Re: Property RIghts in Keys

2009-02-14 Thread Nicholas Bohm
in circumstances such that there is no human author of the work. These provisions seem to me to work quite aptly to encompass a key-pair. Nicholas Bohm -- Salkyns, Great Canfield, Takeley, Bishop's Stortford CM22 6SX, UK Phone 01279 870285(+44 1279 870285) Mobile 07715 419728(+44 7715 419728) PGP

Re: Property RIghts in Keys

2009-02-12 Thread Nicholas Bohm
had access to the Subscriber's private key. And just how can I tell that? A nice example of how lawyers can effectively undermine their CA clients' claims to be adding value. Nicholas Bohm -- Salkyns, Great Canfield, Takeley, Bishop's Stortford CM22 6SX, UK Phone 01279 870285(+44 1279

Re: Certificates turn 30, X.509 turns 20, no-one notices

2008-11-27 Thread Nicholas Bohm
comparables, is the very limited utility of the technology. Nicholas Bohm -- Salkyns, Great Canfield, Takeley, Bishop's Stortford CM22 6SX, UK Phone 01279 870285(+44 1279 870285) Mobile 07715 419728(+44 7715 419728) PGP public key ID: 0x899DD7FF. Fingerprint: 5248 1320 B42E 84FC 1E8B A9E6

Re: Quiet in the list...

2008-09-07 Thread Nicholas Bohm
corruption or other compromise, or just a wish to delete an old key for forward security, would cause much trouble. (I keep my mail in an encrypted container anyway, so don't need this feature.) This apart, the system runs with remarkable simplicity. Nicholas Bohm -- Salkyns, Great Canfield

Re: OK, shall we savage another security solution?

2007-09-20 Thread Nicholas Bohm
Leichter, Jerry wrote: ... If you think about this in general terms, we're at the point where we can avoid having to trust the CPU, memory, disks, programs, OS, etc., in the borrowed box, except to the degree that they give us access to the screen and keyboard. (The problem of securing

Re: The bank fraud blame game

2007-07-02 Thread Nicholas Bohm
the incentive the bank ought to have to get the security right. Nicholas Bohm -- Salkyns, Great Canfield, Takeley, Bishop's Stortford CM22 6SX, UK Phone 01279 870285(+44 1279 870285) Mobile 07715 419728(+44 7715 419728) PGP public key ID: 0x899DD7FF. Fingerprint: 5248 1320 B42E 84FC

Re: crypto component services - is there a market?

2007-04-28 Thread Nicholas Bohm
Stefan Kelm wrote: Nicholas, .. There's another EU Diretive on simplifying, modernising and harmonising the conditions laid down for invoicing in respect of value added tax. Invoices sent by electronic means shall be accepted by Member States provided that the authenticity of

Re: crypto component services - is there a market?

2007-04-20 Thread Nicholas Bohm
Stefan Kelm wrote: Same with digital timestamping. Here in Europe, e-invoicing very slowly seems to be becoming a (or should I say the?) long-awaited application for (qualified) electronic signatures. Since electronic invoices need to be archived in most countries some vendors apply

Re: It's a Presidential Mandate, Feds use it. How come you are not using FDE?

2007-01-16 Thread Nicholas Bohm
in relation to encrypted storage media where key preservation, with or without key recovery mechanisms, will obviously be important to most users. Nicholas Bohm -- Salkyns, Great Canfield, Takeley, Bishop's Stortford CM22 6SX, UK Phone 01279 870285(+44 1279 870285) Mobile 07715 419728

Re: Interesting bit of a quote

2006-07-14 Thread Nicholas Bohm
, as is planned. I have no reason to think this suggestion will take root. Nicholas Bohm -- Salkyns, Great Canfield, Takeley, Bishop's Stortford CM22 6SX, UK Phone 01279 871272(+44 1279 871272) Fax 020 7788 2198 (+44 20 7788 2198) Mobile 07715 419728(+44 7715 419728) PGP public key ID

Re: [Clips] Banks Seek Better Online-Security Tools

2005-12-06 Thread Nicholas Bohm
Florian Weimer wrote: * Nicholas Bohm: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You know, I'd wonder how many people on this list use or have used online banking. To start the ball rolling, I have not and won't. --dan I do. My bank provides an RSA SecureId, so I feel reasonably safe against anyone

Re: [Clips] Banks Seek Better Online-Security Tools

2005-12-05 Thread Nicholas Bohm
of this in the context of English law, see http://elj.warwick.ac.uk/jilt/00-3/bohm.html Nicholas Bohm -- Salkyns, Great Canfield, Takeley, Bishop's Stortford CM22 6SX, UK Phone 01279 871272(+44 1279 871272) Fax 020 7788 2198 (+44 20 7788 2198) Mobile 07715 419728(+44 7715

Re: [Clips] Banks Seek Better Online-Security Tools

2005-12-04 Thread Nicholas Bohm
and my credit limit is an amount I can afford to lose. In this context the convenience of online banking is enough to justify the risk. Nicholas Bohm -- Salkyns, Great Canfield, Takeley, Bishop's Stortford CM22 6SX, UK Phone 01279 871272(+44 1279 871272) Fax 020 7788 2198 (+44 20

Re: the effects of a spy

2005-11-16 Thread Nicholas Bohm
in these priorities would be of great interest. Nicholas Bohm -- Salkyns, Great Canfield, Takeley, Bishop's Stortford CM22 6SX, UK Phone 01279 871272(+44 1279 871272) Fax 020 7788 2198 (+44 20 7788 2198) Mobile 07715 419728(+44 7715 419728) PGP public key ID: 0x899DD7FF. Fingerprint: 5248 1320

Re: How thorough are the hash breaks, anyway?

2004-08-28 Thread Nicholas Bohm
) Regards Nicholas Bohm Salkyns, Great Canfield, Takeley, Bishop’s Stortford CM22 6SX, UK Phone 01279 871272(+44 1279 871272) Fax 020 7788 2198 (+44 20 7788 2198) Mobile 07715 419728(+44 7715 419728) PGP RSA 1024 bit public key ID: 0x08340015. Fingerprint: 9E 15 FB 2A 54 96 24 37

authentication and authorization (was: Question on the state of the security industry)

2004-07-07 Thread Nicholas Bohm
At 12:26 PM 7/1/2004, John Denker wrote: The object of phishing is to perpetrate so-called identity theft, so I must begin by objecting to that concept on two different grounds. Subsequent posters have doubted the wisdom of quibbling with the term identity theft. I think the terminology

Re: [Fwd: Re: Non-repudiation (was RE: The PAIN mnemonic)]

2004-03-31 Thread Nicholas Bohm
of risks and the approach of banks to non-repudiation rules. I and colleagues have written about this at: http://elj.warwick.ac.uk/jilt/00-3/bohm.html Regards Nicholas Bohm Salkyns, Great Canfield, Takeley, Bishop’s Stortford CM22 6SX, UK Phone01279 871272(+44 1279 871272) Fax020 7788 2198(+44 20