[Because of its relevance and since most list members are probably not WSJ
subscribers, I've taken the liberty of posting the entire article. sds]
From the Wall Street Journal --
For Telecom Workers, Burst Of Bubble Takes Heavy Toll
By REBECCA BLUMENSTEIN
RICHARDSON, Texas -- Two years ago,
The latest release of Mixmaster claims to be an OpenPGP enhancement
release. I looked at the source more closely, and it seems to contain an
entire pgp implementation. I had previously thought it made external calls
to either pgp or gnupg.
This got me thinking - has anyone tried hacking
David Chaum gave a talk at the Crypto 2002 conference recently in which
he briefly presented a number of interesting ideas, including an approach
to digital cash which he himself said would avoid the ecash patents.
The diagram he showed was as follows:
Optimistic Authenticator
At 5:59 PM -0700 on 8/20/02, John Young wrote:
Robert, WTF you asking?
A mere rhetorical question, of course.
The doc came from Anonymous,
the one and only reliable source.
It was ever thus.
Inhale, hold it.
ffttt... cough! Wow... That's some real thunderfuck, J.
Beats the
At 12:58 AM 08/11/2002 -0700, Lucky Green wrote:
BTW, does anybody here know if there is still an email time stamping
server in operation? The references that I found to such servers appear
to be dead.
The canonical timestamping system was Haber Stornetta's work at
Bellcore, commercialized at
At 12:12 PM 8/20/2002 -0700, Steve Schear wrote:
At 12:33 PM 8/20/2002 -0700, you wrote:
Digicash 1999 IRS forms:
http://cryptome.org/digicash-481k.htm
Perhaps its my ignorance, but doesn't this form merely mean DC paid the
Chaum Family Trust $481K, not that the company made $481K?
(since
There has been an awful lot of discussion on this here in CP land,
so maybe some responses too?
A good place to put forward suggestions to make hard calculations
a requirement of delivery or maybe some digicash to pay for it?
***
Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 16:12:51 -0700
I put together a list of openpgp related software at:
http://www.cypherspace.org/openpgp/
this includes library only code, and add on software.
Not sure about your questions about key versions, but I forwarded it
to Ulf Moeller and Len Sassaman (current maintainer of mix3).
From what
On Tue, 20 Aug 2002, Anonymous wrote:
This got me thinking - has anyone tried hacking mixmaster to be a pgp
client? I have compiled it under DOS before, so I know that is possible.
Does anyone know if mixmaster can use 'non-legacy' RSA keys? Is there any
pgp functionality that it lacks? I
There has been an awful lot of discussion on this here in CP land,
so maybe some responses too?
A good place to put forward suggestions to make hard calculations
a requirement of delivery or maybe some digicash to pay for it?
SMTP will never change, assuming it is a pipe dream. There is
On Sat, 17 Aug 2002, Anonymous wrote:
*** COULD SOMEONE PLEASE FOLLOW THE STEPS ABOVE AND PUT THE ringsig.c,
ringsign, ringver, AND sigring.pgp FILES ON A WEB PAGE SO THAT PEOPLE
CAN DOWNLOAD THEM WITHOUT HAVING TO GO THROUGH ALL THESE STEPS? ***
The files are available at:
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