[Clips] Spies in the Server Closet

If this most recent darknet-as-IP-bogeyman meme persists, Hollywood et al. is probably going to make Tim May famous. *That* should be interesting. :-) Cheers, RAH --- --- begin forwarded text Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2005 12:59:42 -0500 To: Philodox Clips List

Re: FW: Fermat's primality test vs. Miller-Rabin

* Charlie Kaufman: > The probability of a single run of Miller-Rabin or Fermat not > detecting that a randomly chosen number is composite is almost > vanishingly small. How do you chose a random integer, that this, based on which probability distribution? 8-) Anyway, one can show that for some f

RE: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Skype security evaluation]

"Marcel Popescu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner- >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Peter Gutmann > >> I can't understand why they didn't just use TLS for the handshake (maybe >> YASSL) and IPsec sliding-window + ESP for the transport (there's a free >> minimal

Re: [Clips] Feds mull regulation of quantum computers

> WASHINGTON--Quantum computers don't exist outside the laboratory. But the > U.S. government appears to be exploring whether it should be illegal to > ship them overseas. > > A federal advisory committee met Wednesday to hear an IBM presentation > about just how advanced quantum computers hav

Re: [Clips] [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [IP] Apple tries to patent 'tamper-resistant software']

* R. A. Hettinga: > By Ina Fried > 2100-1045_3-5942107.html> The patent application seems to be this one:

[Clips] Feds mull regulation of quantum computers

--- begin forwarded text Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2005 12:34:00 -0500 To: Philodox Clips List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: "R. A. Hettinga" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [Clips] Feds mull regulation of quantum computers Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sender: [EMAIL PROTE

Re: Pseudorandom Number Generator in Ansi X9.17

Terence Joseph wrote: > Hi, > > The Pseudorandom Number Generator specified in Ansi X9.17 used to be one > of the best PRNGs available if I am correct. It was? When? I had to replace the OpenSSL PRNG with X9.31 (as has been discussed elsewhere, this is the same PRNG) for the FIPS-140 certificatio

Re: [Clips] [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [IP] Apple tries to patent 'tamper-resistant software']

R. A. Hettinga wrote: > In its application, Apple describes a means of securing code using > either a specific hardware address or read-only memory (ROM) serial > number. Apple also talks about securing the code while interchanging > information among multiple operating systems. Mac OS X, W

RE: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Skype security evaluation]

> Do you have some articles about these protocols? The authoritative reference for TLS is the TLS RFC (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2246.txt). The authoritative reference for IPsec is of course the IPsec RFC (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2401.txt). As to why they wouldn't use these as they stand, s

Re: Fermat's primality test vs. Miller-Rabin

- Original Message - From: "Charlie Kaufman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: FW: Fermat's primality test vs. Miller-Rabin In practice, the probability of randomly choosing a Carmichael number of size >250 bits is vanishingly small. I would say that finding any Carmichael number without de

[Clips] Sony suspends copy-protection scheme on CDs

--- begin forwarded text Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 18:13:46 -0500 To: Philodox Clips List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: "R. A. Hettinga" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [Clips] Sony suspends copy-protection scheme on CDs Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sender: [EMAIL PRO