Re: why bother signing? (was Re: What email encryption is actually in use?)

2002-10-13 Thread Julian Assange
by signing also approaches zero. Consequently unless there are additional costs to non-signing above and beyond spoof protection there will always be a substantial number of unsigned messages. -- Julian Assange|If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people

Re: why bother signing? (was Re: What email encryption is actually in use?)

2002-10-13 Thread Julian Assange
gained by signing also approaches zero. Consequently unless there are additional costs to non-signing above and beyond spoof protection there will always be a substantial number of unsigned messages. -- Julian Assange|If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people

Re: Random Privacy

2002-09-30 Thread Julian Assange
This is an old statistical technique. You need to know ahead of time which answer is more likely and have a bias in your randomizer. A classic example: Did you cheat on your wife last year? If you were born between January and September reverse your answer. -- Julian Assange

Re: Random Privacy

2002-09-29 Thread Julian Assange
This is an old statistical technique. You need to know ahead of time which answer is more likely and have a bias in your randomizer. A classic example: Did you cheat on your wife last year? If you were born between January and September reverse your answer. -- Julian Assange

Remarks made by Australian Defence Minister in Malaysia

2002-06-04 Thread Julian Assange
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2002 12:08:01 +1000 From: Julian Assange [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Senator X [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Remarks made by Australian Defence Minister in Malaysia Dear Senator X, I have been urgently contacted

Australian government proposed 'terror laws'

2002-05-10 Thread Julian Assange
of the campaign. The ALP is could go eitherway based on a single phone call. Make history. -- Julian Assange|If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people |together to collect wood or assign them tasks and [EMAIL PROTECTED] |work, but rather teach them

Re: Cypherpunks Europe

2002-05-01 Thread Julian Assange
are deeply thick. -- Julian Assange|If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people |together to collect wood or assign them tasks and [EMAIL PROTECTED] |work, but rather teach them to long for the endless [EMAIL PROTECTED] |immensity of the sea

Block key generation algorithms

2002-04-26 Thread Julian Assange
protects against yet to be discovered related key, related plain-text attacks. If you have blind faith in your ciphers: block_key = e(master_key, block_num) Or: block_key = hash(master_key || block_num) Is just fine. -- Julian Assange|If you want to build a ship, don't

Re: Choate a Spammer or a Victim?

2002-04-24 Thread Julian Assange
I suggest and. -- Julian Assange|If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people |together to collect wood or assign them tasks and [EMAIL PROTECTED] |work, but rather teach them to long for the endless [EMAIL PROTECTED] |immensity of the sea

Re: overcoming ecash deployment problems (Re: all about transferableoff-line ecash)

2002-04-11 Thread Julian Assange
licenses as assets. The purchase of an untested non-restricted patent license is like buying a house on a fault line subject to a native land claim. At worst it will lose all value. At best you'll be soon be sharing the bathroom. -- Julian Assange|If you want to build a ship, don't drum up

Re: overcoming ecash deployment problems (Re: all about transferableoff-line ecash)

2002-04-11 Thread Julian Assange
licenses as assets. The purchase of an untested non-restricted patent license is like buying a house on a fault line subject to a native land claim. At worst it will lose all value. At best you'll be soon be sharing the bathroom. -- Julian Assange|If you want to build a ship, don't drum up

Re: out of the box

2002-04-04 Thread Julian Assange
[ Charset ISO-8859-1 unsupported, converting... ] Citerar Michael Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED]: In Sweeden basic emotional education for all cuts social problems down to a minscule amount. Sweden has a basic emotional education for all? How come they never told me that? - Sten

Re: My current readings in Category Theory

2002-04-03 Thread Julian Assange
inspired languages, classification (types) are inferred from _behavior_. For these languages, behavioral inconsistency is discovered by the inability to come to consistent classification which describes it. -- Julian Assange|If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people

Re: E-Gold

2002-03-31 Thread Julian Assange
. Control the liquidity and you control its value. Control the value of an object and its owner will forever be your slave. Home ownership is a classic example. An object that's very costly for the owner to liquidate but easy for someone else to if you don't behave. -- Julian Assange

Re: design considerations for distributed storage networks

2002-03-22 Thread Julian Assange
% of the population which comprise the flock have never been my target, and neither should they be yours; it's the 2.5% percent at either end of the normal that I find in my sights, one to be cherished and the other to be destroyed. -- Julian Assange|If you want to build a ship, don't drum up

time-delayed release of information

2002-03-22 Thread Julian Assange
with lasers for a specified period of time (using space as a storage device) before sending decrypts back. If the sats were moving away from earth at significant speed due to VEEGA like alignment windows, it might be a long time before these sats could ever be destroyed. -- Julian Assange

Re: dead reporter found in motel

2001-12-02 Thread Julian Assange
On Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at 10:42:49AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's the first thing you have ever written that was genuinely worth reading! Keep practicing, and in three or four hundred years you could be the GreatGreatReallyGreatGrandsonOfGomez(tM). Yeah, it wasn't terrible. But

Re: The Crypto Winter

2001-11-19 Thread Julian Assange
In and of itself is a very vague and intangible concept. --Tim May As my father told me long ago, the objective is not to convince someone with your arguments but to provide the arguments with which he later convinces himself. -- David Friedman Quoting Jews again, Tim? -- Julian

Gold

2001-11-19 Thread Julian Assange
to them as a medium of exchange. -- Julian Assange|If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people |together to collect wood or assign them tasks and [EMAIL PROTECTED] |work, but rather teach them to long for the endless [EMAIL PROTECTED] |immensity

Re: WSJ on Safety Before Liberty

2001-10-23 Thread Julian Assange
rights activists. It'd be nice to cut the former phase short. Although, perhaps the better tactic is to let them run-amok. It certainly worked for the Netherlands. -- Julian Assange|If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people |together to collect wood

Re: Retribution not enough

2001-10-22 Thread Julian Assange
companies and governments have had a hand in suppressing all over the third world by curtailing freedom of association, speech and other basic political rights we take for granted. -- Julian Assange|If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people |together to collect

Re: Stu Baker on CALEA and the Net

2001-10-18 Thread Julian Assange
is now apparently half-way across, following Stu's silently bekoning finger, fearfully running from the sounds of angels wings; fooled into believing that they lie behind and not ahead of him. -- Julian Assange|If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people