Re: UK Prime Minister apologizes for Alan Turing's mistreatment.

2009-09-11 Thread Stephan Somogyi
At 21:33 -0400 10.09.2009, Perry E. Metzger wrote: Not strictly about crypto, but certainly about a very famous cryptanalyst. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8249792.stm The actual statement is here: http://www.number10.gov.uk/Page20571 s.

Re: Judge orders defendant to decrypt PGP-protected laptop

2009-03-03 Thread Stephan Somogyi
At 13:08 -0500 03.03.2009, Adam Fields wrote: When compelled to give out your password Unless I'm misunderstanding the ruling, Boucher is not being compelled to produce his passphrase (like he could under RIPA Section 49 in the UK), but he is being told to produce the unencrypted contents

Skein announced

2008-10-29 Thread Stephan Somogyi
The Skein team has announced its submission to the NIST hash competition: http://www.schneier.com/skein.html s. - The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending unsubscribe cryptography to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: German Government Skype interception methods leaked...

2008-01-27 Thread Stephan Somogyi
At 10:24 -0500 26.01.2008, Perry E. Metzger wrote: Wikileaks has released documents from the German police revealing Skype interception technology. The leaks are currently creating a storm in the German press[...] I've skimmed some of the coverage and I can't help but think that

Re: Full Disk Encryption solutions selected for US Government use

2007-10-08 Thread Stephan Somogyi
At 02:11 +1300 09.10.2007, Peter Gutmann wrote: But if you build a FDE product with it you've got to get the entire product certified, not just the crypto component. I don't believe this to be the case. FIPS 140(-2) is about validating cryptographic implementations. It is not about