1997 RSA DES Challenge

2002-03-06 Thread Matt Curtin
Hi, I'm writing a book about the 1997 DESCHALL project, tentatively entitled /Brute Force/. I'm using a lot of my own notes and whatnot from the period to reconstruct the whole story. If anyone else has anything that would be helpful for putting the story back together, including the activity i

Re: [CYBERIA] Open Letter to Jack Valenti and Michael Eisner

2002-03-06 Thread bear
[Moderator's note: No, I don't want to open up the floodgate, but this has a genuinely new idea in it among some others -- the notion that perhaps the good of the entertainment industry isn't as important as general purpose computing. That said, this is far afield from cryptography (I'm only inte

[CYBERIA] Open Letter to Jack Valenti and Michael Eisner

2002-03-06 Thread R. A. Hettinga
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Optical Time-Domain Eavesdropping Risks of CRT Displays

2002-03-06 Thread John Young
Markus Kuhn has released this after learning of Joe Loughry's announcement. - Announced 5 March 2002. To be presented at IEEE Oakland conference, May 2002 http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ieee02-optical.pdf Optical Time-Domain Eavesdropping Risks of CRT Displays Markus G. Kuhn University

Paper: Feasibility of attacking Windows 2000 Kerberos Passwords

2002-03-06 Thread Frank O'Dwyer
I have uploaded a paper on the feasibility of dictionary attacking/brute forcing Windows 2000 Kerberos passwords that may be of general interest. The vulnerability will probably not be news to anyone here, but as far as I am aware this has not received much public discussion in the context of W2K