FW: Next Week's FSTC May 17-18 Meeting Update

Yee-haaa! I *love* my non-job... Cheers, RAH --- begin forwarded text From: Somebody To: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: FW: Next Week's FSTC May 17-18 Meeting Update Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 17:20:23 -0700 Bob: Have you seen the attachment? More ATM over the Internet proj

PKCS 11 in Netscape

I'm trying to implement PKCS 11 into Netscape. Can someone tell me what does Netsacpe needs and their calling functions? I can put my dll into Netscape, and the token is created, the slots are there and the sessions info are all there. But the certificate that is read into the token doesnt appear

NY Times article on EU acceptance of Enfopol

http://www.nytimes.com/techweb/TW_Europe_Votes_For_ISP_Spying_Infrastructure .html Ern

Re: A5/1 cracking hardware estimate

At 6:17 PM + 5/13/99, Matthew Francey wrote: >>Your approach is interesting, but it claims a gain of about 100 in reduced >>cycle time, while giving up the ability to use the knowledge that ten key >>bits are zero, which is a factor of 1000. So it is not a win in that sense. > >I'd just build

Re: A5/1 cracking hardware estimate

I wrote: >The 64 bit counter can be dispensed with by using the search engine as it's >own "counter". Just start the registers at some known point and let it >loose. Shift the output bits into a plaintext comparison unit -- simple >xor/mask/check for zero combinatoric logic. Stop when a match

Re: A5/1 cracking hardware estimate

>Your approach is interesting, but it claims a gain of about 100 in reduced >cycle time, while giving up the ability to use the knowledge that ten key >bits are zero, which is a factor of 1000. So it is not a win in that sense. I'd just build 10x more of the searchers then; they are very simple.

Re: A5/1 cracking hardware estimate

Matthew, Your approach is interesting, but it claims a gain of about 100 in reduced cycle time, while giving up the ability to use the knowledge that ten key bits are zero, which is a factor of 1000. So it is not a win in that sense. However your analysis does suggest that going to a full 64 bit

[Fwd: That spooky PECSENC]

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Just what is the "offense" of encryption?

> From: http://www.sjmercury.com/breaking/docs/081732.htm>> SENATE PANEL OKS MONEY FOR HIGH-TECH> CRIME FIGHTERS>> [SNIP]>> The bill deals with several> technology-related offenses such as> encryption, use and possession of> devices that can intercept cable TV> signals, phone slamming and s

RSA's BSAFE & Baldwin's RFC (FW)

From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: I-D ACTION:draft-baldwin-bsafe-00.txt Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 08:49:55 -0400 Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories. Title: BSAFE CRYPTOGRAPHIC SECURITY COMPONENTS Author(s) : B. Baldwin, A

Finally! A Newsweek article!

Anyone knows if TIME has any corresponding piece?   http://www.newsweek.com/nw-srv/printed/us/st/ty0320_1.htm   Ern  

ADMIN: stop the HTML, please.

Several posters have sent mail messages in the last couple of days in HTML instead of plain text, or in a mime multipart/alternative with text and HTML. Please *stop*. I will systematically reject such postings in the future. Most of us do not read our email with web browsers, no matter what Net