traffic analysis of phone calls?

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. --Steve Bellovin, http

Additional Proposed Hash Function (Forwarded)

-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.att.com

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

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Spy Letters from the American Revolution

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AES suitable for protecting Top Secret information

., 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.research.att.com/~smb

CAs for spies?

) 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 unsubscribe cryptography to [EMAIL

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/~smb

Swiss NEMA rotor machine for sale on EBay

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=2252451747ssPageName=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.research.att.com/~smb

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