Re: chip-level randomness?
On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 01:44:57PM -0700, Bram Cohen wrote: What is important, it *doesn't* feed the built-in Linux kernel PRNG available in /dev/urandom and /dev/random, so you have either to only use the hardware generator or feed /dev/urandom yourself. That's so ... stupid. Why go through all the work of making the thing run and then leave it unplugged? It's not that stupid, as feeding the PRNG from i810_rng at the kernel level would be resource intensive, not necessary in general case and would require to invent some defaults without any reasonable arguments to rely on. Like how often to feed the PRNG, with how much data etc. On the other hand, the authors provide a `rngd' daemon, running in userland, that reads the i810_rng device and feeds the data into kernel PRNG. It seems to be reasonably written, with all the possible caveats in mind, and you can control the feeding interval, block size and other parameters. URI: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=3242release_id=28349 -- Pawe Krawczyk *** home: http://ceti.pl/~kravietz/ security: http://ipsec.pl/ *** fidonet: 2:486/23 - The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Which internet services were used?
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Perry E. Metzger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: These same people ignore the fact that the US economy, and indeed the world economy, could no longer function without encryption. I am not sure that it is accurate to say that the world economy will grind to a halt without encryption. It would suffer massive truly fraud losses, just as credit cards currently experience massive fraud due to their use of a single fixed account number. But given the current mood in the US, the public might even be prepared to accept huge economic losses -- if it made them feel safer. An effective argument against crypto restrictions must be on the grounds that new laws would not help fight terrorism. It is very difficult to convince people with a cost-side argument, because the effects of a successful terrorist attack can be viewed as nearly infinite. The public will only be strongly opposed to new measures if they feel that they are ineffective. -- Shields. - The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending unsubscribe cryptography to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[FYI] FITUG urges political leaders to defend citizens' freedoms
http://www.fitug.de/news/pes/fitug-010918.en.html --- CUT - FITUG e.V. Förderverein Informationstechnik und Gesellschaft FITUG urges political leaders to defend citizens' freedoms Tuesday's terrorist attacks were not only targeting human lives, but also the basic values of open societies. In these dark hours of grief and wrath, political leaders are called upon to protect both: Citizens' lives and citizens' freedom. Terrorists' attack on open societies cannot be completed but with help from ourselves, and from our political leaders. This must not happen. In the ongoing debate on how terrorism is best fought, one option proposed by certain circles comprieses strenghtening signal intelligence capabilities. According to these circles, the eavesdropping capabilities available to law enforcement and the intelligence community are insufficient for uncovering and monitoring communication of today's distributed and highly organized groups of terrorists and criminals. Availability of virtually unbreakable encryption products to the general public is perceived as a major obstacle in the current battle against terrorism. This perception is highly misleading. Any legislative activity based on it will inevitably fail to reach its goal. Instead, such activity would undermine basic values of free and open societies, such as citizens' right to privacy and private communication. Such legislative activity would ignore the ample evidence that the problem of today's intelligence is not a lack of signal intelligence, but a lack and neglection of human intelligence and intelligent interpretation of the material collected. Even the most sophisticated signal interception technology available will hardly be able to thwart stone age style secure channels used by terrorists, such as human couriers and confidential face-to-face meetings. Cryptography is a key enabling technology for a safe information society. Obstructing the use of practically unbreakable encryption as a means of securing electronic communications will make our modern, information-based economies and societies even more susceptible to cyber criminals' and terrorists' attacks. Stopping the spread of strong cryptography would amount to blasting holes into the civilized world's already-thin defense shield against digital harm. We therefore urge political leaders and policy-makers not to restrict citizens' and businesses' freedom to communicate privately, using the best technology available. Our societies and economies need this technology and its widespread use in order to defend against tomorrow's digital attacks. About FITUG FITUG creates connections to the virtual world of new media and data networks. From our statues: The association's purpose is the fostering of the integration of new media with society, public education about technologies, risks, and dangers of these media, and the fostering of human rights and consumer interests with respect to computer networks. FITUG is a member of the Global Internet Liberty Campaign (GILC). --- CUT - - The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending unsubscribe cryptography to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FC: Majority of Americans want anti-encryption laws, poll says
On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 01:02:47PM -0700, John W Noerenberg II wrote: Does Princeton Survey Research Associates have a particular political agenda - or did they just blow it with this survey? I understand the survey may have been commissioned by Newsweek, but I hesitate to state this as fact without checking. Alas, the magazine's website is offline, and I don't have time to call them or PSRA (which does not appear to list it on their website): http://www.msnbc.com/news/NW-front_Front.asp File not found Our Web servers cannot find the page or file you asked for: -Declan - The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending unsubscribe cryptography to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FC: Majority of Americans want anti-encryption laws, poll says
The survey was commissioned by Newsweek. An explanation from Princeton Survey Research Associates and the exact wording of the question asked (which did cover privacy and business impact) is here: http://www.politechbot.com/p-02530.html -Declan On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 04:34:45PM -0400, Declan McCullagh wrote: On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 01:02:47PM -0700, John W Noerenberg II wrote: Does Princeton Survey Research Associates have a particular political agenda - or did they just blow it with this survey? I understand the survey may have been commissioned by Newsweek, but I hesitate to state this as fact without checking. Alas, the magazine's website is offline, and I don't have time to call them or PSRA (which does not appear to list it on their website): http://www.msnbc.com/news/NW-front_Front.asp File not found Our Web servers cannot find the page or file you asked for: -Declan - The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending unsubscribe cryptography to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending unsubscribe cryptography to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
