Re: The End of the Golden Age of Crypto

2002-11-15 Thread Tyler Durden
Indeed, I've heard the same. One could argue that for someone to believe in something (religion) so intensely as to shun all moral explanation against this hypothesis and to persist in those beliefs without any proof is akin to schizophrenia. Well, I'm sure this is not an issue that

Re: News: House votes life sentences for hackers (fwd)

2002-11-15 Thread Tyler Durden
Holy Shit! Does that mean that some 18-year-old script kiddie could get LIFE? If this wasn't such an immense pile of stupidity, I'd get angry over the obvious invasions of privacy, etc... Having worked in many a company, I KNOW how most management systems work. Let's say there's something as

Re: The End of the Golden Age of Crypto

2002-11-13 Thread Tyler Durden
2002 08:26:02 -0800 (PST) On Wed, 13 Nov 2002, Tyler Durden wrote: Damn what a pack of geeks! (Looks like I might end up liking this list!) It's full of nut cases too :-) I have not, however, heretofore considered that there could exist systems that had some form of completeness built in. My

Emergency Coercive Unit

2002-11-13 Thread Tyler Durden
a) Those friggin' war-posters are hilarious. b) Downstairs and across the street in front of Starbucks I just saw two NYC cops holding what looked like AK-47s...on their backs it said Emergency Coercive Unit. _ Protect your PC -

Re: The End of the Golden Age of Crypto

2002-11-13 Thread Tyler Durden
Damn what a pack of geeks! (Looks like I might end up liking this list!) When we say complete, are we talking about completeness in the Godelian sense? According to Godel, and formal system (except for the possibility of the oddballs mentioned below--I hadn't heard of this possibility) is

Re: OPPOSE THE WAR! We are going to ruin Iraq to get the oil. Who's ne

2002-11-13 Thread Tyler Durden
How can anyone claim that the U.S. or Israel or corporations or rich Americans are morally worse than the likes of Hussein? Can't answer that directly, aside from pointing out that theUS is largely responsible for Hussein's rise to power. I could be argued that oil in our hands has created many

Re: The End of the Golden Age of Crypto

2002-11-12 Thread Tyler Durden
a little chatty and clumsy at this point. From: Tim May [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: The End of the Golden Age of Crypto Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 11:04:32 -0800 On Tuesday, November 12, 2002, at 10:22 AM, Tyler Durden wrote: Well, my main point was that the fact that we

eJazeera?

2002-11-11 Thread Tyler Durden
PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Photos in transport plane of prisoners: Time for eJazeera? Date: Sat, 09 Nov 2002 17:53:48 -0800 At 08:32 PM 11/9/02 -0500, Tyler Durden wrote: So I'm still playing with the idea of a publically-accessible document that outlines

Re: Transparent drive encryption now in FreeBSD

2002-11-11 Thread Tyler Durden
Sorry, I'm new, but does this refer to the notion of splitting up a document holographically, and placing the various pieces of numerous servers throughout the 'Net? (Any one piece will probably not contain a complete copy of the information, and is encrypted too, sot that it is not possible

Photos in transport plane of prisoners: Time for eJazeera?

2002-11-09 Thread Tyler Durden
The subject line says it all, if one remembers Variola's clever dare. As far as I'm concerned, this big brother bullshit should work two ways: any tyrrany should expect that any public actions will make it onto the net somewhere. Of course, one day they'll probably begin a set of countermoves,

RE: What email encryption is actually in use?

2002-11-04 Thread Tyler Durden
... From: Trei, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], 'Tyler Durden' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: What email encryption is actually in use? Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2002 11:00:56 -0500 -- From: Tyler Durden[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, November 04, 2002 10:13 AM

LIDAR/Lasers

2002-11-01 Thread Tyler Durden
Some of these problems can be avoided by using very short pulses. Again you get into dwell, the short pulses -must- be made up for by increasing the PRR and this defeats the who purpose of the short pulses since you need more of them (we're talking an integration effect here so it doesn't take

Re: Confiscation of Sensitive Video

2002-10-29 Thread Tyler Durden
Everyone pretty much knows who all is involved, and has to keep in contact with each other in order to capture video optimally. Well, I've been wondering how feasible it would be to implement video transfer in such a way that the cameras don't know the buffers in advance. Haven't put pen to

Confiscation of Anti-War Video

2002-10-28 Thread Tyler Durden
In antoher context I've wondered about the possibility of wireless, near-real-time video upload. With 3G this will cetainly be easy, but I'm wondering if there are soft/hard gadgets that can auto-upload stuff.(In addition, 3G looks like it's going to roll out in the US only in fits and starts

Re: Confiscation of Anti-War Video

2002-10-28 Thread Tyler Durden
AM 10/28/02 -0500, Tyler Durden wrote: In antoher context I've wondered about the possibility of wireless, near-real-time video upload. With 3G this will cetainly be easy, but I'm wondering if there are soft/hard gadgets that can auto-upload stuff. Plenty of webcams come with software to auto

Re: Fw: RE:Confiscation of Anti-War Video

2002-10-28 Thread Tyler Durden
Any chance this is the same Dave Emery who does the radio broadcasts? (I listen from WFMU). If so, man! If a tiny fraction of the stuff you have said over the years is true, well...brrr. A good example is Los Amigos de Bush...doesn't have to be true/right...the fact that those theories so

nCipher crypto: FIPS 140-2 Level 3?

2002-10-24 Thread Tyler Durden
Apparently a new Crypto chip from nCipher. What's the C-punks view on this standard--FIPS 140-2 Level 3? Anyone have a link to this document? REDWOOD CITY, Calif. -- Ingrian Networks, the leader in Active Application Security solutions, announced it has extended its strategic relationship

Re: palladium presentation - anyone going?

2002-10-21 Thread Tyler Durden
Palladium sets up a separate trusted virtual computer inside the PC processor, with its own OS, called Nexus, and it own applications, called agents. Holy crap. So does this mean that MS Windows 2005 with Palladium operating will take about 15 minutes to boot up? Will Age of Empires 5 even be

Re: US developing untraceable weapons

2002-10-13 Thread Tyler Durden
Well, there was also some other details left out by that article. A 100kW beam doesn't tell you very much if you don't know the beam diameter. A 1310nm telecom laser can cause serious eye damage with 10mW, but that's 10mW into, say 38 um^2. But it ain't going to do nothing to enemy aircraft

Re: was: Echelon-like resources..

2002-10-13 Thread Tyler Durden
: Re: was: Echelon-like resources.. Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2002 11:57:24 -0700 (PDT) Tyler Durden As for Chomsky lying, can you give us some specific citations? Did he lie about our support for Sadam Hussein? No Our support for Indonesia? Yes Our bombing of the sudanese pharmacuetical

Re: Echelon-like resources...

2002-10-13 Thread Tyler Durden
willing to concede that at his point I'm talking completely out of my arse. (That will change when I get time to do some real homework in this area, however.) From: Eugen Leitl [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Tyler Durden [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Echelon-like

Re: Echelon-like resources...

2002-10-11 Thread Tyler Durden
or know that their message is of enough importance to go outside ofLotus Notes or whatever if they have it. On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 09:37:52AM -0400, Tyler Durden wrote: OK, let's assume for the same of argument that it takes about 1 minute for Echelon/NSA-like resources to break a weakly

Re: Echelon-like...

2002-10-11 Thread Tyler Durden
So as a follow on question...what kind of hardware does it take to break the weak and strong versions of Bogus Notes? Is it possible that NSA or Echelon have the ability to decode a large number of such messages? And if the amount of hardware needed to break the strong version is

Re: Echelon-like resources...

2002-10-11 Thread Tyler Durden
returns to my original point: the easy availability of strong crypto products does not mean it is unprofitable for an agency to continue to push populations towards lighter forms of encryption. From: Harmon Seaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Tyler Durden [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Echelon-like resources...

2002-10-11 Thread Tyler Durden
PROTECTED] To: Tyler Durden [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Echelon-like... Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 20:41:21 +0100 Sounds about right. 64 bit crypto in the strong version (which is not that strong -- the distributed.net challenge recently broke a 64 bit key

Re: Durden lies, was: Echelon-like resources...

2002-10-11 Thread Tyler Durden
Notes) on EVERY message they sent. Or perhaps you've all discussed this before, but the responses I've seen so far don't indicate that. From: Anonymous [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Tyler Durden [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Durden lies, was: Echelon-like resources... Date: Fri, 11 Oct

Re: was: Echelon-like resources..

2002-10-11 Thread Tyler Durden
Uh, first of all can we get rid of the part of the subject line that says Durden lies? (Particularly seeing how the quote attributed to me did not originate from me.) As for Chomsky lying, can you give us some specific citations? Did he lie about our support for Sadam Hussein? Our support for

Re: Echelon-like...

2002-10-10 Thread Tyler Durden
I assume everyone knows the little arrangement that lotus reached with the NSA over its encrypted secure email? I'm new here, so do tell if I am wrong. Are you referring to the two levels of Encryption available in Bogus Notes? (ie, the North American and the International, the International

XRCD HDCD

2002-10-01 Thread Tyler Durden
XRCD is not steganographic in the sense that we are disscusing, but merely a very carefully done 24 bit master mastered down to the normal 16x44 of CD. They also pay very careful attention to the physical manufacturing of the disc, and use aluminum as the substrate (instead of the normal

Re: Real-world steganography

2002-10-01 Thread Tyler Durden
The other formats of note are probably SACD and then DVD-Audio. SACD is multichannel 16-bit/44.1kHz... so multichannel CD without additional sample resolution (if I recall). SACD is not backwards compatible though, whereas HDCD is. DVD-Audio is really the way to go, though... 24-bit/96kHz

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