Fw: [ISN] Aust Defence wont disclose stance on encryption

2001-09-22 Thread Jason
- Original Message - From: InfoSec News [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 21, 2001 8:38 AM Subject: [ISN] Aust Defence wont disclose stance on encryption http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/security/story/0,224985,20260593,00.htm ?chkpt=zdnn_nbs_h By

Re: nettime Pirate Utopia, FEED, February 20, 2001

2001-09-22 Thread Adam Back
On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 06:19:43PM +0100, Adam Back wrote: My point was higher level. These systems are either already broken or fragile and very lightly peer reviewed. There aren't many people building and breaking them. To elaborate on this slightly. There are inherent reasons why

Re: WorldNetDaily reports WTC-Pentagon terrorists used encryption

2001-09-22 Thread Bram Cohen
On Fri, 21 Sep 2001, Declan McCullagh wrote: http://www.wartimeliberty.com/article.pl?sid=01/09/21/2220202 WorldNetDaily Reports WTC Terrorists Used Encryption posted by admin on Friday September 21, @05:17PM There must be something about encryption and terrorists in the

Re: chip-level randomness?

2001-09-22 Thread Bram Cohen
On Thu, 20 Sep 2001, Nomen Nescio wrote: If the internal circuitry did output a 60Hz sine wave then regularities would still be visible after this kind of whitener. It is a rather mild cleanup of the signal. It does mask patterns to an extent, possibly pushing them inside the margin for

Re: nettime Pirate Utopia, FEED, February 20, 2001

2001-09-22 Thread jamesd
-- On 22 Sep 2001, at 16:11, Adam Back wrote: There will be a never-ended stream of more refined and accurate models of the signal itself, and biases in the equipment that collects the signal. So there will be always a risk that the detecter gets the edge by marginally more accurately