Re: GPS and cell phones

2000-05-10 Thread Marc Horowitz
Lyle Seaman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This is e911 service. Much as I dislike government intrusion, I sure would like to have a device with a button that says "call help and *tell them where I am*" The question is if the device will tell them *only* when I press the button.

Re: Automatic passphrase generation

2000-05-10 Thread Rick Smith
At 11:42 AM 05/10/2000 +0200, Sergio Tabanelli wrote: Perhaps this can be out of topic, but recently I was involved in a discussion on metods to generate strong password starting from easy to remember word or sentence, there I proposed to use a private key to encrypt easy to remember words. Is

Re: SSLeay.Org Still A Trusted Source?

2000-05-10 Thread Eric Young
"Salz, Rich" wrote: SSLeay is dead, long live OpenSSL. The domain is now owned by a squatter. C'est la vie. /r$ Just as an update, I'm looking into seeing if I can do about this. I feel it should point to a 'historical' SSLeay page if nothing else. eric (who has just lodged last

Re: GPS integrity

2000-05-10 Thread Steve Cook
A company called Certified Time offers secure NIST-based time data and has many unkind things to say about the integrity of GPS time signals. You might find some useful references among the documents they have posted at http://www.certifiedtime.com/site/repository/index.html At 09:24 AM 5/8/00

Re: GPS and cell phones

2000-05-10 Thread John R Levine
This is e911 service. Much as I dislike government intrusion, I sure would like to have a device with a button that says "call help and *tell them where I am*" Me too. The problem seems to be that the "call help" and "tell them where I am" functions aren't as closely coupled as we'd like.

Interesting new covert channel

2000-05-10 Thread Udhay Shankar N
http://www.firstmonday.dk/issues/issue2_5/rowland/ The TCP/IP protocol suite has a number of weaknesses that allow an attacker to leverage techniques in the form of covert channels to surreptitiously pass data in otherwise benign packets. This paper attempts to illustrate these weaknesses in

Re: Automatic passphrase generation

2000-05-10 Thread Sergio Tabanelli
Perhaps this can be out of topic, but recently I was involved in a discussion on metods to generate strong password starting from easy to remember word or sentence, there I proposed to use a private key to encrypt easy to remember words. Is this is a valid or applicable metod? [Ex Nihil, Nihil.

Re: Are these things crypto accellerators? (was Re: Edupage, 8 May 2000)

2000-05-10 Thread Paul Holman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 IPivot just uses Rainbow cards for crypto acceleration. Still, I don't know what the hell an XML accelerator is. Sounds like a buzzword product to me. pablos. Hi Robert, Yes, they include crypto acceleration, based on the ssl accelerators that

Re: GPS integrity

2000-05-10 Thread Derek Atkins
Lenny Foner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: As for corrupting the signal, I think that would require a bit more work, but I personally think it could be done. I don't think there is any kind of cryptographic integrity protection of GPS signals. Not correct. (And finally relevant to