Re: RC4 [was: RE: Passport Passwords Stored in Plaintext]

2001-10-22 Thread Adam Shostack
On Sun, Oct 21, 2001 at 04:11:19PM -0700, Jeff Simmons wrote: | On Sunday 21 October 2001 02:52 pm, you wrote: | | Designing protocols is a hard field, and | there seem to be lots of mistakes made when people use RC4. Is that | because its a bad cipher? No, its because people aren't used to |

FC: FBI reportedly wants to concentrate traffic, tap entire Internet

2001-10-22 Thread R. A. Hettinga
On a geodesic network, no single node can switch all the information. The old Texas AM Aggie joke about the pig and the monkey comes to mind here... Cheers, RAH --- http://www.interactiveweek.com/print_article/0,3668,a%253D16678,00.asp October 18, 2001 Beyond Carnivore: FBI Eyes Packet

Re: limits of watermarking (Re: First Steganographic Image in theWild)

2001-10-22 Thread Roop Mukherjee
On Sat, 20 Oct 2001, Ben Laurie wrote: If it were possible, it would indeed raise the bar. The problem is, it would seem, that it is not possible to have a provably strong means of copy protection, publicly known or otherwise. The SDMI charter can say what it wants, but that doesn't mean

New release of BitTorrent is out!

2001-10-22 Thread Bram Cohen
A new release of BitTorrent is out, get it here - http://bitconjurer.org/BitTorrent/ Since there hasn't been one in a while (over a month!) there's a ton of new stuff, including - * rewritten UI - now all graphical and works in mozilla/netscape under UNIX! * clean