open source digital cash packages

2007-09-17 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
Are there any open source digital cash packages available? I need one as part of another research project. --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb - The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending

Re: iPods using cryptographic hash so they only work with iTunes?

2007-09-17 Thread Perry E. Metzger
"Perry E. Metzger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It appears that Apple may have altered the firmware of newer iPods so > that they require a proper cryptographic hash in the iTunesDB loaded > onto the units or they won't work. This effectively blocks people from > using third party software with a

Re: using SRAM state as a source of randomness

2007-09-17 Thread Netsecurity
Back in the late 60's I was playing with audio and a magazine I subscribed to had a circut for creating warble tones for standing wave and room resonance testing. The relevance of this is that they were using a "random" noise generating chip that they acknowledged was not random enough for good me

Re: using SRAM state as a source of randomness

2007-09-17 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
On Mon, 17 Sep 2007 11:20:32 -0700 Netsecurity <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Back in the late 60's I was playing with audio and a magazine I > subscribed to had a circut for creating warble tones for standing > wave and room resonance testing. > > The relevance of this is that they were using a "r

Re: using SRAM state as a source of randomness

2007-09-17 Thread James A. Donald
Netsecurity wrote: > Back in the late 60's I was playing with audio and a > magazine I subscribed to had a circuit for creating > warble tones for standing wave and room resonance > testing. > > The relevance of this is that they were using a > "random" noise generating chip that they acknowledged