NIST Special Publication 800-108 Recommendation for Key Derivation Using Pseudorandom Functions

2008-11-08 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
From: Sara Caswell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: undisclosed-recipients:; Subject: NIST Special Publication 800-108 Recommendation for Key Derivation Using Pseudorandom Functions Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2008 08:57:40-0500 Dear Colleagues: NIST Special Publication 800-108 Recommendation for Key Derivation

Re: ADMIN: no money politics, please

2008-11-08 Thread zooko
Hey folks: you are welcome to discuss money politics over at the p2p- hackers mailing list: http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers I'm extremely interested in the subject myself, having taken part in two notable failed attempts to deploy Chaumian digital cash and currently bein

Re: Bitcoin P2P e-cash paper

2008-11-08 Thread "Hal Finney"
Bitcoin seems to be a very promising idea. I like the idea of basing security on the assumption that the CPU power of honest participants outweighs that of the attacker. It is a very modern notion that exploits the power of the long tail. When Wikipedia started I never thought it would work, but it

This is a test. This is only a test...

2008-11-08 Thread Peter Gutmann
>From the DailyWTF: In my previous alert, I included the text of a phishing email as an example [of phishing emails that people shouldn't reply to]. Some students misunderstood that I was asking for user name and password, and replied with that information. Please be aware that you shouldn

Re: This is a test. This is only a test...

2008-11-08 Thread Ben Pfaff
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Gutmann) writes: >From the DailyWTF: > > In my previous alert, I included the text of a phishing email as an example > [of phishing emails that people shouldn't reply to]. Some students > misunderstood that I was asking for user name and password, and replied with >

WPA broken even further

2008-11-08 Thread James A. Donald
WPA was known from the beginning to be vulnerable to offline dictionary attack, for which the workaround was to use a key that is not human memorable. Now WPA is cracked even with a strong key: --

Re: Bitcoin P2P e-cash paper

2008-11-08 Thread Satoshi Nakamoto
Ray Dillinger: > the "currency" is inflationary at about 35% > as that's how much faster computers get annually > ... the inflation rate of 35% is almost guaranteed > by the technology Increasing hardware speed is handled: "To compensate for increasing hardware speed and varying interest in run