Re: AMDs new instructions for parallelism and support för side-channel attacks?

2007-08-14 Thread Joachim Strömbergson
Aloha! Joachim Strömbergson skrev: Aloha! I just saw om EE Times that AMD will start to extend their x86 CPUs with instructions to support/help developers take advantage of the increasing (potential) parallelism in their processors. First out are two instructions that allows the developer to

Re: Fwd: Potential SHA 1 Hack Using Distributed Computing - Near Miss(es) May be Good Enough

2007-08-14 Thread Mads Rasmussen
Have a look at http://boinc.iaik.tugraz.at/sha1_coll_search Aram Perez wrote: Anyone know more about this? -- Mads Rasmussen LEA - Laboratório de Ensaios e Auditoria ICP-Brasil (Brazilian PKI Cryptographic Certification Laboratory) Office: +55 11 4208 3873 Mobile: +55 11 9407 4493 Mobile

Re: Fwd: Potential SHA 1 Hack Using Distributed Computing - Near Miss(es) May be Good Enough

2007-08-14 Thread Paul Hoffman
At 11:00 PM -0700 8/13/07, Aram Perez wrote: Anyone know more about this? I have the same question. I could not find any description of *why* they think that finding near-misses is going to help the research. It's not clear if they are taking their own path, or trying to improve Wang's path,

John Young and Cryptome

2007-08-14 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
http://www.radaronline.com/from-the-magazine/2007/08/cryptome_john_young_radar_anthony_haden_guest_1.php --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb - The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "u

AMDs new instructions for parallelism and support för side-channel attacks?

2007-08-14 Thread Joachim Strömbergson
Aloha! I just saw om EE Times that AMD will start to extend their x86 CPUs with instructions to support/help developers take advantage of the increasing (potential) parallelism in their processors. First out are two instructions that allows the developer to get info about instruction completi

Re: Susan Landau Op Ed on new NSA powers

2007-08-14 Thread Alex Alten
It seems that a large chunk (and probably relative soon nearly all) voice is now via VoIP. And to date, Skype not withstanding, this has all been cleartext traffic. Using router netflow records, etc., one can now pinpoint any phone conversation and then do a pcap dump. Many Tier 1 through Tier

Fwd: Potential SHA 1 Hack Using Distributed Computing - Near Miss(es) May be Good Enough

2007-08-14 Thread Aram Perez
Anyone know more about this? Begin forwarded message: From: "Steven W. Teppler" Date: August 13, 2007 4:41:56 PM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Potential SHA 1 Hack Using Distributed Computing - Near Miss(es) May be Good Enough From DarkReading, via Heise Security: Cracking SHA-1 usin