Re: network topology

2002-03-29 Thread Jim Choate
On Fri, 29 Mar 2002, Ben Laurie wrote: > Surely not - in a torus you have loops of nodes, whereas here we have > each node directly connected to 99 others in each segment. It may be a > bit like a torus, but it isn't one. Spose it might be a set of > interconnected 100-dimensional toruses (my he

Re: DOJ press release: Visa offshore records to be turned over

2002-03-29 Thread Duncan Frissell
At 07:17 PM 3/28/02 -0500, Declan McCullagh wrote: >DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE >FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE > >COURT APPROVES IRS SUMMONS FOR OFFSHORE CREDIT CARD RECORDS Records from >VISA International Will Identify People Who Use Offshore Credit Cards to >Evade Federal Income Taxes WASHINGTON, D.C. -

We'll call off the SEC if your products ignore Magic Lantern

2002-03-29 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 04:34 PM 3/26/02 -0500, R. A. Hettinga wrote: >http://scripts.ireland.com/newspaper/breaking/printable.cfm?id=44705 > > >FBI checks Network Associates accounting > >The SEC has launched a formal inquiry into Network Associates' fiscal 2000 >accounting practices, the California based company sai

c-punks and cpunx-news archives

2002-03-29 Thread Steve Furlong
Thanks to Adam Back, I have a user-friendly domain name rather than simply an IP address. The LNE cypherpunks archive is available at http://cypherpunks.dhs.org/cypherpunks/index.html The cpunx-news archive is available at http://cypherpunks.dhs.org/cpunk-news/index.html The archives go back o

Re: c-punks and cpunx-news archives

2002-03-29 Thread Steve Furlong
Steve Furlong wrote: > The cpunx-news archive is available at > http://cypherpunks.dhs.org/cpunk-news/index.html That's http://cypherpunks.dhs.org/cpunx-news/index.html My apologies. SRF -- Steve FurlongComputer Condottiere Have GNU, Will Travel The reasonable man adapts himself to th

Re: CDR: Re: network topology

2002-03-29 Thread Ben Laurie
"James B. DiGriz" wrote: > > Jim Choate wrote: > > Draw a picture. If you don't have a place to post it I can arrange a page > > gratis. > > > > You take three nodes. > > > > Arrange them in a ring/triangle. Each node branches to 295(?) other nodes > > (making it a member of three 100 node subnet

Re: Celsius 451 -the melting point of Cat-5 Re: network topology

2002-03-29 Thread Greg Broiles
At 08:55 AM 3/29/2002 -0800, Major Variola (ret) wrote: >I've been thinking about noncentralized self-organizing network >topologies since George >posted his query. First, there are several problems that any P2P >network faces in the future >hostile world: > > 1. ISPs blocking its ports > >

Re: Celsius 451 -the melting point of Cat-5 Re: network topology

2002-03-29 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 09:28 AM 3/29/02 -0800, Greg Broiles wrote: >At 08:55 AM 3/29/2002 -0800, Major Variola (ret) wrote: >> 1. ISPs blocking its ports >> >> 2. The "entry points" to P2P are vulnerable ---web sites that point >>to dynamic list of *tella >> servents, or the Kazaa site that points to acti

network topology considerations

2002-03-29 Thread georgemw
I'd like to discuss what the considerations are for network topology. The particular topology I mentioned (which I've since been convinced isn't really a cube or torus after all) was designed with the idea that it's important to be able to reliably query the entire network without sending any nod

Re: CDR: Re: network topology

2002-03-29 Thread James B. DiGriz
Ben Laurie wrote: > "James B. DiGriz" wrote: > >>Jim Choate wrote: >> >>>Draw a picture. If you don't have a place to post it I can arrange a page >>>gratis. >>> >>>You take three nodes. >>> >>>Arrange them in a ring/triangle. Each node branches to 295(?) other nodes >>>(making it a member of thr

Re: Celsius 451 -the melting point of Cat-5 Re: network topology

2002-03-29 Thread georgemw
On 29 Mar 2002 at 12:25, Major Variola (ret) wrote: > How *do* you stop hostile entities from finding your network? How do > you > admit benign users without accepting spies? Passwords and the like > offer small > obstacles to spies and prevent network deployment. Yes, you can have > the > equ

Celsius 451 -the melting point of Cat-5 Re: network topology

2002-03-29 Thread Major Variola (ret)
I've been thinking about noncentralized self-organizing network topologies since George posted his query. First, there are several problems that any P2P network faces in the future hostile world: 1. ISPs blocking its ports 2. The "entry points" to P2P are vulnerable ---web sites that po

Re: DOJ press release: Visa offshore records to be turned over

2002-03-29 Thread Steve Schear
At 07:17 PM 3/28/2002 -0500, Declan McCullagh wrote: >DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE >FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE >THURSDAY, MARCH 28, 2002 >TAX >(202) 514-2007 >TDD (202) 514-1888 >WWW.USDOJ.GOV > >COURT APPROVES IRS SUMMONS FOR OFFSHORE CREDIT CARD RECORDS Records from >VISA International Will Identify Peopl

Re: DOJ press release: Visa offshore records to be turned over

2002-03-29 Thread Tim May
On Friday, March 29, 2002, at 07:35 AM, Steve Schear wrote: > At 07:17 PM 3/28/2002 -0500, Declan McCullagh wrote: >> DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE >> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE >> THURSDAY, MARCH 28, 2002 >> TAX >> (202) 514-2007 >> TDD (202) 514-1888 >> WWW.USDOJ.GOV >> >> COURT APPROVES IRS SUMMONS FOR OF

Re: CDR: Re: network topology

2002-03-29 Thread James B. DiGriz
Jim Choate wrote: > Draw a picture. If you don't have a place to post it I can arrange a page > gratis. > > You take three nodes. > > Arrange them in a ring/triangle. Each node branches to 295(?) other nodes > (making it a member of three 100 node subnets - somehow these numbers > don't add up)

Re: network topology

2002-03-29 Thread Ben Laurie
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On 27 Mar 2002 at 22:43, Eugene Leitl wrote: > > > On Wed, 27 Mar 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > I don't recall ever having read of this type of structure before, > > > but it seems so obvious that I'm sure it's been discussed before. > > > So is there a nam

Re: 1024-bit RSA keys in danger of compromise

2002-03-29 Thread V Alex Brennen
On Mon, 25 Mar 2002, Bill Stewart wrote: > While SSL implementations are mostly 1024 bits these days, > aren't PGP Diffie-Hellman keys usually 1536 bits? I think there's a general consensus that the minimum recommended key size for X9.42 Diffie-Hellman PGP keys is 1024bits. I'm not sure if the

Re: Content Management Nightmares

2002-03-29 Thread Morlock Elloi
>From: "CDR Anonymizer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> There goes another polluted entry point. = end (of original message) Y-a*h*o-o (yes, they scan for this) spam follows: Yahoo! Greetings - send holiday greetings for Easter, Passover http://greetings.yahoo.com/

Re: network topology

2002-03-29 Thread Jim Choate
Draw a picture. If you don't have a place to post it I can arrange a page gratis. You take three nodes. Arrange them in a ring/triangle. Each node branches to 295(?) other nodes (making it a member of three 100 node subnets - somehow these numbers don't add up). It's not clear if those are a '

Re: DOJ press release: Visa offshore records to be turned over

2002-03-29 Thread georgemw
On 28 Mar 2002 at 19:17, Declan McCullagh wrote: > DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE > FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE > THURSDAY, MARCH 28, 2002 > TAX > (202) 514-2007 > TDD (202) 514-1888 > WWW.USDOJ.GOV > > COURT APPROVES IRS SUMMONS FOR OFFSHORE CREDIT CARD RECORDS Records from > VISA International Will Identif

Choate's header stripping address

2002-03-29 Thread A. Melon
I have added Choate's header stripping cpunks address (I won't lie and call it an anonymizer) to my killfile, as 95% of all traffic through it has been spam previously. Apparently, Jimbo left a mailto: link on a website somewhere, and it got harvested. Now, Mr. CACL is evading my killfiles by