RIAA Secret Meeting

2001-10-09 Thread John Young
Anonymous reports on a secret meeting of RIAA: http://cryptome.org/riaa-secret.htm Excerpt: On Thursday October 4 there was a closed-door RIAA meeting at the Ritz-Carlton, which was 'a direction setting' meeting. The individuals of note attending were: Hillary Rosen - RIAA Chief Steve

[FYI] Dutch Government wants to regulate strong cryptography

2001-10-09 Thread Axel H Horns
http://www.heise.de/tp/english/inhalt/te/9763/1.html - CUT - Dutch Government wants to regulate strong cryptography Jelle van Buuren 09.10.2001 Action plan to combat terrorism targets modern communication technologies The

Re: Kerchoff's principle

2001-10-09 Thread Ariel Waissbein
Look up his article criptographie millitaire (writen in 1883) at http://www.tcs.hut.fi/~helger/crypto/link/history/index.html it is quite interesting. the prnciple basically states that a cryptographic protocol's security should not relay on the knowledge of how does the protocol itself is,

Re: AGAINST ID CARDS

2001-10-09 Thread Bill McGonigle
On Thursday, October 4, 2001, at 06:41 , Arnold G. Reinhold wrote: The licenses would still be issued by the states so there would be no new bureaucracy. Thoughts? We have the technology to implement a good electronic ID system, but it wouldn't solve any security problems: ---