Re: Giesecke Devrient

2004-08-02 Thread Peter Gutmann
Eugen Leitl [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Assuming I generate a key on a RSA smart card made by GD, what kind of prestige track do these people have? They seem to be pretty secretive, that's not a good sign. GD produce (or help produce) things like banknotes and passports (and have been doing so

you can't argue with economics (Re: On how the NSA can be generations ahead)

2004-08-02 Thread Adam Back
But most cryptanalysis types of things are economic defenses. (ie you can spend $lots you can break; or you don't have enough $ to build because the $ at current tech is an astronomical multiple of the US national debt). So if the NSA are being stupid, and uneconomical with the black budget (and

Re: Giesecke Devrient

2004-08-02 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 03:36:45AM +1200, Peter Gutmann wrote: GD produce (or help produce) things like banknotes and passports (and have been doing so for more than a century), the secrecy comes with the territory. I have no smart card background, unfortunately. I've heard GD ignores requests

[IP] Bulk of 2004's virus infections pinned on one man (fwd from dave@farber.net)

2004-08-02 Thread Eugen Leitl
- Forwarded message from David Farber [EMAIL PROTECTED] - From: David Farber [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2004 08:31:48 -0400 To: Ip [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [IP] Bulk of 2004's virus infections pinned on one man X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.618) Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Begin

Anonymizer outsourcing customer data?

2004-08-02 Thread Anonymous via the Cypherpunks Tonga Remailer
Recently I received the Anonymizer PrivacyShield Alert, as an Anonymizer user, and was distressed to note that it appears Anonymizer has now outsourced its mail and marketing infrastructure. Partial headers from new mail system: Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: from

Re: [Politech] A close look at John Kerry's *real* tech agenda [ip]

2004-08-02 Thread Bill Stewart
At 08:35 AM 8/2/2004, Declan wrote: http://news.com.com/2010-1028-5291476.html John Kerry is not our friend on this issue. If you've read Alexander Cockburn's article on Kerry's Vietnam record, he's not good on peace issues either. On the other hand, he's not Bush. While he and Edwards both like

TERRORISTS ARE AMONG US! (Was: A close look at John Kerry's *real* tech agenda )

2004-08-02 Thread Declan McCullagh
Bill, Thanks for the cogent post. Of course this isn't an issue that would divide the Republicrat Party. Keep reading. -Declan House Select Committee on Homeland Security Democrats JIM TURNER, Ranking Member www.house.gov/hsc/democrats/. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 2, 2004 Contact: Moira

Re: Giesecke Devrient

2004-08-02 Thread Peter Gutmann
Eugen Leitl [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have no smart card background, unfortunately. I've heard GD ignores requests from open source developer people, though. Yup. It's standard banking-industry stuff, unless you're a large bank/government/whatever and are prepared to sign over your firstborn

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

2004-08-02 Thread John Kelsey
-Original Message- From: Major Variola (ret) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Jul 30, 2004 10:25 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Email tapping by ISPs, forwarder addresses, and crypto proxies The profitably part is a non-issue when you have black budgets,

Re: Giesecke Devrient

2004-08-02 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 03:57:02AM +1200, Peter Gutmann wrote: Nothing you can't get from a pile of other vendors who will actually talk to you. Unless you've got some business reason to deal with them, I wouldn't bother (I have nothing against them per se, they just do business in a way

Giesecke Devrient

2004-08-02 Thread Eugen Leitl
Assuming I generate a key on a RSA smart card made by GD, what kind of prestige track do these people have? They seem to be pretty secretive, that's not a good sign. -- Eugen* Leitl a href=http://leitl.org;leitl/a __ ICBM: 48.07078,

Re: Anonymizer outsourcing customer data?

2004-08-02 Thread J.A. Terranson
On Mon, 2 Aug 2004, Anonymous via the Cypherpunks Tonga Remailer wrote: Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ^ || || Received: from anonymizer.lyris.net