April RSA, Cypherpunks Meeting Schedule - Request for Comments?

2001-02-17 Thread Bill Stewart
. Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639

Re: electronic ballots

2001-02-02 Thread Bill Stewart
. Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639

Re: small crypto that isn't predictable

2001-01-24 Thread Bill Stewart
the IV with the key, not the data stream - that means that it isn't really using the same algorithm for the IV as for the rest of the data stream, but you may not care. Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP

Re: Cryptographic Algorithm Metrics

2001-01-06 Thread Bill Stewart
atically in a short period of time with a small investment (8 hours and $20K). No examples. Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639

Re: Fwd: from Edupage, December 22, 2000

2001-01-06 Thread Bill Stewart
it more practical than pressurized cable. If you're going less than a hundred meters, stick to pressurized cable and armed guards :-) Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884

Re: Is PGP broken?

2000-12-19 Thread Bill Stewart
quot;distinctly tarnished", I stopped using it. Many other people I know did as well. I've switched to GPG, which hasn't got any track record so far, once it became stable. We'll wait and see how they do. Thanks! Bill Bill

Re: migration paradigm (was: Is PGP broken?)

2000-12-10 Thread Bill Stewart
ail address, it's ok, but if you've got it sorted by public key, you may have a problem. Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639

Re: Is PGP broken? - public keys in every message

2000-12-03 Thread Bill Stewart
52Egs7Vq KcdeXicUTIlSnilH+vKrYZJjNTTRlyOemCgX/z5M 4cko2RYx7R+ZRoVTBDDDu0TIrXfAwscgUjSH733Pw Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639

Re: reflecting on PGP, keyservers, and the Web of Trust

2000-09-07 Thread Bill Stewart
recently installed 6.5.8 (still Eudora 3.x), and it's improved a bit, but I haven't tested it extensively. Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639

Re: I foresee an increased interest in secret-sharing

2000-09-07 Thread Bill Stewart
e Scottish Liberation Army. Also, they have a legitimate corporate need to know that Alice may be unexpectedly taking a long vacation and that they should find somebody else to handle her job while she's away. Thanks! Bill Bi

Re: PGP ADK Bug Fix

2000-08-27 Thread Bill Stewart
Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639

Re: Using signature-only certs to authenticate key exchanges

2000-08-17 Thread Bill Stewart
e separate. Do your import restrictions apply to intangibles like downloading software in the net? Some places only restrict import/export of physical objects. Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint D454

Re: Using signature-only certs to authenticate key exchanges

2000-08-16 Thread Bill Stewart
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Re: What would you like to see in a book on cryptography for programmers?

2000-08-14 Thread Bill Stewart
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Re: Weak user keys, strong servers.

2000-07-25 Thread Bill Stewart
something different. Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639

Re: FBI announcement on email search 'Carnivore'

2000-07-18 Thread Bill Stewart
such a box. Yes, but now that the US has legalized export of crypto hardware to EU and other friendly governments, they can have 10 of them there overnight :-) Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint D454

Re: GNU Privacy Guard license question

2000-06-12 Thread Bill Stewart
.x indefinitley under the old license. Yup. Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639

Re: NSA back doors in encryption products

2000-05-26 Thread Bill Stewart
! :-) The Campaign for Real Ale was a Good Thing... Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639

Re: From NewsScan: new EU export rules...

2000-05-13 Thread Bill Stewart
sican terrorists." Yow! Corsican hackiere-terroristes will certainly be stopped by that! They'd have to download GSM-crackers with instructions in English instead of French or Italian! Thanks! Bill Bill Stewa

Re: Automatic passphrase generation

2000-05-11 Thread Bill Stewart
. The main objective is to make it safer to use human-rememberable passphrases with low risks from attacks like dictionary search. Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE

Re: GPS and cell phones

2000-05-11 Thread Bill Stewart
vilian GPS signals. Bob Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639

Re: Planned Net-treaty limits privacy, may compel key disclosure

2000-05-03 Thread Bill Stewart
the politicians have made so far", which is a moving target - they can change them any time they want, though some laws are sufficiently entangled with other laws or political agendas that it's sometimes hard. Thanks!

Re: Article about TriStrata in Fortune

2000-04-10 Thread Bill Stewart
quot; wrote: Some of you may remember a certain pseudo-OTP snake oil vendor called TriStrata. This article in Fortune tells the story of their rise and fall... http://www.fortune.com/fortune/technology/2000/04/17/boo.html Thanks!

Junger wins in Appeals Court - Junger v. Daley, 6th Cir. 4/4/00

2000-04-05 Thread Bill Stewart
of course, it is theoretically possible that we would lose on remand.) In that case the appeal would be back to the Sixth Circuit. Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884

ANNOUNCE 4/8 Bay Area and Toronto Cypherpunks Meetings

2000-04-02 Thread Bill Stewart
will be there April 8th, so there will be a Cypherpunks Meeting (and Party at Ian's Place.) Dave Del Torto is coordinating the agenda; possible location City Hall. The Bay Area instantiation will be at Fort NOCs, 19925 Stevens Creek Blvd, Cupertino. Bill Stewart is coordinating the agenda. Cindy Cohn

Re: secret-sharing code

2000-03-30 Thread Bill Stewart
ility, use Shamir sharing, and make sure all the secret-reconstruction calculations can be done by any convenient bignum calculator (as opposed to the XOR method, which can be done by hand or abacus :-) Thanks! Bill Bi

Re: secret-sharing code

2000-03-30 Thread Bill Stewart
r-magazine column, but he took the moral high road that escrow is none of their business rather than the "I could steal *that*" approach :-) Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint D454 E202

Re: Encrypting folders in Win95/98

2000-03-15 Thread Bill Stewart
-disk products like Scramdisk do the right thing (or else refuse to work entirely) but I don't know if the NTFS-like systems do the compression on the file server or the client or just refuse to work. Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart

Re: [FYI] ECHELON for combat of european national culture of bribery?

2000-03-13 Thread Bill Stewart
ean companies had a "national culture" of bribery and were the "principle offenders from the point of view of paying bribes in major international contracts in the world". Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, [EM

Re: Legal/patent analysis of Lucre?

2000-02-20 Thread Bill Stewart
e doing so :-) Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639

Re: [PGP]: PGP 6.5.2 Random Number Generator (RNG) support

2000-02-03 Thread Bill Stewart
ome hashed fashion rather than exposed to the public directly? Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639

[SFBCA] Cypherpunks MEETING PRE-ANNOUNCEMENT for 15 Jan 2000

1999-12-27 Thread Bill Stewart
Originally sent to "SFBay Cypherpunks Announce List" [EMAIL PROTECTED] by [EMAIL PROTECTED] Forwarding to [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] and a few Bcc:s Subject: [SFBCA] Cypherpunks MEETING PRE-ANNOUNCEMENT for 15 Jan 2000 You can

Re: sci fi (was Re: Onhand, clapping? (was Re: NTK now, 1999-12-10))

1999-12-14 Thread Bill Stewart
SA museum (:-), but Bluetooth is made to work even while it's in your pocket, and obviously cellphone-related systems need to be on the air, though they may not support high enough data rates to do drive-by upgrades. Thanks!

Re: Semantic Forests, from CWD (fwd)

1999-12-02 Thread Bill Stewart
sdrop on, the scale becomes much more manageable. Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639

Re: 128-bit support

1999-12-01 Thread Bill Stewart
reverse engineering, which is much more work than just writing new stuff themselves or downloading software from Finland or whatever.) Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE

Re: 128-bit support

1999-11-30 Thread Bill Stewart
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Re: Marked cash in Lucre

1999-11-22 Thread Bill Stewart
, and whether it's possibly covered by Chaum's patents. After all, the prime importance of Wagner's blinding work was that it hopefully wasn't stuck in the Chaum patent mess. Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP

Re: DEA says drug smugglers used crypto Net but cops got around it

1999-10-26 Thread Bill Stewart
e enough information in Mr. Marshall's description to be able to associate the FUD with a case and then find out what kind of evidence they present? Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639

Re: Almost-Everywhere Superiority for Quantum Computing

1999-10-19 Thread Bill Stewart
broadcasters on store shelves or license plates, etc. Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639

RE: Is SSL dead?

1999-10-08 Thread Bill Stewart
can use 2.0 if it wants. Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639

[SFBCA] SF Bay Area Cypherpunks 09 October 1999 Meeting

1999-10-08 Thread Bill Stewart
, etc. URBAN WASTELAND ENCORE - Sameer Parekh and friends - East Bay 10pm-dawn Call 510.594.4000x217 after 10 for directions. PENSFA at Howard Davidson's in San Carlos 10/16 will have an all-weekend Party at Ian's Friends' Place and a Revel Alliance party in Felton. If you have any q

Re: Ecash without a mint, or - making anonymous payments practical

1999-09-29 Thread Bill Stewart
transactions. Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639

Re: US encryption announcement: Business as usual

1999-09-17 Thread Bill Stewart
how they can claim to be doing anything other than prior restraint (generally banned as a first-amendment speech-chiller) without them. Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639

Re: message-signing at the MTA level

1999-09-14 Thread Bill Stewart
this way would be Really Bad. Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639

Re: crypto on calculators

1999-09-10 Thread Bill Stewart
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Re: Paul Brown on Solitiare randomness flaw?

1999-09-09 Thread Bill Stewart
-end Palm Pilot for about $130-150 (or cheaper if you buy used from somebody upgrading.) More memory, and you don't have to program in Basic. Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF

Re: linux-ipsec: /dev/random

1999-08-06 Thread Bill Stewart
ompromised. Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639

Re: linux-ipsec: Re: TRNG, PRNG

1999-07-24 Thread Bill Stewart
but might be afraid to. Altering the system has to be done very carefully or it will leave fingerprints. This is a non-problem - once the attacker gets root, you've lost the game anyway. Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, [EMAIL PROT

Re: depleting the random number generator

1999-07-18 Thread Bill Stewart
hardware randomizers. Some of the key setup protocols are designed to reduce CPU-busting attacks; Photuris does so explicitly, but I think someone's said that ISAKMP/IKE doesn't do this well enough. Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart

Re: Encrypting filenames

1999-07-11 Thread Bill Stewart
you need two-way encryption, or is a 1-way hash adequate? Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639

Re: The Beer Bottle Cipher (some fun summer reading for you...)

1999-07-01 Thread Bill Stewart
getting an export license for it? Does it pass the Reinheitsgebot, or is it wimpy American beer? Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639

Re: Bridge

1999-06-30 Thread Bill Stewart
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Re: ICSA certifies weak crypto as secure

1999-06-07 Thread Bill Stewart
:-) But almost any public-key system can give you a good mechanism for a challenge/response and set up a shared secret for encrypting or AHing a login session so it doesn't get hijacked. Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP

Re: Xerox supplies stego?

1999-05-11 Thread Bill Stewart
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PLANNING May 8 SF Cypherpunks Meeting, Berkeley/Oakland

1999-04-30 Thread Bill Stewart
there. Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639

Re: Starium announces STU-III for the masses

1999-04-29 Thread Bill Stewart
ware-based algorithm, and maybe something else. Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639

RE: Starium announces STU-III for the masses

1999-04-29 Thread Bill Stewart
in that price range should be reasonable assuming you can sell enough volume. I'm glad it's actually being done! Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639

Re: Using crypto to solve a part of the DNS/TM mess

1999-03-02 Thread Bill Stewart
here's a paper by (I think) Ken Thompson and Rob Pike called "The Hideous Name" on why that's a Good Thing. I don't know if Inferno kept that or not. Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639

Re: Using crypto to solve a part of the DNS/TM mess

1999-03-01 Thread Bill Stewart
| http://www.law.tm -- It's warm here. -- Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639

Re: Liquid Audio MP3

1999-02-05 Thread Bill Stewart
re's a lot of room to hide large numbers of bits, letting you play spread-spectrum code-division kinds of games that can still tell you some bits about the user even after voting kills lots of them. Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, [EM

Re: Mailinglist programs with PGP-encryption?

1999-01-16 Thread Bill Stewart
Ask the Oracle for pointers to "pgpdomo". Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639

Re: Needing references on FWZ-1 algorythm

1998-12-29 Thread bill . stewart
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Web Hosting Providers in Many Countries? For crypto archives.

1998-12-09 Thread Bill Stewart
ENGTH TO 2048 AND RECOMPILE" Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639

ANNOUNCE: SATURDAY Bay Area Cypherpunks Meeting - Stanford University

1998-11-12 Thread Bill Stewart
/vicinity.html Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639