Re: [fc-discuss] Financial Cryptography Update: On Digital Cash-like Payment Systems

2005-10-20 Thread David Alexander Molnar
On Thu, 20 Oct 2005, cyphrpunk wrote: system without excessive complications. Only the fifth point, the ability for outsiders to monitor the amount of cash in circulation, is not satisfied. But even then, the ecash mint software, and procedures and controls followed by the issuer, could be des

Re: Cisco VPN password recovery program

2005-10-20 Thread Florian Weimer
> http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/vpndevc/ps2284/products_configuration_guide_chapter09186a00803ee1f0.html#wp2477015 > > - - - > > Cisco Client Parameters > > Allow Password Storage on Client - Check this box to allow IPSec > clients to store their login passwords on thei

Re: Cisco VPN password recovery program

2005-10-20 Thread Florian Weimer
* Perry E. Metzger: > Via cryptome: > > http://evilscientists.de/blog/?page_id=343 > >The Cisco VPN Client uses weak encryption to store user and group >passwords in your local profile file. I coded a little tool to >reveal the saved passwords from a given profile file. > > If this is

Re: [Clips] Read two biometrics, get worse results - how it works

2005-10-20 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 10/19/05, R.A. Hettinga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [EDIT] > Daugman presents > (http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/jgd1000/combine/combine.html) the two rival > intuitions, then does the maths. On the one hand, a combination of > different tests should improve performance, because more infor

Re: [fc-discuss] Financial Cryptography Update: On Digital Cash-like Payment Systems

2005-10-20 Thread cyphrpunk
Let's take a look at Daniel Nagy's list of desirable features for an ecash system and see how simple, on-line Chaum ecash fares. > http://www.epointsystem.org/~nagydani/ICETE2005.pdf > > One of the reasons, in the author s opinion, is that payment systems > based on similar schemes lack some ke

Re: [Clips] Read two biometrics, get worse results - how it works

2005-10-20 Thread dan
RAH, et al., It is true that one can combine two diagnostic tests to a worse effect than either alone, but it is not a foredrawn conclusion. To take a medical example, you screen first with a cheap test that has low/no false negatives then for the remaining positives you screen with a potentiall

Practical Security Mailing List

2005-10-20 Thread Hagai Bar-El
Hello, I would like to notify you all of a new mailing list forum which I opened. It is called "Practical Security" and is aimed at discussing security measures in the context of real problems in real projects. It has a much narrower scope than the Cryptography mailing list and by no means i

[Clips] Read two biometrics, get worse results - how it works

2005-10-20 Thread R.A. Hettinga
--- begin forwarded text Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 23:32:55 -0400 To: Philodox Clips List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: "R.A. Hettinga" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [Clips] Read two biometrics, get worse results - how it works Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sender: [

[Clips] Bruce Schneier talks cyber law

2005-10-20 Thread R.A. Hettinga
--- begin forwarded text Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 23:33:54 -0400 To: Philodox Clips List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: "R.A. Hettinga" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [Clips] Bruce Schneier talks cyber law Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED]