Re: Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon

1999-04-02 Thread Ian Goldberg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Michael Curry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Neal included an interesting piece about his view of operating systems). Which is quite a nice piece. Also on the page is an excerpt from the book. Ooohhh... I want more... :-) I'll even ignore the technical errors (as

Re: IPSEC on a Palm III?

1999-04-06 Thread Ian Goldberg
In article v04020adeb33016fecdf7@[139.167.130.249], Robert Hettinga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do any of the ipsec folks out there have any idea whether the Palm III has the oomph to do IPSEC? The secret word is "proxy". I'm thinking about that active badge stuff, where you beam yourself an

Re: palm crypto

1999-08-03 Thread Ian Goldberg
In article 001201bedc8b$3d5fb580$[EMAIL PROTECTED], Enzo Michelangeli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What's the point of using publick key technologies like ECC to protect private documents? As key management is a non-issue, something based on, say, 3DES or IDEA (like "Secret!",

Re: draft regulations?

1999-11-24 Thread Ian Goldberg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Steven M. Bellovin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For that matter, what is "export"? Posting something to Usenet? Putting it up on a Web page or FTP server? The act of downloading it? As far as I know, they haven't changed the definition of "export". Which means this

Re: Export control of Java VM ??

1999-12-02 Thread Ian Goldberg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ron Rivest [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If no per-key approval is needed, then I don't see why one can't distribute code that embodies a fixed transformation procedure, since this is really a "key" rather than a "program". That is, the distributed specifies a single

Re: I can't be the first person to have noticed this, but...

2000-12-19 Thread Ian Goldberg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Matt Crawford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The (now expired) RSA patent number, 4,405,829, is prime. It would be interesting to suppose they finagled for that, but the odds are a fairly decent 1-in-15 or so of it happening by chance. It of course would have been more