Re: AP Al quim

2001-12-11 Thread David Honig
At 12:13 AM 12/11/01 -0600, Jim Choate wrote: No, I'm not. 'discrimination' requires(!) 'prejudice'. Prejudice is the In Choate prime, perhaps. For the rest of us, measurement (e.g., the redness vs greenness of a fruit) lets us discriminate useful from not.

Re: FreeSWAN unnatural monopolies

2001-12-11 Thread David Honig
At 06:35 AM 12/11/01 -0600, Jim Choate wrote: Dude, there are HUNDREDS of alternate GUI front-ends (the vast majority are not compatible with X (aka MIT's Athens - there's your clue as to its popularity). Unfortunately they don't get the technical backing to get a significant 'bootstrap'

Re: Steganography, My Ass: The Dangers of Private and Self-Censorship in Wartime

2001-12-12 Thread David Honig
At 10:39 AM 12/12/01 -0500, Declan McCullagh wrote: PS: Not all libertarians believe the the public responsibilities of the press are a myth. It's entirely possible to reconcile that phrase with the idea that a newspaper is a for-profit business. I'm afraid the closest I can come is to

Re: AP Al quim

2001-12-13 Thread David Honig
At 09:40 PM 12/13/01 -0600, Jim Choate wrote: I don't have a problem with commerce per se. Capitalism I do have a problem with, greed good. Is the basic human drive to better one's circumstances bad, Jim?

Re: CNN.com on Remailers

2001-12-18 Thread David Honig
At 06:56 PM 12/17/01 -0600, Jim Choate wrote: On Mon, 17 Dec 2001, Trei, Peter wrote: Yes, I have read the letter - they need to treat input from known remailers differently due to worries over spam and flooding attacks, so they treat other known remailers as priviliged sources of high

Re: Reg - Linotype copyright action on Adobe-format fonts

2001-12-18 Thread David Honig
At 07:35 PM 12/17/01 -0800, Bill Stewart wrote: ATM is Adobe Type Manager. Linotype is a big font house. Intellectual Property laws for fonts are normally even stranger than for regular material, but if any of these are in Postscript, they're also programs, so there may be DMCA issues, and

Re: CIA in NYC

2001-12-18 Thread David Honig
At 02:06 PM 12/18/01 -0800, John Young wrote: Couple of things on that. The building, which was only a few years old, is reported to have collapsed due to high heat of oil storage tanks, a small tank on the upper floor to serve NYC Emergency Operations, and an unsually large tank in the basement.

Re: Reg - Linotype copyright action on Adobe-format fonts

2001-12-18 Thread David Honig
At 12:04 PM 12/18/01 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Interesting article. However, it appears that it's not the fonts themselves that are copyrightable, but rather the code that draws them. From the same article: This is what I remembered (from this list BTW) and why I suggested that the

Re: CNN.com on Remailers

2001-12-18 Thread David Honig
At 02:42 PM 12/18/01 -0800, Meyer Wolfsheim wrote: On Tue, 18 Dec 2001, David Honig wrote: Can't spam be repelled by not forwarding email not encrypted to the remailer's key? Who is to say that spammers won't use remailer clients that automatically encrypt to the remailers' keys? Yes

Re: MS DRM OS

2001-12-19 Thread David Honig
At 12:38 AM 12/19/01 +, Graham Lally wrote: Ralph Wallis wrote: On Monday, 17 Dec 2001 at 07:58, Michael Motyka [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could someone who knows more than I do explain to me why this MS IP is anything other than making the owner of a PC unable to have root access to their

Re: Reg - Linotype copyright action on Adobe-format fonts

2001-12-19 Thread David Honig
At 11:47 PM 12/18/01 -0800, Petro wrote: That would be utterly pointless (no pun intended). The value of Postscript is that it *isn't* a set of pixels. No, it wouldn't be pointless. Postscript is not the only way to print. It is the equivalent of using a function that approximates the

Re: Pay per use remailers and remailer reliability tracking.

2001-12-20 Thread David Honig
At 09:30 PM 12/20/01 -, Dr. Evil wrote: A token-based remailer system, while an obvious system, would be a major accomplishment. Any kind of privacy-enhanced token/payment/value system would be a major accomplishment at this point. The c'punks have been in biz for almost ten years now,

Re: Start Ups, Crypto Companies, and Commercialization

2001-12-23 Thread David Honig
At 11:55 AM 12/23/01 -0800, Tim May wrote: Being an old-timer, I like to say: In my day, we had to walk five miles through the snow to get a cup of mud from the vending machine. Actually, in my day at Intel we were lucky to have patty melts for lunch, as most of us ate out of vending machines

Re: Explosive smuggling (@#%$@# deleted)

2001-12-26 Thread David Honig
At 11:49 PM 12/26/01 -, Dr. Evil wrote: effective against drug smuggling. The risk is very real; a woman could carry several pounds of explosives. They are aware of this but there isn't much they can do right now. No one has yet mentioned surgically implanted explosives. You could carry

Re: Fear and Trembling

2001-12-27 Thread David Honig
At 09:53 PM 12/27/01 -0800, John Young wrote: Targets for centers of these exports are not hard to identify, After the WTC, the only truly theatrically worth it encore I can think of is a stinger at the space shuttle. This would not trepan the serpent but would kick the angst up a notch. Then

Re: Western Culture

2001-12-28 Thread David Honig
At 11:48 AM 12/28/01 -0800, John Young wrote: of northern European hinterlands, Anglo-Saxon defectives still enthralled with ceremonial violence inherent in costume, sports, entertainment, prejudice, pride, and exculpation of ego-driven indifference to harm caused others Wait, are you talking

Re: cell phone guns

2001-12-29 Thread David Honig
At 03:16 PM 12/28/01 -0800, Eric Murray wrote: 22 caliber four-shot pistol hidden inside a cell phone, uncovered during police raids in Europe. http://abcnews.go.com/sections/world/DailyNews/phone001205.html Cell phone users will have to be made aware that reaching for their phones in some

brinworld, sexchart

2001-12-29 Thread David Honig
Wired interview with creator of sexchart http://wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,48997,00.html The graph: http://www.attrition.org/hosted/sexchart/sexchart.9.25 Relevence to Brin's _Transparent Society_ etc should be obvious.

Re: cell phone guns

2001-12-30 Thread David Honig
At 08:26 PM 12/29/01 -0600, david wrote: On Saturday 29 December 2001 05:00 pm, Faustine wrote: Hm, whatever works, I guess. Sheer stealth isn't as much a factor for me as is accuracy I don't think the yugo cellphone .22 has been taken to the range by an American gun rag yet... Thunder Ranch

Re: cell phone guns

2001-12-30 Thread David Honig
At 02:52 PM 12/30/01 -0500, Matthew Gaylor wrote: At 7:33 AM -0800 12/29/01, David Honig wrote: Mossad prefers suppressed Berretta .22 which doesn't need racking. Actually they're fond of using the single action Beretta model 70s in .22lr. I believe that's what arms designer Gerald Bull

Re: Choices of small handguns

2001-12-30 Thread David Honig
At 02:53 PM 12/30/01 -0800, Tim May wrote: (* I've heard some claim that stainless steel is not a good idea, as it glints in the dark. Perhaps, but this seems like a second-order effect for any real use. It is also possible to get it in blackened stainless, as the SIGs are commonly in.) I've

Re: cell phone guns

2001-12-30 Thread David Honig
At 07:37 PM 12/30/01 -0600, Harmon Seaver wrote: This makes little sense. There are a great many .22 pistols which have external hammers or an sufficient safety. Why would you have to rack a slide, other than when you first loaded. With most, if not all, semi-auto handguns, you always carry

RE: Citigroup salvage session

2002-01-12 Thread Wu, David
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Re: Ecash fraud resolution

2002-01-24 Thread David Honig
At 10:37 AM 1/24/2002 +, Ken Brown wrote: How unusual. All I am left with is the trite insight that in human beings (and I suspect any species with a decent memory in which males play, or can play, a significant part in rearing offspring) assessment of reputation is, if not hard-wired, pretty

Re: Thinking outside the box, deviously

2002-01-25 Thread David Honig
At 08:22 AM 1/25/02 -0800, Tim May wrote: On Thursday, January 24, 2002, at 09:06 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've concluded that you can't answer Tim's riddle without knowing the radius of the drill --but I may put myself open to ridicule for suggesting this. But if you were devious

Re: Looking back ten years: Another Cypherpunks failure

2002-01-27 Thread David Honig
At 10:35 AM 1/27/02 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could someone post, or point to, a review of disk encryption products. OS: MS Win Scramdisk is free, reliable, and source is available. I've used it on a 200 Mhz laptop for some years---and I run my email from the encrypted

Re: Flag Wars: The Red Cross Attacks Pot

2002-01-28 Thread David Honig
At 07:47 PM 1/27/02 -0500, Matthew Gaylor wrote: The American Red Cross has asked the American Medical Marijuana Association http://www.drugsense.org/amma to stop using the red cross with a marijuana leaf in the background in their insignia. I've been promised the email exchanges between the

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Re: Singularity ( was Re: Policing Bioterror Research )

2003-01-07 Thread David Howe
at Tuesday, January 07, 2003 1:14 AM, Michael Motyka [EMAIL PROTECTED] was seen to say: financial resources, other than those that pass through verified identity gatekeepers; That's an odd way to spell Campaign Fund Contributing Corporations

Re: [IP] Open Source TCPA driver and white papers (fwd)

2003-01-24 Thread David Howe
at Friday, January 24, 2003 4:53 PM, Mike Rosing [EMAIL PROTECTED] was seen to say: Thanks Eugen, It looks like the IBM TPM chip is only a key store read/write device. It has no code space for the kind of security discussed in the TCPA. The user still controls the machine and can still

Re: Sovereignty issues and Palladium/TCPA

2003-01-31 Thread David Howe
at Friday, January 31, 2003 2:18 AM, Peter Gutmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] was seen to say: schnipp More particularly, governments are likely to want to explore the issues related to potential foreign control/influence over domestic governmental use/access to domestic government held data. In

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Re: A secure government

2003-02-06 Thread David Howe
No, the various provisions of the Constitution, flawed though it is, make it clear that there is no prove that you are not guilty provision (unless you're a Jap, or the government wants your land, or someone says that you are disrespectful of colored people). Unfortuately, this is not true in

Re: A secure government

2003-02-06 Thread David Howe
at Thursday, February 06, 2003 11:21 AM, Pete Capelli Then which one of these groups does the federal government fall under, when they use crypto? In the feds opinion, of course. Or do they believe that their use of crypto is the only wholesome one? Terrorism of course, using their own

Re: A secure government

2003-02-06 Thread David Howe
at Thursday, February 06, 2003 4:48 PM, Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] was seen to say: Another point is that ``normal'' constables aren't able to action the request; they have to be approved by the Chief Constable of a police force, or the head of a relevant Government department. The full text

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Re: Putting the NSA Data Overwrite Standard Legend to Death... (fwd)

2003-02-06 Thread David Howe
at Thursday, February 06, 2003 2:34 PM, Tyler Durden [EMAIL PROTECTED] was seen to say: I've got a question... If you actually care about the NSA or KGB doing a low-level magnetic scan to recover data from your disk drives, you need to be using an encrypted file system, period, no questions.

Re: A secure government

2003-02-06 Thread David Howe
at Thursday, February 06, 2003 3:44 PM, Peter Fairbrother [EMAIL PROTECTED] was seen to say: David Howe wrote: a) it's not law yet, and may never become law. It's an Act of Parliament, but it's two-and-a-bit years old and still isn't in force. No signs of that happening either, except a few

Re: Putting the NSA Data Overwrite Standard Legend to Death... (fwd)

2003-02-10 Thread David Howe
at Monday, February 10, 2003 3:20 AM, Jim Choate [EMAIL PROTECTED] was seen to say: On Sun, 9 Feb 2003, Sunder wrote: The OS doesn't boot until you type in your passphrase, plug in your USB fob, etc. and allow it to read the key. Like, Duh! You know, you really ought to stop smoking crack.

Re: Putting the NSA Data Overwrite Standard Legend to Death... (fwd)

2003-02-10 Thread David Howe
at Monday, February 10, 2003 3:09 AM, Jim Choate [EMAIL PROTECTED] was seen to say: On Mon, 10 Feb 2003, Dave Howe wrote: no, lilo is. if you you can mount a pgpdisk (say) without software, then you are obviously much more talented than I am :) Bullshit. lilo isn't doing -anything- at that

Re: The burn-off of twenty million useless eaters and minoritie s

2003-02-21 Thread David Howe
at Friday, February 21, 2003 4:44 PM, James A. Donald [EMAIL PROTECTED] was seen to say: Highly capitalist nations do not murder millions. but their highly capitalist companies sometimes do. is this a meaningful distinction?

Re: School of the future

2003-02-20 Thread David Howe
at Thursday, February 20, 2003 2:04 AM, Harmon Seaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] was seen to say: The real school of the future won't have classrooms at all, and no teachers as we now know them. Instead there will be workstations with VR helmets and a number of software gurus in the machine

Re: Blood for Oil (was The Pig Boy was really squealing today

2003-02-20 Thread David Howe
at Thursday, February 20, 2003 1:28 AM, Harmon Seaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] was seen to say: No oil but lots of dope, especially lots of high grade opium and the CIA and the US scum military has been just desperate to get control of the world heroin trade again like they did in Vietnam days.

Re: Trivial OPT generation method?

2003-02-26 Thread David Howe
There is no weakness in it that I could come up with (presuming the audio input is sufficiently random, which in case of badly tuned station it seems to be; white noise generator would be better, though). Sounds good to me. you should certainly get 16 good bytes from 128, and while assuming a

Re: Scientists question electronic voting

2003-03-07 Thread David Howe
at Thursday, March 06, 2003 5:02 PM, Ed Gerck [EMAIL PROTECTED] was seen to say: On the other hand, photographing a paper receipt behind a glass, which receipt is printed after your vote choices are final, is not readily deniable because that receipt is printed only after you confirm

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Re: Journalists, Diplomats, Others Urged to Evacuate City

2003-03-18 Thread David Howe
About the threat to Washington: I think it's relatively high. A nerve gas attack on buildings or the Metro seems likely. (The Japanese AUM cult had Sarin, but was inept. A more capable, military-trained operative has had many months to get into D.C. and wait for the obvious time to attack.

Re: terror alert black

2003-03-20 Thread David Howe
at Thursday, March 20, 2003 3:23 PM, Tyler Durden [EMAIL PROTECTED] was seen to say: I've heard that for terror alert black we're all supposed to down a few 100 milligrams of valium, and stay in our beds, butts-up. For hidden weapons inspections, of course. *lol* might be close to the truth at

Re: U.S. Drops 'E-Bomb' On Iraqi TV

2003-03-27 Thread David Howe
at Thursday, March 27, 2003 6:36 AM, Sarad AV [EMAIL PROTECTED] was seen to say: there is a lot of self imposed sensor ship in US on the war.The Us pows's shown on al-jazeera were not broadcasted over Us and those sites which had pictures of POW's were removed as unethical graphics on web

Re: U.S. Drops 'E-Bomb' On Iraqi TV

2003-04-02 Thread David Howe
at Tuesday, April 01, 2003 11:53 PM, Kevin S. Van Horn [EMAIL PROTECTED] was seen to say: What's a legitimate government? One with enough firepower to make its rule stick? One with real (not imagined) WMD to frighten off american presidents. NK being a good example...

Re: what is GPG's #1 objective: security or anti-patent stance ( Re: on the state of PGP compatibility (2nd try))

2002-03-31 Thread David Shaw
On Mon, Apr 01, 2002 at 01:34:35AM +0100, Adam Back wrote: Hi I've trimmed the Cc line a bit as this is now focussing more on GPG and not adding any thing new technically for the excluded set. On Sun, Mar 31, 2002 at 06:08:14PM -0500, David Shaw wrote: The OpenPGP spec handles

Re: Biometrics helping privacy: excerpt from Salon article on fo rensics

2002-04-23 Thread David Howe
Peter Trei wrote: Encrypted files on a portable device that you keep with you would seem to be the best of all worlds. any of the usb mini drives can manage that - just set them to autorun Scramdisk Traveller and mount a SD volume from the device. just don't forget to dismount it before you

Re: Two ideas for random number generation

2002-04-24 Thread David Howe
Jim Choate [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But that changes the game in the middle of play, the sequence of digits in pi is fixed, not random. You can't get a random number from a constant. Otherwise it wouldn't be a constant. PRNG output is fixed/repeatable too - that is a properly you *want* from a

Re: Two ideas for random number generation

2002-04-24 Thread David Howe
No it isn't. You -want- a RNG but you can't have one. Nobody -wants- a PRNG, they -settle- for it. I think there is some confusion here - if you are using a PRNG as a stream cypher, the last thing in the world you want is for it to be truely random - you need to sync up two prngs in order to

Re: Two ideas for random number generation

2002-04-25 Thread David Howe
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 24 Apr 2002 at 17:41, David Howe wrote: its probably a better (if much slower) stream cypher than most currently in use; I can't think of any that have larger than a 256 internal state, and that implies a 2^256 step cycle at best; for pi to be worse, it would

Re: Cypherpunks Europe

2002-04-28 Thread David Howe
On Sunday, April 28, 2002, at 07:32 AM, Jan Dobrucki wrote: Greetings, I've been reading the list for a while now, and what I find annoying is that there are mostly American news and little about what's happening in Europe. As little as I respect America, America is not all of the world.

Re: Cypherpunks Europe

2002-04-29 Thread David Howe
I don't think you get freelance IRA guys. Not with both kneecaps, anyway. might be surprised - donations from the states have apparently tailled off (having been the subject of a terrorist attack themselves they seem less willing to fund them) and they could do with the revenue - but you are

Re: Bad guys vs. Good guys

2002-05-12 Thread David Howe
Jim Choate [EMAIL PROTECTED] gave us the benefit of the following opinion: It makes no sense to talk about 'cheapness of payment' from the recipients view. It costs them nothing to get paid (outside of whatever service or labor was involved in the exchange). You have your cognates reversed

Re: More weirdness from Choate Prime

2002-05-20 Thread David Howe
Bullshit Tim. The card holder (person paying) has an interest rate tacked on their payments -EVERY MONTH-. It's right there at the bottem of your statement. I would switch to a better card provider then if I were you - here in the UK, that interest payment only kicks in if you don't clear the

Re: Open-Source Fight Flares At Pentagon Microsoft Lobbies Hard Against Free Software

2002-05-24 Thread David Howe
Microsoft also said open-source software is inherently less secure because the code is available for the world to examine for flaws, making it possible for hackers or criminals to exploit them. Proprietary software, the company argued, is more secure because of its closed nature. Presumably the

Re: When encryption is also authentication...

2002-05-30 Thread David Howe
Mike Rosing [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Having it be transparent where the user doesn't need to know anything about how it works does not have to destroy the effectiveness of digital signatures or crypto. When people sign a document they don't know all the ramifications because few bother to

Re: When encryption is also authentication...

2002-05-31 Thread David Howe
Mike Rosing [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Having it be transparent where the user doesn't need to know anything about how it works does not have to destroy the effectiveness of digital signatures or crypto. When people sign a document they don't know all the ramifications because few bother to

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2002-06-22 Thread David nolan
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Re: Ross's TCPA paper

2002-06-26 Thread David Wagner
Scott Guthery wrote: Perhaps somebody can describe a non-DRM privacy management system. Uhh, anonymous remailers? I never disclose my identity, hence there is no need for parties I don't trust to manage it. Come on, folks. This ought to be cypherpunks 101. DRM might be one way to achieve

Re: Ross's TCPA paper

2002-06-26 Thread David Wagner
Anonymous wrote: The amazing thing about this discussion is that there are two pieces of conventional wisdom which people in the cypherpunk/EFF/freedom communities adhere to, and they are completely contradictory. I can't agree. Strong protection of copyright is probably possible if the

Re: Ross's TCPA paper

2002-06-27 Thread David Wagner
Mike Rosing wrote: As long as MS Office isn't mandated by law, who cares? It's not clear that enabling anti-competitive behavior is good for society. After all, there's a reason we have anti-trust law. Ross Anderson's point -- and it seems to me it's one worth considering -- is that, if there

Re: more snake oil? [WAS: New uncrackable(?) encryption technique]

2002-10-25 Thread David Howe
at Friday, October 25, 2002 6:22 PM, bear [EMAIL PROTECTED] was seen to say: The implication is that they have a hard problem in their bioscience application, which they have recast as a cipher. The temptation is to break it, *tell* them you have broken it (and offer to break any messages they

Re: Office of Hollywood Security, HollSec

2002-10-28 Thread David Howe
at Saturday, October 26, 2002 1:18 AM, Tim May [EMAIL PROTECTED] was seen to say: Yes, but check very carefully whether one is in violation of the anti-hacking laws (viz. DMCA). By some readings of the laws, merely trying to break a cipher is ipso fact a violation. IIRC, you can't be arrested

Re: What email encryption is actually in use?

2002-10-29 Thread David Howe
at Tuesday, October 01, 2002 3:08 AM, Peter Gutmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] was seen to say: For encryption, STARTTLS, which protects more mail than all other email encryption technology combined. See http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/usenix02_slides.pdf (towards the back). I would dispute

Re: Is password guessing legal?

2002-10-29 Thread David Howe
at Monday, October 28, 2002 9:34 PM, Major Variola (ret) [EMAIL PROTECTED] was seen to say: Did that Wired reporter just admit to a crime? Does it matter that the site is overseas? That they're Evil(tm)?? nope, hacking into overseas servers is officially not a crime in the US - after that

Re: What email encryption is actually in use?

2002-11-02 Thread David Howe
at Monday, September 30, 2002 7:52 PM, James A. Donald [EMAIL PROTECTED] was seen to say: Is it practical for a particular group, for example a corporation or a conspiracy, to whip up its own damned root certificate, without buggering around with verisign? (Of course fixing Microsoft's

Re: What email encryption is actually in use?

2002-11-04 Thread David Howe
at Monday, November 04, 2002 2:28 AM, Tim May [EMAIL PROTECTED] was seen to say: Those who need to know, know. Which of course is a viable model, provided you are only using your key for private email to those who need to know if you are using it for signatures posted to a mailing list though, it

Re: What email encryption is actually in use?

2002-11-04 Thread David Howe
at Monday, November 04, 2002 3:13 PM, Tyler Durden This is an interesting issue...how much information can be gleaned from encrypted payloads? Usually, the VPN is an encrypted tunnel from a specified IP (individual pc or lan) to another specified IP (the outer marker of the lan, usually the

Re: Did you *really* zeroize that key?

2002-11-07 Thread David Howe
at Thursday, November 07, 2002 6:13 PM, David Honig [EMAIL PROTECTED] was seen to say: Wouldn't a crypto coder be using paranoid-programming skills, like *checking* that the memory is actually zeroed? That is one of the workarounds yes - but of course a (theoretical) clever compiler could

Re: Did you *really* zeroize that key?

2002-11-07 Thread David Honig
At 03:55 PM 11/7/02 +0100, Steven M. Bellovin wrote: Regardless of whether one uses volatile or a pragma, the basic point remains: cryptographic application writers have to be aware of what a clever compiler can do, so that they know to take countermeasures. Wouldn't a crypto coder be using

Re: Transparent drive encryption now in FreeBSD

2002-11-11 Thread David Wagner
Tyler Durden wrote: Sorry, I'm new, but does this refer to the notion of splitting up a document holographically, and placing the various pieces of numerous servers throughout the 'Net? No. It is referring to conventional encryption of your local hard disk.

Re: New Wi-Fi Security Scheme Allows DoS (fwd)

2002-11-21 Thread David Howe
at Thursday, November 21, 2002 1:52 PM, Jim Choate [EMAIL PROTECTED] was seen to say: http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,717170,00.asp LOL! which references - the archive of this list for bibliography :)

Re: Psuedo-Private Key -Methodology

2002-11-21 Thread David Howe
at Thursday, November 21, 2002 2:26 PM, Sarad AV [EMAIL PROTECTED] was seen to say: 'A' uses a very strong crytographic algorithm which would be forced out by rubber horse cryptanalysis Now if Aice could give another key k` such that the cipher text (c) decrypts to another dummy plain

Re: CNN.com - WiFi activists on free Web crusade - Nov. 29, 2002 (fwd)

2002-12-02 Thread David Howe
at Monday, December 02, 2002 8:42 AM, Eugen Leitl [EMAIL PROTECTED] was seen to say: No, an orthogonal identifier is sufficient. In fact, DNS loc would be a good start. I think what I am trying to say is - given a normal internet user using IPv4 software that wants to connect to someone in the

Re: Libel lunacy -all laws apply fnord everywhere

2002-12-17 Thread David Howe
at Monday, December 16, 2002 8:34 AM, Major Variola (ret) [EMAIL PROTECTED] was seen to say: The network? Sorry, its one wire from here to there. Even a router with multiple NICs only copies a given packet to a single interface. That is unfortunately too much of a generalisation - although I

Re: Libel lunacy -all laws apply fnord everywhere

2002-12-17 Thread David Howe
at Tuesday, December 17, 2002 5:33 AM, the following Choatisms were heard: Nobody (but perhaps you by inference) is claiming it is identical, however, it -is- a broadcast (just consider how a packet gets routed, consider the TTL for example or how a ping works). ping packets aren't routed any

Re: Correction of AP-CIA Disinfo.

2002-12-23 Thread David Howe
at Monday, December 23, 2002 7:29 PM, Mike Rosing [EMAIL PROTECTED] was seen to say: On Tue, 24 Dec 2002, Matthew X wrote: The containment vessel may survive a jet impact but the control room and/or temporary pools of spent fuel lying outside the containment vessel might not survive. A

Re: IP: SSL Certificate Monopoly Bears Financial Fruit

2002-07-11 Thread David Howe
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] was seen to declaim: IE comes preloaded with about 34 root certificate authorities, and it is easy for the end user to add more, to add more in batches. Anyone can coerce open SSL to generate any certificates he pleases, with some work. Why is not someone

Re: DRM will not be legislated

2002-07-14 Thread David Wagner
Anonymous wrote: Legislation of DRM is not in the cards, [...] Care to support this claim? (the Hollings bill and the DMCA requirement for Macrovision in every VCR come to mind as evidence to the contrary)

Re: DRM will not be legislated

2002-07-15 Thread David Wagner
David Wagner wrote: Anonymous wrote: Legislation of DRM is not in the cards, [...] Care to support this claim? (the Hollings bill and the DMCA requirement for Macrovision in every VCR come to mind as evidence to the contrary) To reiterate and lay out the points explicitly

Re: DRM will not be legislated

2002-07-17 Thread David Wagner
AARG! Anonymous wrote: David Wagner wrote: The Hollings bill was interesting not for its success or failure, but for what it reveals the content companies' agenda. The CBDTPA, available in text form at http://www.politechbot.com/docs/cbdtpa/hollings.s2048.032102.html, does not explicitly call

Re: Tunneling through a hostile proxy?

2002-07-23 Thread David Howe
Roy M. Silvernail [EMAIL PROTECTED] was seen to declaim: Given internet access from a private intranet, through an HTTP proxy out of the user's control, is it possible to establish a secure tunnel to an outside server? I'd expect that ordinary SSL connections will secure user - proxy and

Re: Tunneling through a hostile proxy?

2002-07-24 Thread David Howe
John Kozubik [EMAIL PROTECTED] was seen to declaim: SSH java applets exist: http://www.appgate.com/ag.asp?template=productslevel1=product_mindterm http://javassh.org/ And indeed are very useful - but I think you miss the whole point of a java applet. the applet downloads to (and runs on) the

Re: Challenge to David Wagner on TCPA

2002-08-01 Thread David Wagner
James A. Donald wrote: According to Microsoft, the end user can turn the palladium hardware off, and the computer will still boot. As long as that is true, it is an end user option and no one can object. Your point is taken. That said, even if you could turn off TCPA Palladium and run some

DANIEL KARGBO. cypherpunks !

2002-08-04 Thread David Kargbou
cypherpunks , From;Mr.David Kargbou and Family, Johannesburg,South Africa. My Dear , Good day.This very confidential request should come as a surprise to you.But it is because of the nature of what is happening to me and my family urged me to contact you, and I quite understand

DANIEL KARGBO. cypherpunks !

2002-08-04 Thread David Kargbou
cypherpunks , From;Mr.David Kargbou and Family, Johannesburg,South Africa. My Dear , Good day.This very confidential request should come as a surprise to you.But it is because of the nature of what is happening to me and my family urged me to contact you, and I quite understand

Re: Thanks, Lucky, for helping to kill gnutella (fwd)

2002-08-10 Thread David Wagner
R. A. Hettinga wrote: [Ob Cypherpunks: Seriously, folks. How clueful can someone be who clearly doesn't know how to use more than one remailer hop, as proven by the fact that he's always coming out of the *same* remailer all the time? I hope I don't need to point out that always using the same

Re: responding to claims about TCPA

2002-08-10 Thread David Wagner
AARG! Anonymous wrote: In fact, you are perfectly correct that Microsoft architectures would make it easy at any time to implement DRL's or SNRL's. They could do that tomorrow! They don't need TCPA. So why blame TCPA for this feature? The relevance should be obvious. Without TCPA/Palladium,

Re: Seth on TCPA at Defcon/Usenix

2002-08-10 Thread David Wagner
AARG! Anonymous wrote: His description of how the Document Revocation List could work is interesting as well. Basically you would have to connect to a server every time you wanted to read a document, in order to download a key to unlock it. Then if someone decided that the document needed to

Re: Cryptographic privacy protection in TCPA

2002-09-05 Thread David Wagner
Nomen Nescio wrote: Carl Ellison suggested an alternate way that TCPA could work to allow for revoking virtualized TPMs without the privacy problems associated with the present systems, and the technical problems of the elaborate cryptographic methods. [...] Instead of burning only one key into

Re: Best Windows XP drive encryption program?

2002-09-24 Thread David Howe
at Monday, September 23, 2002 10:35 PM, Curt Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] was seen to say: http://www.drivecrypt.com/dcplus.html DriveCrypt Plus does everything you want. I believe it may have descended from ScramDisk (Dave Barton's disk encryption program). It has. Basically, the author of

Re: Best Windows XP drive encryption program?

2002-09-24 Thread David Howe
at Monday, September 23, 2002 10:35 PM, Curt Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] was seen to say: http://www.drivecrypt.com/dcplus.html DriveCrypt Plus does everything you want. I believe it may have descended from ScramDisk (Dave Barton's disk encryption program). As an aside - Dave Barton? Shaun

Re: thinkofthechildren.co.uk censored

2002-09-27 Thread David Howe
at Thursday, September 26, 2002 7:14 PM, Major Variola (ret) [EMAIL PROTECTED] was seen to say: The original fax from the Met is now online http://www.thinkofthechildren.co.uk/metfaxbig.shtml

Re: What email encryption is actually in use?

2002-10-02 Thread David Howe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- at Tuesday, October 01, 2002 9:04 PM, Petro [EMAIL PROTECTED] was seen to say: Well, it's a start. Every mail server (except mx1 and mx2.prserv.net) should use TLS. Its nice in theory, but in practice look how long it takes the bulk of the internet to

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