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Re: Research signals safer smart cards
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dave Paris)
Tue Dec 10 16:35:07 2002
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 14:22:16 -0500
Cc: press.releases@theregister.co.uk, cbred@computerwire.com
To: Cryptography List <cryptography@wasabisystems.com>
From: Dave Paris <dparis@w3works.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0212101447311.11196-100000@hydrogen.leitl.org>
On Tuesday, Dec 10, 2002, at 08:48 US/Eastern, Eugen Leitl wrote:
>
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/28489.html
>
> Research signals safer smart cards
> By ComputerWire
> Posted: 09/12/2002 at 22:49 GMT
>
>
>
> Cryptography Research Inc, the company behind the design of the SSL
> v3.0
> protocol that is used to secure transactions on the world wide web,
> claims
> to have discovered a new class of attacks that could be used by
> hackers to
> extract secret keys and information from smart cards and secure
> cryptographic tokens.
Netscape Communications was the company behind SSL v3.0, Paul Kocher
was an Independent Consultant on the project, not as an acting agent
for Cryptography Research, Inc.
http://wp.netscape.com/eng/ssl3/draft302.txt
-dsp
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