Fwd: [FDE] Inside interview with Seagate on it's new FDE Drive

2007-01-11 Thread Saqib Ali
-- Forwarded message -- From: Scott S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Jan 9, 2007 11:17 AM Subject: [FDE] Inside interview with Seagate on it's new FDE Drive To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Here is an exclusive interview we conducted with Dan Good, Vice President of marketing at Seagate, on the

A web site that believes in crypto

2007-01-11 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
I just stumbled on a web site that strongly believes in crypto -- *everything* on the site is protected by https. If you go there via http, you receive a Redirect. The site? www.cia.gov: $ telnet www.cia.gov 80 Trying 198.81.129.100... Connected to www.odci.gov. Escape character is '^]'. GET /

Private Key Generation from Passwords/phrases

2007-01-11 Thread Matthias Bruestle
Hi, I am thinking about this since last night. On the web I haven't found much and I want to go in a different direction as I have found. Say I want to have 112bit security, i.e. as secure as 3DES. For this I would choose (as everybody writes) 224bit ECC (or Tipsy Curve Cryptosystem/TCC as I pref