Re: fwd: $100 secure phones from Starium

1999-11-29 Thread Eric Blossom
On Fri, Nov 26, 1999 at 04:56:02PM -0500, Dan Geer wrote: > > Did this "$100 secure phone" ever come to pass? > > I stopped off at http://www.starium.com/ but the page is > unmodified since April last. > > Starium-ites, are you out there? > > --dan > Thanks for the question. We're busy at w

Re: SSL security

1999-11-29 Thread Tom Weinstein
Jaroslav Pinkava wrote: > > Where can I get the last informations about present SSL security status? > I seek more detailed information than contented in the following report: > > http://webdevelopersjournal.com/articles/is_ssl_dead.html That article describes an attack against the link between

More on Echelon

1999-11-29 Thread Perry E. Metzger
The Register is running a story about increased Congressional demands for oversight of the NSA. http://www.theregister.co.uk/991127-01.html -- Perry Metzger [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- "Ask not what your country can force other people to do for you..."

FC: Stewart Baker on US crypto regs & open source software

1999-11-29 Thread Robert Hettinga
--- begin forwarded text Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1999 09:15:35 -0500 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Declan McCullagh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: FC: Stewart Baker on US crypto regs & open source software Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** From: "Baker, Stewart" <[EMAIL

RE: draft regulations?

1999-11-29 Thread Rodger, William
> -Original Message- > From: John Gilmore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, November 25, 1999 3:55 PM > To: Rodger, William > Cc: William Allen Simpson; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: draft regulations? > I wrote: > > Open Source code, believe it or not,

Hersh on NSA

1999-11-29 Thread John Young
Here's Seymour Hersh's article in The New Yorker of December 6 on NSA's troubles with the digital age: http://cryptome.org/nsa-hersh.htm (36K) Opening: "The National Security Agency, whose Cold War research into code breaking and electronic eavesdropping spurred the American computer re

128-bit support

1999-11-29 Thread V.Krishna Reddy
Hello, I am based in India. I would like to know the possibilities of using 128-bit SSL support in browsers and Web Server in India. Is any company (probably outside US) is providing such functionality with which we can enhance the encryption support to 128-bit in IE,Netscape, etc.? Ca

Re: DSA security issues?

1999-11-29 Thread Anonymous
Rodney Thayer asks: > Gilmore etc. have made comments, includingt the quoted passage below > from the Linux IPsec list, indiciating that DSA is "not as trustworthy > as RSA". > > Can anyone here offer some more details? > > I _know_ it's a 'fuzzy' discomfort, I'm just looking for backup data. At

Re: DSA security issues?

1999-11-29 Thread Markus Kuhn
Rodney Thayer wrote on 1999-11-27 19:27 UTC: > Gilmore etc. have made comments, includingt the quoted passage below > from the Linux IPsec list, indiciating that DSA is "not as trustworthy > as RSA". > > Can anyone here offer some more details? One of the papers that reverse engineered many of t