Re: A piece of advice??

2000-12-10 Thread dmolnar
On Sun, 10 Dec 2000, FRANKY wrote: to cryptography". However I would like to know where could I find more books related to cryptography. amazon.com is one place. see also http://www.cacr.math.uwaterloo.ca/hac/ for an online copy of the Handbook of Applied Cryptography. secure one system

Re: Re: Re: Gort in granny-shades (was Re: Al Gore goes cypherpunk?)

2000-10-25 Thread dmolnar
On Tue, 24 Oct 2000, petro wrote: If this world *were* a computer generated construct, it would explain a few things. This is why the Gnostics had such a good run of it in the first century, right? At least until they were wiped out... -David

Re: StoN, Diffie-Hellman, other junk..

2000-09-07 Thread dmolnar
On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Asymmetric wrote: Mihailescu's methods for prime generation. (Mihailescu has a paper on the subject aimed at implementors at http://www.inf.ethz.ch/~mihailes/papers/primgen.ps ) Ah.. I have implemented a sieve of eros..whatever his name is.. ;) for Erastothenes, I

Re: RC4 source as a literate program

2000-09-05 Thread dmolnar
On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Gary Jeffers wrote: then give his opinion as to wheather it was legal or not. If the lawyer said that it was legal and gave his opinion in writing, then the client could proceed without out worry. The lawyer's opinion would stop any criminal prosecution. Does this

Re: I see this list is still dead

2000-06-26 Thread dmolnar
mailing lists. I'm not on any of those, but poking around the EFF and such places may get you started. -dmolnar

Re: Musings on the Economics of ZKS

2000-06-14 Thread dmolnar
rers are supposed to follow them or face consequences. How do these "best practices" come about, and is this model relevant to crypto in general and anonymous systems in particular? or am I hopelessly confused and should seek a law school course? -dmolnar

Re: MIT?

2000-06-02 Thread dmolnar
I can reach the theory.lcs.mit.edu web page and the CIS group page just fine. Are you referring to the remailer? On Fri, 2 Jun 2000, Anonymous wrote: Anyone know what's wrong with *.lcs.mit.edu?

indeterministic cryptosystems and mix-nets

2000-05-07 Thread dmolnar
Hi, I came across the term "indeterministic cryptosystem" while reading the paper "MIXes in Mobile Communications Systems : Location Management with Privacy" by Federrath, Jerichow, and A. Pfitzmann. http://www.semper.org/sirene/lit/abstr96.html#FeJP1_96 An "indeterministic cryptosystem" is

Frog remailer down and up again ?

2000-05-06 Thread dmolnar
Hi, A post on alt.privacy.anon-server dated Thursday claims that the "Frog" anonymous remailer has been seized by French police. For the last few months, "Frog" had been running a statistics service similar to the one Raph Levien used to have at UC-Berkeley. The admin has also had a fairly

Re: beginning cryptography

2000-04-18 Thread dmolnar
The sci.crypt FAQ is a decent place to start. http://www.faqs.org/faqs/cryptography-faq/part01/ Then take a look at the _Handbook of Applied Cryptography_ for an excellent and precise technical overview. http://cacr.math.uwaterloo.ca/hac/ Supplement with _Applied Cryptography_ to see what

Re: RSA fasion trends.

2000-04-17 Thread dmolnar
On Mon, 17 Apr 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Some of these, such as template-less biometrics, are so new they are little more than a theoretical sparkle in designers' imaginations, but they are moving fast. Any idea what is meant by a "template-less biometric?" In order to verify a

Re: RSA fasion trends.

2000-04-17 Thread dmolnar
On Mon, 17 Apr 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any idea what is meant by a "template-less biometric?" In order to verify a person's identity, the live scan data must be compared with something, i.e., a template. On actually reading the article, it seems clear (to me) that what is meant is

Sander Franklin presentation @ CFP

2000-04-14 Thread dmolnar
Hi, The recent article reminds me -- did anyone see Tomas Sander and Matt Franklin's presentation at CFP on "Deniable Payments and Electronic Campaign Finance"? What did you think? http://www.cfp2000.org/papers/franklin.pdf Their idea is to take the "mandated donor anonymity" proposed by

Re: The Death of the Cypherpunks

2000-04-12 Thread dmolnar
On Wed, 12 Apr 2000, Declan McCullagh wrote: Simson is a smart fellow, and a friend. But he does believe in aggressive federal regulation of private sector data collection practices. Indeed. That is why I mentioned him in response to your note that data collection is an area which seems

Re: curfew laws

2000-03-07 Thread dmolnar
On Tue, 7 Mar 2000, Michael Motyka wrote: you? Or have you always been a mindless, obedient twit? Is that what Harvard is accepting for admission these days? If so, we're doomed. I sure as hell won't send my kids there. Would you believe I was being sarcastic? or would that simply

Re: curfew laws

2000-03-06 Thread dmolnar
One law my group is interested in is curfews. I would like to hear about your opinions, and if you have any information on this subject. I found curfews to be an effective technique for reminding me that I was under the supervision and control of the institution imposing the curfew.

Re: A new PKC, and some conjectures

2000-03-05 Thread dmolnar
On Sat, 4 Mar 2000, bram wrote: I've written up a public key encryption algorithm I came up with and some thoughts on it at http://www.gawth.com/bram/essays/simple_public_key.html Here's an idea I just had towards an attack on the system. I'm not sure it goes all the way through. It

Re: Purpose of anti-laundering laws?

2000-03-04 Thread dmolnar
On Sun, 5 Mar 2000, reject wrote: Obviously, assorted FedGoons(tm) dislike untraceable money. Nasty terrorists, child pornographers, drug dealers, and other horsemen could hide their "profits" then... But is there a *legitimate* reason to have anti-money-laundering laws? I can't

Re: Re: Payment mixes for anonymity

2000-03-04 Thread dmolnar
On Sat, 4 Mar 2000, Jim Choate wrote: Anonymous mailer operaters can most definitely be considered to be 'doing anything' if it is found they're in the loop of a criminal investigation. Yes. This is why I think it is important that even the senders of anonymous mail not be able to prove

Re: Looking for info on web anonymizers

2000-03-03 Thread dmolnar
First place to look might be www.zks.net -- a commercial anonymous TCP/IP service. Then be sure to look at www.onion-router.net for comparison. You may also want to check out the links at http://www.cypherspace.org/links and the mix anonymity project at

Workshop on Anonymous Systems

2000-03-03 Thread dmolnar
Hey, I noticed this a few days ago : Workshop on Design Issues in Anonymity and Unobservability July 25-26, 2000 International Computer Science Institute (ICSI), Berkeley, California http://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/~hannes/ws.html Looks like a lot of fun. Also at the same site is an

Re: Payment mixes for anonymity

2000-03-02 Thread dmolnar
On 3 Mar 2000, Secret Squirrel wrote: If all payments are for different amounts, then this would no longer work, as a chain of $123.45 payments would be easy to track. It would therefore be necessary for the system to use a single standard payment size. If people wanted to pay more,

Re: Brands on privacy

2000-02-28 Thread dmolnar
On Mon, 28 Feb 2000, David Honig wrote: Yeah right, PGP infringed on all kinds of things... See http://www.cypherspace.org/~adam/timeline/ I am not sure that PGP is comparable. PGP works as long as my correspondents have a copy as well. Digital cash seems to require more widespread

e-gold as anon e-cash mint

2000-02-28 Thread dmolnar
On 28 Feb 2000, lcs Mixmaster Remailer wrote: Run an anonymous ecash server which does withdrawals and deposits into the mint account, from behind Freedom.net. The only problem is that Freedom does not yet support anonymous servers. What we need is a way of supporting this. Tell me

Re: ZKS hires Brands, licenses patents

2000-02-24 Thread dmolnar
On Thu, 24 Feb 2000, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: or do you mean "we must grant you a license to this other patent we used to implement something covered by a GPL patent" ? What if the person implementing the GPL patent doesn't have the ability to license that patent? then

Re: ZKS hires Brands, licenses patents

2000-02-23 Thread dmolnar
On Thu, 24 Feb 2000, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: A new law that requires that any implementation instance of something that is covered in full or in part by a GPL Patent requires FULL disclosure of all Intellectual Property used in the implementation. Design documents, other

Tales of banking perfidy and malice?

2000-02-08 Thread dmolnar
I am looking for (true) horror stories about banking corruption. Specific examples of money laundering, private information improperly divulged, young clerks blackmailed by means of their sexuality, dark family secrets, addicted boards of directors, and other methods of subversion. (why?)