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

2003-03-06 Thread Will Rodger
John says: Wireless is a horse of a different color. IANAL but the last time I looked, there was no federal law against intercepting most wireless signals, but you were (generally) not allowed to disclose the contents to anyone else. No longer, if it ever was. It's a crime, as evidenced by the

Proven Primes

2003-03-06 Thread Ben Laurie
I'm looking for a list or lists of sensibly sized proven primes - all the lists I can find are more interested in records, which are _way_ too big for cryptographic purposes. By sensibly sized I mean in the range 512-8192 bits. I'm particularly after Sophie Germain primes right now, but I

RE: Scientists question electronic voting

2003-03-06 Thread Trei, Peter
Ian Brown[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ed Gerck wrote: 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 problems that are even harder to solve than the silent subversion of

ENC: Proven Primes

2003-03-06 Thread Mads Rasmussen
-Mensagem original- De: Ben Laurie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Enviada em: quinta-feira, 6 de março de 2003 08:47 Para: Cryptography Assunto: Proven Primes I'm looking for a list or lists of sensibly sized proven primes - all the lists I can find are more interested in records,

Re: Proven Primes

2003-03-06 Thread Anton Stiglic
- Original Message - From: Ben Laurie [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Cryptography [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 6:47 AM Subject: Proven Primes I'm looking for a list or lists of sensibly sized proven primes - all the lists I can find are more interested in records, which are

Re: Proven Primes

2003-03-06 Thread Jack Lloyd
I believe the IPSec primes had been proven. All are SG primes with a g=2 Check RFC 2412, draft-ietf-ipsec-ikev2-05.txt, and draft-ietf-ipsec-ike-modp-groups-05.txt However, I don't seen any primality proof certificates included in the texts. On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, Ben Laurie wrote: I'm looking

RE: Scientists question electronic voting

2003-03-06 Thread Ian Brown
Peter Trei wrote: I'd prefer that the printed receipt be retained at the polling station, after the voter has had an opportunity to examine it. This serves two purposes: First, it prevents the vote selling described above, and second, if a recount is required, it allows the recount to be

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

2003-03-06 Thread John S. Denker
Will Rodger wrote: John says: Wireless is a horse of a different color. IANAL but the last time I looked, there was no federal law against intercepting most wireless signals, but you were (generally) not allowed to disclose the contents to anyone else. No longer, if it ever was. It's a

Re: Scientists question electronic voting

2003-03-06 Thread Anton Stiglic
- Original Message - From: Bill Frantz [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Ed Gerck [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 2:14 AM Subject: Re: Scientists question electronic voting [..] The best counter to this problem is widely available systems to produce fake photos

Re: Scientists question electronic voting

2003-03-06 Thread bear
On Wed, 5 Mar 2003, Bill Frantz wrote: The best counter to this problem is widely available systems to produce fake photos of the vote, so the vote buyer can't know whether the votes he sees in the photo are the real votes, or fake ones. blink, blink. you mean *MORE* widely available than

Re: Scientists question electronic voting

2003-03-06 Thread Anton Stiglic
- Original Message - From: Ed Gerck [EMAIL PROTECTED] [...] This is not possible for current paper ballots, for several reasons. For example, if you take a picture of your punch card as a proof of how you voted, what is to prevent you -- after the picture is taken -- to punch another

Re: double shot of snake oil, good conclusion

2003-03-06 Thread Ed Gerck
Tal Garfinkel wrote: The value of these type of controls that they help users you basically trust who might be careless, stupid, lazy or confused to do the right thing (however the right thing is defined, according to your company security policy). It beats me that users you basically

Re: Scientists question electronic voting

2003-03-06 Thread Ed Gerck
Anton Stiglic wrote: -Well the whole process can be filmed, not necessarily photographed... It's difficult to counter the attack. In you screen example, you can photograph the vote and then immediately photograph the thank you, if the photographs include the time in milliseconds, and the

Re: Proven Primes

2003-03-06 Thread Anton Stiglic
- Original Message - From: Ben Laurie [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Anton Stiglic [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Talking about the ECPP package...] I'm not convinced any of those binaries are going to run on my system (which is FreeBSD), and anyway, if I'm going to use a binary to do ECPP I may as well

RE: Scientists question electronic voting

2003-03-06 Thread Francois Grieu
Peter Trei wrote: I'd prefer that the printed receipt be retained at the polling station, after the voter has had an opportunity to examine it. This serves two purposes: First, it prevents the vote selling described above, and second, if a recount is required, it allows the recount to be

RE: Scientists question electronic voting

2003-03-06 Thread Trei, Peter
Francois Grieu[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Peter Trei wrote: I'd prefer that the printed receipt be retained at the polling station, after the voter has had an opportunity to examine it. This serves two purposes: First, it prevents the vote selling described above, and second, if a

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

2003-03-06 Thread Arnold G. Reinhold
At 4:57 PM -0500 3/5/03, John S. Denker wrote: 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: Wiretap Act Does Not Cover Message 'in Storage' For Short Period (was Re: BNA's Internet Law News (ILN) - 2/27/03)

2003-03-06 Thread Will Rodger
John says: Next time, before disagreeing with someone: a) Please read what he actually wrote, and b) Don't quote snippets out of context. Three sentences later, at the end of the paragraph that began as quoted above, I explicitly pointed out that cellphone transmissions are a more-protected

Re: Delta CAPPS-2 watch: decrypt boarding passes!

2003-03-06 Thread Derek Atkins
John, John Gilmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: And, besides identifying what cities they're doing this in, we should also start examining a collection of these boarding passes, looking for the encrypted let me through without searching me information. Or the Don't let me fly information. Then

Re: Scientists question electronic voting

2003-03-06 Thread Ed Gerck
bear wrote: Let's face it, if somebody can *see* their vote, they can record it. Not necessarily. Current paper ballots do not offer you a way to record *your* vote. You may even photograph your ballot but there is no way to prove that *that* was the ballot you did cast. In the past, we had

Re: Re: Delta CAPPS-2 watch: decrypt boarding passes!

2003-03-06 Thread John Ioannidis
On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 01:50:44PM -0500, Derek Atkins wrote: [...] When I flew on US-Airways out of BAL last year, they had a marking on the boarding pass that signified search this person. If your boarding pass had the mark, you were searched as you tried to board. If it did not, then

Re: Delta CAPPS-2 watch: decrypt boarding passes!

2003-03-06 Thread Derek Atkins
John Ioannidis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Are you referring to the string on the boarding pass? That indicated that you were going to be searched by the boarding gate TSA people whether they were going to decide to search you or not (they still picked up random people without the search

Changes may follow Yale hoax e-mail

2003-03-06 Thread R. A. Hettinga
http://www.yaledailynews.com/articlefunctions/Printerfriendly.asp?AID=22111 yaledailynews.com - Changes may follow hoax e-mail Published Wednesday, March 5, 2003 Changes may follow hoax e-mail BY JESSAMYN BLAU Staff Reporter The Feb. 17 hoax e-mail that caused some students to miss

Proven Primes

2003-03-06 Thread Tero Kivinen
Ben Laurie writes: I'm looking for a list or lists of sensibly sized proven primes - all the lists I can find are more interested in records, which are _way_ too big for cryptographic purposes. Directory ftp://ftp.ssh.com/pub/ietf/ecpp-certificates contains ecpp certificates for IKE primes

Re: Scientists question electronic voting

2003-03-06 Thread Dan Riley
Ed Gerck [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This is not possible for current paper ballots, for several reasons. For example, if you take a picture of your punch card as a proof of how you voted, what is to prevent you -- after the picture is taken -- to punch another hole for the same race and

Re: Proven Primes

2003-03-06 Thread Bill Frantz
At 3:47 AM -0800 3/6/03, Ben Laurie wrote: I'm looking for a list or lists of sensibly sized proven primes - all the lists I can find are more interested in records, which are _way_ too big for cryptographic purposes. By sensibly sized I mean in the range 512-8192 bits. I'm particularly after

Re: 3-rotor enigma on ebay: $5200

2003-03-06 Thread Bill Frantz
At 9:17 AM -0800 3/6/03, Daniel Garcia wrote: On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, Don Davis wrote: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=2162414185 i saw this on the boing-boing blog. Interesting, when i try to look at this from work (over in brighton, actually), i get: Dear User:

Re: Scientists question electronic voting

2003-03-06 Thread Ed Gerck
Dan Riley wrote: The vote can't be final until the voter confirms the paper receipt. It's inevitable that some voters won't realize they voted the wrong way until seeing the printed receipt, so that has to be allowed for. Elementary human factors. This brings in two other factors I have

Re: Scientists question electronic voting

2003-03-06 Thread Barney Wolff
On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 08:38:42PM -0500, Dan Riley wrote: But this whole discussion is terribly last century--still pictures are passe. What's the defense of any of these systems against cell phones that transmit live video? A Faraday cage. Seriously, what current or historic voting

Re: double shot of snake oil, good conclusion

2003-03-06 Thread Neil Johnson
Lotus Notes/Domino already has something similar to what Microsoft is proposing. You can designate an outgoing message as read-only. The end-user (if they are using a Notes Client) can only view the message, menu choices for printing and cutting/copy text are disabled. Forwarding the message

RE: Scientists question electronic voting

2003-03-06 Thread John Kelsey
At 02:39 AM 3/6/03 +, Ian Brown wrote: Ed Gerck wrote: ... For example, using the proposed system a voter can easily, by using a small concealed camera or a cell phone with a camera, obtain a copy of that receipt and use it to get money for the vote, or keep the job. And no one would know