[Cryptography] Lenovo laptops with preloaded adware and an evil CA

[Bill Frantz]

On 2/22/15 at 7:02 AM, leichter at lrw.com (Jerry Leichter) wrote:

>None of the above.  Forward secrecy was first proposed in 1992, 
>but it didn't really get much interest until 2000 or so - and 
>it would likely have been too compute-intensive for even 
>desk-top class machines (much less phones) until years later.

In the late 1990s (the design document is dated July 1998), the 
E communication protocol[1] provided PFS. It ran well enough on 
the generic WIndows 95 machines of the time. The protocol used 
1024 bit DH, with 1024 bit DSA signatures for authentication, 
3-DES and HMAC(SHA1) for confidentiality and authentication.

Of course, Moore's law makes off by a few years not very 
significant. :-)

Cheers - Bill

[1] ><http://www.erights.org/elib/distrib/vattp/index.html>

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