Nate Lawson: Part 1

We bring on Nate Lawson of Root Labs to talk about a little bit of everything, starting with cryptography in the 1990s.

Transcript: https://securitycryptographywhatever.com/2022/09/09/nate-lawson-part-1/

References

• IBM S/390: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/5389176 • SSLv2 Spec: https://www-archive.mozilla.org/projects/security/pki/nss/ssl/draft02.html • Xbox 360 HMAC: https://beta.ivc.no/wiki/index.php/Xbox_360_Timing_Attack • Google Keyczar HMAC bug (reported by Nate): https://rdist.root.org/2009/05/28/timing-attack-in-google-keyczar-library/

Errata

• HMAC actually published in 1996, not 1997 • "That was one of the first, I think hardware applications of DPA was, was, um, satellite TV cards." Not true, they first were able to break Mondex, a MasterCard smart card

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Release date

Lydbog: 9. september 2022