RSA's BSAFE Baldwin's RFC (FW)

1999-05-13 Thread Vin McLellan
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: I-D ACTION:draft-baldwin-bsafe-00.txt Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 08:49:55 -0400 Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories. Title: BSAFE CRYPTOGRAPHIC SECURITY COMPONENTS Author(s) : B. Baldwin,

Just what is the offense of encryption?

1999-05-13 Thread Ernest Hua
From: http://www.sjmercury.com/breaking/docs/081732.htm SENATE PANEL OKS MONEY FOR HIGH-TECH CRIME FIGHTERS [SNIP] The bill deals with several technology-related offenses such as encryption, use and possession of devices that can intercept cable TV signals, phone slamming and spreading

[Fwd: That spooky PECSENC]

1999-05-13 Thread Robert Hettinga
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Re: A5/1 cracking hardware estimate

1999-05-13 Thread Matthew Francey
Your approach is interesting, but it claims a gain of about 100 in reduced cycle time, while giving up the ability to use the knowledge that ten key bits are zero, which is a factor of 1000. So it is not a win in that sense. I'd just build 10x more of the searchers then; they are very simple.

Re: A5/1 cracking hardware estimate

1999-05-13 Thread Matthew Francey
I wrote: The 64 bit counter can be dispensed with by using the search engine as it's own "counter". Just start the registers at some known point and let it loose. Shift the output bits into a plaintext comparison unit -- simple xor/mask/check for zero combinatoric logic. Stop when a match is

Re: A5/1 cracking hardware estimate

1999-05-13 Thread Arnold G. Reinhold
At 6:17 PM + 5/13/99, Matthew Francey wrote: Your approach is interesting, but it claims a gain of about 100 in reduced cycle time, while giving up the ability to use the knowledge that ten key bits are zero, which is a factor of 1000. So it is not a win in that sense. I'd just build 10x

NY Times article on EU acceptance of Enfopol

1999-05-13 Thread Ernest Hua
http://www.nytimes.com/techweb/TW_Europe_Votes_For_ISP_Spying_Infrastructure .html Ern

PKCS 11 in Netscape

1999-05-13 Thread Patrick Wood
I'm trying to implement PKCS 11 into Netscape. Can someone tell me what does Netsacpe needs and their calling functions? I can put my dll into Netscape, and the token is created, the slots are there and the sessions info are all there. But the certificate that is read into the token doesnt appear

FW: Next Week's FSTC May 17-18 Meeting Update

1999-05-13 Thread Robert Hettinga
Yee-haaa! I *love* my non-job... Cheers, RAH --- begin forwarded text From: Somebody To: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: FW: Next Week's FSTC May 17-18 Meeting Update Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 17:20:23 -0700 Bob: Have you seen the attachment? More ATM over the Internet