Re: noise, random and otherwise

1999-07-31 Thread Jim Gillogly
Steve Bellovin wrote: > Folks, this list has been getting rather noisy of late, mostly with > discussions of political philosophy. Can we move those discussions > somewhere else? ... > Let's save the politics for debates over suitable quantities of ethanol, and > use this list for technical

Re: And now, a java encoder ring!

1999-07-31 Thread Ben Laurie
Andreas Bogk wrote: > > Udhay Shankar N <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > 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 > > hig

RE: US Urges Ban of Internet Crypto

1999-07-31 Thread Lucky Green
Eugene wrote: > Should strong crypto be outlawed, my mail traffic will consist mostly > of Pretty Goofy Pictures, and snowy video feed from the webcam. Most > of them will be really just pretty goofy pictures, with a wee bit of > nondeterministic noise added. Such means of stego communication are

Re: depleting the random number generator -- repeated state

1999-07-31 Thread Eugene Leitl
David Honig writes: > One of the many uses of nitric acid. Ie, take random samples I thought this is mostly done by removing the bulk of the package polymer by grinding, and then subjecting the rest of it to a plasma etch. I haven't put a processed wafer into nitric acid yet, but I could imag

Re: GemPlus on relaxed stance by French Government on crypto

1999-07-31 Thread Enzo Michelangeli
In case nobody posted it before: http://www.gemplus.com/about/pressroom/press/banking/1999/crypto_uk.htm GĂ©menos, July 1, 1999 -- In accordance with Wassenar Arrangement, the recent French government decision to relax export controls on French developed encryption technology and products will ha

Re: And now, a java encoder ring!

1999-07-31 Thread Andreas Bogk
Udhay Shankar N <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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-performance encryption engine, an

Re: depleting the random number generator -- repeated state

1999-07-31 Thread David Honig
At 04:00 PM 7/30/99 -0700, Eugene Leitl wrote: >David Honig writes: > > > One of the many uses of nitric acid. Ie, take random samples > >I thought this is mostly done by removing the bulk of the package >polymer by grinding, and then subjecting the rest of it to a plasma >etch. I believe Marcus

Re: Crypto bill will harm children, boost "pedophiles"

1999-07-31 Thread Howie Goodell
Here's a really muddled passage from the House Intelligence (sic) Committee report ftp://ftp.loc.gov/pub/thomas/cp106/hr117p5.txt : The Committee amendment preserves law enforcement's crime fighting and public safety capabilities by providing clear authority through judicial processe

Congress doesn't like FIDNET

1999-07-31 Thread John R Levine
C|net reports that the House Appropriations Committee approved a budget for the justice department today that specifically forbids the FBI to spend any money on FIDNET. http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,39978,00.html?st.ne.fd.mdh.ni Regards, John Levine, [EMAIL PROTECTED], Primary Perpetrator o

Re: US Urges Ban of Internet Crypto

1999-07-31 Thread Ted Lemon
> It can only be resolved by software and hardware designers choosing > to integrate it seamlessly into their products with or without the > permission of their rulers. To some degree this is happening in the Open Source community, but in order to make strong crypto ubiquitous for, e.g., cell ph

noise, random and otherwise

1999-07-31 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
Folks, this list has been getting rather noisy of late, mostly with discussions of political philosophy. Can we move those discussions somewhere else? Most of us on this list want free crypto. Loudly proclaiming that you do, too, isn't particularly new or useful. And while we have differe

Re: depleting the random number generator -- repeated state

1999-07-31 Thread David Honig
At 03:34 PM 7/29/99 -0700, Eugene Leitl wrote: >Of course one would have to believe the CPU designer that it is true >noise, and not pseudorandom. One of the many uses of nitric acid. Ie, take random samples apart and look at them. There are commercial places that will do the lab work for you.