[cryptography] Risks -- Server-side SSL key for 410k end-users subpoened by the Feds...

2013-10-06 Thread ianG
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/10/03/lavabit_snowden_investigation_details/ The former operator of a secure email service once used by NSA leaker Edward Snowden has been fined $10,000 for failing to give federal agents access to his customers' accounts, newly released court documents show.

Re: [cryptography] Curve25519 OID (was: Re: the spell is broken)

2013-10-06 Thread Peter Gutmann
Jeffrey Walton noloa...@gmail.com writes: For completeness, Crypto++ has a factory-like method that serves curves. The curves are sorted by OID in the function, so Crypto++ would need an OID for ed25519. { 1 3 6 1 4 1 3029 1 5 1 } ed209^H^H5519 You have been OIDed. Go forth and encrypt.

Re: [cryptography] Curve25519 OID (was: Re: the spell is broken)

2013-10-06 Thread coderman
On Sun, Oct 6, 2013 at 1:52 AM, Peter Gutmann pgut...@cs.auckland.ac.nz wrote: ... { 1 3 6 1 4 1 3029 1 5 1 } ed209^H^H5519 You have been OIDed. Go forth and encrypt. well played sir! :) ___ cryptography mailing list cryptography@randombit.net

Re: [cryptography] Daniel the King. Jon the President. Linus the God?

2013-10-06 Thread Peter Gutmann
d...@geer.org quotes: We reject: kings, presidents and voting. We believe in: rough consensus and running code. -- David Clark Well that was certainly an elegant concept for a more civilized age, but it's been: We used to reject: kings, presidents and voting. We

Re: [cryptography] Curve25519 OID (was: Re: the spell is broken)

2013-10-06 Thread CodesInChaos
There are many details that are not clear to me. Typical Curve25519 usage deviates from typical NIST curve usage in several ways: 1. montgomery form, not weierstrass (conversion probably possible, never looked into details) 2. custom serialization format for public keys (32 bytes little endian,

Re: [cryptography] Curve25519 OID

2013-10-06 Thread Samuel Neves
On 06-10-2013 18:45, CodesInChaos wrote: There are many details that are not clear to me. Typical Curve25519 usage deviates from typical NIST curve usage in several ways: 1. montgomery form, not weierstrass (conversion probably possible, never looked into details) This is always possible.