On 10/28/05, Daniel A. Nagy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Irreversibility of transactions hinges on two features of the proposed
systetm: the fundamentally irreversible nature of publishing information in
the public records and the fact that in order to invalidate a secret, one
needs to know it;
On Sat, Oct 29, 2005 at 08:42:35PM -0400, Tyler Durden wrote:
One thing to think about with respect to the RFID passports...
Um, uh...surely once in a while the RFID tag is going to get corrupted or
something...right? I'd bet it ends up happening all the time. In those
cases they probably
From: James A. Donald [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Oct 28, 2005 12:09 PM
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Subject: Return of the death of cypherpunks.
From: Eugen Leitl [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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The list needs not to stay dead, with some finite
effort on our part (all of us) we can well resurrect
it. If there's
At 01:31 AM 10/30/05 -0700, Bill Stewart wrote:
They've said they'll fall back on the traditional
If we can't read the passport it's invalid and you'll need to
replace it before we'll let you leave the country technique,
just as they often do with expired passports and sometimes
What is the
Tyler Durden wrote:
One thing to think about with respect to the RFID passports...
Um, uh...surely once in a while the RFID tag is going to get corrupted
or something...right? I'd bet it ends up happening all the time. In
those cases they probably have to fall back upon the traditional
One thing to think about with respect to the RFID passports...
Um, uh...surely once in a while the RFID tag is going to get corrupted or
something...right? I'd bet it ends up happening all the time. In those cases
they probably have to fall back upon the traditional passport usage and
On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 03:05:25AM +, Justin wrote:
If I apply for a new one now, and then apply for a another one once the
gov starts RFID-enabling them, will the first one be invalidated? Or
can I have two passports, the one without RFID to use, and the one with
RFID to play with?
Here
At 11:10 AM -0700 10/28/05, James A. Donald wrote:
I am a reluctant convert to DRM. At least with DRM, we
face a smaller number of threats.
I have had it explained to me, many times more than I want to remember,
:-), that strong crypto is strong crypto.
It's not that I'm unconvinceable, but I'm
Gregory Hicks [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
As for applying for one now, I think the deadline for the non-RFID passwords
is about 3 days away (31 Oct 2005), but I could be wrong. (In other words, if
your application is not in processing by 31 Oct, then you get the new,
improved, RFID passport.)
Ahh,
On 2005-10-22T01:51:50-0400, R.A. Hettinga wrote:
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Tyler and Jayme left Iraq in May 2005. The Arbil office failed; there
wasn't enough business in Kurdistan. They moved to London, where Tyler
still works for SSI. His time in Iraq has transformed him to the extent
I don't agree.
One thing we do know is that, although Crypto is available and, in special
contexts, used, it's use in other contexts is almost counterproduct, sending
up a red flag so that those that Protect Our Freedoms will come sniffing
around and bring to bear their full arsenal of
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James A. Donald:
Since cryptography these days is routine and
uncontroversial, there is no longer any strong
reason for the cypherpunks list to continue to
exist.
John Kelsey
The ratio of political wanking to technical posts and
of talkers to thinkers to coders needs to be
If I apply for a new one now, and then apply for a another one once the
gov starts RFID-enabling them, will the first one be invalidated? Or
can I have two passports, the one without RFID to use, and the one with
RFID to play with?
--
The six phases of a project:
I. Enthusiasm. IV.
At 7:51 PM -0400 10/28/05, R.A. Hettinga wrote:
OTOH, if markets overtake the DRM issue,
^ moot, was what I meant to say...
Anyway, you get the idea.
Cheers,
RAH
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Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2005 03:05:25 +
From: Justin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
If I apply for a new one now, and then apply for a another one once
the gov starts RFID-enabling them, will the first one be
invalidated? Or can I have two passports, the one without RFID to
use, and the one with RFID
At 01:42 AM 10/30/2005, Roy M. Silvernail wrote:
Tyler Durden wrote:
One thing to think about with respect to the RFID passports...
Um, uh...surely once in a while the RFID tag is going to get corrupted
or something...right? I'd bet it ends up happening all the time. In
those cases they
On 10/30/05, Gregory Hicks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The only people that I knew that had two passports were those with an
Official (red) passport or a Diplomatic (black) passport. If they
wanted to go play tourist, they had to also have a tourist (Blue)
passport.
I wasn't able to find a
When I saw the title of this thread,
I was assuming it would be about getting Mozambique
or Sealand or other passports of convenience or coolness-factor
like the Old-School Cypherpunks used to do :-)
On 10/30/05, Gregory Hicks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The only people that I knew that had two
A similar approach enabled Bleichenbacher's SSL attack on
RSA with PKCS#1 padding. This sounds very dangerous to me.
William
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I assume that the length is
explicitly encoded in the legitimate packet. Then the peer for the
link ignores everything until the next escape sequence introducing a
legitimate packet.
I should point out that encrypting PRNG output may be pointless, and
perhaps one optimization is to stop
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Wasn't there a rumor last year
One other point with regard to Daniel Nagy's paper at
http://www.epointsystem.org/~nagydani/ICETE2005.pdf
A good way to organize papers like this is to first present the
desired properties of systems like yours (and optionally show that
other systems fail to meet one or more of these properties);
On Fri, Oct 28, 2005 at 02:18:43PM -0700, cyphrpunk wrote:
In particular I have concerns about the finality and irreversibility
of payments, given that the issuer keeps track of each token as it
progresses through the system. Whenever one token is exchanged for a
new one, the issuer records
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Subject: Re: On Digital Cash-like Payment Systems
On 10/26/05, James A. Donald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How does one inflate a key?
Just make it
In the context of:
If your plaintext consists primarily of small packets, you should set the MTU
of the transporter to be small. This will cause fragmentation of the
large packets, which is the price you have to pay. Conversely, if your
plaintext consists primarily of large packets, you
hi
( 05.10.26 09:17 -0700 ) James A. Donald:
While many people are rightly concerned that DRM will
ultimately mean that the big corporation, and thus the
state, has root access to their computers and the owner
does not, it also means that trojans, viruses, and
malware does not.
do you
Good catch on the encryption. I feel silly for not thinking of it.
If your plaintext consists primarily of small packets, you should set the MTU
of the transporter to be small. This will cause fragmentation of the
large packets, which is the price you have to pay. Conversely, if your
At 10:22 AM -0500 10/31/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
and doesn't history show that big corporations are only interested in
revenue
One should hope so.
;-)
Cheers,
RAH
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