I know next to nothing about the state of the art of secure cell
devices; do list members have any (public) knowledge or informed
speculation about the mechanism behind the unclassified/classified
switches? Are we talking two entire separate CPUs with a mutex-
shared screen/keyboard? Or
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 04:18:39PM -0500, Jerry Leichter wrote:
An email system for the White
House has the additional complication of the Presidential Records
Act: Phone conversations don't have to be recorded, but mail messages
do (and have to
On Mon, 26 Jan 2009 02:49:31 -0500
Ivan Krstić krs...@solarsail.hcs.harvard.edu wrote:
Finally, any idea why the Sectéra is certified up to Top Secret for
voice but only up to Secret for e-mail? (That is, what are the
differing requirements?)
I actually explained (my take on) that
On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 11:04 PM, Jerry Leichter leich...@lrw.com wrote:
I just received a phishing email, allegedly from HSBC:
Dear HSBC Member,
Due to the high number of fraud attempts and phishing scams, it has been
decided to
implement EV SSL Certification on this Internet
On Jan 26, 2009, at 13:08 PM, John Levine wrote:
If only. People have been saying for at least a decade that all we
have to do to solve the spam problem is to charge a small fee for
every message sent.
I was one of those people, a decade and a half ago, on the cypherpunks
mailing list. In
On Jan 27, 2009, at 6:04 AM, Jerry Leichter wrote:
It might be useful to put together a special-purpose HTTPS client
which would initiate a connection and tell you about the cert
returned, then exit.
I use ...
openssl s_client -connect www.whatever.com:443 -showcerts
Ships with
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 09:04:45AM -0500, Jerry Leichter wrote:
[...]
It might be useful to put together a special-purpose HTTPS client
which would initiate a connection and tell you about the cert
returned, then exit.
[...]
I often use this (though there's probably an easier way)...
