Why the poor uptake of encrypted email? [Was: Re: Secrets and cell phones.]

2008-12-08 Thread StealthMonger
James A. Donald [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Of course, the old cypherpunk dream is a system with end to end encryption, with individuals having the choice of holding their own secrets, rather than these secrets being managed by some not very trusted authority We discovered, however,

Re: AES HDD encryption was XOR

2008-12-08 Thread William Allen Simpson
Jerry Leichter wrote: ... accurately states that AES-128 is thought to be secure within the state of current and expected cryptographic knowledge, it propagates the meme of the short key length of only 128 bits. A key length of 128 bits is beyond any conceivable brute force attack - in and

Re: Why the poor uptake of encrypted email? [Was: Re: Secrets and cell phones.]

2008-12-08 Thread JOHN GALT
StealthMonger wrote: This may help to explain the poor uptake of encrypted email. It would be useful to know exactly what has been discovered. Can you provide references? The iconic Paper explaining this is Why Johnny Can't Encrypt available here:

Re: Why the poor uptake of encrypted email? [Was: Re: Secrets and cell phones.]

2008-12-08 Thread David G. Koontz
JOHN GALT wrote: StealthMonger wrote: This may help to explain the poor uptake of encrypted email. It would be useful to know exactly what has been discovered. Can you provide references? The iconic Paper explaining this is Why Johnny Can't Encrypt available here:

Request for Input (RFI)--National Cyber Leap Year

2008-12-08 Thread Bill Frantz
From: http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2008/E8-24257.htm NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION Request for Input (RFI)--National Cyber Leap Year AGENCY: The National Coordination Office (NCO) for Networking Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD). ACTION: Request for Input (RFI).