http://www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=004782403739693pg=/et/01/4/20/ncyph20.html
By Michael Smith
Friday 20 April 2001
BRITAIN'S wartime codebreakers could have cracked the German Enigma
cipher machine much earlier if they had followed a diagram for the
commercial version lodged with the British
In general, if you're not an expert (:), it's worth not messing with the
core parts of algorithms to prevent an attack when you don't
undertand the attack.
I do fully understand how both RC4 and the attack work.
[I'm not so sure about that. --PM]
RC4 has two basic rules for using it securely
Kristen Tsolis wrote:
According to Nikkan Kogyo News, NTT is offering four patented algorithms
under royalty-free license for limited purposes.
These algorithms include Camellia, EPOC, PSEC, and ESIGN.
http://news.yahoo.co.jp/headlines/nkn/010418/nkn/08100_nkn13.html
NTT made
On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 05:44:55PM -0400, vertigo wrote:
On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, Enzo Michelangeli wrote:
Besides, the fact that many users don't check the validity of the certs
presented by the other side is a disgrace, and should not be encouraged by
distributing broken software.
It
On Sat, Apr 21, 2001 at 05:11:21AM -0400, vertigo wrote:
Pine has SSL patches? :) It's plain old pine within
an SSH session for me.
Yeah - they implement IMAP-over-SSL, with the aforementioned
limitation.
The Pine SSL patches also don't do any validity checking of
certificates, AFAIK.
