Re: Freedom/Pipenet Security

1999-11-16 Thread Adam Shostack
On Tue, Nov 16, 1999 at 02:40:04AM -, lcs Mixmaster Remailer wrote: | The traffic shaping code has issues, in V1 it will be turned off. | Incidentally, the whitepaper you're looking at is close to retirement, | a newer, more accurate one will be out shortly. In addition, we'll be |

Re: Freedom/Pipenet Security

1999-11-16 Thread Adam Shostack
Lucky, you offer some interesting challenges and questions. I'm going to focus on getting the whitepapers and security analysis finished and published before responding in depth, because I think that its more useful to have this conversation with all the issues on the table. Adam On Tue, Nov

Re: Two Observations on the IETF Plenary Wiretap Vote

1999-11-15 Thread Adam Shostack
On Mon, Nov 15, 1999 at 07:20:13AM -, lcs Mixmaster Remailer wrote: | Over the years, using Wei Dai's term Pipenet (or Pipe-net, as it was spelled | originally) has firmly been established as denotating an anonymous IP | network that uses constant or otherwise data independent "pipes"

Re: so why is IETF stilling adding DES to protocols? (Re: It's official... DES is History)

1999-06-26 Thread Adam Shostack
On Fri, Jun 25, 1999 at 06:48:49PM +0200, Ulf Möller wrote: | I'll assert that deploying DES today is WORSE than deploying no crypto | at all, because of the deployed lifetime of a new product, and the | associate removal of pressure to deploy an effective cryptosystem. | | OpenSSL supports

Re: so why is IETF stilling adding DES to protocols? (Re: It's official... DES is History)

1999-06-26 Thread Adam Shostack
On Fri, Jun 25, 1999 at 02:32:44PM -0700, James A. Donald wrote: | Despite your contempt for Netscape and Microsoft, they do, | in fact, sell strong crypto products where they are able | to. If the CEOs of these companies went to their boards of | directors and told them that they were going