Re: [cryptography] Fwd: General Availability of StrongKey CryptoCabinet

2012-03-19 Thread Arshad Noor
On 03/19/2012 05:22 PM, Marsh Ray wrote: On 03/19/2012 06:22 PM, Arshad Noor wrote: * IBM's developerWorks.com. http://ibm.co/rc3dw Regulatory compliant cloud computing security ... in a box! Brilliant! Our key-management comes in a box; the architecture does not. I'll just go out

Re: [cryptography] [info] The NSA Is Building the Country’s Biggest Spy Center (Watch What You Say)

2012-03-19 Thread Marsh Ray
On 03/19/2012 07:15 PM, ianG wrote: Right, so thinking about it some more, traffic analysis is the goal. But AES-cracking is the cover-plan. "We're almost there, the new computer being built this year will make a huge difference, a real breakthrough!" Perfect. (They have a mandate for the sec

Re: [cryptography] Fwd: General Availability of StrongKey CryptoCabinet

2012-03-19 Thread Marsh Ray
On 03/19/2012 06:22 PM, Arshad Noor wrote: FYI. P.S. Since I did not elaborate what the RC3 architecture is, you can read it at any one of the following sites: * IBM's developerWorks.com. http://ibm.co/rc3dw Regulatory compliant cloud computing security ... in a box! Brilliant! I liked the pa

Re: [cryptography] [info] The NSA Is Building the Country’s Biggest Spy Center (Watch What You Say)

2012-03-19 Thread ianG
On 20/03/12 01:26 AM, Jon Callas wrote: But really, I wouldn't do the crypto at all. I would just go for traffic analysis. And huge supercomputers would help with that. Good traffic analysis makes crypto irrelevant. Right, so thinking about it some more, traffic analysis is the goal. But

[cryptography] Fwd: General Availability of StrongKey CryptoCabinet

2012-03-19 Thread Arshad Noor
FYI. Original Message Subject: General Availability of StrongKey CryptoCabinet Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2012 16:21:17 -0700 From: Arshad Noor Organization: StrongAuth, Inc. To: dev-cry...@bouncycastle.org Friends, I believe the users of the BC forum may find it useful to know that

Re: [cryptography] [info] The NSA Is Building the Country’s Biggest Spy Center (Watch What You Say)

2012-03-19 Thread Nico Williams
On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 9:26 AM, Jon Callas wrote: > But really, I wouldn't do the crypto at all. I would just go for traffic > analysis. And huge supercomputers would help with that. Good traffic analysis > makes crypto irrelevant. Agreed, traffic analysis is likely the main purpose. Even if

Re: [cryptography] [info] The NSA Is Building the Country’s Biggest Spy Center (Watch What You Say)

2012-03-19 Thread Jon Callas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mar 18, 2012, at 6:38 PM, Randall Webmail wrote: > From: "ianG" > >> ... So after a lot of colour, it is not clear if they can break AES. >> Yet. OK. But that is their plan. And they think they can do it, >> within their foreseeable future.

Re: [cryptography] [info] The NSA Is Building the Country's Biggest Spy Center (Watch What You Say)

2012-03-19 Thread Dean, James
Could it be an algebraic attack on AES? ___ cryptography mailing list cryptography@randombit.net http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptography