Re: Freedomphone

2003-11-20 Thread Ralf-P. Weinmann
ash based key authentication" on the left hand side of the spec. Dunno whether I like that. There should be a means to cache credentials after an initial trust relationship between communicating parties has been established. But from what I understand, this type of scheme is exactly what the

Re: Test of BIOS Spyware

2003-10-14 Thread Ralf-P. Weinmann
; regardless of user setting. Cheers, Ralf [1] How to modify your PR440FXs BIOS images for netbooting http://www.beowulf.org/software/PR440FXNetboot.html -- Ralf-P. Weinmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Test of BIOS Spyware

2003-10-14 Thread Ralf-P. Weinmann
they have something that works on a *MUCH* wider range of hardware than just two types of mobos/machines. Thanks for the demonstration though. Does this agency seriously think we believe they might be using the above mentioned code in a "production environment" some day? Tsk tsk tsk...

Re: Encrypted search?

2003-09-23 Thread Ralf-P. Weinmann
rrig, Practical Techniques for Searches on Encrypted Data, in Proc. of the 2000 IEEE symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P 2000). -- Ralf-P. Weinmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Secure IDE?

2003-07-30 Thread Ralf-P. Weinmann
keep the RIAA away from your Kazaa files." > > No, I have no idea what this actually means either. > I'm trying to find out. > > Peter Trei 40-bit DES in ECB mode sounds even more great. It's them Enovatech guys again. See here: http://a

Re: Secure IDE?

2003-07-30 Thread Ralf-P. Weinmann
/ftp.abit.com.tw/pub/download/fae/secureide_eng_v100.pdf Looks like that sucker only does key-truncated version of DES called DES-40. Right... did they say weeks? I'd say minutes, unless ABIT means [insert some impoverished 3rd world country] government supercomputers. It's snakeoil, move on, nothing to see here. Cheers, Ralf -- Ralf-P. Weinmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP fingerprint: 2048/46C772078ACB58DEF6EBF8030CBF1724