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Re: Elcomsoft at it again - Password-cracking chip causes security concerns]
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 16:12:57 -0400
Begin forwarded message: From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb () cs columbia edu> Date: October 25, 2007 4:04:51 PM EDT To: dave () farber net Cc: ip () v2 listbox comSubject: Re: [IP] Elcomsoft at it again - Password-cracking chip causes security concerns]
I hope they don't get the patent. The idea of using a GPU for cryptographic calculations isn't new; see, for example, "Remotely Keyed Cryptographics: Secure Remote Display Access Using (Mostly) UntrustedHardware" (http://www1.cs.columbia.edu/~angelos/Papers/2005/ rkey_icics.pdf)
Debra L. Cook, Ricardo Baratto, and Angelos D. Keromytis. In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Information and Communications Security (ICICS), pp. 363 - 375. December 2005, Beijing, China. An older version is available as Columbia University Computer Science Department Technical Report CUCS-050-04(http://mice.cs.columbia.edu/getTechreport.php? techreportID=110&format=pdf&),
December 2004. --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb ------------------------------------------- Archives: http://v2.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now RSS Feed: http://v2.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/ Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
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