Re: Intel to also add RNG

2010-07-14 Thread Thor Lancelot Simon
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 05:46:36PM +1200, Peter Gutmann wrote: Paul Wouters p...@xelerance.com writes: Which is what you should do anyway, in case of a hardware failure. I know the Linux intel-rng and amd-rng used to produce nice series of zeros. Do you have any more details on this? Was

Encryption and authentication modes

2010-07-14 Thread Florian Weimer
What's the current state of affairs regarding combined encryption and authentication modes? I've implemented draft-mcgrew-aead-aes-cbc-hmac-sha1-01 (I think, I couldn't find test vectors), but I later came across CCM and EAX. CCM has the advantage of being NIST-reviewed. EAX can do streaming

Re: Intel to also add RNG

2010-07-14 Thread Ben Laurie
On 12 July 2010 18:13, Jack Lloyd ll...@randombit.net wrote: On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 12:22:51PM -0400, Perry E. Metzger wrote: BTW, let me note that if Intel wanted to gimmick their chips to make them untrustworthy, there is very little you could do about it. The literature makes it clear at

Re: Encryption and authentication modes

2010-07-14 Thread james hughes
On Jul 14, 2010, at 1:52 AM, Florian Weimer wrote: What's the current state of affairs regarding combined encryption and authentication modes? I've implemented draft-mcgrew-aead-aes-cbc-hmac-sha1-01 (I think, I couldn't find test vectors), but I later came across CCM and EAX. CCM has the

Re: Encryption and authentication modes

2010-07-14 Thread dj
What's the current state of affairs regarding combined encryption and authentication modes? I've implemented draft-mcgrew-aead-aes-cbc-hmac-sha1-01 (I think, I couldn't find test vectors), but I later came across CCM and EAX. CCM has the advantage of being NIST-reviewed. EAX can do

new tech report on easy-to-use IPsec

2010-07-14 Thread Steven Bellovin
Folks on this list may be interested in a new tech report: Shreyas Srivatsan, Maritza Johnson, and Steven M. Bellovin. Simple-VPN: Simple IPsec configuration. Technical Report CUCS-020-10, Department of Computer Science, Columbia University, July 2010.

Fw: [IP] Two new rulings on Internet anonymity

2010-07-14 Thread Perry E. Metzger
Forwarded from Dave Farber's list: From: Paul Levy pl...@citizen.org Date: July 14, 2010 1:06:10 PM EDT To: d...@farber.net Subject: Two new rulings on Internet anonymity Within a few hours of each other, two significant decisions have come down on the issue of how to decide whether to