Wherein Hettinga jumps up and down, rather heavily, on what skimpy "1A"
punditry credentials he has. Here's hoping this source-protection stuff
holds up.
At 3:53 PM -0400 on 5/5/99, Not Chaum wrote:
www.ruloffcapital.com
Cool!
But, wait, boys and girls, there's more:
At 7:47 PM -0400 on
[This was sent to another list. I guess you guys know quite a lot about
this :-) -- Hinde.]
Hi Hippies,
We are working on a book about / against wiretapping.
With this book we will supply a free CD, with encryption software
like
PGP and many other usefull tools.
The problem is that no
I got Neal Stephenson's "Cryptonomicon" some days ago.
My micro-review:
Amazingly good. As usual, Stephenson has no idea how to end a book,
but that barely matters -- the ride he takes you for is exceptional,
anyway.
The plot? Well, it would be hard to say what the book is about even if
I
I just read the opinion. These judges actually *got* it! Or at least
two of them did, judges Bright and Fletcher. There's some marvelous
stuff in their opinion, such as the observation that Bernstein's code
had more than a little political expression to it since by showing how
to turn a hash
Date: Thu, 6 May 1999 14:43:09 -0700 (PDT)
From: Phil Karn [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I just read the opinion. These judges actually *got* it! Or at least
two of them did, judges Bright and Fletcher. There's some marvelous
stuff in their opinion, such as the observation that
Date: Thu, 6 May 1999 15:53:27 -0700 (PDT)
From: Phil Karn [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I don't see the term "assembly" anywhere in the opinion, and in
context I don't think this court would have a problem classifying an
assembler implementation of DES as "source code" for the purposes
Judge Nelson unfortunately bought the government's bogus claim that
crypto source code was more like a machine than speech, claiming that
"Only a few people can actually understand what a line of source code
would direct a computer to do." But even Nelson did not say he'd
definitely uphold the
I got Neal Stephenson's "Cryptonomicon" some days ago.
My micro-review:
Amazingly good. As usual, Stephenson has no idea how to end a book,
but that barely matters -- the ride he takes you for is exceptional,
anyway.
The plot? Well, it would be hard to say what the book is about
