Eric Rescorla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>There's noting inherently wrong with this mechanism, but like all stream
>ciphers, it can't be used if you want to encrypt multiple independent values,
>e.g., credit cards in a database--without a randomizer (which implies
>expansion) you have the usual t
"Perry E. Metzger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>Unfortunately, I don't see anything technological that people can reasonably
>do here to provide more privacy,
Painting the camera lenses with laser pointers is quite effective, at least as
a short-term civil-disobedience measure. Since there's no
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Gutmann) writes:
> "Perry E. Metzger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>>Unfortunately, I don't see anything technological that people can reasonably
>>do here to provide more privacy,
>
> Painting the camera lenses with laser pointers is quite effective, at least as
> a sho
It is hard to argue with Perry's point that privacy in public is an
endangered species at best. Suggesting that one confine one's illegal
actions to the virtual world is not a particularly appealing response.
Robin Hanson considered the problem in this article from back in the
1990s, a response to
Hello,
We're two Students and we're developing an online password manager
like Clipperz or PassPack. In order to securely authenticate an user he
has to submit his login password. But to encrypt his data
(mainly credentials for other websites) with AES he would have to submit
another password fo
Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> There has been a lot of talk on the list recently about the privacy
> issues associated with various toll and fare collecting systems, but
For folks that haven't seen it, next month's Scientific American is
about "The Future of Privacy":
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?
On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 09:01:26PM +, Muffys Wump wrote:
> Master Password: hash(hash(login_password))
>
> Would this be a good idea if we've used this generated hash as a key for AES?
> Would the hashing be secure enough against different kinds of attacks?
You want to look at something like
