At 10:41 PM +0200 10/23/04, Eugen Leitl wrote:
No, that's going to be the mobile phone.
Certainly getting to be like Chaum's ideal crypto device. You own it, it
has its own I/O, and it never leaves your sight.
Cheers,
RAH
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* Dave Emery:
Correct me if I am wrong, but don't most of the passive, cheap
RF or magnetic field powered RFIDs transmit maybe 128 bits of payload,
not thousands and thousands of bits which would be enough to include
addresses, names, useful biometric data and so forth ?
Those that
At 9:30 AM -0400 10/25/04, Trei, Peter wrote:
If we're going to insist on dedicated, trusted, physical
devices for these bearer bonds, then how is this different
than what Chaum proposed over 15 years ago?
I don't think that face to face will be necessary. It just means keeping
control of your
Alan Barrett wrote:
On Sat, 23 Oct 2004, Aaron Whitehouse wrote:
Oh, and make it small enough to fit in the pocket,
put a display *and* a keypad on it, and tell the
user not to lose it.
How much difference is there, practically, between this and using a
smartcard credit card in an external
Ben Laurie wrote:
This only works if the marks are not such that the identity of the
printer is linked to the marks (as opposed to being able to test whether
a particular document was produced by a particular printer).
To be really safe, I'd suggest going somewhere without surveillance
On Sun, 2004-10-24 at 09:35 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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| I'm pretty sure that you are answering the question
| Why did Microsoft buy Connectix?
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| The answer to that one is actually To provide a
| development environment for Windows CE (and
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
No need to buy a company just to use its product in your development shop.
They're not using it in their development shop, that's their standard
development environment that they ship to all Windows CE, Pocket PC,
SmartPhone, and XP Embedded developers (and include free
At 06:11 AM 10/24/2004, Ian Grigg wrote:
The questions would then be, what frequency do these
things operate on, what power is required to power
them up, and what power is required to ... power them
down. Any radio guys around?
There's an excellent RFID reference article at
http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,65490,00.html
Wired News
E-Vote Vendors Hand Over Software
By Kim Zetter?
Story location: http://www.wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,65490,00.html
03:00 PM Oct. 26, 2004 PT
In an effort to increase the integrity of next week's presidential
election, five
This is what I love about the Internet -- ask a question
and get silence but make a false claim and you get all the
advice you can possibly eat.
OK, I (quite happily) stand corrected about why Microsoft
bought Connectix -- it was cheaper given their extensive
dependence on the Virtual PC
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The deadline for paper
The core includes dedicated DES (Data Encryption Standard) instructions
for Secret Key cryptography, and a fast Multiply and Accumulate
instruction for Public Key (RSA) and Elliptic Curve cryptography, plus a
CRC (Cyclic Redundency Check) instruction. A firmware cryptographic
subroutine library
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DIMACS Workshop on Mobile and Wireless Security
November 3 - 4, 2004
DIMACS Center, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ
Organizers:
Bill Arbaugh, University of Maryland, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Presented under
http://news.com.com/2102-1012_3-5429679.html?tag=st.util.print
CNET News
Europe opts for biometric pasports
By Lars Pasveer
http://news.com.com/Europe+opts+for+biometric+pasports/2100-1012_3-5429679.html
Story last modified October 27, 2004, 5:56 PM PDT
Ministers for European Union
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R.A. Hettinga wrote:
[The mobile phone is] certainly getting to be like Chaum's
ideal crypto device. You own it, it has its own I/O, and it
never leaves your sight.
Is there a phone that is programmable enough to store secrets
on and sign and decrypt stuff?
The ideal crypto device
MCI Inc. will offer secure two-way messaging through its SkyTel
Communications subsidiary next month, encrypting wireless text
with the Advanced Encryption Algorithm.
Note that they don't say it's end to end encryption:
Messages are encrypted between the device and an encryption server
at
At 03:31
PM 10/25/2004, Ian Grigg wrote:
:-)
It should be obvious. But it's not. A few billions
of investment in smart cards says that it is anything
but obvious.
To be fair, the smart card investments I've been
familiar with have been at least very well aware of
the problem. It didn't stop them
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