Clipper

2001-05-15 Thread Adam Shostack
/. has a link to a story on Clipper doc's FOIA by unnamed parties. http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2001/5/14/203404.shtml U.S. Considered Sharing Security Secrets With China, Syria, Pakistan The newly released documents shows that the Clinton administration considered sharing secret

Why is there a solution, Declan?

2003-06-05 Thread Adam Shostack
Declan interviews Bruce Sterling, on news.com.com.com: http://news.com.com/2008-1082_3-1010864.html?tag=fd_nc_1 -- It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once. -Hume

Re: Maybe It's Snake Oil All the Way Down

2003-06-06 Thread Adam Shostack
On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 07:15:13PM -0400, John Kelsey wrote: | At 03:50 PM 6/3/03 -0700, Eric Blossom wrote: | ... | GSM and CDMA phones come with the crypto enabled. The crypto's good | enough to keep out your neighbor (unless he's one of us) but if you're | that paranoid, you should opt for the

Re: Maybe It's Snake Oil All the Way Down

2003-06-02 Thread Adam Shostack
The assumption that having cracked a cipher leads to can make lots of money from the break is one held mostly by those who have never attacked real systems, which have evolved with lots of checks and balances. The very best way to make money from cracking ciphers seems to be to patent the break,

Re: The Streisand imagecriminal lives 2-3 parcels away from me

2003-06-04 Thread Adam Shostack
On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 11:00:07AM -0400, Sunder wrote: | That's all nice and good, but why should it be on cypherpunks? Where's | the relevance to this list? Why is Ken, or his addres or helipad an | interest to the cypherpunks? Why is PGE's monopolistic's actions against | him relevant to the