Re: Roger Needham Died - from The Register

2003-03-05 Thread Matt Blaze
Sad, sad news. Roger's pioneering contributions to our art speak (volumes) for themselves, and our field is diminished by the loss of his future insights. But I will miss him most for his enormous generosity, his sharp wit, and his personal integrity. -matt Obit: Roger

Some good words needed...

2003-03-05 Thread Greg Rose
After a long effort, I finally got agreement from my company to make our encryption algorithms freely available. (See http://www.qualcomm.com/press/pr/releases2003/press1161.html if you care.) Somewhat unexpectedly, we now have a number of queries saying basically That's unpatriotic, giving it

Re: NSA being used to influence UN votes on Iraq

2003-03-05 Thread Adam Back
Why is US secret service eavesdropping and dirty tricks against UN votes on Iraq news worthy? Because it's an attempt to pervert the political process, and sabotage the political representation of other UN member countries. I'm sure it is a little more than delegations bothering to protect their

Re: Columbia crypto box

2003-03-05 Thread Dave Emery
On Sun, Mar 02, 2003 at 11:32:36AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Interestingly enough, the public references long ago published the shuttle comm frequencies. Summarizing from: The frequencies have never been secret, but in recent years some or perhaps even almost all of the Ku band

Delta Air Lines Boycott Underway (note revised URL:www.boycottdelta.ORG)

2003-03-05 Thread R. A. Hettinga
--- begin forwarded text Status: RO To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Bill Scannell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2003 03:32:58 -0600 Subject: Delta Air Lines Boycott Underway (note revised URL: www.boycottdelta.ORG) In response to Delta Air Line's utter lack of concern with the privacy of

Re: double shot of snake oil, good conclusion

2003-03-05 Thread Ed Gerck
A.Melon wrote: Ed writes claiming this speculation about Palladium's implicatoins is mis-informed: while others speculated on another potentially devastating effect, that the DRM could, via a loophole in the DoJ consent decree, allow Microsoft to withhold information about file formats

Comments/summary on unicity discussion

2003-03-05 Thread Ed Gerck
List: The recent thread on AES-128 keys unique for fixed plaintext/ciphertext pair included a discussion on unicity, with some broken dialogues. I wrote -up a summary that I'm sending to this list as a possible seed for further comments. I apologize for any mistakes or imprecision, as I'm not

Scientists question electronic voting

2003-03-05 Thread Ed Gerck
Henry Norr had an interesting article today at http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/03/03/BU122767.DTLtype=business Printing a paper receipt that the voter can see is a proposal that addresses one of the major weaknesses of electronic voting. However, it creates

Report of plans by U.S. to spy on U.N. states questioned

2003-03-05 Thread R. A. Hettinga
http://dynamic.washtimes.com/twt-print.cfm?ArticleID=20030303-14680312 The Washington Times www.washingtontimes.com Report of plans by U.S. to spy on U.N. states questioned Published March 3, 2003 From combined dispatches LONDON - A British Sunday newspaper reported yesterday

Re: NSA being used to influence UN votes on Iraq

2003-03-05 Thread John Gilmore
JI questioned: Why is this even newsworthy? It's the NSA's responsibility to provide sigint and comint. Furthermore, if the delegates are not US citizens, and at least one end of the communication is outside the US, they are not even breaking any laws in doing so. If the US found a similar

M209B

2003-03-05 Thread Owen Williams
Hi, My M209-B is on EBay with a start price of £200 and a low reserve of £800. http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemcategory=135item=3211600913; rd=1 Anyone interested? Dr. Owen Williams Faculty of Applied Design and Engineering, Swansea Institute of Higher Education, Mount Pleasant

Re: Applied Cryptography: question on skid3

2003-03-05 Thread David Hopwood
MindFuq wrote: I have a question on what seems to be a defect in the Applied Cryptography book, and I couldn't get an answer out of Schneier or the cypherpunks mailing list. Could any of you please clarify my issue? My question is regarding Schneier's write up of SKID3 on page 56. He

Re: Wiretap Act Does Not Cover Message 'in Storage' For Short Period

2003-03-05 Thread John S. Denker
Tim Dierks wrote: In order to avoid overreaction to a nth-hand story, I've attempted to locate some primary sources. Konop v. Hawaiian Airlines: http://laws.lp.findlaw.com/getcase/9th/case/9955106pexact=1 [US v Councilman:]

Re: double shot of snake oil, good conclusion

2003-03-05 Thread Tal Garfinkel
DRM can't really control what humans do and there is no commercial value in saying that a document that I see cannot be printed or forwarded -- because it can. I believe you are overlooking the assumed threat model, and thus the value of document control systems like the one that Microsoft is

Re: Wiretap Act Does Not Cover Message 'in Storage' For Short Period (was Re: BNA's Internet Law News (ILN) - 2/27/03)

2003-03-05 Thread Tim Dierks
At 02:30 PM 3/5/2003 -0500, Steven M. Bellovin wrote: From: Somebody Technically, since their signal speed is slower than light, even transmission lines act as storage devices. Wire tapping is now legal. The crucial difference, from a law enforcement perspective, is how hard it is to get the