Re: Rijndael & Hitachi

2000-10-10 Thread Vin McLellan
Arnold G. Reinhold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> asked: > What is the licensing status of the other finalists? For example, I seem to >recall reading that RC6 would be licensed to the public at no charge if it won > the competition. What now? Since April, RC6 has being commercially l

RSA Seeks Nominees for Awards & $10K Honors

1998-11-06 Thread Vin McLellan
cape. The three winners for 1999 will be announced at the 1999 RSA Data Security Conference, which (having outgrown Nob Hill, to the regret of many) is being held in San Jose, January 17-21. See: <http://www.rsa.com/conf99> - Vin McLellan + The Privacy Guild + <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 53 Nichols St., Chelsea, MA 02150 USA <617> 884-5548 -- <@><@> --

Koop's Crypto Law Survey updated - v. 14.1 (FW)

1998-12-23 Thread Vin McLellan
mailing list, send a message to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> with subject "unsubscribe cls-update". - Vin McLellan + The Privacy Guild + <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 53 Nichols St., Chelsea, MA 02150 USA <617> 884-5548 -- <@><@> --

Re: Triple DES "standard"?

1998-12-30 Thread Vin McLellan
I always felt that the NSA's alienation of the Bankers was probably the single most important factor in the collapse of the government's Cipper campaign. Suerte, _Vin - Vin McLellan + The Privacy Guild + <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 53 Nichols St., Chelsea, MA 02150 USA <617> 884-5548 -- <@><@> --

RSA Down Under

1999-01-11 Thread Vin McLellan
-bit DES. In what is still probably the most irksome aspect of the current US system to American firms which are potential exporters, the Commerce Dept.'s export licensing procedures for crypto, and crypto-enhanced computer and communications products, remains inherently subjective, enormo

Re: RSA Down Under

1999-01-11 Thread Vin McLellan
eem only themselves worthy of such Privilege." _ A Thinking Man's Creed for Crypto _vbm. * Vin McLellan + The Privacy Guild + <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>* 53 Nichols St., Chelsea, MA 02150 USA <617> 884-5548

Duke/HP CPU average 3.75 hrs to crack 40-bit crypto

1999-01-15 Thread Vin McLellan
d Corp. -30- - "Cryptography is like literacy in the Dark Ages. Infinitely potent, for good and ill... yet basically an intellectual construct, an idea, which by its nature will resist efforts to restrict it to bureaucrats and others who deem only themselves worthy of such Privilege." _ A Thinking Man's Creed for Crypto _vbm. * Vin McLellan + The Privacy Guild + <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>* 53 Nichols St., Chelsea, MA 02150 USA <617> 884-5548

RE: Rivest Patent

1998-11-14 Thread Vin McLellan
e high-stress testbed for Rivest's innovative use of data-dependent rotations. When the AES is chosen by the NSA -- whichever algorithm is finally chosen -- the cryptographic community will know a lot more about the security and viability of this particular Rivest design. Then we can start wondering

NAI Partners with Xcert for Open-Standards PKI, "Active Security"

1998-11-17 Thread Vin McLellan
quitous and secure method of communicating with each other over the Internet. Xcert also licenses its underlying PKI technology to selected service providers and third party developers worldwide. Xcert can be reached on the World Wide Web at http://www.xcert.com. - Vin McLellan + The Privacy Guild + <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 53 Nichols St., Chelsea, MA 02150 USA <617> 884-5548 -- <@><@> --

Re: RSA Test

1999-03-02 Thread Vin McLellan
... yet basically an intellectual construct, an idea, which by its nature will resist efforts to restrict it to bureaucrats and others who deem only themselves worthy of such Privilege." _ A Thinking Man's Creed for Crypto _vbm. * Vin McLellan + The Privacy Guild + <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>* 53 Nichols St., Chelsea, MA 02150 USA <617> 884-5548

Re: RSA Test

1999-03-03 Thread Vin McLellan
tions want to, and can, foster public access to strong crypto is very low. If you are waiting for NIST to offer the sort of full crypto module validation tests that are offered to provide assurance for the DSA/Fortezza version of FIPS-186(a), don't hold your breath. _Vin - Vin McLellan + The Privacy Guild + <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 53 Nichols St., Chelsea, MA 02150 USA <617> 884-5548 -- <@><@> --

Georgoudis on AES2, Day 1, Rome (FW)

1999-03-23 Thread Vin McLellan
ers are implemented in software, where speed is not important, and where security is important. In these cases one might choose to combine several algorithms in series at no particular additional cost. So who will make it to the second round? No idea. ---== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==-- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own - Vin McLellan + The Privacy Guild + <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 53 Nichols St., Chelsea, MA 02150 USA <617> 884-5548 -- <@><@> --

Re: Gently nurturing the misguided hacker with baseball bats

1999-03-24 Thread Vin McLellan
ss done at arm's length. No direct contact. No proof as to the source of funds. The vigilantes would not even have to know who they are working for to get the message across with a certain air of self-righteousness. Surete, _Vin - Vin McLellan + The Privacy Guild + <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 53 Nichols St., Chelsea, MA 02150 USA <617> 884-5548 -- <@><@> --

Georgoudis on AES2, Day 2, Rome (FW)

1999-03-24 Thread Vin McLellan
ink that it is a valid optimization > technique). [...] > improvement. As expected the answer is no, because one of the > easiest things to read from a card is the "signature" of the > instructions being executed. Any ideas whether self-modifying code would make reading instruction signatures easier or more difficult? - Vin McLellan + The Privacy Guild + <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 53 Nichols St., Chelsea, MA 02150 USA <617> 884-5548 -- <@><@> --

Aussies Lead in Legitimizing LEA Hacking

1999-03-26 Thread Vin McLellan
will be able to use information from the Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre (AUSTRAC) to follow money trails. The changes also mean ASIO will be permitted to carry out security assessments during the Olympics. -- - Vin McLellan + The Privacy Guild + <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 53 Nichols St., Chelsea, MA 02150 USA <617> 884-5548 -- <@><@> --

Silverman on X9.31 RSA Primes

1999-03-26 Thread Vin McLellan
ecide what is acceptable for them to use. - Vin McLellan + The Privacy Guild + <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 53 Nichols St., Chelsea, MA 02150 USA <617> 884-5548 -- <@><@> --

Re: The name of "RSA"

1999-04-11 Thread Vin McLellan
yptography is like literacy in the Dark Ages. Infinitely potent, for good and ill... yet basically an intellectual construct, an idea, which by its nature will resist efforts to restrict it to bureaucrats and others who deem only themselves worthy of such Privilege." _A Thinking Man's Creed for Crypto _vbm * Vin McLellan + The Privacy Guild + <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>* 53 Nichols St., Chelsea, MA 02150 USA <617> 884-5548

Re: RSA patent on ECC

1999-04-11 Thread Vin McLellan
potent, for good and ill... yet basically an intellectual construct, an idea, which by its nature will resist efforts to restrict it to bureaucrats and others who deem only themselves worthy of such Privilege." _A Thinking Man's Creed for Crypto _vbm * Vin McLellan + The Privacy G

Hiding cyphertext in cyphertext (FW)

1999-04-19 Thread Vin McLellan
-- "Cryptography is like literacy in the Dark Ages. Infinitely potent, for good and ill... yet basically an intellectual construct, an idea, which by its nature will resist efforts to restrict it to bureaucrats and others who deem only themselves worthy of such Privilege." _A Thinking M

DoD Exec Damns E-Com Extranets; DoD to Cut I-net Wires?

1999-04-19 Thread Vin McLellan
_Vin "Cryptography is like literacy in the Dark Ages. Infinitely potent, for good and ill... yet basically an intellectual construct, an idea, which by its nature will resist efforts to restrict it to bureaucrats and others who deem only themselves worthy of su

Re: Starium announces STU-III for the masses

1999-04-28 Thread Vin McLellan
which by its nature will resist efforts to restrict it to bureaucrats and others who deem only themselves worthy of such Privilege." _A Thinking Man's Creed for Crypto _vbm * Vin McLellan + The Privacy Guild + <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>* 53 Nichols St., Chelsea, MA 02150 USA <617> 884-5548

Re: Starium announces STU-III for the masses

1999-04-29 Thread Vin McLellan
Vin McLellan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> noted: >> Last I heard the FIREFLY family of protocols used in STU-III >>remain classified. A finicky fellow, Anonymous <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, stepped in to briskly correct me: >The FIREFLY protocol is specified

Man Counterfeits bank ATM cards, Japan (Fwd)

1999-04-29 Thread Vin McLellan
acy in the Dark Ages. Infinitely potent, for good and ill... yet basically an intellectual construct, an idea, which by its nature will resist efforts to restrict it to bureaucrats and others who deem only themselves worthy of such Privilege." _A Thinking Man's Creed for Crypto _vbm * Vi

Re: SecurID/ACE cryptanalysis

1999-05-03 Thread Vin McLellan
_Vin "Cryptography is like literacy in the Dark Ages. Infinitely potent, for good and ill... yet basically an intellectual construct, an idea, which by its nature will resist efforts to restrict it to bureaucrats and others who deem only themselves worthy of such Privilege." _A Thinking Man's Creed for Crypto _vbm * Vin McLellan + The Privacy Guild + <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>* 53 Nichols St., Chelsea, MA 02150 USA <617> 884-5548 - [To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe firewalls" in the body of the message.]

RSA's BSAFE & Baldwin's RFC (FW)

1999-05-13 Thread Vin McLellan
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: I-D ACTION:draft-baldwin-bsafe-00.txt Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 08:49:55 -0400 Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories. Title: BSAFE CRYPTOGRAPHIC SECURITY COMPONENTS Author(s) : B. Baldwin, A

Re: NPR story on crypto...

1999-06-25 Thread Vin McLellan
erte, _Vin "Cryptography is like literacy in the Dark Ages. Infinitely potent, for good and ill... yet basically an intellectual construct, an idea, which by its nature will resist efforts to restrict it to bureaucrats and others who deem only themselves wor

RE: NPR story on crypto...

1999-06-25 Thread Vin McLellan
nfinitely potent, for good and ill... yet basically an intellectual construct, an idea, which by its nature will resist efforts to restrict it to bureaucrats and others who deem only themselves worthy of such Privilege." _A Thinking Man's Creed for Crypto _vbm * Vin McLellan + The Privacy Guild + <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>* 53 Nichols St., Chelsea, MA 02150 USA <617> 884-5548

Re: FBI Report on Cryptography

1999-07-07 Thread Vin McLellan
;have missed it. > >Rick. > > > "Cryptography is like literacy in the Dark Ages. Infinitely potent, for good and ill... yet basically an intellectual construct, an idea, which by its nature will resist efforts to restrict it to bureaucrats and others who deem on

RSA Security, Inc.

1999-09-19 Thread Vin McLellan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] or > 1-877-RSA-4900 > > > Your Only Choice in e-Security > > >-- "Cryptography is like literacy in the Dark Ages. Infinitely potent, for good and ill... yet basically an intellectual construct, an idea, which by its nature will resist efforts to restrict it to bureaucrats and others who deem only themselves worthy of such Privilege." _A Thinking Man's Creed for Crypto _vbm *Vin McLellan + The Privacy Guild + <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>*

Re: Almost-Everywhere Superiority for Quantum Computing

1999-10-18 Thread Vin McLellan
forts to restrict it to bureaucrats and others who deem only themselves worthy of such Privilege." _A Thinking Man's Creed for Crypto _vbm *Vin McLellan + The Privacy Guild + <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>*

Re: BXA

1999-10-19 Thread Vin McLellan
Unless, of course, this quiet announcement (in the Bernstein court papers filed by the US Govt) that the source code issue is currently being reviewed within the Executive Branch -- despite White House assurances to the contrary to leading Congressional figures -- was a purposely misleadi

Re: a smartcard of a different color

1999-11-17 Thread Vin McLellan
Dan Geer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> reported: >> Yesterday I saw a smartcard of a different color. In particular, >> it is the smartcard chip but in a key-ring thing that is more or >> less identical to the Mobil SpeedPass except that it has a USB >> connector on one end and a keyring hole on the other

Re: cracking GSM A5/1

1999-12-06 Thread Vin McLellan
Talking about timely and untimely comments. Check out Newsweek's credulous, confused, and tech-ignorant report about the (pre-oversight-hearing) moaning and and weeping at Fort Meade. Consider, with Newsweek, the momentous challenge the NSA confronts in e-mail and Internet

Re: "PGP Granted Worldwide Export License"

1999-12-14 Thread Vin McLellan
Unless I missed something big in D.C., I presume this is simply the announcement of a pro-forma bulk export license for PGP (and the repackaged PGP Enterprise Security Suite?) for Business. And, although it is difficult to discert amid all the self-congratulatory hoopla, I also

Re: "PGP Granted Worldwide Export License"

1999-12-14 Thread Vin McLellan
I guess I should qualify this. I am more than willing to assume that NAI's relationship with the US government is good enough that it got a little head start in obtaining a license to offer classic full-strength PGP as "retail" mass-market crypto. This is what the res

CERT Advisory CA-99.15 - Buffer Overflows in SSH Daemon and RSAREF2 Library (FW)

1999-12-14 Thread Vin McLellan
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1999 18:55:42 -0500 From: CERT Advisory <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: CERT Advisory CA-99.15 - Buffer Overflows in SSH Daemon and RSAREF2 Library Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: CERT(sm) Coordination Center - +1 412-268-7090 -BEGIN PGP SIGNED

Re: "PGP Granted Worldwide Export License"

1999-12-22 Thread Vin McLellan
, and it is a peer to peer, as well as peer to gateway, client. As one NAI spokeman put it: "Not only is it strong crypto, it's only strong crypto. It does not support single DES." My humble apologies for my public and sardonic skepticism. Suerte,

Re: legal status of RC4

2000-01-26 Thread Vin McLellan
Eric Murray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> queried the Listocracy: >Does anyone know the legal status of RC4 in the US? > >I know that a cipher purporting to be RC4 was published on >Cypherpunks by Anonymous, and that various crypto packages >have RC4 or "EC4". My question is, has RSA taken anyone

Re: legal status of RC4

2000-01-28 Thread Vin McLellan
Arnold G. Reinhold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> asked: >Are you sure RC4 is a registered trademark? I've never seen anything >that would indicate that. RSADSI first filed for a US trademark on "RC4" in 1993. RSA has used RC4 (R) since 1988 in "trade and commerce" (as the phra

ECC2K-108 Cracked (Certicom Challenge)

2000-04-17 Thread Vin McLellan
At 03:28 PM 4/17/00 -0400, Perry E. Metzger wrote: > >Anyone know anything about this? Hi Perry, This brief compilation might help. This has been an impressive achievement. The comments of Harley and Morain in the InRIA press release, below, are striking, given Certicom's histo

RE: GPS integrity

2000-05-09 Thread Vin McLellan
For more info on "Cyberlocator" (not SmartLocator), try: http://www.cyberlocator.com/technical.html Cyberlocator, a corporation, has two US patents on the use of GPS for location-based authentication. One patent (US 5,757,916) describes the use of satellites in location-based authentication and