Re: questions on AES analysis

1999-03-26 Thread Steve Schear
At 10:00 AM 3/25/99 -0800, Eric Murray wrote: Yow! That doesn't sound like any smart card I know. Does it have a display and keyboard and run WindowsCE :-) Currently shipping 7816 cards max out at about 32k of FLASH for program and data, and a few K of RAM. Most are 8-bit processors but

Re: Status of Fortezza and/or Smart Card Encryption Technology

1999-03-26 Thread Arnold G. Reinhold
At 8:17 AM -0500 3/25/99, Roberts Teddy wrote: Does anyone know what the current ((March 99) status of fortezza encryption? The NSA waiver for using this card to protect classified data over unclassifed networks has expired. Does this mean that Fortezza no longer provides "adequate" protection

Hiro Cypherpunk

1999-03-26 Thread Robert Hettinga
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RE: references to password sniffer incident

1999-03-26 Thread Brown, R Ken
Phil Karn wrote (amongst other things) The people who run today's MIS/IT departments are the direct descendents of those who ran big computer centers in the old days. No we're not their descendents - we are the same guys. Those "old days" aren't that long ago we haven't been put out to

Aussies Lead in Legitimizing LEA Hacking

1999-03-26 Thread Vin McLellan
The report below -- announcing changes in Australian law to permit the lead Australian LEA to hack into targeted computers with a Ministerial warrant -- may mark an important event. I suspect it is a precursor of things to come in the US and elsehwere as LEAs and intelligence agencies