Re: MokSec - The Security Framework

2008-07-14 Thread Adrian-Ken Rueegsegger
Jan de Haan wrote:
 On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 4:50 PM, Kalle Happonen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 But there are places where
 you can get SIM cards with built in encyption/decryption keys, and a
 certificate (PKI).
 
 I agree. Would you care to elaborate (link)?

There's a manufacturer of a microSD smartcard [1] in Germany, which 
looks quite promising. Such a smartcard could be used in many security 
applications.

Cheers,
Adrian
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[1] - http://www.certgate.com/web_de/produkte/

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Re: modulated data over GSM voice (was Re: Data over normal GSM call)

2008-04-14 Thread Adrian-Ken Rueegsegger


Harald Welte wrote:

Just to give you a summary judgement:

Running any kind of voice-encoded data over a regular voice channel of a
GSM phone is _extremely_ unlikely to work.

There are a number of different codecs in use.  Which codec is
determined by the network.  There is echo cancellation at potentially
multiple locations during the call.  There might be one or multiple
transcoders of the voice codec along the road.

If you can manage to design a modulation and coding scheme that survives
all (or even most) of the stages above, I think you have achieved
something great.  I doubt you will get more than 300bps though :)


Somebody already has. May I point you towards the paper Real Time End 
to End Secure Voice Communications over GSM Voice Channel by N.N. 
Katugampala, K.T. Al-Naimi, S. Villette, and A.M. Kondoz [1].


The authors claim to have achieved a throughput of 3 kbps with a 2.9% 
BER.  By adding error correction codes the throughput went down to 1.2 
kbps with a BER of 0.03%. Unfortunately they have not released any code 
and I could not find much detail beyond a couple more  papers found at 
[2]. Nevertheless highly interesting to read :)


-Adrian

[1] - 
http://personal.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/N.Katugampala/pubs/eusipco05.pdf

[2] - http://personal.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/N.Katugampala/

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Re: Pocket Supercomputing?

2008-02-05 Thread Adrian-Ken Rueegsegger

Adrian-Ken Rueegsegger wrote:


I made some nx packages for openmoko a while ago but never got around to 
test them. I did get nxcl and it's respective dependencies to compile 
without errors. If anybody is interested let me know.


The packages are now available from the following git repository:

git clone git://openmoko.technodrom.ch/openmoko-overlay/

Feedback and of course patches are always welcome :)

-Adrian

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Re: Pocket Supercomputing?

2008-02-03 Thread Adrian-Ken Rueegsegger

Hello,

Al Johnson wrote:

On Thursday 31 January 2008, Lally Singh wrote:

On Jan 31, 2008 5:31 PM, joerg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Am Do  31. Januar 2008 schrieb Shawn Rutledge:
[...]


My
goal is to have applications written in arbitrary languages, running
on app servers, using a terse UI meta-language *) to transfer the
user-interaction parts of the apps to the thin client (more or less,
depending on the processing power/bandwidth tradeoffs on the client
side).

*) So it seems you're talking about X. Don't you? (Well terse is
relative) something like
[EMAIL PROTECTED]  ssh -X -l itsME myserver.dyndns.org konqueror

Eh, these days it's probably better off being AJAX based.  X widget
sets haven't been designed for good use over slower network links in
ages.  May as well take advantage of web standards, and we can likely
avoid having to write/invent anything specifically for the neo.


NX anyone? The nxcl libs should make it fairly easy to do a front end for 
OpenMoko. It works well on restricted bandwidth and can be used for either 
individual apps or a whole desktop.


I made some nx packages for openmoko a while ago but never got around to 
test them. I did get nxcl and it's respective dependencies to compile 
without errors. If anybody is interested let me know.


-Adrian

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