On 03/07/2017 4:31 PM, Ben Laurie wrote:
Confused by this - Merkle trees inherently don't grow to enormous depth.
The bitcoin hash chain grows to enormous depth, and arguably it is a
Merkle tree that testifies to all transactions everywhere that ever
taken place in bitcoin.
If you say it is
Confused by this - Merkle trees inherently don't grow to enormous depth.
I am pretty sure that if I give a definition and say "A Merkle tree is
such and such", a bikeshed war will ensue over my definition of Merkle
tree, which war will probably result in Perry blocking my posts.
So let me de
Hello,
as we move to improve the status of encryption of the internet and at
all levels internet companies diffuse the uses of HTTPS encryption and
integrity protection methods there are still a variety of massively
diffused pieces of software that can be subject to malware injection
trough MITM t
On 07/03/2017 08:36 AM, Fabio Pietrosanti - Lists wrote:
> Hello,
>
> as we move to improve the status of encryption of the internet and at
> all levels internet companies diffuse the uses of HTTPS encryption and
> integrity protection methods there are still a variety of massively
> diffused pi
All of this is well and good as long as we remember that digital signing of
anything only provides security in processes which verify the signature.
Installation through Linux software repositories verifies the
signature. Installation
on Macs verifies the signature provided the user does not click
*** Steve Kinney [2017-07-03 17:30]:
>> However they are refusing to implement HTTPS arguing that because their
>> .exe are digitally signed with authenticode they are safe
>> https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/18472 .
>
>Against hostile State actors, HTTPS only provides a false sense of
>secur
Using videolan purely as representative example...
Here are some keys...
https://download.videolan.org/pub/keys/
https://keyserver.siccegge.de:11371/pks/lookup?search=0xE58D1ADC&fingerprint=on&hash=on&op=vindex
Their main app is signed.
But like most orgs, they still think unsigned '.md5 / .sha1'
I have issues with network interfaces, like wlan0, changing back to what
the system wants. This is not what I want.
Case:
- Start Tails (MAC Address Spoofing: On)
- Plug in network card (wlan0)
- macchanger assigns wlan0 random MAC string
- Bring wlan0 down
- Set new MAC string (macchanger or o
