RE: Dell to Add Security Chip to PCs

2005-02-03 Thread Jay Sulzberger
On Wed, 2 Feb 2005, Erwann ABALEA wrote: On Wed, 2 Feb 2005, Trei, Peter wrote: Seeing as it comes out of the TCG, this is almost certainly the enabling hardware for Palladium/NGSCB. Its a part of your computer which you may not have full control over. Please stop relaying FUD. You have full

Re: Overcoming the potential downside of TCPA

2002-08-15 Thread Jay Sulzberger
On Thu, 15 Aug 2002, Anonymous wrote: [Repost] Joe Ashwood writes: Actually that does nothing to stop it. Because of the construction of TCPA, the private keys are registered _after_ the owner receives the computer, this is the window of opportunity against that as well. Actually,

Re: Thanks, Lucky, for helping to kill gnutella

2002-08-09 Thread Jay Sulzberger
On Fri, 9 Aug 2002, AARG!Anonymous wrote: ... / Not discussed in the article is the technical question of how this can possibly work. If you issue a digital certificate on some Gnutella client, what stops a different client, an unauthorized client, from pretending to be the legitimate

Re: Privacy-enhancing uses for TCPA

2002-08-04 Thread Jay Sulzberger
On Sat, 3 Aug 2002, AARG!Anonymous wrote: ... / Now for a simple example of what can be done: a distributed poker game. Of course there are a number of crypto protocols for playing poker on the net, but they are quite complicated. Even though they've been around for almost 20 years, I've

RE: Challenge to David Wagner on TCPA

2002-08-03 Thread Jay Sulzberger
On Fri, 2 Aug 2002, Albion Zeglin wrote: Quoting Jay Sulzberger [EMAIL PROTECTED]: b. Why must TCPA/Palladium be a dongle on the whole computer? Why not a separate dongle? Because, of course, the Englobulators proceed here on principle. The principle being that only the Englobulators

RE: Challenge to David Wagner on TCPA

2002-08-02 Thread Jay Sulzberger
On Fri, 2 Aug 2002, James A. Donald wrote: -- On 2 Aug 2002 at 10:43, Trei, Peter wrote: Since the position argued involves nothing which would invoke the malign interest of government powers or corporate legal departments, it's not that. I can only think of two reasons why our

Re: Challenge to David Wagner on TCPA

2002-07-31 Thread Jay Sulzberger
On Tue, 30 Jul 2002, James A. Donald wrote: -- On 29 Jul 2002 at 15:35, AARG! Anonymous wrote: both Palladium and TCPA deny that they are designed to restrict what applications you run. The TPM FAQ at http://www.trustedcomputing.org/docs/TPM_QA_071802.pdf reads They deny

Re: Ross's TCPA paper

2002-07-11 Thread Jay Sulzberger
On Fri, 5 Jul 2002, AARG!Anonymous wrote: ... / Right, and you can boot untrusted OS's as well. Recently there was discussion here of HP making a trusted form of Linux that would work with the TCPA hardware. So you will have options in both the closed source and open source worlds to

Re: IP: SSL Certificate Monopoly Bears Financial Fruit

2002-07-11 Thread Jay Sulzberger
On Wed, 10 Jul 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -- On 6 Jul 2002 at 9:33, R. A. Hettinga wrote: Thawte has now announced a round of major price increases. New cert prices appear to have almost doubled, and renewals have increased more than 50%. While Thawte proclaims this is their