Re: [Clips] Clippre: Police ask for tough new powers

2005-07-24 Thread Sarad AV
The govt. puts the blame on the intelligence for failing and the intelligence community blames it on tough laws that prevent them from eavesdropping. Then they all go amending laws, show their commitment to the public and reach a win-win situation. Somebody somewhere should be responsible to take

Re: Private Homes may be taken for public good

2005-06-24 Thread Sarad AV
This is very bad news. A lot of people will loose their homes to private 'economic developers'. It certainly means no right to have a permenant home. When suburbs start developing, the people are going to be evicted over and over. How long will this continue? If they cant do any good for

Fwd: Order of an integer

2005-06-01 Thread Sarad AV
--- Cletus Emmanuel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Two conjectures (or are they?): 1. The order of an integer 'a' modulo P^m = P^(m-1)*(Order of a mod P); where P is an odd prime . 2. If a, m, and n are elements of Z and (a,mn) = 1, then Order of a mod mn = QR/(Q,R); where Q = Order of a mod m and R

Airport screeners could see X-rated X-rays

2005-05-25 Thread Sarad AV
The Homeland Security Department's justification for the electronic strip searches has a certain logic. In field test after field test, it found that federal airport screeners using metal-detecting magnetometers did a miserable job identifying weapons concealed in carry-on bags or on the bodies of

Re: Secure MPC( ab )

2005-05-19 Thread Sarad AV
hi, --- Adam Back [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is a simple protocol for this described in Schneier's Applied Crypto if you have one handy... Yes, I found it. Thankyou. --- cypherpunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That is known as a multi party computation or MPC True, Its a secure MPC

Zero knowledge( ab )

2005-05-09 Thread Sarad AV
hi, If user A has the integer a and user B has the integer b, can a zero knowledge proof be developed to show that ab,ab or a=b. Thankyou, Sarad. Yahoo! Mail Stay connected, organized, and protected. Take the tour: http://tour.mail.yahoo.com/mailtour.html

Re: Pi: Less Random Than We Thought

2005-05-06 Thread Sarad AV
--- Tyler Durden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Let us remember, of course, that the digits of pi are not random whatsoever: they are the digits of pi! Random is in the eye of the beholder. -TD Exactly. What an algorithm gives out is always deterministic. We try to see if there is some

Re: Pi: Less Random Than We Thought

2005-05-06 Thread Sarad AV
hi, --- Gil Hamilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For example, is this sequence of bits random: 01100100010? How about this one: 00? From a true random number generator, both are completely possible and equally valid. Random as in the sense guessable and thus posing a problem to the

Cracking Blowfish in style

2005-04-29 Thread Sarad AV
Mentioned on the Fox show 24. http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2005/04/blowfish_on_24.html http://video.google.com/videopreview?q=blowfishtime=3205000page=1docid=4616599194372365303urlcreated=1114565588chan=KTVUprog=24+%7C+Day+4%3A+1%3A00AM-2%3A00AMdate=Mon+Apr+25+2005+at+9%3A00+PM+PDT

Google prioritises results for firefox and mozilla users

2005-04-05 Thread Sarad AV
hi, news below: http://www.net4nowt.com/isp_news/news_article.asp?News_ID=2809 Google is way too fast. Whats the difference seraching using google in 10 milliseconds and in 5 milliseconds?Perhaps they are taking some load off their server? I fail to see how it is useful to the search client.

Re: [silk] Google Targeted ads - gmail (fwd from rishab@dxm.org)

2005-04-01 Thread Sarad AV
hi, Maybe it was just a bot parsing the contents of the mail. Cannot say for sure. Reading every ones g-mail doesn't appear to be practical. Sarad. --- Eugen Leitl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 09:17 17/03/2005, Biju Chacko wrote: Ok, that does it. I am now convinced that Google is the new

Re: [Htech] Tracking a Specific Machine Anywhere On The Net (fwd from eugen@leitl.org)

2005-03-07 Thread Sarad AV
hi, After looking at RFC1323 below http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/cgi-bin/rfc/rfc1323.html#sec-4 the only reasonable option is to use the time old pseudorandom numbers for TCP sequence numbers in the TCP IP stack. Another option would be to synchronize the client with NTP but that wouldn't work

Re: Researchers Combat Terrorists by Rooting Out Hidden Messages

2005-02-02 Thread Sarad AV
hi, Tyler Durden wrote: Are there certain images that can hide stego more effectively? IN other words, these images should have a lot of spectral energy in the same frequency bands where Stego would normally show. Yes, there should be a lot of noise in the image, some way or the other. If you

Re: Searching with Images instead of Words

2005-01-14 Thread Sarad AV
hi, They had been researching on this line in Indian Institue of Science, Bangalore. I think image searching has fundamental limits. For successfully matching two images, there should be a subset of information in both that totally match or match with a high probability. Expecting a front view

Re: The Values-Vote Myth

2004-11-07 Thread Sarad AV
--- R.A. Hettinga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When asked about the issue that most influenced their vote, voters were given the option of saying moral values. But that phrase can mean anything - or nothing. Who doesn't vote on moral values? If you ask an inept question, you get a misleading

Blowfish C code still chokes

2004-10-24 Thread Sarad AV
hello, The C code for the blowfish encryption algorithm posted in Mr.Schneier's site, acocording to Michael.B still 'chokes' as it is not corrected even though the bug report, mentions that it is a fatal bug. The bug report is available at http://www.schneier.com/blowfish-bug.txt His opinion is

Re: Perplexing proof

2004-09-11 Thread Sarad AV
--- Major Variola (ret) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can someone explain how finding regularity in the distribution of primes would affect any modexp() system? Suppose that you have a function F(i) which gives you the i-th prime. Since the PK systems (eg RSA, DH) use *randomness* to

Re: Maths holy grail could bring disaster for internet

2004-09-08 Thread Sarad AV
hello, The security of elliptic curve cryptosystems depend on the difficulty in solving the elliptic curve discrete log problem(ECDLP). If any body gets to prove that P=NP, then all the public key cryptosystemts which rely on 'hard' problems will be useless for crypto. Sarath. --- Sunder

Vote for nobody

2004-09-06 Thread Sarad AV
hello, the election commision of india had a proposal to the govt. that the voter should be able to vote for 'none of the above'. Though one can predict that such a proposal will never be approved by the government, it makes a lot of sense. Is any other democratic country seriously thinking of

Re: SHA-1 rumors

2004-08-18 Thread Sarad AV
--- R. A. Hettinga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This would SEEM to put the SHA family into jeopardy as well, but we should know more tomorrow evening. John Black Wasn't the attack to find two chosen messages hashing to the same value? But that doesn't mean that it is easy to find a message

Re: Wired on Navy's new version of Onion Routing

2004-08-06 Thread Sarad AV
hi, Since they are using symmetric keys, for a network of 'n' nodes, each node need to know the secret key that they share with the remaining (n-1) nodes.Total number of symmetric keys that need to be distributed is [n*(n-1)]/2. Key management is harder when they network gets larger. Sarath.

Re: Identifying Air Marshals is Too Easy

2004-06-03 Thread Sarad AV
You can pick a few of them by looking in the eye. They are usually very sharp people. Sarath. Secret Service people are notoriously known for being snappy dressers, said Capt. Steve Luckey, security chairman for the Air Line Pilots Association.

Re: inverse finding

2004-03-14 Thread Sarad AV
I can't stop outsourcing.Don't blame me.Blame your own govt. Sarath. --- Major Variola (ret) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 09:55 PM 3/12/04 -0800, Sarad AV wrote: if gcd(a,m)=1, for a*a inverse==1 mod m is it better to find a invese=a^(m-2) mod m by binary exponentiation modulo m

Re: inverse finding

2004-03-14 Thread Sarad AV
--- Tyler Durden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And are you trying to suggest (On Cypherpunks, of all places) that the US government should somehow regulate outsourcing? It doesnot matter what i think.Neither can I help it It already is http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3535893.stm Any way,I

Re: I'd recognise that ear, anywhere

2004-03-13 Thread Sarad AV
Perhaps,its because they need the funds. Have to pull wool over their eyes,to get the money. --- sunder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: R. A. Hettinga wrote: Hmmm... Actual progress on old news is new news, right? Not when it pretends to be a new and wonderful idea, and ignores its past.

inverse finding

2004-03-13 Thread Sarad AV
hi, if gcd(a,m)=1, for a*a inverse==1 mod m is it better to find a invese=a^(m-2) mod m by binary exponentiation modulo m or is it more time efficient by extended euclids algorithm for large 'm'? thanks. Sarath. __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - More reliable,

Re: Evidence is clear: Videos convict

2004-03-09 Thread Sarad AV
doesn't sound good,hope all the court rooms will be able to authenticate the tape,I mean a very good editing tool and a CG expert working on it may come out with real frightening stuff. Who would say that the dinasours of jurrasic park didn't look real :) Sarath. --- R. A. Hettinga [EMAIL

Re: Fwd: Re: Don't Panic - Not All Jobs Are Headed Overseas

2004-03-04 Thread Sarad AV
Most of the .com's I've worked at, the CEO was hired to do one single thing: pump up the image of the company to make it look like a big jucy steak when it was all crap internally, then sell the turd off to a sucker. This of course results in the immediate job loss of 90% of the

RE: Gentlemen don't read each others' mail

2004-02-28 Thread Sarad AV
They must be doing it all time.It now just turned out as a diplomatic issue. Sarath. --- Tyler Durden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Looks like the UN's going to need some encrypted VoIP... -TD From: Major Variola (ret.) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Engineers in U.S. vs. India

2004-01-08 Thread Sarad AV
--- Jim Dixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Meaning that 150,000 engineers are employed in Bangalore? Does this include software engineers, HTML coders, programmers, computer scientists? Computer scientists are very few. Most engineering colleges and teachers emphasis simple on coding. If you

Re: Engineers in U.S. vs. India

2004-01-07 Thread Sarad AV
Today, Bangalore stands ahead of Bay Area, San Francisco and California, with a lead of 20,000 techies, while employing a total number of 1.5 lakh engineers. I live in bangalore,those figures are correct. However, the educational system has to be seen to be fully appreciated. I spent

Re: cypherpunks discussions

2003-12-09 Thread Sarad AV
hi, Asking questions is part of learning. Unless one learns how is he expected to participate and make once in a while intelliget discussions? Give noobs some space and time to learn and over time they will contribute to the list. I think when I was a kid, it took me quite a few months to

Re: cypherpunks discussions

2003-12-08 Thread Sarad AV
hi, I just a pick a book and learn and if i am in doubt, ofcourse i do have a lot of stupid ones. but thats how i learn. I have friends who will help me with my queries. I prefer not getting flamed like every one else and that too in quick succesion :-). so my guess is that as far as newbies are

Re: Deniable data storage

2003-11-06 Thread Sarad AV
hi, Keep K =Original Key P =Original Plain Text C =Original cipher text D=Dummy plain text C'=Dummy cipher text K'=Dummy key use a symmetric key encryption algorithm with a secret key 'k' over plain text 'P' to obtain cipher text 'C' Then we find k'= C (xor) D Preferably D is atleast as long

Re: If you DON'T use encryption, you help the terrorists win

2003-10-30 Thread Sarad AV
HI, TD wrote- that, increased use of crypto implies increased cost of monitoring. If a larger population starts using cryptography, we can compare it to U.S mail. The govt. any way can't go through all the snail mails due to its sheer volume. They rely on other methods to detect and nullify

Re: base conversion

2003-10-11 Thread Sarad AV
helo, thank you for the reply. The algorithm you describe is linear, not log. Complexity measures are a function of the size of the input data set in bits. In general, a large integer M will require an input around N = LOG2(M) bits to represent. If we are to convert a k-bit integer n

Re: base conversion

2003-10-09 Thread Sarad AV
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ,good work! --- Tim May [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday, October 8, 2003, at 06:16 AM, Sarad AV wrote: hi, If we are to convert a k-bit integer n to a base b number,it takes us O(log n) if the base b is a power of 2. eg. converting (1)base to base

Re: Drunken US Troops Kill Rare Tiger

2003-09-24 Thread Sarad AV
hi, You may then need to pass a bill that gives you the right to kick them out of office if they don't fullfill atleast 50% of what they promised in a given time frame. Sarath. --- John Kelsey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 04:37 AM 9/22/03 -0700, you wrote: hi, Vote for some one who

Re: Drunken US Troops Kill Rare Tiger

2003-09-22 Thread Sarad AV
hi, Vote for some one who promises freedom,democracy and development. Is that so hard? Sarath. --- Tyler Durden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I guess in the end we are responsible for the actions our government takes. And if we remain ignorant and continue to benefit (and do nothing to stop

Re: Q on associative binary operation

2003-08-29 Thread Sarad AV
and not two elements of the set. x*y (ie, left*top) can be followed. Regards Sarath. --- BillyGOTO [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 12:14:20AM -0700, Sarad AV wrote: hi, Table shown is completed to define 'associative' binary operation * on S={a,b,c,d}. *|a|b|c|d

Q on associative binary operation

2003-08-28 Thread Sarad AV
hi, Table shown is completed to define 'associative' binary operation * on S={a,b,c,d}. *|a|b|c|d - a|a|b|c|d - b|b|a|c|d - c|c|d|c|d - d|d|c|c|d The operation * is associative iff (a*b)*c=a*(b*c) for all a,b,c element of set S. So can (a*d)*d=a*(d*d)=d

Re: paradoxes of randomness

2003-08-18 Thread Sarad AV
hi, --- martin f krafft [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay- I need 5 bits to represent 32 coins.I count as coin 0,coin 1,... coin 31. No, you can't count coin 0. Or how will you represent no coins? I thought i could use the null set to point to the first coin,simply as a one to one mapping

Re: paradoxes of randomness

2003-08-18 Thread Sarad AV
hi, Hope you can help on this. --- Tim May [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I hope you are not saying that you think there will always be 16 heads and 16 tails! In a perfectly random experiment,how many tails and how many heads do we get? thanks. Regards Sarath.

Re: *** GMX Spamverdacht *** Re: paradoxes of randomness

2003-08-18 Thread Sarad AV
hi, Thank you-one more question. Will the information obtained from the 2^32 tests have a zero compression rate? If one of the occurance should yield all heads and one occurance yields all tails-there appears to be scope for compression. If the output is random,then it will have no mathametical

Re: paradoxes of randomness

2003-08-17 Thread Sarad AV
hi, Okay- I need 5 bits to represent 32 coins.I count as coin 0,coin 1,... coin 31. If it is a perfectly random fair coin throwing experiment,then 50 percent of them will be heads. So I know that 16 of them will be heads. What we do is i simply place all the 32 coins on the table in a row or

paradoxes of randomness-errata

2003-08-16 Thread Sarad AV
it comes to such a question- I do a fair coin throwing experiment with 64 coins. To represent 64 coins,i need 5 bits of information. To represnet 64 coins,i need 6 bits of infomation :) Regards Sarath. __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use

Re: Blackout in NYC

2003-08-15 Thread Sarad AV
hi, There wasn't much of traffic congestion on the manhatten roads when they showed the images on bbc. The manhatten road network is used in examples of deflection routing. Also roads every where should be like that :-) In India during summer-we have around 8 hours of power cut daily. For a

Q on associative binary operation

2003-08-14 Thread Sarad AV
hi, how do we complete this table Table shown may be completed to define 'associative' binary operation * on S={a,b,c,d}. Assume this is possible and compute the missing entries *|a|b|c|d - a|a|b|c|d - b|b|a|c|d - c|c|d|c|d - d| | | | Its clear for

Re: Nuking kasmir (Re: U.S. Drops 'E-Bomb' On Iraqi TV)

2003-04-03 Thread Sarad AV
helo, Hilarious, dude. Who got nukes first? India. Nope US did. India got after US and before pakistan.Pak claims to have nukes since 1983,though they were tested only in 1999-his report comes frm pakistan. See your own propoganda site, US is not the only counrty who can do that :-)

Re: U.S. Drops 'E-Bomb' On Iraqi TV

2003-04-03 Thread Sarad AV
hi, yes-thats probabaly why they nuked hirsoshima and nagasaki. Dont undermine the hate.There was no logic either.There was no logic in nuking thousand of people in hirsohma saying their existance is less important to thousands of people who might live,if the city was nuked. Sarath.

Re: U.S. Drops 'E-Bomb' On Iraqi TV

2003-04-03 Thread Sarad AV
hi, Why are the suicide bombers after US troops-its the hate.It does work .Yesterday at najaf(iraq)-a family of 8 women and atleast 2 children were killed by allied troops.They claimed that the vehicle sped towards an allied check post.So they fired warning shots to *stop* the vehicle. When it

Re: CDR: RE: U.S. Drops 'E-Bomb' On Iraqi TV

2003-04-02 Thread Sarad AV
--- Damian Gerow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And then the whole world dies, because of ... what? Seriously, I *highly* doubt that any nation at this time would *seriously* think of bombing another nuclear-enabled nation with a nuclear weapon. It's just suicide. Well-pakistan has been

Re: Missile -launchers in iraq

2003-04-02 Thread Sarad AV
hi, Blitz comes with high casualities.Shock and awe technique can use troops paratrooping into baghdad.But casualities are always unacceptable to the U.S. So they do it the conventional way. Sarath. --- Ken Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tyler Durden wrote: [...] PS: Anyone notice the

Missile -launchers in iraq

2003-03-29 Thread Sarad AV
hi, on the first or second day of the war-iraqi missiles hit kuwait-4 to 5 of them. After that there is no word of any more strikes in kuwait or else where.What is Iraq waiting for? Regards Sarath. __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Platinum - Watch CBS'

RE: U.S. Drops 'E-Bomb' On Iraqi TV

2003-03-29 Thread Sarad AV
helo, --- John Kelsey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Be fair about this. We own the skies above Baghdad, bit too much, but it's not like we're targeting civilian areas. If we were, the images from Baghdad would be very different; not just one market with a bomb crater, and one hospital

Re: Things are looking better all the time

2003-03-28 Thread Sarad AV
hi, That cannot possibly even happen-by mistake.Al-jazeera is qatar based.They might hit a chinese embassy but not AL-Jazeera. 1500 turkish troops moved into north iraq-US cannot immediately do any thing about it since flying over Turkish air space is important for them. Sarath. (Before Al

RE: U.S. Drops 'E-Bomb' On Iraqi TV

2003-03-28 Thread Sarad AV
hi, All this happening on the worlds greatest demcoracy. may be you read this news. http://news.yahoo.com/fc?tmpl=fccid=34in=techcat=hackers_and_crackers Unofficial reports are that 500 iraqi's died 2 days ago and day before yesterday another 1000 died.This is the word comming from Saudi-from

iraqi civilians

2003-03-28 Thread Sarad AV
hi, well here is the news on death of iraqi civilians in basra. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=storyu=/ap/20030328/ap_on_re_mi_ea/war_basracid=716ncid=716 I think the reverse is true.After the 'desert rats' were forced out of basra-the iraqi's were using anti air craft guns on US

Regarding linear recurrences.

2003-03-27 Thread Sarad AV
hi, Need help on understanding the following marix multiplication. let _ denote subscript. w=32 bits(0 to 31) let X be a 32 bit vector X={X_(w -1),x_(w-2),..x_0} A= |1 0 . .| |0 .| |. . | |. .| |a_(w-1)

Re: U.S. Drops 'E-Bomb' On Iraqi TV

2003-03-26 Thread Sarad AV
hi, it doesnt matter as long as Al-Jazeera is live and kicking and the camera's are rolling. The highly classified bomb creates a brief pulse of microwaves powerful enough to fry computers, blind radar, silence radios, trigger crippling power outages and disable the electronic ignitions in

Re: Things are looking better all the time

2003-03-26 Thread Sarad AV
hi, They are not working very well or US since the iraqi's are using gps jammers and US are already in a row with russians claiming that they sold it to iraq. Regards Sarath. --- Tim May [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday, March 25, 2003, at 03:30 AM, Ken Brown wrote: Declan McCullagh

Re: Libertarian Party expresses concern over war -- but does not

2003-03-22 Thread Sarad AV
hi, Terrorism only increases.Saying meet fire with fire is only an anology.The whole world is against the war but they are all oppurtunists-they will strike only when they can.The war may do more damage even than all the oil it can get. Regards Sarath. --- Mike Rosing [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: Spending a billion dollars an hour produces a hell of a light show!

2003-03-22 Thread Sarad AV
hi, Every one is a suspect-Let me check all your pockets.Stand in the line syria,egypt,iran,korea! Whats happening with this world. Sarath. --- Tyler Durden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As the Iraqis themselves said, and I paraphrase (because the quote is not handy): If the U.S. says they

Re:Liberation party express concern over war

2003-03-22 Thread Sarad AV
hi, Starting a war with saudi is a simple thing.How ever unless they don't find enough oil in iraq,they will turn onto KSA. How ever Saudi with Mecca and Madina is a dangerous country to attack.Saudi will surely take it as a war on muslims and the impact of that is severe.Saudi is the holy

When is iraq expected to fall.

2003-03-20 Thread Sarad AV
hi, how long does US analysts expect iraq to be completely occupied by US and allied troops? Regards Sarath. __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Platinum - Watch CBS' NCAA March Madness, live on your desktop! http://platinum.yahoo.com

RE: Trivial OPT generation method?

2003-02-28 Thread Sarad AV
hi, You probably know this if you use it, but /dev/random is the most random one, as it always uses system entropy, rather than falling back on an algorithm to generate more bits than are available in the pool. Its always better to choose an algorithm because it has *known*

Re: Something conspicuously missing from the media survival lists

2003-02-12 Thread Sarad AV
hi, I've not followed it closely, but Powell claims to have a tape of Bin Laden talking to Iraqi's. Al Jazerra denys it's real. This is all from NPR. The game is afoot, let's see who can deliver the bigger lie. A tape as an evidence?Is a tape still considered as a valid piece of

ICBM's and space programs

2003-02-01 Thread Sarad AV
hi, Would countries with an advanced space program and with capilities of launching satellites have ICBM capabilities.if yes can they be sucessfully launched with the knowledge that they can successfully launch medium range missiles (2000 to 3000 km range). Regards Sarath.

Re: Desert Spam(The war)

2003-01-18 Thread Sarad AV
iraq can come up with. Regards Sarath. --- Mike Rosing [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Sarad AV wrote: There is a new oil pipe line being completed through turkey-caspian sea.once thats over the war should start. Russia will never give US its support-the russians

Re: Desert Spam

2003-01-16 Thread Sarad AV
hi, Iraqi high ranking officers had the oppurtunity to defect in the 1991 war too. By the way how many of these officers who go for battle ever check e-mail. --- Major Variola (ret) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: radio broadcasts and leaflets dropped from airplanes instead. .

Re: Security cameras are getting smart -- and scary

2003-01-08 Thread Sarad AV
hi, So where does that put privacy to.Your whole life outside the house can be monitered-when there are many cameras. May be the worlds air getting polluted isn't so bad-atleast we could put anti-pollution masks and protect our identity :) Regards Sarath. --- Eugen Leitl [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Definitions, Proofs, Derivations

2003-01-08 Thread Sarad AV
hi, Then, if any two or more axioms of an alleged mathematical theory are found to be inconsistent with each other, the whole theory collapses. there will be no inconsistency in a formal axiomatic systems-but can any one point me to a contradicting set of axioms in an axiomatic

Re: Liars Paradox Fermi paradox

2003-01-05 Thread Sarad AV
observe and not what we speculate-so may be there is no point in speculating since we only end up with same questions and our understanding gets no better than it was. Regards Sarath. --- Bill Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 12:39 AM 01/04/2003 -0800, Sarad AV wrote: There has been much

Re: Liars Paradox Fermi paradox

2003-01-04 Thread Sarad AV
every other paradox? Regards Sarath. --- Mike Rosing [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 3 Jan 2003, Sarad AV wrote: As it says-they are self referecial statements.What do we learn from the liars paradox? We arrive at a senseless result-doesn't all other paradoxes do

Re: CDR: Re: Many Worlds Version of Fermi Paradox

2003-01-04 Thread Sarad AV
hi, --- Jim Choate [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 3 Jan 2003, Sarad AV wrote: As you already see-what you say is correct for your definition of proof and axiom. Here is the fundamental error in your thinking, you are trying to argue apples and oranges. how do you know

Re: Many Worlds Version of Fermi Paradox

2003-01-03 Thread Sarad AV
hi, --- Jim Choate [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Sarad AV wrote: An axiom is an improvable statement which is accepted as true. An axiom is a statement which is -assumed to be universaly required-. That is -not- equivalent to 'true' (eg A point has only position

Liars Paradox

2003-01-03 Thread Sarad AV
hi, with reference to http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/p/par-liar.htm it says The Liar Paradox is an argument that arrives at a contradiction by reasoning about a Liar Sentence. The most familiar Liar Sentence is the following self-referential sentence: (1) This sentence is false. Experts

Re: Many Worlds Version of Fermi Paradox

2003-01-02 Thread Sarad AV
hi, --- Jim Choate [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 31 Dec 2002, Sarad AV wrote: Does a paradox ever help in understanding any thing? Yes, it can demonstrate that you aren't asking the right questions within the correct context. okay. 2.Gödel asks for the program

Re: Many Worlds Version of Fermi Paradox

2002-12-31 Thread Sarad AV
hi, A few queries. Does a paradox ever help in understanding any thing? We define a paradox on a base of rules we want to prove. Ok,let me pick an example. We make a paradox over a statement. This i found on the net The following is an implication that the Oracle does not exist.

re:constant encryped stream

2002-12-31 Thread Sarad AV
hi, Thank you for the reply. they didn't really explain why; I think it was leftover regulations from wartime censorship during World War II or the Korean Police Action. I think so. Also, in the US, the police can request a mail cover (which means recording who all your snail mail

Re: Hullabo

2002-12-22 Thread Sarad AV
--- Tim May [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Arise the masses,how he did that-I have no clue.How ever he did that in the 1940's when the only method of mass communication was radio(british controlled) and new paper(again british controlled).To bring together a

re:constant encryped stream

2002-12-21 Thread Sarad AV
hi, Nothing serious, just throwing a quick thought out... It has been mentioned that you should always use crypto. If you wait until you actually have something private to send, then an adversary will know exactly which message is important. Don't encrypt,post it by snail mail.I remember

Re:Hullabo

2002-12-21 Thread Sarad AV
hi, Be the change you wish to see in the world -Mahatma Gandhi So how we gonna change the world dude? Arise the masses,how he did that-I have no clue.How ever he did that in the 1940's when the only method of mass communication was radio(british controlled) and new paper(again british

Re: Extradition, Snatching, and the Danger of Traveling to Other Countries

2002-12-17 Thread Sarad AV
hi, --- James A. Donald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: US policy was to restore the status quo ante in Afghanistan, put things back the way they were before the Soviet invasion. How does that make things better for 'afghan' people,after all the bombing done on their home land? The future of

Re: CRYPTO-GRAM, December 15, 2002

2002-12-17 Thread Sarad AV
hi, Mr. Scheiner was always a bozo, If he is such a bozo,why are n't many of those saying this not as sucessful as he is? Mr. Sheiner's book on applied cryptography is a beauty for a beginer. --- Sleeping Vayu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mr. Scheiner was always a bozo, for those who

Re: Extradition, Snatching, and the Danger of Traveling to Other Countries

2002-12-15 Thread Sarad AV
will be back. Regards Sarath. On Fri, 13 Dec 2002, Sarad AV wrote: The Taliban is still very much alive,when troops moved into kabul there were no traces of the taliban.They took what ever they wanted and were 'refugees' sneaking out when the bombing started.They placed what

Re: Extradition, Snatching, and the Danger of Traveling to Other Countries

2002-12-14 Thread Sarad AV
hi, All represive regiemes are short lived in a historical context. The Taliban is still very much alive,when troops moved into kabul there were no traces of the taliban.They took what ever they wanted and were 'refugees' sneaking out when the bombing started.They placed what they needed ,every

Re: ...(one of them about Completeness)

2002-12-02 Thread Sarad AV
hi, Thanks for the replies,a few more queries. Complete means that we can take any and all -legal- strings within that formalism and assign them -one of only two- truth values; True v False. The fundamental problem is axiomatic. The rules define -all- statements as being -either true or

Re: New Wi-Fi Security Scheme Allows DoS (fwd)

2002-11-21 Thread Sarad AV
hi, But there's a hitch: When WPA detects a break-in attempt, it shuts down the network for a minute and then restarts. During that time, legitimate users are off the air too. Unauthorised access can be taken off by setting fake access points as such,whats the need for shutting down the

Re: Psuedo-Private Key (eJazeera)

2002-11-21 Thread Sarad AV
hi, I had suggested the same for an encryption product called digisecret,this is what they had to say. Here is an example where hiding cipher text in cipher text is ideal.. DigiSecret currently does not use assymmetric algorithms. Besides this the introduction of this technique will mean that

Random numbers fall mainly on the plane

2002-10-24 Thread Sarad AV
hi, Does any one have a reference to the actual paper- Random Numbers Fall Mainly in the Planes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (USA) 61 (September): 25-28 Thank You. Regards Sarath. __ Do you Yahoo!? Y! Web Hosting - Let the

Non linear feeback registers

2002-10-23 Thread Sarad AV
hi, For the output produced by ever non-linear shift feed back register does there exist a minimum period linear shift register that can mimic the output of a non linear shift feed back register?If yes,how do we find out the tap sequence of the minimum period LSFR which represents the non

XORing bits to eliminate skew

2002-10-17 Thread Sarad AV
hi, In the book on Applied Cryptography by Bruce Schenier,it goes like this... let p(0) be the probability of occurance of 0 and p(1) be the probability od occurance of one. let p(0)=0.5+e p(1)=0.5-e where e is the bias of the bit towards 0 or 1 ideally e=0 P(0)=P(1)=0.5(no bias

One time pads

2002-10-16 Thread Sarad AV
hi, An extract frm this months cryptogram goes as below. On the other hand, if you ever find a product that actually uses a one-time pad, it is almost certainly unusable and/or insecure. So, let me summarize. One-time pads are useless for

Re: Echelon-like...

2002-10-10 Thread Sarad AV
hi, The government knows exactly what it's doing. It wants to discourage the use of encryption by any means necessary, because of sheer numbers. Does n't govt intervension always increase the numbers? Basically, the more messages that are encypted, the more hardware (and therefore $$$)