Re: Crypto dongles to secure online transactions

2009-11-25 Thread Darren J Moffat
ary.co.uk/sanct/s_lenslok.php -- Darren J Moffat - The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to majord...@metzdowd.com

Truncating SHA2 hashes vs shortening a MAC for ZFS Crypto

2009-11-01 Thread Darren J Moffat
promise, but is it ? Option 6 IV 96 bits MAC 96 bits ChecksumSHA224 or SHA256 truncated to 192 bits -- Darren J Moffat - The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscr

Re: AES-CBC + Elephant diffuser

2009-11-01 Thread Darren J Moffat
a Merkle tree. We also have a place to store an IV. So every encrypted ZFS block is self contained, has an IV and a 16 byte MAC. This means that the crypto is all standards based algorithms and modes for ZFS. http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Project+zfs-crypto/

Re: FileVault on other than home directories on MacOS?

2009-09-28 Thread Darren J Moffat
ection for certain classes of ciphertext modification than just using CBC. -- Darren J Moffat - The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to majord...@metzdowd.com

Re: FileVault on other than home directories on MacOS?

2009-09-23 Thread Darren J Moffat
(or at least was) the case http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FileVault There is also a sleep mode issue identified by the NSA: http://crypto.nsa.org/vilefault/23C3-VileFault.pdf TrueCrypt on the other hand uses AES in XTS mode so you get confidentiality and integrity. --

Re: AES-GMAC as a hash

2009-09-04 Thread Darren J Moffat
Hal Finney wrote: Darren J Moffat asks: Ignoring performance for now what is the consensus on the suitabilty of using AES-GMAC not as MAC but as a hash ? Would it be safe ? The "key" input to AES-GMAC would be something well known to the data and/or software. No, I don't t

AES-GMAC as a hash

2009-08-31 Thread Darren J Moffat
e to perform on some classes of machine better than or close to SHA256 if it would be worth considering as an available alternate now until SHA-3 is choosen. -- Darren J Moffat - The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sendi

Re: SHA-1 and Git (was Re: [tahoe-dev] Tahoe-LAFS key management, part 2: Tahoe-LAFS is like encrypted git)

2009-08-25 Thread Darren J Moffat
t space padding can be helpful. -- Darren J Moffat - The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to majord...@metzdowd.com

Re: Unattended reboots (was Re: The clouds are not random enough)

2009-08-03 Thread Darren J Moffat
b on disk for Kerberos - yet that seems to be accepted practice even in organisations that by policy don't want passphrase/PIN on disk. -- Darren J Moffat - The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to majord...@metzdowd.com

Re: Fast MAC algorithms?

2009-07-24 Thread Darren J Moffat
OpenSolaris doesn't do TOE because we don't need it (and thus have no interfaces for it). This was 3DES, MD5, SHA1 era IPsec. So when its successor came along, the SCA-6000 (adding AES), the NIC was dropped. -- Darren J Moffat --

Re: Physical security rather than crypto---but perhaps of interest

2009-07-16 Thread Darren J Moffat
some people but certainly scary for the masses. Now to bring it back to crypto this shows the danger of assuming that local "links" don't need to be encrypted and that cables are "more secure" than wireless links (eg Bl

Re: Weakness in Social Security Numbers Is Found

2009-07-12 Thread Darren J Moffat
claims they are sometimes used for identification I know I have never been asked for mine other than by an employer or suitably authorised government body how has a real need to know. -- Darren J Moffat - The Cryptography Mailing L

Re: consulting question.... (DRM)

2009-05-27 Thread Darren J Moffat
Apple reference here is aimed at iTunes. You do know that iTunes Music Store no longer uses any DRM right ? -- Darren J Moffat - The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to majord...@metzdowd.com

Re: Warning! New cryptographic modes!

2009-05-21 Thread Darren J Moffat
as ciphertext so that we don't have to decrypt and re-encrypt the data. Note this doesn't help rsync though since the stream format is specific to ZFS. [1] http://opensolaris.org/os/project/zfs-crypto/ -- Darren J Moffat --

Re: full-disk subversion standards released

2009-05-01 Thread Darren J Moffat
2x's and Cavium's Nitrox (because there hasn't been any real need to come up with replacements) but I didn't think there'd be much problem with finding the necessary hardware, unless you've got some particular requirement that rules a lot of it out. The Sun CA-600

Re: full-disk subversion standards released

2009-05-01 Thread Darren J Moffat
wanted to put on in machines that didn't have PCIe capability. -- Darren J Moffat - The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to majord...@metzdowd.com

Re: full-disk subversion standards released

2009-05-01 Thread Darren J Moffat
s machines). It even has Eliptic Curve support available. -- Darren J Moffat - The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to majord...@metzdowd.com

Re: SHA-3 Round 1: Buffer Overflows

2009-02-24 Thread Darren J Moffat
Steve Furlong wrote: This just emphasizes what we already knew about C, even the most careful, security conscious developer messes up memory management. However I think it is not really efficient at this stage to insist on secure programming for submission implementations. For the simple reas

Re: Property RIghts in Keys

2009-02-12 Thread Darren J Moffat
e meaning of what a CA cert is and why it exists. -- Darren J Moffat - The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to majord...@metzdowd.com

Re: MD5 considered harmful today, SHA-1 considered harmful tomorrow

2009-01-20 Thread Darren J Moffat
your business or use the apps important to you for some other reason. It also very much depends on why the app uses the crypto algorithm in question, and in the case of digest/hash algorithms wither they are key'd (HMAC

Re: once more, with feeling.

2008-09-18 Thread Darren J Moffat
the UI to do "the right thing" it still doesn't mean anything real about trust all it really means is how much money was invested in getting the cert and setting up the "correct" information about the &qu

Re: once more, with feeling.

2008-09-08 Thread Darren J Moffat
aren't enough in this context [ whey already exists ] the only thing that will work is stopping the page being seen - replacing it with a clearly worded explanation with *no* way to pass through and render the page (okay maybe with a debug build of the browser but no

Re: Quiet in the list...

2008-09-08 Thread Darren J Moffat
but for me on MacOS X I never have to enter my Skype password because it is saved in the MacOS X keyring and Skype isn't set to start at system boot (user login really) for my account. -- Darren J Moffat - The Cryp