Re: Ross's TCPA paper

2002-07-01 Thread Ben Laurie
of anonyms. Zero cost is not required, of course, except to make anonymity, err, zero cost. Cheers, Ben. -- http://www.apache-ssl.org/ben.html http://www.thebunker.net/ There is no limit to what a man can do or how far he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit. - Robert Woodruff

Re: Ross's TCPA paper

2002-07-01 Thread Ben Laurie
R. A. Hettinga wrote: At 12:06 AM +0100 on 7/1/02, Ben Laurie wrote: No, a pseudonym can be linked to stuff (such as reputation, publications, money). An anonym cannot. More to the point, there is no such thing as an anonym, by definition. Hmm. So present the appropriate definition? Cheers

Re: Ross's TCPA paper

2002-07-01 Thread Ben Laurie
of anonyms. Zero cost is not required, of course, except to make anonymity, err, zero cost. Cheers, Ben. -- http://www.apache-ssl.org/ben.html http://www.thebunker.net/ There is no limit to what a man can do or how far he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit. - Robert Woodruff

Re: Ross's TCPA paper

2002-06-30 Thread Ben Laurie
Barney Wolff wrote: A pseudonym that I can give up at will and that can never afterwards be traced to me is equivalent to an anonym. No, a pseudonym can be linked to stuff (such as reputation, publications, money). An anonym cannot. Cheers, Ben. -- http://www.apache-ssl.org/ben.html

Re: CP meet at H2K2?

2002-06-23 Thread Ben Laurie
dmolnar wrote: On Thu, 20 Jun 2002, Greg Newby wrote: the next couple of days. I'm thinking of a CP meet Saturday night July 12. Anyone else gonna be there? I should be there, since I'm free and in the area. In a similar vein, who's going to be at DEF CON? Me :-) Cheers, Ben

Re: CP meet at H2K2?

2002-06-23 Thread Ben Laurie
dmolnar wrote: On Thu, 20 Jun 2002, Greg Newby wrote: the next couple of days. I'm thinking of a CP meet Saturday night July 12. Anyone else gonna be there? I should be there, since I'm free and in the area. In a similar vein, who's going to be at DEF CON? Me :-) Cheers, Ben

Re: CP meet at H2K2?

2002-06-21 Thread Ben Laurie
should be online within the next couple of days. I'm thinking of a CP meet Saturday night July 12. Anyone else gonna be there? Woah! Me! By a miracle! Not at H2K2 (well, until now, I hadn't heard about it), but I will be in NY, en route back to the UK (on Sunday). Cheers, Ben. -- http

Re: Ben's blinding, plus pre-publishing

2002-06-11 Thread Ben Laurie
Jason Holt wrote: Are the journals going to be snippy about copyright issues? Most journals don't like papers to have been published elsewhere first. Screw 'em, I say. Cheers, Ben. -- http://www.apache-ssl.org/ben.html http://www.thebunker.net/ There is no limit to what a man can

Re: Palm security

2002-06-05 Thread Ben Laurie
/), though it seems to have moved on some since I last looked... Cheers, Ben. -- http://www.apache-ssl.org/ben.html http://www.thebunker.net/ There is no limit to what a man can do or how far he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit. - Robert Woodruff

Re: Palm security

2002-06-05 Thread Ben Laurie
/), though it seems to have moved on some since I last looked... Cheers, Ben. -- http://www.apache-ssl.org/ben.html http://www.thebunker.net/ There is no limit to what a man can do or how far he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit. - Robert Woodruff

Re: BBC hijacks TiVo recorders

2002-06-02 Thread Ben Laurie
it. Cheers, Ben. -- http://www.apache-ssl.org/ben.html http://www.thebunker.net/ There is no limit to what a man can do or how far he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit. - Robert Woodruff

Re: convenience and advantages of cash (Re: Eyes on the Prize...notthe Millicent Ghetto)

2002-05-14 Thread Ben Laurie
) and BACS (Bank Automated Clearing System). Cheers, Ben. -- http://www.apache-ssl.org/ben.html http://www.thebunker.net/ There is no limit to what a man can do or how far he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit. - Robert Woodruff

Re: trillions a day?

2002-05-14 Thread Ben Laurie
transactions are actually related to anything real. The other 98% are just banks playing gambling games on the money markets. Scary, if you ask me. Cheers, Ben. -- http://www.apache-ssl.org/ben.html http://www.thebunker.net/ There is no limit to what a man can do or how far he can go if he

Re: convenience and advantages of cash (Re: Eyes on the Prize...notthe Millicent Ghetto)

2002-05-14 Thread Ben Laurie
. But because it works we don't hear about it much. Cheers, Ben. -- http://www.apache-ssl.org/ben.html http://www.thebunker.net/ There is no limit to what a man can do or how far he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit. - Robert Woodruff

Re: trillions a day?

2002-05-14 Thread Ben Laurie
transactions are actually related to anything real. The other 98% are just banks playing gambling games on the money markets. Scary, if you ask me. Cheers, Ben. -- http://www.apache-ssl.org/ben.html http://www.thebunker.net/ There is no limit to what a man can do or how far he can go if he

Re: p2p and asymmetric bandwidth (Re: Fear and Futility atCodeCon)

2002-04-30 Thread Ben Laurie
machines inside your firewall advertise services is a fantastically huge security hole. Cheers, Ben. -- http://www.apache-ssl.org/ben.html http://www.thebunker.net/ There is no limit to what a man can do or how far he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit. - Robert Woodruff

Re: p2p and asymmetric bandwidth (Re: Fear and Futility atCodeCon)

2002-04-30 Thread Ben Laurie
machines inside your firewall advertise services is a fantastically huge security hole. Cheers, Ben. -- http://www.apache-ssl.org/ben.html http://www.thebunker.net/ There is no limit to what a man can do or how far he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit. - Robert Woodruff

Re: Odp: Cypherpunks Europe

2002-04-29 Thread Ben Laurie
another list. What say ye, Eurotrash? Wouldn't get me anywhere, since I'd be on both lists... Cheers, Ben. -- http://www.apache-ssl.org/ben.html http://www.thebunker.net/ There is no limit to what a man can do or how far he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit. - Robert

Re: Odp: Cypherpunks Europe

2002-04-29 Thread Ben Laurie
another list. What say ye, Eurotrash? Wouldn't get me anywhere, since I'd be on both lists... Cheers, Ben. -- http://www.apache-ssl.org/ben.html http://www.thebunker.net/ There is no limit to what a man can do or how far he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit. - Robert

Re: Lucky's 1024-bit post [was: RE: objectivity and factoringanalysis]

2002-04-25 Thread Ben Laurie
of seconds, but still well within user tolerance. I suspect additional optimizations are possible which would decrease the lag further. Numbers like a couple of seconds would kill HTTPS stone dead, of course. Cheers, Ben. -- http://www.apache-ssl.org/ben.html http://www.thebunker.net

Re: Two ideas for random number generation

2002-04-25 Thread Ben Laurie
/399315a0_fs.html Cheers, Ben. -- http://www.apache-ssl.org/ben.html http://www.thebunker.net/ There is no limit to what a man can do or how far he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit. - Robert Woodruff

Re: Two ideas for random number generation

2002-04-24 Thread Ben Laurie
inequality definitively cannot be explained by hidden variables, hence the whole action-at-a-distance thing. Cheers, Ben. -- http://www.apache-ssl.org/ben.html http://www.thebunker.net/ There is no limit to what a man can do or how far he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit

Re: Two ideas for random number generation: Q for Eugene

2002-04-22 Thread Ben Laurie
gfgs pedo wrote: hi, --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 22 Apr 2002 at 0:08, Ben Laurie wrote: Oh surely you can do better than that - making it hard to guess the seed is also clearly a desirable property (and one that the square root rng does not have). U can choose any

Re: Two ideas for random number generation: Q for Eugene

2002-04-21 Thread Ben Laurie
the seed is also clearly a desirable property (and one that the square root rng does not have). Cheers, Ben. -- http://www.apache-ssl.org/ben.html http://www.thebunker.net/ There is no limit to what a man can do or how far he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit. - Robert Woodruff

Re: all about transferable off-line ecash (Re: Brands off-linetech)

2002-04-09 Thread Ben Laurie
. So it has an inherent lack of anonymity which is not present in an online system. If they withdraw blinded coins, then although they were identified they are not linked with the coins. Did I miss something? Cheers, Ben. -- http://www.apache-ssl.org/ben.html http://www.thebunker.net

Re: all about transferable off-line ecash (Re: Brands off-linetech)

2002-04-09 Thread Ben Laurie
. So it has an inherent lack of anonymity which is not present in an online system. If they withdraw blinded coins, then although they were identified they are not linked with the coins. Did I miss something? Cheers, Ben. -- http://www.apache-ssl.org/ben.html http://www.thebunker.net

Re: Celsius 451 -the melting point of Cat-5 Re: networktopology

2002-03-31 Thread Ben Laurie
in plain, surely? Cheers, Ben. -- http://www.apache-ssl.org/ben.html http://www.thebunker.net/ There is no limit to what a man can do or how far he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit. - Robert Woodruff

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2002-03-23 Thread Ben Laurie
subscribe cypherpunks-moderated -- http://www.apache-ssl.org/ben.html http://www.thebunker.net/ There is no limit to what a man can do or how far he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit. - Robert Woodruff

Reply from Congressman Benjamin L. Cardin

2002-01-12 Thread Cong. Ben Cardin
Thank you for emailing me with your thoughts and comments. Due to the high volume of emails that I receive daily, I can only respond to those emails I receive from Maryland residents. If you are a Maryland resident and you included your name and FULL postal mailing address in your email, you

Re: CNN.com on Remailers

2001-12-19 Thread Ben Xain
' keys? Using remailer clients should be *easy*. Saying this is too hard for the average spammer to figure out isn't acceptable. In fact, spammers currently *do* send mail encrypted to the remailers' keys. It's a pain in the ass trying to filter the damn stuff out. Ben Xain [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: CNN.com on Remailers

2001-12-19 Thread Ben Xain
On 19 December 2001, Peter Trei wrote: Ben Xain[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] In fact, spammers currently *do* send mail encrypted to the remailers' keys. It's a pain in the ass trying to filter the damn stuff out. First I've heard that. Frankly, I'm suprised. One solution, which I've long

Re: Pay per use remailers and remailer reliability tracking.

2001-12-19 Thread Ben Xain
be confirmed? Or maybe there is some other way to cut down on cheating. Ben Xain [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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Re: Criminalizing crypto criticism

2001-08-01 Thread Ben Laurie
should continue to be able to demonstrate that fact. Rights management can only be done by legal and social means, not technological ones. Cheers, Ben. -- http://www.apache-ssl.org/ben.html There is no limit to what a man can do or how far he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit. - Robert

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

2000-10-08 Thread Ben Laurie
Bram Cohen wrote: On Sat, 7 Oct 2000, Ben Laurie wrote: Since we're in hair-splitting mode, I should point out that "prevents the denial of an act" is not equivalent to a "negation that something is false". Of course, logically, it comes to the same thing,

Where is all the b-o-m-b crap coming from?

2000-07-08 Thread Ben Byer
Has anyone been able to figure out where [EMAIL PROTECTED] is posted as an address to get info about explosives? A quick check on altavista and google turned up nothing. Ben

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