Re: Al Qaeda crypto reportedly fails the test

2004-08-12 Thread Chris Palmer
Steven M. Bellovin writes: http://www.petitcolas.net/fabien/kerckhoffs/index.html for the actual articles.) Does there exist an English translation (I'd be surprised if not)? If not, I'd be happy to provide one if there were sufficient interest. -- Chris Palmer Staff Technologist,

SF Bay Area Cypherpunks August 2004 Physical Meeting Announcement

2004-08-12 Thread R. A. Hettinga
--- begin forwarded text Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 09:56:44 -0700 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Bill Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: SF Bay Area Cypherpunks August 2004 Physical Meeting Announcement Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rick Moen suggested we have a

Re: How a Digital Signature Works

2004-08-12 Thread Dave Howe
R. A. Hettinga wrote: The publisher first has to obtain a digital certificate from a recognized certificate authority or CA (VeriSign (VRSN ) is the largest and best known CA in the U.S.). The publisher receives a private and a public key, each of which is a long number of about 300 digits. These

Re: Al Qaeda crypto reportedly fails the test

2004-08-12 Thread Ian Brown
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], John Denker writes: Here's a challenge directly relevant to this group: Can you design a comsec system so that pressure against a code clerk will not do unbounded damage? What about pressure against a comsec system designer? Modulo Steve's comments about the threat

RE: Microsoft .NET PRNG (fwd)

2004-08-12 Thread Anton Stiglic
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ed Gerck Sent: 10 août 2004 13:42 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Microsoft .NET PRNG (fwd) The PRNG should be the least concern when using MSFT's cryptographic provider. The MSFT report 140sp238.pdf

Microcontrollers bring cryptography onboard - Microchip Technology

2004-08-12 Thread R. A. Hettinga
http://www.electronicstalk.com/news/ari/ari172.html Electronicstalk Product news received on 12 August 2004 from Microchip Technology (contact details) Microcontrollers bring cryptography onboard Two new PIC Flash microcontrollers feature integrated Keeloq cryptographic peripherals,

Hackers download College's Patriot database

2004-08-12 Thread R. A. Hettinga
--- begin forwarded text Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 02:18:19 -0500 (CDT) From: InfoSec News [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ISN] Hackers download SIUE data, police say Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] List-Id: InfoSec News isn.attrition.org List-Archive:

[ISN] Hack . . . hack back . . . repeat

2004-08-12 Thread R. A. Hettinga
--- begin forwarded text Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 02:13:41 -0500 (CDT) From: InfoSec News [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ISN] Hack . . . hack back . . . repeat Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] List-Id: InfoSec News isn.attrition.org List-Archive:

Brin/FedWorld: Transparent Privacy

2004-08-12 Thread R. A. Hettinga
http://www.govtech.net/magazine/story.print.php?id=90772 Government Technology Feature Transparent Privacy Who should be watching the watchers? By Shane Peterson July 2004 Futurist, scientist and author David Brin has long studied what tomorrow could hold for humanity. Several of his novels

Interview with Bruce Schneier, Counterpane Internet Security

2004-08-12 Thread R. A. Hettinga
http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2004/08/16/interview_with_bruce_schneier_counterpane_internet_security.html Netcraft Interview with Bruce Schneier, Counterpane Internet Security Interviews Bruce Schneier, founder and CTO of Counterpane Internet Security, is one of the world's foremost

Johansen breaks AirPort Express encryption

2004-08-12 Thread R. A. Hettinga
http://macnn.com/print/25830 MacNN Johansen breaks AirPort Express encryption Wednesday, August 11, 2004 @ 7:20pm Jon Lech Johnasen, author of DeCSS, has discovered the public key that the AirPort Express uses to allow software to play audio through it. Johnasen says that the audio stream