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Re: And now, a java encoder ring!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andreas Bogk)
Sat Jul 31 17:01:24 1999
To: cryptography@c2.net
From: Andreas Bogk <andreas@andreas.org>
Date: 31 Jul 1999 12:42:18 +0000
In-Reply-To: Udhay Shankar N's message of "Fri, 30 Jul 1999 16:35:31 +0530"
Udhay Shankar N <udhay@pobox.com> writes:
> For me, the highlight of the JavaOne Developer Conference in San
> Francisco last March was Dallas Semiconductor's iButton with Java -- aka
> the Java Ring, a wearable computer that ran Java. It allegedly had a
> high-performance encryption engine, an exciting prospect indeed, until I
> discovered that the encryption unit wasn't accessible on the ring.
Funny. I'm holding in my hands a version of the Java ring that _does_
RSA (I've checked, up to 1024 bit key length). Funny because I'm in
Germany and Dallas legally exported one to me.
I'm wondering what _that_ means. Can you say backdoor?
Andreas
--
"We show that all proposed quantum bit commitment schemes are insecure because
the sender, Alice, can almost always cheat successfully by using an
Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen type of attack and delaying her measurement until she
opens her commitment." ( http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/quant-ph/9603004 )
