At 4:12 PM -0500 1/18/02, Will Rodger wrote:
This law has LOTS of unintended consequences. That is why many
people find it so disturbing. For example, as I read it, and I am
*not* a lawyer, someone who offered file decryption services for
hire to people who have a right to the data, e.g. the
These days, PGP is effectively useless for interoperable email. If
you have not prearranged with the recipient, you can't exchange
encrypted mail. And even if you have, one or the other of you will
probably have to change your software, which will produce other ripple
effects if you are trying
Actually, I've found it isn't quite that bad. Yes, there are some
problems with some of the odd-man-out features. And yes, there are
certainly problems that only get solved if users upgrade to PGP 6.5.8
or more recent versions of GPG.
I will agree with your assessment of the origin of the
At 7:38 PM -0500 1/19/02, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
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[EMAIL PROTECTED], Sampo
Syreeni writes:
On Thu, 17 Jan 2002, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
For one thing, in Hebrew (and, I think, Arabic) vowels are not normally
written.
If something, this would lead me to believe there is less
John Gilmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Note, however, that there are many things that OpenPGP doesn't do, making
encrypted email still a pretty sophisticated thing to do. Brad Templeton has
been kicking around some ideas on how to make zero-UI encryption work (with
some small UI available for us
- Original Message -
From: Jon Simon [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, January 18, 2002 8:00 PM
Subject: Re: Horseman Number 3: Osama Used 40 bits
Can anyone else confirm or deny that this is the case? If it is so,
it would bring new meaning to the term weak
on Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 11:23:49AM -0500, Arnold G. Reinhold ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
At 9:15 AM -0500 1/16/02, Steve Bellovin wrote:
Another interesting question is whether the reporters and the Wall
Street Journal have violated the DCMA's criminal provisions. The al
Qaeda data was
