Re: The future of security

2004-07-30 Thread Ed Gerck
Email end-to-end: PGP, PGP/MIME, S/MIME. Not tunnel SSL or SSL at the end points. Lars Eilebrecht wrote: According to Ed Gerck: But encryption and authentication are a hassle today, with less than 2% of all email encrypted (sorry, can't cite the source I know). Are these 2% 'only' S/MIME and

RE: dual-use digital signature [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2004-07-30 Thread Peter Gutmann
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 2 centsIn the business cases pointed out where it is good that the multiple parties hold the private key, I feel the certificate should indicate that there are multiple parties so that Bob can realize he is having authenticated and private communications with Alice _and_

NIST announces (proposed) withdrawal of DES

2004-07-30 Thread Peter Gutmann
For those who haven't seen the announcement: -- Snip -- July 27, 2004 -- NIST has determined that the strength of the (single) Data Encryption Standard (DES) algorithm is no longer sufficient to adequately protect Federal government information. As a result, NIST proposes withdrawing FIPS 46-3,

Re: should you trust CAs? (Re: dual-use digital signature vulnerability)

2004-07-30 Thread Aram Perez
Hi Adam, The difference is if the CA does not generate private keys, there should be only one certificate per email address, so if two are discovered in the wild the user has a transferable proof that the CA is up-to-no-good. Ie the difference is it is detectable and provable. As far as I

ECC 2004

2004-07-30 Thread R. A. Hettinga
--- begin forwarded text From: ECC 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ECC 04 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: ECC 2004 Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 18:15:49 +0200 =