On Fri, 14 Mar 2003, NOP wrote:
Nope, it uses 128 bit primes. I'm trying to compute the discrete logarithm
and they are staying within a 128 bit GF(p) field. Sickening.
Thnx.
Lance
If they're using 128-bit primes, you don't really need to look for
breaks - just throw a cpu at it and you're
Eugen Leitl writes:
Unfortunately no one can accept in good faith a single word coming out of
Redmond. Biddle has been denying Pd can be used for DRM in presentation
(xref Lucky Green subsequent patent claims to call the bluff), however in
recent (of this week) Focus interview Gates
AARG!, having burned the nym with the moderator of this list and who is
therefore now posting via the Hermes remailer commented on Microsoft,
which similarly burned the Palladium name, claims:
Hopefully this will shed light on the frequent claims that
Palladium will limit what programs people
On Sat, 15 Mar 2003, Anonymous wrote:
Microsoft's point with regard to DRM has always been that Palladium had
other uses besides that one which everyone was focused on. Obviously
Of course it's useful. Does the usefulness outweigh the support for
special interests (DRM, governments, software
Jeroen C. van Gelderen schrieb am Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 12:38:14AM -0500:
[...]
Obviously a vendor can restrict what kind of software runs on the
hardware he sells, either by contract or trough technical means. In the
latter case the consumer is of course free to circumvent the barriers,
Sidney Markowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
In addition, only one subject in 100 is falsely linked
to an image in the data base in the top systems.
Wow, 99% accuracy for false positives! That means only a little more than
75 people a year mistakenly detained for questioning in Atlanta
How effective is open source crypto?
http://www.securityspace.com/s_survey/sdata/200302/protciph.html
One measure is to look at how effective the
open source crypto regime is in getting
product out there. From the above, it is
fairly easy to suggest that strong crypto is
totally available to
