http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/13/technology/circuits/13next.html?tntemail0=pagewanted=printposition=top
March 13, 2003
Recognizing the Dance on the Dotted Line
By IAN AUSTEN
IN the movies, biometrics can give a high-tech sheen to an ordinary task like
establishing that someone is who he
Ed,
The whole idea of photographing paper ballots
is a straw man. It is akin to saying that people
will just run through red lights anyway so we
shouldn't place them at intersections.
I agree that we need to improve voting systems,
but the current trend toward self-auditing devices
is going
At 11:08 PM 3/12/03 +0100, Krister Walfridsson wrote:
...
This is not completely true -- I have seen some high-end cards that use
the PIN code entered by the user as the encryption key. And it is quite
easy to do similar things on Java cards...
With any kind of reasonable PIN length, though,
John Kelsey[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
At 11:08 PM 3/12/03 +0100, Krister Walfridsson wrote:
...
This is not completely true -- I have seen some high-end cards that use
the PIN code entered by the user as the encryption key. And it is quite
easy to do similar things on Java cards...
I am looking at attacks on Diffie-Hellman.
The protocol implementation I'm looking at designed their diffie-hellman
using 128 bit primes (generated each time, yet P-1/2 will be a prime, so no
go on pohlig-hellman attack), so what attacks are there that I can look at
to come up with either the
At 01:13 PM 3/13/2003 -0500, John Kelsey wrote:
At 11:08 PM 3/12/03 +0100, Krister Walfridsson wrote:
...
This is not completely true -- I have seen some high-end cards that use
the PIN code entered by the user as the encryption key. And it is quite
easy to do similar things on Java cards...
The following comes from Microsoft's recent mailing of their awkwardly
named Windows Trusted Platform Technologies Information Newsletter
March 2003. Since they've abandoned the Palladium name they are forced
to use this cumbersome title.
Hopefully this will shed light on the frequent claims
On Thu, 13 Mar 2003, Hermes Remailer wrote:
The following comes from Microsoft's recent mailing of their awkwardly
named Windows Trusted Platform Technologies Information Newsletter
March 2003. Since they've abandoned the Palladium name they are forced
to use this cumbersome title.
