RE: more re Encryption Technology Limits Eased

1999-09-20 Thread Trei, Peter
> -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED][SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:] > Subject: Re: more re Encryption Technology Limits Eased > > Bill Simpson said: > > > > - We just learned a few weeks ago that every copy of Windows has a > secret > > NSA key. We don&#

Re: more re Encryption Technology Limits Eased

1999-09-19 Thread Charlie_Kaufman
Bill Simpson said: > > - We just learned a few weeks ago that every copy of Windows has a secret > NSA key. We don't know why. Remember the Lotus Notes secret NSA key > fiasco that got us in trouble with the Swedish government? How can we > ever compete, when nobody trusts our software?

RE: more re Encryption Technology Limits Eased

1999-09-19 Thread Antonomasia
Jay Holovacs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I would like to see some discussion of what are the actual possible CPU > subversions. All the obvious subversions would seem to require a > cooperating OS... Pure speculation, but what if copying a certain 256-bit string caused the program counter to pick up

RE: more re Encryption Technology Limits Eased

1999-09-19 Thread Jay Holovacs
At 10:26 PM 9/17/1999 +0100, Antonomasia wrote: >From: Lucky Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> after he began talking about some very curious, very complex, very >> undocumented instruction he discovered in late-model CPU's. Instructions >> that will put the processor into a mode that makes OS protec

Re: more re Encryption Technology Limits Eased

1999-09-19 Thread William Allen Simpson
Zombie Cow wrote: > Or start producing Open Sourced CPUs and motherboards. > > IBM has an Open Source PPC motherboard, and here's an > article referring to an Open Source CPU by Sun: > > (Well, they're not really "Open Source", but still, open enough..) > (Search www.techweb.com for the source U

RE: more re Encryption Technology Limits Eased

1999-09-17 Thread Antonomasia
From: Lucky Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > after he began talking about some very curious, very complex, very > undocumented instruction he discovered in late-model CPU's. Instructions > that will put the processor into a mode that makes OS protections > irrelevant. This is scary. It could be time

RE: more re Encryption Technology Limits Eased

1999-09-17 Thread Rodger, William
Lucky wrote: > What I found most interesting about today's announcement was not that it > was > largely content-free with respect to crypto export regulations and the > fifth > or sixth such content-free "crypto deregulation" announcement that I can > remember causing the exact same pred

Re: more re Encryption Technology Limits Eased

1999-09-17 Thread William Allen Simpson
Declan McCullagh wrote: > > Lucky, actually not everyone missed it. It's our top story on Wired News > this morning. > > http://www.wired.com/news/news/politics/story/21810.html > Decoding the Crypto Policy Change > 3:00 a.m. Why did the White House suddenly change its mind on > regulati

Re: more re Encryption Technology Limits Eased

1999-09-17 Thread Declan McCullagh
You can find all that and more already archived at www.epic.org and www.cdt.org. -Declan At 08:54 9/17/1999 -0400, Robert Hettinga wrote: >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >From: John Muller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: more re Encryption Technology Limits Eased >Sender: [EMAIL PR

Re: more re Encryption Technology Limits Eased

1999-09-17 Thread Robert Hettinga
--- begin forwarded text Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 16:08:10 -0700 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: John Muller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: more re Encryption Technology Limits Eased Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: John Muller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> You can now find a fuller set of

RE: more re Encryption Technology Limits Eased

1999-09-17 Thread Declan McCullagh
Lucky, actually not everyone missed it. It's our top story on Wired News this morning. http://www.wired.com/news/news/politics/story/21810.html Decoding the Crypto Policy Change 3:00 a.m. Why did the White House suddenly change its mind on regulating encryption? It couldn't be because the N

Re: more re Encryption Technology Limits Eased

1999-09-17 Thread Sandy Harris
"Steven M. Bellovin" wrote: > > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Declan McCullagh wr > ites: > > What I found most interesting was what Attorney General Reno said about the > > government's cryptanalysis abilities. When asked if she can break strong, > > >64 bit equivalent crypto, she said, "We ha

RE: more re Encryption Technology Limits Eased

1999-09-17 Thread Lucky Green
Declan wrote: [Various quality information elided] > What I found most interesting was what Attorney General Reno said > about the > government's cryptanalysis abilities. When asked if she can break strong, > >64 bit equivalent crypto, she said, "We have carefully looked at this and > think it's p

Re: more re Encryption Technology Limits Eased

1999-09-16 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Declan McCullagh wr ites: > What I found most interesting was what Attorney General Reno said about the > government's cryptanalysis abilities. When asked if she can break strong, > >64 bit equivalent crypto, she said, "We have carefully looked at this and > think i

Re: more re Encryption Technology Limits Eased

1999-09-16 Thread Declan McCullagh
John, I buttonholed William Reinsch, Commerce Dept undersecretary, outside the White House briefing room a few minutes ago. I happened to ask him the same question you bring up here: What's up with that one-time technical review? Things were crowded and noisy, but here's what I learned. (The BXA

Re: more re Encryption Technology Limits Eased

1999-09-16 Thread Steve Cook
When we got an export license for Stronghold earlier this year (don't ask), the process consisted of filling out an application form listing the types of encryption and ciphers supported, key sizes supported, etc., then answering a few follow-up questions of that sort from some NSA staffer, and th

Re: more re Encryption Technology Limits Eased

1999-09-16 Thread Tom Weinstein
John Gilmore wrote: > > There's a vague and undefined term in the press leaks so far: > > One-Time Technical Review > > What does this mean? It appeared in some early crypto liberalization > bills floated in Congressional committees. Based on my previous experience with the export pro

Re: more re Encryption Technology Limits Eased

1999-09-16 Thread John Gilmore
Dave Farber: > As I said , the devil is in the details. Let me agree. Remember when the Administration said it was giving industry what it wanted -- transferring crypto exports to the Commerce Dept? And when later "industry" worked out a deal so they could "easily" export key-recovery products,