Just Another Chip in the (Privacy) Wall

Technology Review Just Another Chip in the (Privacy) Wall An electronic database implanted under the skin can assure speedy and proper medical care-but is it worth it? By David Kushner November 18, 2004 You can al

"numbers" stations

http://wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,65698,00.html Shortwave radio bands, ignored by commercial broadcasters because of their low fidelity, have long been home to government activity -- whether for national broadcasts such as the BBC World Service, Voice of America and Radio France Internati

A new academic hash result on the preprint server

Guys, Bruce and I have a new result on hash function security, which uses Joux' multicollision trick in a neat way to allow long-message second preimage attacks. We've posted it to the e-print server. The basic result is that for any n-bit hash function built along the lines of SHA1 or Whirlp

OCF port to linux (fwd from [EMAIL PROTECTED])

From: David McCullough <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: OCF port to linux To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 17:51:31 +1000 Hi all, Just thought I drop a line to see if anyone is interested in a linux port of the FreeBSD(OpenBSD) Open Cryptographic Framework (OCF) ? I needed user crypto a

Crypto-Tax: Re: India to tax / levy license fees on ISPs that offer VPNs

--- begin forwarded text Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 05:47:53 +0530 From: Suresh Ramasubramanian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Deepak Jain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: NANOG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: India to tax / levy license fees on ISPs that offer VPNs Organization: Outblaze Limited - http://www.outb

The Beginning of the Crypto Era

EWeek The Beginning of the Crypto Era November 15, 2004 By Larry Seltzer In a move that was totally expected, if a little early, Yahoo has announced that it will put its money where its mouth is and start checking Yahoo Mail with

'Virtual Debit Card' Aims To Combat Online Fraud

The Wall Street Journal November 16, 2004 MONEY 'Virtual Debit Card' Aims To Combat Online Fraud By JENNIFER SARANOW Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL November 16, 2004; Page D2 Consumers typically have been w

[ISN] BlackBerry prickles Department of Defence spooks

--- begin forwarded text Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 07:34:56 -0600 (CST) From: InfoSec News <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ISN] BlackBerry prickles Department of Defence spooks Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] List-Id: InfoSec News List-Archive:

Certicom First to Earn FIPS 186-2 Validation for Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm

Certicom First to Earn FIPS 186-2 Validation for Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm Validation of ECC-based algorithm another step in

Certicom Announces Security Builder NSE (National Security Edition)

Certicom Announces Security Builder NSE (National Security Edition) Cryptographic toolkit enables government contractors to add security that meets NSA guidel

[Osint] DHS Now Has Non-Disclosure Agreement For *Un*classified Info

--- begin forwarded text To: "Bruce Tefft" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Thread-Index: AcTLBDc4vJyL80TwSZuIiwn1AOddIQACB0Zg From: "Bruce Tefft" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mailing-List: list [EMAIL PROTECTED]; contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 07:13:19 -0500 Subject: [osint] A NON-DISCLOSURE AGREEM

[ISN] Japanese Government Bans Security Researcher's Speech

--- begin forwarded text Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 04:48:20 -0600 (CST) From: InfoSec News <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ISN] Japanese Government Bans Security Researcher's Speech Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] List-Id: InfoSec News List-Archive:

Want to surf net? Show I-card

: HindustanTimes.com Prove identity to surf net in Bangalore Press Trust of India Bangalore, November 15 Advertisement Internet surfers in over 50,000 cyber cafés across Karnataka

Gov't Orders Air Passenger Data for Test

Yahoo! Gov't Orders Air Passenger Data for Test Fri Nov 12, 2:35 PM ET By LESLIE MILLER, Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON - The government on Friday ordered airlines to turn over p

Banks brace for cashpoint attack

The Register Biting the hand that feeds IT The Register » Security » Network Security » Original URL: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/11/11/banks_prepare_for_atm_cyber_crime/ Banks brace for cashpoint a

Patriot Fixes

The Wall Street Journal November 12, 2004 COMMENTARY Patriot Fixes By BOB BARR November 12, 2004; Page A12 The most common charge levied against critics of the Patriot Act -- one that Alberto Gonzales, the new face of

E-Mail Authentication Will Not End Spam, Panelists Say

The Washington Post washingtonpost.com E-Mail Authentication Will Not End Spam, Panelists Say By Jonathan Krim Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, November 11, 2004; Page E01 For consumers and businesses increas

RE: it looks like Microsoft didn't get it right

This is not as serious as I thought. According to http://www.elcomsoft.com/AEFSDR/whatsnew.txt, the cracker would need your password and access to your drive. - The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe c

it looks like Microsoft didn't get it right

for sale at http://www.elcomsoft.com/prs.html#aefsdr : A program to recover (decrypt) files encrypted on NTFS (EFS) partitions created in Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Server 2003. Files are being decrypted even in a case when the system is not bo

Calif. settles electronic voting suit against Diebold for $2.6M

Ths San Francisco Chronicle Calif. settles electronic voting suit against Diebold for $2.6M RACHEL KONRAD, AP Technology Writer Wednesday, November 10, 2004 (11-10) 15:31 PST SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Cal

No mandate for e-voting, computer scientist says

No mandate for e-voting, computer scientist says 11/09/04 By William Jackson, GCN Staff Despite wide use in last week's presidential election, direct-recording electronic voting still is a faulty method of castin

[ISN] Velva Klaessy, government code breaker, dies at 88

--- begin forwarded text Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2004 04:32:09 -0600 (CST) From: InfoSec News <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ISN] Velva Klaessy, government code breaker, dies at 88 Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] List-Id: InfoSec News List-Archive:

RC4 optimized for AMD64 (+130% speedup) (fwd from [EMAIL PROTECTED])

From: Marc Bevand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RC4 optimized for AMD64 (+130% speedup) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2004 14:24:00 +0100 Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello, I have published a paper about optimizing RC4 for AMD64. A working implementation, designed to be easily integrated

Single Field Shapes Quantum Bits

Technology Review Single Field Shapes Quantum Bits November 8, 2005 Quantum computers, which tap the properties of particles like atoms, photons and electrons to carry out computations, could potentially use a variety of s

Re: When A Pencil And Paper Makes Sense

Here are some things that can --and do-- go wrong with the scanned ballots: - blank votes (where the voter could have made a mark but did not) can be "voted" at will after the ballot is cast by the voter, and no one can detect the fraud. - by looking at the vote pattern, a "voter contract" to vote

A Man of Many Words, David Shulman Dies at 91

>During World War II, he cracked Japanese secret codes for the Army, then >returned to puzzles. > >He was a founder of the American Cryptogram Association, and in 1976 >published "An Annotated Bibliography of Cryptography," still used by >experts. He was a champion scrabble player, and wrote a sch

RE: Your source code, for sale

> Yes, I'm looking at ideas like this for ecash gambling, but you have > a who-goes-first problem. One side or the other has to "rip" their > own cash first, and then the other side can just go away and leave the > first side screwed. The act of ripping cash is relatively atomic and > involves

Re: Your source code, for sale

- Original Message - From: "Ian Grigg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Hal Finney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, November 07, 2004 11:21 AM [Hal:] > > Interesting. In the e-gold case, both parties have the same bank, > > e-go

Re: Your source code, for sale

> Enzo Michelangeli writes: >> In the world of international trade, where mutual distrust between buyer >> and seller is often the rule and there is no central authority to >> enforce >> the law, this is traditionally achieved by interposing not less than >> three >> trusted third parties: the ship