[117781] in Cypherpunks
Re: baaaaa
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Schear)
Fri Sep 10 12:39:19 1999
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Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1999 09:21:19 -0700
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
From: Steve Schear <schear@lvcm.com>
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Reply-To: Steve Schear <schear@lvcm.com>
At 04:52 AM 9/10/99 +0200, Anonymous wrote:
> >> Admittedly, the DES encryption I'm currently doing in microcode...
>
> > I vote for "Anonymous" as sacrificial lamb of the year.
>
>Hey, what can I say? The DOCSIS cable modem standard specifies
>56-bit CBC DES as the sole packet encryption protocol. At least
>the keys are refreshed frequently, and *those* exchanges are
>protected by X.509 certs, RSA, and two-key 3-DES.
The current recommendation for emerging DOCSIS Voice over IP (i.e.,
PacketCable) standard is 128-bit RC-4, but by default the keys are supplied
by a service-provider server ;-)
--Steve
