Re: traffic analysis of phone calls?

2003-07-12 Thread Peter Gutmann
Don Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >with similar import, here's cringely's article on insecure CALEA >workstations: A friend of mine who used to work for a large telco ended up being delegated to attend some of the CALEA meetings. He reports that the FBI were totally unable to comprehend that

Re: traffic analysis of phone calls?

2003-07-12 Thread David Honig
At 11:21 AM 7/12/03 -0400, Don Davis wrote: > It often does not lie behind a firewall. Heck, it > usually doesn't even lie behind a door. It has a direct > connection to the Internet because, believe it or not, > that is how the wiretap data is collected and transmitted." I believe the CALEA specs

Announcing httpsy://, a YURL scheme

2003-07-12 Thread Tyler Close
Now available on the Waterken Inc. site is a specification and implementation for a new HTTP extension, HTTPSY. HTTPSY provides decentralized, peer-to-peer authentication for the WWW. For those familiar with E , HTTPSY is feature equivalent to E's VatTP + VLS. HTTPSY is pr

Re: traffic analysis of phone calls?

2003-07-12 Thread Vin McLellan
Personal (Use it if you'd like, but keep me out of it.) Steve Bellovin wrote: Slightly off-topic, but a reminder of the sort of thing that ordinary crypto doesn't hide. http://www.silicon.com/news/59-51/1/5093.html?rolling=2 IT Myths: Colombian drugs gang's mainframe-assisted assassinatio

[IP] Russian mobile providers switch off encryption

2003-07-12 Thread R. A. Hettinga
--- begin forwarded text Status: U User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/10.0.0.1309 Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 07:00:18 -0400 Subject: [IP] Russian mobile providers switch off encryption From: Dave Farber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: ip <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL P

Re: traffic analysis of phone calls?

2003-07-12 Thread Don Davis
> Slightly off-topic, but a reminder of the sort of thing that > ordinary crypto doesn't hide. > > http://www.silicon.com/news/59-51/1/5093.html?rolling=2 > > IT Myths: Colombian drugs gang's mainframe-assisted assassinations? > Did drugs barons really use multi-million pound systems to see

traffic analysis of phone calls?

2003-07-12 Thread Steve Bellovin
Slightly off-topic, but a reminder of the sort of thing that ordinary crypto doesn't hide. http://www.silicon.com/news/59-51/1/5093.html?rolling=2 IT Myths: Colombian drugs gang's mainframe-assisted assassinations? Did drugs barons really use multi-million pound systems to see who was gra