spyware on Blackberries
http://feeds.wired.com/~r/wired27b/~3/CFV8MEwH_rM/ A BlackBerry update that a United Arab Emirates service provider pushed out to its customers contains U.S.-made spyware that would allow the company or others to siphon and read their e-mail and text messages, according to a researcher who examined it. The update was billed as a “performance enhancement patch” by the UAE-based phone and internet service provider Etisalat, which issued the patch for its 100,000 subscribers. ... --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb - The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending unsubscribe cryptography to majord...@metzdowd.com
Re: 112-bit prime ECDLP solved
Tanja Lange wrote: So with about 1 000 000 USD and a full year you would get 122 bits already now and agencies have a bit more budget than this! Furthermore, the algorithm parallelizes extremely well and can handle a batch of 100 targets at only 10 times the cost. No it cannot handle a bunch of a hundred targets at only ten times the cost. It is already parallelized. A hundred targets is a hundred times the cost. But let us not think small. Suppose the president says Break James Donald's key. I don't care how much it costs. The sky is the limit and they devote the entire US gross national product for a year to breaking James Donald's key in a year. Then they can break a 170 bit key. But I rather doubt that they will. - The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending unsubscribe cryptography to majord...@metzdowd.com
