Re: Trojan horse attack involving many major Israeli companies, executives

2005-06-01 Thread Anne & Lynn Wheeler
Amir Herzberg wrote: Nicely put, but I think not quite fair. From friends in financial and other companies in the states and otherwise, I hear that Trojans are very common there as well. In fact, based on my biased judgement and limited exposure, my impression is that security practice is much

Re: Dell to Add Security Chip to PCs

2005-02-04 Thread Anne & Lynn Wheeler
Peter Gutmann wrote: Neither. Currently they've typically been smart-card cores glued to the MB and accessed via I2C/SMB. and chips that typically have had eal4+ or eal5+ evaluations. hot topic in 2000, 2001 ... at the intel developer's forums and rsa conferences

Re: Dell to Add Security Chip to PCs

2005-02-04 Thread Anne & Lynn Wheeler
Erwann ABALEA wrote: > I've read your objections. Maybe I wasn't clear. What's wrong in installing a cryptographic device by default on PC motherboards? I work for a PKI 'vendor', and for me, software private keys is a nonsense. How will you convice "Mr Smith" (or Mme Michu) to buy an expensive CC

Re: Banks Test ID Device for Online Security

2005-01-06 Thread Anne & Lynn Wheeler
Bill Stewart wrote: Yup. It's the little keychain frob that gives you a string of numbers, updated every 30 seconds or so, which stays roughly in sync with a server, so you can use them as one-time passwords instead of storing a password that's good for a long term. So if the phisher cons you into

Re: Academics locked out by tight visa controls

2004-09-20 Thread Anne & Lynn Wheeler
ence and engineering fields reaches new peak; 1st time enrollment of foreign students drops http://www.nsf.gov/sbe/srs/infbrief/nsf04326/start.htm -- Anne & Lynn Wheelerhttp://www.garlic.com/~lynn/