Re: DES cracked by teenagers?

2001-09-12 Thread Grant Bayley
On Wed, 12 Sep 2001, Steve Bellovin wrote: > According to >http://www.hk-imail.com/inews/public/article_v.cfm?articleid=28867&intcatid=1, > some teenagers "reportedly cracked an encryption technology called Data > Encryption Standard (DES)". I'm skeptical, but I thought I'd toss it > out. Anyo

Re: The tragedy in NYC

2001-09-12 Thread Matt Blaze
Perry, Here are my thoughts and fears, which I sent to IP earlier this evening. -matt I find myself overwhelmed by emotion. I'm a native New Yorker - I was born here and have lived here almost continuously all my life. I love this city as much as a person can possibly love a place; the loss

RE: The tragedy in NYC

2001-09-12 Thread Amir Herzberg
Perry said, >I do not want more laws passed in the name of defending my home. > >I do not want more freedoms eliminated to "preserve freedom". > >I do not want to trade my freedom for safety. Franklin has said far >more eloquently than me why that is worthless. > > If you must

Eric Hughes sings...

2001-09-12 Thread R. A. Hettinga
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[FYI] (Fwd) Crypto Blamed for US terrorist attack - World Exclusive

2001-09-12 Thread Axel H Horns
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[FYI] Did Encryption Empower These Terrorists?

2001-09-12 Thread Axel H Horns
http://www.msnbc.com/news/627390_asp.htm - CUT Did Encryption Empower These Terrorists? And would restricting crypto have given the authorities a change to stop these acts? By Steven Levy NEWSWEEK WEB EXCLUSIVE Sept. 11

[FYI] FBI steps up Net surveillance, following terror attack

2001-09-12 Thread Axel H Horns
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/57/21626.html --- CUT FBI steps up Net surveillance, following terror attack By Kieren McCarthy Posted: 12/09/2001 at 12:17 GMT The FBI has been accused of using yesterday's disaster as a w

DES cracked by teenagers?

2001-09-12 Thread Steve Bellovin
According to http://www.hk-imail.com/inews/public/article_v.cfm?articleid=28867&intcatid=1, some teenagers "reportedly cracked an encryption technology called Data Encryption Standard (DES)". I'm skeptical, but I thought I'd toss it out. Anyone have any details? --Steve Bellov

The tragedy in NYC

2001-09-12 Thread Perry E. Metzger
[I sent this originally yesterday, but the, er, problems our mail server in downtown New York suffered for a while caused some delay. Another copy was published on Dave Farber's interesting people. Several people wrote me afterwards vilifying me. Ah well. The list is now running on a new machine