Re: Free Rootkit with Every New Intel Machine

2007-06-30 Thread David G. Koontz
http://www.nvlabs.in/?q=node/32 Vipin Kumar of of NVLabs had announced a break of TPM and a demonstration of a break into Bitlocker, (presumably using TPM) to be presented at Black Hat 2007. The presentation has been pulled. Significance to the exchanges on cryptography under this subject stem

Re: Free Rootkit with Every New Intel Machine

2007-06-30 Thread David G. Koontz
Looking for TPM enterprise adoption. The current version of TPM was adopted in March o f 2006, which should have limited TPM up take. There's an article in Network World http://www.networkworld.com/allstar/2006/092506-chip-security-papa-gino.html from September 2006 talking about a restaurant

Re: Quantum Cryptography

2007-06-30 Thread Bill Stewart
At 08:51 AM 6/28/2007, Alexander Klimov wrote: I suspect there are two reasons for QKD to be still alive. First of all, the cost difference between quantum and normal approaches is so enormous that a lot of ignorant decision makers actually believe that they get something extra for this money.

Backdoor Man...

2007-06-30 Thread Allen
Hi gang, Apparently Backdoor Man is still popular, but not as a blues. http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasicarticleId=9025436 So, the question is, can you trust *any* commercial vendor where you can't verify the code? We have no clue if this was done for

Re: Quantum Cryptography

2007-06-30 Thread Ivan Krstić
On Jun 29, 2007, at 10:44 AM, Steven M. Bellovin wrote: It's very valid to criticize today's products, and it's almost obligatory to criticize over-hyped marketing. As I said, I don't think today's products are useful anywhere, and the comparisons vendors draw to conventional cryptography