Voice Over Internet Protocol and Skype Security
Simson L. Garfinkel
January 7, 2005
With the increased deployment of high-speed (broadband) Internet
connectivity, a growing number of businesses and individuals are using
the Internet for voice telephony, a technique known as Voice over
Internet
William Allen Simpson wrote:
There are already other worthy comments in the thread(s).
This is a great post. One can't stress enough
that programmers need programming guidance,
not arcane information theoretic concepts.
We are using
computational devices, and therefore computational
On Sat, Jan 08, 2005 at 10:46:17AM +0800, Enzo Michelangeli wrote:
But that was precisely my initial position: that the insight on the
internal state (which I saw, by definition, as the loss of entropy by the
generator) that we gain from one bit of output is much smaller than one
full bit.
I
Ian G wrote:
(4A) Programs must be audited to ensure that they do not use
/dev/random improperly.
(4B) Accesses to /dev/random should be logged.
I'm confused by this aggresive containment of the
entropy/random device. I'm assuming here that
/dev/random is the entropy device (better renamed
as
John Denker writes:
Ben Laurie wrote:
http://www.apache-ssl.org/randomness.pdf
I just took a look at the first couple of pages.
IMHO it has much room for improvement.
I guess I have to take exception. I disagree. I think Ben Laurie's
paper is quite good. I thought your criticisms missed some
I've been thinking for a while about the relationship between the
human-scale security systems used to protect the physical world
the cryptologic and software systems that protect the electronic
world. I'm increasingly convinced that these areas have far more
in common that we might initially
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Bill Stewart writ
es:
My wife was channel-surfing and ran across David Kahn talking about his
recent book
The Reader of Gentlemen's Mail: Herbert O. Yardley and the Birth of
American Codebreaking.
ISBN 0300098464 , Yale University Press, March 2004
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