Re: [cryptography] Which encryption chips are compromised?

2013-12-12 Thread Andy Isaacson
On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 08:04:00AM -0800, Steve Weis wrote: On Dec 12, 2013 6:08 AM, coderman coder...@gmail.com wrote: i see your skepticism, and i raise you a retort! ;) i even have a list of candidates you can experiment with to confirm Intel Ivy Bridge as best fit. [0] I think this

Re: [cryptography] Which encryption chips are compromised?

2013-12-11 Thread Andy Isaacson
On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 06:28:31PM -0800, Steve Weis wrote: On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 6:00 PM, coderman coder...@gmail.com wrote: unredacted: https://peertech.org/dist/nsa-cpp-goals-FY2013-unredact.png Intel Ivy Bridge Is this a guess because Intel Ivy Bridge fits into the redacted

Re: [cryptography] NIST Randomness Beacon

2013-11-10 Thread Andy Isaacson
On Sat, Nov 09, 2013 at 08:28:17PM -0800, d.nix wrote: surely someone here has an opinion... http://www.nist.gov/itl/csd/ct/nist_beacon.cfm From the page, a relevant suggestion: WARNING: DO NOT USE BEACON GENERATED VALUES AS SECRET CRYPTOGRAPHIC KEYS. The Beacon is a

Re: [cryptography] NSA IDA Cryptological Research Centers

2013-09-29 Thread Andy Isaacson
On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 09:43:54AM -0400, John Young wrote: http://www.ccrwest.org/ The latter's web site lists only this offering: La Jolla Covering Repository A (v,k,t)-covering design is a collection of k-element subsets, called blocks, of {1,2,...,v}, such that any t-element subset

Re: [cryptography] [liberationtech] News from Eric Hughes

2013-09-21 Thread Andy Isaacson
On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 09:24:43PM +0300, jd.cypherpu...@gmail.com wrote: Cypherpunk Eric Hughes: Der Überwachungsalptraum ist wahr geworden - http://t.co/hZAWMTEKWZ (DE only) Die Zeit Why on earth do you route through t.co. http://www.zeit.de/digital/internet/2013-09/cypherpunks-eric-hughes

Re: [cryptography] Bitmessage

2013-02-16 Thread Andy Isaacson
On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 01:49:18PM -0500, Jonathan Warren wrote: Hello everyone, I would like to introduce you to a communications protocol I have been working on called Bitmessage. I have also written an open source client released under the MIT/X11 license. It borrows ideas from Bitcoin and

Re: [cryptography] Just how bad is OpenSSL ?

2012-10-26 Thread Andy Isaacson
On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 06:29:47PM +, John Case wrote: So, given what is in the stanford report and then reading this rant about openssl, I am wondering just how bad openssl is ? I've never had to implement it or code with it, so I really have no idea. How long has it been understood