Re: DeCSS, crypto, (regions removed??!)

2003-01-09 Thread alan
On Thu, 9 Jan 2003, Bill Stewart wrote: > At 03:54 PM 01/08/2003 +0100, Martin Olsson wrote: > >Hi, > >I dont know if this is relevant to the discussion, but in Sweden (not a > >region-1 country) people where so pissed at the regionsystem (and the fact > >that most computer geeks could go around

Re: DeCSS, crypto, law, and economics

2003-01-08 Thread Alan
On Tue, 2003-01-07 at 21:09, bear wrote: > On Tue, 7 Jan 2003, alan wrote: > > > > Not to mention the two seasons of Futurama that are only available > > on Region 2 PAL DVDs. (Or the other movies and TV shows not allowed > > by your corporate masters.) "

Re: DeCSS, crypto, law, and economics

2003-01-07 Thread alan
On 7 Jan 2003, Perry E. Metzger wrote: > I don't know anyone who trades video files -- they're pretty big and > bulky. A song takes moments to download, but a movie takes many many > hours even on a high speed link. I have yet to meet someone who > pirates films -- but I know lots of hardened crim

Re: DeCSS, crypto, law, and economics

2003-01-07 Thread alan
On Wed, 8 Jan 2003, Nomen Nescio wrote: > John S. Denker writes: > > The main thing the industry really had at stake in > > this case is the "zone locking" aka "region code" > > system. > > I don't see much evidence for this. As you go on to admit, multi-region > players are easily available ove

Re: Did you *really* zeroize that key?

2002-11-08 Thread Alan Barrett
that tried to use such arguments to weasel out of the requirement to handle volatile in the expected way would become unpopular. >* finally, my friend gives the example of a compiler > that might decide to make a copy of our key buffer > at runtime, in pursuit of some optimization.

Re: Palladium -- trivially weak in hw but "secure in software"??(Re: palladium presentation - anyone going?)

2002-10-22 Thread alan
On Tue, 22 Oct 2002, Rick Wash wrote: > Hardware-based attacks cannot be redistributed. If I figure out how > to hack my system, I can post instructions on the web but it still > requires techinical competence on your end if you want to hack your > system too. > > While this doesn't help a whole

Re: Palladium -- trivially weak in hw but "secure in software"??(Re: palladium presentation - anyone going?)

2002-10-22 Thread alan
On Tue, 22 Oct 2002, Nelson Minar wrote: > I doubt it, though. Even a paper-thin shred of hardware protection is > enough to prevent 99% of the people from circumventing DRM technology. > Joe Sixpack isn't going to install a mod chip, and his local computer > store can't do it for him for fear of

Re: Horseman Number 3: Osama Used 40 bits

2002-01-22 Thread Alan Ramsbottom
Win2K feature is scarce or opaque. The documentation for WinXP implies this has changed i.e. there is no automagic recovery of an account's master key if the password is reset via another account. However there is a suggested recove

Re: password-cracking by journalists...

2002-01-22 Thread Alan Barrett
ess requires the application of this secret value, so the process "effectively controls access" and "effectively protects". The fact that somebody can guess the secret value would seem to have no bearing on whether rot "effectively" does anything. --apb (Alan Barrett) - The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Criminalizing crypto criticism

2001-07-31 Thread Alan Olsen
helps if you can get a prosecutor that is working on a promotion to help out.) [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Note to AOL users: for a quick shortcut to reply Alan Olsen| to my mail, just hit the ctrl, alt and del keys. "All power is derived from the barrel of

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

2001-07-31 Thread Alan Olsen
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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 t

Effective and ineffective technological measures

2001-07-29 Thread Alan Barrett
an "No person shall circumvent a technological measure that *purports to control* access to a work protected under this title"? --apb (Alan Barrett) - The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]