Re: Crypto dongles to secure online transactions

2009-11-16 Thread Jeremy Stanley
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 09:42:21PM -0500, Jerry Leichter wrote: [...] If one organization distributes the dongles, they could accept only updates signed by that organization. We have pretty good methods for keeping private keys secret at the enterprise level, so the risks should be manageable.

Re: Crypto dongles to secure online transactions

2009-11-17 Thread Jeremy Stanley
On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 11:20:27PM -0500, Jerry Leichter wrote: I'm not sure that's the right lesson to learn. I might have, perhaps, phrased it a little better. Regardless of initial planning, TI continued selling devices relying on this particular code signing implementation well past what the

Re: [Cryptography] Thoughts about keys

2013-08-31 Thread Jeremy Stanley
On 2013-08-25 16:29:42 -0400 (-0400), Perry E. Metzger wrote: [...] If I meet someone at a reception at a security conference, they might scrawl their email address (al...@example.org) for me on a cocktail napkin. I'd like to be able to then write to them, say to discuss their exciting new

Re: [Cryptography] Thoughts about keys

2013-09-03 Thread Jeremy Stanley
On 2013-09-01 13:02:26 +1000 (+1000), James A. Donald wrote: On 2013-09-01 11:16 AM, Jeremy Stanley wrote: [...] bring business cards (or even just slips of paper) with our name, E-mail address and 160-bit key fingerprint. [...] The average user is disturbed by the sight a 160 bit hash

Re: [Cryptography] Thoughts about keys

2013-09-05 Thread Jeremy Stanley
On 2013-09-04 13:12:21 +0200 (+0200), Ilja Schmelzer wrote: There is already a large community of quite average users which use Torchat, which uses onion-Adresses as Ids, which are 512 bit hashs if I remember correctly. Typical ways of communication in this community are look for my

Re: [Cryptography] PGP Key Signing parties

2013-10-11 Thread Jeremy Stanley
On 2013-10-11 12:03:44 +0100 (+0100), Tony Naggs wrote: Do key signing parties even happen much anymore? The last time I saw one advertised was around PGP 2.6! [...] Within more active pockets of the global free software community (where OpenPGP signatures are used to authenticate release