IRS May Help DOD Find Reservists

2004-05-19 Thread R. A. Hettinga
http://www.military.com/Content/Printer_Friendly_Version/1,11491,,00.html?str_filename=FL%5Firs%5F051804passfile=FL%5Firs%5F051804page_url=%2FNewsContent%2F0%2C13319%2CFL%5Firs%5F051804%2C00%2Ehtml Military Insider Newsletter IRS May Help DOD Find Reservists Fort Worth Star-Telegram May

Re: 3. Proof-of-work analysis

2004-05-19 Thread Adam Back
Here's a forward of parts of an email I sent to Richard with comments on his and Ben's paper (sent me a pre-print off-list a couple of weeks ago): One obvious comment is that the calculations do not take account of the CAMRAM approach of charging for introductions only. You mention this in the

Re: Diffie-Hellman question

2004-05-19 Thread Peter Fairbrother
Thomas Shaddack wrote: I have a standard implementation of OpenSSL, with Diffie-Hellman prime in the SSL certificate. The DH cipher suite is enabled. Is it safe to keep one prime there forever, or should I rather periodically regenerate it? Why? If yes, what's some sane period to do so:

RE: EU seeks quantum cryptography response to Echelon

2004-05-19 Thread Tyler Durden
Boondoggle. A solution in search of a problem: Monyk believes there will be a global market of several million users once a workable solution has been developed. A political decision will have to be taken as to who those users will be in order to prevent terrorists and criminals from taking

Re: al-qaeda.net node downtime

2004-05-19 Thread Adam
On Tue, 18 May 2004 05:18:06 -0400 Riad S. Wahby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm moving from Massachusetts to Texas, and unfortunately that means that my machine's connectivity will be in a state of flux for a while. Unless someone has a machine with a (fast, static) connection on which they

ID Pass? But I Am Mayor..

2004-05-19 Thread R. A. Hettinga
http://www.mirror.co.uk/printable_version.cfm?method=printable_version_mirrorobjectid=14253448siteid=50143 ID PASS? BUT I AM MAYOR.. By Geoffrey Lakeman SELF-important mayor Anne Rey refused to open a police conference in her town - because she had to wear a security pass. Home Secretary

'Taxi! Fly Me To Cleveland'

2004-05-19 Thread R. A. Hettinga
Geodesic Air Travel is here. I flew out of Albuquerque last week with one of the guys from Eclipse Aviation. Okay. We were on the same plane. I was in steerage. He wasn't. :-). Cheers, RAH --- http://online.wsj.com/article_print/0,,SB108491821399715012,00.html The Wall Street Journal

[Politech] Here's someone who actually likes political spam [sp]

2004-05-19 Thread R. A. Hettinga
--- begin forwarded text Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 22:31:27 -0400 From: Declan McCullagh [EMAIL PROTECTED] User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.6 (Macintosh/20040502) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Politech] Here's someone who actually likes political spam [sp]

RE: EU seeks quantum cryptography response to Echelon

2004-05-19 Thread Trei, Peter
Tom Shaddack wrote: On Tue, 18 May 2004, Tyler Durden wrote: Monyk believes there will be a global market of several million users once a workable solution has been developed. A political decision will have to be taken as to who those users will be in order to prevent terrorists

Modexp

2004-05-19 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 12:22 AM 5/19/04 +0100, Peter Fairbrother wrote: Peter Fairbrother (Who is right now composing a talk about the uses of modexp in crypto, for those far more knowledgeable than I) Modexp is Prometheus send from Olympia to let us speak between ourselves. Modexp has many implementation

Re: al-qaeda.net node downtime

2004-05-19 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 05:18 AM 5/18/04 -0400, Riad S. Wahby wrote: I'm moving from Massachusetts to Texas, and unfortunately that means Congrats on being able to exercise your 2nd amendment rights a little bit more..

Re: [ISN] Safe and insecure

2004-05-19 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 12:06 PM 5/19/04 -0400, R. A. Hettinga wrote: --- begin forwarded text http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2004/05/18/safe_and_insecure/index.html By Micah Joel May 18, 2004 Last week, I turned off all the security features of my wireless router. I removed WEP encryption, disabled MAC address

[ISN] Safe and insecure

2004-05-19 Thread R. A. Hettinga
--- begin forwarded text Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 07:20:30 -0500 (CDT) From: InfoSec News [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ISN] Safe and insecure Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] List-Id: InfoSec News isn.attrition.org List-Archive: http://www.attrition.org/pipermail/isn List-Post:

Mixmaster Protocol Draft (revision)

2004-05-19 Thread Len Sassaman
An updated version of the Mixmaster Protocol Specification has been published: http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-sassaman-mixmaster-01.txt I'd like this to be the last revision, so if you have any comments on it (or if you've raised issues in the past that you don't see addressed),

RE: EU seeks quantum cryptography response to Echelon

2004-05-19 Thread Thomas Shaddack
On Tue, 18 May 2004, Tyler Durden wrote: Monyk believes there will be a global market of several million users once a workable solution has been developed. A political decision will have to be taken as to who those users will be in order to prevent terrorists and criminals from taking

Re: [Asrg] Re: 3. Proof-of-work analysis

2004-05-19 Thread Barry Shein
I'm still amazed that anyone takes this proof-of-work/hashcash stuff seriously. At best it's the War Games approach, let's make the server play tic-tac-toe with itself to avoid nuclear holocaust, or the Bill Shatner logical paradox that makes the robot's head blow up. The Sphinx's riddle also

RE: EU seeks quantum cryptography response to Echelon

2004-05-19 Thread Tyler Durden
Thomas Shaddack wrote... There are quite many important activities that don't require storage of the transported data. For example, very very few people record their phone calls. Storage wasn't my point per se. My point was that quantum cryptography only becomes unsnoopable* when it's in the

Re: [Asrg] Re: 3. Proof-of-work analysis

2004-05-19 Thread Mark Baugher
At 03:02 PM 5/19/2004, Barry Shein wrote: I'm still amazed that anyone takes this proof-of-work/hashcash stuff seriously. I think it's grounded in some well-accepted DoS defence principles that are found in cookie protocols like Photuris and ISAKMP. Mark At best it's the War Games approach,