[AG-TECH] vic and rat encryption

[Thomas D. Uram]

Reading this thread post-vacation, I was thinking the same thing, so I've
made those couple lines of changes in the ag-media cvs code (yes, that
will propagate to UCL eventually, if they'll have it).

Tom


On 3/30/06 9:48 AM, Ivan R. Judson wrote:
> 
> no kidding! :-)
> 
> --Ivan
> 
> On Mar 30, 2006, at 8:38 AM, Colin Perkins wrote:
> 
>> We might want to hack the code to make "AES" an accepted spelling of 
>> Rijndael? :-)
>> Colin
>>
>>
>> On 30 Mar 2006, at 14:26, Derek Piper wrote:
>>>     Heheh.. yea.. quite right. Ooops. I hate that word for how often 
>>> I misspell it. I really had to make sure I got it right in the source 
>>> code for AGVCR. For emails, obviously I'm still having problems. :)
>>>
>>>     Derek
>>>
>>> Piers O'Hanlon wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>> Just a minor correction - just a typo - to save frustration:
>>>> One needs use  "Rijndael/" instead of "Rjindael/"
>>>> Piers.
>>>> On 3/29/06, Derek Piper <dcpiper at indiana.edu> wrote:
>>>>>        You may be better off using Rjindael encryption, which is 
>>>>> normally used
>>>>> on AG Venues when setting the 'encryption' option in the venue server
>>>>> config.
>>>>>        A Rjindael key is passed to VIC and RAT as 
>>>>> 'Rjindael/passphrase' where
>>>>> passphrase should be something random and unguessable, and distributed
>>>>> to those needing the key to enter manually. There's a program for 
>>>>> Debian
>>>>> called 'pwgen' that I've used to generate a passphrase before. For
>>>>> manually entering the key, you would probably just disable the venue
>>>>> encryption and manually key it in. For a DES key, just use a 
>>>>> passphrase
>>>>> that doesn't start with a string 'Rjindael/'.
>>>>>        Of course you can also use certificates to secure a venue 
>>>>> too, so not
>>>>> just anyone can enter and obtain the encryption key.
>>>>>
>>>>>        Derek
>>>>>
>>>>> Jeremy Mann wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> We would like to demonstrate encryption in April to some fellow
>>>>>> colleagues. I set up a test room on our venue server with encryption.
>>>>>> Encryption works fine, but whoever enters the venue gets the 
>>>>>> encryption
>>>>>> key. I would like to "lock" down the room to whoever I give the 
>>>>>> key to,
>>>>>> not whoever enters the room. Can this be done?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Also, I know I can manually enter a key into vic and rat. Is there a
>>>>>> program that I can run to get DES key? Or can I simply use a 
>>>>>> passphrase
>>>>>> instead?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks!
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> -- 
>>>>> Derek Piper - dcpiper at indiana.edu - (812) 856 0111
>>>>> IRI 323, School of Informatics
>>>>> Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>
>>> --Derek Piper - dcpiper at indiana.edu - (812) 856 0111
>>> IRI 323, School of Informatics
>>> Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
>>>
>>
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