Smartcard anonymity patents

2000-02-24 Thread lcs Mixmaster Remailer
At 10:16 AM 02/23/2000 -0800, Bill Stewart writes: At 10:14 PM 02/21/2000 -0800, Greg Broiles wrote: 4759063 Blind signature systems (19 Jul 2005) 4529870 Cryptographic identification, financial transaction, and credential device (16 Jul 2002) Interesting - I wonder how much of the

Re: Smartcard anonymity patents

2000-02-24 Thread Ben Laurie
lcs Mixmaster Remailer wrote: What are the prospects for smartcard based systems within the U.S.? Such cards are essentially nonexistent in commerce. Apparently in Europe and Asia they are widely used, though, instead of the credit cards preferred by Americans. I wouldn't go so far as

Echelon press coverage

2000-02-24 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
The mainstrem American press has finally noticed Echelon. See http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/00/02/biztech/articles/24spy.html http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/00/02/biztech/articles/24secure.html http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24275-2000Feb23.html

Re: Smartcard anonymity patents

2000-02-24 Thread David Jablon
At 10:44 PM 2/24/00 +, Ben Laurie wrote: lcs Mixmaster Remailer wrote: What are the prospects for smartcard based systems within the U.S.? Such cards are essentially nonexistent in commerce. Apparently in Europe and Asia they are widely used, though, instead of the credit cards preferred

Re: Echelon press coverage

2000-02-24 Thread t byfield
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thu 02/24/00 at 06:02 PM -0500): The mainstrem American press has finally noticed Echelon. See http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/00/02/biztech/articles/24spy.html heh. with notices like this one, we'd be better off if they ignored it. i'm no fan of the Rag of Record,

a meeting of the PECSENC on Friday in Palo Alto

2000-02-24 Thread John Gilmore
[I won't be there -- I'll be in Boston at an EFF/Harvard-Berkman MP3 event. But it's fun to go to these, they enjoy our presence, and we frequently learn things. --gnu] Dear PECSENC, At the end of this message is the announcement for the February 25th meeting as it will appear in the Federal

Re: Copy protection proposed for digital displays

2000-02-24 Thread David Honig
At 03:56 PM 2/23/00 -0600, Rick Smith wrote: Now, on the other hand, they could do smartcard sorts of things like the satellite TV folks. That ups the ante, since you have to build in a smartcard reader and do smartcard-based key management. I'll bet that none of those costs are in their business