Re: Email tapping by ISPs, forwarder addresses, and crypto proxies

Variola wrote... While this cannot be discounted in toto, the tech comes to them from academia (most of the time), so generally, if you are widely read, you'll have a pretty good idea of what's *possible*. You are likely dead-on accurate about the fabs though. In the *public* lit. Well, perhaps b

DES: Now 'really most sincerely dead'

Back in late 1996, I wrote to Jim Bidzos, proposing an RSA Challenge to break single DES by brute force computation. Later in 1997, the first DES Challenge was successfully completed. Its taken another 7 years, but NIST has finally pulled single DES as a supported mode. Favorite line: "DES i

[Meetingpunks] SF Bay Area Cypherpunks August 2004 Physical Meeting Announcement

Rick Moen suggested we have a Cypherpunks meeting in August, so: SF Bay Area Cypherpunks August 2004 Physical Meeting Announcement General Info: DATE: Saturday 14 August 2004 TIME: 12:00 - 5:00 PM (Pacific Time) PLACE: Stanford University Campus - Tressider Union courtyard Agenda: "Our agenda is