Interesting reading:
http://www.crypto.com/blog/metatapping/
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Like many people, I found last week's Newsweek cover
piece, revealing Thomas M. Tamm as the principal source
for James Risen and Eric Lichtblau's 2005 NY Times story
that broke the warrantless wiretap story, to be a riveting
read.
But I actually found a sidebar to the story even more
* Jerry Leichter:
I got in touch with the company and actually received intelligent
responses both at their 800 number - I placed my order that way - and
in a response from their customer service people. Most remarkable -
almost all organizations ignore such communication. It's ironic
Ben Laurie wrote:
I can't find discussion of Perspectives - hint?
Service from a group at CMU that uses semi-trusted notary servers to
periodically probe a web site to see which public key it uses. The
notaries provide the list of keys used to you, so you can attempt to
detect things like a
On Dec 27, 2008, at 10:02 AM, Ben Laurie wrote:
On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 7:39 AM, Peter Gutmann
pgut...@cs.auckland.ac.nz wrote:
Adding support for a
service like Perspectives (discussed here a month or two back)
would be a good
start since it provides some of the assurance that a commercial
Semiconductor laser based RNG with rates in the gigabits per second.
http://www.physorg.com/news148660964.html
My take: neat, but not as important as simply including a decent
hardware RNG (even a slow one) in all PC chipsets would be.
Perry
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