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

2004-09-30 Thread Jonathan Thornburg
gives 3DES protected 100Mbit Ethernet * Next by thread: Re: linux-ipsec: Intel IPSEC accelerator gives 3DES protected 100Mbit Ethernet * Index(es): + Main + Thread -- -- Jonathan Thornburg [EMAIL PROTECTED] Max-Planck-Institut fuer

Re: Security is the bits you disable before you ship

2005-03-25 Thread Jonathan Thornburg
, including security ones) snprintf() call: #define N_LINE 999 static char line[N_LINE]; len = snprintf(line, N_LINE, %ul , %ul\r\n, rp, lp); snprintf() first appeared in 4.4BSD and is now in C99, so any modern system should support it by now. ciao, -- -- Jonathan Thornburg [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: gonzo cryptography; how would you improve existing cryptosystems?

2005-11-08 Thread Jonathan Thornburg
. So far as I know, in this regard cfs is unique among cryptographic filesystems. ciao, -- -- Jonathan Thornburg [EMAIL PROTECTED] Max-Planck-Institut fuer Gravitationsphysik (Albert-Einstein-Institut), Golm, Germany, Old Europe http://www.aei.mpg.de/~jthorn/home.html Washing one's

Re: [Clips] Banks Seek Better Online-Security Tools

2005-12-05 Thread Jonathan Thornburg
things online with a credit card, either, but there my liability is limited to 50 Euros or so, and the credit card companies actually put a modicum of effort into watching for suspicious transactions, so I'm willing to buy (a few) things online.] ciao, -- -- Jonathan Thornburg [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [spam]::Re: [Clips] Banks Seek Better Online-Security Tools

2005-12-13 Thread Jonathan Thornburg
that's basically what people do. For example, many foreign people in Bhagdad don't venture out of the green zone. My point is that when substantial amounts of money are involved, IMHO the internet is basically a red zone where I don't feel safe venturing. ciao, -- -- Jonathan Thornburg [EMAIL

Re: thoughts on one time pads

2006-01-27 Thread Jonathan Thornburg
seriously doubt my home oven gets hot enough), and is likely to produce toxic fumes, and leave behind a sticky mess (stuck to the surface of the specialized oven). ciao, -- -- Jonathan Thornburg [EMAIL PROTECTED] Max-Planck-Institut fuer Gravitationsphysik (Albert-Einstein-Institut), Golm

Re: Can you keep a secret? This encrypted drive can...

2006-11-06 Thread Jonathan Thornburg
this test on 64K files there was no difference in times between (a), (b), and (c) within the timing noise. ciao, -- -- Jonathan Thornburg -- remove -animal to reply [EMAIL PROTECTED] Max-Planck-Institut fuer Gravitationsphysik (Albert-Einstein-Institut), Golm, Germany, Old Europe http

Re: It's a Presidential Mandate, Feds use it. How come you are not using FDE?

2007-01-16 Thread Jonathan Thornburg
, a different key for company-confidential project stuff, a different key for old love letters, still another one for My Secret Plan For World Domination, etc etc). These might all live on the same laptop, but they probably need quite different key policies. ciao, -- -- Jonathan Thornburg

Re: It's a Presidential Mandate, Feds use it. How come you are not using FDE?

2007-01-16 Thread Jonathan Thornburg
(compared to the cost of the disk access). See http://www.openbsd.org/papers/swapencrypt.ps for a discussion of the security model. ciao, -- -- Jonathan Thornburg -- remove -animal to reply [EMAIL PROTECTED] Max-Planck-Institut fuer Gravitationsphysik (Albert-Einstein-Institut), Golm

Re: It's a Presidential Mandate, Feds use it. How come you are not using FDE?

2007-01-20 Thread Jonathan Thornburg
/router). For laptops (where physical theft is major concern), I think the combination of an encrypting file system and swap encryption gives a pretty good -- and readily configurable -- security/performance tradeoff. ciao, -- -- Jonathan Thornburg -- remove -animal to reply [EMAIL PROTECTED] Max

Re: *AEI-SPAM-MARK* Re: Governance of anonymous financial services

2007-03-30 Thread Jonathan Thornburg
the practicality of anonymous (crypto-enabled) financial services in the 21st century, namely, will governments be willing to allow them to operate?] ciao, -- -- Jonathan Thornburg -- remove -animal to reply [EMAIL PROTECTED] School of Mathematics, U of Southampton, England Washing one's hands

Re: Death of antivirus software imminent

2008-01-18 Thread Jonathan Thornburg
slowed) the Storm worm, to name one notorious example? -- -- Jonathan Thornburg (remove -animal to reply) [EMAIL PROTECTED] School of Mathematics, U of Southampton, England Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful

Re: defending against evil in all layers of hardware and software

2008-04-29 Thread Jonathan Thornburg
hardware I don't think that test can be trusted. :( -- Jonathan Thornburg (remove -animal to reply) [EMAIL PROTECTED] School of Mathematics, U of Southampton, England C++ is to programming as sex is to reproduction. Better ways might technically exist but they're not nearly as much fun

Re: Bitcoin v0.1 released

2009-01-17 Thread Jonathan Thornburg
-to-botnet sending? -- -- From: Jonathan Thornburg [remove -animal to reply] jth...@astro.indiana-zebra.edu Dept of Astronomy, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful

Re: full-disk subversion standards released

2009-01-30 Thread Jonathan Thornburg
-drive firmware, or indeed anywhere except software that I fully control. -- -- Jonathan Thornburg jth...@astro.indiana.edu Dept of Astronomy, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side

Re: full-disk subversion standards released

2009-02-02 Thread Jonathan Thornburg
, makes it so much harder for a hardware backdoor to work (i.e. to subvert software encryption) in this context. -- -- Jonathan Thornburg [remove -animal to reply] jth...@astro.indiana-zebra.edu Dept of Astronomy, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA Washing one's hands

Re: CSPRNG algorithms

2009-05-01 Thread Jonathan Thornburg
their advice is probably excellent... ciao, -- -- Jonathan Thornburg [remove -animal to reply] jth...@astro.indiana-zebra.edu Dept of Astronomy, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA C++ is to programming as sex is to reproduction. Better ways might technically exist but they're

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 Jonathan Thornburg
for as long as in-the-field software still groks the old (now-insecure) versions, so versioning is actually more like Byzantine versioning. -- -- Jonathan Thornburg jth...@astro.indiana.edu Dept of Astronomy, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA Washing one's hands of the conflict between

Re: [TIME_WARP] 1280-Bit RSA

2010-07-09 Thread Jonathan Thornburg
Computing Service | the English way. 13 Banbury Road, Oxford, OX2 6NN, UK | The time is come, the song is over. Tel: +44-865-273200 Fax: +44-865-273275 | Thought I'd something more to say. Finger p...@black.ox.ac.uk for PGP key| -- -- Jonathan Thornburg [remove -animal

deliberately crashing ancient computers (was: Re: A mighty fortress is our PKI)

2010-07-28 Thread Jonathan Thornburg
is the machines they are running it off of finally dying, either due to hardware failure or being so badly owned by worms that the machine becomes inoperable, at which point it goes into the trash and they buy a new one. Yup. -- -- Jonathan Thornburg [remove -animal to reply] jth

Re: Formal notice given of rearrangement of deck chairs on RMS PKItanic

2010-10-06 Thread Jonathan Thornburg
] [ This message was cryptographically signed but the signature ] [ could not be verified. ] ciao, -- -- Jonathan Thornburg [remove -animal to reply] jth...@astro.indiana-zebra.edu Dept of Astronomy, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA Washing one's hands of the conflict between

Re: [Cryptography] Implementations, attacks on DHTs, Mix Nets?

2013-08-27 Thread Jonathan Thornburg
of DNSSEC. Assuming it were widely deployed, would DNSSEC-for-key-distribution be a reasonable way to store email_address -- public_key mappings? -- -- Jonathan Thornburg jth...@astro.indiana.edu Dept of Astronomy IUCSS, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA There was of course no way

Re: [Cryptography] Email and IM are ideal candidates for mix networks

2013-08-28 Thread Jonathan Thornburg
compromised. Maybe it's because you've forgotten the passphrase guarding the corresponding private key? Or because you'd like to do the electronic equivalent of change my name, start [this facet of] my electronic life over? -- -- Jonathan Thornburg jth...@astro.indiana.edu Dept of Astronomy IUCSS

Re: [Cryptography] Functional specification for email client?

2013-08-30 Thread Jonathan Thornburg
seen the contents of the email. This probably needs amending to deal with messages addressed to multiple recipients (either cc:, bcc:, or simply multiple to: addresses). -- -- Jonathan Thornburg [remove -animal to reply] jth...@astro.indiana-zebra.edu Dept of Astronomy IUCSS, Indiana

Re: [Cryptography] Crypto Standards v.s. Engineering habits - Was: NIST about to weaken SHA3?

2013-10-02 Thread Jonathan Thornburg
to people who are experts at carpentry. /maybe offtopic And leave crypto to people who are experts at crypto. -- -- Jonathan Thornburg [remove -animal to reply] jth...@astro.indiana-zebra.edu Dept of Astronomy IUCSS, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA There was of course no way