Someone posted a bug wherein PGP 8 (XP version) saw keys 4 years
as expired. There is a workaround, merely change your passphrase
and resend the key. (You may change the passphrase to the same
passphrase.)
I caught a session of the CA legislature hearing folks talk about GMOs.
Many of the speakers were wanting to ban them from CA, worrying that
if they arrive, they'll contaminate agriculture commerical fishing,
thereby closing markets (some of which want GMO-free food)
or adding to producer costs
At 10:24 PM 6/30/03 -0500, Harmon Seaver wrote:
Don't know about warchalking per se, gpsdrive and kismet work a lot
better,
and people trade the waypoints/nodes. Makes a hundred times more sense
that
scribbling marks on buildings, especially that are hard to find and
wash away.
Publishing a
At 01:55 AM 7/4/03 -0700, Sarad AV wrote:
Wont the following cause a firewall breach-
First we capture inbound packets to a firewall
assuming we have a man in the middle(M).
If (M) use block replay on packets he can inject bits
and pieces of his own information to an inbound
firewall and can
At 04:13 AM 7/6/03 +0200, Thomas Shaddack wrote:
Pondering. Vast majority of the CD/DVD protection methods is based on
various deviations from the standards, or more accurately, how such
deviations are (or aren't) handled by the drive firmware.
However, we can sidestep the firmware.
The drive
At 03:08 PM 7/6/03 +0300, Sampo Syreeni wrote:
. A writing drive capable of working at such a low level
could be used to experiment with new encodings beyond what standard
CD's
can do -- say, substituting CIRC with RSBC and gaining some extra room
on
the disc, getting rid of the subchannels, a
At 02:33 AM 7/7/03 +0300, Sampo Syreeni wrote:
On 2003-07-06, Major Variola (ret) uttered to [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
There's a good reason why, viz: it would cost the drive developer to
allow or export this flexibility.
I'd guess either because of a) terminal stupidity or b) benefits to
scale
At 02:19 AM 7/7/03 -0700, Sarad AV wrote:
or how are we supposed to
find collision free hash functions?What exactly is the
difficulty in finding collision free hash functions?
Because there are no collision *free* hash functions,
there will always be several domain elements that map to the
same
At 01:15 PM 7/7/03 -0400, Stormwalker wrote:
On Mon, 7 Jul 2003, Major Variola (ret) wrote:
Interesting, thanks. Even a brother's daughter could be refused.
The BRCA genes are only transmitted through the mother, but
there are many others that go through both lines.
Could you explain how
At 03:59 PM 7/7/03 -0400, Trei, Peter wrote:
There are some things where nearly everyone will agree
a genetic fix is desirable - for example, suceptibility to
heart disease, cancer, dental caries, and myopia. Other
'vanity' fixes seem pretty harmless - being tall, busty,
or having a well-stuffed
Authentication is Something you have / know / are.
A simple plastic credit card + PIN provides the first two,
including a photo provides the third something you are.
A face is more often checked than the readily forgable
signature, in live authentication.
But as cameras become ubiquitous
(e.g.,
At 02:55 PM 7/8/03 -0400, Billy wrote:
On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 01:26:46PM -0400, Trei, Peter wrote:
While the ear can't hear above 22KHz, signal above that *can*
effect the perceived sound, by heterodyne effects. For example,
if you play a single tone of 28KHz, or a single tone of 30 KHz,
you
At 03:14 PM 7/8/03 -0700, Tim May wrote:
As for hearing heterodyning in 28 KHz and 30 KHz signals, maybe. CD
players have brickwall filters to of course block such frequencies.
Some analog groove-based systems can have some kind of signal up there
at those frequencies, but not much.
Regular vinyl
At 07:15 PM 7/8/03 -0700, Mike Rosing wrote:
To produce 65kHz (for cats) my present boss prefers a 1 MHz sample
rate.
Do cats buy a lot of audiophile equiptment :8=||
The human hearing system is capable of noticing phase relations at
100kHz
rates.
Actually I thought humans are insensitive to
At 02:59 AM 7/9/03 -0700, Sarad AV wrote:
hi,
MV:
There's nothing gained by
increasing
the input entropy (compressing
I was looking for such a compression function such
that the chances of collision in the message digest
obtained by hashing these 2^80 messages is collision
free or very low
At 11:45 AM 7/9/03 -0700, Mike Rosing wrote:
On Wed, 9 Jul 2003, Major Variola (ret) wrote:
Actually I thought humans are insensitive to phase relations, modulo
inter-aural timing at low frequencies for spatial location. Perhaps
that
is what you meant? But spatial location isn't the same
At 01:51 AM 7/15/03 +0300, Sampo Syreeni wrote:
On 2003-07-14, Michael Shields uttered to Bill Frantz:
Encrypted swap is a crypto sweet spot, because it has perhaps the
easiest
key management of any crypto system. It seems that the BSD systems
have it
while Linux still thinks it is difficult.
At 03:15 PM 7/17/03 -0400, Tyler Durden wrote:
I dunno...I'm thinking that optical tempest is probably bullshit 99% of
the
time, but what do I know?
There was an article on optical tempest based on reading modem-LEDs,
which are sometimes modulated with the data stream. For Mhz rates it
works.
At 01:33 PM 7/17/03 -0700, Meyer Wolfsheim wrote:
For what it's worth, a secure viewer that displayed text in red on a
black background should make an optical tempest attack much more
difficult.
Why?
On a black background you have higher contrast, which you don't want
here.
The eye is most
I read somewhere that the Russkies lose about 8 invaders
a day in Chechnya. The Iraqis need to increase their
productivity. Maybe take over a theatre or something.
Have a nice day.
At 11:36 PM 7/20/03 -0700, John Kozubik wrote:
On Sat, 19 Jul 2003, Steve Schear wrote:
remove a small 1 button pinned to my left lapel. I declined,
saying
that it was a political statement and that he had no right to censor
passengers' political speech. The button, which was created by
At 02:17 AM 7/21/03 +0200, Thomas Shaddack wrote:
On Sat, 19 Jul 2003, Tyler Durden wrote:
There is some minuscule proportion of X-rays produced by CRT displays.
Produced by the ebeam decelerating on the shadow mask, but adsorbed
by the glass.
At 11:56 PM 7/22/03 -0700, Sarad AV wrote:
Yesterdays briefing on the death of saddams sons-the
bodies were said to be send for positive
identification through dna tests.How are these samples
obtained anyway?Royal Saloons,Royal Doctors,Visits to
the US during peace times?What more effecient
Kinko's spy case: Risks of renting PCs
NEW YORK (AP) -- For more than a
year, unbeknownst to people who used
Internet terminals at Kinko's stores in
New York, Juju Jiang was recording
what they typed, paying
At 06:00 PM 7/24/03 +0100, Dave Howe wrote:
the new standard, I suspect a suicide bombing of
the white house (killing all the staff and the shrub) would now be ok
provided they shouted 'surrender or die' first, yes?
Dude, if Julius Caesar had magnetometers we might all be speaking
Italian now.
Re: Pentagon pulls their AP plans..
It was simply too obviously free feedback (marketing data) for their
domestic PSYOPs people. Now they'll have to go back to interpreting
CNN (etc) polls to find out which way the sheeple are stampeding.
At 10:56 PM 7/29/03 -0700, Bill Stewart wrote:
Assuming it can be legally structured as a Futures Market,
rather than as Illegal Gambling, it could make money.
(There are obviously some bets it's unlikely to handle,
such as the bet that Idea Futures markets would be successfully
prosecuted
as
At 11:34 AM 7/31/03 -0700, Tim May wrote:
Some people expected a land rush when the main RSA patents expired
several years ago. Parties were even thrown. The land rush never
happened.
Wrong. RSA algorithm is used freely now in US designs, knowing it is no
longer
patented. I didn't go to any
At 02:16 PM 8/6/03 -0700, Bill Stewart wrote:
What if all things computable are computable in polynomial time?
We wouldn't have to go back to OTP, just symmetric-key keyservers
which people used before public-key became well-known.
While the public-key algorithms are based on math problems like
At 11:49 AM 8/6/03 -0700, Tim May wrote:
On Wednesday, August 6, 2003, at 11:05 AM, Adam Back wrote:
Couldn't he just let people post in his absence? It kind of detracts
from a list if it disappears for weeks at a time on a regular basis.
He moderates it. His choice. Single point of
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