patriot act and public key encryption

2003-02-07 Thread Michael Cardenas
If secret searches with secret warrants are legal now, what good is it to use public key encryption and keep a backup of your private key at home on a floppy? Is there a protocol to have a blinded private key, so you wouldn't actually have access to your own private key? -- michael cardenas

Re: Life Sentence for Medical Marijuana?

2003-01-31 Thread Michael Cardenas
state law, or any other mitigating factors. There is no such thing as medical marijuana, said Richard Meyer, a DEA spokesman. We're Americans first, Californians second. Actually, I think that should be Assholes First. -- michael cardenas | lead software engineer

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2003-01-09 Thread Michael Cardenas
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Re: biological systems and cryptography

2003-01-03 Thread Michael Cardenas
wrote: On Wednesday, January 1, 2003, at 08:55 PM, Michael Cardenas wrote: On Tue, Dec 31, 2002 at 12:23:51PM -0800, Tim May wrote: On Tuesday, December 31, 2002, at 11:41 AM, Michael Cardenas wrote: How do you all see the future use of biologically based systems affecting cryptography

Re: biological systems and cryptography

2003-01-03 Thread Michael Cardenas
On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 10:39:45AM -0800, Bill Stewart wrote: At 02:18 AM 01/03/2003 -0800, Tim May wrote: On Wednesday, January 1, 2003, at 08:55 PM, Michael Cardenas wrote: People do break cyphers, by finding weaknesses in them. Are you saying that you think that current cyphers

Re: biological systems and cryptography

2003-01-02 Thread Michael Cardenas
On Tue, Dec 31, 2002 at 12:23:51PM -0800, Tim May wrote: On Tuesday, December 31, 2002, at 11:41 AM, Michael Cardenas wrote: How do you all see the future use of biologically based systems affecting cryptography in general? By biologically based systems I mean machine learning, genetic

Re: Quantum Probability and Decision Theory

2003-01-01 Thread Michael Cardenas
be wired into the brain of a lobster to simulate removed neurons, creating the proper oscillation to generate the signals which allow the lobster to digest things. He mostly does research into the nonlines dynamic properties of neurons. I'm hoping to work in his lab next year. michael -- michael

biological systems and cryptography

2002-12-31 Thread Michael Cardenas
, it seems that the brain has immensely powerful visual processing power, without having millions of lines of code written to do so. I only ask this because I'm deciding whether to study computational neuroscience or cryptography in grad school. -- michael cardenas | lead software engineer

Re: Recommended: Catch Me If You Can, a film

2002-12-31 Thread Michael Cardenas
tyrants. --Thomas Jefferson, 1787 I actually found a beautiful mind to be a disappointment. I was hoping for a movie more about math and crypto, but it turned out to be a movie about schizophrenia. Did you not find the same thing? -- michael cardenas | lead software engineer, lindows.com

Re: Dossiers and Customer Courtesy Cards

2002-12-31 Thread Michael Cardenas
finding, the suspect. -- michael cardenas | lead software engineer, lindows.com hyperpoem.net | GNU/Linux software developer people.debian.org/~mbc | encrypted email preferred Listening to: A Tribe Called Quest - Scenario Each molecule preaches perfect law, Each moment chants

Re: Dossiers and Customer Courtesy Cards

2002-12-31 Thread Michael Cardenas
On Tue, Dec 31, 2002 at 12:12:02PM -0800, Tim May wrote: On Tuesday, December 31, 2002, at 11:32 AM, Michael Cardenas wrote: But what if this data is used as part of a larger picture, such as in TIA. It definitely can be used, along with gas purchases, to track where a suspect, aka a citizen

Re: BigBrotherWare

2002-12-21 Thread Michael Cardenas
, will be most concerned about. So I would expect this opt in approach to not be the full picture.) Microsoft is pushing hard to get palladium into the silicon, with intel and amd happy to comply. It's hard to imagine how it will be voluntary after that happens. -- michael cardenas | lead

Re: Bruce Schneier hullabaloo

2002-12-21 Thread Michael Cardenas
to mean much. -- michael cardenas | lead software engineer, lindows.com hyperpoem.net | GNU/Linux software developer people.debian.org/~mbc | encrypted mail preferred Be the change you wish to see in the world -Mahatma Gandhi

Re: Bruce Schneier hullabaloo

2002-12-21 Thread Michael Cardenas
Mike Rosing wrote: On Fri, 20 Dec 2002, Michael Cardenas wrote: I just have a hard time seeing the bridge between armed rebellion against the largest military power the world has ever known, the U.S., and some new networking technologies that are being designed for cisco to make more money

Re: Misconceptions about how remailers work

2002-12-21 Thread Michael Cardenas
Tim May wrote: On Friday, December 20, 2002, at 12:34 PM, Michael Cardenas wrote: Anonymous wrote: Like I said before, P2P, Crypto, WiFi and cheap chips will turn everything upside down. I'm curious as to what makes you, or anyone on this list, think that these technologies by themselves

Re: Build It Rolling Your Own Tivo (fwd)

2002-12-05 Thread Michael Cardenas
as they are, [EMAIL PROTECTED] we see them as we are. www.ssz.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anais Nin www.open-forge.org -- michael cardenas | lead software