Re: IBM's original S-Boxes for DES?

2004-10-04 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Nicolai Moles -Benfell writes: Hi, A number of sources state that the NSA changed the S-Boxes (and reduced the ke y size) of IBM's original DES submission, and that these change were made to strengthen the cipher against differential/linear/?? cryptanalysis. Does

QC Hype Watch: Quantum cryptography gets practical

2004-10-04 Thread R. A. Hettinga
http://www.computerworld.com/printthis/2004/0,4814,96111,00.html - Computerworld Quantum cryptography gets practical Opinion by Bob Gelfond, MagiQ Technologies Inc. SEPTEMBER 30, 2004 (COMPUTERWORLD) - In theory and in labs, quantum cryptography -- cryptography based on the

Re: Linux-based wireless mesh suite adds crypto engine support

2004-10-04 Thread John Gilmore
- sufficient documentation and really transparent provable details so that users could trust and verify that the hardware and software were doing what they claimed to be doing and weren't doing anything evil that they didn't admit to, such as including backdoors or bad random number

Re: Linux-based wireless mesh suite adds crypto engine support

2004-10-04 Thread Bill Stewart
Peter Gutmann wrote: Tinfoil-hat mode. Agreed, but some people want to be thorough, or pedantic, or paranoid. At 04:20 AM 9/30/2004, Jonathan Thornburg wrote: UNDOCUMENTED_EVIL_WIRETAP_MODE can be just about impossible to spot without full design oversight. Even for a 3DES chip, where supposedly

CFP: Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PET 2005)

2004-10-04 Thread R. A. Hettinga
--- begin forwarded text To: sec-lists: ; Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: CFP: Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PET 2005) From: George Danezis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] List-Id: Open NymIP-RG discussion list nymip-rg-interest.nymip.org List-Post: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Tor 0.0.9pre1 is out (fwd from [EMAIL PROTECTED])

2004-10-04 Thread R. A. Hettinga
--- begin forwarded text Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2004 10:46:39 +0200 From: Eugen Leitl [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Tor 0.0.9pre1 is out (fwd from [EMAIL PROTECTED]) User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Roger Dingledine [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Tor 0.0.9pre1 is

'Frustrated' U.S. Cybersecurity Chief Abruptly Resigns

2004-10-04 Thread R. A. Hettinga
http://www.local6.com/print/3776699/detail.html?use=print local6.com 'Frustrated' U.S. Cybersecurity Chief Abruptly Resigns POSTED: 11:32 AM EDT October 1, 2004 WASHINGTON -- The government's cybersecurity chief has abruptly resigned after one year with the Department of Homeland Security,

Reverse DMCA: Copyright Holder Held Liable in Landmark Legal Ruling

2004-10-04 Thread R. A. Hettinga
http://www.linuxelectrons.com/article.php/20040930201813382 LinuxElectrons - Reverse DMCA: Copyright Holder Held Liable in Landmark Legal Ruling Thursday, September 30 2004 @ 08:18 PM Contributed by: ByteEnable In a landmark case, a California district court has determined that

NIST on TLS

2004-10-04 Thread Rich Salz
Found via the RSS feed for cryptome.org: http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/drafts.html#sp800-52 NIST is pleased to announce the first public draft of Special Publication 800-52, Guidelines on the Selection and Use of Transport Layer Security. This document is a guideline for implementing

A Proposed Nomenclature for the Four Horseman of The Infocalypse

2004-10-04 Thread R. A. Hettinga
I've been talking about this for the last decade, and never found a reference on the web whenever I was thinking about it. Thanks to Google, it was well within my prodigiously diminished attention span this morning. Given the events on the net over the past few years, I figure we might as well

Re: IBM's original S-Boxes for DES?

2004-10-04 Thread james hughes
In a personal interview with Walt Tuchman (IBM at the time, worked for StorageTek when I met him, now retired) he described the process for creating the s-boxes. A set of mathematical requirements were created and candidate s-boxes meeting these requirements would be printed out on a regular