RE: crypto for the average programmer

2005-12-14 Thread Whyte, William
> On 12/14/05, Peter Gutmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I don't know if there's any site tracking this, but (as the > tutorial says) you > > can either go with PKCS #1 (the de facto standard, easy to > implement and > > widely used) ... > > Actually, I'm embarassed to admit this but I've se

[EMAIL PROTECTED]: [Politech] E.U. Parliament votes to force "data retention" on telecom, Net firms [priv]]

2005-12-14 Thread R. A. Hettinga
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Re: crypto for the average programmer

2005-12-14 Thread Travis H.
On 12/14/05, Peter Gutmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't know if there's any site tracking this, but (as the tutorial says) you > can either go with PKCS #1 (the de facto standard, easy to implement and > widely used) ... Actually, I'm embarassed to admit this but I've seen PKCS before but

How security could benefit from high volume spam

2005-12-14 Thread Hadmut Danisch
How security could benefit from high volume spam The parliament of the European Union today has passed a law that electronical call detail records, such as phone numbers, e-mail addresses, web accesses of all 450 million EU citizens are to be recorded and stored for 6 to 24 months. So everyone wi

Deal on EU data retention law

2005-12-14 Thread Stefan Kelm
[http://www.europarl.eu.int/news/expert/infopress_page/019-3536-348-12-50-902-20051206IPR03225-14-12-2005-2005--false/default_en.htm] Deal on EU data retention law The European Parliament adopted today by 378 votes in favour, 197 against and 30 abstentions a directive on data retention in first r

Re: crypto for the average programmer

2005-12-14 Thread Peter Gutmann
"Travis H." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >In Peter Gutmann's godzilla cryptography tutorial, he has some really good >(though terse) advice on subtle gotchas in using DH/RSA/Elgamal. I learned a >few no-nos, such as not sending the same message to 3 seperate users in RSA >(if using 3 as an encrypti

Re: X.509 / PKI, PGP, and IBE Secure Email Technologies

2005-12-14 Thread Werner Koch
On Mon, 12 Dec 2005 10:59:05 -0600, Travis H said: > Not to side track the discussion, but frequently I've heard PKI > compared to PGP's model. Isn't PGP's trust model the same as everyone > being their own CA? You need to clarify the trust model. The OpenPGP standard does not define any trust

Re: secure links using classical (i.e., non-quantum) physics

2005-12-14 Thread Travis H.
I am discussing implementing a very simple version of this with the author. If anyone else is interested in participating or just watching, email me and I'll keep you in the loop. -- http://www.lightconsulting.com/~travis/ -><- P=NP if (P=0 or N=1) "My love for mathematics is like 1/x as x approa

Re: automatic toll collection, was Japan Puts Its Money on E-Cash

2005-12-14 Thread John Levine
>> Some Americans, analysts note, are already using a version of e- >> cash to bypass toll lanes on highways. >Don't take that as a sign of consumer acceptance, though. In >Illinois, if you won't pre-pay your tolls in $40 increments, you will >pay double the rate in cash at the toolbooth. Here i

CodeCon submission deadline reminder

2005-12-14 Thread Len Sassaman
Here's a reminder that the deadline for submissions to CodeCon 2006 is this week. Feel free to forward this to project developers who might not otherwise see it. --Len. -- CodeCon 2006 February 10-12, 2006 San Francisco CA, USA www.codecon.org Call For Papers CodeCon is the premier showcase of