Re: Secure voice?

2008-07-07 Thread Florian Weimer
* Allen: Interesting tidbit: http://www.epaynews.com/index.cgi?survey=ref=browsef=viewid=121516308313743148197block= Nick Ogden, a Briton who launched one of the world's first e-commerce processors in 1994, has developed a system for voice-signed financial transactions. The Voice Transact

Re: Strength in Complexity?

2008-07-07 Thread Peter Gutmann
Florian Weimer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Let me rephrase my remark: The trust anchor is conceptually separate from a root CA certificate. Conceptually yes, in the same way that the Soviet constitition was conceptually quite liberal and protective of individual rights. In practice, no. Look at

Permanent Privacy - Snake Oil or unbreakable encryption?

2008-07-07 Thread Ali, Saqib
Quoting the Foxbusiness article: PermanentPrivacy announces the world's first practical data encryption system that is absolutely unbreakable. And is offering a $1,000,000 challenge to anyone who can crack it. Permanent Privacy (patent pending) has been verified by Peter Schweitzer, one of

Re: Strength in Complexity?

2008-07-07 Thread Ben Laurie
Arshad Noor wrote: Florian Weimer wrote: * Arshad Noor: http://www.informationweek.com/shared/printableArticle.jhtml?articleID=208800937 On a more serious note, I think the criticism probably refers to the fact that SKSML does not cryptopgrahically enforce proper key management. If a

Re: Permanent Privacy - Snake Oil or unbreakable encryption?

2008-07-07 Thread Victor Duchovni
On Mon, Jul 07, 2008 at 07:54:46AM -0700, Ali, Saqib wrote: PermanentPrivacy announces the world's first practical data encryption system that is absolutely unbreakable. And is offering a $1,000,000 challenge to anyone who can crack it. This reads like snake oil.

Re: Strength in Complexity?

2008-07-07 Thread Arshad Noor
Ben Laurie wrote: Arshad Noor wrote: I may be a little naive, but can a protocol itself enforce proper key-management? I can certainly see it facilitating the required discipline, but I can't see how a protocol alone can enforce it. I find the question difficult to understand. Before I

Re: Permanent Privacy - Snake Oil or unbreakable encryption?

2008-07-07 Thread Bill Squier
On Jul 7, 2008, at 10:54 AM, Ali, Saqib wrote: Quoting the Foxbusiness article: PermanentPrivacy announces the world's first practical data encryption system that is absolutely unbreakable. And is offering a $1,000,000 challenge to anyone who can crack it. Permanent Privacy (patent pending)

disks with hardware FDE

2008-07-07 Thread Perry E. Metzger
There are now a number of drives on the market advertising AES based FDE in hardware, and a number of laptops available on the market that claim to support them. Has anyone had any real-world experience with these yet? Are there standards for how they get the keys from the BIOS or OS? (I'm