Re: GESG Identity-Based Public Key Cryptography (ID-PKC)

2001-07-31 Thread Paul Harrison
M Taylor wrote: The UK Communications-Electronics Security Group (CESG), the defensive arm of the GCHQ, have published details about another PKC concept, identity-based PKC, where every user's public key are predetermined by an unique identifier, such as email address. It does use a(/two)

moving Crypto?

2001-07-31 Thread Richard Schroeppel
It's time to consider moving the annual Crypto conference out of Santa Barbara. The obvious places are Vancouver, Toronto, or Mexico. I know zilch about these places as conference venues. Could someone knowledgable summarize the relative merits? Rich Schroeppel [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: moving Crypto?

2001-07-31 Thread R. A. Hettinga
At 1:13 PM -0700 on 7/31/01, Richard Schroeppel wrote: It's time to consider moving the annual Crypto conference out of Santa Barbara. The obvious places are Vancouver, Toronto, or Mexico. I know zilch about these places as conference venues. Could someone knowledgable summarize the

Re: moving Crypto?

2001-07-31 Thread Derek Atkins
Why do you say it's time to move the conference? AFAIK, it's ALWAYS been in SB. Too bad I can't make it this year :( -derek Richard Schroeppel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It's time to consider moving the annual Crypto conference out of Santa Barbara. The obvious places are Vancouver,

Re: Criminalizing crypto criticism

2001-07-31 Thread Alan
On Friday 27 July 2001 11:13, Steven M. Bellovin wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Declan McCullagh writes: One of those -- and you can thank groups like ACM for this, if my legislative memory is correct -- explicitly permits encryption research. You can argue fairly persuasively that it's

Re: Criminalizing crypto criticism

2001-07-31 Thread Rick Smith at Secure Computing
At 01:13 PM 7/27/2001, Steven M. Bellovin wrote: It's certainly not broad enough -- it protects encryption research, and the definition of encryption in the law is meant to cover just that, not cryptography. And the good-faith effort to get permission is really an invitation to harrassment,

Re: Company Awarded Patent for Digital Tickets (was Re: GigaLaw.com Daily News, July 30, 2001)

2001-07-31 Thread Derek Atkins
This also looks very similar to my Master's Thesis, where I even use the term digital ticket! Sheesh. -derek Peter Wayner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I discuss this in both editiions of _Digital Cash_. I wonder if this is prior art that reads against the patent. -Peter -- Derek