Financial Cryptography 01 preliminary program

2000-12-21 Thread R. A. Hettinga
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PGP: n degrees of separation

2000-12-21 Thread Kris Kennaway
Does anyone have any statistics on the average degree of separation between two arbitrary PGP keys in, say, the pgp.mit.edu keyserver - in other words, the average diameter of the PGP web of trust? A related question would be how many keys would it be necessary to hypothetically import from the

Re: PGP: n degrees of separation

2000-12-21 Thread Greg Broiles
On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 08:39:50AM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: Does anyone have any statistics on the average degree of separation between two arbitrary PGP keys in, say, the pgp.mit.edu keyserver - in other words, the average diameter of the PGP web of trust? These URLs describing work done

IBMIntel push copy protection into ordinary disk drives

2000-12-21 Thread John Gilmore
The Register has broken a story of the latest tragedy of copyright mania in the computer industry. Intel and IBM have invented and are pushing a change to the standard spec for PC hard drives that would make each one enforce "copy protection" on the data stored on the hard drive. You wouldn't