Re: Overcoming the potential downside of TCPA

2002-08-14 Thread Carl Ellison
At 10:58 PM 8/13/2002 -0700, Joseph Ashwood wrote: Lately on both of these lists there has been quite some discussion about TCPA and Palladium, the good, the bad, the ugly, and the anonymous. :) However there is something that is very much worth noting, at least about TCPA. There is nothing

the anvil problem

2002-05-29 Thread Carl Ellison
At 05:04 PM 5/29/2002 -0400, Adam Fields wrote: Hughes, James P says: Change the billboard for elevator music (which will be protected). Will you be able to play back your digital dictations *if* they were recorded in an environment that included background music. IMHO, Silly does not mean

RE: FC: Hollywood wants to plug analog hole, regulate A-D converters

2002-05-29 Thread Carl Ellison
At 01:14 PM 5/29/2002 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Pete Chown [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, May 26, 2002 8:05 AM David G. Koontz wrote: Can you imagine watermarks on billboard advertisements? How subliminal. Actually this would be weird. Suppose digital cameras

Re: biometrics

2002-01-26 Thread Carl Ellison
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At 03:55 PM 1/26/2002 -0500, Perry E. Metzger wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Not wanting to have extended contest over this, I'm afraid I'm not letting it drop. but all these absolutes in the comments are just too

RE: Authenticating logos

2002-01-19 Thread Carl Ellison
At 09:59 AM 1/17/2002 +0200, Amir Herzberg wrote: A very important goal of secure commerce is to provide alternate mechanisms in cyberspace. This is since when a hacker is using ATT's logo in her website, it may not be feasible for ATT to sue him (in particular he may reside in places where logos

Re: CFP: PKI research workshop

2002-01-14 Thread Carl Ellison
. - Carl P.S. the workshop where we should (and probably will) be discussing this is http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~pki02/ and there are still two weeks before papers are due. ++ |Carl Ellison Intel E: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: CFP: PKI research workshop

2002-01-14 Thread Carl Ellison
not possible to secure logos. It's a MMOP (mere matter of programming). :) - Carl ++ |Carl Ellison Intel E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |2111 NE 25th Ave M/S JF3-212 T: +1-503-264-2900 | |Hillsboro OR 97124

Re: CFP: PKI research workshop

2002-01-13 Thread Carl Ellison
At 05:45 PM 12/26/2001 -0500, Perry E. Metzger wrote: Phillip Hallam-Baker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Methinks you complain too much. PKI is in widespread use, it is just not that noticeable when you use it. This is how it should be. SSL is widely used to secure internet payment

Re: CFP: PKI research workshop

2001-12-26 Thread Carl Ellison
presumption of non-repudiation) is anti-consumer, when viewed as a financial mechanism, and I can't imagine that succeeding even if the vendors were banks. - Carl ++ |Carl Ellison Intel E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |2111 NE 25th Ave

Workshop on Public Key Authentication / Authorization Research

2001-11-16 Thread Carl Ellison
http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~pki02/cfp.pdf We're looking for papers to be submitted by the end of January '02 and we're especially interested in papers on the real ways to use public key technology to solve real problems. Please pass the word to researchers you know who might not have heard of

Re: Security Research (Was: Scarfo keylogger, PGP )

2001-10-17 Thread Carl Ellison
At 08:52 PM 10/16/2001 -0400, Steven M. Bellovin wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ben Laurie writes: Trei, Peter wrote: Windows XP at least checks for drivers not signed by MS, but whose security this promotes is an open question. Errr ... surely this promotes MS's bottom line and no-one's

anon. registration (was Re: Computer Security Division Activities)

2001-10-14 Thread Carl Ellison
At 12:35 AM 10/14/2001 GMT, David Wagner wrote: Mike Brodhead wrote: Just about all of the private-sector conferences I have attended require registration. I think this is a poor example. I expect you'd be welcome to use the name 'John Smith' and pay cash, if you like. Using the name John

Re: AGAINST ID CARDS

2001-10-06 Thread Carl Ellison
Declan, we already have a national ID card: a passport. Knowing that some government (or forger) has attached some name to a picture that looks like the person holding the card gives you some information about that person, with a non-0 probability. But, is it the information

Re: How to ban crypto?

2001-09-16 Thread Carl Ellison
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At 05:26 PM 9/16/2001 +0100, Peter Fairbrother wrote: Bin-Laden was at one time said to use stego in posted images for comms. I heard that restated today on NPR by an ex-FBI commentator. I think it is ironic that Congress passed a law a while ago

Re: crypto backdoors = terrorisms free reign

2001-09-15 Thread Carl Ellison
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At 07:46 PM 9/14/2001 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't understand why anyone would choose to vote for an individual that doesn't understand the above logic. I wish people voted for people who understood any kind of logic. As Matt Blaze

Re: Congress mulls crypto restrictions in response to attacks

2001-09-15 Thread Carl Ellison
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At 12:23 AM 9/15/2001 -0700, Bram Cohen wrote: People in cells probably forego electronic communications completely for highly sensitive information - face to face communication works fine and doesn't involve anywhere near the risks. According to