Re: DBCs now issued by DMT

2002-12-08 Thread Peter Fairbrother
the money issued. And not be reliant on one computer to keep the records. Or the propounders wanting to: make a profit/control the bank? -- Peter Fairbrother (who's drunk now, but will be sober tomorrow, and may regret posting

Re: Optical Time-Domain Eavesdropping Risks of CRT Displays

2002-03-12 Thread Peter Fairbrother
. Makes Tempest look like a toy. Nice (?) one, Markus. -- Peter Fairbrother - The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending unsubscribe cryptography to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Where's the smart money?

2002-02-11 Thread Peter Fairbrother
confirmation is exactly where it isn't. We have credit cards for that. Cash needs to be authenticatable by humans alone. -- Peter Fairbrother Sampo Syreeni wrote: On Mon, 11 Feb 2002, Trei, Peter wrote: That's the scenario which is (semi) worrying. As the tagged bills wear, some fraction

Re: PGP GPG compatibility

2002-01-21 Thread Peter Fairbrother
of persistant keys for encryption in both PGP and GPG make them unsuitable for GAK resistance, and if you haven't got GAK yet, you might get it someday, making all your present traffic insecure. -- Peter Fairbrother Pete Chown wrote: John Gilmore wrote: Brad Templeton has been kicking around some ideas

Re: Scarfo keylogger, PGP

2001-10-16 Thread Peter Fairbrother
the defence/Court, or perhaps it's just legalese, I don't know. -- Peter Fairbrother David Wagner wrote: It seems the FBI hopes the law will make a distinction between software that talks directly to the modem and software that doesn't. They note that PGP falls into the latter category

Re: Scarfo keylogger, PGP

2001-10-16 Thread Peter Fairbrother
Capturing keystrokes of email in composition would appear to me to be part of a transfer of ..intelligence of any nature transmitted ... in part by a wire..., and nothing to do with stored email or 2703, but I am not a lawyer. -- Peter Fairbrother Steven M. Bellovin wrote: [snip

Re: chip-level randomness?

2001-09-19 Thread Peter Fairbrother
use other sources of entropy as well). -- Peter Fairbrother - The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending unsubscribe cryptography to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: chip-level randomness?

2001-09-19 Thread Peter Fairbrother
-rng, which is to deliberately repeat random output for debugging, replaying games, etc. Not very relevant to crypto, except perhaps as part of an attack strategy. -- Peter On Wed, 19 Sep 2001, Peter Fairbrother wrote: Bram Cohen wrote: You only have to do it once at startup to get enough

How to ban crypto?

2001-09-16 Thread Peter Fairbrother
think of anything that would actually work against terrorists. -- Peter Fairbrother - The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending unsubscribe cryptography to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: moving Crypto?

2001-08-03 Thread Peter Fairbrother
Ray Dillinger at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is time to move the conference because it is no longer safe for cryptography researchers to enter the USA. Bear I'm worried about the long-term National Security implications. If DMCA stands and US cryptography researchers are imprisoned en

SFS for anonymity

2001-07-18 Thread Peter Fairbrother
Given: an online Steganographic Filing System database based on the second construction of Anderson, Needham and Shamir*, with many users. Users write email to the data base, with random cover writes. They read from the database to collect their mail, reads are covered by random cover reads, and

Re: Starium (was Re: article: german secure phone)

2001-06-11 Thread Peter Fairbrother
Bram Cohen at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [..] I can't emphasize enough that it's very important that the form factor be a double-female phone jack and work when plugged in with *either* orientation - is this an easy thing to detect? Surely a male-to-female jack. Plug it (male) into the wall

Re: NSA tapping undersea fibers?

2001-06-01 Thread Peter Fairbrother
John Denker at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was talking with some colleagues who had read the WSJ article http://interactive.wsj.com/articles/SB990563785151302644.htm http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2764372,00.html for and who were wondering as follows: Given that

Re: forwarded message from tylera19@hotmail.com

2001-05-14 Thread Peter Fairbrother
Amir Herzberg at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [..] This takes care reasonably well of peer to peer e-mail (I think), and can be easily deployed (any volunteers? I'll be very glad to provide our system for this !). As to mailing lists like this one... Here one solution is manual moderating, of