[OT] Re: [Forwarded] RealID: How to become an unperson.

On Tue, 5 Jul 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > your ID card. Exactly that circular problem as mentioned in the > posting. > > But when I explained that circular problem, they checked by phone with > the town's registry office and gave me the copy of the birth > certificate without an ID card to so

Re: [Forwarded] RealID: How to become an unperson.

In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > >But nevertheless, I do not understand why americans are so afraid of >an ID card. It has by far more advantages than disadvantages, and >actually the US driving license is already a kind of ID card. Let me refer you to a National Academ

Re: [Forwarded] RealID: How to become an unperson.

On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 11:26:54PM -0400, Steven M. Bellovin wrote: > > Let me refer you to a National Academies report (I was on the > committee): Stephen T. Kent and Lynette Millett, ed. IDs -- Not That > Easy: Questions About Nationwide Identity Systems. National Academies > Press, 2002. htt

Re: Time-Memory-Key tradeoff attacks?

My paper ``Understanding brute force'' explains an attack with a much better price-performance ratio than the attack described by Biryukov: http://cr.yp.to/talks.html#2005.05.27 http://cr.yp.to/papers.html#bruteforce Biryukov's central point regarding key amortization was made earlier (and,

Re: Feature or Flaw?

Lance James wrote: Amir Herzberg wrote: Lance James wrote: ... > https://slam.securescience.com/threats/mixed.html This site is set so that there is a frame of https://www.bankone.com inside my https://slam.securescience.com/threats/mixed.html site. The imaginative part is that you may hav

Private info for sale in Moscow kiosks...

Bruce Schneier's blog had a pointer to this story, about the black market in personal information in Moscow: http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20050705.gtrussia05/BNStory/Technology/ At the Gorbushka kiosk, sales are so brisk that the vendor excuses himself to help other c

Re: [Anti-fraud] Re: Feature or Flaw?

Amir Herzberg wrote: Lance James wrote: Amir Herzberg wrote: Lance James wrote: ... > https://slam.securescience.com/threats/mixed.html This site is set so that there is a frame of https://www.bankone.com inside my https://slam.securescience.com/threats/mixed.html site. The imaginativ

Re: [Forwarded] RealID: How to become an unperson.

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - In Germany we have an ID card and I have it in my pocket all the time. But actually it is rarely used, I do need it not more than maybe three times a year. [[...]] As a Canadian living and working in Germany, my legal "ID card" is my (Canadian) passport. (I don't h

A Note About Trust Anchor Key Distribution

To all: Here is a scheme for a central organization distributing a trust anchor public key with rollover requirement. The suggested acronym for this scheme is TAKREM for Trust Anchor Key REnewal Method. We use the notation #R[i]# for the public "root" public key #R[i]#, with the private key coun

Re: [Forwarded] RealID: How to become an unperson.

> Isn't that ridiculous? In the USA where they allegedly don't have ID cards > you are approx. more than 20 times as often asked for a picture ID than > in Germany where we have ID cards officially. True. But funny, isn't it: I always enjoy looking at the most puzzled facial expression of some twe

Re: [Forwarded] RealID: How to become an unperson.

--- Jonathan Thornburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > - In Germany we have an ID card and I have it in my pocket all the > > time. But actually it is rarely used, I do need it not more than > > maybe three times a year. [[...]] I think this has a lot to do with the fa

[Clips] A Radical Tool To Fight ID Theft

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RE: RealID: How to become an unperson.

Apologies for ( potentially ) off-topic response, but as it involves, at least tangentially: - 'remote trust' - secure vs. non-secure transactions - identity 'proof' - legal requirements for identification - verification of message senders/recipients it may be partially crypto-relevant. {snip} >