Re: Odp: Cypherpunks Europe

2002-04-29 Thread Steve Furlong
Jan Dobrucki wrote: World, this is the USA, USA, this is The World. Now that you know each other, start thinking in a more broad perspective, please. Blow me. /s/ An Ugly American -- Steve FurlongComputer Condottiere Have GNU, Will Travel The reasonable man adapts himself to the

RE: p2p and asymmetric bandwidth (Re: Fear and Futility at CodeCon)

2002-04-29 Thread jamesd
On 28 Apr 2002 at 16:20, Morlock Elloi wrote: How exactly does the introduction of IPV6 on a machine that is NAT-ted by the ISP who doesn't give shit about IPV6 help the situation ? James A. Donald: To connect to the IPV6 world from inside a NAT network, you need a machine that is both

Re: Odp: Cypherpunks Europe

2002-04-29 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Mon, 29 Apr 2002, Steve Furlong wrote: Blow me. Troll, and ye shalt be heard. Seriously, while the relationship between furriners and merkins has been notoriously strained, might there not be need for a cpunx-europe@? For regional announcements, and such. English to be preferrable mode

Re: Got carried away...

2002-04-29 Thread Graham Lally
Jan Dobrucki wrote: I do have an idea thou. I'm thinking how to implement PGP into car locks. And so far I got this: The driver has his PGP, and the door has it's own. Path of least resistance - *access* to the car is generally not the problem. Instead weaker attacks such as breaking the

Re: p2p and asymmetric bandwidth (Re: Fear and Futility at CodeCon)

2002-04-29 Thread Sampo Syreeni
On Sat, 27 Apr 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So if your P2P application is IPv6 compatible, you can get a semi permanent IPv6 IP automatically from a server, and thereafter do peer to peer, just as if you were full, no kidding, on the internet. This nicely solves the problem with NATs, true.

Re: Re: disk encryption modes

2002-04-29 Thread JonathanW
Title: Re: Re: disk encryption modes Here is a technique for encrypting a hard disk that should provide reasonable performance, good security, and be easy to render the entire disk unreadable in an emergency. 1. Start with a good (P)RNG. Seed it constantly with radioacitve decay noise,

RE: disk encryption modes

2002-04-29 Thread JonathanW
Title: RE: disk encryption modes With a 4096 byte cluster size, 1 GB of drive space would require 4 MB temporary key file storage. At this ratio, a 128 MB compact flash card could hold a key file for 32 GB of hard drive space. The key file could be stored on the same physical drive if you

Re: Odp: Cypherpunks Europe

2002-04-29 Thread Ben Laurie
Eugen Leitl wrote: On Mon, 29 Apr 2002, Steve Furlong wrote: Blow me. Troll, and ye shalt be heard. Seriously, while the relationship between furriners and merkins has been notoriously strained, might there not be need for a cpunx-europe@? For regional announcements, and such.

Re: Cypherpunks Europe

2002-04-29 Thread David Howe
I don't think you get freelance IRA guys. Not with both kneecaps, anyway. might be surprised - donations from the states have apparently tailled off (having been the subject of a terrorist attack themselves they seem less willing to fund them) and they could do with the revenue - but you are

Re: Cypherpunks Europe

2002-04-29 Thread Ken Brown
Tim May wrote: Not sure about the rest of europe - but we have a targetted crypto list in the UK (UKCrypto, sensibly enough) so already have a forum for uk-specific issues. Thats not to say some of it wouldn't be better here - but I am sure our problems with .. [name elide to

Re: p2p and asymmetric bandwidth (Re: Fear and Futility at CodeCon)

2002-04-29 Thread jamesd
-- On 29 Apr 2002 at 14:58, Sampo Syreeni wrote: [IPv6] nicely solves the problem with NATs, true. However, most firewalls I know are there for security reasons. Those will likely be adapted to work for 6to4 as well. The transition period will likely see some cracks where p2p can work,

Re: Upcoming workshop on category theory and concurrency

2002-04-29 Thread Tim May
On Monday, April 29, 2002, at 09:29 AM, dmolnar wrote: [concerning category theory and crypto protocols] So when you have done some real work on the matter, at least written some paper on the stuff, and published it, you may well write about it here. I think that sets the bar a bit too

Re: Upcoming workshop on category theory and concurrency

2002-04-29 Thread KPJ
It appears as if Tim May [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | |I chose not to reply to KPJ for two reasons: But you _did_ in fact reply, through the cypherpunks list. So I presume you meant to perform a social gesture of some kind, which, to me, suggests you felt an emotional reaction to my post. These

attack on rfc3211 mode (Re: disk encryption modes)

2002-04-29 Thread Adam Back
On Mon, Apr 29, 2002 at 11:58:46AM +1200, Peter Gutmann wrote: Adam Back [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | [RFC3211 mode] are you sure it's not vulnerable to splicing attacks (swapping ciphertext blocks around to get a partial plaintext change which recovers after a block or two)? CBC

Re: Re: Got carried away...

2002-04-29 Thread Jan Dobrucki
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I have been thinking about the window problem and the ignition too. What I was thinking was a car of the not so far future. Where there wont be any windows because the driver will see the outside throu a camera and he wont need regular lights cause there'll be

BBC2 to recreate Stanford Prison Experiment

2002-04-29 Thread Generic Poster
..from an ad in circulation on BBC2 (UK) if I recall inaccurately. If they shaved your head, would you lose your individuality? If they took away your name, would they take your identity? [..] 16(?) men. Half with power, half with none. See how events unfold in: The Experiment. Coming soon

(Resend) UK's biggest e-pedo bust ever! .. Yet

2002-04-29 Thread Anonymous User
70 more e-pedophiles busted in War To Protect A Single Child. Big bust of those who trade in verboten pixels on Tuesday. Computers towed away to be impounded and none or more children relocated to safer accomodation. Link between pornography and action becomes clearer, movie at 11. The only

Re: Re: Odp: Cypherpunks Europe

2002-04-29 Thread Jan Dobrucki
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Greetings. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 28 Apr 2002 at 22:26, Jan Dobrucki wrote: and third, Americans say, respect human rights, when the US hasn't signed any conventions protecting human rights, because if it did, it would have to stop sending people