initiate the transaction. The cell phone cannot initiate the authentication

Crypto in court Friday

2002-10-15 Thread Russell Nelson
[ quoted from the qmail mailing list. -russ ] For those of you wondering when qmail is going to start protecting mail messages against eavesdropping and forgery: I'll be in San Francisco Friday morning in front of Judge Patel arguing that the remaining crypto regulations are unconstitutional.

[Bruce Schneier schneier@counterpane.com] CRYPTO-GRAM, October 15, 2002

2002-10-15 Thread Perry E. Metzger
The content on AES is of some interest, as are a couple of other portions. .pm ---BeginMessage--- CRYPTO-GRAM October 15, 2002 by Bruce Schneier Founder and CTO Counterpane Internet Security, Inc. [EMAIL