Re: Making One-time pad using the soundcard

2001-02-20 Thread Carl Ellison
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At 03:31 PM 2/14/01 +0200, Paul N wrote: It is secure to make a onetime pad using 16 bit input from soundcard using the following algorithm? Each bit of the output is the result of XOR-ing all 16 bits from the input sample... so, for making one

my padlock

2001-01-30 Thread Carl Ellison
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 http://world.std.com/~cme/html/padlock.html It's self-explanatory. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.5.2 iQA/AwUBOnSoNXPxfjyW5ytxEQLviwCfahPcp0FGP+1UB4cs0J6MlN2Em20AoMhq CHIn1FgxwKhGz8LR9S6WzSkF =/Izn -END PGP SIGNATURE-

Re: electronic ballots

2001-01-30 Thread Carl Ellison
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At 05:28 PM 1/25/01 -0600, (Mr) Lyn R. Kennedy wrote: First the basics: 1. An electronic election system need only be as good as the current system. While perfection remains the goal, the minimum criteria is that it be no worse. After

Re: What's Wrong With Content Protection

2001-01-22 Thread Carl Ellison
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At 05:29 AM 1/22/01 GMT, David Wagner wrote: Free markets may be the best hope we've got (or they may not), but in any case, wouldn't it be fair to say that reliance on free markets to eliminate content protection is a little risky? [...] Now

Re: Ten Risks of PKI

1999-12-13 Thread Carl Ellison
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At 06:40 PM 12/13/99 -, lcs Mixmaster Remailer wrote: However this is just the first step in an effective compromise. Now you need to get him to use a bogus certificate when he thinks he is using a good one. He tries to connect to a secure

Re: How to donate a clue to a lawyer?

1999-05-09 Thread Carl Ellison
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- At 02:26 PM 5/8/99 -0700, EKR wrote: Carl Ellison [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Source code is human speech, for human-to-human communication. It has a side-effect of being compilable into machine code, but it is in a human language and is intended for human

Re: How to donate a clue to a lawyer?

1999-05-09 Thread Carl Ellison
From my declaration for the Bernstein case: http://www.eff.org/pub/Privacy/ITAR_export/Bernstein_case/Legal/960726_filing/ellison.decl "18. Attached hereto as Exhibit C is an excerpt from the August 1967 CACM, giving another example of an article which consists solely of source code.

Re: How to donate a clue to a lawyer?

1999-05-08 Thread Carl Ellison
At 09:18 PM 5/7/99 -0700, Jay D. Dyson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Fri, 7 May 1999, Anonymous wrote: Here's Lance Rose's take on the Bernstein decision: Sorry to say, but the 9th Circuit took the dumb approach I mentioned in my earlier post.     Their whole approach

Re: Why privacy is important? Looking for essays/opinion pieces

1999-04-03 Thread Carl Ellison
M Taylor wrote: In my limited experience of dealing with administrators, they question why they should worry about privacy of other people's personal information, citing the general rise in data warehousing and the old saying "if you've got nothing to hide..." So I'm looking for pieces

Re: my two cents

1998-12-05 Thread Carl Ellison
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Oops -- I didn't mean to send that last reply to the whole list. Oh well. Although I share your anger and desire for a show-down, I worry about the result. Back when the Clipper chip was fresh in the papers was the time for this showdown. There is so