Re: questions about RNGs and FIPS 140

2010-08-30 Thread Thor Lancelot Simon
On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 06:40:46PM +1200, Peter Gutmann wrote: > Thor Lancelot Simon writes: > > >That doesn't make any sense. DT in that generator is really meant to serve > >the role of a counter, and, in fact, the test harness for that generator > >*requires* it to be a counter. > > > >The se

Lasers crack commercial encryption systems

2010-08-30 Thread mhey...@gmail.com
From: Quantum hackers have performed the first 'invisible' attack on two commercial quantum cryptographic systems...they have fully cracked their encryption keys, yet left no trace of the hack..."Our hack gave 100% knowledge

IDS systems (was Re: Five Theses on Security Protocols)

2010-08-30 Thread Perry E. Metzger
On Mon, 30 Aug 2010 13:49:54 +0100 Ben Laurie wrote: > On 02/08/2010 12:32, Ian G wrote: > > We are facing Dan Geer's disambiguation problem: > > > >> The design goal for any security system is that the > >> number of failures is small but non-zero, i.e., N>0. > >> If the number of failures is ze