[cryptography] [Bitcoin-development] New paper: Research Perspectives and Challenges for Bitcoin and Cryptocurrencies

2015-03-02 Thread Eugen Leitl
- Forwarded message from Andrew Miller amil...@cs.umd.edu - Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2015 11:48:24 -0500 From: Andrew Miller amil...@cs.umd.edu To: bitcoin-developm...@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Bitcoin-development] New paper: Research Perspectives and Challenges for Bitcoin and

[cryptography] hashes based on lots of concatenated LUT lookups

2014-07-11 Thread Eugen Leitl
It's hard to make a cryptocurrency hash that's ASICproof. Cheap/multisource serve/PC COTS hardware has large memory size, and intrinsic random access latencies that can't be much improved upon for physical reasons (embedded memory is limited in size due to die yield reasons, so large LUTs are

[cryptography] Lawyer: Are you familiar with public key encryption? -- Whitfield Diffie: Yes, I am

2013-11-25 Thread Eugen Leitl
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/11/newegg-trial-crypto-legend-diffie-takes-the-stand-to-knock-out-patent/ Newegg trial: Crypto legend takes the stand, goes for knockout patent punch Taking a bet on Whit Diffie, as the trial against patent troll TQP wraps up Monday. by Joe Mullin - Nov

Re: [cryptography] [zfs] [Review] 4185 New hash algorithm support

2013-10-19 Thread Eugen Leitl
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[cryptography] Cryptographer Adi Shamir Prevented from Attending NSA History Conference

2013-10-17 Thread Eugen Leitl
http://blogs.fas.org/secrecy/2013/10/shamir/ Cryptographer Adi Shamir Prevented from Attending NSA History Conference Categories: Science, Secrecy In this email message to colleagues, Israeli cryptographer Adi Shamir recounts the difficulties he faced in getting a visa to attend the 2013

[cryptography] funding Tor development

2013-10-14 Thread Eugen Leitl
Guys, in order to minimize Tor Project's dependance on federal funding and/or increase what they can do it would be great to have some additional funding ~10 kUSD/month. If anyone is aware of anyone who can provide funding at that level or higher, please contact exec...@torproject.org

[cryptography] Cryptographers condemn US National Security Agency’s tapping and tampering, but mathematicians shrug.

2013-10-10 Thread Eugen Leitl
http://www.nature.com/news/researchers-split-over-nsa-hacking-1.13911 Researchers split over NSA hacking Cryptographers condemn US National Security Agency’s tapping and tampering, but mathematicians shrug. Ann Finkbeiner 08 October 2013 The National Security Agency is the largest employer of

Re: [cryptography] [zfs] [Review] 4185 New hash algorithm support

2013-10-08 Thread Eugen Leitl
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[cryptography] [zfs] [Review] 4185 New hash algorithm support

2013-10-07 Thread Eugen Leitl
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Re: [cryptography] [zfs] [Review] 4185 New hash algorithm support

2013-10-07 Thread Eugen Leitl
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Re: [cryptography] [zfs] [Review] 4185 New hash algorithm support

2013-10-07 Thread Eugen Leitl
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[cryptography] [zfs] [Review] 4185 New hash algorithm support

2013-10-07 Thread Eugen Leitl
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Re: [cryptography] The Compromised Internet

2013-09-27 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 08:12:16PM -0400, grarpamp wrote: The US only applies to itself. Further, over the air, it's noise, the crypto is undetectable and unprovable. And it's (guerilla) software, not physical commercial product. Nor is this the old 'FCC says you can't encrypt ham bands'

[cryptography] What the heck is going on with NIST’s cryptographic standard, SHA-3?

2013-09-27 Thread Eugen Leitl
https://www.cdt.org/blogs/joseph-lorenzo-hall/2409-nist-sha-3 What the heck is going on with NIST’s cryptographic standard, SHA-3? by Joseph Lorenzo Hall [1] September 24, 2013 (Warning: this is a fairly technical post about cryptographic standards setting.) The cryptographic community has

Re: [cryptography] The Compromised Internet

2013-09-27 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 01:12:19PM -0400, grarpamp wrote: On 9/27/13, Eugen Leitl eu...@leitl.org wrote: I don't see how a ham running a repeater backbone can prevent end to end encryption other than sniffing for traffic and actively disrupting it. I'm not sure tampering with transport

Re: [cryptography] The Unbreakable Cipher (2)

2013-09-26 Thread Eugen Leitl
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Re: [cryptography] The Unbreakable Cipher

2013-09-25 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 10:11:33AM -0400, John Young wrote: Is this conclusion still valid? If so, what could be done to restrict traffic volume to assure unbreakablility? And how to sufficiently test that. You need to be able to estimate the rate of information leakage. This seems to be

[cryptography] Dissentr: A High-Latency Overlay Mix Network

2013-09-24 Thread Eugen Leitl
https://github.com/ShaneWilton/dissentr Note: This project was created as part of a 36-hour hackathon - and primarily as a proof of concept. While the ideas may be sound, and the prototype may work as designed, the protocols involved in this specific project have not been peer-reviewed, and

Re: [cryptography] Deleting data on a flash?

2013-09-23 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 11:02:45AM +0300, ianG wrote: On 23/09/13 07:12 AM, Dev Random wrote: I've been thinking about this for a while now and I don't see a way to do this with today's mobile devices without some external help. The issue is that it's pretty much impossible to delete data

Re: [cryptography] [liberationtech] Ibis: An Overlay Mix Network for Microblogging by Ian Goldberg

2013-09-19 Thread Eugen Leitl
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[cryptography] [liberationtech] Ibis: An Overlay Mix Network for Microblogging by Ian Goldberg

2013-09-18 Thread Eugen Leitl
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[cryptography] Stealthy Dopant-Level Hardware Trojans

2013-09-13 Thread Eugen Leitl
http://people.umass.edu/gbecker/BeckerChes13.pdf Stealthy Dopant-Level Hardware Trojans ? Georg T. Becker1 , Francesco Regazzoni2 , Christof Paar1,3 , and Wayne P. Burleson1 1University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA 2TU Delft, The Netherlands and ALaRI - University of Lugano, Switzerland

[cryptography] SPDZ, a practical protocol for Multi-Party Computation

2013-09-11 Thread Eugen Leitl
http://www.mathbulletin.com/research/Breakthrough_in_cryptography_could_result_in_more_secure_computing.asp Breakthrough in cryptography could result in more secure computing (9/10/2013) Tags: computer science, research, security, cryptography Nigel Smart, Professor of Cryptology New

[cryptography] NIST reopens RNG public comment period

2013-09-11 Thread Eugen Leitl
http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/PubsDrafts.html Sep. 9, 2013 SP 800-90 A Rev 1 B and C DRAFT Draft SP 800-90 Series: Random Bit Generators 800-90 A Rev. 1: Recommendation for Random Number Generation Using Deterministic Random Bit Generators 800-90 B: Recommendation for the Entropy

Re: [cryptography] [Cryptography] Random number generation influenced, HW RNG

2013-09-10 Thread Eugen Leitl
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[cryptography] SSH uses secp256/384r1 which has the same parameters as what's in SEC2 which are the same the parameters as specified in SP800-90 for Dual EC DRBG!

2013-09-09 Thread Eugen Leitl
Forwarded without permission, hence anonymized: Hey, I had a look at SEC2 and the TLS/SSH RFCs. SSH uses secp256/384r1 which has the same parameters as what's in SEC2 which are the same the parameters as specified in SP800-90 for Dual EC DRBG! TLS specifies you can use those two curves as

[cryptography] IETF: Security and Pervasive Monitoring

2013-09-09 Thread Eugen Leitl
http://www.ietf.org/blog/2013/09/security-and-pervasive-monitoring/ Security and Pervasive Monitoring The Internet community and the IETF care deeply about how much we can trust commonly used Internet services and the protocols that these services use. So the reports about large-scale

Re: [cryptography] [Cryptography] Opening Discussion: Speculation on BULLRUN

2013-09-09 Thread Eugen Leitl
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Re: [cryptography] Backdoors in software

2013-09-09 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Mon, Sep 09, 2013 at 01:50:54PM -0500, Nicolai wrote: On Mon, Sep 09, 2013 at 02:20:35PM +0200, David D wrote: TrueCrypt can be assumed ok based on Greenwald using it.If Snowden knew of a hole in TrueCrypt then Greenwald would not be using it. IMO. I don't think this is a useful

[cryptography] Political Cypherpunks Trumps Apolitical Cryptography

2013-09-08 Thread Eugen Leitl
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Re: [cryptography] [tor-talk] NIST approved crypto in Tor?

2013-09-08 Thread Eugen Leitl
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[cryptography] [Cryptography] Opening Discussion: Speculation on BULLRUN

2013-09-08 Thread Eugen Leitl
...@yahoo.com To: Eugen Leitl eu...@leitl.org Subject: [Cryptography] Opening Discussion: Speculation on BULLRUN X-Mailer: YahooMailWebService/0.8.156.576 Reply-To: Andreas Davour ko...@yahoo.com Apropos IPsec, I've tried searching for any BTNS (opportunistic encryption mode for IPsec) implementations

Re: [cryptography] [tor-talk] NIST approved crypto in Tor?

2013-09-07 Thread Eugen Leitl
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Re: [cryptography] regarding the NSA crypto breakthrough

2013-09-06 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Thu, Sep 05, 2013 at 10:47:10AM -0700, coderman wrote: of all the no such agency disclosures, this one fuels the most wild speculation. It is reported that the journalists deliberately withheld details which are available in Snowden's original documents. Somebody better leak these, fast.

Re: [cryptography] [Cryptography] Opening Discussion: Speculation on BULLRUN

2013-09-06 Thread Eugen Leitl
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Re: [cryptography] LeastAuthority.com announces PRISM-proof storage service

2013-08-14 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 09:47:09AM +1000, James A. Donald wrote: On 2013-08-14 6:10 AM, Nico Williams wrote: - it's really not easy to defeat the PRISMs. the problem is *political* more than technological. For a human to read all communications would be an impossible burden. We're

Re: [cryptography] [Bitcoin-development] Preparing for the Cryptopocalypse

2013-08-05 Thread Eugen Leitl
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[cryptography] ZeroReserve -- a friend 2 friend payment scheme and Bitcoin exchange

2013-07-30 Thread Eugen Leitl
Implemented as a RetroShare plugin. https://github.com/zeroreserve/ZeroReserve ZeroReserve Friend 2 Friend Payment and Bitcoin exchange Prerequisite for building is a successful RetroShare build and sqlite3. To build, checkout the sources to the plugins directory of Retroshare and build

Re: [cryptography] [bitcoin-list] [Bitcoin-development] BitMail - p2p Email 0.1. beta

2013-07-30 Thread Eugen Leitl
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Re: [cryptography] a Cypherpunks comeback

2013-07-22 Thread Eugen Leitl
. For those who dislike posting to the The Base, here's an alternative domain for the same list: https://cpunks.org/mailman/options/cypherpunks Adam On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 11:07:26AM +0200, Eugen Leitl wrote: - Forwarded message from Riad S. Wahby r...@jfet.org - Date: Sat, 20 Jul

[cryptography] [liberationtech] Random number generator failure in Rasperri Pis?

2013-07-19 Thread Eugen Leitl
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Re: [cryptography] [tahoe-dev] proposal: add padding

2013-07-15 Thread Eugen Leitl
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Re: [cryptography] [liberationtech] Heml.is - The Beautiful Secure Messenger

2013-07-15 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 10:29:49PM +0300, ianG wrote: Not to mention, Intel have been in bed with the NSA for the longest time. Secret areas on the chip, pop instructions, microcode and all that ... A more interesting question is whether the non-USA competitors are also similarly friendly.

[cryptography] failure submission address now up at http://www.cryptofails.com/

2013-07-15 Thread Eugen Leitl
In case you come across particular hair-raising crypto horrors, please submit them to the author listed on http://www.cryptofails.com/ ___ cryptography mailing list cryptography@randombit.net http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptography

Re: [cryptography] [liberationtech] Heml.is - The Beautiful Secure Messenger

2013-07-15 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 01:43:49AM -0400, Patrick Mylund Nielsen wrote: Heh, might as well just give up. http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/ken/trust.html (I know what you meant, just couldn't resist.) Certainly a classic, but these days you can really bootstrap your toolchain in a cleanroom quite

Re: [cryptography] [liberationtech] Heml.is - The Beautiful Secure Messenger

2013-07-12 Thread Eugen Leitl
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[cryptography] Crypto fails -- showcasing bad cryptography

2013-07-11 Thread Eugen Leitl
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Re: [cryptography] What project would you finance? [WAS: Potential funding for crypto-related projects]

2013-07-01 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Sun, Jun 30, 2013 at 07:09:57PM -0700, Yosem Companys wrote: Speaking of which... If you had an extra $2-3K to give to a liberationtech or crypto project, who do you think would benefit the most? A BTNS implementation. There aren't any. ___

Re: [cryptography] post-PRISM boom in secure communications (WAS skype backdoor confirmation)

2013-07-01 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Mon, Jul 01, 2013 at 01:31:51PM +0200, Guido Witmond wrote: The only answer is to take key management out of the users' hands. And do it automatically as part of the work flow. You need at least a Big Fat Warning when the new fingerprint differs from the cached one, and it's not just

Re: [cryptography] skype backdoor confirmation

2013-05-23 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 09:38:18AM +0200, David Adamson wrote: Danilo Gligoroski danilo.gligoro...@gmail.com wrote: 1. Indeed these discussions among the security community 2. Eventually some contacts with journalists will help the cause (one live demonstration on some security/crypto

Re: [cryptography] Biggest Fake Conference in Computer Science

2013-04-22 Thread Eugen Leitl
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Re: [cryptography] Cypherpunks mailing list

2013-03-25 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 05:50:18PM +0100, Adam Back wrote: Isn't exactly that a nice property of a cypherpunks list? No it is not, it is a way to persuade people to leave, or not join the listserv. We have to agree to disagree on that one. A 'punk' of any kind will tend to thumb his nose at

Re: [cryptography] Cypherpunks mailing list

2013-03-25 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 07:03:04PM +0100, Adam Back wrote: But my point actually was b...@al-qaeda.net??? Come on that is watch list Of course it is pure watch list bait. That's the point. bait and an invitation NOT to join list blah, whatever it is about. If you think it's a deterrent,

[cryptography] [FoRK] ELF .so encryption contract work, probably resulting in open source

2013-03-14 Thread Eugen Leitl
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Re: [cryptography] [liberationtech] Cryptography super-group creates unbreakable encryption

2013-02-14 Thread Eugen Leitl
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Re: [cryptography] [zfs] Edon-R hashing and dedup

2013-02-14 Thread Eugen Leitl
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Re: [cryptography] [zfs] Edon-R hashing and dedup

2013-02-13 Thread Eugen Leitl
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Re: [cryptography] [zfs] Edon-R hashing and dedup

2013-02-13 Thread Eugen Leitl
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[cryptography] Gmail and SSL

2012-12-14 Thread Eugen Leitl
are failing now? I bet thousands, as a self signed certificate is a valid way of encrypting the traffic. Please google, remove this requirement. Source: http://support.google.com/mail/bin/answer.py?hl=enanswer=21291ctx=gmail#strictSSL - End forwarded message - -- Eugen* Leitl a href=http

[cryptography] Quantum cryptography conquers noise problem

2012-11-23 Thread Eugen Leitl
(ob caveat snake oil crypto) http://www.nature.com/news/quantum-cryptography-conquers-noise-problem-1.11849 Quantum cryptography conquers noise problem Encoded photons sent a record distance along busy optical fibres. Zeeya Merali 20 November 2012 Quantum cryptography could keep messages

[cryptography] Your GPU's “Fingerprint” Could Lead to New Security Methods

2012-10-30 Thread Eugen Leitl
http://h30565.www3.hp.com/t5/Feature-Articles/Your-GPU-s-Fingerprint-Could-Lead-to-New-Security-Methods/ba-p/8418 Your GPU's “Fingerprint” Could Lead to New Security Methods by Andy Patrizio (apatrizio) on 29-10-2012 08:00 AM starlight_dreamstimefree_141720.jpg In the online world, a World of

Re: [cryptography] best way to create entropy?

2012-10-12 Thread Eugen Leitl
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Re: [cryptography] [tor-dev] Even more notes on relay-crypto constructions

2012-10-10 Thread Eugen Leitl
in every new processor from a major manufacturer. Agreed. -- Nick ___ tor-dev mailing list tor-...@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-dev - End forwarded message - -- Eugen* Leitl a href=http://leitl.org

Re: [cryptography] [tor-dev] Even more notes on relay-crypto constructions

2012-10-09 Thread Eugen Leitl
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Re: [cryptography] [liberationtech] CryptoParty Handbook

2012-10-05 Thread Eugen Leitl
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Re: [cryptography] [liberationtech] CryptoParty Handbook

2012-10-05 Thread Eugen Leitl
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Re: [cryptography] cjdns review

2012-10-05 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Fri, Oct 05, 2012 at 10:58:40AM +0200, Guus Sliepen wrote: 1. Measure. Don't speculate. I found a benchmark here: https://github.com/cjdelisle/cjdns/blob/master/rfcs/benchmark.txt So it seems that is not as slow as I suspected: it can forward packets at a rate of 7 Gbit/s on an

Re: [cryptography] ZFS dedup? hashes (Re: [zfs] SHA-3 winner announced)

2012-10-04 Thread Eugen Leitl
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Re: [cryptography] ZFS dedup? hashes (Re: [zfs] SHA-3 winner announced)

2012-10-04 Thread Eugen Leitl
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Re: [cryptography] ZFS dedup? hashes (Re: [zfs] SHA-3 winner announced)

2012-10-04 Thread Eugen Leitl
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Re: [cryptography] ZFS dedup? hashes (Re: [zfs] SHA-3 winner announced)

2012-10-04 Thread Eugen Leitl
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Re: [cryptography] [zfs] SHA-3 winner announced

2012-10-03 Thread Eugen Leitl
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[cryptography] [tahoe-dev] Tahoe-LAFS Weekly Conference Call summary 2012-08-07

2012-08-14 Thread Eugen Leitl
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[cryptography] Behind Intel's New Random-Number Generator

2012-07-30 Thread Eugen Leitl
http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/hardware/behind-intels-new-randomnumber-generator/0 Behind Intel's New Random-Number Generator The random-number generator uses digital circuits to stump the smartest hackers By Greg Taylor, George Cox / September 2011 Image: Carl DeTorres Imagine that

Re: [cryptography] [zfs] Fwd: Re: zfs encryption

2012-07-22 Thread Eugen Leitl
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Re: [cryptography] [tahoe-dev] “On the limits of the use cases for authenticated encryption”

2012-07-12 Thread Eugen Leitl
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Re: [cryptography] can the German government read PGP and ssh traffic?

2012-05-26 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 11:19:33AM -0700, Jon Callas wrote: My money would be on a combination of traffic analysis and targeted malware. We know that the Germans have been pioneering using targeted malware against Skype. Once you've done that, you can pick apart anything else. Just a simple

[cryptography] John Nash’s Letter to the NSA

2012-03-24 Thread Eugen Leitl
http://agtb.wordpress.com/2012/02/17/john-nashs-letter-to-the-nsa/ John Nash’s Letter to the NSA February 17, 2012 by Noam Nisan The National Security Agency (NSA) has recently declassified an amazing letter that John Nash sent to it in 1955. It seems that around the year 1950 Nash tried to

Re: [cryptography] [tahoe-dev] pycryptopp benchmarks

2012-03-22 Thread Eugen Leitl
. http://cr.yp.to/highspeed/neoncrypto-20120320.pdf cheers, -Brian ___ tahoe-dev mailing list tahoe-...@tahoe-lafs.org http://tahoe-lafs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tahoe-dev - End forwarded message - -- Eugen* Leitl a href=http://leitl.org;leitl

[cryptography] [info] The NSA Is Building the Country’s Biggest Spy Center (Watch What You Say)

2012-03-18 Thread Eugen Leitl
(yay, Bamford is back from the dead) http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/ff_nsadatacenter/all/1 The NSA Is Building the Country’s Biggest Spy Center (Watch What You Say) By James Bamford March 15, 2012 | 7:24 pm | Categories: Crypto, Cybersecurity, Miscellaneous, NSA, Paranoia,

[cryptography] airgaps in CAs

2011-12-08 Thread Eugen Leitl
Is anyone aware of a CA that actually maintains its signing secrets on secured, airgapped machines, with transfers batched and done purely by sneakernet? -- Eugen* Leitl a href=http://leitl.org;leitl/a http://leitl.org __ ICBM

[cryptography] trustable self-signed certs in a P2P environment (freedombox)

2011-11-30 Thread Eugen Leitl
fingerprints and alerts when one suddenly changes, informing of a potential MITM in progress? Thanks. -- Eugen* Leitl a href=http://leitl.org;leitl/a http://leitl.org __ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org

[cryptography] New online class on Cryptography from Stanford, taught by Dan Boneh

2011-11-20 Thread Eugen Leitl
http://www.crypto-class.org/ About The Course Cryptography is an indispensable tool for protecting information in computer systems. This course explains the inner workings of cryptographic primitives and how to correctly use them. Students will learn how to reason about the security of

Re: [cryptography] -currently available- crypto cards with onboard key storage

2011-10-29 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 08:10:38PM +1100, ianG wrote: Is there any particular reason why PCI(e) is preferred as a hardware interface? Because that's the only thing server boards typically have. Plus, PCIe is much preferable to PCI in terms of throughput (not that makes a bottleneck for a

[cryptography] attacks against bitcoin

2011-06-12 Thread Eugen Leitl
How safe is the bitcoin cryptosystem and the communication network against targeted attacks? -- Eugen* Leitl a href=http://leitl.org;leitl/a http://leitl.org __ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org

Re: [cryptography] Digital cash in the news...

2011-06-11 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 02:16:55AM -, John Levine wrote: In article 021ccba9-9203-4896-8412-481b94595...@cs.columbia.edu you write: http://gcn.com/articles/2011/06/09/bitcoins-digital-currency-silk-road-charles-schumer-joe-manchin.aspx?s=gcndaily_100611 I wouldn't call bitcoins digital

Re: [cryptography] Preserve us from poorly described/implemented crypto

2011-06-08 Thread Eugen Leitl
on a large, heavy, clicky IBM keyboard right now... I stocked up on Model M SpaceSavers and full-size Model M's some 15 years ago. Have moved to Cherry MX (not blues, SteelSeries) gold crosspoints only a few weeks ago. -- Eugen* Leitl a href=http://leitl.org;leitl/a http://leitl.org