Re: MS responds to Gutmann's Vista paper

2007-01-23 Thread Peter Gutmann
=?UTF-8?B?SXZhbiBLcnN0acSH?= [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Aside from admitting to increased CPU utilization, which seemed pretty incontestable anyway, they're disputing [0] many of the points made in the original paper [1]. Their response is a mixture of technical content and PR handwaving, I've

Free WiFi man-in-the-middle scam seen in the wild.

2007-01-23 Thread Perry E. Metzger
For years, I've complained about banks, such as Chase, which let people type in the password to their bank account into a page that has been downloaded via http: instead of https:. The banks always say oh, that's no problem, because the password is posted via https:, and I say but that's only if

Re: Free WiFi man-in-the-middle scam seen in the wild.

2007-01-23 Thread Derek Atkins
Quoting Perry E. Metzger [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Now you might wonder, why do I keep picking on Chase? A certain other security person and I had an extended argument with the folks at another company I won't name other than to say that it was American Express. At the time, they more or less said,

Re: Free WiFi man-in-the-middle scam seen in the wild.

2007-01-23 Thread Roy M. Silvernail
On Tue, January 23, 2007 09:24, Perry E. Metzger wrote: (Incidently, the article gets a few things wrong. It somewhat implies that you are safe if you pick a WiFi network you have a previous relationship with, which isn't true.) It also is only warning against ad-hoc connections with

Re: Free WiFi man-in-the-middle scam seen in the wild.

2007-01-23 Thread Perry E. Metzger
Derek Atkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'll just point out that you CAN go to: https://chaseonline.chase.com/ And that works, and should be secure. And for the six people that know to do that, it works great. :) It used to be that Verizon (my local phone company, sadly) had this general

Re: Private Key Generation from Passwords/phrases

2007-01-23 Thread Matthias Bruestle
Joseph Ashwood wrote: I'm going to try to make this one a bit less aggregious in tone. I'm also Thank you. - Original Message - From: Matthias Bruestle Joseph Ashwood wrote: - Original Message - From: Matthias Bruestle You also ended up removing a large portion of my point.

Re: analysis and implementation of LRW

2007-01-23 Thread Alexander Klimov
On Tue, 23 Jan 2007, Peter Gutmann wrote: The IEEE P1619 standard group has dropped LRW mode. It has a vulnerability that that are collisions that will divulge the mixing key which will reduce the mode to ECB. Is there any more information on this anywhere? I haven't been able to find

Re: analysis and implementation of LRW

2007-01-23 Thread Andrea Pasquinucci
On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 05:56:29PM +0200, Alexander Klimov wrote: * On Tue, 23 Jan 2007, Peter Gutmann wrote: * The IEEE P1619 standard group has dropped LRW mode. It has a vulnerability * that that are collisions that will divulge the mixing key which will reduce * the mode to ECB. * * Is

Fw: NIST announces Draft Requirements and Evaluation Criteria for New Hash Algorithms

2007-01-23 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
Begin forwarded message: Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 12:03:45 -0500 From: Shu-jen Chang [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: NIST announces Draft Requirements and Evaluation Criteria for New Hash Algorithms NIST Wants Comments on Proposed Hash Algorithm Requirements and Evaluation

Re: analysis and implementation of LRW

2007-01-23 Thread Ben Laurie
David Wagner wrote: Jim Hughes writes: The IEEE P1619 standard group has dropped LRW mode. It has a vulnerability that that are collisions that will divulge the mixing key which will reduce the mode to ECB. This is interesting. Could you elaborate on this? I suspect we could all

Re: analysis and implementation of LRW

2007-01-23 Thread David Wagner
Jim Hughes writes: The IEEE P1619 standard group has dropped LRW mode. It has a vulnerability that that are collisions that will divulge the mixing key which will reduce the mode to ECB. Peter Gutmann asks: Is there any more information on this anywhere? I haven't been able to find anything

Re: Free WiFi man-in-the-middle scam seen in the wild.

2007-01-23 Thread Matthias Bruestle
Hi, Perry E. Metzger wrote: For years, I've complained about banks, such as Chase, which let people type in the password to their bank account into a page that has been downloaded via http: instead of https:. The banks always say oh, that's no problem, because the password is posted via

more on NIST hash competition

2007-01-23 Thread Perry E. Metzger
In addition to the URL Steve sent earlier, there is a web page up for the NIST hash competition: http://www.csrc.nist.gov/pki/HashWorkshop/index.html Perry - The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending unsubscribe