Re: Seagate announces hardware FDE for laptop and desktop machines

2007-09-10 Thread ji
write a driver for Linux until CSS was cracked, remember? It wasn't the mechanism that was secret so much as the key. CSS was supposed to protect someone else's data. You wouldn't give the key to *your* drive away, would you? /ji

Re: Trillian Secure IM

2007-10-10 Thread ji
Why bother with all this? There is OTP for gaim, and it works just fine (not to mention it comes from a definitely clueful source). /ji - The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending unsubscribe cryptography

Re: Trillian Secure IM

2007-10-10 Thread ji
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why bother with all this? There is OTP for gaim, and it works just fine (not to mention it comes from a definitely clueful source). /ji I meant, of course, OTR (off-the-record). And to think that I was using it in another window as I was typing this! Thanks

Re: Dutch Transport Card Broken

2008-01-25 Thread ji
The per-card cost need not be such a big problem. Singapore has a proximity-card-based system. They use the same card both for the long-term cards and for the single-use cards. There is a S$ 2 (IIRC) deposit on the card, which is refunded after the card is used. Waste not want not! /ji

Re: Why the poor uptake of encrypted email?

2008-12-09 Thread ji
Alec Muffett wrote: Naq bs pbhefr lbh unir gb nepuvir pbcvrf bs gur ybofgre, abg gur fbhc. If we still had finger-plans, this would have made its way into mine. What a great quote! /ji PS: For the rot13-impaired, it reads And of course you have to archive copies of the lobster