Re: Kiwi expert cracks chip passport

2008-08-18 Thread Peter Gutmann
David G. Koontz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: http://www.stuff.co.nz/4659100a28.html?source=RSStech_20080817 Peter Gutmann has gotten himself in the news along with Adam Laurie and Jeroen van Beek for altering the passport microchip in a passport. The original story was actually the coverage in the

Re: Kiwi expert cracks chip passport

2008-08-18 Thread Stefan Kelm
Peter, The original story was actually the coverage in the UK Times last week, Which card reader(s) did you use? Cheers, Stefan. Symposium Wirtschaftsspionage 03.09.2008 KA/Ettlingen http://www.symposium-wirtschaftsspionage.de/

Re: Voting machine security

2008-08-18 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 11:57 AM, John Ioannidis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This just about sums it up: http://xkcd.com/463/ Only slightly better then suggested by the comic. McAfee anti-virus software was on the servers, not the DRE voting machines themselves. From

Re: Kiwi expert cracks chip passport

2008-08-18 Thread Peter Gutmann
Stefan Kelm [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The original story was actually the coverage in the UK Times last week, Which card reader(s) did you use? Adam and I used the Omnikey Cardman 5321 (I'm not sure what Jeroen used, probably the same), which is cheap, well-supported with drivers, and cheap.

Fw: NIST Documents Available for Review

2008-08-18 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
Begin forwarded message: Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 10:56:16 -0400 From: Sara Caswell [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: undisclosed-recipients:; Subject: NIST Documents Available for Review NIST revised the first drafts of Special Publication(SP) 800-106, Randomized Hashing for Digital Signatures, and SP

Re: Voting machine security

2008-08-18 Thread Paul Hoffman
At 9:24 AM -0700 8/18/08, Eric Rescorla wrote: (and because of the complexity of US elections, hand counting is quite expensive) This is quite disputable. Further, hand vs. machine counting is core to the way we think about the security of the voting system. On a complex ballot, there are

Re: Voting machine security

2008-08-18 Thread dan
Paul Hoffman writes: -+-- | At 9:24 AM -0700 8/18/08, Eric Rescorla wrote: | (and because of the complexity of US elections, | hand counting is quite expensive) | | This is quite disputable. Further, hand vs. machine counting is core | to the way we think about the

Extended certificate error

2008-08-18 Thread Allen
Hi Gang, More from the land of CAs. I just got a warning that a certificate had expired and yet the data in it says: [From: Tue Aug 05 17:00:00 PDT 2003, To: Mon Aug 05 16:59:59 PDT 2013] The error message says: The digital signature was generated with a trusted certificate but has