Re: Crypto hardware

2001-07-12 Thread R. A. Hettinga
At 2:28 PM -0700 on 7/10/01, Kent Crispin wrote: Does this description trigger any recollection? Are there similar devices on the market from other sources? Yup. Talk to NCipher. http://www.ncipher.com -- - R. A. Hettinga mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Internet Bearer

RE: Crypto hardware

2001-07-12 Thread John P. Sullivan
You are describing a Hardware Security Module (HSM) and there are several on the market from various vendors. For further data on our product line please feel free to look at our website. Our nShield product is FIPS 140-1 Level 3 validated: http://www.ncipher.com/products/nshield/index.html

Re: Crypto hardware

2001-07-12 Thread Eric Murray
On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 02:28:08PM -0700, Kent Crispin wrote: A couple of years ago at the RSA conference one of the vendors was exhibiting a tamperproof that would keep a secret key and perform encryptions/signatures using the key. Since the key never left the box, in theory security

Navajo Code Talkers

2001-07-12 Thread William Allen Simpson
H. CON. RES. 174 Authorizing the Rotunda of the Capitol to be used on July 26, 2001, for a ceremony to present Congressional Gold Medals to the original 29 Navajo Code Talkers. -- William Allen Simpson Key fingerprint = 17 40 5E 67 15 6F 31 26 DD 0D B9 9B 6A 15 2C 32

Re: Crypto hardware

2001-07-12 Thread David Honig
At 02:28 PM 7/10/01 -0700, Kent Crispin wrote: A couple of years ago at the RSA conference one of the vendors was exhibiting a tamperproof that would keep a secret key and perform encryptions/signatures using the key. Since the key never left the box, in theory security reduced to physical

Re: FW: Zero-Knowledge proofs for valid decryption !!

2001-07-12 Thread Emmanouil Magkos
The background of my question was an auction application where encrypted bids are published on a bulletin board. All bids are authenticated, i.e. signed by the bidders. Since there is no anonymity, (there are reasons for this), the link between the encrypted bids and the decrypted results, which

Re: Crypto hardware

2001-07-12 Thread Derek Atkins
Are you talking about the BBN/GTE SafeKeyPer (I may have mis-spelled that)? I don't know if they are still on the market -- they were priced Really High. -derek Kent Crispin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: A couple of years ago at the RSA conference one of the vendors was exhibiting a

Re: Crypto hardware

2001-07-12 Thread Greg Troxel
This sounds like the BBN Safekeyper. (BBN was acquired by GTE, but still operates using the BBN name.) A similar device is described at: http://www.bbn.com/infosec/signassure.html - The Cryptography Mailing List

RE: Crypto hardware

2001-07-12 Thread John Lowry
The unit is called the SafeKeyper from BBN. It is based on a unit designed for type-1 cryptography and met the various government standards required. That unit was, I believe, the first cryptographic peripheral device accepted by the government and led to the acceptance of other peripheral

DCSB: David Birch; European Wireless E-Commerce

2001-07-12 Thread R. A. Hettinga
--- begin forwarded text Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 11:44:45 -0400 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: R. A. Hettinga [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: DCSB: David Birch; European Wireless E-Commerce Cc: Dave Birch [EMAIL PROTECTED], Arnold G. Reinhold [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jean Camp

pseudonymous decentralized marketplace

2001-07-12 Thread Ray Dillinger
I've been attempting to design a decentralized auction/ exchange system that permits pseudonymous participants. By 'decentralized', I mean that NO central server, or subset of individual servers, controls access to any resource the system cannot work without; that there is no single point