Re: NPR : E-Mail Encryption Rare in Everyday Use

2006-03-08 Thread Victor Duchovni
On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 06:15:36PM +0100, Ian G wrote: Email is hard to get encrypted, but it didn't stop Skype from doing encryped IMs easily. Likewise I have secured email communications with my wife via a single key exchange, so what? Skype has not easily created an interoperable

Re: Study shows how photonic decoys can foil hackers

2006-03-08 Thread Taral
On 3/1/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone have an idea of what this is about? (From Computerworld): -- Jerry I believe this is the same technology that Bruce Schneier commented on in his security blog:

Re: NPR : E-Mail Encryption Rare in Everyday Use

2006-03-08 Thread Peter Thoenen
--- John W Noerenberg II [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oh really? Then you should be able to send a note to my gmail address. So I have been reading this thread for the last couple days and the above comment gives me a chance to voice something that really needs to be said. Let's face it, a large

bulk quantum computation

2006-03-08 Thread Travis H.
Here's a 1997 paper on quantum computing in the large that I had been asking about: http://www.media.mit.edu/physics/projects/spins/home.html Neil Gershenfeld and Isaac Chuang have developed an entirely new approach to quantum computation that promises to solve many of these problems. Instead of

Re: Study shows how photonic decoys can foil hackers

2006-03-08 Thread Andrea Pasquinucci
msg.pgp Description: PGP message

bounded storage model - why is R organized as 2-d array?

2006-03-08 Thread Travis H.
Hey, In Maurer's paper, which is the last link here on the following page, he proposes to use a public random pad to encrypt the plaintext based on bits selected by a key. What I'm wondering is why he chose the strange construction for encryption; namely, that he uses an additive (mod 2) cipher

Re: NPR : E-Mail Encryption Rare in Everyday Use

2006-03-08 Thread Ben Laurie
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Original Message - From: Ben Laurie [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: NPR : E-Mail Encryption Rare in Everyday Use Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2006 10:16:55 + [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alex Alten wrote: At 05:12 PM 2/26/2006 +, Ben

RE: NPR : E-Mail Encryption Rare in Everyday Use

2006-03-08 Thread Anton Stiglic
More strongly, if we've never met, and you are not in the habit of routinely signing email, thereby tying a key to your e-persona, it makes no sense to speak of *secure* communication to *you*. Regularly signing email is not necessarily a good idea. I like to be able to repudiate most emails I

Re: NPR : E-Mail Encryption Rare in Everyday Use

2006-03-08 Thread Florian Weimer
* Bill Stewart: Or you could try using the Google Keyserver - just because there isn't one doesn't mean you can't type in 9E94 4513 3983 5F70 or 9383DE06 or [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key and see what's in Google's cache. What a peculiar advice. We know for sure that Google logs these

Re: NPR : E-Mail Encryption Rare in Everyday Use

2006-03-08 Thread Alex Alten
At 05:58 AM 3/3/2006 +, Ben Laurie wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alex Alten wrote: At 05:12 PM 2/26/2006 +, Ben Laurie wrote: Alex Alten wrote: At 02:59 PM 2/24/2006 +, Ben Laurie wrote: Ed Gerck wrote: We have keyservers for this (my chosen

Re: NPR : E-Mail Encryption Rare in Everyday Use

2006-03-08 Thread Peter Gutmann
Hi, Basically our customer required us to encrypt any team communications. So we used PGP with email. I know the body of the email was encrypted, and I believe attachments were too. The certs were used to automate the decryption. Basically the PGP plugin would check the incoming mail's sender

Re: NPR : E-Mail Encryption Rare in Everyday Use

2006-03-08 Thread Alex Alten
At 03:13 AM 3/6/2006 +1300, Peter Gutmann wrote: Basically our customer required us to encrypt any team communications. So we used PGP with email. I know the body of the email was encrypted, and I believe attachments were too. The certs were used to automate the decryption. Basically the PGP

Re: NPR : E-Mail Encryption Rare in Everyday Use

2006-03-08 Thread Peter Gutmann
Alex Alten [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: At 03:13 AM 3/6/2006 +1300, Peter Gutmann wrote: Basically our customer required us to encrypt any team communications. So we used PGP with email. I know the body of the email was encrypted, and I believe attachments were too. The certs were used to

Paper summarizing new directions in protecting web users

2006-03-08 Thread Amir Herzberg
I've summarized the current directions that our group is working on towards improving security for web users. I'll probably soon post it as HTML, but I'm terribly busy and so far just posted it in eCrypt as PDF, see at http://eprint.iacr.org/2006/083.pdf. We hope to soon be able to provide more

Re: NPR : E-Mail Encryption Rare in Everyday Use

2006-03-08 Thread Ben Laurie
Alex Alten wrote: At 05:58 AM 3/3/2006 +, Ben Laurie wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alex Alten wrote: At 05:12 PM 2/26/2006 +, Ben Laurie wrote: Alex Alten wrote: At 02:59 PM 2/24/2006 +, Ben Laurie wrote: Ed Gerck wrote: We have keyservers for

Re: NPR : E-Mail Encryption Rare in Everyday Use

2006-03-08 Thread Peter Saint-Andre
Victor Duchovni wrote: On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 06:15:36PM +0100, Ian G wrote: Email is hard to get encrypted, but it didn't stop Skype from doing encryped IMs easily. Likewise I have secured email communications with my wife via a single key exchange, so what? Skype has not easily created

Re: NPR : E-Mail Encryption Rare in Everyday Use

2006-03-08 Thread Peter Saint-Andre
Anton Stiglic wrote: More strongly, if we've never met, and you are not in the habit of routinely signing email, thereby tying a key to your e-persona, it makes no sense to speak of *secure* communication to *you*. Regularly signing email is not necessarily a good idea. I like to be able

Re: NPR : E-Mail Encryption Rare in Everyday Use

2006-03-08 Thread Victor Duchovni
On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 12:53:16PM -0700, Peter Saint-Andre wrote: These are closed systems that compete with each other, once they become federated, they can no longer compete on end-to-end security, because that is a property of the interoperability framework, not the individual

Re: NPR : E-Mail Encryption Rare in Everyday Use

2006-03-08 Thread Peter Saint-Andre
Victor Duchovni wrote: On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 12:53:16PM -0700, Peter Saint-Andre wrote: These are closed systems that compete with each other, once they become federated, they can no longer compete on end-to-end security, because that is a property of the interoperability framework, not

Re: Paper summarizing new directions in protecting web users

2006-03-08 Thread Jason Holt
On Mon, 6 Mar 2006, Amir Herzberg wrote: I've summarized the current directions that our group is working on towards improving security for web users. I'll probably soon post it as HTML, but I'm terribly busy and so far just posted it in eCrypt as PDF, see at

Re: NPR : E-Mail Encryption Rare in Everyday Use

2006-03-08 Thread Victor Duchovni
On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 01:55:16PM -0700, Peter Saint-Andre wrote: I never made the strong claim that the federated Jabber network is or always will remain spam free, only the weaker claim that its abuse and identity problems are and will remain less serious than those of the federated email