Re: New Chips Can Keep a Tight Rein on Consumers

2002-07-10 Thread Peter Gutmann
Pete Chown [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Peter Gutmann wrote: Actually I'm amazed no printer vendor has ever gone after companies who produce third-party Smartchips for remanufactured printer cartridges. This sounds like the perfect thing to hit with the DMCA universal hammer. There is no copyright

[Boing Boing Blog] More sharp notes on Palladium

2002-07-10 Thread R. A. Hettinga
--- begin forwarded text Status: U To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Cory Doctorow [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mailing-List: list [EMAIL PROTECTED]; contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 06 Jul 2002 11:13:25 -0700 Subject: [Boing Boing Blog] More sharp notes on Palladium Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Korea Mandates Digital Certificates

2002-07-10 Thread R. A. Hettinga
http://www.koreaherald.com/SITE/data/html_dir/2002/07/04/200207040023.asp Monday, July 8, 102 Official digital certificates needed Starting next year all Internet-based financial transactions will require users to possess official cyber certificates and digital signatures, the Financial

Quantum Computing Puts Encrypted Messages at Risk

2002-07-10 Thread R. A. Hettinga
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/perl/printer/18490/ NewsFactor Network Technology's Home Page Quantum Computing Puts Encrypted Messages at Risk By Tim McDonald www.NewsFactor.com, Part of the NewsFactor Network July 08, 2002 http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/18490.html Given that quantum

Sun to Unveil Liberty Identity Management Tools

2002-07-10 Thread R. A. Hettinga
http://online.wsj.com/article_print/0,,SB102625213031520,00.html The Wall Street Journal July 10, 2002 E-COMMERCE Sun-Backed Body Is Set To Unveil New Web Tools By REBECCA BUCKMAN Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL The war over Web standards between Microsoft Corp. and rival Sun

TPM cost constraint [was: RE: Revenge of the WAVEoid]

2002-07-10 Thread Lucky Green
Bill wrote: At 10:07 PM 06/26/2002 -0700, Lucky Green wrote: An EMBASSY-like CPU security co-processor would have seriously blown the part cost design constraint on the TPM by an order of magnitude or two. Compared to the cost of rewriting Windows to have a infrastructure that can

DMCA + ROT13 + Smashmouth Lawyer Strong Crypto

2002-07-10 Thread Scott Guthery
In general, we no longer need strong crypto. DMCA plus ROT13 and a smashmouth lawyer suffices. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 7/6/02 1:47 AM Subject: Re: New Chips Can Keep a Tight Rein on Consumers Pete Chown [EMAIL

RE: New Chips Can Keep a Tight Rein on Consumers

2002-07-10 Thread Trei, Peter
John S. Denker[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: Peter Gutmann wrote: Actually I'm amazed no printer vendor has ever gone after companies who produce third-party Smartchips for remanufactured printer cartridges. This sounds like the perfect thing to hit with the DMCA universal

Re: Ross's TCPA paper

2002-07-10 Thread Jay Sulzberger
On Fri, 5 Jul 2002, AARG!Anonymous wrote: ... / Right, and you can boot untrusted OS's as well. Recently there was discussion here of HP making a trusted form of Linux that would work with the TCPA hardware. So you will have options in both the closed source and open source worlds to

Re: FC: Politech challenge: Decode Al Qaeda stego-communications!

2002-07-10 Thread Kevin E. Fu
Where is the substantiated evidence? Where that news report lacks in facts, it makes up for with entertainment. Of course terrorists are communicating via Web sites. Lots of people communicate via the Web. The only person publicly searching for hidden terrorist messages hasn't found any. And

Re: Pointers to Palladium Patent...

2002-07-10 Thread John Young
A correction on the inventors of the alleged Palladium patent from a Microsoft programmer: - Subject: Correction to cryptome.org Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2002 17:07:45 -0700 From: John DeTreville [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Are you a good contact person for the information on the

Re: IP: SSL Certificate Monopoly Bears Financial Fruit

2002-07-10 Thread jamesd
-- On 6 Jul 2002 at 9:33, R. A. Hettinga wrote: Thawte has now announced a round of major price increases. New cert prices appear to have almost doubled, and renewals have increased more than 50%. While Thawte proclaims this is their first price increase in five years, this comes at a

Re: IP: SSL Certificate Monopoly Bears Financial Fruit

2002-07-10 Thread Greg Broiles
At 03:48 PM 7/10/2002 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -- On 6 Jul 2002 at 9:33, R. A. Hettinga wrote: Thawte has now announced a round of major price increases. New cert prices appear to have almost doubled, and renewals have increased more than 50%. [...] Why is not someone else