Re: [Cryptography] Why prefer symmetric crypto over public key crypto?

believe you can do this without using some form of public key system. -Jeff – ___ Jeffrey I. Schiller Information Services and Technology Massachusetts Institute of Technology 77 Massachusetts Avenue Room E17

Re: [Cryptography] Opening Discussion: Speculation on BULLRUN

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Sep 06, 2013 at 05:22:26PM -0700, John Gilmore wrote: Speaking as someone who followed the IPSEC IETF standards committee pretty closely, while leading a group that tried to implement it and make so usable that it would be used by default

Re: [Cryptography] Why prefer symmetric crypto over public key crypto?

entropy to use it for encryption or for signatures. - -Jeff ___ Jeffrey I. Schiller Information Services and Technology Massachusetts Institute of Technology 77 Massachusetts Avenue Room E17-110A, 32-392 Cambridge, MA 02139-4307

[Cryptography] Protecting Private Keys

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 While we worry about symmetric vs. public key ciphers, we should not forget the risk of compromise of our long-term keys. How are they protected? One of the most obvious ways to compromise a cryptographic system is to get the keys. This is a

Re: [Cryptography] Opening Discussion: Speculation on BULLRUN

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[Cryptography] Google's Public Key Size (was Re: NSA and cryptanalysis)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Sep 02, 2013 at 03:09:31PM -0400, Jerry Leichter wrote: Google recently switched to 2048 bit keys; hardly any other sites have done so, and some older software even has trouble talking to Google as a result. Btw. As a random side-note.

Re: HSM outage causes root CA key loss

that when the only copy of your key is in an HSM, the HSM vendor really owns you key, or at least they own you! -- Jeffrey I. Schiller MIT Network Manager Information Services and Technology Massachusetts Institute of Technology 77

Disk Encryption (was: Re: PGP master keys)

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