Re: Encrypting folders in Win95/98

2000-03-15 Thread Bill Stewart
At 01:05 PM 03/13/2000 +0800, Enzo Michelangeli wrote: Does anybody know any good Win95/98 utility providing connectoids seen by the user as folders, so that any file moved to and from them get automatically encrypted and decrypted? Something like Encrypted Magic Folders by PC-Magic, but with a

New York teen-ager win $100,000 with encryption research (3/14/2000)

2000-03-15 Thread Eugene Leitl
Of course it ain't actual encryption, only (high-payload) steganography at best. Now, if you sneak a message into a living critter (a pet ("the message is the medium"), or creating the ultimate self-propagating chainletter, a pathogen), that would be an interesting twist. Interesting is that

Re: Encrypting folders in Win95/98

2000-03-15 Thread Enzo Michelangeli
Thanks to all who have taken the time to answer, either on- or off-list. Yes, I know PGPdisk and ScramDisk, but I was hoping to find good solutions operating on per-folder or per-file basis, to minimize the reconfiguration hassles when securing data used by standard applications (like mailbox

Ultimate statement on the new regulations

2000-03-15 Thread Rich Salz
It used to be that giving export control advice consisted of helping clients to comprehend unbelievably ridiculous statements in the present tense. Giving such advice now largely consists of helping clients to comprehend unbelievably ridiculous statements in the future

Re: New York teen-ager win $100,000 with encryption research(3/14/2000)

2000-03-15 Thread Arnold G. Reinhold
At 7:39 PM -0800 3/14/2000, Eugene Leitl wrote: Of course it ain't actual encryption, only (high-payload) steganography at best. Now, if you sneak a message into a living critter (a pet ("the message is the medium"), or creating the ultimate self-propagating chainletter, a pathogen), that would

Re: New York teen-ager win $100,000 with encryption research(3/14/2000)

2000-03-15 Thread Eugene Leitl
Arnold G. Reinhold writes: If you know the DNA sequences of alphabet letters, you can PCR probe for common words or word fragments like "the" or "ing" and avoid total sequencing. That's true. Luckily, there is no such test for random base sequences, though a pseudorandom sequence would

NSA Blackout Reveals Downside of Secrecy

2000-03-15 Thread Ian Farquhar
"NSA Blackout Reveals Downside of Secrecy" http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/updates/lat_nsa000313.htm