Re: SafeAudio CD protection

2001-05-29 Thread Adam Back
Well that's easy to break: 1) obtain one audio CD player with digital out 2) connect to sound card with digital in 3) copy to gold CD with ECC errors being fixed by audio CD player or simply re-digitise from high quality audio CD player. Probably at MP3 quality the distinction won't be that

Inchoate reply-to?

2001-05-23 Thread Adam Back
I notice Inchoate has started putting Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] in mails through his node. Which is not what the rest of them are doing (as far as I know), and is officially evil. The simplest thing that could be done about his [CDR] crap, and continual jerking people around with his warped

Re: Re: Label releases copy-protected CD

2001-05-23 Thread Adam Back
It's clear this CD won't play in an audio CD player. You load it into a computer, you buy a decryption key and then you can download audio into an MP3 player. (So the article claims). So a few of the MP3 players support the broken SDMI copy marking schemes, perhaps this is what they're talking

Re: Shared-Secret similar algorithm

2001-05-15 Thread Adam Back
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 06:13:20PM -0700, Ray Dillinger wrote: This works, if it doesn't really matter that the users have separate keys -- ie, if it won't cause a hash collision or something in some other part of the system, or if you don't care that the users can identify each other by

Re: What is an Actuary?

2001-05-04 Thread Adam Back
Could you explain the relevance of this to the list readership? (The link explains all about how to become an actuary.) Adam On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 06:36:02PM -0500, Jim Choate wrote: http://www.math.purdue.edu/actuary/What.html

Re: Zone On the Range

2001-03-27 Thread Adam Back
This is cryptic -- how do I know what this link will be about from your subject line. Can't you quote as ascii the first paragraph, or write your own summary, or something? If you can't be bothered to do that, the reference is not useful; it's just a random pointer. Historically most of them

OpenNap Server (Re: Why Gnutella Can't Scale. No, Really)

2001-02-24 Thread Adam Back
Take a look at: http://opennap.sourceforge.net Adam On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 10:36:31AM -0800, Ray Dillinger wrote: On Thu, 15 Feb 2001, Adam Back wrote: It may be that Napster will continue in the form of the open napster clones, even if Napster the company is prevented. Anyone

Re: Here you have, ;o)

2001-02-12 Thread Adam Back
Heh, heh. Guess who uses outlook :-) Endless source of amusement as a linux user watching the VB script worms play out. I think you actually have to click on this one, though the double extension helps as many users won't see the 2nd .vbs, just the .jpg. Adam On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at

watermarking sucks (Re: stego for the censored II)

2001-02-11 Thread Adam Back
I think a watermark is more likely to be keyed. Without the key it's a bit harder to be sure to remove the watermark without affecting the quality of the image. With the key you can tell which parts of the message to remove. In addition watermarking has to mean a mark tied to the identity of

privacy regulations suck also (Re: Formal apology)

2001-02-11 Thread Adam Back
Aimee wrote: I agree, but you yourself stated that the average American isn't that concerned about privacy and won't purchase privacy enhancing technologies. (In a general privacy sense, I don't see a lot of "privacy reclamation." I do see a lot of notice provisions -- the functional

ZKS mail system questions (RE: anonymity)

2001-02-10 Thread Adam Back
I think the 2.0 mail system has a number of advantages over the reply-blocks based 1.0 pseudonymous mail system, though a couple of disadvantages. These trade offs are documented in the mail system white paper. http://www.freedom.net/info/whitepapers/ In summary for people who don't

Re: Re: IW: Tools Stunt DoS Attacks

2001-02-07 Thread Adam Back
Coincidentally, or perhaps not given my recent comments about the dumbness of tracing and blocking as a strategy, someone appears to be syn flooding my cable modem right now. Tons of TCP connections from a bank of IP addresses slowly changing. Adam Adam Shostack wrote: Folks should take a