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"I am!", I cried: jbash
http://jbash.livejournal.com/6306.html
Peter Gabriel - Wallflower. Still here; I just haven't been posting, because I suck. I mean, I have excuses, like having been sick and travelling and jet-lagged and overwhelmed with Holiday Foo and trying to catch up, but we all know that all those are just ways of hiding from the brutal truth of my overwhelming suckage. December 22: Drive to Sacramento, fly to Seattle, drive to Rochester, Washington. December 24: Christmas Eve festivities. Act like a jerk. Notice that I have a cold. January 5: Message c...
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Practical Cryptography Corrected - Bram Cohen's Journal
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Thu, May. 19th, 2011, 09:16 am. The book 'Practical Cryptography' is perfectly good for giving an overview of basic concepts in cryptography, but its immediate practical advice to implementers is not terribly to the point or accurate. Here is much more to the point and accurate advice. For an encryption mode, you should always use CTR, and always use a nonce of zero, and never reuse keys. You should always do encryption as a layer outside of authentication. You should never use the same key for both encr...
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So, you geeks want to play hardball, eh?: jbash
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So, you geeks want to play hardball, eh? This almost works, if you read it artificially enough. How the hell do you stress "ephermata", anyway? Post a new comment. We will log you in after post. We will log you in after post. We will log you in after post. We will log you in after post. We will log you in after post. Post a new comment. Post a new comment. Follow us on Facebook. Follow us on Twitter. 1999 LiveJournal, Inc.
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Media coverage of Chip & PIN vulnerabilities - Steven's Journal
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Steven J. Murdoch. Tue, Feb. 26th, 2008, 08:32 pm. Media coverage of Chip and PIN vulnerabilities. Saar Drimer, Ross Anderson, and I have been investigating the security of Chip and PIN terminals. We found significant failings almost everywhere we looked. Our results are now public, and will be featured on BBC Newsnight. 10:30pm, tonight, BBC2. We have summarized our findings in a brief press release. The full details are in our academic paper. And the BBC wesbite. More media coverage is expected.