Re: 3DES versus SHA-1

2002-07-10 Thread vertigo
I would suggest 3DES, and a good introductory cryptography text. vertigo On Mon, 8 Jul 2002, Mario Behring wrote: Hi all, The purpose is to transfer data between sites securely using emails, HTTP, FTP, IP (LAN/WAN), etc. Which algorithm should I use: 3DES or SHA-1 ? Thanks. Mario

RE: Books on Math Behind Crypto.

2002-04-23 Thread vertigo
Sumit, I am neither a mathematician nor a cryptographer, but my favorite book so far is the following: Richard A. Mollin, An Introduction to Cryptography (New York: Chapman Hall/CRC, 2001). It is part of a series on discrete mathematics. vert -Original Message- From: Sumit Dhar

Re: Looking for War Dialers

2002-01-14 Thread vertigo
anyway) is to dial at night--all night and into the wee hours of the morning while eating chips, drinking coffee, popping little white pills, and listening anxiously for that beautiful squelch to come out of the little silver box on your desk... Ah, the good 'ol days. vertigo On Thu, 10 Jan 2002

Re: about random numbers generating

2001-12-19 Thread vertigo
Check out http://www.fourmilab.ch/hotbits/ Liu Wen wrote: Generating random numbers has always been a big problem. Now I have to look into this topic in short time, I am reading Art of Computer Programming , but I am afraid the content is not up-to-date. Is there any specific web sites or

Re: please help with SSL

2001-12-12 Thread vertigo
I don't, never have, and didn't even know it was possible to to manipulate the packet order with the libraries I have used (JSSE and RSA BSAFE SSL-C/J). As a code guru (well, not quite a guru yet), I don't think about that stuff. If I have to, then the API is broken from my perspective. vertigo

RE: I have some Questions about SSL/SSHx

2001-12-04 Thread vertigo
SSL identifies servers on a host-name basis. Enabling it for a single host enables it for every user of that host. You would have to make a certificate request to Verisign, or some other Certificate Authority (probably owned by Verisign anyway grrr). The cert will cost you around $350. vert

Re: please help with SSL

2001-11-29 Thread vertigo
Out of order? Geesh. I think TCP should handle that. I'm not sure though. vert On 27 Nov 2001, Tarek Koudsi wrote: Mailer: SecurityFocus I would highly appreciat eit if someone could answer this quesiton? is it possible in SSL for the receiver to reorder SSL record blocks that arrive

Re: University policies re: portscanning

2001-11-21 Thread vertigo
paranoid delusion of computer geeks. Get a bunch of people together and complain. Remember, you're paying them, not the other way round. grrr vertigo On Mon, 19 Nov 2001, Tohru Watanabe wrote: Hello, I am a graduate student living on-campus at a University. I recently noticed

Re: Secure desktop idea?

2001-11-03 Thread vertigo
... :) vertigo

Re: nmap clarrification

2001-10-01 Thread vertigo
to the fact that your firewall has http and https open by default. vertigo On Fri, 28 Sep 2001, LK-FM Tech Assistances wrote: I am still new to pen-testing, and would like if someone can explain to me why 2 OPEN ports (ftp and dns) get listed as closed when I run a port scan using nmap (linux