Today's Wall Street Journal reports that the FBI is changing the name
of Carnivore. It will now be known as the DCS1000 -- the "DCS" stands
for "Data Collection System".
Clearly, that resolves all of the problems with it.
--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb
According to CNN, Daniel Bleichenbacher has found a flaw in the
NIST-standard Digital Signature Algorithm. See
http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/internet/02/06/DSA.flaw.idg/index.html
for some details. Bleichenbacher says that he'll be presenting the
paper at Eurocrypt; it is not yet publicly avail
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Transcript of hearing:
http://www.cluebot.com/article.pl?sid=01/02/08/1638232
Transcript of 1998 remarks:
http://www.cluebot.com/article.pl?sid=01/02/08/0526201
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http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,41700,00.html
Feds Say Fidel Is Hacker Threat
by Declan McCulla