GESG Identity-Based Public Key Cryptography (ID-PKC)

The UK Communications-Electronics Security Group (CESG), the "defensive" arm of the GCHQ, have published details about another PKC concept, identity-based PKC, where every user's public key are predetermined by an unique identifier, such as email address. It does use a(/two) trusted server(s), bu

Re: NSA's new mode of operation broken in less than 24 hours

On Fri, 3 Aug 2001, R. A. Hettinga wrote: > From: "Paulo S. L. M. Barreto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: NSA's new mode of operation broken in less than 24 hours > Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2001 22:40:32 -0300 > > wouldn't bother reading it now had I not done it already. The new

SSL on a chip, EE Times

Startup eyes SSL security ICs By Loring Wirbel EE Times (10/01/01, 3:57 p.m. EST) http://www.eetimes.com/story/OEG20011001S0084 AUSTIN, Texas -- A security-processor startup has become the latest advocate of hardwired acceleration of Secure Socket Layer (SSL) session creation. Layer N Netwo

Re: BXA notifier?

On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 08:33:50AM -0700, Eric Rescorla wrote: > I seem to remember that someone had set up a site to which > you could send your BXA export notification and which would > archive a copy and transmit it to BXA. > > Does this sound familiar to anyone? Matt Blaze's http://www.crypt

Re: What does it take to be a security professional?

On Mon, Nov 05, 2001 at 03:49:56PM -0500, Adam Fields wrote: > > So, I ask the following question - "what does it take to be a security > professional?". What should I learn in order to be able to confidently > offer security services to my clients? I'm looking for journals, > readings, certifica

Re: Canada's justice minister preparing bill to limit encryption

On Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 06:38:27PM -0400, Declan McCullagh wrote: > [This article no longer appears to be online, but I've verified that the > below excerpt is accurate. --DBM] --

IBM report cites cell phone hacking risks

t the 2002 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy. <http://www.ieee-security.org/TC/SP02/sp02index.html> -- M Taylor http://www.mctaylor.com/ - The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Sun donates elliptic curve code to OpenSSL?

On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 10:18:46PM -0400, Perry E. Metzger wrote: > > According to this: > > http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/2002-09/sunflash.20020919.8.html > > Sun is donating some elliptic curve code to the OpenSSL project. Does > anyone know details that they would care to share on th

WiFi, Why worry?

In an article in the Canadian national newspaper Globe & Mail, Jack Kapica suggests that the WiFi (802.11b) insecurities are boogiemen created by "kids" to annoy grownups. I feel sorry for the poor IT / IT security person trying to convince her boss that the article underestimates the risks, and

Wait, PKI isn't dead, it will save email

The Holy Grail of Security? By JENNIFER EVANS Special to Globe and Mail Update Friday, January 10 E-mail has been in the news a lot recently as investigators have gone back and found 'smoking guns' in long-disc

Canadian Immigration Minister pushes to adopt a national id card

[Moderator's note: I edited this to add reasonable line breaks. Also, the content is only weakly on topic, but... --Perry] Canadian Immigration Minister Denis Coderre is promoting the idea of a Canadian national id card, which uses "high tech" biometrics. When confounded by arguements of security

Certicom unveils S/MIME client for PDAs

http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030317.gtb3/GTStory Monday, March 17 [2003] Certicom unveils movianMail Certicom Corp., a provider of wireless security solutions, has taken the wraps off movianMail, a secure e-mail solution based on S/MIME version 3 for use with Microsoft

TPM coming to Canada

vernment and non-government groups to inform them of issues beyond revenue control issues (like creator's rights and consumer protection). -M Taylor - The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]