Re: Panther's FileVault can damage data

2003-11-10 Thread cubic-dog
On Fri, 7 Nov 2003, petard wrote: On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 08:55:08AM -0800, Tim May wrote: It's astounding to me that that Apple failed to do basic QC on its major new release. The problem with the Firewire 800 drives using the Oxford 922 chips is inexcusable. Did Apple never bother

Re: Gestapo harasses John Young, appeals to patriotism, told to fuck off

2003-11-10 Thread Sunder
Not scared, hungry. They're looking for more collars they can throw in jail so they meet their quotas. --Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos--- + ^ + :25Kliters anthrax, 38K liters botulinum toxin, 500 tons of /|\ \|/ :sarin, mustard and VX gas, mobile

Re: Disguising the Key length (Was...Has a change taken place in factoring RSA keys)

2003-11-10 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 02:09 PM 11/10/03 -0500, Tyler Durden wrote: My first question is, how easy is it for them to estimate the key size of an encrypted message? Its not secret. But lets look at twiddling what the message header encodes. Suppose you relabel a 2Kbit key as a 1Kbit. Then what are the extra bits

Disguising the Key length (Was...Has a change taken place in factoring RSA keys)

2003-11-10 Thread Tyler Durden
I think that's the source as well - when the most recent of the TWINKLE and TWIRL papers came out, Lucky Green was talking about whether it was still safe to use 1024-bit keys, and $1B for 1 key/day is similar to Shamir Tromer's estimate of (