• [cryptography] Key extraction from tokens (RSA SecurID, etc) via padding attacks on PKCS#1v1.5
  This is a great description of the attack on RSA tokens that's going to be presented at Crypto. It turns out that PKCS#1 padding is so broken that you can use its flaws to decrypt any message, even messages that weren't encrypted using PKCS#1 in the ( Read more... )

I'm amused that Tony Blair, the Prime Minister who didn't care whether what he said was true so long as it sounded nice, has converted to Catholicism, the church for people who don't actually believe what their church teaches but like the smell of the incense. They're made for each other!