Re: A non-political issue

2002-10-30 Thread Steve Furlong
On Tuesday 29 October 2002 19:34, Anonymous via the Cypherpunks Tonga Remailer wrote: What technology is available to create a 2048-bit RSA key pair so that: 2 - no one knows the secret part, 3 - The secret part is kept in the box and it is safe as long as the box is physically secured

Re: A non-political issue

2002-10-30 Thread Tim May
On Tuesday, October 29, 2002, at 04:34 PM, Anonymous via the Cypherpunks Tonga Remailer wrote: (possible duplicate message) What technology is available to create a 2048-bit RSA key pair so that: 1 - the randomness comes from quantum noise Clicks from a Geiger Counter, Johnson noise, etc.

Re: Jamming (was Confiscation of Sensitive Video)

2002-10-30 Thread Steve Schear
At 03:35 PM 10/30/2002 +0100, Anonymous [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Speaking of jamming, I've thought for a long time that a portable jamming device would be very nice to have. Something that jammed *all* frequencies, or at least everything from 10 or maybe 6 meters on up, to a range of a mile or

Re: Is password guessing legal?

2002-10-30 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 07:28 PM 10/29/02 -0500, Brian McWilliams wrote: At 04:34 PM 10/28/2002, Major Variola (ret) wrote: The e-mails were obtained earlier this month by guessing the login name and password Did that Wired reporter just admit to a crime? http://wired.com/news/conflict/0,2100,55967,00.html What if

Re: Jamming (was Confiscation of Sensitive Video)

2002-10-30 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 07:53 AM 10/30/02 -0800, Steve Schear wrote: At 03:35 PM 10/30/2002 +0100, Anonymous [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Speaking of jamming, I've thought for a long time that a portable jamming device would be very nice to have. Frequencies don't get jammed, specific communications channels between

Re: Confiscation of Anti-War Video

2002-10-30 Thread Sunder
On Mon, 28 Oct 2002, Adam Shostack wrote: (Changing the rules on a regular basis has some security value, as it makes it likely that plans will be ruined. But it has the cost that passengers can't plan..) Some animals are more equal than others. It's interesting to look back in these past

/. Crypto API and IPSec merged into Linux 2.5

2002-10-30 Thread Eugen Leitl
http://lwn.net/Articles/14006/ Linus has yet to post a message to linux-kernel since his return, but he continues to merge patches at a high rate. The latest code to go in includes a new, reworked API for the performance of cryptographic functions within the kernel; implementations of DES (and

the police state vs. jury nullification

2002-10-30 Thread Major Variola (ret)
South Dakota measure backs 'nullification' - http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-jury30oct30.story

Re: the police state vs. jury nullification

2002-10-30 Thread Steve Schear
At 06:56 AM 10/30/2002 -0800, you wrote: South Dakota measure backs 'nullification' - http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-jury30oct30.story See also: http://www.ncpa.org/iss/leg/2002/pd082702b.html http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v02/n1591/a01.html?999

Re: Jamming (was Confiscation of Sensitive Video)

2002-10-30 Thread Mike Rosing
On Wed, 30 Oct 2002, Steve Schear wrote: At 03:35 PM 10/30/2002 +0100, Anonymous [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Speaking of jamming, I've thought for a long time that a portable jamming device would be very nice to have. Something that jammed *all* frequencies, or at least everything from 10 or

Re: Confiscation of Anti-War Video

2002-10-30 Thread Adam Shostack
On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 10:32:17AM -0500, Sunder wrote: | It's interesting to see how much stuff that was in the interest of | national security being declassified and available after 50 years. Lots | of cool stuff on the history channel lately. I wonder what evil will | surface fifty years

Re: patent free(?) anonymous credential system pre-print

2002-10-30 Thread Adam Back
Some comments on this paper comparing efficiency, and functionality with Camenisch, Chaum, Brands. On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 11:49:21PM +, Jason Holt wrote: http://eprint.iacr.org/2002/151/ It mentions how to use the blinding technique Ben Laurie describes in his Lucre paper, which I don't