Re: Kaminsky finds DNS exploit

2008-07-10 Thread Sidney Markowitz
Udhay Shankar N wrote, On 9/7/08 5:52 PM: I think Dan Kaminsky is on this list. Any other tidbits you can add prior to Black Hat? He's posted a quite long article on his blog http://www.doxpara.com/?p=1162 that looks like all the details he is likely to provide for the next 30 days. It does

Explaining DNSSEC

2008-07-10 Thread Ben Laurie
I was asked off-list for a pointer to an explanation of DNSSEC. I guess there may be other readers who'd like that, so here's a pointer to Matasano Chargen's rather beautiful exposition: http://www.matasano.com/log/case-against-dnssec/ Unfinished, but good enough. In particular, part 2 explain

Re: "Securing the Network against Web-based Proxies"

2008-07-10 Thread James S. Tyre
At 06:58 PM 7/9/2008 -0400, Leichter, Jerry wrote: Ah, where the web is going. 8e6 Technologies sells a hardware box that it claims does signature analysis to detect HTTP proxies and blocks them. It can also block HTTPS proxies "that do not have a valid certificate" (whatever that means), as we

Dutch chipmaker sues to silence security researchers

2008-07-10 Thread Ali, Saqib
Dutch chipmaker NXP Semiconductors has sued a university in The Netherlands to block publication of research that details security flaws in NXP's Mifare Classic wireless smart cards, which are used in transit and building entry systems around the world. More at: http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9

Re: Kaminsky finds DNS exploit

2008-07-10 Thread Florian Weimer
* Paul Hoffman: > The take-away here is not that "Dan didn't discover the problem", but > "Dan got it fixed". I haven't seen credible claims that the underlying issue can actually be fixed in the classic DNS protocol. There are workarounds on top of workarounds. A real fix requires more or less

Re: Kaminsky finds DNS exploit

2008-07-10 Thread Jack Lloyd
On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 02:39:42PM -0500, Harald Hanche-Olsen wrote: > + John Kemp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > It does seem he would like an air of some mystery to exist though > > until he makes his presentation about the issue at Defcon - did he, > > himself, discover something new? We'll just hav

how bad is IPETEE?

2008-07-10 Thread Eugen Leitl
In case somebody missed it, http://www.tfr.org/wiki/index.php?title=Technical_Proposal_(IPETEE) I'm not sure what the status of http://postel.org/anonsec/ is, the mailing list traffic dried up a while back. -- Eugen* Leitl http://leitl.org";>leitl http://leitl.org

Re: how bad is IPETEE?

2008-07-10 Thread John Ioannidis
Eugen Leitl wrote: In case somebody missed it, http://www.tfr.org/wiki/index.php?title=Technical_Proposal_(IPETEE) If this is a joke, I'm not getting it. /ji - The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscr

Re: how bad is IPETEE?

2008-07-10 Thread Eric Rescorla
At Thu, 10 Jul 2008 18:10:27 +0200, Eugen Leitl wrote: > > > In case somebody missed it, > > http://www.tfr.org/wiki/index.php?title=Technical_Proposal_(IPETEE) > > I'm not sure what the status of http://postel.org/anonsec/ > is, the mailing list traffic dried up a while back. This is the firs

Re: Dutch chipmaker sues to silence security researchers

2008-07-10 Thread Allen
Ali, Saqib wrote: Dutch chipmaker NXP Semiconductors has sued a university in The Netherlands to block publication of research that details security flaws in NXP's Mifare Classic wireless smart cards, which are used in transit and building entry systems around the world. Ah, more 3 monkeys sy

Re: how bad is IPETEE?

2008-07-10 Thread Nicolas Williams
On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 06:10:27PM +0200, Eugen Leitl wrote: > In case somebody missed it, > > http://www.tfr.org/wiki/index.php?title=Technical_Proposal_(IPETEE) I did miss it. Thanks for the link. I don't think in-band key exchange is desirable here, but, you never know what will triumph in

Re: how bad is IPETEE?

2008-07-10 Thread James Cloos
> "Eugen" == Eugen Leitl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Eugen> I'm not sure what the status of http://postel.org/anonsec/ The IETF just created a new list and subscribed all anonsec subscribers: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/btns -JimC -- James Cloos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPG

Re: Permanent Privacy - Are Snake Oil Patents a threat?

2008-07-10 Thread Brecht Wyseur
On Wed, 2008-07-09 at 13:02 +1200, David G. Koontz wrote: > > I did a quick check to look for patent applications or patents by them and > didn't find any. This isn't definitive if a patent application isn't > published. The newest published patent application I found on encryption > had an appl

Re: how bad is IPETEE?

2008-07-10 Thread Nicolas Williams
On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 02:31:12PM -0400, James Cloos wrote: > > "Eugen" == Eugen Leitl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Eugen> I'm not sure what the status of http://postel.org/anonsec/ > > The IETF just created a new list and subscribed all anonsec subscribers: > > https://www.ietf.org/mail