Re: depleting the random number generator -- repeated state

1999-07-31 Thread David Honig
At 03:34 PM 7/29/99 -0700, Eugene Leitl wrote: Of course one would have to believe the CPU designer that it is true noise, and not pseudorandom. One of the many uses of nitric acid. Ie, take random samples apart and look at them. There are commercial places that will do the lab work for you.

noise, random and otherwise

1999-07-31 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
Folks, this list has been getting rather noisy of late, mostly with discussions of political philosophy. Can we move those discussions somewhere else? Most of us on this list want free crypto. Loudly proclaiming that you do, too, isn't particularly new or useful. And while we have

Re: US Urges Ban of Internet Crypto

1999-07-31 Thread Ted Lemon
It can only be resolved by software and hardware designers choosing to integrate it seamlessly into their products with or without the permission of their rulers. To some degree this is happening in the Open Source community, but in order to make strong crypto ubiquitous for, e.g., cell

Re: Crypto bill will harm children, boost pedophiles

1999-07-31 Thread Howie Goodell
Here's a really muddled passage from the House Intelligence (sic) Committee report ftp://ftp.loc.gov/pub/thomas/cp106/hr117p5.txt : The Committee amendment preserves law enforcement's crime fighting and public safety capabilities by providing clear authority through judicial

Re: depleting the random number generator -- repeated state

1999-07-31 Thread David Honig
At 04:00 PM 7/30/99 -0700, Eugene Leitl wrote: David Honig writes: One of the many uses of nitric acid. Ie, take random samples I thought this is mostly done by removing the bulk of the package polymer by grinding, and then subjecting the rest of it to a plasma etch. I believe Marcus Kuhn

Re: And now, a java encoder ring!

1999-07-31 Thread Andreas Bogk
Udhay Shankar N [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: For me, the highlight of the JavaOne Developer Conference in San Francisco last March was Dallas Semiconductor's iButton with Java -- aka the Java Ring, a wearable computer that ran Java. It allegedly had a high-performance encryption engine, an

Re: depleting the random number generator -- repeated state

1999-07-31 Thread Eugene Leitl
David Honig writes: One of the many uses of nitric acid. Ie, take random samples I thought this is mostly done by removing the bulk of the package polymer by grinding, and then subjecting the rest of it to a plasma etch. I haven't put a processed wafer into nitric acid yet, but I could

Re: And now, a java encoder ring!

1999-07-31 Thread Ben Laurie
Andreas Bogk wrote: Udhay Shankar N [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: For me, the highlight of the JavaOne Developer Conference in San Francisco last March was Dallas Semiconductor's iButton with Java -- aka the Java Ring, a wearable computer that ran Java. It allegedly had a

Re: noise, random and otherwise

1999-07-31 Thread Jim Gillogly
Steve Bellovin wrote: Folks, this list has been getting rather noisy of late, mostly with discussions of political philosophy. Can we move those discussions somewhere else? ... Let's save the politics for debates over suitable quantities of ethanol, and use this list for technical