Tax break for snoopable crypto; 5 percent Net tax plan

1999-07-30 Thread Declan McCullagh
http://www.wired.com/news/news/politics/story/21014.html A Tax Break for Snoopable Code by Declan McCullagh 3:00 a.m. 30.Jul.99.PDT WASHINGTON -- If anyone in Washington qualifies as an a

RE: US Urges Ban of Internet Crypto

1999-07-30 Thread Eugene Leitl
Lucky Green writes: > [Before a reader replies with an argument based on a claim that strong > crypto is in the process of becoming ubiquitous, please take a look at your > phone. Does it perform 3DES encryption? Do the phones of the majority of Phone? Why do I need a stupid phone if there's

And now, a java encoder ring!

1999-07-30 Thread Udhay Shankar N
(what fun. - udhay) http://www.javaworld.com/jw-08-1998/jw-08-indepth.html For me, the highlight of the JavaOne Developer Conference in San Francisco last March was Dallas Semiconductor's iButton with Java -- aka the Java Ring, a wearable computer that ran Java. It allegedly had a high-performan

fairness & liveness wrt /dev/[u]random (Re: linux-ipsec: Re: TRNG, PRNG)

1999-07-30 Thread Adam Back
Anonymous writes about competition for /dev/random arising from other processes and from processes using /dev/urandom which will use /dev/random when available. ("Use" in the sense that it reseeds using the /dev/random, and I take it from anonymous analysis actually removes bytes from /dev/rando