Re: flavors of reptile lubricant, was Another Snake Oil Candidate

2007-09-23 Thread Allen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The below USB drive manufacture claims FIPS 140-2 certification. Encryption is now required for USB thumb drives used on DoD computer. This one is being used by the Military. http://www.kanguru.com/kanguruusbflash.html See:

Re: open source digital cash packages

2007-09-23 Thread Ian G
Steven M. Bellovin wrote: Are there any open source digital cash packages available? I need one as part of another research project. I can think of a few ways to answer this question. 1. blinded money demo programs: there is magic money, in C and in Java. Also I think Ben Laurie wrote

Re: Scare tactic?

2007-09-23 Thread Ian G
Ivan Krsti? wrote: On Sep 19, 2007, at 5:01 PM, Nash Foster wrote: Any actual cryptographers care to comment on this? I don't feel qualified to judge. If the affected software is doing DH with a malicious/compromised peer, the peer can make it arrive at a predictable secret -- which would be

Re: open source digital cash packages

2007-09-23 Thread Ben Laurie
Ian G wrote: 1. blinded money demo programs: there is magic money, in C and in Java. Also I think Ben Laurie wrote another one demo'd at EFCE. These demos are generally around 1-4kloc. Lucre. There was also a project, lucrative, to make it into a usable platform. It fizzled, I think, but