Re: Wikileaks video crypto.

2010-04-09 Thread David Shaw
On Apr 9, 2010, at 3:06 PM, Perry E. Metzger wrote: Earlier this weeks, Wikileaks released of video of an incident involving an Apache helicopter which killed two Reuters reporters and a number of bystanders in Iraq. A number of the reports surrounding the release claim that the video was

Re: Wikileaks video crypto.

2010-04-09 Thread Thomas Coppi
On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 13:06, Perry E. Metzger pe...@piermont.com wrote: The video was apparently intentionally given to Wikileaks, so one can't imagine that the releasing parties would have wanted it to be unreadable by them (or that any reasonable modern cryptosystem would have be

Re: Wikileaks video crypto.

2010-04-09 Thread Thierry Moreau
Perry E. Metzger wrote: Earlier this weeks, Wikileaks released of video of an incident involving an Apache helicopter which killed two Reuters reporters and a number of bystanders in Iraq. A number of the reports surrounding the release claim that the video was decrypted by Wikileaks. Indeed,

Re: Wikileaks video crypto.

2010-04-09 Thread Frank A. Stevenson
There were some speculations around which crypto may have been broken over at Bruce Schneiers Facebook page. Apart from some DES suggestions I think the following comment was interesting: Pete Grounds I would suggest that it was originally an encrypted DVB stream, similar to what is used for pay

Interesting blog post from Matt Blaze

2010-04-09 Thread Perry E. Metzger
Matt has an interesting blog post up about the afterward he wrote for Applied Cryptography 15 years ago, and how little has changed in the interim: http://www.crypto.com/blog/afterword/ Perry -- Perry E. Metzgerpe...@piermont.com