Re: Justice Dept asks Court of Appeals to reconsider ruling in Bernstein case

1999-06-22 Thread Greg Broiles
On Mon, Jun 21, 1999 at 07:26:11PM -0400, Steven M. Bellovin wrote: According to the AP, the Justice Department has asked the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals to reconsider its decision in the Bernstein case (http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/w/AP-Encryption.html). The article didn't say so, but

RE: Could Open Source Software Help Prevent Sabotage? (fwd)

1999-06-22 Thread Damien Miller
On Mon, 21 Jun 1999, Michael Cervantes wrote: Most open source software is distributed in a tar file with just makefiles, docs, and source. You compile the object directly from the source code that is provided. However, binary packages are becoming more common as package management apps

Re: Justice Dept asks Court of Appeals to reconsider ruling in Bernstein case

1999-06-22 Thread Declan McCullagh
I have a more detailed report on Wired News: http://www.wired.com/news/news/politics/story/20333.html My favorite part of the brief (I quote it): Another argument: That this type of regulation is an executive-branch policy decision involving "extraordinarily sensitive" info that's

Re: Justice Dept asks Court of Appeals to reconsider ruling in Bernstein case

1999-06-22 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Declan McCullagh wri tes: I have a more detailed report on Wired News: http://www.wired.com/news/news/politics/story/20333.html My favorite part of the brief (I quote it): Another argument: That this type of regulation is an executive-branch policy

Re: personal encryption? (fwd)

1999-06-22 Thread Marc Horowitz
Dan Geer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: this does not lead to secret messages. this leads to the ultimate in biometrics. Do you imply having a machine with PCR's for some unique string in the authenticator's DNA? I see two problems. First, twins. Second, it's possible to grow DNA from