crypto product recommendations

1999-09-21 Thread Anonymous
At 12:41 PM 9/20/99 -0700, Rob Lemos wrote: Can anyone recommend a good product for encrypting information on the fly, meaning encrypt the file when you close it and decrypt it when you open it. It would also be nice if it would ask you whether you wanted the file you are just closing to be

Re: No liberalization for source code, API's

1999-09-21 Thread Dan Geer
I will be on stage at a minor league debating forum with Bill Reinsch on Thursday of this week. If you had one question you would want asked, what would it be? Reply directly, please. I'll read it all late Wednesday. --dan

Re: Ecash without a mint

1999-09-21 Thread David Jablon
A slight correction is noted, which isn't very relevant to the ZK proofs in the proposed payment system. At 11:41 AM 9/20/99 -0700, bram wrote: Interactive ZK proofs can be made non-interactive by generating an encoding of the information offered by the prover, and using the bits of the

Re: Ecash without a mint

1999-09-21 Thread Anonymous
On Mon, 20 Sep 1999 at 01:52:43PM -0700, Wei Dai wrote: On Mon, Sep 20, 1999 at 09:02:17PM +0200, Anonymous wrote: Yeah, neat idea! With b-money, newly minted value goes directly into someone's account, but if it was used instead to create an anonymous coin you would have an accountless

Re: Cracking the Code

1999-09-21 Thread John R Levine
The Cato Institute released a new Cato Briefing Paper, "Strong Cryptography: The Global Tide of Change," as the Clinton administration was announcing a relaxation in controls on the export of encryption technology. In the paper, Arnold G. Reinhold writes ... Arnold's a regular on this list.

Re: Good crypto products?

1999-09-21 Thread David Hayes
On Mon, Sep 20, 1999 at 12:41:41PM -0700, Rob Lemos wrote: Can anyone recommend a good product for encrypting information on the fly, meaning encrypt the file when you close it and decrypt it when you open it. You don't specify what OS you're using, but I'd suggest something from the general

Re: No liberalization for source code, API's

1999-09-21 Thread John Gilmore
If you had one question you would want asked, what would it be? Why did the result of your year-long review of encryption policy ignore the blatant unconstitutionality that the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel found 20 years ago and that two Federal courts have confirmed recently?

Is There a Visor Security Model?

1999-09-21 Thread Robert Hettinga
Everyone's probably heard of the new Palm-alike Visor by now, and it's got this "springboard" slot in the back processors, memory, and other stuff. The Palm's security model is, by most accounts I've seen, non-existant. Is the Visor any better? It would be nice to have a portable

Re: Is There a Visor Security Model?

1999-09-21 Thread evan . cordes
From: Robert Hettinga [EMAIL PROTECTED] Everyone's probably heard of the new Palm-alike Visor by now, and it's got this "springboard" slot in the back processors, memory, and other stuff. It would be nice to have a portable cryptographic/signature/digital money device. Are we any

Re: IP: Smart Cards with Chips encouraged

1999-09-21 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
In message v04210104b40d7088a106@[24.218.56.100], Arnold Reinhold writes: And what is the value proposition for the consumer? SSL works swell. Bingo. Consumers will adopt this if and only if cost savings are passed on to them, which in turn can only happen if the credit card companies (a)

RE: Is There a Visor Security Model?

1999-09-21 Thread Trei, Peter
The Visor uses Palm OS, so I don't think it's any better. Peter Trei -- From: Robert Hettinga[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 1999 2:49 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Digital Bearer Settlement List Subject: Is There a Visor