Re: [IP] more on Can you be compelled to give a password?

2006-08-10 Thread Travis H.
On 8/8/06, Ed Gerck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The worst-case setting for the user is likely to be when the coercer can do all that you said and has the time/resources to do them. However, if the distress password is strong (ie, not breakable within the time/resources available to the coercer),

Re: SSL Cert Prices Notes

2006-08-10 Thread Damien Miller
On Mon, 7 Aug 2006, John Gilmore wrote: Here is the latest quick update on SSL Certs. It's interesting that generally prices have risen. Though ev1servers are still the best commercial deal out there. The good news is that CAcert seems to be posistioned for prime time debut, and you

Re: SSL Cert Prices Notes

2006-08-10 Thread Peter Saint-Andre
John Gilmore wrote: Date: Sun, 6 Aug 2006 23:37:30 -0700 (PDT) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: SSL Cert Notes Howdy Hackers, Here is the latest quick update on SSL Certs. It's interesting that generally prices have risen. Though ev1servers are still the best commercial deal out

Re: [IP] more on Can you be compelled to give a password?

2006-08-10 Thread Travis H.
On 8/9/06, Ed Gerck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A debugger cannot decrypt without the key, which is produced only with the access password. Ah okay. By the way, an interesting link from Schneier's blog, mentions copyright and randomly-generated numbers:

Re: [IP] more on Can you be compelled to give a password?

2006-08-10 Thread Travis H.
On 8/8/06, Travis H. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Or, nobody has the data: http://monolith.sourceforge.net/ http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/03/monolith.html Grr... remind me not to read the comments on old blogs, it's irritating to see so much misrepresentation... The monolith model

Re: SSL Cert Prices Notes

2006-08-10 Thread Thor Lancelot Simon
On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 05:12:45PM -0700, John Gilmore wrote: The good news is that CAcert seems to be posistioned for prime time debut, and you can't beat *Free*. :-) You certainly can, if slipshod practices end up _costing_ you money. Has CAcert stopped writing certificates with no DN

compressing randomly-generated numbers

2006-08-10 Thread Travis H.
Hey, I was mulling over some old emails about randomly-generated numbers and realized that if I had an imperfectly random source (something less than 100% unpredictable), that compressing the output would compress it to the point where it was nearly so. Would there be any reason to choose one