Re: [cryptography] Can there be a cryptographic dead man switch?

2012-09-19 Thread The Fungi
On 2012-09-19 17:01:02 -0400 (-0400), mhey...@gmail.com wrote: [...] If I should die, I will stop re-encrypting the secret and the trustee (that I never really trusted) can break the public key and get to the secret. [...] And how does the trustee get access to the encrypted form of the

Re: [cryptography] non-decryptable encryption

2012-06-20 Thread The Fungi
On 2012-06-20 09:54:33 -0700 (-0700), Givonne Cirkin wrote: curious, why don't some ppl trust link shortners? is that a generation gap thing. 2nd. ur guesses are wrong. i was born in the USA. my parents were born in the USA. my native language is English. [...] Perhaps this is also a

Re: [cryptography] Is this as ominous as it sounds like? (It SOUNDS ominous as Hell - but maybe it isn't)

2012-05-07 Thread The Fungi
On 2012-05-07 12:53:14 -0400 (-0400), Randall Webmail wrote: [...] The Internet Kill Switch; With Global Wiretapping Capability? [...] I consider myself a paranoid nut, but that's a little far fetched even for me. I'd take the time to write up everything that's off base with it (from the

Re: [cryptography] trustwave admits issuing corporate mitm certs

2012-02-28 Thread The Fungi
On 2012-02-26 15:45:34 -0600 (-0600), Marsh Ray wrote: [...] So if the online banking site required TLS client authentication with smart cards with on-chip RSA, the situation would be much different. A MitM who succeeded in impersonating the site to the user would be unable to replay or

Re: [cryptography] this house believes that user's control over the root list is a placebo

2011-06-26 Thread The Fungi
On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 12:26:40PM -0500, Marsh Ray wrote: [...] Now maybe it's different for ISP core router admins, but the existence of this product strongly implies that at least some admins are connecting to their router with their web browser over HTTPS and typing in the same password

Re: [cryptography] Micro-SD card encrypts voice on mobile phones

2010-12-02 Thread The Fungi
On Thu, Dec 02, 2010 at 04:36:51PM -0500, Steven Bellovin wrote: That's 521 bits for the ECC part, as I read it. An odd size, even there? [...] ...there is no 512-bit curve defined, but only one with a 521-bit length...--IETF RFC 5639 -- { IRL(Jeremy_Stanley); WWW(http://fungi.yuggoth.org/);