Re: [cryptography] NSA Molecular Nanotechnology hardware trojan

2014-01-06 Thread Krassimir Tzvetanov
Guys, are you trying to kill this list as well? Can you, please, move this discussion to the sci-fi or theory of conspiracy _forums_. Before posting here, please, consider how relevant the discussion is to Cryptography and how many people will have to read through your insanely smart comments.

Re: [cryptography] Can we move to a forum, please?

2013-12-24 Thread Krassimir Tzvetanov
This _was_ a good quality very high signal to noise ratio list but over the past 3 months had turned into a very noisy, full of social chatter one. I am thinking there is a way to combine the best of both worlds by moving the social element to a forum and keep the legit content on the mailing

Re: [cryptography] not a Paypal phish using EV certificate

2013-08-14 Thread Krassimir Tzvetanov
To: James, just with the scope of large/small cookies. The problem is that if your cookie is a single number and you have multiple frontends able to process the request (and you are load balancing) you need to have those share state in which might not make sense (esp. if you have geo-distributed

Re: [cryptography] Certificate expiry reminder tool?

2013-05-23 Thread Krassimir Tzvetanov
Also be aware of the caveat that if you have a VIP with SSL termination behind it (i.e. on the hosts) and the CN points to the VIP you will be hitting only one of the many servers when doing verification. Same story with geo load balancing. It gets worse with active-passive deployments since you

Re: [cryptography] skype backdoor confirmation

2013-05-19 Thread Krassimir Tzvetanov
To the best of my knowledge in Russia (no, I'm not Russian nor have lived there so I'm not 100% sure) you need to submit a copy of the private key if you are operating a website providing encryption on their territory to allow for legal intercept. They also have other provisions about wiretapping

Re: [cryptography] The NSA and secure VoIP

2012-03-03 Thread Krassimir Tzvetanov
The way I read it is something much simpler than attacking the encryption - it seams to be about operational procedures security. Think if somebody mis-configures something on the first layer you still have the second layer. Now if you add two separate teams managing each layer then you have a

Re: [cryptography] trustwave admits issuing corporate mitm certs

2012-02-12 Thread Krassimir Tzvetanov
While I'm not a lawyer and my opinion is in noway authoritive I do not believe there is any violation. They ay be an accessory to a potential crime but they themselves did not do the tapping. Now on the other hand those companies that did the tapping should be OK for as long as they are clear

Re: [cryptography] trustwave admits issuing corporate mitm certs

2012-02-12 Thread Krassimir Tzvetanov
monitor you for X activity. Best, Krassimir On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 3:09 AM, Jeffrey Walton noloa...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 5:43 AM, Krassimir Tzvetanov mailli...@krassi.biz wrote: While I'm not a lawyer and my opinion is in noway authoritive I do not believe there is any