The summer of OAEP

2001-06-13 Thread lcs Mixmaster Remailer
These are some of the papers to be presented at Crypto 2001 in August[1]: A Chosen Ciphertext Attack On RSA Optimal Asymmetric Encryption Padding (OAEP) as Standardized In PKCS #1 James Manger OAEP Reconsidered Victor Shoup RSA--OAEP is Secure Under the RSA Assumption Ei

Re: WAS: Thermal Imaging Decision Applicable to TEMPEST?

2001-06-13 Thread John Young
David Koontz wrote: >Is the average person susceptible to TEMPEST attacks? [And more on TEMPEST technics.] Probably most people are not subject to TEMPEST attacks in the same way they are not in need in crypto. And as crypto protection gets built in to consumer products as understanding for th

WAS: Thermal Imaging Decision Applicable to TEMPEST?

2001-06-13 Thread David G. Koontz
Is the average person susceptible to TEMPEST attacks? "Arnold G. Reinhold" wrote: > > TEMPEST is not shut down by any means. This decision applies to homes > and places where there is an reasonable expectation of privacy (like > a phone booth). The status of computers in offices, cars, and publi

Re: tapping undersea fibers?

2001-06-13 Thread Bill Stewart
At 12:55 PM 06/04/2001 -0400, Lenny Foner wrote: >So we now have at least two people who've confirmed my expectation, >namely that one can feasibly encrypt the entire cable. (After all, >I know what's involved in making fast, special-purpose chips to do >varous sorts of digital operations, and th

Re: secure phone (was Re: Starium...)

2001-06-13 Thread David Honig
At 07:51 AM 6/7/01 +0800, Enzo Michelangeli wrote: >If you do that, you inherit the drawbacks of TCP for real time >communications: a single packet lost may disrupt the communication for a I've looked at PGPfone source, it uses UDP, as it should. ---

Re: Thermal Imaging Decision Applicable to TEMPEST?

2001-06-13 Thread Andrew Brown
>"Is thermal imaging more like going through your garbage (which courts >have allowed) or more like looking into your window with a high-powered >telescope (for which courts generally require a warrant)?" off the top of my head, i'd have to say that anyone *intelligent* would be able to see that

Re: Thermal Imaging Decision Applicable to TEMPEST?

2001-06-13 Thread Arnold G. Reinhold
At 8:57 AM -0700 6/12/2001, John Young wrote: >The Supreme Court's decision against thermal imaging appears >to be applicable to TEMPEST emissions from electronic devices. >And is it not a first against this most threatening vulnerability >in the digital age? And long overdue. > >Remote acquisitio