Re: MD5 considered harmful today, SHA-1 considered harmful tomorrow

2009-01-20 Thread Bodo Moeller
On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 5:24 PM, Steven M. Bellovin s...@cs.columbia.edu wrote: I've mentioned it before, but I'll point to the paper Eric Rescorla wrote a few years ago: http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb/papers/new-hash.ps or http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb/papers/new-hash.pdf . The bottom

Re: The perils of security tools

2008-05-27 Thread Bodo Moeller
On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 4:55 PM, Hal Finney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A simple trick can be used to help immunize DSA signatures against these kinds of failures. I first learned of this idea many years ago from Phil Zimmermann, and a varient has been used for a long time in PGP and probably

Re: ECC patents?

2005-09-20 Thread Bodo Moeller
On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 12:18:14PM +0300, Alexander Klimov wrote: http://www1.ietf.org/proceedings_new/04nov/slides/saag-2/sld9.htm: What is Really Covered o The use of elliptic curves defined over GF(p) where p is a prime number greater than 2^255 when the product satisfies the

Re: Are there...one-way encryption algorithms

2003-11-20 Thread Bodo Moeller
On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 09:19:48AM -0800, Anton Stiglic wrote: David Wagner [EMAIL PROTECTED]: martin f krafft wrote: it came up lately in a discussion, and I couldn't put a name to it: a means to use symmetric crypto without exchanging keys: - Alice encrypts M with key A and sends it to

Re: anonymous DH MITM

2003-10-17 Thread Bodo Moeller
Ian Grigg [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I agree. As a side note, I think it is probably a good idea for TLS to deprecate ADH, simply because self-signed certs are more or less equivalent, and by unifying the protocol around certificates, it reduces some amount of complexity without major loss of

Re: anonymous DH MITM

2003-10-17 Thread Bodo Moeller
Tim Dierks [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Ian Grigg [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Steven M. Bellovin: What's your threat model? Self-signed certs are no better than ADH against MITM attacks. I agree. As a side note, I think it is probably a good idea for TLS to deprecate ADH, simply because self-signed certs