Re: Logging of Web Usage

2003-04-03 Thread Bill Frantz
At 6:16 PM -0800 4/2/03, Seth David Schoen wrote: Bill Frantz writes: The http://cryptome.org/usage-logs.htm URL says: Low resolution data in most cases is intended to be sufficient for marketing analyses. It may take the form of IP addresses that have been subjected to a one way hash

Re: Logging of Web Usage

2003-04-02 Thread Bill Frantz
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RE: Run a remailer, go to jail?

2003-03-31 Thread Bill Frantz
a provider that allows NAT. Cheers - Bill - Bill Frantz | Due process for all| Periwinkle -- Consulting (408)356-8506 | used to be the | 16345 Englewood Ave. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | American way

Active Countermeasures Against Tempest Attacks

2003-03-08 Thread Bill Frantz
rules? Cheers - Bill - Bill Frantz | Due process for all| Periwinkle -- Consulting (408)356-8506 | used to be the | 16345 Englewood Ave. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | American way. | Los Gatos

Re: Proven Primes

2003-03-07 Thread Bill Frantz
At 9:21 PM -0800 3/6/03, Ben Laurie wrote: Bill Frantz wrote: At 3:47 AM -0800 3/6/03, Ben Laurie wrote: I'm looking for a list or lists of sensibly sized proven primes - all the lists I can find are more interested in records, which are _way_ too big for cryptographic purposes. By sensibly

Re: Proven Primes

2003-03-07 Thread Bill Frantz
primes. Cheers - Bill - Bill Frantz | Due process for all| Periwinkle -- Consulting (408)356-8506 | used to be the | 16345 Englewood Ave. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | American way. | Los Gatos

Re: Proven Primes

2003-03-06 Thread Bill Frantz
+ 74391647223805124273032053960564348124852668624831 + 01273341734490560148744399254916528366159159380290 + 29782321539388697349613396698017627677439533107752 + 978203); Cheers - Bill - Bill Frantz

Re: 3-rotor enigma on ebay: $5200

2003-03-06 Thread Bill Frantz
using Netscape 4.77. There seems to be some strangeness with eBay. (I looked for a way to report the problem, but lost interest after shuffling through a few of their web pages.) Cheers - Bill - Bill Frantz | Due

Re: Columbia crypto box

2003-02-11 Thread Bill Frantz
through the 40 bit key space. (IIRC, basically what the device did was reveal 16 bits of a DES key.) Cheers - Bill - Bill Frantz | Due process for all| Periwinkle -- Consulting (408)356-8506 | used

Re: Columbia crypto box

2003-02-10 Thread Bill Frantz
at CCMP, for instance: it is 802.11i's chosen successor to, and re-design of, WEP. CCMP uses AES, not RC4, and I think that was a smart move. I agree. WEP is what you get when you don't seek public review. Cheers - Bill - Bill

Re: Columbia crypto box

2003-02-10 Thread Bill Frantz
At 4:29 PM -0800 2/10/03, Steven M. Bellovin wrote: In message v03110705ba6dec92ddb0@[192.168.1.5], Bill Frantz writes: * Fast key setup (Forget tossing the 256 bytes of key stream. The designers weren't crypto engineers. Personally, I'd toss the first 1024.) ... There may

Re: Did you *really* zeroize that key?

2002-11-08 Thread Bill Frantz
, but they are all quite system specific. Since the problem we were trying to solve is different environments producing different results, I don't feel we are any closer to safe, portable code. Cheers - Bill - Bill Frantz

Re: patent free(?) anonymous credential system pre-print

2002-11-05 Thread Bill Frantz
invention of the communication satellite, published in Wireless World in 1945. Never mind that the rockets to launch such satellites were not available until the 1960s. Cheers - Bill - Bill Frantz | The principal effect

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

2002-10-16 Thread Bill Frantz
not aware of one -- it would doubtless be abused -- but just running nmap against the machine should work fine. That's what I do. --Perry] - Bill Frantz | The principal effect of| Periwinkle -- Consulting (408)356

Gaelic Code Talkers

2002-10-02 Thread Bill Frantz
with the Axis. A quick glance at Kahn didn't turn up an information on these code talkers. Has anyone else heard anything about it? Cheers - Bill - Bill Frantz | The principal effect of| Periwinkle -- Consulting

Re: unforgeable optical tokens?

2002-09-24 Thread Bill Frantz
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Re: Cryptogram: Palladium Only for DRM

2002-09-17 Thread Bill Frantz
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Re: Palladium and malware

2002-09-04 Thread Bill Frantz
At 9:00 PM -0700 8/30/02, Nomen Nescio wrote: Bill Frantz writes, regarding the possibility that the Palladium architecture could be designed to resist the use of encrypted code: All general purpose computers require a way to move data space to code space to support compilation. Well

Recommended key sizes and lifespans

2002-06-22 Thread Bill Frantz
is the 1024 bit Diffie-Hellman key agreement, the use of SHA1, and the use of DSA-1024. We should consider that users of E with long-term data confidentality requirements will need bigger keys. Cheers - Bill - Bill Frantz

Re: Shortcut digital signature verification failure

2002-06-22 Thread Bill Frantz
to it a CPU limit on the client end. Hash cash with a server provided problem seems a good approach there. Cheers - Bill - Bill Frantz | The principal effect of| Periwinkle -- Consulting (408)356-8506 | DMCA

Re: ciphersaber-2 human memorable test vectors

2002-03-29 Thread Bill Frantz
like would be relatively easy to remember, and would help mitigate signed vs. unsigned number problems on 32 bit machines. Cheers - Bill - Bill Frantz | The principal effect of| Periwinkle -- Consulting

RE: Welome to the Internet, here's your private key

2002-02-05 Thread Bill Frantz
to store a random seed. Cheers - Bill - Bill Frantz | The principal effect of| Periwinkle -- Consulting (408)356-8506 | DMCA/SDMI is to prevent| 16345 Englewood Ave. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | fair use

Re: Cringely Gives KnowNow Some Unbelievable Free Press... (fwd)

2002-02-05 Thread Bill Frantz
. certain modes of SSL/TLS) which are subject to this attack should be retired. Non-interactive protocols (e.g. PGP email), are much more difficult to fix. Cheers - Bill - Bill Frantz | The principal effect of| Periwinkle

RE: Welome to the Internet, here's your private key

2002-02-04 Thread Bill Frantz
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RE: Welome to the Internet, here's your private key

2002-02-04 Thread Bill Frantz
is powered up), might be a performance problem.) It is probably worth examining the protocols for bad random number attacks on the nonces. Cheers - Bill - Bill Frantz | The principal effect of| Periwinkle -- Consulting

Re: biometrics

2002-02-01 Thread Bill Frantz
At 5:13 AM -0800 1/30/02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bill Frantz writes: What would be really nice is to be able to have the same PIN/password for everything. Do you really mean that? Sure, if I only have to remember one thing it is easier for me. It is also a complete nightmare

Re: biometrics

2002-01-29 Thread Bill Frantz
(including possibly untrusted hardware/software used to enter it. Cheers - Bill - Bill Frantz | The principal effect of| Periwinkle -- Consulting (408)356-8506 | DMCA/SDMI is to prevent| 16345 Englewood Ave

Re: limits of watermarking (Re: First Steganographic Image in theWild)

2001-10-17 Thread Bill Frantz
copies and find the watermark with a diff operation. Cheers - Bill - Bill Frantz | The principal effect of| Periwinkle -- Consulting (408)356-8506 | DMCA/SDMI is to prevent| 16345 Englewood Ave. [EMAIL

Re: chip-level randomness?

2001-09-19 Thread Bill Frantz
time pads, I would certainly prefer /dev/random output to /dev/urandom output. There is much less algorithm exposure. (Although I do still have to worry about the whitening and combining algorithms.) Cheers - Bill - Bill

Re: Adobe Jail (fwd)

2001-07-17 Thread Bill Frantz
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Re: Crypographically Strong Software Distribution HOWTO

2001-07-02 Thread Bill Frantz
. There might be an interesting scramble between the development group, and other group(s) wishing to obtain the reputation of the development group. Cheers - Bill - Bill Frantz | The principle effect

Re: crypto flaw in secure mail standards

2001-06-25 Thread Bill Frantz
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