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At 05:52 PM 12/3/00 -0800, Bram Cohen wrote:
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If I recieve mail from a mailing list, it potentially might
have info about both how to encrypt mail sent to the sender,
and how to encrypt mail sent to the list - it really should
be able to include both, and
Caspar Bowden said:
..Britain's intelligence services are seeking powers to seize all records
of telephone calls, emails and internet connections made by every person
living in this country. A document circulated to Home Office officials and
obtained by The Observer reveals that MI5, MI6 and
A problem with including a public key with every plaintext message is that
it isn't very discreet - actually looks kind of ugly in some peoples's
email clients.
You could use a separate PGP/MIME bodypart...
Come to think of it, there are some tricky issues with regards to crypto
on mailing
Yes, the headlines along the lines of "Secret plans to spy on phone
calls" are misleading. I think we are all pretty sure that the various
militarised security organisations do that already if they want. These
proposals are meant to force companies to keep their logs for a long
time, just in case
Clive Feather wrote:
Calling this "NCIS carnivore" is misleading. It's concerned with
transaction logs (who logged in when, web site logs, the sort of thing
covered as "communications data" in RIP). Nothing to do with the contents
of phone calls or email.
I've been aware of these proposals for
"Enzo Michelangeli" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Apart from standards issues, one thing I'd like to see added to popular S/MIME
agents is a mini-CA to issue self-signed certificates. This would allow people
to use S/MIME as they use PGP (who relies on the WoT anyway?), breaking the
dependency from
At 9:55 AM +0100 11/29/2000, PA Axel H Horns wrote:
On 29 Nov 2000, at 7:07, Stephan Eisvogel wrote:
Adam Back wrote:
(And also without IDEA support for patent reasons even now
that the RSA patent has expired.)
Do you know when the IDEA patent will expire? I will hold a
small party
On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, Ian Brown wrote:
Come to think of it, there are some tricky issues with regards to crypto
on mailing lists, it might make sense to have a
X-crypto-originator [EMAIL PROTECTED] line in the headers to specify that the
crypto information contained in that piece of mail
Yahoo's new system works like this: Once a message is composed, it
travels, unencrypted, to Yahoo,
So feel no fear in sending anything you wouldn't mind being read before
it's encrypted?
I'm surprised AOL isn't offering this "security feature" as well ...
I feel safer already :~)
elyn
William Allen Simpson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
My requirements were (off the top of my head, there were more):
4) an agreed algorithm for generating private keys directly from
the passphrase, rather than keeping a private key database.
Moving folks from laptop to desktop has
It is often useful to include some information associated with a signature
that is not in the hashed portion. There are several reasons for this.
First, some information is not security critical and there is no reason
to hash it. Second, some such information may be subject to change and
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On 4 Dec 2000, lcs Mixmaster Remailer wrote:
Examples of the first case would be an identifier which indicates the
signing key. In PGP this would be the key ID; in SMIME, CMS and other
PKCS-7 derived formats it is the IssuerAndSerialNumber.
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] writ
es:
Yahoo's new system works like this: Once a message is composed, it
travels, unencrypted, to Yahoo,
So feel no fear in sending anything you wouldn't mind being read before
it's encrypted?
I'm surprised AOL isn't offering this "security
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From: "lcs Mixmaster Remailer" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2000 3:20 AM
William Allen Simpson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
My requirements were (off the top of my head, there were more):
4) an agreed algorithm for generating private keys
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From: "Peter Gutmann" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2000 4:45 AM
Subject: Re: Is PGP broken?
"Enzo Michelangeli" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Apart from standards issues, one thing I'd like
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