Re: Elcomsoft trying to patent faster GPU-based password cracker

On Oct 24, 2007, at 1:21 PM, Steven M. Bellovin wrote: I hope they don't get the patent. The idea of using a GPU for cryptographic calculations isn't new; see, for example, Remotely Keyed Cryptographics: Secure Remote Display Access Using (Mostly) Untrusted Hardware

fyi: Report on Workshop on Next Steps for XML Signature and XML Encryption

of possible interest to some... Scott Cantor and I represented the perspective of xmldsig is broken/mess/complex from some non-trivial number of implementors' perspective, we spec'd 'just sign the blob' in a SAML binding spec recently because of this, perhaps if xmldsig is rev'd these sorts of

RE: Elcomsoft trying to patent faster GPU-based password cracker

I was the person who originated the DES Challenges at RSA, and also helped set up and run them. I knew that there was a stealth effort underway at SGI, but didn't know any of the details. A good deal of cool stuff came out of the contests. Other prior art against this patent would include