Palm Programming

1999-04-08 Thread Bill Frantz
At 3:14 PM -0700 4/6/99, Ben Laurie wrote: >I do know that an old version of SSLeay was ported to it, and I intend >to port OpenSSL at some point. Good reasons for doing so will obviously >accelerate the process. Reducing the price of entry for doing C on a >Palm at all will help, too :-) Well, t

Re: IPSEC on a Palm III?

1999-04-08 Thread Eric Murray
On Wed, Apr 07, 1999 at 09:47:52PM -0400, Nelson Minar wrote: > >Eventually someone will write a trojan which searches memory for > >Interesting Things left there by other apps or pretends to be a > >trusted app to the user. > > Can you name an operating system in common use today that doesn't >

Re: IPSEC on a Palm III?

1999-04-08 Thread Nelson Minar
>Eventually someone will write a trojan which searches memory for >Interesting Things left there by other apps or pretends to be a >trusted app to the user. Can you name an operating system in common use today that doesn't suffer from this problem? I see you have a PGP key - are you running it a

Re: IPSEC on a Palm III?

1999-04-08 Thread Dan Geer
OTOH, a Palm isn't quite a 'secure' OS, either.. Sure, you can at least see what you are signing, but there is no secure key storage available. A trojan application could easily steal your credentials off a PalmPilot. I don't know if this is the case for an iButton. Adoption

Re: IPSEC on a Palm III?

1999-04-08 Thread Derek Atkins
Too bad the source code for PalmOS isn't available An OpenSource Secure PalmOS would be kind of cool. ;) -derek Dan Geer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > OTOH, a Palm isn't quite a 'secure' OS, either.. Sure, you can at > least see what you are signing, but there is no secure k

Re: Palm Programming

1999-04-08 Thread Eric Murray
On Thu, Apr 08, 1999 at 12:16:12AM -0700, Bill Frantz wrote: > > Well, there is a gcc based Palm development environment. I think the only > thing you need to spend money on is the O'Reilly book, "Palm Programming". > (I can't find my copy to check that the name is correct. You may also need >

Pebble (was Re: IPSEC on a Palm III?)

1999-04-08 Thread Robert Hettinga
At 9:47 PM -0400 on 4/7/99, Nelson Minar wrote: > I'm not trying to be difficult; this is a real problem. And no one has > a good solution for consumer use. I think a Pilot is likely to be > better than my desktop PC. This is kind of what I'm getting at, a Palm has a better chance of being a tr

Re: IPSEC on a Palm III?

1999-04-08 Thread James H. Cloos Jr.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > "Derek" == Derek Atkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Derek> Too bad the source code for PalmOS isn't available An Derek> OpenSource Secure PalmOS would be kind of cool. ;) Err, isn't it? I thought the whole src was included in the SDK. -

RSA invention

1999-04-08 Thread Robert Hettinga
--- begin forwarded text Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 07:39:47 -0400 (EDT) From: Ron Rivest <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RSA inventi

Re: IPSEC on a Palm III?

1999-04-08 Thread Enzo Michelangeli
Someone has ported to the Palm platform a stripped-down Linux kernel - see: http://ryeham.ee.ryerson.ca/uClinux/ Of course, the installation requires a Flash-based memory board, like those sold by TRG: http://www.trgnet.com/ Enzo -Original Message- From: Derek Atkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: references to password sniffer incident

1999-04-08 Thread Dominick LaTrappe
While on the topic of password-sniffing anecdotes from conferences -- At the 2600-coordinated Beyond HOPE conference (NYC, 1997), it was made very clear to users that passwords transmitted in-the-clear would be sniffed. To hammer home the point, one participant in the Tiger Teaming panel singled

ANNOUNCE: SF Bay Cypherpunks Mtg, Sat 10 April, Probably at Stanford

1999-04-08 Thread Bill Stewart
Online version: SF Bay Area Cypherpunks April 1999 Physical Meeting General Info: Sat 10 Oct 12:00 - 5:00 PM Probably at Stanford University Campus (Palo Alto, California) - Tressider Union courtyard, moving inside for demo or