Re: Almost-Everywhere Superiority for Quantum Computing

1999-10-19 Thread Bill Stewart
Russell Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If quantum computers make brute-force cryptanalysis tasks easier, don't they also make brute-force cryptographic tasks easier as well? At 01:12 AM 10/18/1999 -0400, Vin McLellan wrote: The problem to worry about, of course, is that

Digital Contracts: Lie in X.509, Go to Jail

1999-10-19 Thread Robert Hettinga
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Aside from noting the vicious hypocrisy of the Clinton administration saying they support the 11th Ammendment, I've also decided that the bill mentioned in the New York Times Story excerpted below, like most current state digital signature legislation, could

Re: Digital Contracts: Lie in X.509, Go to Jail

1999-10-19 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
In message v0421012db4321dc2f55c@[204.167.101.62], Robert Hettinga writes: The solution to this madness, is, of course, bearer credentials, as Stephan Brands points out in his recently published doctoral dissertation "Rethinking Public Key Infrastructures and Digital Certificates --

Re: Digital Contracts: Lie in X.509, Go to Jail

1999-10-19 Thread Robert Hettinga
Evidently, there are only 500 in the first printing, but I bet Stefan didn't give them *all* away. :-). I bet that if you put in a special order to Amazon with the ISBN and the publisher in it, they'll manage to sell one to you on order. Upon receiving a bunch of orders for the book from some

The Privacy Snatchers

1999-10-19 Thread Declan McCullagh
Here's something I wrote two years ago that may be timely when evaluating whether or not to trust the government. At least, that is, when police say they'll not abuse wiretaps and backdoors inserted into Internet protocols. -Declan

Is there an anonymous contribution protocol?

1999-10-19 Thread Reusch
A couple of months ago, someone (unfortunately, I don’t recall the name or date) wrote to the New York Times, suggesting that all political contributions be made anonymously. Given the continuous contention that the issue of political contributions causes in the US, I was intrigued by the

Bernstein Delay Motion

1999-10-19 Thread John Young
Thanks to Cindy Cohn we offer the USG's motion yesterday to delay en banc reargument in Bernstein: http://cryptome.org/bernstein-mot.htm A quote: "The revisions being implemented by the Department of Commerce entail extensive changes in the existing terms of the encryption export

Re: BXA

1999-10-19 Thread Greg Broiles
On Wed, Sep 29, 1999 at 07:41:34PM -0700, I wrote: At 04:49 AM 9/29/99 , Donald Ramsbottom wrote: What really intrigues me is the end of your post relating to the distinction between object code and source code. So if I understand you correctly, you will still require the old style regime

Re: BXA (fwd)

1999-10-19 Thread Jim Choate
- Forwarded message from Greg Broiles - Date: Tue, 19 Oct 1999 15:13:53 -0700 From: Greg Broiles [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: BXA It appears that this may no longer be correct. John Young has made available on his website a document http://cryptome.org/bernstein-mot.htm filed by the

Re: Is there an anonymous contribution protocol?

1999-10-19 Thread Robert Hettinga
At 3:48 PM -0400 on 10/19/99, Reusch wrote: "I contributed $100,000. Here is my receipt! Get the bedroom ready." Right. See http://www.xs4all.nl/~brands/order.txt There's an echo in the room, isn't there? :-). Cheers, RAH - Robert A. Hettinga mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The

Re: Is there an anonymous contribution protocol?

1999-10-19 Thread Anonymous
Michael Reusch, [EMAIL PROTECTED], writes: A couple of months ago, someone (unfortunately, I don't recall the name or date) wrote to the New York Times, suggesting that all political contributions be made anonymously. Given the continuous contention that the issue of political

Re: Digital Contracts: Lie in X.509, Go to Jail

1999-10-19 Thread Julian Assange
Robert Hettinga [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Evidently, there are only 500 in the first printing, but I bet Stefan didn't give them *all* away. :-). I bet that if you put in a special order to Amazon with the ISBN and the publisher in it, they'll manage to sell one to you on order. Upon

Re: BXA

1999-10-19 Thread Vin McLellan
Unless, of course, this quiet announcement (in the Bernstein court papers filed by the US Govt) that the source code issue is currently being reviewed within the Executive Branch -- despite White House assurances to the contrary to leading Congressional figures -- was a purposely

Re: Digital Contracts: Lie in X.509, Go to Jail

1999-10-19 Thread Dan Geer
For details of how to order, see www.xs4all.nl/~brands/order.txt What is it about wanting to change the instantaneous electronic world that generates this sort of time paper hazing ritual? Yours in irreverent confusion, Lightning Rod

Re: Digital Contracts: Lie in X.509, Go to Jail

1999-10-19 Thread Arnold Reinhold
At 9:20 AM +1000 10/20/99, Julian Assange wrote: Robert Hettinga [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Evidently, there are only 500 in the first printing, but I bet Stefan didn't give them *all* away. :-). I bet that if you put in a special order to Amazon with the ISBN and the publisher in it,

Re: Digital Contracts: Lie in X.509, Go to Jail

1999-10-19 Thread Richard Lethin
$94 for the $50 book from the US, ($19 shipping and bank costs on the publisher's side, $25 for an "international money order"). Robert Hettinga wrote: At 2:27 PM -0400 on 10/19/99, Somebody, at the head end of a long line of other Sombodies, wrote: Where can I get this book by Brands?

Re: BXA v. Bernstein

1999-10-19 Thread John Gilmore
_Bernstein_ case. In short, the US Government is asking the court to postpone oral argument in the case until the US Government has revealed the new regulations, promised for release on December 15 1999. Which shouldn't be relevant since his rights were impacted under the *old* law. Even

Re: Bernstein Delay Motion

1999-10-19 Thread Marc Horowitz
John Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It is possible that the revised regulations will not materially change the treatment of source code. But it is also possible that the revised regulations will alter the treatment of source code in ways that could have a bearing on the constitutional

Re: size of linear function space

1999-10-19 Thread Ben Laurie
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Consider functions of one variable whose domain and range are both {0,1,2,...,n-1}. There are n^n possible functions. n!, I'd say, since the range of any function that isn't one-to-one is _not_ {0..n-1}. Did you mean that the range was a subset of {0..n-1}? Or