CS: Pol-Big Brother is watching you

2000-10-04 Thread Nik
From: "Nik", [EMAIL PROTECTED] You have to pass the crypto keys by hand otherwise the security falls over at that point anyway. If you phone or email it, everyone can know it. If you use PGP, you generate a private key (which you keep) and a public key (which you can freely email out to

CS: Pol-Big Brother is watching you

2000-10-04 Thread Richard
From: Richard Barrett, [EMAIL PROTECTED] You have to pass the crypto keys by hand otherwise the security falls over at that point anyway. If you phone or email it, everyone can know it. If you use PGP, you generate a private key (which you keep) and a public key (which you can freely email

Re: CS: Pol-Big Brother is watching you

2000-10-04 Thread Steven Kendrick/UK
I meant "standard" as in Joe Blow goes into a shop and his PC has it on there, rather than an RFC which has been around for yonks, you're right. Microsoft tells me it won't ship with Win2K until next year at least, there is support for it in the DNS that ships with it though. I know there are

CS: Pol-Big Brother is watching you

2000-10-02 Thread niel fagan
From: "niel fagan", [EMAIL PROTECTED] As an industry watcher, not from the usual view-point though, it has been noted that BT/NTL etc are slowly killing off the smaller isp's so that control of the internet and the profits remain theirs, no doubt the security services will aid them as it means