Re: PlayStation 3 predicts next US president

2007-12-10 Thread James A. Donald
William Allen Simpson wrote: The notary would never sign a hash generated by somebody else. Instead, the notary generates its own document (from its own tuples), and signs its own document, documenting that some other document was submitted by some person before some particular

Re: PlayStation 3 predicts next US president

2007-12-10 Thread William Allen Simpson
Francois Grieu wrote: That's because if Tn is known (including chosen) to some person, then (due to the weakness in MD5 we are talking about), she can generate Dp and Dp' such that S( MD5(Tn || Dp || Cp || Cn) ) = S( MD5(Tn || Dp' || Cp || Cn) ) whatever Cp, Cn and S() are. First of all, the

RE: More on in-memory zeroisation

2007-12-10 Thread Dave Korn
On 09 December 2007 06:16, Peter Gutmann wrote: Reading through Secure Programming with Static Analysis, I noticed an observation in the text that newer versions of gcc such as 3.4.4 and 4.1.2 treat the pattern: memset(?, 0, ?) differently from any other memset in that it's not