Re: base conversion

2003-10-09 Thread Sarad AV
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ,good work! --- Tim May [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday, October 8, 2003, at 06:16 AM, Sarad AV wrote: hi, If we are to convert a k-bit integer n to a base b number,it takes us O(log n) if the base b is a power of 2. eg. converting (1)base to base

Re: EFF Report on Trusted Computing

2003-10-09 Thread Morlock Elloi
It took less than a decade for EFF to make a full turn, from championing unrestricted uses of technology to censoring who can do what and in which way. In this regards EFF resembles technological empires - like Cisco, for example, that get born because of radically new ways to do things and then

IPsec in 2.6

2003-10-09 Thread Eugen Leitl
I've always had trouble with FreeS/WAN breaking at kernel upgrades, but now that 2.6 is coming we're getting native IPsec support (albeit FreeS/WAN seems to claim Opportunistic Encryption won't be supported?). We seem to have a curious situation here. The majority of systems out there now support

EFF Report on Trusted Computing

2003-10-09 Thread Anonymous
[Permission is granted to repost this document in its entirety, without other limitation. See http://invisiblog.com/1c801df4aee49232/ for an online copy.] The EFF has published a report on the Promise and Risk of Trusted Computing at http://www.eff.org/Infra/trusted_computing/20031001_tc.php.

Re: IPsec in 2.6

2003-10-09 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Eugen Leitl [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003.10.09.1129 +0200]: Are there technical reasons for this situation? If yes, what is required to enable IPsec default interoperability at least with open source OSses? A curious idea that I've been paying some attention to for a while. One could

Re: IPsec in 2.6

2003-10-09 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 06:57:33PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: A curious idea that I've been paying some attention to for a while. One could simply implement a means that tries to connect with IPsec by default and falls back to IP if unsuccessful (keeping a cache of That's how Opportunistic

EU directive could spark patent war

2003-10-09 Thread Steve Schear
[I wonder what if any effect this might have on crypto patents, e.g., Chaumian blinding?] The European Parliament's decision to limit patents... risks creating a patent war with a fallout that could make it illegal to access some European e-commerce sites from the United States... Pure

Re: IPsec in 2.6

2003-10-09 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Eugen Leitl [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003.10.09.1931 +0200]: What is wrong which just exchanging the keys for ad hoc mode? You could cache them and log whenever a key has changed (at least allowing to detect a MITM post facto). .. like SSH, huh? We're really looking for blanket rollout