Re: automatic toll collection, was Japan Puts Its Money on E-Cash
And, while there is a privacy issue, optical license plate readers are getting good enough that the issue may soon be moot. Seems moot now. The 407 toll road around Toronto has no toll booths at all. If you drive on it frequently, you can get a transponder but otherwise, they take a picture of your plates, look you up, and mail you a bill. This does work -- I've gotten a bill for my NY car after a trip. The web site at http://www.407etr.com/ makes it clear that the transponder is completely optional, and won't save you any money unless you use it more than 7 times a year. (The transponder costs $2/mo and saves $3.45 per trip.) The easiest way to get a transponder appears to be to drive on the road, wait until you get a bill on which they will have assigned you an account number, then use that number to log into their web site and order one. An article in Wikipedia says that congestion tolls in London (UK) are also collected automatically by taking pictures of license plates. R's, John - The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending unsubscribe cryptography to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How security could benefit from high volume spam
On Wed, 14 Dec 2005, Hadmut Danisch wrote: Maybe in near future the advantages of that noise produced by millions of bots will outweigh the disadvantages? First of all, even if you receive 1000 spams a day plus a message from your commander it does not give you much since the spams are from random sources and the only one who sends you messages every day is your headquarters. OTOH, you can still use, say, yahoo mail and the only trace left in your ISP is IP of mail.yahoo.com (of course, you should also use one-time-mail-boxes :-). Provided that almost nobody uses email on their home PCs (most IP black lists of spam fighters include ISP's users and thus it is hard to send email directly anyway) all this address logging seems pointless. For web-browsing you can use tor. BTW, it looks like I cannot use google thru tor anymore: the error message says that too many requests are received from my IP (they try to stop worms which use google to search for new victims). -- Regards, ASK - The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending unsubscribe cryptography to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Looking for fast KASUMI implementation
Hello list: I have research project that is looking for a fast -software- implementation of the KASUMI block cipher. I have found many papers on doing this in hardware, but nothing in software. While free is better (as is beer), I will consider a purchase. FYI, KASUMI is the cryptographic engine of the 3GPP. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3gpp Thanks. jim - The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending unsubscribe cryptography to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
