Re: [Fwd: [ANNOUNCE] NSS 3.1 Beta 1 Release]

2000-09-19 Thread William H. Geiger III
work on that, instead of >reinventing the wheel. IIRC the OpenSSL project was not accepting code from US sources. Has this policy changed? -- --------------- William H. Geiger III http://www.openpgp.net Geiger Consulting Data Securit

Re: FC: More on Network Associates and its crypto-politics

1998-11-18 Thread William H. Geiger III
if it looked good on the bottom line. A real shame that PGP had to get mixed up with these vipers. -- ----------- William H. Geiger III http://www.openpgp.net Geiger ConsultingCooking With Warp 4.0 Author of E-Secure - PGP Front End for

Re: Intel & Symantec v. ZKS?

1999-04-29 Thread William H. Geiger III
n how bad the random number sources are in most software, I'd say you are not doing your users a service. --Perry] - The following message is forwarded to you by "William H. Geiger III" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Intel & Symantec v. ZKS?

1999-05-01 Thread William H. Geiger III
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 04/29/99 at 03:40 PM, Anonymous <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >William H. Geiger III writes: >> One has to wonder if this is the actions of a company that is trustworthy >> enough to supply RNG's to the community. IMHO it is not and I s

Re: Did the court publish cryptography on the web?

1999-05-07 Thread William H. Geiger III
This reminds me of an AU case a few years back involving their Censorship Board. IIRC it involved a "book" on shoplifting in which the courts ruled it's publication was banned. Inadvertently the courts published the book on the web along with the other documents relating to the cas

Re: [IRR] Problems with Eudora plugin for PGP 6.0.2i

1999-05-14 Thread William H. Geiger III
e not just security encoding). -- --------------- William H. Geiger III http://www.openpgp.net Geiger ConsultingCooking With Warp 4.0 Author of E-Secure - PGP Front End for MR/2 Ice PGP & MR/2 the only way for secure e-mail. OS/2 PGP 5.0 at: http

Re: Is anonymous speech protected?

1999-05-17 Thread William H. Geiger III
cting victims or people in federal witness protection programs, >etc)? Hi Dave, The right to anonymous speech has long been upheld by the SC. Sorry don't have any case references handy but a quick search should turn them up. -- -----------------

Re: Germany Frees Crypto

1999-06-03 Thread William H. Geiger III
strictions I would guess that 56bit in real time or very close to real time. 40 bit real time is a no brainer. -- ----------- William H. Geiger III http://www.openpgp.net Geiger ConsultingCooking With Warp 4.0 Author of E-Secure - PGP Front En

Re: Why plaintext cryptographic status messages must be out of band

1999-06-07 Thread William H. Geiger III
ay but they do not stamp the message as above (verification info is displayed outside of the text window). Out of band need not be a requirement, like most things it depends on how it is implemented. Anyone with any real concern with security would not be using M$ products to begin with. -- ---

Re: so why is IETF stilling adding DES to protocols? (Re: It's official... DES is History)

1999-06-25 Thread William H. Geiger III
amp; RSADSI may have no problem selling false security to their customers, IMHO the OpenSSL group should be above this. I really think that a quick end could be brought to the export issue if a few people overseas sued these companies for fraud. -- --------------

Re: so why is IETF stilling adding DES to protocols? (Re: It's official... DES is History)

1999-06-25 Thread William H. Geiger III
who are trying to use the standards process to increase sales at the expense of their customers. -- --- William H. Geiger III http://www.openpgp.net Geiger ConsultingCooking With Warp 4.0 Author of E-Secure - PGP Front End for MR/2 Ice PGP & MR/2 the

Re: World's fastest hardware encryption

1999-07-08 Thread William H. Geiger III
y be broken. Doing weak crypto really fast is not all that impressive to me. -- ------- William H. Geiger III http://www.openpgp.net Geiger ConsultingCooking With Warp 4.0 Author of E-Secure - PGP Front End for MR/2 Ice PGP & MR/2 the only way for secure e-mail. OS/2 PGP 5.0 at: http://www.openpgp.net/pgp.html Talk About PGP on IRC EFNet Channel: #pgp Nick: whgiii Hi Jeff!! :) ---

Re: Security Lab To Certify Banking Applications (was Re: ECARM NEWS for July 23,1999 Second Ed.)

1999-07-26 Thread William H. Geiger III
tify them making their certification worthless. -- --------------- William H. Geiger III http://www.openpgp.net Geiger ConsultingCooking With Warp 4.0 Author of E-Secure - PGP Front End for MR/2 Ice PGP & MR/2 the only way for secure e-mail. OS/2 PGP 5.0 at:

Re: Security Lab To Certify Banking Applications (was Re: ECARM NEWS for July 23,1999 Second Ed.)

1999-07-27 Thread William H. Geiger III
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 07/26/99 at 04:39 PM, Tom Weinstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >"William H. Geiger III" wrote: >> >> In <v0421012db3be70faae9c@[207.244.108.87]>, on 07/23/99 >>at 03:20 PM, Robert Hettinga <[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Security Lab To Certify Banking Applications

1999-07-27 Thread William H. Geiger III
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 07/27/99 at 09:47 AM, Rick Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >Regarding the general direction of these comments.... >>"William H. Geiger III" wrote: >>> Well I have my doubts on this. Either they refuse to certify Microsoft

Re: US Urges Ban of Internet Crypto

1999-07-28 Thread William H. Geiger III
The bitch is getting a clue. :) -- --------------- William H. Geiger III http://www.openpgp.net Geiger ConsultingCooking With Warp 4.0 Author of E-Secure - PGP Front End for MR/2 Ice PGP & MR/2 the only way for secure e-mail. OS/2 PGP 5.0 at: http://www.openpgp.net/pgp.html Talk About PGP on IRC EFNet Channel: #pgp Nick: whgiii Hi Jeff!! :) ---

RE: NSA key in MSFT Crypto API

1999-09-03 Thread William H. Geiger III
he millions of lines of code that no one outside of Redmond has ever seen. Windows is compromised!! Microsoft is in bed with the Federal Government. There is *no* security on a system running their software. Those who continue to do so get exactly what they deserve. -- -----

Re: NSA key in MSFT Crypto API

1999-09-04 Thread William H. Geiger III
ould compromise their systems for the NSA remember Crypto AG & Lotus. -- ----------- William H. Geiger III http://www.openpgp.net Geiger ConsultingCooking With Warp 4.0 Author of E-Secure - PGP Front End for MR/2 Ice PGP & MR/2 the only way for secure e-

RE: NSA key in MSFT Crypto API

1999-09-04 Thread William H. Geiger III
gt;after. My personal choice would be to name the building after William >Jefferson Clinton since he was so closely attentive to the work of the >FBI for much of his presidential term. Hey why not, replace the name of one statist with another. Phil you really should stick to socialist advocac

Re: Paul Brown on Solitiare randomness flaw?

1999-09-04 Thread William H. Geiger III
rights people on how to >use it in the field... Hi Dave, I did some searching through my digital library. Take a look at: http://www.hedonism.demon.co.uk/paul/solitaire/index.html -- ----------- William H. Geiger III http://www.openpgp.net Geige

Re: linux-ipsec: Intel IPSEC accelerator gives 3DES protected 100Mbit Ethernet

1999-09-16 Thread William H. Geiger III
t, too, and you are using *that*. As for their RNG hardware, Paul Kocher was invited to look inside the Kimono and has published a full report on it, and he didn't find anything odd... --Perry] -- --- William H. Geiger III http:

Re: linux-ipsec: Intel IPSEC accelerator gives 3DES protected 100Mbit Ethernet

1999-09-16 Thread William H. Geiger III
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 09/16/99 at 09:20 AM, "William H. Geiger III" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >As for their RNG hardware, Paul Kocher was invited to look inside the >Kimono and has published a full report on it, and he didn't find anything >odd... -

Re: IBM to built crypto-on-a-chip into all its PCs

1999-09-29 Thread William H. Geiger III
eep IBM safe from the nightmare Intel faced when it attempted to >railroad CPU ID numbers on users. No Code == No Trust! This has all the security/trust problems that Intel's RNG does and more. I wouldn't touch this thing with a ten foot poll. -------

Re: IBM to built crypto-on-a-chip into all its PCs

1999-09-30 Thread William H. Geiger III
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 09/30/99 at 11:39 AM, Damien Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >Hash: SHA1 >On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, William H. Geiger III wrote: >> In <v04210101b41578834ee3@[204.167.100.139]>, on 09/27/99 &

Re: IT Companies Promote New Standard For Phone Security (was Re: Edupage, 29 September 1999)

1999-09-30 Thread William H. Geiger III
They will cave to the LEA's just like all those before them have. -- --------------- William H. Geiger III http://www.openpgp.net Geiger ConsultingCooking With Warp 4.0 Author of E-Secure - PGP Front End for MR/2 Ice PGP & MR/2 the on

Re: PGP on an e-commerce site

2000-01-03 Thread William H. Geiger III
e different if you were paying VeriSign to provide you with certified identities of 3rd parties but last I looked this is not the business model that they are using (nor is any other CA). -- --- William H. Geiger IIIhttp://www.openpgp.net Geiger Consulting Data Security & Cryptology Consulting Programming, Networking, Analysis PGP for OS/2: http://www.openpgp.net/pgp.html ---

Re: PGP on an e-commerce site

2000-01-06 Thread William H. Geiger III
e different if you were paying VeriSign to provide you with certified identities of 3rd parties but last I looked this is not the business model that they are using (nor is any other CA). -- --- William H. Geiger IIIhttp://www.openpgp.net Geiger Consulting Data Security & Cryptology Consulting Programming, Networking, Analysis PGP for OS/2: http://www.openpgp.net/pgp.html ---

Re: "Microsoft to publish details of Kerberos Authorisation Data inWindows 2000"

2000-05-01 Thread William H. Geiger III
the Specification and it supersedes all prior or contemporaneous oral or written communications, proposals and representations with respect to the Specification. -- --- William H. Geiger IIIhttp://www.openpgp.net Geiger

Has RSADSI Lost their mind?

2000-07-02 Thread William H. Geiger III
. - The following message is forwarded to you by "William H. Geiger III" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (listed as the From user of this message). The original sender (see the header, below) was [EMAIL PROTECTED] and has been set as the "Reply-To&q