Re: [cryptography] What is "Security World" architecture?

2013-09-10 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 12:41 AM, Ben Laurie wrote: > On 11 September 2013 01:17, Jeffrey Walton wrote: >> >> I was reading on a HSM, and the marketing literature stated, "... >> because it utilizes the Security World architecture, XXX provides an >> ideal combination of high assurance and operat

Re: [cryptography] What is "Security World" architecture?

2013-09-10 Thread Ben Laurie
On 11 September 2013 01:17, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > I was reading on a HSM, and the marketing literature stated, "... > because it utilizes the Security World architecture, XXX provides an > ideal combination of high assurance and operational ease". > > What is "Security World" architecture? ht

[cryptography] What is "Security World" architecture?

2013-09-10 Thread Jeffrey Walton
I was reading on a HSM, and the marketing literature stated, "... because it utilizes the Security World architecture, XXX provides an ideal combination of high assurance and operational ease". What is "Security World" architecture? What are the criteria used for "high assurance" and "operational

Re: [cryptography] Forward Secrecy Extensions for OpenPGP: Is this still a good proposal?

2013-09-10 Thread Lodewijk andré de la porte
2013/9/10 David D > Quote, " You've got to think (NSA claims to be the biggest employer of > mathematicians) that seeing the illegal activities the US has been getting > up to with the fruits of their labour that they may have a mathematician > retention or motivation problem on their hands." > >

Re: [cryptography] Forward Secrecy Extensions for OpenPGP: Is this still a good proposal?

2013-09-10 Thread David D
Quote, " You've got to think (NSA claims to be the biggest employer of mathematicians) that seeing the illegal activities the US has been getting up to with the fruits of their labour that they may have a mathematician retention or motivation problem on their hands." You mean like the principled m

Re: [cryptography] Forward Secrecy Extensions for OpenPGP: Is this still a good proposal?

2013-09-10 Thread Adam Back
You know coincidentally we (the three authors of that paper) were just talking about that very topic in off-list (and PGP encrypted:) email. I remain keen on forward-secrecy, and it does seem to be in fashion again right now. Personally I think we in the open community need to up our game an ord

[cryptography] Forward Secrecy Extensions for OpenPGP: Is this still a good proposal?

2013-09-10 Thread Fabio Pietrosanti (naif)
Hi all, i just read about this internet draft "Forward Secrecy Extensions for OpenPGP" available at http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-brown-pgp-pfs-03 . Is it a still good proposal? Should it be revamped as an actual improvement of currently existing use of OpenPGP technology? -- Fabio Pietros

[cryptography] ProPublica's Jeff Larson on the NSA Crypto Story and Another View

2013-09-10 Thread John Young
ProPublica's Jeff Larson on the NSA Crypto Story http://source.mozillaopennews.org/en-US/articles/propublicas-jeff-larson-nsa-crypto-story/ Describes two months of digging through the Snowden documents, using search tool Intella, finding code words, looking for references to those, scrambling to

Re: [cryptography] [cryptome] Interesting

2013-09-10 Thread John Young
Security theater. Phony as thinking NSA and national spies spy from embassies, not the key internet exchanges and telecom hubs in Frankfurt and other locations around the globe. This is amply described in a slew of technical reports and popular articles and books. Although, tellingly, not much di

Re: [cryptography] Matthew Green: An understated response to the NSA and unidentifed friends treachery

2013-09-10 Thread Kyle Maxwell
Feels like naming coincidence, particularly given that the GCHQ analogue is named similarly. From The Guardian[0]: "The NSA's codeword for its decryption program, Bullrun, is taken from a major battle of the American civil war. Its British counterpart, Edgehill, is named after the first major enga

Re: [cryptography] [Cryptography] The One True Cipher Suite

2013-09-10 Thread Eugen Leitl
- Forwarded message from Jerry Leichter - Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2013 07:42:55 -0400 From: Jerry Leichter To: Phillip Hallam-Baker Cc: "cryptogra...@metzdowd.com" , ianG Subject: Re: [Cryptography] The One True Cipher Suite X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1283) On Sep 9, 2013, at 12:00 PM, Philli

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

2013-09-10 Thread Eugen Leitl
- Forwarded message from Eric Young - Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2013 20:58:20 +1000 From: Eric Young To: Eugen Leitl Cc: cypherpu...@al-qaeda.net, i...@postbiota.org, zs-...@zerostate.is, Cryptography List Subject: Re: [Cryptography] [cryptography] Random number generation influenced, HW RNG