Re: Columbia crypto box

2003-02-09 Thread Pete Chown
Bill Stewart wrote: These days nobody *has* a better cryptosystem than you do They might have a cheaper one or a faster one, but for ten years the public's been able to get free planet-sized-computer-proof crypto ... I seem to remember that the Nazis said the same thing about Enigma. Even when

RE: Columbia crypto box

2003-02-09 Thread bear
On Sat, 8 Feb 2003, Lucky Green wrote: In July of 1997, only days after the Mars Pathfinder mission and its Sojourner Rover successfully landed on Mars, I innocently inquired on the Cypherpunks mailing list if any subscribers happened to know if and how NASA authenticates the command uplink to

PATRIOT2 affects individuals, citizens authentication

2003-02-09 Thread William Allen Simpson
Reading the HTML version: http://www.dailyrotten.com/source-docs/patriot2draft.html ... investigations of lone wolf terrorists or sleeper cells may not be authorized under FISA. ... This provision would expand FISA's definition of foreign power to include all persons, regardless of whether