Re: PGP Encryption Proves Powerful

2003-06-02 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 11:18 AM 6/1/03 -0400, Ian Grigg wrote: There is a reason that the AK47 is the weapon of choice: it is an extraordinarily simple weapon. Training is probably about half the requirements of say the M16. That makes a difference, much more so than, say, the increased accuracy of the M16! Got

Re: Maybe It's Snake Oil All the Way Down

2003-06-02 Thread Adam Shostack
The assumption that having cracked a cipher leads to can make lots of money from the break is one held mostly by those who have never attacked real systems, which have evolved with lots of checks and balances. The very best way to make money from cracking ciphers seems to be to patent the break,

The Streisand imagecriminal lives 2-3 parcels away from me

2003-06-02 Thread Tim May
Ken Adelman, the retired gazillionaire who has gained new fame as a photographer of the California coastline, lives a couple of parcels from me, perhaps half a kilometer. For a while now, I'd wondered who owned the heliport that had helicopters departing and arriving a few times a week

Re: Maybe It's Snake Oil All the Way Down

2003-06-02 Thread Eric Rescorla
Scott Guthery [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: When I drill down on the many pontifications made by computer security and cryptography experts all I find is given wisdom. Maybe the reason that folks roll their own is because as far as they can see that's what everyone does. Roll your own then whip

Re: BIS Disk Full

2003-06-02 Thread Declan McCullagh
URL? Is it this? http://snap.bis.doc.gov/ Email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] does not bounce, at least not immediately. -Declan On Sat, May 31, 2003 at 01:34:00PM -0700, Anonymous wrote: I tried to notify the BIS that I was posting some code and I got this error back: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:

Re: [spam] Re: Nullsoft's WASTE communication system

2003-06-02 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], John Brothers writes: Any license that you may believe you acquired with the Software is void, revoked and terminated. Can you void and/or revoke the GPL? It doesn't matter if the GPL statement wasn't inserted by the real owner of the work. Note that the

Re: Maybe It's Snake Oil All the Way Down

2003-06-02 Thread Eric Rescorla
Scott Guthery [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Suppose. Just suppose. That you figured out a factoring algorithm that was polynomial. What would you do? Would you post it immediately to cypherpunks?Well, OK, maybe you would but not everyone would. In fact some might even imagine they could