[IP] Re: Elcomsoft at it again - Password-cracking chip causes security concerns]

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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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.com
Subject: 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) Untrusted
Hardware" (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


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