Re: Seagate announces hardware FDE for laptop and desktop machines

2009-06-14 Thread james hughes
On Jun 10, 2009, at 4:19 PM, travis+ml-cryptogra...@subspacefield.org wrote: Reading really old email, but have new information to add. On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 02:15:38PM +1000, Daniel Carosone wrote: Speculation: the drive always encrypts the platters with a (fixed) AES key, obviating

OT: Presentation on Effectively and Securely Using the Cloud Computing Paradigm

2009-06-14 Thread Ali, Saqib
NIST has published a working draft of the Cloud Computing Security presentation: http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/SNS/cloud-computing/index.html Both of the documents on this page are excellent read for anyone interested in Cloud Computing. Some of the Security Advantages mentioned in the

Re: padding attack vs. PKCS7

2009-06-14 Thread James Muir
travis+ml-cryptogra...@subspacefield.org wrote: http://www.matasano.com/log/1749/typing-the-letters-a-e-s-into-your-code-youre-doing-it-wrong/ Towards the end of this rather offbeat blog post they describe a rather clever attack which is possible when the application provides error messages

SHA-1 in 2**52

2009-06-14 Thread I)ruid
Differential Path for SHA-1 with complexity O(2**52) Cameron McDonald, Philip Hawkes, and Josef Pieprzyk Macquarie University http://eprint.iacr.org/2009/259.pdf -- I)ruid, CĀ²ISSP dr...@caughq.org http://druid.caughq.org signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part