Re: The Shining Cryptographers Net

2001-01-21 Thread hal
This message analyzes the Shining Cryptographers network in terms of how much information Eve the eavesdropper can hope to get by measuring the photon state before and after it is rotated. See earlier messages for more detail about how the SC Net works. This analysis will focus on one

Re: What's Wrong With Content Protection

2001-01-21 Thread hal
I will make a partial rebuttal to John Gilmore's article on the problems with content protection schemes. I distinguish between schemes which are enforced by legislation such as the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), versus schemes which rely on technological means and market competition

Re: 3G crypto algorithms

2001-01-21 Thread Greg Rose
You're missing the document that specifies f8 and f9, which is the glue between 33.102 and the Kasumi spec. Unfortunately I can't get to their server at the moment for some reason, so I can't give you it's number, but I think it is 33.2xx. thanks and regards, Greg. At 01:53 PM 1/19/2001

Re: What's Wrong With Content Protection

2001-01-21 Thread John Brothers
Excellent essay. I feel smarter for having read it. I would say that I think that there are some breaks in the clouds you describe so well. 1) If most of these copy-protection schemes are schemes, and not laws, then the free market will route around them (The free market is about as

Re: The Shining Cryptographers Net

2001-01-21 Thread John Denker
At 10:10 AM 1/20/01 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This analysis will focus on one particular kind of attack. Eve will make measurements of the photon polarization angle as it travels through the network and attempt to deduce information about the signals being sent by the participants. This

Re: iDVD Not What It's Claimed

2001-01-21 Thread R. A. Hettinga
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- At 7:41 AM -0800 on 1/21/01, Somebody wrote: x-flowedYou've all seen this - I'm just trying to figure out what I think about at least the part that applies to Apple and iDVD. I think Gilmore's right. On the other hand, and, quite frankly, it is the

Re: iDVD Not What It's Claimed

2001-01-21 Thread Alan Olsen
On Sun, 21 Jan 2001, R. A. Hettinga wrote: I think Gilmore's right. On the other hand, and, quite frankly, it is the *market* that ultimately determines the salability of something, and not government regulation, or even the litigiousness of the recording industry. I think the reason we