STANFORD LOCAL: Wednesday 19 November 2003: Microsoft will claim that Palladium is good for you, Richard Stallman asks your help in telling the truth

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Ars Technica: A penny for your bits: micropayments to make a comeback?

Serving the PC enthusiast for over 5x10^-2 centuries Ars Technica Newsdesk A penny for your bits: micropayments to make a comeback? Posted 11/18/2003 @ 3:41 PM, by Elle Cayabyab Remember DigiCash? Did you have Flooz gift certificates or e

Re: Are there...one-way encryption algorithms

Ah sure, that's why I said "irksome" and not "worrying" :-) It was more a curiosity of theoretical nature than a practical concern. Enzo - Original Message - From: "Sidney Markowitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Enzo Michelangeli" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, No

Re: Clipper for luggage

[Moderator's note: With this, I'm ending all baggage messages for now. --Perry] > > It will also mean more peace of mind for > > passengers worried about reports of increased pilferage from unlocked bags. > > ... so, TSA people are stealing from unlocked bags. Not necessarily. I was under th

Re: Are there...

"Lawrence C. Stewart" wrote: > ... > encryption key should be generated independently for each encryption > and packaged along with the ciphertext. That solves the salt problem > and the cracking the system problem in one step. I am sorry to differ, but packaging the encryption-key along with th

Re: Are there...one-way encryption algorithms

"David Wagner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > martin f krafft wrote: > >it came up lately in a discussion, and I couldn't put a name to it: > >a means to use symmetric crypto without exchanging keys: > > > > - Alice encrypts M with key A and sends it to Bob > > -

Re: Are there...one-way encryption algorithms

Enzo Michelangeli wrote: but the slight risk of collision, although practically negligible, is a bit irksome If you quantify the "practically negligible" risk, it might be less irksome: SHA-1 is a 160 bit hash. The birthday paradox says that you would need to hash 2^80 different credit card numbe

Re: Partition Encryptor

"Dave Howe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >Peter Gutmann wrote: >> E4M needs some minor updates for XP by someone who >> knows about NT device drivers, otherwise you'll occasionally get >> problems unmounting volumes. >Does anyone know of a version where this work has been done? Since this was last

Re: A-B-a-b encryption

martin f krafft wrote: > it came up lately in a discussion, and I couldn't put a name to it: > a means to use symmetric crypto without exchanging keys: > > - Alice encrypts M with key A and sends it to Bob > - Bob encrypts A(M) with key B and sends it to Alice > - Alice decrypts B(A(M)) with key

Re: A-B-a-b encryption

- Original Message - From: "Jeremiah Rogers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "crypto list" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, November 16, 2003 12:50 PM Subject: Re: A-B-a-b encryption > This is Shamir's Three-Pass Protocol, described in section 22.3 of > Schneier. It requires a commutative crypt