----- Forwarded message from "James A. Donald" <jam...@echeque.com> -----
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2013 07:53:02 +1000 From: "James A. Donald" <jam...@echeque.com> To: cypherpu...@cpunks.org, li...@pingle.org Subject: Re: [pfSense] Crypto/RNG Suggestions Message-ID: <525721be.3050...@echeque.com> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.0 On 2013-10-10 22:21, Eugen Leitl wrote: > ----- Forwarded message from Jim Pingle <li...@pingle.org> ----- > > I haven't yet seen anything conclusive. People have called into question > some or all of ECC, NSA's suggested Suite B, and so on. I put some links > in a previous message[1]. If anyone knows of some solid research showing > specific ciphers have been compromised, I'd love to see it so we can > inform users. There is a smoking gun on one of random number generators. There is strong circumstantial evidence, reason for suspicion, on suggested Suite B. AES and SHA look to be fine, but using them gives the appearance to end users that you might be playing footsie with NIST. Jon Callas has therefore made Twofish and Skein the default for silent circle. ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org";>leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://ativel.com http://postbiota.org AC894EC5: 38A5 5F46 A4FF 59B8 336B 47EE F46E 3489 AC89 4EC5 _______________________________________________ List mailing list List@lists.pfsense.org http://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list
