AES attack calculations (money and time)

2013-11-17 Thread Hauke Laging
Hello, from time to time someone asks how secure (a)symmetric crypto really was and then our math and physics teacher Rob has his performance. Somebody just pointed me at this: http://2012.sharcs.org/slides/biryukov.pdf Of course, they say "No practical impact due to reliance on related keys"

unable to use gnupg on a read-only filesystem

2013-11-17 Thread Martin Vegter
Dear list, I am working on a read-only filesystem and I am using following command: echo "hello" | gpg -e -a -r mar...@example.com This command fails with the following errors: gpg: failed to create temporary file `/root/.gnupg/.#lk0x847421': Read-only file system gpg: fatal: can't create l

Re: unable to use gnupg on a read-only filesystem

2013-11-17 Thread Hauke Laging
Am So 17.11.2013, 19:02:12 schrieb Martin Vegter: > gpg: fatal: can't create lock for `/root/.gnupg/trustdb.gpg' > Could somebody please advice how I can use gpg without temporary files ? That is a lock file. Try --lock-never Hauke -- Crypto für alle: http://www.openpgp-schulungen.de/fuer/unt

Re: [tor-talk] BitMail.sf.net v 0.6 - Secure Encrypting Email Client

2013-11-17 Thread dan
| ... Further, getting two | computers to generate the exact same binary code from the exact same | source code is a surprisingly difficult challenge. It requires a | perfect match of everything from compiler versions to C library | versions right down to identical *clocks* -- becau

Re: [tor-talk] BitMail.sf.net v 0.6 - Secure Encrypting Email Client

2013-11-17 Thread Robert J. Hansen
On 11/17/2013 11:44 AM, d...@geer.org wrote: > Well said. Two binaries can be execution identical except for their > use of registers -- their use of registers being an artefact of the > compiler. In fact, it goes even deeper than that: many architectures allow their processor to dynamically reor

Re: [tor-talk] BitMail.sf.net v 0.6 - Secure Encrypting Email Client

2013-11-17 Thread Johan Wevers
On 18-11-2013 6:21, Robert J. Hansen wrote: > So even if > you're running two binaries that are completely identical, the CPU may > process them quite differently depending on the state of the system. > This has some extraordinary implications for those who are trying to > guarantee their CPU is o