Re: New toy: SSLbar

2003-06-25 Thread Andy Isaacson
On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 12:02:39PM +0100, Pete Chown wrote: On the other hand, once a back door is installed in binary-only software, it is much less likely to be found. The Interbase back door was only found when the source was opened. I doubt the truth of this statement. Certainly, the

SHA-1 broken, says Schneier

2005-02-16 Thread Andy Isaacson
From Bruce Schneier's weblog: http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2005/02/sha1_broken.html # SHA-1 has been broken. Not a reduced-round version. Not a simplified # version. The real thing. # # The research team of Xiaoyun Wang, Yiqun Lisa Yin, and Hongbo Yu (mostly # from Shandong University