Quote of the Day

I just found the following wonderful quote in the just out draft IEEE 802.11i document that defines security for wireless networks. In particular this is the section that describes the old WEP. >Editor's note: the text in this section essentially duplicates the text >from the 1999 issue of the

RSA Conference 2002: Free Expo passes, academic discounts and scholarships available.

(feel free to forward this message in its entirety) The RSA Data Security Conference is being held February 18-22, 2001, at the McEnery Convention Center in San Jose, California. This is the biggest computer security conference in the world, with 200 vendors and over 10,000 attendees. Personal

Re: Anyone familiar with ntru?

>And the communication given at the rump session of crypto2001. >Back there an attack and a fix were simultaneously presented. >I couldn't find nor remember the details, see >http://www.ntru.com/technology/tech.scrutiny.htm for some more >info. Without having the opportunity to have a really goo

U.S. Cyber Security Weakening

http://www.wired.com/news/infostructure/0,1377,49570,00.html Reuters 11:15 a.m. Jan. 8, 2002 PST U.S. computer systems are increasingly vulnerable to cyber attacks, partly because companies are not implementing security measures already available, according to a new report released Tuesday. "Fr

Cypherpunks 011202 at Stanford: Anti-Terrorism & Security Policy

See for subscription help and Cypherpunks meeting announcements from around the world. .. SF Bay Area Cypherpunks January 2002 Physical Meeting Announcement GENERAL INFO: DATE:

Re: Hackers Targeting Home Computers

I too see many hacking attempts on Home PCs (Win2000 and Win98). I am in the UK and on British Telecom's ADSL. I find it interesting that many sweeps seem to be from Fast Bandwidth clients. I can change between ADSL and K56 and when on K56 attempts diminish. Firewall blocks the sweeps, the seri

FW: Face Scanning Technology Proven Useless

The article below isn't really crypto-related, but it does validate what many in this list have said for a long time. Regards, Bill -Original Message- From: Jon Callas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, January 07, 2002 21:52 To: The Eristocracy Subject: Face Scanning Technology

Re: Anyone familiar with ntru?

There was a chosen ciphertext attack presented on crypto 2000 by Joux and Jaulmes. Check the web. See also "Key Recovery and Message Attacks on NTRU-Composite" by Craig Gentry. And the communication given at the rump session of crypto2001. Back there an attack and a fix were simultaneously prese

[Fwd: MET = Son of SET]

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Cypherpunks 011202 at Stanford: Corrected - it's January 12, 2002.

Several people have suggested that I shouldn't edit these things when I'm not awake; sorry about that :-) See http://cryptorights.org/cypherpunks/2002/0112-SF.html for corrected announcement. Anyway, the meeting is definitely Saturday, January 12, 2002, at Stanford in the coffeehouse in Tresidde

Re: On ISPs Not Filtering Viruses

At 10:11 AM -0800 1/7/02, Nelson Minar wrote: >I'm writing because I find it interesting that some folks here *like* >the idea of their ISP filtering content. I find that surprising! I >assume it's motivated by the huge problem of viruses, but wouldn't it >be better to fix the clients, not the pip

Re: Cypherpunks 011202 at Stanford: Anti-Terrorism & Security Policy

On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, Bill Stewart wrote: > January 2002 Physical Meeting Announcement > > GENERAL INFO: > >DATE: Saturday 13 October 2001 That was probably meant to read '13 January 2002' Also, I believe [EMAIL PROTECTED] is dead. -Bram ---