RE: SSL/TLS passive sniffing

2004-12-01 Thread Ben Nagy
OK, Ian and I are, rightly or wrongly, on the same page here. Obviously my choice of the word certificate has caused confusion. [David Wagner] This sounds very confused. Certs are public. How would knowing a copy of the server cert help me to decrypt SSL traffic that I have intercepted?

RE: RSA Implementation in C language

2004-12-01 Thread Tolga Acar
Try Intel's open-sourced CDSA, available at SourceForge. - Tolga -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Trei, Peter Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2004 7:16 To: Sandeep N; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: RSA Implementation in C language

RE: SSL/TLS passive sniffing

2004-12-01 Thread ben
-Original Message- From: Eric Rescorla [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2004 7:01 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Ben Nagy; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: SSL/TLS passive sniffing Ian Grigg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] However could one do a Diffie

Re: RSA Implementation in C language

2004-12-01 Thread Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Tue, 30 Nov 2004 10:16:11 -0500, Trei, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: ptrei Admittedly somewhat old and creaky, but try Googling ptrei RSAREF. I don't know where that stands for IP rights ptrei (presumably we still have copyright), bout for ptrei research it's a

Re: SSL/TLS passive sniffing

2004-12-01 Thread Eric Rescorla
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: -Original Message- From: Eric Rescorla [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2004 7:01 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Ben Nagy; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: SSL/TLS passive sniffing Ian Grigg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] However

Interesting project for C++ crypto programmer, referrals welcome

2004-12-01 Thread The Promethean
An interesting project is occupying a lot of my attention right now but I don't have time to handle it myself. This project would be an interesting application if it was implemented using good cryptography, but the current team lacks the background for it. They've asked me to help find the right

Re: IPsec +- Perfect Forward Secrecy

2004-12-01 Thread Eric Rescorla
John Denker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Eric Rescorla wrote: Uh, you've just described the ephemeral DH mode that IPsec always uses and SSL provides. I'm mystified by the word always there, and/or perhaps by the definition of Perfect Forward Secrecy. Here's the dilemma: On the one hand, it