Re: [cryptography] Constitutional Showdown Voided as Feds Decrypt Laptop

2012-03-01 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 5:53 PM, James S. Tyre jst...@jstyre.com wrote: (This is the case in Colorado, not the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals case which has been much discussed of late.) http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/02/decryption-flap-mooted Constitutional Showdown Voided as Feds

Re: [cryptography] Constitutional Showdown Voided as Feds Decrypt Laptop

2012-03-01 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 5:49 PM, Steven Bellovin s...@cs.columbia.edu wrote: On Mar 1, 2012, at 4:33 12PM, Nico Williams wrote: On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 3:22 PM, Randall  Webmail rv...@insightbb.com wrote: From: Jeffrey Walton noloa...@gmail.com Perhaps Fricosu reused a password and was on a

Re: [cryptography] Constitutional Showdown Voided as Feds Decrypt Laptop

2012-03-01 Thread Nico Williams
IOW, I doubt mailman is how they got Fricosu's password. ___ cryptography mailing list cryptography@randombit.net http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptography

Re: [cryptography] Constitutional Showdown Voided as Feds Decrypt Laptop

2012-03-01 Thread James A. Donald
On 2012-03-01 8:53 AM, James S. Tyre wrote: The authorities seized the encrypted Toshiba laptop from defendant Ramona Fricosu in 2010 with valid court warrants while investigating alleged mortgage fraud, and demanded she decrypt it. Colorado U.S. District Judge Robert Blackburn ordered the

Re: [cryptography] Constitutional Showdown Voided as Feds Decrypt Laptop

2012-03-01 Thread Jeffrey I. Schiller
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 s/are/our/ grrr... :-) - - -- ___ Jeffrey I. Schiller MIT Technologist, Consultant, and Cavy Breeder Cambridge, MA 02139-4307

Re: [cryptography] Constitutional Showdown Voided as Feds Decrypt Laptop

2012-03-01 Thread Steven Bellovin
On Mar 1, 2012, at 8:18 32PM, Jeffrey I. Schiller wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/01/2012 06:09 PM, Nico Williams wrote: I let mailman generate passwords. And I never use them, much less re-use them. Well, I do use them when I need to change e-mail addresses,