Carnivore transformed

2001-02-11 Thread Steve Bellovin
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

Bleichenbacher finds flaw in DSA

2001-02-11 Thread Steve Bellovin
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

Feds warn of crypto, cyberattacks from Fidel Castro

2001-02-11 Thread Declan McCullagh
* 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 * http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,41700,00.html Feds Say Fidel Is Hacker Threat by Declan McCulla