crypto on *really* cheap hardware

I presume most people have by now read Cringely's piece on hacked Linux for Linksys WRT54G (and clones): http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20040527.html http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20040603.html That thing is $70-80, and comes as a 200 MHz MIPS box with 32 MBy

Re: Breaking Iranian Codes (Re: CRYPTO-GRAM, June 15, 2003)

On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 01:25:13PM -0700, John Young wrote: [...] > Now, how about that story of Phil Zimmermann getting out > of prosecution by agreeing to a backdoor in PGP after 2.0? > A man swears Phil told him that face-to-face, man says > he disassembled the source code to see the damning h

Re: Breaking Iranian Codes (Re: CRYPTO-GRAM, June 15, 2003)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At 2:09 PM -0400 6/15/04, Jack Lloyd wrote: >Erm... he disassembled source code? With what? Emacs? Or vim maybe? If you look down a bit, you might notice he's pulling your leg. If you're not *real* careful, he'll pull it clean off and beat you over th

Re: Breaking Iranian Codes (Re: CRYPTO-GRAM, June 15, 2003)

> Maybe Chalabi read the story himself and invented the > snitch to make it seem more important than it was, or to > drive the US security community nuts with an orgy of > internal witch-hunting. Given the lack of further > information, it could have been just about anything. Maybe Cha

Re: Breaking Iranian Codes (Re: CRYPTO-GRAM, June 15, 2003)

Crypto AG's website denies the allegation of its machines being compromised. Its FAQ claims the false the story got started in 1992 by a disgruntled employee. There, that reassures Iran, Botswana, Nigeria and Uganda. NSA never had those meetings with the machine designers. Now, how about that

Re: 2 million bank accounts robbed

So... don't give your account info to organized crime, and don't use Outlook, and your risk is reduced by, what, 90%? And doing online banking from a Net cafe... I mean really. At least some of these numbers seem wrong. If "nearly 2 million" people got ripped off last year, and "at least 1.8 milli

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Re: 2 million bank accounts robbed

At 12:22 PM -0400 6/15/04, Jack Lloyd wrote: >I mean really. I'd lay this at the feet of book-entry settlement, but I'm supposed to say that. :-) Cheers, RAH -- - R. A. Hettinga The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA

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Re: Breaking Iranian Codes (Re: CRYPTO-GRAM, June 15, 2003)

On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 03:37:54AM +1200, Peter Gutmann wrote: > "R. A. Hettinga" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> forwarded: > > >So now the NSA's secret is out. The Iranians have undoubtedly changed > >their encryption machines, and the NSA has lost its source of Iranian > >secrets. But little else is know

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Re: Reverse Scamming 419ers

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Re: Breaking Iranian Codes (Re: CRYPTO-GRAM, June 15, 2003)

"R. A. Hettinga" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> forwarded: >So now the NSA's secret is out. The Iranians have undoubtedly changed >their encryption machines, and the NSA has lost its source of Iranian >secrets. But little else is known. Who told Chalabi? Only a few >people would know this important U.S.

Breaking Iranian Codes (Re: CRYPTO-GRAM, June 15, 2003)

At 4:03 AM -0500 6/15/04, Bruce Schneier wrote: > Breaking Iranian Codes > > > >Ahmed Chalabi is accused of informing the Iranians that the U.S. had >broken its intelligence codes. What exactly did the U.S. break? How >could the Iranians verify Chalabi's claim, and what might they do