RE: One time pads

2002-10-16 Thread Trei, Peter
David E. Weekly[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Naive question here, but what if you made multiple one time pads (XORing them all together to get your true key) and then sent the different pads via different mechanisms (one via FedEx, one via secure courier, one via your best friend)? Unless *all*

Re: For everything else, there's MasterCard.

2002-10-16 Thread Steve Furlong
On Wednesday 16 October 2002 15:41, Thoenen, Peter Mr. EPS wrote: (re hunting people) If anything, this is more wasteful and degrading as you are not eating the meat... Speak for yourself. -- Steve FurlongComputer Condottiere Have GNU, Will Travel Vote Idiotarian --- it's easier than

Re: Using mobile phone masts to track things

2002-10-16 Thread Scribe
Steve Schear wrote: At 06:33 PM 10/15/2002 +1300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Gutmann) wrote: Scribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The technology 'sees' the shapes made when radio waves emitted by mobile phone masts meet an obstruction. Signals bounced back by immobile objects, such as

anonymity ok with Albertsons

2002-10-16 Thread Major Variola (ret)
The Sunnyvale Albertsons has those stupid loyalty cards again, after a period without. The card has a prominent Privacy Policy block, whose text is defeated by the asterisked italicized phrase, Except when compelled by law. But amazingly, it has a box, too: I don't wish to fill out this form.

RE: For everything else, there's MasterCard.

2002-10-16 Thread Trei, Peter
Thoenen, Peter Mr. EPS[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: If you were a *enlightened* vegan, you would see this as no different that shooting a deer or eating a hamburger. I believe they would argue animals don't consent to be killed for sport or food either. If anything, this is more

Re: One time pads

2002-10-16 Thread Bill Frantz
At 7:52 AM -0700 10/16/02, David Howe wrote: OTP is the best choice for something that must be secret for all time, no matter what the expense. anything that secure for 20,000 years will be sufficient for, go for PKI instead :) OTP is also good when: (1) You can solve the key distribution

RE: For everything else, there's MasterCard.

2002-10-16 Thread Trei, Peter
Major Variola (ret)[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] writes: Rifle and scope: $1,200 Box of .223 Hollowpoint: $6.99 Tarot Deck: $2.95 Scoring an FBI analyst: priceless Some things are priceless. For everything else, there's MasterCard. Dedicated to Eunice Squeal Like a Pig Stone I fail to see

sniping as performance art

2002-10-16 Thread Major Variola (ret)
From: Trei, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] I fail to see how anyone, anytime, anywhere, can support the hunting of random non-consenting humans for sport. Maybe its a PETA activist making a point...

COG in the news

2002-10-16 Thread Declan McCullagh
today... GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS The American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research (AEI) and the Brookings Institution (BI) 2nd and final meeting of the Continuity of Government Commission to formulate recommenditions for the countinuty of the three branches of government in the event

Schneier on the commons

2002-10-16 Thread Marcel Popescu
Security is a commons. Like air and water and radio spectrum, any individual's use of it affects us all. The way to prevent people from abusing a commons is to regulate it. Companies didn't stop dumping toxic wastes into rivers because the government asked them nicely. Companies stopped

Re: One time pads

2002-10-16 Thread David Howe
at Wednesday, October 16, 2002 2:01 PM, Sarad AV [EMAIL PROTECTED] was seen to say: Though it has a large key length greater than or equal to the plain text,why would it be insecure if we can use a good pseudo random number generators,store the bits produced on a taper proof medium. because

Re: Using mobile phone masts to track things

2002-10-16 Thread Steve Schear
At 06:33 PM 10/15/2002 +1300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Gutmann) wrote: Scribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The technology 'sees' the shapes made when radio waves emitted by mobile phone masts meet an obstruction. Signals bounced back by immobile objects, such as walls or trees, are filtered out

Re: One time pads

2002-10-16 Thread David E. Weekly
Naive question here, but what if you made multiple one time pads (XORing them all together to get your true key) and then sent the different pads via different mechanisms (one via FedEx, one via secure courier, one via your best friend)? Unless *all* were compromised, the combined key would still

Mixmaster 2.9b40 released

2002-10-16 Thread Len Sassaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, The Mixmaster development team is pleased to announce the release of Mixmaster 2.9b40. This release is expected to become Mixmaster 2.9rc1. We believe this to be the most stable release of Mixmaster 2.9-beta to date. Further development on

One time pads

2002-10-16 Thread Sarad AV
hi, An extract frm this months cryptogram goes as below. On the other hand, if you ever find a product that actually uses a one-time pad, it is almost certainly unusable and/or insecure. So, let me summarize. One-time pads are useless for

For everything else, there's MasterCard.

2002-10-16 Thread Major Variola (ret)
Rifle and scope: $1,200 Box of .223 Hollowpoint: $6.99 Tarot Deck: $2.95 Scoring an FBI analyst: priceless Some things are priceless. For everything else, there's MasterCard. --- Dedicated to Eunice Squeal Like a Pig Stone

Re: commericial software defined radio (to 30 Mhz, RX only)

2002-10-16 Thread Morlock Elloi
Does this run on linux? Also, if regular cheapo PC sounboards can digitize 30 MHz (and Nyquist says this requires 60 MHz sampling rate) then some product managers need ... flogging. = end (of original message) Y-a*h*o-o (yes, they scan for this) spam follows: Faith Hill - Exclusive

RE: One time pads and Quantum Computers

2002-10-16 Thread Bill Stewart
David E. Weekly[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] As for PKI being secure for 20,000 years, it sure as hell won't be if those million-qubit prototypes turn out to be worth their salt. Think more like 5-10 years. In fact, just about everything except for OTP solutions will be totally, totally

Re: commericial software defined radio (to 30 Mhz, RX only)

2002-10-16 Thread Harmon Seaver
Does this run on linux? On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 02:40:33PM -0700, Major Variola (ret) wrote: The WR-G303i is the first of our G3 Series of software defined receivers. A Software Defined Receiver (SDR) is such where demodulation and

Re: One time pads and Quantum Computers

2002-10-16 Thread David E. Weekly
David E. Weekly[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Which means that you should start thinking about using OTP *now* if you have secrets you'd like to keep past when an adversary of yours might have access to a quantum computer. ... OTPs won't help a bit for that problem. They're fine for

Re: One time pads

2002-10-16 Thread Sam Ritchie
ACTUALLY, quantum computing does more than just halve the effective key length. With classical computing, the resources required to attack a given key grow exponentially with key length. (a 128-bit key has 2^128 possibilities, 129 has 2^129, etc. etc. you all know this...) With quantum