Re: Tipster voluntary payment protocol

2000-08-24 Thread Paul Crowley
"Fred Hapgood" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Stick *what* into a standard contract? What would that provision look like? "Artist agrees not to accept gifts from fans?" "Artist agrees not to possess or publicize public key or digital signature?" "Artist shall not in any way participate in

[Fwd: Serious bug in PGP - versions 5 and 6]

2000-08-24 Thread Ben Laurie
-- http://www.apache-ssl.org/ben.html Coming to ApacheCon Europe 2000? http://apachecon.com/ Ralf Senderek has found a horrendous bug in PGP versions 5 and 6. It's of scientific interest because it spectacularly confirms a prediction made by a number of us in the paper on `The Risks of Key

Re: Tipster voluntary payment protocol

2000-08-24 Thread Arnold G. Reinhold
At 11:50 PM -0400 8/23/2000, Jeff Kandt wrote: On or about 12:49 PM -0400 8/23/00, Arnold G. Reinhold wrote: Certificate revocation is one of the thorniest issues in public key cryptography. Maybe you can solve it in this narrow context, but I would avoid it if there is another way and I

Re: Comcast@Home bans VPNs

2000-08-24 Thread Phil Karn
Is making an SSL connection creating a VPN? It's really not much different in an abstract sense. Most applications are using browsers I've been saying for some time that we need a IP-over-SSL tunneling protocol standard. ISPs would *never* dare block TCP port 443, since as we all know the only