Re: Non-Repudiation in the Digital Environment (was Re: First Monday August 2000)

2000-08-09 Thread David Honig
At 08:29 AM 8/9/00 -0700, Eric Murray wrote: It's 1) saying that the passphrase can "usually be broken". I'm sure that some people manage to choose poor/short passphrases, but "usually" would be pushing it. Has anyone ever published an entropy vs. frequency study for real-world passwords?

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

Re: why should it be trusted?

2000-10-18 Thread David Honig
At 05:50 PM 10/17/00 -0700, 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 US states and cities do or periodically propose doing this or more

Re: Microsoft Trial Judge Based His Break-Up Remedy On Flawed Theory, NotFacts

2001-03-01 Thread David Honig
At 11:02 AM 3/1/01 +, Ken Brown wrote: Reese wrote: I don't think Godwin would agree. Godwin's Law is a natural law of Usenet named after Mike Godwin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) concerning Usenet "discussions". It reads, according to the Jargon File: As a Usenet discussion grows longer, the

RE: DOJ steps up child porn fight, plan regulates digital cameras

2001-04-02 Thread David Honig
At 05:55 PM 4/2/01 -0400, Phillip H. Zakas wrote: ya know this does sound like an april fools joke (esp. the part about encouraging the photographer to enter into counseling.) Particularly if you only ran across it Monday. Got Mr. Bear, too. There are some cute RFCs dated 1.4.x too. but

RE: DOJ steps up child porn fight, plan regulates digital cameras

2001-04-03 Thread David Honig
At 08:59 PM 4/2/01 -0700, Alan Olsen wrote: On Mon, 2 Apr 2001, David Honig wrote: but while working for aol i remember companies trying to sell me on the concept of 'anti-porn' pic filtering software. it worked by looking for a high percentage of flesh tones in a pic. Yeah but all

Re: NTT/Mitsubishi release Camilla, ESIGN, EPOC

2001-05-01 Thread David Honig
At 10:35 PM 4/30/01 -0400, Rich Salz wrote: NTT and Mitsubishi will be granting royalty free licenses for strict implementations of Camilla (128bit block cipher), The best part about Camilla is that it demonstrates that the Japs have a sense of humor, about the british, at least.

Re: layered deception

2001-05-01 Thread David Honig
At 10:32 PM 4/28/01 -0700, Steve Schear wrote: At 11:46 PM 4/28/2001 -0400, Declan McCullagh wrote: I rather like the idea of encrypting the logs on the fly and shipping them offshore. Your offshore partner will be instructed to turn over the logs only if you are not asking for them under duress.