Re: Keep it secret, stupid!

2003-01-27 Thread Matt Blaze
The tragic part is that there are alternatives. There are several lock designs that turn out to resist this threat, including master rings and bicentric locks. While these designs aren't perfect, they I think it is worth pointing out that, while master ring systems (and master-keyed

Re: Keep it secret, stupid!

2003-01-26 Thread Matt Blaze
Matt Blaze wrote: Once I understood the basics, I quickly discovered, or more accurately re-discovered, a simple and practical rights amplification (or privilege escalation) attack to which most master-keyed locks are vulnerable. http://www.crypto.com/masterkey.html Matt, is

Re: Keep it secret, stupid!

2003-01-26 Thread Bram Cohen
Matt Blaze wrote: Once I understood the basics, I quickly discovered, or more accurately re-discovered, a simple and practical rights amplification (or privilege escalation) attack to which most master-keyed locks are vulnerable. http://www.crypto.com/masterkey.html Matt, is there some

Re: Keep it secret, stupid!

2003-01-26 Thread Len Sassaman
On Sun, 26 Jan 2003, Matt Blaze wrote: The tragic part is that there are alternatives. There are several lock designs that turn out to resist this threat, including master rings and bicentric locks. While these designs aren't perfect, they I think it is worth pointing out that, while master