Re: Historical PKI resources

the x9.59 standard is authentication as well as certificate neurtral. aads is pki no certificate ... i.e. it has a public key infrastructure with respect to public key management ... it just that its public key management attempts to take advantage of extensive existing "binding" business proce

Re: Historical PKI resources

R sent me a nice note pointing out that it was actually a bachelor's thesis, supervised by A. Apparently unpublished. /r$ (not S, and certainly not *that* S :) > @unpublished{Kohnfelder78, > author = {Kohnfelder, Loren M.}, > title ={Towards a Practical Public-Key Cryptosys

Re: Digital Money Forum Programme

At 5:35 PM -0500 on 1/8/01, R. A. Hettinga wrote: > April 25th/26th, 2000 ...I think David meant 2001, here... -- - R. A. Hettinga The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may

Re: Historical PKI resources

as an aside ... note X9.59 which can be implemented with public/private key digital signature ... but doesn't dictate certificates (it is possible to implement with or without certificates; x.509 or not). W/o certificates, do public key management using existing business processes in place for

DCSB: Ted Byfield; ICANN, Intellectual Property, and Digital Commerce

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Review of Steven Levy's "Crypto"

http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,41071,00.html Crypto: Three Decades in Review by Declan McCullagh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 8:20 a.m. Jan. 9, 2001 PST WASHINGTON --It took only a year or two for a pair of computer and math geeks to discover modern encryption technology

Review of History Channel's NSA documentary

[The documentary aired again twice this morning on the History Channel, and it's a fair bet it'll show again later this week. --Declan http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,41063,00.html History Looks at the NSA by Declan McCullagh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 2:00 a.m. Jan. 9, 2001 PS

Update on NIST crypto standards (fwd)

Forwarded with permission. There is also going to be an announcement on modes of operation; http://csrc.nist.gov/encryption/tkmodes.html should have the information within the next month or thereabouts. --- Forwarded Message X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora

Re: NSA abandons some cool stuff

At 07:51 PM 1/8/01 -0500, Arnold G. Reinhold wrote: >>After >>all, fluorescent bulbs don't leak much intelligence :-) but they >>sure cause electrical noise. > >You may be right about their concern being to prevent interference >with their listening equipment, but I don't agree with your last >p

Re: Historical PKI resources

> Here's the BibTeX entry for the paper that apparently "started it all".. The D-H paper is the public start of public-key crypto. The scientific American article by Gardner explained, pre-patent-issuance, RSA to the world. The start of PKI is an MIT Master's Thesis that created certificates. S

Re: Perfect compression and true randomness

Paul Crowley wrote: >This supports your main point: perfect compression is a *much* less >realistic idea than true randomness! Yeah. Now that you mention it, it's not entirely clear what perfect compression means, but it seems that it would at a minimum require ability to break every cryptosyst

Digital Money Forum Programme

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Re: NSA abandons some cool stuff

>At 01:27 PM 1/7/01 -0500, Arnold G. Reinhold wrote: >>"Every inch of floor in more than four buildings was covered with >>two-by-two-foot squares of bleak brown carpet. When the astronomers >>tried to replace it, they discovered it was welded with tiny metal >>fibers to the floor. The result, the