RE: Electronic elections.

2000-05-30 Thread Ray Hirschfeld
From: "Trei, Peter" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 09:33:33 -0400 There are a number of results in the crypto literature on receipt-free voting, most recently (that I'm aware of) one presented by Kazue Sako at last month's Eurocrypt 2000. Receipt-freeness means that voters

Re: Electronic elections.

2000-05-30 Thread Ray Hirschfeld
Date: Mon, 29 May 2000 07:52:24 -0400 From: Dan Geer [EMAIL PROTECTED] There is no doubt whatsoever that the sanctity of a vote once cast can be absolutely preserved as it is moved from your house to the counting house. What cannot be done, now or ever, is to ensure the sanctity of the

Re: DeCSS Court Hearing Report

2000-01-04 Thread Ray Hirschfeld
Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2000 18:43:52 -0800 (PST) From: bram [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm a little confused. Are you saying that as of October it will be legal to do any amount of reverse-engineering, publishing, and writing to APIs you want without violating the original author's copyright? Does that

Re: DeCSS Court Hearing Report

2000-01-03 Thread Ray Hirschfeld
Date: Wed, 29 Dec 1999 20:06:32 -0800 From: Lucky Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] First, basing the litigation on trade secret seems sub-optimal. Not that a different legal argument would be anywhere near compelling, but it appears that an argument based on copyright would have been a better

Re: DeCSS Court Hearing Report

2000-01-03 Thread Ray Hirschfeld
From: Andreas Bogk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 01 Jan 2000 22:37:18 -0500 Is it just me, or did the DVDCCA not exist when DeCSS was released? I've never heard of them, and when I tried to obtain a CSS license, the information I had was that CSS is licensed by some japanese company (which by

Re: The well-travelled packet

1999-09-25 Thread Ray Hirschfeld
From: Russell Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 24 Sep 1999 16:22:51 -0400 (EDT) Dick St.Peters writes: Remember that traceroute I sent you showing packets from me to a site near here going by way of Europe? I was telling a friend about that this morning, and he asked an

Re: having source code for your CPU chip -- NOT

1999-09-24 Thread Ray Hirschfeld
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 18:38:57 -0400 (EDT) From: Eli Brandt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Arnold Reinhold wrote: Perry, if you really believe that the question of whether a given lump of object code contains a Thompson Trap is formally undecidable I'd be interested in seeing a proof. Otherwise