Re: [Cryptography] check-summed keys in secret ciphers?

2013-10-03 Thread Philipp Gühring
Hi, Am 2013-09-30 10:16, schrieb ianG: I'm not really understanding the need for checksums on keys. Perhaps it is a DLP (Data Leakage Prevention) technology. At least the same method works great for Creditcard numbers. Oh, there is a 14 digit number being sent on a unclassified network, and all

Re: [Cryptography] TLS2

2013-09-30 Thread Philipp Gühring
Hi, What I personally think would be necessary for TLS2: * At least one quantum-computing resistant algorithm which must be useable either as replacement for DH+RSA+EC, or preferrably as additional strength(double encryption) for the transition period. * Zero-Knowledge password authentication

Re: [Cryptography] *** SPAM *** dead man switch [was: Re: Snowden fabricated digital keys to get access to NSA servers?]

2013-07-09 Thread Philipp Gühring
Hi, I would suggest Secret Key Splitting (e.g. Shamir's scheme), with an n-out-of-m scheme. Add decryption instructions, give everyone you trust and who is not easily discoverable a share of the key, the complete encrypted backups, and tell them to follow instructions when they believe you are

Re: [Cryptography] *** SPAM *** dead man switch [was: Re: Snowden fabricated digital keys to get access to NSA servers?]

2013-07-09 Thread Philipp Gühring
Hi, I would suggest Secret Key Splitting (e.g. Shamir's scheme), with an n-out-of-m scheme. Add decryption instructions, give everyone you trust and who is not easily discoverable a share of the key, the complete encrypted backups, and tell them to follow instructions when they believe you are

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

2009-08-03 Thread Philipp Gühring
-availability in those certain situations. Please let me know if you hear about any other interesting solutions too. Best regards, Philipp Gühring - The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending unsubscribe cryptography

Decimal encryption

2008-08-27 Thread Philipp Gühring
that has reasonable strength and is able to operate on non-binary data? Preferrably on any chosen number-base? Best regards, Philipp Gühring - The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending unsubscribe cryptography

Re: On the randomness of DNS

2008-08-03 Thread Philipp Gühring
Hi Ben, http://www.cacert.at/cgi-bin/rngresults Are you seriously saying that the entropy of FreeBSD /dev/random is 0? Thanks for the notice, that was a broken upload by a user. Best regards, Philipp Gühring

Re: On the randomness of DNS

2008-07-31 Thread Philipp Gühring
number generators, we informed the vendors and they fixed them. http://www.cacert.at/cgi-bin/rngresults Best regards, Philipp Gühring - The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending unsubscribe cryptography to [EMAIL

Re: The perils of security tools

2008-06-03 Thread Philipp Gühring
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Re: The perils of security tools

2008-05-28 Thread Philipp Gühring
saw, so using open/read is preferred for using /dev/random. Implementations can be rather easily checked with strace. Best regards, Philipp Gühring - The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending unsubscribe cryptography

Re: Levels of security according to the easiness to steel biometric data

2008-04-16 Thread Philipp Gühring
) Tamper evidence, Tamper protection, Tamper proof, Tamper resistance ... As usual, it depends on your threat-models, on your environment, on your resources, on your enemies, ... Best regards, Philipp Gühring - The Cryptography

Re: Fixing SSL (was Re: Dutch Transport Card Broken)

2008-02-13 Thread Philipp Gühring
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Re: Fixing SSL (was Re: Dutch Transport Card Broken)

2008-01-31 Thread Philipp Gühring
/16777216, then end up with 1/16777216 too much. (And there is no guarantee that the link layer actually gives you the 1/256. It could also give you 1/1) Best regards, Philipp Gühring - The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe

Fixing SSL (was Re: Dutch Transport Card Broken)

2008-01-30 Thread Philipp Gühring
. (And of course, run time version negotiation) Sounds like an interesting idea to me. Best regards, Philipp Gühring - The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending unsubscribe cryptography to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: two-person login?

2008-01-29 Thread Philipp Gühring
they detect the other sysadmin doing something evil, they can simply disconnect, which also disconnects/freezes the other one) I would be happy about such an implementation in a SSH server. (combined with screen perhaps ...) Best regards, Philipp Gühring

Re: The bank fraud blame game

2007-07-05 Thread Philipp Gühring
workaround, yes. I think SecurityLayer should be easily adaptable to that concept. Do you already have an demo implementation of that external device, Peter? Best regards, Philipp Gühring - The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe

Re: The bank fraud blame game

2007-07-03 Thread Philipp Gühring
TAN solution, and the cost increase of SMS compared to paper TANs is irrelevant) So I personally would declare the online-banking problem solved (with SMS as second channel), but I am still searching for solutions for all others, especially non-transactional applications. Best regards, Philipp

RNG Summary

2006-11-29 Thread Philipp Gühring
://sig.cacert.at/random/ The service is fully automated online now, so you can easily test your own RNG now, and compare them to the rest of the market. Best regards, Philipp Gühring - The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe

Re: Exponent 3 damage spreads...

2006-09-25 Thread Philipp Gühring
% of the certificates in the wild have Exponents =17 Best regards, Philipp Gühring - The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending unsubscribe cryptography to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: NPR : E-Mail Encryption Rare in Everyday Use

2006-02-24 Thread Philipp Gühring
he only signs the keys of his friends because of that. I wonder now, why he didn´t tried to solve that usability/scalability problem himself yet, but gave up instead. Best regards, Philipp Gühring - The Cryptography Mailing

Re: RNG quality verification

2006-01-03 Thread Philipp Gühring
enough yet.) Best regards, Philipp Gühring - The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending unsubscribe cryptography to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RNG quality verification

2005-12-23 Thread Philipp Gühring
impossible to attestate the correct usage (to a certain extent, I know about the statistical limitations) of random numbers with the software I am using to get certificates. Best regards, Philipp Gühring - The Cryptography Mailing

RNG quality verification

2005-12-22 Thread Philipp Gühring
it that way? Best regards, Philipp Gühring - The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending unsubscribe cryptography to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RNG quality verification

2005-12-22 Thread Philipp Gühring
to the operating system failing to use the random numbers given. So since the random numbers might be modified between gathering and using for the keypair, I thought that I need to evaluate the quality at the end of the keypair generation. Best regards, Philipp Gühring

Qualified Certificate Request

2005-07-21 Thread Philipp Gühring
it. Regards, Philipp Gühring - The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending unsubscribe cryptography to [EMAIL PROTECTED]