Re: Cryptogram: Palladium Only for DRM

2002-09-20 Thread Alan Braggins
Of course, those like Lucky who believe that trusted computing technology is evil incarnate are presumably rejoicing at this news. Microsoft's patent will limit the application of this technology. In what way is in the desktop of almost every naive user a usefully limited application?

Re: Cryptogram: Palladium Only for DRM

2002-09-20 Thread Alan Braggins
Of course, those like Lucky who believe that trusted computing technology is evil incarnate are presumably rejoicing at this news. Microsoft's patent will limit the application of this technology. In what way is in the desktop of almost every naive user a usefully limited application?

Re: Backround checks are more important than education...

2002-09-03 Thread Alan Braggins
://www.guardian.co.uk/child/story/0,7369,780573,00.html -- Alan Braggins mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ncipher.com/ nCipher Corporation Ltd. +44 1223 723600 Fax: +44 1223 723601

Re: Backround checks are more important than education...

2002-09-03 Thread Alan Braggins
://www.guardian.co.uk/child/story/0,7369,780573,00.html -- Alan Braggins mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ncipher.com/ nCipher Corporation Ltd. +44 1223 723600 Fax: +44 1223 723601

Re: Bad guys vs. Good guys

2002-05-14 Thread Alan Braggins
Ken Brown wrote: Er, I hit send prematurely, and I meant to go on to say that I have often used 1 or 200 UKP in folding money - it is easy to do with universal availability of ATMs. [...] Of course that doesn't apply to genuinely expensive items. I'm not sure I ever spend more than maybe 200

Re: Two ideas for random number generation

2002-04-23 Thread Alan Braggins
anyone's pregenerated lookup tables of lots of digits of pi. -- Alan Braggins mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ncipher.com/ nCipher Corporation Ltd. +44 1223 723600 Fax: +44 1223 723601