Call for papers: New Security Paradigms Workshop

2007-02-26 Thread Konstantin (Kosta) Beznosov
New Security Paradigms Workshop http://www.nspw.org September 18-21, 2007 White Mountain Hotel and Resort, New Hampshire, USA Important Dates 1. The submission deadline is May 1 2. Notification of acceptance is by July 3 3. Camera-ready papers for pre-proceedings due August 28 4. Workshop

Re: Entropy of other languages

2007-02-26 Thread Sandy Harris
Travis H. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 05:42:49AM -0800, Sandy Harris wrote: He starts from information theory and an assumption that there needs to be some constant upper bound on the receiver's per-symbol processing time. From there, with nothing else, he gets to a

padlocks with backdoors - TSA approved

2007-02-26 Thread Hadmut Danisch
Hi, has this been mentioned here before? I just had my crypto mightmare experience. I was in a (german!) outdoor shop to complete my equipment for my next trip, when I came to the rack with luggage padlocks (used to lock the zippers). While the german brand locks were as usual, all the

Re: private credential/ecash thread on slashdot (Re: announce: credlib library with brands and chaum credentials)

2007-02-26 Thread Steve Schear
At 04:40 PM 2/20/2007, Adam Back wrote: There is quite some underinformed speculation as critique on the thread... Its interesting to see people who probably understand SSL, SMIME and stuff at least at a power user if not programmer level, try to make logical leaps about what must be wrong or