Sen. Judd Gregg is drafting anti-encryption legislation

2001-09-21 Thread Declan McCullagh
More on renewed interest in regulating crypto: http://www.wartimeliberty.com/search.pl?topic=encryption * http://www.wartimeliberty.com/article.pl?sid=01/09/22/026245 Senator Judd Gregg Prepares Anti-Encryption Bill posted by admin on Friday September 21, @09:05PM Sen. Judd

WorldNetDaily reports WTC-Pentagon terrorists used encryption

2001-09-21 Thread Declan McCullagh
See also: http://www.wartimeliberty.com/search.pl?topic=encryption --- http://www.wartimeliberty.com/article.pl?sid=01/09/21/2220202 WorldNetDaily Reports WTC Terrorists Used Encryption posted by admin on Friday September 21, @05:17PM There must be something about encryption and te

Re: New encryption technology closes WLAN security loopholes

2001-09-21 Thread Arnold G. Reinhold
At 10:34 AM -0400 9/20/2001, Perry E. Metzger wrote: >"R. A. Hettinga" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> [1] "New encryption technology closes WLAN security loopholes" >> Next Comm has launched new wireless LAN security technology called >> Key Hopping. The technology aims to close security gaps in W

NYTimes.com Article: Concern Over Proposed Changes in InternetSurveillance (fwd)

2001-09-21 Thread P.J. Ponder
Concern Over Proposed Changes in Internet Surveillance September 21, 2001 By CARL S. KAPLAN Significant and perhaps worrisome changes in the government's Internet surveillance authority have been proposed by legislators in the wake of the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

Re: "Pirate Utopia," FEED, February 20, 2001

2001-09-21 Thread Adam Back
My point was higher level. These systems are either already broken or fragile and very lightly peer reviewed. There aren't many people building and breaking them. I did read the papers; my summary is the above, and from that I surmise it would not be wise for a terrorist to use current generati

Re: Op-ed on encryption: Privacy is no longer an argument

2001-09-21 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Declan McCullagh writes: > > >http://www.wartimeliberty.com/article.pl?sid=01/09/21/0450203 > > Crypto Op-Ed: Privacy No Longer an Argument > posted by admin on Thursday September 20, @11:39PM > > M. W. Guzy has a provocative and not entirely coherent essay >

WorldNetDaily on crypto, Paul Zimmermann, 116-digit keys

2001-09-21 Thread Declan McCullagh
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=24603 E-mail encryption made easy 2001-09-21 05:36:13 E-mail encryption made easy ... information. It is perhaps worth noting that while there was some discussion of pursuing PGP's creator, Paul Zimmerman, for the violation of U.S. export

Re: SPKI (WAS Re: Field slide attacks and how to avoid them.)

2001-09-21 Thread Carl Ellison
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have put up my s2x code (translating from S-expression to XML) on my SPKI web page, under the Code section. See: http://world.std.com/~cme/html/spki.html#Code I did this in a rush, without making sure that the source I included compiles. When I g

Re: SPKI (WAS Re: Field slide attacks and how to avoid them.)

2001-09-21 Thread Carl Ellison
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At 06:44 PM 9/20/2001 -0400, Rich Salz wrote: >Thanks for the links, folks. > >> I confess I love SPKI, and I would love to know why we're not in a >> sitation where it's in widespread use today. > >I believe HP's espeak uses (used?) SPKI as its autho

Re: SPKI (WAS Re: Field slide attacks and how to avoid them.)

2001-09-21 Thread Carl Ellison
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At 10:19 PM 9/20/2001 +0100, Paul Crowley wrote: >Rich Salz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> > Or also [XPKI certs as XML] their XML equivalents: >> > >> > http://xml.coverpages.org/xml-spki.html >> >> The referenced I-D seems to have expired and no

Op-ed on encryption: Privacy is no longer an argument

2001-09-21 Thread Declan McCullagh
http://www.wartimeliberty.com/article.pl?sid=01/09/21/0450203 Crypto Op-Ed: Privacy No Longer an Argument posted by admin on Thursday September 20, @11:39PM M. W. Guzy has a provocative and not entirely coherent essay in Wednesday's St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Excerpt: "(Then-Senator

Re: "Pirate Utopia," FEED, February 20, 2001

2001-09-21 Thread Nomen Nescio
Adam Back writes: > Also it's interesting to note that it appears from Niels Provos and > Peter Honeymans paper that none of the currently available stego > encoding programs are secure. They have broken them all (at least I > recognise the main stego programs available in their list of systems >

Re: chip-level randomness?

2001-09-21 Thread Bill Stewart
> >> It's not that stupid, as feeding the PRNG from i810_rng at the kernel > >> level would be resource intensive, > > > > You only have to do it once at startup to get enough entropy in there. > >If your machine is left on for months or years the seed entropy would become >a big target. If your

Re: "Pirate Utopia," FEED, February 20, 2001

2001-09-21 Thread Ariel Waissbein
Hi to you all! A word on this thread. I think you are giving missleading assertions. It's just a subtlety I'd like to mention. Perhaps you should simply notice that getting a one-use-only webmail email account and sending the message "the bird is flying home" or any James Bondish message like