Catching up; also, silliness
Some time back, I had promised to post the final version of "Freezing More Than Bits: Chilling Effects of the OLPC XO Security Model", coming soon to a USENIX Workshop on Usability, Psychology and Security near you (assuming you live in SF). The COSIC archive has the PDF right now, or you can wait until April 14th to snag the HTML version or the PDF version from USENIX directly (they're password-protected at the moment, but will be open after the conference). Or, if you just absolutely cannot wait and must read it right now but only in HTML dammit, somehow Google's cache has it anyway. (You'll have to hit 'cancel' a few times, as there were a few LaTeX elements that got translated to images and didn't make it into the cache, but, whatever.)
Personal point of amusement: it appears that we have introduced the term "aluminum-briefcase cryptanalysis" into the literature. I'm pretty surprised by this, as I was dead sure I'd heard it elsewhere in the cypherpunk community ("black-bag cryptanalysis" == stealing the keys, "aluminum-briefcase cryptanalysis" == bribing someone to give you the keys, "rubber-hose cryptanalysis" == beating the hell out of the guy with the keys until he gives them to you), but apparently it hadn't been written down before. That seems to be fairly commonplace for things that originated in the cypherpunk world.
Also I would like to have it known that enochsmiles has taken it upon himself to wander around the apartment carrying an aggregate ~35 pounds of cats. There are loud crashing noises coming from the bedroom right now. Colour me entirely unsurprised.
Personal point of amusement: it appears that we have introduced the term "aluminum-briefcase cryptanalysis" into the literature. I'm pretty surprised by this, as I was dead sure I'd heard it elsewhere in the cypherpunk community ("black-bag cryptanalysis" == stealing the keys, "aluminum-briefcase cryptanalysis" == bribing someone to give you the keys, "rubber-hose cryptanalysis" == beating the hell out of the guy with the keys until he gives them to you), but apparently it hadn't been written down before. That seems to be fairly commonplace for things that originated in the cypherpunk world.
Also I would like to have it known that enochsmiles has taken it upon himself to wander around the apartment carrying an aggregate ~35 pounds of cats. There are loud crashing noises coming from the bedroom right now. Colour me entirely unsurprised.