Matt Blaze on locks at U Penn

2003-02-03 Thread Perry E. Metzger
Forwarded from Dave Farber's list: -- Dept. of Computer Information Science Colloquia Series 2003 is honored to present ... Matt Blaze ATT Labs. Thursday, February 6, 2003 3:00 p.m. - 4:30

Random Scanning Worms and Sapphire/Slammer's PRNG...

2003-02-03 Thread R. A. Hettinga
You want to go to the site itself to see the pictures, at least. They're impressive. :-). Cheers, RAH --- http://www.caida.org/outreach/papers/2003/sapphire/sapphire.html The Spread of the Sapphire/Slammer Worm By (in alphabetical order) David Moore Vern Paxson Stefan Savage Colleen

question about rsa encryption

2003-02-03 Thread Scott G. Kelly
I have a question regarding RSA encryption - forgive me if this seems amateur-ish -, but 'm still a beginner. I seem to recall reading somewhere that there is some issue with directly encrypting data with an RSA public key, perhaps some vulnerability, but I can't find any reference after a cursory

Re: question about rsa encryption

2003-02-03 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Scott G. Kelly writes: I have a question regarding RSA encryption - forgive me if this seems amateur-ish -, but 'm still a beginner. I seem to recall reading somewhere that there is some issue with directly encrypting data with an RSA public key, perhaps some

Re: question about rsa encryption

2003-02-03 Thread Sidney Markowitz
Scott G. Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I seem to recall reading somewhere that there is some issue with directly encrypting data with an RSA public key, perhaps some vulnerability The short answer is that you should use one of the standard padding modes that are designed for RSA encryption,