Re: Re: Two ideas for random number generation

2002-04-22 Thread Joseph Ashwood
- Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Tim May [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Eugen Leitl [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 21, 2002 1:33 PM Subject: CDR: Re: Two ideas for random number generation Why would one want to implement a PRNG in silicon, when one can

Re: Re: Two ideas for random number generation

2002-04-22 Thread Joseph Ashwood
- Original Message - From: Eugen Leitl [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, 22 Apr 2002, Tim May wrote: What real-life examples can you name where Gbit rates of random digits are actually needed? Multimedia streams, routers. If I want to secure a near-future 10 GBit Ethernet stream with a

Re: Re: Two ideas for random number generation: Q for Eugene

2002-04-22 Thread Joseph Ashwood
- Original Message - From: gfgs pedo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oh surely you can do better than that - making it hard to guess the seed is also clearly a desirable property (and one that the square root rng does not have). U can choose any arbitrary seed(greater than 100 bits as

Re: RE: FC: Hollywood wants to plug analog hole, regulate A-D

2002-06-02 Thread Joseph Ashwood
Everything I'm about to say should be taken purely as an analytical discussion of possible solutions in light of the possibilities for the future. For various reasons I discourage performing the analyzed alterations to any electronic device, it will damage certain parts of the functionality of

Re: FC: Hollywood wants to plug analog hole, regulate A-D

2002-06-03 Thread Joseph Ashwood
- Original Message - From: Neil Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Joseph Ashwood [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 31, 2002 6:59 PM Subject: Re: FC: Hollywood wants to plug analog hole, regulate A-D On Sunday 02 June 2002 08:24 pm, Joseph Ashwood wrote: The MPAA

Re: CDR: RE: Degrees of Freedom vs. Hollywood Control Freaks

2002-06-05 Thread Joseph Ashwood
- Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: CDR: RE: Degrees of Freedom vs. Hollywood Control Freaks Ok, somebody correct me if I'm wrong here, but didn't they officially cease production of vinyl pressings several years ago? As in *all* vinyl pressings??? They

Re: RE: Harry Potter released unprotected

2002-06-18 Thread Joseph Ashwood
- Original Message - From: Lucky Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] Joseph Ashwood wrote: This looks like just a pilot program. Watch the normal piracy channels though, if Harry Potter shows up stronger than other releases Macrovision will be around a while. But if Harry Potter isn't

Re: Piracy is wrong

2002-06-29 Thread Joseph Ashwood
Subject: CDR: Piracy is wrong This shouldn't have to be said, but apparently it is necessary. Which is a correct statement, but an incorrect line of thinking. Piracy is an illegitimate use of a designed in hole in the security, the ability to copy. This right to copy for personal use is well

Re: Re: maximize best case, worst case, or average case? (TCPA

2002-07-01 Thread Joseph Ashwood
- Original Message - From: Ryan Lackey [EMAIL PROTECTED] I consider DRM systems (even the not-secure, not-mandated versions) evil due to the high likelyhood they will be used as technical building blocks upon which to deploy mandated, draconian DRM systems. The same argument can be

Re: Closed source more secure than open source

2002-07-06 Thread Joseph Ashwood
- Original Message - From: Anonymous [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ross Anderson's paper at http://www.ftp.cl.cam.ac.uk/ftp/users/rja14/toulouse.pdf has been mostly discussed for what it says about the TCPA. But the first part of the paper is equally interesting. Ross Andseron's approximate

Re: Seth on TCPA at Defcon/Usenix

2002-08-11 Thread Joseph Ashwood
- Original Message - From: AARG! Anonymous [EMAIL PROTECTED] [brief description of Document Revocation List] Seth's scheme doesn't rely on TCPA/Palladium. Actually it does, in order to make it valuable. Without a hardware assist, the attack works like this: Hack your software (which is

Re: Re: Challenge to TCPA/Palladium detractors

2002-08-11 Thread Joseph Ashwood
- Original Message - From: Eugen Leitl [EMAIL PROTECTED] Can anyone shed some light on this? Because of the sophistication of modern processors there are too many variables too be optimized easily, and doing so can be extremely costly. Because of this diversity, many compilers use

Re: Is TCPA broken?

2002-08-13 Thread Joseph Ashwood
I need to correct myself. - Original Message - From: Joseph Ashwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] Suspiciously absent though is the requirement for symmetric encryption (page 4 is easiest to see this). This presents a potential security issue, and certainly a barrier to its use for non

Is TCPA broken?

2002-08-13 Thread Joseph Ashwood
- Original Message - From: Mike Rosing [EMAIL PROTECTED] Are you now admitting TCPA is broken? I freely admit that I haven't made it completely through the TCPA specification. However it seems to be, at least in effect although not exactly, a motherboard bound smartcard. Because it is

Overcoming the potential downside of TCPA

2002-08-14 Thread Joseph Ashwood
Lately on both of these lists there has been quite some discussion about TCPA and Palladium, the good, the bad, the ugly, and the anonymous. :) However there is something that is very much worth noting, at least about TCPA. There is nothing stopping a virtualized version being created. There is

Re: Re: Overcoming the potential downside of TCPA

2002-08-15 Thread Joseph Ashwood
- Original Message - From: Ben Laurie [EMAIL PROTECTED] The important part for this, is that TCPA has no key until it has an owner, and the owner can wipe the TCPA at any time. From what I can tell this was designed for resale of components, but is perfectly suitable as a point of

Re: Overcoming the potential downside of TCPA

2002-08-15 Thread Joseph Ashwood
- Original Message - From: Ben Laurie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Joseph Ashwood wrote: There is nothing stopping a virtualized version being created. What prevents this from being useful is the lack of an appropriate certificate for the private key in the TPM. Actually that does nothing

Re: Re: Startups, Bubbles, and Unemployment

2002-08-25 Thread Joseph Ashwood
- Original Message - From: Eric Cordian [EMAIL PROTECTED] Although I appear to have been the final catalyst for the discussion of unemployment. I agree with pretty much everything Eric Cordian said. In fact my current state of lack of work, has little to do with lack of employment, I am

Re: What email encryption is actually in use?

2002-09-30 Thread Joseph Ashwood
- Original Message - From: James A. Donald [EMAIL PROTECTED] What email encryption is actually in use? In my experience PGP is the most used. When I get a PGP encrypted message, I usually cannot read it -- it is sent to my dud key or something somehow goes wrong. Then you are

Re: Clarification of challenge to Joseph Ashwood:

2002-11-03 Thread Joseph Ashwood
to the security of anyone/group that makes use of it. - Original Message - From: James A. Donald [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Clarification of challenge to Joseph Ashwood: Joseph Ashwood: So it's going to be broken by design. These are critical errors that will eliminate any semblance

Re: Re: Shuttle Diplomacy

2003-02-01 Thread Joseph Ashwood
- Original Message - From: Thomas Shaddack [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Harmon Seaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, February 01, 2003 4:42 PM Subject: CDR: Re: Shuttle Diplomacy [snip conspiracy theory] Especially in this case, I'd bet my shoes on Murphy; Columbia was

Digital Certificates

2003-02-19 Thread Joseph Ashwood
I was just wondering if anyone has a digital certificate issuing system I could get a few certificates issued from. Trust is not an issue since these are development-only certs, and won't be used for anything except testing purposes. The development is for an open source PKCS #11 test suite.

Re: Re: Digital Certificates

2003-02-19 Thread Joseph Ashwood
- Original Message - From: Eric Murray [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: CDR: Re: Digital Certificates On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 01:22:21PM -0800, Joseph Ashwood wrote: I was just wondering if anyone has a digital certificate issuing system I could get a few certificates issued from. Trust

Re: Batter Up! (Was Re: Ex-Intel VP Fights for Detainee)

2003-04-04 Thread Joseph Ashwood
First let me say that I am anti-war. Maybe it is just because I've changed from being purely a tech player to now owning Trust Laboratories, and so primarily being a businessman, but I see things slightly differently from the WSJ.

Re: [cdr] Re: Digital cash and campaign finance reform

2003-09-10 Thread Joseph Ashwood
- Original Message - From: Tim May [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [cdr] Re: Digital cash and campaign finance reform There are too many loopholes to close. I think that's the smartest thing any one of us has said on this topic. Joe

Re: A National ID: AAMVA's Unique ID

2004-06-18 Thread Joseph Ashwood
- Original Message - From: John Gilmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2004 10:31 AM Subject: Re: A National ID: AAMVA's Unique ID The solution then is obvious, don't have a big central database. Instead use a distributed database.

Re: Mixmaster is dead, long live wardriving

2004-12-11 Thread Joseph Ashwood
- Original Message - From: Major Variola (ret) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Mixmaster is dead, long live wardriving At 07:47 PM 12/9/04 -0800, Joseph Ashwood wrote: If the Klan doesn't have a right to wear pillowcases what makes you think mixmaster will survive? Well besides

Re: punkly current events

2004-12-11 Thread Joseph Ashwood
- Original Message - From: Major Variola (ret) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: punkly current events If the Klan doesn't have a right to wear pillowcases what makes you think mixmaster will survive? Well besides the misinterprettaion of the ruling, which I will ignore, what makes you think

Re: Dell to Add Security Chip to PCs

2005-02-04 Thread Joseph Ashwood
- Original Message - From: Shawn K. Quinn [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Dell to Add Security Chip to PCs Isn't it possible to emulate the TCPA chip in software, using one's own RSA key, and thus signing whatever you damn well please with it instead of whatever the chip wants to sign?

Re: SHA1 broken?

2005-02-17 Thread Joseph Ashwood
- Original Message - From: James A. Donald [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: SHA1 broken? 2^69 is damn near unbreakable. I believe you are incorrect in this statement. It is a matter of public record that RSA Security's DES Challenge II was broken in 72 hours by $250,000 worth of

Re: SHA1 broken?

2005-02-18 Thread Joseph Ashwood
- Original Message - From: Dave Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2005 2:49 AM Subject: Re: SHA1 broken? Joseph Ashwood wrote: I believe you are incorrect in this statement. It is a matter of public record that RSA Security's DES Challenge II was broken in 72 hours

Re: SHA1 broken?

2005-02-22 Thread Joseph Ashwood
- Original Message - From: Dave Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: SHA1 broken? Indeed so. however, the argument in 1998, a FPGA machine broke a DES key in 72 hours, therefore TODAY... assumes that (a) the problems are comparable, and (b) that moores law has been applied to FPGAs

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Skype security evaluation]

2005-10-24 Thread Joseph Ashwood
- Original Message - Subject: [Tom Berson Skype Security Evaluation] Tom Berson's conclusion is incorrect. One needs only to take a look at the publicly available information. I couldn't find an immediate reference directly from the Skype website, but it uses 1024-bit RSA keys, the