Re: [cryptography] GoVPN -- reviewable secure state-off-art crypto free software VPN daemon

2015-05-04 Thread Jane
Actually, in my oh so very humble opinion, world has enough reasonably good VPNs that can operate on reasonably good connections. What is lacking is something that can function transparently and effectively on a very flakey connection (thing lousy GPRS one) without introducing noticeable

Re: [cryptography] GoVPN -- reviewable secure state-off-art crypto free software VPN daemon

2015-05-04 Thread Jane
a conventional user with conventional smartphone, who has a single and less-than-reliable data link with limited bandwidth (and relatively limited battery resource). Sincerely, J On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 1:33 PM, shawn wilson ag4ve...@gmail.com wrote: On May 4, 2015 5:09 AM, Jane laterc...@consultant.com

[cryptography] A question regarding (relatively recent) ASM-based blindable credential research

2014-10-03 Thread Jane
Good time-of-day, respected cryptographically gifted individuals. My friends and I have been reading up on anonymous authentication schemes, and we've run into a very interesting paper: Self-blindable Credential: Towards Lightweight Anonymous Entity Authentication (by Yanjiang Yang, Xuhua

Re: [cryptography] Compromised Sys Admin Hunters and Tor

2014-03-22 Thread Jane
Not to intrude onto a finely crafted discourse, but I saw nothing particularly damning with regards to the brief Dingledine gave to NSA. Talking to NSA politely != installing backdoors into people's stuff. He didn't say anything we did not know, and the only revelation, as far as I am concerned,

Re: [cryptography] skype backdoor confirmation

2013-05-18 Thread Jane
At the risk of sounding rude, crude, and yellow-pressish, I'd like to provide this link http://www.themoscownews.com/russia/20130314/191336455/FSB-Russian-police-could-tap-Skype-without--court-order.html If software has a soul, Skype's is long since sold. Sincerely yours, Jane On Sun, May 19

Re: [cryptography] Regarding Zerocoin and alternative cryptographic accumulators

2013-05-15 Thread Jane
scrutiny . Got that. Thank you for explaining! P.S.: upon re-reading the zerocoin paper, I've come up with another (hopefully, silly) accumulator question, but I'll post it as a separate newsletter submission so as to keep questions separate. Warm regards, Jane . Hi Adam, Jane, I'm

[cryptography] Regarding Zerocoin and alternative cryptographic accumulators

2013-04-27 Thread Jane
Good afternoon mailing list subscribers! Good afternoon Mr. Green! First, I'd like to ask pardon if my question is not particularly bright - I am not a professional cryptographer, so I might be missing something very obvious. I have recently read the Zerocoin paper which describes a very