RE: New York teen-ager win $100,000 with encryption research(3/14/2000)

2000-03-15 Thread Trei, Peter
-Original Message- From: Ben Laurie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Bill Stewart wrote: At 08:27 AM 03/14/2000 -0800, David G. Koontz wrote: http://www.sjmercury.com/svtech/news/breaking/merc/docs/013955.htm I don't know how much of this is the reporting, either by the

RE: Crypto and Economics

2000-04-13 Thread Trei, Peter
? Scratching my head Peter -- From: Tim May[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2000 2:18 PM To: Trei, Peter; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Crypto and Economics At 11:16 AM -0400 4/13/00, Trei, Peter wrote: I think the demonstrations

RE: NSA on AES2

2000-05-16 Thread Trei, Peter
-- From: No User[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] "Hardware Performance Simulations of ..." is an exercise in irrelevance. NSA (hi, guys, tough stuff these remailer chains ?) wants us to believe that if a cypher is 2x faster in someone's implementation than some other cipher's

HavenCo on Comedy Central CPUNK

2000-06-08 Thread Trei, Peter
Last night, the Daily Show, a satirical look at the news of the day, led off with a report on HavenCo and Sealand. Not something that would attract a lot of customers, I'm afraid. Peter Trei

InternetCash.com (cpunk)

2000-06-20 Thread Trei, Peter
Not strictly crypto related, but clearly relevant to online anonymity www.internetcash.com It appears to work like this: The consumer purchases a card - similar to a phone card - for cash from a retail location (mostly in NY at this time). Cards come in denominations from $10 to $100.

RE: CDR: Re: Lions and Tigers and Backdoors, oh, my...

2000-09-27 Thread Trei, Peter
Can you document this claim of the existance of 'help fields' in Netscape? I am (to put it mildly) astonished by this claim, and more than a little skeptical. I was aware of the Workfactor Reduction field in the export 'aka International' version of Lotus Notes (which this 'help field' seems

RE: CDR: Re: Lions and Tigers and Backdoors, oh, my...

2000-09-28 Thread Trei, Peter
-- From: Ray Dillinger[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2000 4:39 PM To: Trei, Peter Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: CDR: Re: Lions and Tigers and Backdoors, oh, my... On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, Trei, Peter wrote: Can you

Re: Glass doors [was: Rijndael Hitachi] cpunk

2000-10-16 Thread Trei, Peter
-- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED][SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] I wouldn't recommend boobytrapping the glass in that manner. I'd go with a ballistic laminate on the glass. [...] Ed At 02:51 PM 10/14/00 -0700, jim bell wrote: The solution is obvious, to a chemist. Make the glass

FW: House Republicans consider Census database, from NY Times

2000-10-24 Thread Trei, Peter
The last time they did this, tens of thousands of law abiding American citizens were placed in prison camps, for no reason other than their ethnicity. Peter Trei -- From: Declan McCullagh[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October

Congress proposes raiding census records.

2000-10-24 Thread Trei, Peter
Let us remember that the last time the privacy of census records were violated on this scale, they were used to imprison tens of thousands of law abiding American citizens, whose only crime was to have Japanese ancestry. Peter Trei -

RE: why should it be trusted? TYPO!!

2000-10-25 Thread Trei, Peter
I wrote: [...] The solution to this problem is not to propose different ways to slice up the too-small pie - it's to expand the pie. The greater the wealth, the more people who can afford good care. People who are responsible for their own welfare (and enslaved to the welfare of

RE: CIA in Oregon, Intelink

2000-10-25 Thread Trei, Peter
-- From: John Young[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Reply To: John Young Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2000 6:34 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: CIA in Oregon, Intelink Would anyone in the Oregon area know about a CIA organization acronymed ISTAC? Here's

RE: Zero Knowledge changes business model (press release)

2000-10-31 Thread Trei, Peter
I can't help but feel that this is a weakening of ZK's position regarding privacy. The critical paragraph is: Zero-Knowledge is committed to deploying systems that are transparent and accountable. In keeping with this policy, MPS will incorporate third party verification and split encryption

Weather [was: RE: Well, that's over. Heads up, America!]

2000-11-08 Thread Trei, Peter
Ken Brown[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: OK you folks on the downwind side of the Atlantic, now your election is over (even if you won't know the result for 3 weeks yet), can you take your weather back? We've had a month of egregious rain and floods over here and I'm sure it has to be

RE: A secure voting protocol

2000-11-14 Thread Trei, Peter
Harmon Seaver[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: Peter Trei wrote: Also, if you want to get high tech, use a fluorescent dye mixed with DMSO. It'll penetrate deep into the skin, and be visible under UV (no cosmetic objections). I suspect it'd take weeks to wear off. Can't

RE: CDR: Re: Close Elections and Causality

2000-11-14 Thread Trei, Peter
petro[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: Mr. May: At 10:20 AM + 11/14/00, Ken Brown wrote: But maybe to redraw the boundaries. That's a common problem in Britain. Every now and again some government (almost always Conservative, for reasons to do with gerrymandering I suspect) gets it

RE: Florida Electoral defection threat!

2000-11-15 Thread Trei, Peter
[EMAIL PROTECTED][SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: "Trei, Peter" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: # #It would take at least two faithless electors to #swing the election to Gore. One would make it #a dead heat, and send the decision to Congress. Ping pong, ping pong

RE: On 60 tonight

2000-11-27 Thread Trei, Peter
60" Sixty seconds? Is that a real quickie version of 60' (Sixty minutes? Notation counts (watch This Is Spinal Tap for another amusing example of this type of goof-up). Peter Trei -- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED][SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

SnapSheild offers encrypted phone service.

2000-11-28 Thread Trei, Peter
(Vin McLellan pointed this out to me). http://www.computeruser.com/news/00/11/23/news6.html http://www.snapshield.com/ Snapshield (formerly Microlink) is offering a product consisting of special box which sits on your phone line and special PBXs which allow 'end-to-end' encrypted voice/fax

Non-flat-ascii mail [was: Sunders point on copyright infringement HTML]

2000-11-30 Thread Trei, Peter
Choate[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: Sunder raises a good point about Netscape (and potentially other software as well) amd forwarding URL's with attached content. Why is the page attached? Because Netscape attaches the page and doesn't offer a way to send only the URL from right click

RE: Hello, You're Dead

2000-12-06 Thread Trei, Peter
[ukcrypto and Perry's list deleted] Dave Del Torto[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/world/DailyNews/phone001205.html "...Hitting the 5, 6, 7 and 8 buttons on the phone gun fires four .22-caliber rounds in quick succession. ..." The article goes on to

RE: cell phone anonymity

2001-01-08 Thread Trei, Peter
Experience in Scotland this summer: Walk into store. Plunk down 40 pounds + VAT. Pick up boxed phone. Walk out. -- From: montag montag[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Reply To: montag montag Sent: Sunday, January 07, 2001 1:06 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:

RE: Functional quantum computer?

2001-01-09 Thread Trei, Peter
? At 04:18 PM 1/8/01 -0600, Jim Choate wrote: On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Trei, Peter wrote: Jim seems to have a real hard time with this concept. By the bitching you and others are making it's not I who has the problem. I have none (zero, nadah, null, nil). Last week, I privately

RE: OK, which node is down? [WAS: Re: Denial of Service Attackon Cypherpunks?]

2001-03-09 Thread Trei, Peter
I received no postings from cyberpass from sometime Monday through this morning. It seems to be back now. Peter -- From: Bill Stewart home email[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] As far as I can tell, I've been receiving this discussion via cyberpass.net, so it must be ok

Re: Paternity tests [was: WSJ: NSA Computer Upgrade]

2001-03-15 Thread Trei, Peter
John Young[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Men usually got a hangup about paternity, and many don't want to know the truth, so the 28% is surely way low, in particular to protect the kids and the wives and to keep the men in harness. Them's the facts of biology and culture and healthy workplace

RE: Starium?

2001-04-16 Thread Trei, Peter
Here it is http://www.L-3Com.com/cs-east/programs/infosec/privatel.htm 3DES, 1024 bit D-H, TEMPEST compliant. Handles both voice and data. -- From: Trei, Peter Reply To: Trei, Peter Sent: Monday, April 16, 2001 1:35 PM To: Dr. Evil; 'Declan McCullagh' Cc