Re: Your source code, for sale

Enzo Michelangeli writes: In the world of international trade, where mutual distrust between buyer and seller is often the rule and there is no central authority to enforce the law, this is traditionally achieved by interposing not less than three trusted third parties: the shipping line,

Re: Your source code, for sale

- Original Message - From: Ian Grigg [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Hal Finney [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 07, 2004 11:21 AM [Hal:] Interesting. In the e-gold case, both parties have the same bank, e-gold ltd. The

RE: Your source code, for sale

Yes, I'm looking at ideas like this for ecash gambling, but you have a who-goes-first problem. One side or the other has to rip their own cash first, and then the other side can just go away and leave the first side screwed. The act of ripping cash is relatively atomic and involves a

A Man of Many Words, David Shulman Dies at 91

During World War II, he cracked Japanese secret codes for the Army, then returned to puzzles. He was a founder of the American Cryptogram Association, and in 1976 published An Annotated Bibliography of Cryptography, still used by experts. He was a champion scrabble player, and wrote a scholarly

Re: When A Pencil And Paper Makes Sense

Here are some things that can --and do-- go wrong with the scanned ballots: - blank votes (where the voter could have made a mark but did not) can be voted at will after the ballot is cast by the voter, and no one can detect the fraud. - by looking at the vote pattern, a voter contract to vote for

Single Field Shapes Quantum Bits

http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/04/11/rnb_110804.asp?trk=nl Technology Review Single Field Shapes Quantum Bits November 8, 2005 Quantum computers, which tap the properties of particles like atoms, photons and electrons to carry out computations, could potentially use a variety of

No mandate for e-voting, computer scientist says

http://gcn.com/cgi-bin/udt/im.display.printable?client.id=gcndaily2story.id=27861 No mandate for e-voting, computer scientist says 11/09/04 By William Jackson, GCN Staff Despite wide use in last week's presidential election, direct-recording electronic voting still is a faulty method of casting

Calif. settles electronic voting suit against Diebold for $2.6M

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2004/11/10/financial1831EST0118.DTL Ths San Francisco Chronicle Calif. settles electronic voting suit against Diebold for $2.6M RACHEL KONRAD, AP Technology Writer Wednesday, November 10, 2004 (11-10) 15:31 PST SAN FRANCISCO (AP) --

it looks like Microsoft didn't get it right

for sale at http://www.elcomsoft.com/prs.html#aefsdr http://www.elcomsoft.com/prs.html#aefsdr : A program to recover (decrypt) files encrypted on NTFS (EFS) partitions created in Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Server 2003. Files are being decrypted even in a case when the system is not

RE: it looks like Microsoft didn't get it right

This is not as serious as I thought. According to http://www.elcomsoft.com/AEFSDR/whatsnew.txt, the cracker would need your password and access to your drive. - The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending unsubscribe

E-Mail Authentication Will Not End Spam, Panelists Say

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A41460-2004Nov10?language=printer The Washington Post washingtonpost.com E-Mail Authentication Will Not End Spam, Panelists Say By Jonathan Krim Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, November 11, 2004; Page E01 For consumers and businesses

Banks brace for cashpoint attack

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/11/11/banks_prepare_for_atm_cyber_crime/print.html The Register Biting the hand that feeds IT The Register » Security » Network Security » Original URL: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/11/11/banks_prepare_for_atm_cyber_crime/ Banks brace for cashpoint

Gov't Orders Air Passenger Data for Test

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=storycid=519u=/ap/20041112/ap_on_re_us/passenger_screening_1printer=1 Yahoo! Gov't Orders Air Passenger Data for Test Fri Nov 12, 2:35 PM ET By LESLIE MILLER, Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON - The government on Friday ordered airlines to turn over

Want to surf net? Show I-card

http://www.hindustantimes.com/onlineCDA/PFVersion.jsp?article=http://10.81.141.122/news/181_1104972,0006.htm : HindustanTimes.com Prove identity to surf net in Bangalore Press Trust of India Bangalore, November 15 Advertisement Internet surfers in over 50,000 cyber cafés across Karnataka

[ISN] Japanese Government Bans Security Researcher's Speech

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[Osint] DHS Now Has Non-Disclosure Agreement For *Un*classified Info

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Certicom First to Earn FIPS 186-2 Validation for Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm

http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=109STORY=/www/story/11-15-2004/0002456260EDATE= Certicom First to Earn FIPS 186-2 Validation for Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm Validation of ECC-based algorithm another step in

[ISN] BlackBerry prickles Department of Defence spooks

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'Virtual Debit Card' Aims To Combat Online Fraud

http://online.wsj.com/article_print/0,,SB110056759053675009,00.html The Wall Street Journal November 16, 2004 MONEY 'Virtual Debit Card' Aims To Combat Online Fraud By JENNIFER SARANOW Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL November 16, 2004; Page D2 Consumers typically have been

The Beginning of the Crypto Era

http://www.eweek.com/print_article2/0,2533,a=139274,00.asp EWeek The Beginning of the Crypto Era November 15, 2004 By Larry Seltzer In a move that was totally expected, if a little early, Yahoo has announced that it will put its money where its mouth is and start checking Yahoo Mail with

Crypto-Tax: Re: India to tax / levy license fees on ISPs that offer VPNs

--- begin forwarded text Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 05:47:53 +0530 From: Suresh Ramasubramanian [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Deepak Jain [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: NANOG [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: India to tax / levy license fees on ISPs that offer VPNs Organization: Outblaze Limited -

OCF port to linux (fwd from [EMAIL PROTECTED])

From: David McCullough [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: OCF port to linux To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 17:51:31 +1000 Hi all, Just thought I drop a line to see if anyone is interested in a linux port of the FreeBSD(OpenBSD) Open Cryptographic Framework (OCF) ? I needed user crypto

A new academic hash result on the preprint server

Guys, Bruce and I have a new result on hash function security, which uses Joux' multicollision trick in a neat way to allow long-message second preimage attacks. We've posted it to the e-print server. The basic result is that for any n-bit hash function built along the lines of SHA1 or

Just Another Chip in the (Privacy) Wall

http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/04/11/wo_kushner111804.asp?p=0 Technology Review Just Another Chip in the (Privacy) Wall An electronic database implanted under the skin can assure speedy and proper medical care-but is it worth it? By David Kushner November 18, 2004 You can