else that
is easily readable by both people and machines, and you can either
release the ballot into the box if it's right, or put it into a
discard pile and try again. Then the machine forgets everything, and
they count the paper ballots to see who won.
--
John R. Levine, IECC, POB 727
http://www.peacefire.org/bypass/
Someone who looked at this program reports that it just runs the
uninstall programs for whichever of those applications it finds
installed. Whoopee.
--
John R. Levine, IECC, POB 727, Trumansburg NY 14886 +1 607 387 6869
[EMAIL PROTECTED], Village Trustee
[ I was at the beach, catching up now ]
It is a test of will and power. Kaplan took offense at the widespread
attitude that such an act was beyond the power of a judge, that judges not
only should not censor thei internet, but that they *could* not censor the
internet, that the
In case you haven't figured it out, yes, I am seriously contemplating
writing such a book. Please keep the good ideas coming.
Oh, good.
All of the discussion of algorithms is fine, but it seems to me that the most
important topic in such a book is how to avoid building yet another crypto
RSA Data Security does have some registered trademarks for encryption
software. In principle, they're not enforcable against an algorithm as
opposed to an implementation thereof, but considering how unpleasant RSA
the company has been in the past, I don't see any point in picking a
fight
I think this is secure:
- pre-distribute a public key (cert, whatever) that you trust
- install decryption/sig checking software on the target machines
(I think this is necessary)
- when the blob is transmitted, send a signature (detached) and the
executable
I'm not sure I care for the elitist tone in Dan's posting either, but
he raises some points that deserve serious consideration. Sure we
have mail-in absentee ballots now, but the number of people who
choose to vote that way is small and an absentee ballot split that
varied markedly from
This is e911 service.
Much as I dislike government intrusion, I sure would like to have a
device with a button that says "call help and *tell them where I am*"
Me too. The problem seems to be that the "call help" and "tell them where I
am" functions aren't as closely coupled as we'd like.
What use is the watermark anyway? It is only applicable to files
generated for a specific, legally identifiable customer. Therefore it
does not apply to pre-pressed CD/DVD etc. discs or to broadcasts via
the Net, TV, radio etc.
Well, serial numbers are somewhat useful in tracking pirate
Did any of you see this
http://www.votehere.net/content/Products.asp#InternetVotingSystems
that proposes to authenticate the voter by asking for his/her/its SSN#?
It looked like the idea for this part was to prevent double voting,
plus make sure that only authorized people could vote.
It seems clear that the system is primarily oriented towards preventing
fraud by election officials and those involved in setting up the
electronic voting. Historically, this is the greater danger in
election fraud. Stuffing the ballot box is much easier if you are
the one in charge of
For the past two days jya.com has been under attack
by the Korea Information Security Agency
http://www.kisa.or.kr
which has set up (or allowed) a couple of robots to issue a
sustained flood of requests for the same three files, one per
second, which has nearly stopped access by
The Cato Institute released a new Cato Briefing Paper, "Strong
Cryptography: The Global Tide of Change," as the Clinton
administration was announcing a relaxation in controls on the export
of encryption technology. In the paper, Arnold G. Reinhold writes ...
Arnold's a regular on this list.
Visit http://www.1on1mail.com/
It has a downloadable Windows client that I haven't tried yet, and a lot
of blather about how secure 2048 bit RSA keys are. It's free, supported
by ads. I wonder if it puts them in the encrypted messages.
Regards,
John Levine, [EMAIL PROTECTED], Primary
Alfred Beutelspacher: Kryptologie.
Vieweg, 1996, ISBN 3-528-48990-1, 34.00 DEM, 179 p.
I don't know unfortunately, whether someone has translated it already
into English.
I see a 1994 translation, which I presume is of an earlier edition:
Cryptology, Paperback, 176 Pages, Mathematical
Weiner said he was particularly troubled by reports that investigators
tracked the Melissa suspect with help from both America Online and a unique
identifying number attached to Microsoft software.
My understanding is that they found the guy by going to Dejanews, finding the
earliest copy of
There's bomb-proof security, and there's "security" that itself is a time
bomb. I fear that self-extracting decryptors are much closer to
the latter than to the former -- very much closer.
At this stage, it's hard to see much justification for self-extracting crypto
any more. There are
I f I recall correctly, the US Patent and Trademark Office has said that it
would not consider information placed on the Internet to be published for
patent purposes. Preparoing papers for journals or conferences is a pain,
takes months to be published and runs the risk of rejection.
How
The problem is that we're trying to combine the answers to two rather
separate questions.
Here is the question: Is this as good as thin air?
With suitable precautions as discussed already, most likely yes.
Can you see any way a hacker could use such a connection to penetrate
the bank's
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