Re: Large Primes

1999-01-03 Thread Wei Dai
On Sun, Jan 03, 1999 at 07:48:11PM +, William Allen Simpson wrote: > This generates "safe" primes, rather than "strong" primes. > > I meant to put this in a RFC someday, but it would be nice to know > whether I'd done something wrong first Any problems/suggestions? This code is kind of

Aaron Speaks? [RRE]Conference on HR Data and the EU PrivacyDirective

1999-01-03 Thread Robert Hettinga
Is there anyone here who wants to pay to endure a probably deathly dull suit-conference :-), to ask David Aaron, the Clinton administration's Official Ambassador Against Cryptography [invited] ;-), a few rather pointed questions? (Okay, if Swire's there, it's probably not going to be *completely

Re: Large Primes

1999-01-03 Thread William Allen Simpson
> Does anybody know of a source for large (1000+ bit) STRONG prime > numbers? > Generating software or archives would be helpful. > There are probably quite a few out there, but here is what Karn and I worked up over the years to generate safe moduli for Photuris -- a pair of programs: qsieve.c is

Re: 56 Bits?????

1999-01-03 Thread Eugene Leitl
Wiping is not enough in some cases. With magnetical proximal probe microscopy one can read residual magnetisation even in low-level formatted disks. First wiping with ones and zeroes and then overwriting several times with (pseudo)random sequences offers better protection. The optimal solution

[Zero-Knowledge Press Release] Experts to Call for Rejection ofInternet Wiretap Plan

1999-01-03 Thread Robert Hettinga
--- begin forwarded text From: Dov Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: ZKS Press Releases <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [Zero-Knowledge Press Release] Experts to Call for Rejection of Internet Wiretap Plan Date: Fri, 5 Nov 1999 13:19:59 -0500 Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ===

Nova program "Decoding Nazi Secrets"

1999-01-03 Thread Jim Gillogly
PBS will be airing a Nova program next Tuesday, 9 Nov, called "Decoding Nazi Secrets". It includes material from the popular British series "Station X", about the work of Bletchley Park in breaking German ciphers. The related web page is http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/decoding/ I prepared a cipher

Encryption Expert Witness Wanted

1999-01-03 Thread Kennedy, Linda
Preferably an academic type in Chicago or a suburb thereof. Will also consider industry types, especially if local to Chicago. ___ Linda D. Kennedy, Esq. Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione, Intellectual Property Attorneys NBC Tower - Suite 3600 455 N. Cityfront Plaza Chicago, IL

Hong Kong Police's pro-crypto stance

1999-01-03 Thread Enzo Michelangeli
Eat your heart out, friends in the Land of the Free: here in the HK Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China, the Computer Security Unit of the Crime Prevention Bureau encourages computer users to encrypt their data. See at ftp://ftp.futuredynamics.com/freecrypto/hkpcrypt.jp

Re: HOWTO: Encryption on local LAN

1999-01-03 Thread Joe Dauncey
Michael, The CyLink Encryptor will encrypt any traffic that goes between the two encryptor/decryptors. Basically you stick one encryptor/decryptor at each end of your WAN link and it encrypts the traffic between the two. You also have a management console called PrivaCy Manager, though I don't