Re: Congress mulls crypto restrictions in response to attacks

At 1:59 PM -0700 9/13/01, Declan McCullagh wrote: >http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,46816,00.html > >Congress Mulls Stiff Crypto Laws >By Declan McCullagh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) >1:45 p.m. Sep. 13, 2001 PDT > >WASHINGTON -- The encryption wars have begun. > ... >In a floo

Re: [FYI] Did Encryption Empower These Terrorists?

-- On Thu, 13 Sep 2001 18:07:11 Ariel Waissbein wrote: >I'd say that terrorist do not much care about laws such as a >non-encryption law. Just as the requirement for photo identification did not prevent the hijackers from boarding the plane. While the regulation proved ineffective it all

Re: The tragedy in NYC

Perry E. Metzger writes: > Do not destroy the reason I live here to give me > "safety". I'd rather die in a terrorist attack. Freeman Dyson once said to me, "It's better to get mugged than to live a life of fear." Given that he's been mugged, you'd think he ought to know. -- -russ nelson <[E

Congress mulls crypto restrictions in response to attacks

http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,46816,00.html Congress Mulls Stiff Crypto Laws By Declan McCullagh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 1:45 p.m. Sep. 13, 2001 PDT WASHINGTON -- The encryption wars have begun. For nearly a decade, privacy mavens have been worrying that a terr

Re: [FYI] Did Encryption Empower These Terrorists?

I'd say that terrorist do not much care about laws such as a non-encryption law. Come on. Authorities should know better than that: a team able to get the technical accuracy needed for driving high-tech comercial planes won't be able to circunvent an encryption watch? On the other hand I think

Re: Rijndael in Assembler for x86?

Helger Lipmaa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Does anyone have an open source implementation of Rijndael in > > assembler for the Pentium? > > Why just not to use a C code? Because it is typically slower by many times than hand tuned assembler. Perry

Re: Rijndael in Assembler for x86?

On 9 Sep 2001, Perry E. Metzger wrote: > > Does anyone have an open source implementation of Rijndael in > assembler for the Pentium? Why just not to use a C code? (Generate an assembly code from that if you need assembly.) A list of AES implementations, known to me, is available from http://ww

RE: The tragedy in NYC

At 9:20 AM +0300 9/13/2001, Amir Herzberg wrote: >... > >In fact, if giving up crytpto completely would help substantially to protect >against terror, I'll support it myself. But... > >The real argument is simple: there is no evidence or convincing argument why >shutting down crypto will substanti

NYC events and cell phones

An interesting bit of information: on Tuesday afternoon, to the extend that cellphones operated, GSM encryption was turned off throughout Manhattan. My GSM phone would repeatedly warn me of this on every call I made (or tried to make). As of Wednesday morning, things were back to normal. Does an

New York Red Cross Needs Tech Help

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Re: DES cracked by teenagers?

Grant Bayley wrote: > > 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