traffic analysis of phone calls?

Colombian drugs cartels in the 1990s were using massive mainframe computer systems to analyse telephone billing records they had 'borrowed' from phone companies to find out which people in their cartels were on the blower to Colombian police and US agents.

a thesis investigating sigint sites

Some people on this list may be interested in http://www.staff.ncl.ac.uk/d.f.j.wood/pages/thesis_index.htm (Note: I haven't read more than Chapter 1.) --Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb

NEMA rotor machine available on EBay

[Moderator's apologies for how late this is... --Perry] A NEMA rotor machine -- described in the listing as "based on Enigma", but with 10 rotors -- is listed for sale on Ebay, with bids starting at US$2390. It's item number 2199580460. -

article on Rivest and Micali's Peppercoin system

http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/huang1203.asp --Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb - The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Additional Proposed Hash Function (Forwarded)

nction, SHA-224, that is based on SHA-256. The change notice is available at http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/drafts.html. NIST requests comments for the change notice by January 16, 2004. Comments should be addressed to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.a

safety of Pohlig-Hellman with a common modulus?

.) --Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb - The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

yahoo to use public key technology for anti-spam

http://edition.cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet/12/05/spam.yahoo.reut/ - The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

NEMA rotor machine offered again on ebay

fered by the same party who sold the last one (#2199580460). That one went for US$ 3605. --Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb - The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending &quo

Spy Letters from the American Revolution

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AES suitable for protecting Top Secret information

gorithm (i.e., 128, 192 and 256) are sufficient to protect classified information up to the SECRET level. TOP SECRET information will require use of either the 192 or 256 key lengths. --Steve Bellovin, http://www.resear

CAs for spies?

1024-bit RSA key (with MD5) in a certificate issued by Thawte. The connection itself used 256-bit AES. --Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb - The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending

The EU pursues quantum crypto because of Echelon

http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,93220,00.html?from=homeheads I'm not sure what more to say, given my opinion of the general utility of quantum crypto --Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com

Swiss NEMA rotor machine for sale on EBay

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2252451747&ssPageName=ADME:B:SS:US:1 I'm sure we'll see the usual complaints about people being unable to view it... --Steve Bellovin, http://www.res

references on traffic analysis?

What are some of the classic, must-read, references on traffic analysis? (I'm familiar with the Zendian problem, of course.) --Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb - The Cryptography Mailing

lack of WW II cryptanalytic co-operation between the US and UK?

Some recently declassified British documents show that the British and the Americans did not co-operate as closely on cryptanalytic matters as is generally thought. See http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/3758276.stm for details. I'd really like to see the full text of Turing's report; does anyon

"numbers" stations

http://wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,65698,00.html Shortwave radio bands, ignored by commercial broadcasters because of their low fidelity, have long been home to government activity -- whether for national broadcasts such as the BBC World Service, Voice of America and Radio France Internati

workshop on unwanted Internet traffic

Readers of this list may be interesting the the SRUTI -- Steps Towards Reducing Unwanted Traffic on the Internet -- workshop. See http://www.research.att.com/~bala/srut for details. --Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb