Globalstar close to pact with FBI over wiretaps

1999-09-29 Thread John Gilmore
Forwarded-by: David Wade [EMAIL PROTECTED] Globalstar close to pact with FBI over wiretaps By John Borland September 13, 1999, 4:15 p.m. PT http://home.cnet.com/category/0-1004-200-117671.html A satellite phone firm is close to an agreement with federal law enforcement officials who had

Re: IBM to built crypto-on-a-chip into all its PCs

1999-09-29 Thread William H. Geiger III
In v04210101b41578834ee3@[204.167.100.139], on 09/27/99 at 03:41 PM, Robert Hettinga [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Probably IBM will first want to see how attractive the technology is to punters. At least the approach of using an ancillary encryption chip should keep IBM safe from the nightmare

Re: grabbed video as a source of entropy

1999-09-29 Thread David Honig
At 06:53 PM 9/24/99 -0700, Eugene Leitl wrote: I've recently aquired a video camera (bttv-based 3Com Bigpicture, can do 30 fps true color 640x480). I've noticed that under certain conditions images can become quite noisy. Does anyone has data on the amount and quality of the entropy produced?

Re: grabbed video as a source of entropy

1999-09-29 Thread Eugene Leitl
David Honig writes: Even if I had the same hardware, perhaps the tolerances on my ADCs are different from yours. And illumination levels will affect certain kinds of noise. Sure, but the entropy generation rate will be in any case higher than stuff coming from /dev/dsp The point:

IP: Elliptic Curve 97-bit Challenge Broken

1999-09-29 Thread Robert Hettinga
--- begin forwarded text Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:17:07 -0400 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: David Farber [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: IP: Elliptic Curve 97-bit Challenge Broken Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 15:44:17 -0400 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Ecash without a mint, or - making anonymous payments practical

1999-09-29 Thread Bill Stewart
On Mon, 27 Sep 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One small final comment: physical cash is not really anonymous (bills have serial numbers, and certainly coins may contain secret marks. Why? At 02:47 PM 09/27/1999 -0700, bram wrote: I believe at least part of the reason is to make heists

Re: IBM to built crypto-on-a-chip into all its PCs

1999-09-29 Thread Damien Miller
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, William H. Geiger III wrote: In v04210101b41578834ee3@[204.167.100.139], on 09/27/99 at 03:41 PM, Robert Hettinga [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Probably IBM will first want to see how attractive the technology is to