RE: palm crypto
We've taken down the page until I can make sure that we're enforcing the appropriate export controls. Hopefully, it will return real soon now. Tim Dierks VP of Engineering, Certicom [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510.780.5409 [Hayward] -- 905.501.3791 [Mississauga] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jay D. Dyson Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 1999 10:25 AM To: Cryptography List Subject: Re: palm crypto -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Mon, 2 Aug 1999, Declan McCullagh wrote: http://www.certicom.com/software/SecureMemo11.ZIP http://www.certicom.com/software/SecureMemo11.SIT.BIN http://www.certicom.com/software/palmmemo.htm I've been trying to access these files, but I'm consistently hit up for a login/pass. The standard cypherpunks routine doesn't work, and I'd like to check this data out. Help? - -Jay ( __ )) .--- "There's always time for a good cup of coffee" ---. ===--. C|~~| (--- Jay D. Dyson - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---) | = |-' `--' `- Superman had Kryptonite, I have NT. Life is real. -' `-' -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBN6cl2s2OVDpaKXD9AQGdGgP/bF6pk5P40gykgeOU1/i/jKXT4f1WzSfY shV5RIuTJfokYoZgcGTOcfsLzzmDMnnzBMYqNBJ2lf8fflmPPz2BpbNe9iHhHnRT WKmuds/mfRgzacnh3KRGsCo5qgx9ylfrO980dSmzY4Ihzv7vyOyaF7j+8jJKPpAD /2h/N1l9MYM= =SnBr -END PGP SIGNATURE-
RE: palm crypto
The intended feature was to demonstrate the performance of elliptic curve private key operations on an embedded platform. Functionality was a secondary concern. The implementation doesn't have a PKI, so it doesn't allow you to transfer messages, get certificates, etc., so the use you describe isn't actually functional. The only (agreed minimal) benefit of public key is that you can encrypt a message without entering your password; you only need it to decrypt. Of course, adding message transfer PKI would be an interesting project (although my recommended mechanism would be to support ECC in OpenPGP formats for the messages, or ECC S/MIME). If someone would be interested in working on Secure MemoPad, you can contact me. - Tim Tim Dierks VP of Engineering, Certicom [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510.780.5409 [Hayward] -- 905.501.3791 [Mississauga] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Ian Goldberg Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 1999 1:36 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: palm crypto In article 001201bedc8b$3d5fb580$[EMAIL PROTECTED], Enzo Michelangeli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What's the point of using publick key technologies like ECC to protect private documents? As key management is a non-issue, something based on, say, 3DES or IDEA (like "Secret!", http://linkesoft.com/english/secret/) would suffice... I had the same thought. I finally decided that the ability to write a memo, encrypt it to some *other* pubkey, and beam it to the recipient is sufficiently useful to warrant the existence of this program. Keeping your *own* files secret is a special case. - Ian
Re: palm crypto
Or, if you don't wish to page through the export control silliness: http://www.certicom.com/software/SecureMemo11.ZIP http://www.certicom.com/software/SecureMemo11.SIT.BIN -Declan At 08:38 PM 8-1-99 -0400, Robert Hettinga wrote: http://www.certicom.com/software/palmmemo.htm
Re: palm crypto
On Mon, Aug 02, 1999 at 10:03:28AM +0800, Enzo Michelangeli wrote: What's the point of using publick key technologies like ECC to protect private documents? As key management is a non-issue, something based on, say, 3DES or IDEA (like "Secret!", http://linkesoft.com/english/secret/) would suffice... public key technologie allows encryption of text w/o passphrase. only decrypt needs passphrase. On Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 10:24:32AM -0700, Jay D. Dyson wrote: http://www.certicom.com/software/SecureMemo11.ZIP http://www.certicom.com/software/SecureMemo11.SIT.BIN http://www.certicom.com/software/palmmemo.htm I've been trying to access these files, but I'm consistently hit up for a login/pass. The standard cypherpunks routine doesn't work, and I'd like to check this data out. Help? try: ftp://ftp.fu-berlin.de/unix/security/replay-mirror/crypto/PalmPilot/SecureMemo11.ZIP -markus
Re: palm crypto
In article 001201bedc8b$3d5fb580$[EMAIL PROTECTED], Enzo Michelangeli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What's the point of using publick key technologies like ECC to protect private documents? As key management is a non-issue, something based on, say, 3DES or IDEA (like "Secret!", http://linkesoft.com/english/secret/) would suffice... I had the same thought. I finally decided that the ability to write a memo, encrypt it to some *other* pubkey, and beam it to the recipient is sufficiently useful to warrant the existence of this program. Keeping your *own* files secret is a special case. - Ian
RE: palm crypto
What's the point of using publick key technologies like ECC to protect private documents? As key management is a non-issue, something based on, say, 3DES or IDEA (like "Secret!", http://linkesoft.com/english/secret/) would suffice... Enzo = Original Message From Robert Hettinga [EMAIL PROTECTED] = --- begin forwarded text Date: Sun, 1 Aug 1999 19:31:44 -0400 From: Somebody To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: palm crypto http://www.certicom.com/software/palmmemo.htm Somebody's .sig --- end forwarded text - Robert A. Hettinga mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation http://www.ibuc.com/ 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'
