Re: actual deployment of various PK & Key-exchange algorthms?

2000-08-02 Thread Bill Frantz
source code) are available at http://www.erights.org ----- Bill Frantz | Microsoft Outlook, the | Periwinkle -- Consulting (408)356-8506 | hacker's path to your | 16345 Englewood Ave. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | hard disk. | Los Gatos, CA 95032, USA

Cryptorand

2000-08-26 Thread Bill Frantz
. - Bill Frantz | Microsoft Outlook, the | Periwinkle -- Consulting (408)356-8506 | hacker's path to your | 16345 Englewood Ave. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | hard disk. | Los Gatos, CA 95032, USA

Re: reflecting on PGP, keyservers, and the Web of Trust

2000-09-07 Thread Bill Frantz
ey's fingerprint. Since he had signed my key, the trust equation was, "Do I trust Carl to introduce me to myself." Having decided that Carl was indeed trustworthy in these circumstances, I proceeded to use the key. - Bill -----

New Palm Pilot

1998-12-03 Thread Bill Frantz
With builtin wireless modem. $800. Supposed to ship in early 1999. It provides "industrial strength security" using elliptic curve cryptography from Certicom. Here's the press release. http://www.palm.com/pr/palmvii.html

DSA vs. RSA

1998-11-14 Thread Bill Frantz
ets have fun. :-) ----- Bill Frantz | Macintosh: Didn't do every-| Periwinkle -- Consulting (408)356-8506 | thing right, but did know | 16345 Englewood Ave. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | the century would end. | Los G

Re: Intel announcements at RSA '99

1999-01-27 Thread Bill Frantz
utside. Servers may be able to wait 160 seconds until they are ready to run, but it sure would be nice if they also could "come right up". ----- Bill Frantz | Macintosh: Didn't do every-| Periwinkle -- Consu

Re: Liquid Audio & MP3

1999-02-03 Thread Bill Frantz
strongly encrypted distribution. (There, I tied crypto in. Wheew!) ----- Bill Frantz | Macintosh: Didn't do every-| Periwinkle -- Consulting (408)356-8506 | thing right, but did know | 16345 Englewood Ave. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | the century would end. | Los Gatos, CA 95032, USA

Re: Strengthening the Passphrase Model (was Re: PGP compromisedon Windows 9x?)

1999-02-10 Thread Bill Frantz
ng poetry. ----- Bill Frantz | Macintosh: Didn't do every-| Periwinkle -- Consulting (408)356-8506 | thing right, but did know | 16345 Englewood Ave. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | the century would end. | Los Gatos, CA 95032, USA

Re: Strengthening the Passphrase Model

1999-02-11 Thread Bill Frantz
cyphe, or something. > >David R. Conrad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP keys (0x1993E1AE and 0xA0B83D31): >DSS Fingerprint20 = 9942 E27C 3966 9FB8 5058 73A4 83CE 62EF 1993 E1AE >RSA Fingerprint16 = 1D F2 F3 90 DA CA 35 5D 91 E4 09 45 95 C8 20 F1 >Note: Due to frequent spam abuse, I

Re: Crypto for some of the DNS/TM mess

1999-03-05 Thread Bill Frantz
egal, they can be enforced the way drug and Mafia contracts are enforced. ----- Bill Frantz | Macintosh: Didn't do every-| Periwinkle -- Consulting (408)356-8506 | thing right, but did know | 16345 Englewood Ave. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | the century would end. | Los Gatos, CA 95032, USA

Re: 1024 bit RSA exportable?

1999-03-31 Thread Bill Frantz
(Jim Gillogly says 1024 is now the limit in this situation.) YMMV, IANAL --------- Bill Frantz | Macintosh: Didn't do every-| Periwinkle -- Consulting (408)356-8506 | thing right, but did know | 16345 Englewood Ave.

Palm Programming

1999-04-08 Thread Bill Frantz
oftware for downloading your app.) ----- Bill Frantz | Macintosh: Didn't do every-| Periwinkle -- Consulting (408)356-8506 | thing right, but did know | 16345 Englewood Ave. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | the century would end. | Los Gatos, CA 95032, USA

Re: references to password sniffer incident

1999-04-11 Thread Bill Frantz
ed to distribute passwords. (Mailing list!) With this being the state of the art in protection, why bother with intercepts, cryptoanalysis etc? - Bill Frantz | Macintosh: Didn't do every-| Periwinkle -- Consultin

Re: 3DES in Java

1999-04-28 Thread Bill Frantz
w.cypherpunks.to. ----- Bill Frantz | Macintosh: Didn't do every-| Periwinkle -- Consulting (408)356-8506 | thing right, but did know | 16345 Englewood Ave. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | the century would end. | Los Gatos, CA 95032, USA

CORRECTION: PARC Forum 5/13 -- Reiner Hartenstein."Reconfigurable Computing: Taking Off to Overcome the Microprocessor"

1999-05-07 Thread Bill Frantz
Given past discussions on building key crackers using FPGAs, I thought this forum might be of interest to people. - Bill >Date: Thu, 6 May 1999 21:40:26 PDT >From: Michelle Q Wang Baldonado <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: CORRECTION: PARC Forum 5/13 -- Reiner Hartenstein. >"Reconfigurable Computing

Re: How to donate a clue to a lawyer?

1999-05-09 Thread Bill Frantz
ode because it has so much information that the computer can't understand. --------- Bill Frantz | Macintosh: Didn't do every-| Periwinkle -- Consulting (408)356-8506 | thing right, but did know | 16345 Engle

Earthweb, by Marc Stiegler

1999-05-19 Thread Bill Frantz
ts.org and http://www.crit.org) Highly recommended. [Ecommerce note: I found my copy at the local supermarket on the same day a co-worker's advance order copy arrived from amazon.com.] ----- Bill Frantz | The availabili

Re: HushMail: free Web-based email with bulletproof encryption

1999-05-20 Thread Bill Frantz
;[2] https://www.hushmail.com/faq.htm >[3] https://www.hushmail.com/tech_description.htm >[4] http://world.std.com/~reinhold/diceware.html > >_ >Keith Dawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://dawson.nu/ >Layer of ash separates morning and evening milk. - Bill Frantz | Macintosh: Didn't do every-| Periwinkle -- Consulting (408)356-8506 | thing right, but did know | 16345 Englewood Ave. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | the century would end. | Los Gatos, CA 95032, USA

Re: Salt (was: ICSA certifies weak crypto as secure)

1999-06-15 Thread Bill Frantz
it, and they would always ask him how to change it. ----- Bill Frantz | The availability and use of secure encryption may | Periwinkle | offer an opportunity to reclaim some portion of | Consulting | the privacy we have lost. - B. FLETCHER, Circuit Judge|

Re: hushmail security

1999-06-16 Thread Bill Frantz
ity settings to, "I like unprotected sex in bathhouses." Caveat Emptor! ----- Bill Frantz | The availability and use of secure encryption may | Periwinkle | offer an opportunity to reclaim some portion of

Re: Word needed for Entropy

1999-06-28 Thread Bill Frantz
this "undiscoverability", but it's >far too large a word. I use unguessability, not much shorter. ----- Bill Frantz | The availability and use of secure encryption may | Periwinkle | offer an opportu

Re: Eason/Kawaguchi stego

1999-06-30 Thread Bill Frantz
ta. (m, pad) - Pseudo-random padding to fill out the stego block. ----- Bill Frantz | The availability and use of secure encryption may | Periwinkle | offer an opportunity to reclaim some portion of | Consulting | the

RE: Wireless Networking Encryption...

1999-07-22 Thread Bill Frantz
the strong crypto built into the wireless LAN hardware]. Of course, if you are using the product only as pathway to the big bad Internet, you need end-to-end encryption to be safe. (And yes, I suspect that Lucky's application is not that simple.) -------

Re: FIPR News Release on UK ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS BILL

1999-07-27 Thread Bill Frantz
ver the thought of having this #$%^ in the US. ----- Bill Frantz | Macintosh: Didn't do every-| Periwinkle -- Consulting (408)356-8506 | thing right, but did know | 16345 Englewood Ave. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | the centu

Re: depleting the random number generator

1999-07-27 Thread Bill Frantz
g for. If the keyboard uses a microprocessor to scan the keys and report the scan codes as interrupts, then its clock is likely to be the one controlling the precision. --------- Bill Frantz | Macintosh: Didn't do every-| P

Re: House committee ditches SAFE for law enforcement version

1999-08-01 Thread Bill Frantz
. Our cost estimate for that evaluation was $1,000,000. Our investors didn't see a market, so we dropped out. - Bill Frantz | The availability and use of secure encryption may | Periwinkle | offer an opportunity to reclaim some portion of | Consulting | the privacy we have lost. - B. FLETCHER, Circuit Judge|

Re: linux-ipsec: /dev/random

1999-08-04 Thread Bill Frantz
igh resolution. The initial value depends on when the system was started, which may not be available to an attacker. The value is also dependent on the cache behavior of the system, another value possibly not available to an attacker. -------

Re: linux-ipsec: Re: Summary re: /dev/random

1999-08-14 Thread Bill Frantz
isn't much of interest to listen to in the typical server room. People should probably avoid speaking passwords though. - Bill Frantz | The availability and use of secure encryption may | Periwinkle | offer an opportunity to reclaim some portion of | Consulting | the privacy we have lost. - B. FLETCHER, Circuit Judge|

Re: crypto on calculators

1999-09-10 Thread Bill Frantz
>yet another 68000-based environment, though some of the libraries >are less straightforward. The O'Riley book on Palm Programming describes both of these environments. - Bill Frantz | The availability and use of sec

Re: IP: Admin Plans to Loosen Encryption Restrictions

1999-09-15 Thread Bill Frantz
s via physical means can have strong encryption. --------- Bill Frantz | The availability and use of secure encryption may | Periwinkle | offer an opportunity to reclaim some portion of | Consulting | the privacy we have lost. - B. FLETCHER, Circuit Judge|

Re: Is There a Visor Security Model?

1999-09-22 Thread Bill Frantz
ly application I have added to my Palm is "Life", I could easily run it that way. Now all I have to do is gain trust in the built in applications.) --------- Bill Frantz | The availability and use of secure encryption may

Re: having source code for your CPU chip -- NOT

1999-09-22 Thread Bill Frantz
sembler which was written before KeyKOS was designed. (N.B. KeyKOS/370 was written in 370 Assembler H). --------- Bill Frantz | The availability and use of secure encryption may | Periwinkle | offer an opportunity to reclaim so

Re: having source code for your CPU chip -- NOT

1999-09-23 Thread Bill Frantz
At 10:26 PM -0700 9/22/99, Martin Minow wrote: >At 9:26 AM -0700 9/22/99, Bill Frantz wrote: >> >>My own approach would be to audit the generated code. In KeyKOS/370, we >>"solved" the problem by using an assembler which was written before KeyKOS >>was desig

Re: Selective DoS Attacks: Remailer Vulnerabilities

1999-09-29 Thread Bill Frantz
rare, but don't be surprised to find an occasionally one. ----- Bill Frantz | The availability and use of secure encryption may | Periwinkle | offer an opportunity to reclaim some portion of | Consulting | the privacy we have lost. - B. FLETCHER, Circuit Judge|

Re: DPA mapped to spectral analysis

1999-11-21 Thread Bill Frantz
Dartmouth Collage in 1962-1963. My wife reports a program called Mutran (sp?) she saw at Reed Collage which used a radio and the 1620 to play suitably encoded sheet music. ----- Bill Frantz | Internet Explorer, the | Pe

RE: Self Decrypting Archive in PGP

2000-07-23 Thread Bill Frantz
inst a list of "known safe" routines before we ran it. Such a system might usefully encourage people to compress files for transmission, rather than watch them expand as MIME encoded attachments. Cheers - Bill --------