Re: New Research Suggests That Governments May Fake SSL Certificates

2010-03-26 Thread Jerry Leichter
On Mar 25, 2010, at 8:05 AM, Dave Kleiman wrote: March 24th, 2010 New Research Suggests That Governments May Fake SSL Certificates Technical Analysis by Seth Schoen http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/03/researchers-reveal-likelihood-governments-fake-ssl Today two computer security

Re: Against Rekeying

2010-03-26 Thread Perry E. Metzger
Also manually forwarded on behalf of Peter Gutmann. As before, if you reply, don't credit me with the text, it is his. From pgut001 Fri Mar 26 14:44:54 2010 To: b...@links.org, nicolas.willi...@sun.com Subject: Re: Against Rekeying Cc: cryptography@metzdowd.com, pe...@piermont.com,

high speed password cracking on GPUs

2010-03-26 Thread Perry E. Metzger
This is from ten days ago but I just ran across it. Nothing very deep -- just higher speed brute force attacks via GPUs. http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=9021 -- Perry E. Metzgerpe...@piermont.com -

Re: Against Rekeying

2010-03-26 Thread Nicolas Williams
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 10:22:06AM -0400, Peter Gutmann wrote: I missed that in his blog post as well. An equally big one is the SSHv2 rekeying fiasco, where for a long time an attempt to rekey across two different implementations typically meant drop the connection, and it still does for the

Re: Against Rekeying

2010-03-26 Thread Peter Gutmann (alt)
Nicolas Williams nicolas.willi...@sun.com writes: I made much the same point, but just so we're clear, SSHv2 re-keying has been interoperating widely since 2005. (I was at Connectathon, and while the details of Cthon testing are proprietary, I can generalize and tell you that interop in this

Re: Against Rekeying

2010-03-26 Thread Nicolas Williams
On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 12:31:45PM +1300, Peter Gutmann (alt) wrote: Nicolas Williams nicolas.willi...@sun.com writes: I made much the same point, but just so we're clear, SSHv2 re-keying has been interoperating widely since 2005. (I was at Connectathon, and while the details of Cthon