[AG-TECH] vic and rat encryption

Piers O'Hanlon p.ohanlon at cs.ucl.ac.uk
Tue Apr 4 05:04:01 CDT 2006


On 4/3/06, Derek Piper <dcpiper at indiana.edu> wrote:
>
>         Heh, that's cool. I added it to AGVCR the other day when Colin
> mentioned it.. Great if it's going to be in the media cvs too :)
>
Done. I will be in our new release - which is due shortly.

Piers.

>         Derek
>
> Thomas D. Uram wrote:
> > 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
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >
>
> --
> Derek Piper - dcpiper at indiana.edu - (812) 856 0111
> IRI 323, School of Informatics
> Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
>




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