Re: [liberationtech] About Telegram

2014-03-20 Thread Maxim Kammerer
On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 4:04 AM, Ximin Luo infini...@pwned.gg wrote: Welcome to 2014. Telegram has more of these, more severe, more obvious, and from further in the past. OTR also did not claim they were secure because it was written by a team of PhDs, and a bunch of other disingenuous

Re: [liberationtech] About Telegram

2014-03-20 Thread Ximin Luo
On 20/03/14 07:55, Maxim Kammerer wrote: On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 4:04 AM, Ximin Luo infini...@pwned.gg wrote: Welcome to 2014. Telegram has more of these, more severe, more obvious, and from further in the past. OTR also did not claim they were secure because it was written by a team of

Re: [liberationtech] Fwd: A new Mixmaster is in the works!

2014-03-20 Thread Michael Rogers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 20/03/14 01:42, Cypher wrote: More features are under discussion. We would like your input on what features you would like to see. Please keep in mind that we are looking at functionality first. Secondly we are looking at introducing a

Re: [liberationtech] Trsst Encryption

2014-03-20 Thread Michael Rogers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi Michael, What you're trying to do is very similar to ECIES. You should probably use ECIES, which has received more review than your design. It's implemented in BouncyCastle, and there was recently a thread on the BouncyCastle mailing list about

Re: [liberationtech] Trsst Encryption

2014-03-20 Thread Guido Witmond
On 03/20/14 14:17, Michael Rogers wrote: You should use a constant-time comparison here to avoid timing attacks. Something like: boolean matches = true; for (i = 0; i 32; i++) { matches = (digest[i] == decoded[i + 32]); } if (!matches) { // incorrectly decoded: we're not the

Re: [liberationtech] Trsst Encryption

2014-03-20 Thread Michael Powers
Hi Michael. Great points, and thanks for them. If you look back a few revisions, you can see we had been using ECIES until recently. The main motivation for switching was that it's not available in a lot of other toolkits, there is incompatibility among toolkits that do implement it, and

[liberationtech] Tox Skype Alternative

2014-03-20 Thread Travis McCrea
With all the chat about Telegram, I am wondering about Tox.im. I realize it’s still in beta, and they admit themselves that you shouldn’t trust them with private conversation yet… but from what I understand their whole system is open and they don’t use server side software, everything is done

Re: [liberationtech] About Telegram

2014-03-20 Thread Tony Arcieri
On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 12:55 AM, Maxim Kammerer m...@dee.su wrote: Where else would a bunch of butthurt self-proclaimed experts attack a developer and a product for voluntarily offering a contest for breaking a protocol? With an obvious conflict of interest, no less. Moreover, the brilliant

Re: [liberationtech] 1. Re: What ideas did you submit to the Knight News Challenge?

2014-03-20 Thread Mohammed Kambal
We have submitted Koios.org , a social problems identification /solving platform that based on crowdsourcing concept . Iam the analyst of the platform . On Thursday, March 20, 2014, liberationtech-requ...@lists.stanford.edu wrote: Send liberationtech mailing list submissions to

Re: [liberationtech] need advice on using hashes for preserving PII's utility for disambiguation while protecting sensitive info

2014-03-20 Thread Tom Lee
Thanks again to everyone who helped me think through how government's approach to disclosing identifiers could be improved through checksums, tokenization and related techniques -- it was extremely helpful. The resulting post is here:

[liberationtech] Whonix job offers

2014-03-20 Thread Patrick Schleizer
The Whonix project has currently two job offers: - https://www.whonix.org/blog/project-coordinator/ - https://www.whonix.org/blog/job-offer-developer/ We don't have founding for these yet, but hopefully soon. Cheers, Patrick -- Liberationtech is public archives are searchable on Google.

Re: [liberationtech] if you are a circuvmention tool developer, please FREE it now for Iranian

2014-03-20 Thread Florian Weimer
I've heard this statement before and I'm a bit unclear. If I want to hide my traffic from my ISP or get it securely out of my country, I either have to rent a VPS or place a server with a friend somewhere remote. Both of those options remove the server from your control. How is this any safer

[liberationtech] Job Call: Project Manager, Data Science Research Team, USC Annenberg Innovation Lab

2014-03-20 Thread Alex Leavitt
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Re: [liberationtech] [sunlightlabs] need advice on using hashes for preserving PII's utility for disambiguation while protecting sensitive info

2014-03-20 Thread Tom Lee
Arggh. Wrong link. Apologies to all and thanks to James McKinney. That's what I get for having that many tabs open. https://sunlightfoundation.com/blog/2014/03/20/a-little-math-could-make-identifiers-a-whole-lot-better/ On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 5:44 PM, James McKinney ja...@opennorth.ca wrote: