Re: NTT/Mitsubishi release Camilla, ESIGN, EPOC
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
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. (A reasonable protocol can probably be worked out. Would a court order instruct you to lie? If so, would it be valid?) One of the simplest and most effective ways to accomplish this is to require the legally responsible corporate person to physically show up at the offshore location as proof of a lack of duress. A location which does not have extradition contracts with the homeland...
RE: DOJ steps up child porn fight, plan regulates digital cameras
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 that blue latex and black leather screws up the pinkfilter. To say nothing of the feathers, whipped cream, or blood. Or that not all people are pink. Yeah, if your porn-AI can parse http://www.mccullagh.org/theme/dazzle-dancers.html you're a better heurist than I.
RE: DOJ steps up child porn fight, plan regulates digital cameras
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 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 that blue latex and black leather screws up the pinkfilter. To say nothing of the feathers, whipped cream, or blood.
Re: Microsoft Trial Judge Based His Break-Up Remedy On Flawed Theory, NotFacts
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 probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one. Of course, as any text grows longer the probability that it contains any other text approaches one... just more or less slowly. Godwin's law needs some quantification. Perhaps there are simply more National Socialists out there than recognize that fact. A sociologist was interviewing a southern farmer: Why do you think the murder rate is higher in the south? I guess more southerners need killin'.
Re: why should it be trusted?
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. The next question is: What do they do with this info? Insurance companies and the like use it to justify discrimination against people likely to develop certain medical conditions. Discrimination in the good sense, like discriminating dangerous vs. safe. What do you think insurance companies *should* do, if not make various discriminations about risk? Are you against car insurers asking about your other genetic characteristics (e.g., sex)? The point is, the government is being used to do corporations' dirty work. What a government can legitimately do should be reigned in by a constitution. And no more. And I'm much less afraid of a government that is (in theory, if not always in practice) somewhat connected to the people What are you smoking? (representatives want to get reelected, after all) than I am a corporation that can do basically whatever the fuck it wants, with little or no hope of punishment. Corps have to please their customers or go extinct. Real simple. Only govt can print money. You *should* be concerned about various individuals (legislators, their wives, cultists, etc.) trying to get the government to use its violence to accomplish their way. You *shouldn't* be concerned about the _mutually consensual interactions_ of the individuals (and voluntary associations thereof, like corps.) within your borders. Government should *only* be concerned with nonconsensual interactions. dh
Re: why should it be trusted?
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 (to *some* extent) because they have nice men with fully automatic weapons to enforce said NDAs.
Re: Non-Repudiation in the Digital Environment (was Re: First Monday August 2000)
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? [Dollars to donuts its not uniform...]
