and a second data point, not everyone in the mafia chooses good passphrases;
a few years ago the government got a black bag warrant (once and a
renewal) to install some still undescribed keystroke monitoring
technology on nicky scarfo jr's pc, to find out the pgp key of a
spreadsheet of a smalltim
On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 11:53:18AM -0700, bear wrote:
> On Sat, 8 Apr 2006, Ben Laurie wrote:
> >Adam Back wrote:
> >> My suggestion was to use a large denomination ecash coin to have
> >> anonymous disincentives :) ie you get fined, but you are not
> >> identified.
> >
> >The problem with that dis
On Sat, 8 Apr 2006, Ben Laurie wrote:
>> Well the other kind of disincentive was a credit card number. My
>> suggestion was to use a large denomination ecash coin to have
>> anonymous disincentives :) ie you get fined, but you are not
>> identified.
>
>The problem with that disincentive is that
From: Owen Blacker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Deniable File System
To: UK Crypto list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 11:43:18 +0100 (BST)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/04/deniable_file_s.html
Some years ago I did some design work on something
* Ian G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >So, why not always sign messages to a list that permits
> >signatures?
>
> It's hard to see the benefit, and it is easy to see the potential
> cost. In a litiguous world, we are (slightly) better off not using
> messages that are going to haunt us in years t
It seems not everyone has gotten the message that monoalphabetic
substitution was broken many hundreds of years ago. Excerpt:
The recently arrested "boss of bosses" of the Sicilian Mafia, Bernardo
Provenzano, wrote notes using an encryption scheme similar to the one
used by Julius Caesar mo
Hi Vlastimil and group,
Gera Richarte has done some interesting work with executable files that
have the same MD5 hash. Take a look at
http://www.coresecurity.com/corelabs/projects/research_topics.php
to see his talk at PacSec `05 and "Two executable files with the same
MD5 hash, crc32, checksum32
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Of course, it is a trick. Yesterday I updated my paper "Tunnels in
> Hash Functions: MD5 Collisions Within a Minute"
> (http://eprint.iacr.org/2006/105.pdf) and MD5 collision program
> (http://cryptography.hyperlink.cz/2006/web_version_1.zip).
just being curious: from
