Re: why should it be trusted?

2000-10-17 Thread petro
One of the points I believe is sorely missing in these discussions is how important "improvements in algorithms" can be. In the narrowest sense, I agree with your statements - but I have also seen what elegant alternative approaches can do to systems that were presumed to be vulnerable only to

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NYT Account Request

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Re: A helpful ruling on anonymity

2000-10-17 Thread Matt Curtin
"Tim" == Tim May [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Tim This is helpful because it pushed anonymity back into the Tim technological arena, where it belongs. Indeed. With all of the people running around claiming that data which are pseudonymous are actually anonymous, it's no wonder that there's

RE: Vanessa Lynch, still whining (an impressive feat)

2000-10-17 Thread Declan McCullagh
If you're not already removed from the list, you should look at the message headers and find the Sender: line. Take that domain name (ssz.com or cyberpass.net or algebra.com or something) and send mail with "help" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or you could find the original message you

Re: Protecting Our Children

2000-10-17 Thread Declan McCullagh
No, that's a temporary URL that will become invalid in a few minutes. You need to send out the link to the summary, which I did. Or include it below. :) -Declan At 12:38 10/17/2000 -0400, Peter Capelli/Raleigh/Contr/IBM wrote: Here is a link to the text:

Re: why should it be trusted?

2000-10-17 Thread Tim May
At 7:24 AM -0400 10/17/00, John Young wrote: The question occurs: did PK crypto get leaked on purpose? How was it done? I'm not sure what your implication is, though I have some suspicion you are insinuating that the NSA and Company knew PK was somehow weak and so it leaked it. Well,

RE: Re: why should it be trusted?

2000-10-17 Thread Ray Dillinger
It occurs to me that the NSA may in fact have a much easier time of cracking most encrypted messages than is generally believed by the people who use them. We can rule out the idea that they may have computers capable of solving the ciphers by a brute force key search or modulus factoring

Re: Stop spam!

2000-10-17 Thread Ray Dillinger
On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, John Galt wrote: Cypherpunks is archived? Isn't that against what most cypherpunks stand for? I know it sets up a "style fingerprint" attack against anonymity... Do you imagine for an instant that a list like this could go out, be available to anonymous people, and

Re: thanx

2000-10-17 Thread Jordan Dimov
LOL. That was a masterpiece! Now if you could put all that divine inspiration and energy into something creative :-) On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, John Galt wrote: That was not rude. This is rude: it is my fervent wish that someone as stupid as yourself under no circumstances breed. To

Re: why should it be trusted?

2000-10-17 Thread Nathan Saper
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 02:43:14PM +0100, Ken Brown wrote: Nathan Saper wrote: Fine. My basis for my claim is that the NSA is the best funded and best equiped electronic intelligence agency in the world, and they have employed some of the

Re: why should it be trusted?

2000-10-17 Thread Tim May
At 5:50 PM -0700 10/17/00, Nathan Saper wrote: On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 12:07:00PM -0400, David Honig wrote: At 09:14 PM 10/16/00 -0400, Nathan Saper wrote: When do cops take DNA at traffic stops? Not yet. But I believe the UK takes samples of everyone arrested (not necessarily guilty)

Re: why should it be trusted?

2000-10-17 Thread Allen Ethridge
On Tuesday, October 17, 2000, at 08:19 PM, Tim May wrote: At 5:50 PM -0700 10/17/00, Nathan Saper wrote: >On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 12:07:00PM -0400, David Honig wrote: >> Not yet. But I believe the UK takes samples of everyone >> arrested (not necessarily guilty) of minor crimes, and some >>

Re:Your Financial Independence

2000-10-17 Thread success
Do Your Goals Include: -Controlling Your Financial Future? -Owning Your Time? -Feeling Good About What You Do And Helping Others? Are you: -Tired Of Working For Someone Else   For What "They" Feel You Are Worth? --Tired Of The MLM Scene? -Looking For A Legitimate Home-Based Enterprise That

Re: why should it be trusted?

2000-10-17 Thread David Honig
At 11:58 AM 10/16/00 -0700, Joshua R. Poulson wrote: Isn't utterly obvious that the NSA, just any decent person, compartmentalizes its security so that if one system were broken, the other systems would not necessarily be broken? Very well said. They also benefit from security via obscurity