Re: Quantum cryptography gets practical

2004-10-06 Thread Dave Howe
Tyler Durden wrote: An interesting thing to think about is the fact that in dense metro areas, you pretty much have a star from the CO out to a premise (which is the cause of deployment of Collapsed SONET Rings). This means the other photon of your encrypted pair might easily pass through the

Quantum cryptography gets practical

2004-10-06 Thread Tyler Durden
Actually, that's an interesting point. In places like downtown NYC, if the fiber doesn't actually go to the basement of a building, it will certainly go within a few 100 feet, so that last hop is trivial. (But the kind of companies this would be targeted for this would already have fiber to the

Re: City Challenged on Fingerprinting Protesters

2004-10-06 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 10:49 AM 10/5/04 -0400, R. A. Hettinga wrote: Now it looks as if much of the fingerprinting may not have been legal in the first place. According to lawyers at the New York Civil Liberties Union, the city may have violated state law by routinely fingerprinting arrested protesters. There is a

Re: City Challenged on Fingerprinting Protesters

2004-10-06 Thread Dave Howe
Major Variola (ret) wrote: There is a bill in this year's Ca election to require DNA sampling of anyone arrested. Not convicted of a felony, but arrested. Doesn't surprise me - the UK police collected a huge bunch of fingerprints and dna samples for elimination purposes during one of the

Re: ID Rules Exist, But Can't Be Seen

2004-10-06 Thread Bob Jonkman
This is what Tyler Durden [EMAIL PROTECTED] said about ID Rules Exist, But Can't Be Seen on 30 Sep 2004 at 17:06 For instance, is it indeed possible that revealing this rule would pose an additional security risk? If such a rule exists (and it does) then hijackers obviously already know about

Brands credential book online (pdf)

2004-10-06 Thread Adam Back
For people interested in ecash / credential tech: Stefan Brands book on his credential / ecash technology is now downloadable in pdf format from credentica's web site: http://www.credentica.com/the_mit_pressbook.php (previously it was only available in hardcopy, and only parts of the

CodeCon 2005 Call for Papers

2004-10-06 Thread Len Sassaman
CodeCon 4.0 February 11-13, 2005 San Francisco CA, USA www.codecon.org Call For Papers CodeCon is the premier showcase of cutting edge software development. It is an excellent opportunity for programmers to demonstrate their work and keep abreast of what's going on in their community. All

Re: Quantum cryptography gets practical

2004-10-06 Thread Dave Howe
Dave Howe wrote: I think this is part of the purpose behind the following paper: http://eprint.iacr.org/2004/229.pdf which I am currently trying to understand and failing miserably at *sigh* Nope, finally strugged to the end to find a section pointing out that it does *not* prevent mitm attacks.