On Tue, 13 Sep 2005, Paul Hoffman wrote:
At 9:32 AM -0700 9/12/05, James A. Donald wrote:
It has been a long time, and no one has paid out
money on an ECC patent yet.
That's pretty bold statement that folks at Certicom might disagree
with, even before
Perry E. Metzger wrote:
What the world really needs is something between C++ and C -- a
language with very clean obvious semantics (like C) which does run
time bounds checking and strong typing, though it also needs explicit
escapes in the type system so you can write things like device drivers
Amir Herzberg wrote:
For a stationary user, the extension compares _Iterations_ and confirm
it is at most one less than previous value of _Iterations_ used with
this site.
(Minor point - if relying on incrementing
Iterations, this may impact password sharing
scenarios. Whether that's a good
Below is a proposal, based on the problem statement by Paul Hoffman:
In many deployments of SSL first, then authenticate the user with a
password, the site consists of two or more machines. Many or most
high-traffic secure sites use SSL front-end systems to terminate the SSL
connection, then
Ian G wrote:
Amir Herzberg wrote:
For a stationary user, the extension compares _Iterations_ and confirm
it is at most one less than previous value of _Iterations_ used with
this site.
(Minor point - if relying on incrementing
Iterations, this may impact password sharing
scenarios. Whether
At 12:18 PM +0300 9/14/05, Alexander Klimov wrote:
This hints that indeed only some particular curves are patented.
It's not just curves. Certicom has patents for some optimizations and
methods for validating the strength of some uses of ECC.
Grepping -list_curves of the new openssl
Amazon have this lovely service: if you tell if you forgot your pw, they
send you to:
https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/self-service-forgot-password-get-email-done/104-2901457-0883904
where they ask you to confirm your identity... using 5 last digits of a
credit card you used with them.
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