Re: IP: SSL Certificate Monopoly Bears Financial Fruit

2002-07-11 Thread Greg Broiles
At 03:48 PM 7/10/2002 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -- On 6 Jul 2002 at 9:33, R. A. Hettinga wrote: Thawte has now announced a round of major price increases. New cert prices appear to have almost doubled, and renewals have increased more than 50%. [...] Why is not someone else

Re: Tax consequences...

2002-07-11 Thread F. Marc de Piolenc
Nomen Nescio wrote: So what you are suggesting is that I might as well take out US citizenship, since the IRS behaves just as piratically and imperially to anyone who gets a job in the US? Considering only taxes, I think that's correct. You do need to consider other things, such as what

Re: Ross's TCPA paper

2002-07-11 Thread Jay Sulzberger
On Fri, 5 Jul 2002, AARG!Anonymous wrote: ... / Right, and you can boot untrusted OS's as well. Recently there was discussion here of HP making a trusted form of Linux that would work with the TCPA hardware. So you will have options in both the closed source and open source worlds to

Re: IP: SSL Certificate Monopoly Bears Financial Fruit

2002-07-11 Thread Jay Sulzberger
On Wed, 10 Jul 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -- On 6 Jul 2002 at 9:33, R. A. Hettinga wrote: Thawte has now announced a round of major price increases. New cert prices appear to have almost doubled, and renewals have increased more than 50%. While Thawte proclaims this is their

Re: Finding encrytion algorithm

2002-07-11 Thread Mike Rosing
On Thu, 11 Jul 2002, gfgs pedo wrote: suppose a cryptanalysis only has encrypted data-how is going 2 know which is the encrytion algorithm used 2 encrypt the data ,so that he can effeciently cryptanalyse if 1:he has large amount of cipher text only 2:has large amount of plain text and

Finding encrytion algorithm

2002-07-11 Thread gfgs pedo
i meant cryptanalyst-hope i spelled that rite :-) Data. __ Do You Yahoo!? Sign up for SBC Yahoo! Dial - First Month Free http://sbc.yahoo.com

Finding encrytion algorithm

2002-07-11 Thread gfgs pedo
hi, suppose a cryptanalysis only has encrypted data-how is going 2 know which is the encrytion algorithm used 2 encrypt the data ,so that he can effeciently cryptanalyse if 1:he has large amount of cipher text only 2:has large amount of plain text and corresponding cipher text. There r so

Re: Rant: The U.S. facing the largest financial collapse ever

2002-07-11 Thread keyser-soze
On Thursday 11 July 2002 13:32, Tim May wrote: (Regarding SS and other USG liabilities) Charge it...some future generation will pay. At 02:25 PM 7/11/2002 -0400, Steve Furlong wrote: I hope not. Addressing only the SS issue and not other USG debt, I'm attempting to organize a nation-wide

Re: Finding encrytion algorithm

2002-07-11 Thread Ryan Sorensen
* Mike Rosing [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020711]: Depends on how they got the source. They may know it's one of 5 possible choices because of the person who sent (or received) it. If it's just found on a disk in a garbage dump with no connections to anyone, it's a bit tougher. But every algorithm

Re: Rant: The U.S. facing the largest financial collapse ever

2002-07-11 Thread Anonymous
Tim May writes: As everyone should know by now, and probably does, the Social Security scheme in the U.S. is nothing more than a large Ponzi scheme. Payroll taxes, amounting to about 15% of income up to some level (ratcheted upwards every few years), go straight into the General Fund,

SSZ Downtime - This weekend

2002-07-11 Thread Jim Choate
There will be a scheduled system upgrade beginning tomorrow evening through Sunday evening. Reliability will suffer. Use my Open Forge address for contacts in the interim. -- When I die, I would like to

Re: Rant: The U.S. facing the largest financial collapse ever

2002-07-11 Thread Jim Choate
The problem with your analysis is that it completely misses the impact of the extended lifetimes (~150 years for anyone alive in or after 2020 that doesn't die from accident or intent) that are going to accrue. And it's only going to go up from there. Within 200 years the effective lifetimes

Re: Finding encrytion algorithm

2002-07-11 Thread Sandy Harris
Mike Rosing wrote: On Thu, 11 Jul 2002, gfgs pedo wrote: suppose a cryptanalysis only has encrypted data-how is going 2 know which is the encrytion algorithm used 2 encrypt the data ,so that he can effeciently cryptanalyse if 1:he has large amount of cipher text only 2:has

RE: IP: SSL Certificate Monopoly Bears Financial Fruit

2002-07-11 Thread Lucky Green
James wrote: On 11 Jul 2002 at 1:22, Lucky Green wrote: Trusted roots have long been bought and sold on the secondary market as any other commodity. For surprisingly low amounts, you too can own a trusted root that comes pre-installed in 95% of all web browsers deployed. How