On Sun, 29 Apr 2001, Declan McCullagh wrote:
Right, in most circumstances you're not required to keep logs. But there
are some cases, albeit a fairly narrow subset, in which you'd want to have
log files that are available to you but not an adversary using legal process.
-Declan
If you
Certainly. Head down to the local hardware store and buy
yourself a very large axe.
Now find something you want to hack, lift the axe over your
head, and bring it down edge first. You may need to hack
three or four times before you break all the way through.
It's easy once you get the
On Wed, 11 Apr 2001, Declan McCullagh wrote:
It's all so sad and predictable and sad again. The cypherpunks list
had its glory days: Wired magazine cover stories, blossoming
technology, and, yes, even those damnable tentacles. Now it's become a
convenient way for the Feds to land convictions.
On Tue, 3 Apr 2001, Declan McCullagh wrote:
Obviously there are going to be some points of agreement. Seth is a liberal
and a programmer who is going to like strong crypto, free speech (only the
types the ACLU approves of, naturally), and so on. But on cases involving
free trade,
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Declan McCullagh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Pretty Good Privacy that permits digital signatures to be forged in
some situations.
Phil Zimmermann, the PGP inventor who's now the director of the
OpenPGP Consortium, said on Wednesday that he and a
On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, David Honig wrote:
The motivation for this is that the legals have decided
that supporting the children is more important than
fairness. Its that simple; some legals will even admit it.
"Fairness" is such a slippery word. Is it fair for a child
to have no support
On Mon, 26 Feb 2001, Tim May wrote:
At 2:57 PM -0800 2/26/01, Ray Dillinger wrote:
If they can fix micropayments so that I can authorize my web
agent to spend up to $5 a month and not pester me about it,
they might have something I'd use.
Most people will skip any sites that cost money
I don't think micropayments are going to work in anything like
their present form. I do not want to be pestered about "is it
okay to spend half a cent on X?" or "Subscriptions to Y cost
only $12 a year" kind of stuff. That's too much cognitive
overload.
If they can fix micropayments so
Someone is using your mailing lists to direct unwanted
"noise" email at another mailing list. They think it's
fun to subscribe a discussion mailing list address for
one of your no-posting-allowed mailing lists and annoy
a few hundred people a day. The guy who wrote you is
probably not
On Sun, 21 Jan 2001, Declan McCullagh wrote:
You're thinking too literally. Show of force: When an employer reminds
a slacker that having a job is not a right.
That's just shit rolling downhill. How long is a manager going to have
his job if he *doesn't* fire slackers? Or how long can an
In the internet world, no publishers are needed - or if they are
needed, it will only be as manufacturers of a physical commodity
(bound printed pages) that people like better than what they can
roll off their own printers. And in fact, you find publishers
living this way now -- I can
On Sat, 13 Jan 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Pardon me but was signing up for this list a joke, cause all I've recieved
since i signed on is two kilos of spam for a gram of not-spam.
That's because you're on the toad.com node. I'm going to send this
note there because otherwise you
Are there any good general cryptographic protocols for groups
taking group actions by formal consensus or voting rules?
I'm thinking of a "distributed agent" that is empowered to do
various things but which is activated only by a vote of its
owners. This would be like a "Robo-moderator"
On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, Tim May wrote:
It's not that I'm jaded, it's that there are TOO MANY DAMNED BOOKS
out there. I spend a lot of time in Borders and Bookshop Santa Cruz,
two very large and well-stocked bookstores in my town. (Declan can
confirm this, though he may not have seen the new
On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, Trei, Peter wrote:
[Jim: It's ok that you have no problem with
your ineffective methods of giving pointers
to articles, but your wasting your own and
other's time - there's simply no reason for
people to follow your links, since they are
generally useless]
Actually, not
On Tue, 2 Jan 2001, Andrew Alston wrote:
Further more, IRC does NOT take that much bandwidth, there is a myth that
efnet NEEDS OC3 links etc because of the traffic that is passed across it,
what people dont say is that the servers actually only run at between 1 and
2 megabit/second if you
On Sat, 30 Dec 2000, Eric Cordian wrote:
Jim Choate writes:
So much for belief in free markets. You realise that there is nothing
that requires servers to install this, or cease using the old network?
Note that the two things IRC really needs, end to end encryption and
authentication, are
On Thu, 28 Dec 2000, Tim May wrote:
At 3:56 AM -0500 12/28/00, dmolnar wrote:
I'm in the midddle of composing a reply to Tim's message (which is getting
bigger every time I sit down to finish it, ominously enough).
Sounds good to me!
One of the
points that has popped into my mind so far is
On Tue, 26 Dec 2000, Paul Coleman wrote:
is there a group in canada?
There are, of course, many groups in canada. Including the moose lodge,
elks, eastern star, parliament, ladies' sewing circles, church congregations,
aldermen, political parties, juries, and random sets of people who
On Sun, 24 Dec 2000, Raymond D. Mereniuk wrote:
In my initial message I stated the current rise in natural gas prices
are caused by multiple factors. Natural gas prices were too low in
recent years and this caused a shortage in supply.
MASSIVE SNIP
Just an observation, but most of the
On Fri, 22 Dec 2000, Brian Lane wrote:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/2/15620.html
Stealth plan puts copy protection into every hard drive
But because the system makes use of the physical location on the device of
the encrypted item, software designed for non-compliant
On Sun, 17 Dec 2000, Bill Stewart wrote:
Besides, Jim, as a Texan your tradition role in discussions of
natural gas policies is supposed to be to say
"let the bastards freeze in the dark" :-)
ITYM "Wal, we can ship ya some natcherl gas, er some awl, but
it's a gonna cost ya Tha awl
On Thu, 14 Dec 2000, Gary Benson wrote:
How come this list has so many addresses:
snip
Is any of these the *real* address, or it is a personal choice?
Yes.
Bear
On Wed, 22 Nov 2000, Eric Cordian wrote:
The implications are that in a society where the government has not made
personal privacy and private communication illegal, you can't be an
asshole to countless millions of people without winding up with a price on
your head.
The thing about money is,
On Tue, 21 Nov 2000, Duncan Frissell wrote:
So what're the sentencing guidelines for harassment of federal officials?
I hope James will argue that he was gathering addresses so that he could
picket them (which is legal). Petition the government for redress of
grievances...
I know James
On Mon, 20 Nov 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
as pure asside ... any SSL server certificate signed by any CA
in my browswer's CA list is acceptable.
my broswer makes no distinction on which CA signed what ...
and/or even what they signed. If I get a certificate signed
by any CA in my
On Mon, 20 Nov 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So what is the acceptable threshold of errors? 1 in a 100? What if
that 1 is the invalid certificate that allows your bank account to be
compromised. CA's should either be 100% or 0% trustworthy. I do agree that
there needs to be a protocol
My personal recommendation for purchasing software would be
SuSE Linux. It will nearly double the speed of your Win98
machine, and comes with word processors etc having greater
functionality and reliability than those you cite below.
At US$55. it's not a bad deal at all. Should be
On Fri, 10 Nov 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
White Supremacist Tim "I'd like to see a race riot" May Moroned:
White Supremacist Tim "I'd like to see a race riot" May Moroned:
Y'all don't get it do you? Tim's not a racist -- racists like
race riots because they're about race, and they take
last I heard, Malta had no laws regarding crypto whatsoever.
But that's been at least a year and a half.
Bear
On Tue, 7 Nov 2000, Frank Dick wrote:
Hello, does anybody knows something about a crypto law in Malta?
Regards
Frank
On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, Tim May wrote:
And this process may not happen with just subpoenas. It will likely
happen with national security agencies. Without Alice knowing.
This is what happens when Alice or any other customer of your product
uses "trusted third parties." GAK beats crack any day.
Would there be a market for someone to create an encrypted-services
provider? Would people do this?
Here is what I envision, at a cost of something like $10/month.
Email accounts that bounce anything not encrypted - either silently
or with a message that says "this account accepts only
I think I know what the SDMI "challenge" is really trying to
accomplish.
These people are not trying to seriously test their watermarking
schemes -- those are broken from the getgo because the players will
be in control of (and owned by) their adversaries, and they know it.
Moreover, it
On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, Neil Johnson wrote:
It's not a zero-sum game for the insurance companies. Most insurance
companies make quite a bit of money investing premiums.
Yes, and so could their clients if not doing business with the
insurance companies.
In addition, they spread the risk. They
On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Kerry L. Bonin wrote:
Extrapolate capabilities from the EFF DES crack project and you are
somewhat closer (1536 ASIC w/ 24 cores/ASIC yielded 4.52 days/crack of 56
bit keyspace), then take into consideration the advantages of using more
sophisticated semiconductor
On 17 Oct 2000, Matt Curtin wrote:
With all of the people running around claiming that data which are
pseudonymous are actually anonymous, it's no wonder that there's so
much confusion.
http://www.consumerreports.org/Special/ConsumerInterest/Reports/0005pri1.htm
Trying to point out the
On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Trei, Peter wrote:
If you read the ostensible charter of the NSA, its duties include assisting
in
the securing of US civilian communications. While I expect this mainly means
making sure that Boris Natasha aren't tapping US internal comm links
without permission, it can
On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, petro wrote:
I get the same impression--They seem like National (as
opposed to International) Socialists.
Ah. I see that, in accordance with ancient usenet and
mailing-list tradition, the discussion is now over.
Bear
On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, Sampo A Syreeni wrote:
On Tue, 26 Sep 2000, Ray Dillinger wrote:
After a little security skirmish with my (now Ex)Bank, I discovered
this about Netscape and Internet Explorer; both have "help fields"
in their headers that facilitate cryptanalysis of SSL c
At 05:09 PM 8/11/2000 -0700, I wrote:
My job was to create for them software that would recognize images
it had "seen before", even through most cropping, resizing, color
substitution, and format conversions, and which could find which
*one*, of a hundred thousand or more images, the new
On Mon, 7 Aug 2000, Harmon Seaver wrote:
Frankly, I think that all the egroup subscriptions and trolls are
from LEO's who are carrying out a deliberate campaign to destroy the
cypherpunks list, or at least make it so painful to be on that no one
will stay.
An interesting theory, and
Bill Stewart, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The reason there's a postal monopoly is in large part because of an
anarchist lawyer, Lysander Spooner, who believed that private business
could do a much better job of anything that a government business,
and demonstrated it by running a better postal
On Wed, 2 Aug 2000, Bo Elkjaer wrote:
United States Patent 6,097,812
Friedman August 1, 2000
Cryptographic system
Abstract
The crytographic system automatically and continuously changes the cipher
equivalents representing plaintext
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