The W3C has released XML Encryption Syntax and Processing

2002-03-07 Thread Eugene Leitl
http://xmlhack.com/read.php?item=1570 Encryption, Decryption reach Candidate Recommendation 20:01, 6 Mar 2002 UTC | Simon St.Laurent The W3C has released XML Encryption Syntax and Processing and Decryption Transform for XML Signature as Candidate Recommendations, as well as a new XML

Re: Interesting new cipher patent

2002-03-01 Thread Eugene Leitl
A question: assuming, you have a class of random number generators with lots of internal state. (Lots: like 10^6 bits). Let's say the evolution through state space of that generator is provably reversible (or nearly reversible), and that the Hamiltonian of the system is stochastic (system

Re: Cringely Gives KnowNow Some Unbelievable Free Press... (fwd)

2002-02-05 Thread Eugene Leitl
:10:49 +0100 (CET) From: Robert Harley [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Cringely Gives KnowNow Some Unbelievable Free Press... Eugene Leitl wrote: If you want to see EC used you need to describe a specific algorithm which has the following three properties: (1) widely agreed

Re: Cringely Gives KnowNow Some Unbelievable Free Press... (fwd)

2002-02-05 Thread Eugene Leitl
2002 11:10:49 +0100 (CET) From: Robert Harley [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Cringely Gives KnowNow Some Unbelievable Free Press... Eugene Leitl wrote: If you want to see EC used you need to describe a specific algorithm which has the following three properties: (1) widely

Re: Cringely Gives KnowNow Some Unbelievable Free Press... (fwd)

2002-01-27 Thread Eugene Leitl
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Re: [linux-elitists] Re: Looking back ten years: Another Cypherpunksfailure (fwd)

2002-01-27 Thread Eugene Leitl
anybody used that combo? -- Forwarded message -- Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2002 12:45:21 -0800 From: Don Marti [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Linux Elitists List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [linux-elitists] Re: Looking back ten years: Another Cypherpunks failure (fwd) begin Eugene Leitl

Re: CFP: PKI research workshop

2002-01-15 Thread Eugene Leitl
On Tue, 15 Jan 2002, D. A. Honig wrote: [Moderator's note: Except that's precisely the point: Modulo MIM attacks is like saying we're all immortal, modulo death. The question isn't some sort of mystification of identity -- it is being able to know that you're talking to the same Dear Abby

Re: Hackers Targeting Home Computers

2002-01-06 Thread Eugene Leitl
On Fri, 4 Jan 2002, Hack Hawk wrote: It surprises me that providers like Earthlink GTE (I have one DSL on each) aren't taking measures to filter out virus traffic from infected systems. It seems a simple enough task to me. A *very* bad idea. First, the traffic doesn't bother me,

Re: key logger (FBI or otherwise)

2001-11-29 Thread Eugene Leitl
On Tue, 27 Nov 2001, P.J. Ponder wrote: It seems to me that something like Integrity Master from Stiller Research (http://www.stiller.com) would detect the installation of the FBI (or other) logger. This type of anti-virus software notes changes to files, Of course you use OS functions to

Re: FBI-virus software cracks encryption wall

2001-11-29 Thread Eugene Leitl
On Tue, 27 Nov 2001, Gilles Gravier wrote: Jetico ( http://www.jetico.com/ ) has a hard disk encryption software called BestCrypt, which can actually intercept the keystrokes at BIOS level, get the correct keys and re-maps them to random for upper Linux doesn't have a BIOS level so this

[linux-elitists] W3C last call on XML Encryption... (fwd)

2001-10-25 Thread Eugene Leitl
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 11:32:53 -0400 From: Dan York [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: linux-elitists [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [linux-elitists] W3C last call on XML Encryption... FYI, the W3C has issued a last call for comments on several proposals related to XML

secure IRC/messaging successor

2001-08-31 Thread Eugene Leitl
Gale http://www.gale.org/ seems a well thought out infrastructure. Is the consensus this is it, or have I missed any alternatives? TIA, -- Eugen* Leitl a href=http://www.lrz.de/~ui22204/;leitl/a __ ICBMTO : N48 10'07'' E011 33'53''

Welcome to Vegas, You're Under Arrest (fwd)

2001-07-18 Thread Eugene Leitl
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Adobe Jail (fwd)

2001-07-17 Thread Eugene Leitl
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Re: Sender and receiver non-repudiation

2001-07-03 Thread Eugene Leitl
On Tue, 3 Jul 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: there is even simpler misappropriation ... that of virus on the machine ... how do you really know what your computer is doing. The more control you have over your machine, and the environment, the more security you have. By hiding sensitive tasks

Re: undersea taps

2001-06-03 Thread Eugene . Leitl
Military intelligence folks have always been very adept in playing with the press. By throwing a juicy sausage one after another into the kennel, you can keep the dogs chasing their own tails indefinitely. (It's fun, too, unless you happen to be a dog). Professional paranoia would seem to

Re: Tamperproof devices and backdoors

2001-05-25 Thread Eugene . Leitl
David Honig wrote: Under an assumed name SOP pp. 5-7. Both Altera and Xilinx have their own FPGA-embeddable soft CPUs, as well as supporting other popular CPU designs (e.g., ARM) which are also available in HDLs. Unfortunately, I think here's another nucleus for future bloat growth, and