Re: The Shining Cryptographers Net

2001-01-19 Thread Ray Dillinger
On Thu, 18 Jan 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Or does somebody have a good defense against this hyper-active attack? The only thing I can suggest would be if the rotation stations could somehow count or limit the number of photons going through so that they would know when there were extra.

Re: The Shining Cryptographers Net

2001-01-19 Thread John Denker
At 02:04 PM 1/18/01 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the rotation stations could somehow count or limit the number of photons going through so that they would know when there were extra. I think this is possible in theory; Right, it is. Here's a Gedankenexperiment: temporarily trap the signal

Re: What's Wrong With Content Protection

2001-01-19 Thread Ron Rivest
John -- Great essay... thanks for replying at such length! I'm going to decline your (perhaps rhetorical) invitation to provide a devils-advocate counter-argument, because I'm not the right person to do so; I am far too liberal in my own views to be a fair representative of the "dark side".

Re: The Shining Cryptographers Net

2001-01-19 Thread hal
Ray Dillinger wrote, quoting me: Another idea would be for the stations to actually absorb the photon in some manner that preserved its polarization, and then to re-emit it. These could be primed to pass only a single photon. Now you are talking serious voodoo. I don't think that this can

Re: Full text to the book ``Underground'' released.

2001-01-19 Thread Declan McCullagh
The site below has been offline because of heavy traffic. Mirrors, in case you can't get through: http://www.attrition.org/ee/underground-book.zip http://www.politechbot.com/docs/underground.011800.txt.gz -Declan On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 08:31:03AM +1100, Julian Assange wrote: [More security

3G crypto algorithms

2001-01-19 Thread Janos A. Csirik
Dear cryptographers, In contrast with GSM, the 3GPP organisation (responsible for 3G wireless phone standards) is making all of its documents public. However, the way in which these documents are made public is unlikely to result in immediate gratification for those who would just like to go in

Re: What's Wrong With Content Protection

2001-01-19 Thread Ben Laurie
John Gilmore wrote: Few or no manufacturers are willing to put ordinary digital audio recorders on the market -- you see lots of MP3 *players* but where are the stereo MP3 *recorders*? They've been chilled into nonexistence by the threat of lawsuits. The ones that claim to record, record