Re: 3G crypto algorithms

2001-01-21 Thread Greg Rose
to find them (and other 3G documents that are relevant to them). This page can be found at http://www.research.att.com/~janos/3gpp.html Thank you for your attention! Janos A. Csirik. -- Janos A. Csirik, Mathematics Cryptography, ATT Labs - Research Greg Rose

Re: Cryptographic Algorithm Metrics

2001-01-03 Thread Greg Rose
security. The OTP is just the simplest realisation of this. Greg. NOTE NEW ADDRESS AND PHONE NUMBERS BELOW! Greg Rose INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Qualcomm Australia VOICE: +61-2-9817 4188 FAX: +61-2-9817 5199 Level 3, 230 Victoria Road

Re: Cryptographic Algorithm Metrics

2001-01-03 Thread Greg Rose
are special in that sense. I have often seen the claim that "only one time pads are provably secure", and this bugs me. Greg Rose wrote: At 11:01 PM 1/3/2001 +, someone wrote: Don't you think that's a pretty good reason for singling it out? Is there any additional merit in the mo

Re: IBM press release - encryption and authentication

2000-12-11 Thread Greg Rose
definitions of modular arithmetic. So long as both ends use the broken method, or you aren't terribly unlucky (since only about 1 in 2^121 calculations will hit this case), it will all still work. Greg. Greg Rose INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Qualcomm Australia

Re: Oh for a decently encrypted mobile phone...

2000-09-15 Thread Greg Rose
the Qsec-800 CDMA mobile from Qualcomm, but that won't work in England I don't think. See http://www.qualcomm.com/govsys/qsec.html . Disclaimer: I work for one and invest in both, so I'm biased. Greg. Greg Rose INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Qualcomm Australia

reflecting on PGP, keyservers, and the Web of Trust

2000-09-01 Thread Greg Rose
mobilise the public, and I *do* use it a lot. But it hasn't really succeeded either. There is a lot more work to be done yet. I blame it on PKI. Greg. Greg Rose INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Qualcomm AustraliaVOICE: +61-2-9181-4851 FAX: +61-2-9181-5470

Re: Elgamal

2000-07-19 Thread Greg Rose
they are used to create the public key from the private key. Except for creating a very big target, there's no real reason why eveyone shouldn't share the same prime and generator; IPSec standardises a couple (of different sizes). Greg. Greg Rose INTERNET

Re: secret-sharing code

2000-03-29 Thread Greg Rose
products. I use Hal Finney's "secsplit". Google found it in a couple of places; it doesn't seem to have been updated since 1993. It doesn't do the more complicated schemes, just straight (m, k) splitting. regards, Greg. Greg Rose INTERNET: [EMAIL

Re: Looking for a cryptographic primitive

2000-03-09 Thread Greg Rose
y, called "1". If you calculate its additive inverse, which is surely tractable as a one-time computation, then additive inverses generally can be computed as x*-1, which you postulate to be easy. Greg. Greg Rose INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: having source code for your CPU chip -- NOT

1999-09-24 Thread Greg Rose
, what guarantees does one have about the provenance of the code? --Perry] regards, Greg. Greg Rose INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Qualcomm Australia VOICE: +61-2-9181-4851 FAX: +61-2-9181-5470 Suite 410, Birkenhead Point, http

Re: message-signing at the MTA level

1999-08-22 Thread Greg Rose
. Greg Rose INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Qualcomm Australia VOICE: +61-2-9181-4851 FAX: +61-2-9181-5470 Suite 410, Birkenhead Point, http://people.qualcomm.com/ggr/ Drummoyne NSW 2047 232B EC8F 44C6 C853 D68F E107 E6BF CD2F 1081

Salt (was: ICSA certifies weak crypto as secure)

1999-06-02 Thread Greg Rose
for a beginner. I rarely recommend the encyclopaedia as a starting point for anything. (I apologise again.)] Greg Rose INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Qualcomm Australia VOICE: +61-2-9181-4851 FAX: +61-2-9181-5470 Suite 410, Birkenhead Point, http

Re: [IRR] Problems with Eudora plugin for PGP 6.0.2i

1999-05-15 Thread Greg Rose
he default changed when you installed it. As for signing the .sig, that is definitely considered a feature not a bug. If you clearsign the message, it shows through... if it is encrypted, it shouldn't. C'est la Guerre. regards, Greg. Greg Rose INTERNET: [EMAIL

Re: references to password sniffer incident

1999-03-09 Thread Greg Rose
. Greg Rose INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Qualcomm Australia VOICE: +61-2-9181-4851 FAX: +61-2-9181-5470 Suite 410, Birkenhead Point, http://people.qualcomm.com/ggr/ Drummoyne NSW 2047 232B EC8F 44C6 C853 D68F E107 E6BF CD2F 1081

references to password sniffer incident

1999-03-08 Thread Greg Rose
to the incident where someone mounted a password sniffer at a major network hub (MAE-West?) a couple of years ago. But I haven't turned up anything useful in a Web search. I didn't dream this incident, did I? Does anyone have any references? thanks, Greg. Greg Rose