Tamperproof devices and backdoors

2001-05-24 Thread Enzo Michelangeli
On another mailing list, someone posted an interesting question: how to ascertain that a tamperproof device (e.g., a smartcard) contains no hidden backdoors? By definition, anything open to inspection is not tamperproof. Of course, one can ask the manufacturer to disclose the design, but there is

Re: crypto flaw in secure mail standards

2001-06-24 Thread Enzo Michelangeli
- Original Message - From: Greg Broiles [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Enzo Michelangeli [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 25, 2001 1:32 AM Subject: Re: crypto flaw in secure mail standards [...] The digital signature laws I've seen don't mention and don't support

Re: chip-level randomness?

2001-09-19 Thread Enzo Michelangeli
- Original Message - From: Theodore Tso [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: John Gilmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Pawel Krawczyk [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Bram Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2001 5:17 AM Subject: Re: chip-level randomness? [...] On

Re: Field slide attacks and how to avoid them.

2001-09-19 Thread Enzo Michelangeli
Or also their XML equivalents: http://xml.coverpages.org/xml-spki.html Enzo - Original Message - From: Paul Crowley [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Peter Gutmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2001

Re: Best practices/HOWTO for key storage in small office/home office setting?

2001-10-02 Thread Enzo Michelangeli
- Original Message - From: Bill Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Conspiracy Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2001 12:41 AM Subject: Re: Best practices/HOWTO for key storage in small office/home office setting? At 07:23 PM 10/02/2001 +0300, Sampo Syreeni wrote: Or integrate some computing

Re: IP: Fw: [FiB FORUM] Anti-Terror Tools Include High-Tech

2001-10-30 Thread Enzo Michelangeli
On Mon, 29 October 2001, R. A. Hettinga wrote: [...] The key-logger, hidden inside a computer, secretly records everything a suspect types on it. The device lets authorities capture passwords to unscramble data files in otherwise-unbreakable codes. So what happens if the application gets

Re: Yet more stego scare in the New York Times

2001-10-30 Thread Enzo Michelangeli
- Original Message - From: Bram Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Nelson Minar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Crypto List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2001 1:36 AM Subject: Re: Yet more stego scare in the New York Times [...] hotmail/yahoo/hushmail/etc. accounts - these are used for

Re: [FYI] Did Encryption Empower These Terrorists?

2001-09-26 Thread Enzo Michelangeli
- Original Message - From: Ray Dillinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Enzo Michelangeli [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Ben Laurie [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Hadmut Danisch [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2001 12:06 AM Subject: Re: [FYI] Did

Re: [FYI] Did Encryption Empower These Terrorists?

2001-09-25 Thread Enzo Michelangeli
On Mon, 24 Sep 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If it was so easy ... it wouldn't be a problem. An objective of the original e-commerce deployments was that the account number file not be co-located on the webserver. Since a large number of subsequent deployments have co-located on the

Re: VISA: All Your Password Are Belong to Us

2001-12-04 Thread Enzo Michelangeli
- Original Message - From: Richard Guy Briggs [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Enzo Michelangeli [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: John R. Levine [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2001 6:18 PM Subject: Re: VISA: All Your Password Are Belong to Us [...] So if I understand

Re: VISA: All Your Password Are Belong to Us

2001-12-04 Thread Enzo Michelangeli
- Original Message - From: Richard Guy Briggs [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Enzo Michelangeli [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Richard Guy Briggs [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2001 7:07 PM Subject: Re: VISA: All Your Password Are Belong to Us On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 04

Re: Hackers Targeting Home Computers

2002-01-06 Thread Enzo Michelangeli
- Original Message - From: Eugene Leitl [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Hack Hawk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Hadmut Danisch [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Digital Bearer Settlement List [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, 06 January, 2002 7:41 PM On Fri, 4 Jan 2002, Hack Hawk

Re: Cringely Gives KnowNow Some Unbelievable Free Press... (fwd)

2002-01-28 Thread Enzo Michelangeli
- Original Message - From: Eric Rescorla [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Eugene Leitl [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 28 January, 2002 6:33 AM [...] If you want to see EC used you need to describe a specific algorithm which has the following three properties: (1) widely agreed to be

Re: [linux-elitists] Re: Looking back ten years: Another Cypherpunksfailure (fwd)

2002-01-29 Thread Enzo Michelangeli
From: Derek Atkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] Actually, this was chosen only to protect signalling, not the actual VoIP data. If you read the spec carefully you will notice that the RTP stream is NOT using IPsec for data protection. Yup, right. Thanks also to Joseph Tardo, who pointed out that the

Re: 1024-bit RSA keys in danger of compromise

2002-03-25 Thread Enzo Michelangeli
- Original Message - From: Lucky Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, 24 March, 2002 9:38 AM Subject: 1024-bit RSA keys in danger of compromise [...] In light of the above, I reluctantly revoked all my personal 1024-bit PGP keys and the large web-of-trust that

Re: Lucky's 1024-bit post [was: RE: objectivity and factoring analysis]

2002-04-25 Thread Enzo Michelangeli
Further to Lucky's comments: in the last few days I have discussed keysize issues with a few people on a couple of mailing lists, and I have encountered a hostility to large keysizes of which, frankly, I don't understand the reasons. On the client side at least, performance is not an issue: PGP

Re: Government subsidies: our last, best hope for Cryptoanarchy?

2002-05-25 Thread Enzo Michelangeli
Status: U From: Lucky Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Government subsidies: our last, best hope for Cryptanarchy? Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 01:44:53 -0700 Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [...] The same Cypherpunk expressed a hope that absent NAI's PGP, the German

Re: IP: SSL Certificate Monopoly Bears Financial Fruit

2002-07-14 Thread Enzo Michelangeli
- Original Message - From: Lucky Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, July 14, 2002 11:55 AM Subject: RE: IP: SSL Certificate Monopoly Bears Financial Fruit The cert shows that it's issued by Equifax, however. The cert shows as being issued

Re: building a true RNG (was: Quantum Computing ...)

2002-07-26 Thread Enzo Michelangeli
- Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2002 1:59 PM Subject: Re: building a true RNG (was: Quantum Computing ...) You cannot measure entropy retrospectively. You need to have a theory as to where the entropy is