tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-70926652011-10-02T14:21:41.588Zfinancial cryptography at the gushing edgeinfrasighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00394243533594163558noreply@blogger.comBlogger181100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7092665.post-1136802669008690282006-01-09T09:47:00.000Z2006-01-09T10:33:36.630Z

A good bit of commentary at FinancialCryptographyinteresting to give some general backgrounding to it all. But if your like me you will want to know two things, why did they take the entire customer history, and what prompted it.Of course there are two quasi answers that are really just one.1. Money laundering terrorists, drug dealers and child pornographers.2. They wanted it so they invented 1.

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First off, E-gold is back online, what was and is disturbing still is that both e-gold and omnipay (who does actual movements of bulk gold in and out, although it might be technically possible without omnipay/g&sr, as far as I am aware all market makers use omnipay) both were off the net all weekend. Generally there is a large amount of trust in e-gold (otherwise there would not be such a big

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For anyone who has had a serious interest in setting up a finacial cryptographic system, I am thinking here of payment systems, there has always been an issue of trust and security. Trust that the financial instrument is really there and security that it is not going to be removed.Something has happened that will shake the future of financial payment systems.E-gold went offline.Update: It seems

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A bit of an update, especially where quantum crypto is concerned.Three interesting papers, first off a method for eavsedropping on optical quantum photon communication, don't worry, it also covers how to make protocols more secure.Secondly a (small) advance on quantum entanglement, not yet to a useable scale for secure communications but interesting none the less.Thirldy Alice and Bob talk safe

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This is supposed to be a gushing edge blog. But the bleeding edge in financial crypto seems to be only a trickle so I'll just refer you to a couple of dribbles. The world's first quantum encryption computer network has been expanded to include a wireless link that uses quantum communications codes.Australian Defense Signals Directorate to use Java Blackberry by Research In Motion (RIM)This is a

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Would have been better news if the prize was paid over this quantum link ;) A collaboration that involves physicists from six European countries and the US has been awarded part of the European Union's Descartes prize for research for their work on quantum cryptography. They share the €1m prize with life scientists studying mitochondrial DNA. The IST-QuComm collaboration is made up of research

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In a AUD$30 Million + roll out smart cards are soon to be in everyones pocket for public transport. This large scale adoption of contactless smartcards may see a change in transaction habits looming. Australia was an early adopter of the magnetic swipe EFTPOS system. The Wayfarer smart card system has been adapted to accommodate this procedure and over 5,000 Wayfarer smart card readers will

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Not much beyond noise lately, but this might be of interest... Privacy and anonymity are increasingly important in the online world. Corporations, governments, and other organizations are realizing and exploiting their power to track users and their behavior, and restrict the ability to publish or retrieve documents. Approaches to protecting individuals, groups, but also companies and

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Hashes cracked! Thats the headline I've been expecting to post for a while. Yet it still does not seem to be the cutting news it was expected to be. Having said that the Crypto '04 rump session has everybody looking at their reliance on hashes, while there may be some situations that will need to beware of, the developing consensus is that this is not a problem. Yet... A hash will have

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For those in Australia and can make it to Melboure, this is worth a visit. AUUG'2004 is the annual technical conference of AUUG, the Australian UNIX and Open Systems User Group. AUUG is the Australian organisation for UNIX and Open Source Professionals. The theme of the conference is "Who Are You?" The conference will emphasise issues of identity and authentication on the Internet, along with

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Point over to MSNBC and have a squiz at the latest stats, personaly I'd take percaentages and figures with a grain of salt as different market segments are going to be represented very differently.  As a gauge of the general state of phishing it probably is not far wrong. Anti-spam firm MailFrontier Inc. showed 1,000 consumers examples of so-called "phishing" e-mail as well as legitimate

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Physical pain that is. Ironically, rather than protecting their wearers from kidnapping, implantable security devices may actually turn their wearers into tempting targets for Mexico's notorious kidnapping gangs, especially as the chips migrate to serve as payment devices, says Albrecht. "What could be more inviting to kidnappers than a chip that offers access to secure areas or someone's bank

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Financial Cryptography and Data Security (FC'05) is the premier international forum for research, advanced development, education, exploration, and debate regarding security in the context of finance and commerce. Some interesting items to be discussed there, go have a look. Amoungst some of the more interesting items: Anonymity and Privacy Audit and Auditability Authentication and

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As it becomes more obvious that RFID's can be spoofed even with limited resources ( http://cryolite.ath.cx/perl/skin/prox ) A search on the current state of RFID challange-response systems turned up 96 bit symetrical encryption as the comercial standard. I would like to invite anyone with detailed knowledge to comment on the possibility of brute forcing such a system. I am assuming that

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The focus of this workshop is on all aspects of cryptographic hardware and security in embedded systems. The workshop will be a forum of new results from the research community as well as from the industry. Of special interest are contributions that describe new methods for efficient hardware implementations and high-speed software for embedded systems, e.g., smart cards, microprocessors, DSPs,

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ISOC Administration ********************************* Cyber-Survey #12 - Phishing and Authentication By Michael R. Nelson - VP of Public Policy In recent months, there have been growing concerns about "phishing," the use of the Internet by criminals to steal personal data such as bank-account numbers and user passwords. According to the Gartner Group, an estimated 57 million US Internet users

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THE 8TH WORKSHOP ON ELLIPTIC CURVE CRYPTOGRAPHY (ECC 2004) Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany September 20, 21 & 22, 2004 THIRD ANNOUNCEMENT June 29, 2004 ECC 2004 is the eighth in a series of annual workshops dedicated to the study of elliptic curve cryptography and related areas. The main themes of ECC 2004 will be: - The discrete logarithm problem. - Efficient parameter

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This blog is intended as a collection zone on how to implement a working financial cryptography system with a paranoid mindset.

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