Re: Larry Lessig on ending anonymity through "identity escrow"

2003-12-05 Thread Ian Grigg
It seems as if Larry Lessig has figured out the fatal flaw in anonymous or untraceable systems - that they are not economically sustainable. In the face of that argument, he does not propose that they be banned, as Declan suspects: > [Why do I get the feeling that Larry Lessig doesn't like "absol

Larry Lessig on ending anonymity through "identity escrow"

2003-12-05 Thread Declan McCullagh
In response to: http://www.economist.co.uk/science/displayStory.cfm?story_id=2246018 To preserve freedom further, suggests Mr Lessig, anonymity could be replaced by pseudonymity. It might become legal, for instance, to have credit cards for online transactions under different names, as long as thes

RE: Open Source Embedded SSL - (License and Memory)

2003-12-05 Thread Bill Tompkins
On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 20:15, Peter Gutmann wrote: > How common is it to find an embedded system sophisticated enough to have a TCP > stack and ethernet interface (and running SSL), but not sophisticated enough > to have a malloc() implementation? I've always assumed that anything with the > forme

Call for Papers: 2004 Workshop on Economics and Information Security

2003-12-05 Thread Andrew Odlyzko
The Third Annual Workshop on Economics and Information Security (WEIS04) May 13-14, 2004 University of Minnesota http://www.dtc.umn.edu/weis2004 Submissions due: March 1, 2004

RE: Open Source Embedded SSL - (License and Memory)

2003-12-05 Thread Peter Gutmann
"J Harper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>2) Make it functional on systems without memory allocation. Did I >>mention that I work on (very) small embedded systems? Having fixed >>spaces for variables is useful when you want something to run >>deterministically for a long time with no resets, and

Re: Searching for uncopyable key made of sparkles in plastic

2003-12-05 Thread Ronald L. Rivest
See the references by Pappu and Devadas for lecture 18 of my class: http://theory.lcs.mit.edu/classes/6.857/lecture.html Cheers, Ron At 06:44 PM 12/4/2003, Peter Fairbrother wrote: R. A. Hettinga wrote: > > --- begin forwarded text > > > Status: U > Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2003 14:45: