Re: Judge orders defendant to decrypt PGP-protected laptop

2009-03-05 Thread Ray Dillinger
On Tue, 2009-03-03 at 21:33 -0500, Ivan Krsti? wrote: If you give me the benefit of the doubt for having a reasonable general grasp of the legal system and not thinking the judge is an automaton or an idiot, can you explain to me how you think the judge can meet the burden of proof for

Re: full-disk subversion standards released

2009-03-05 Thread Kent Yoder
Hi Peter, Apart from the obvious fact that if the TPM is good for DRM then it is also good for protecting servers and the data on them, In which way, and for what sorts of protection?  And I mean that as a serious inquiry, not just a Did you spill my pint? question.  At the moment the sole

the bad idea that would not die

2009-03-05 Thread Perry E. Metzger
Excerpt: Aussie govt considers quantum leap in secure comms Commonwealth departments to trial Quantum Key Distribution. Australian governments may soon have the world's most secure data communication system if trials of a locally-developed quantum cryptography technology are

Re: full-disk subversion standards released

2009-03-05 Thread Kent Yoder
On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 12:13 PM, Kent Yoder shpedoi...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Peter, Apart from the obvious fact that if the TPM is good for DRM then it is also good for protecting servers and the data on them, In which way, and for what sorts of protection?  And I mean that as a serious