Re: Simson Garfinkel analyses Skype - Open Society Institute

2005-01-28 Thread Mark Allen Earnest
all. Someone's behavior may be different if they are wrongfully assuming that their communications are encrypted by what they believe is strong encryption when if fact it may be "very very low". -- Mark Allen Earnest Lead Systems Programmer Emerging Technologies The Pennsylvania Sta

Re: Dell to Add Security Chip to PCs

2005-02-05 Thread Mark Allen Earnest
d by Microsoft. Heck they could render http agent spoofing useless if they decide to make it so that only IE could connect to ISS. Again though, doing so would piss off a great many of their customers, some of who are slowly jumping ship to other solutions anyway. -- Mark Allen Earnest Lead Systems

Re: encrypted tapes (was Re: Papers about "Algorithm hiding" ?)

2005-06-07 Thread Mark Allen Earnest
thing in return. -- Mark Allen Earnest Lead Systems Programmer Emerging Technologies The Pennsylvania State University Lt Commander Centre County Sheriff's Office Search and Rescue KB3LYB smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: WYTM - "but what if it was true?"

2005-06-22 Thread Mark Allen Earnest
uck inside a PC, it would be embedded inside a chip that is supposed to be there. -- Mark Allen Earnest Lead Systems Programmer Emerging Technologies The Pennsylvania State University Lt Commander Centre County Sheriff's Office Search and Rescue KB3LYB smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: [Clips] Does Phil Zimmermann need a clue on VoIP?

2005-08-06 Thread Mark Allen Earnest
t another person who confuses PK with PKI. Almost NOBODY has ever done PKI right. The I is the part everyone conveniently forgets when they claim otherwise. -- Mark Allen Earnest Lead Systems Programmer Emerging Technologies The Pennsylvania State University KB3LYB smime.p7s Description:

Re: The summer of PKI love

2005-08-12 Thread Mark Allen Earnest
that most people blissfully ignore. HTTPS is really good for encryption, absolutely sucks in practice for trust. -- Mark Allen Earnest Lead Systems Programmer Emerging Technologies The Pennsylvania State University KB3LYB smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: [Clips] Can writing software be a crime?

2005-10-06 Thread Mark Allen Earnest
On Oct 5, 2005, at 3:16 PM, Steve Furlong wrote: For now. But, as has been asked before by people I used to consider paranoid, how long before the US government considers a PGP keyring or an encrypted partition to be prima facie evidence of criminalty? This has already happened, albeit in a