Re: [cryptography] skype backdoor confirmation

2013-05-23 Thread David Adamson
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 conference like Usenix, Black Hat, Crypto, ... will do the job). 3. I

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

[cryptography] Certificate expiry reminder tool?

2013-05-23 Thread Hans-Joachim Knobloch
Dear all, is anyone of you aware of a (preferably open source) tool that keeps a database of certificates and sends e-mail reminders about the impending expiry (and hence the probable necessity of a renewal) to configurable e-mail address of the respective responsible person? Regards,

Re: [cryptography] Certificate expiry reminder tool?

2013-05-23 Thread Jonas Wielicki
Dear Hans-Joachim, Oddly, there is in fact one, which “suddenly” appeared on my servers and which is nagging me currently about a soon-to-expire certificate. It sends out daily mails to root@host.domain with detailed information. It's called certwatch and is at least shipped with fedora. It can

Re: [cryptography] Certificate expiry reminder tool?

2013-05-23 Thread Moritz
A generic solution is any kind of scheduler/calendar/reminder, right? Or what kind of tool to you imagine, and how is that specific to crypto? On 23.05.2013 16:05, Hans-Joachim Knobloch wrote: Dear all, is anyone of you aware of a (preferably open source) tool that keeps a database of

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

2013-05-23 Thread Nico Williams
On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 1:50 PM, Mark Seiden m...@seiden.com wrote: On May 20, 2013, at 1:18 PM, Nico Williams n...@cryptonector.com wrote: Corporations are privacy freaks. I've worked or consulted for a number of corporations that were/are extremely concerned about data exfiltration. this

Re: [cryptography] skype backdoor confirmation

2013-05-23 Thread Jonas Wielicki
Jitsi is XMPP or SIP. For the text-part, they have built-in support for OTR. Otherwise, there is no end-to-end secrecy as far as I know. For voicecalls, they have something similar, with some shared-secret verification which is validated using the text-channel, which is best secured with OTR I

Re: [cryptography] skype backdoor confirmation

2013-05-23 Thread Dominik Schürmann
They have implemented ZRTP for end to end security. It works with a diffie hellman key exchange, while protecting against man-in-the-middle attackers by comparing Short Authentication Strings (SAS). When you know the voice of the other person you can exclude Eve. see

Re: [cryptography] skype backdoor confirmation

2013-05-23 Thread Wasabee
can someone give a few lines of explanation on how the Retained shared Secret (RS) is used in ZRTP? second, is it possible for an attacker to force an RS validation error (e.g. simulating network connection error by having a router drop packets) and then MiTM the DH handshake? the SAS is only 4

Re: [cryptography] skype backdoor confirmation

2013-05-23 Thread Dominik Schürmann
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 About the SAS: ZRTP uses a so called Hash Commitment with traditional Hashes before generating SAS values for voice comparison. See http://zfone.com/docs/ietf/rfc6189bis.html#HashCommit The use of hash commitment in the DH exchange constrains the

Re: [cryptography] Certificate expiry reminder tool?

2013-05-23 Thread Jeremy Stanley
On 2013-05-23 17:47:13 +0200 (+0200), Hans-Joachim Knobloch wrote: [...] Maybe I would even start a project to develop such a tool. But why start coding if there already is a =80% solution to the problem? Hence my request. [...] Did this for years with Nagios (formerly Netsaint), using the

Re: [cryptography] skype backdoor confirmation

2013-05-23 Thread James A. Donald
On 2013-05-23 3:28 AM, Florian Weimer wrote: * Adam Back: If you want to claim otherwise we're gonna need some evidence. https://login.skype.com/account/password-reset-request This is impossible to implement with any real end-to-end security. Skype's claim was that it was end to end,