RE: Exponent 3 damage spreads...

2006-09-22 Thread Leichter, Jerry
| |10.2.3 Data decoding | |The data D shall be BER-decoded to give an ASN.1 value of |type DigestInfo, which shall be separated into a message |digest MD and a message-digest algorithm identifier. The |message-digest algorithm identifier shall determine

Re: Did Hezbollah use SIGINT against Israel?

2006-09-22 Thread James A. Donald
-- Steven M. Bellovin wrote: That isn't supposed to be possible these days... (I regard it as more likely that they were doing traffic analysis and direction-finding than actually cracking the ciphers.) Ciphers cannot be cracked when used correctly. However, military cipher procedures

Re: Did Hezbollah use SIGINT against Israel?

2006-09-22 Thread Travis H.
On 9/20/06, Leichter, Jerry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Newspaper reports have claimed that many troops were sent into the field with old equipment - including in particular 10+-year-old communications equipment. The Single Channel Ground and Airborne Radio System was designed in the 80's:

RE: Exponent 3 damage spreads...

2006-09-22 Thread Anton Stiglic
O.k., thanks to Hal Finney for pointing out to me in a private email that my modulus wasn't in fact the right size. I have had some problems with the openssl key generation (doesn't always seem to generate the exact modulus size I ask for). In attachment, the forged signature

Re: fyi: On-card displays

2006-09-22 Thread Peter Gutmann
Steve Schear [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have a Mondex card from years ago that used a separate reader with LCD. Oh, so you were the Mondex user! I've always wondered who that was. Peter. - The Cryptography Mailing List

Re: Did Hezbollah use SIGINT against Israel?

2006-09-22 Thread Thomas
(I regard it as more likely that they were doing traffic analysis and direction-finding than actually cracking the ciphers.) IIUC, spread-spectrum communication is not much stronger than the background noise, and thus the traffic analysis is not that easy either. We can just speculate