Re: IP2Location.com Releases Database to Identify IP's Geography

2003-12-23 Thread Richard Clayton
too much if any website is dumb enough to think that taking someone else's word for where I am located is a useful thing to do. Bottom line is that geographic location is a hard problem, and published databases are full of errors and inconsistencies. However, failing to accurately include that

Re: [camram-spam] Re: Microsoft publicly announces Penny Black PoW postage project

2003-12-30 Thread Richard Clayton
t all bulk email is spam by any means... or do we end up with whitelists all over the place and the focus of attacks moves to the ingress to the mailing lists :( I never understand why people think spam is a technical problem :( let alone a cryptographic one :-( -- richard

Re: Security clampdown on the home PC banknote forgers

2004-06-13 Thread Richard Clayton
#x27;s all true :) Markus Kuhn originally worked out the nature of the pattern in February 2002. It is now believed to have been invented by Omron, but this is hearsay :( not something citable. http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/eurion.pdf -- richard

Re: AOL Help : About AOL® PassCode

2005-01-07 Thread Richard Clayton
already using this; but only as a cheap replacement for a SecureID :( ... so it's ineffective. Now if Bill's browser could display the last six digits of the SSL key then those could be compared with the SMS message and the customer would know that they were safethe banks might ev

Re: Tamperproof, yet playing Tetris.

2007-01-07 Thread Richard Clayton
d because the PIN was used so they "must" be genuine) but ALSO that there is one tell-tale missing charge, for the site at which the Tetris playing (well, that might be a give-away!) terminal was used. -- richard Richard Clayton Those w

Re: ad hoc IPsec or similiar

2007-06-21 Thread Richard Clayton
nto national laws is supposed to be completed by October 2007; most countries have until March 2009 for Internet logs -- richard Richard Clayton They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary s

Re: Levels of security according to the easiness to steel biometric data

2008-04-16 Thread Richard Clayton
bout someone's "retina" >would be much harder. if you meant "retina" then yes, but if you meant "iris" then no http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~jgd1000/afghan.html -- richard Richard Clayton They that can give

Re: street prices for digital goods?

2008-09-11 Thread Richard Clayton
the focus on >street price has performed as a metric for drug interdiction? it usually demonstrates that the police overpay :) and that leads on to a further problem with the Underground Economy monitoring. You are only seeing "list prices" and anyone in business knows that you don&#x

Re: [Cryptography] Email and IM are ideal candidates for mix networks

2013-08-25 Thread Richard Clayton
your own emails system then you'll rapidly find out what 2013's spam / malware problem looks like. Just as success in crypto deployment isn't about algorithms or file formats, success in mail handling isn't about MX records and MTAs. - -- richard

Re: [Cryptography] tamper-evident crypto? (was: BULLRUN)

2013-09-05 Thread Richard Clayton
else will be spending their time commenting on whether your particular style of tinfoil hat appeared sartorially suitable - -- richard Richard Clayton They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither libe