Glover II

2000-06-14 Thread David Honig
I just read that Glover presented at ACM Theory of Comp. an extension of his quantum search algorithm that works with problems with multiple solutions. Since decryption may involve multiple false positives (see DESCrack) this is interesting.

Re: Cpunk Havenco's Weapon Choices

2000-06-14 Thread David Honig
At 10:37 AM 6/14/00 -0400, Lizard wrote: Governments have nukes. Damn hard to defend against those without nukes of your own. But govts can't use those nukes as indiscriminately as they can black op teams with conventional tools. Nukes mostly freeze power relationships when (for N=2) 'both'

Re: Cpunk Havenco's Weapon Choices

2000-06-14 Thread David Honig
At 04:12 PM 6/14/00 -0400, Declan McCullagh wrote: What makes anyone think Sealand is outside of the UK's jurisdiction after the government in the 1980s extended their territorial limits to 10 miles? Sealand is 6-7 miles offshore. -Declan The 3 mile limit came from the range of the Guns at

Re: Cpunk Havenco's Weapon Choices

2000-06-14 Thread David Honig
At 06:26 PM 6/14/00 -0400, Jim Choate wrote: Considering the pictures in Wired and the plans related to nitrogen filled rooms described in the article a couple of 1/4 lb. blocks of C4 would resolve the issue nicely. Just blow a couple of good size holes in the caissons. The North Sea will do the

Re: Cpunk Havenco's Weapon Choices

2000-06-14 Thread Tim May
At 7:28 PM -0400 6/14/00, David Honig wrote: At 06:26 PM 6/14/00 -0400, Jim Choate wrote: Considering the pictures in Wired and the plans related to nitrogen filled rooms described in the article a couple of 1/4 lb. blocks of C4 would resolve the issue nicely. Just blow a couple of good size

Re: ZKS -- This is some seriously bad stuff

2000-06-14 Thread Wei Dai
On Tue, Jun 13, 2000 at 10:04:06PM -0400, Tim May wrote: I don't know. There have been no peer reviews of the underlying model. Considering the effort which has gone into analzying Mix nets and DC Nets to uncover weaknesses and to find how collusion can defeat untraceability, the lack of

Re: ZKS -- This is some seriously bad stuff

2000-06-14 Thread Tim May
At 9:58 PM -0400 6/14/00, Wei Dai wrote: On Tue, Jun 13, 2000 at 10:04:06PM -0400, Tim May wrote: I don't know. There have been no peer reviews of the underlying model. Considering the effort which has gone into analzying Mix nets and DC Nets to uncover weaknesses and to find how collusion

Re: Cpunk Havenco's Weapon Choices

2000-06-14 Thread Kevin Elliott
That's what (I'd assume) the .50s are for. Unless you're going to waste a *lot* of time on training and hiring Mercs who have the experience, those .50s aren't going to do you a lot of good anyway. Remember that the original founder was a Major in the British military so one