Re: Edinburgh Financial Cryptography Engineering 2002 - CFP

Dan Geer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I founded this series in 1995 and was proud to have done so; we ran them in 1996 and 1998 as well, but the cutting edge quickly moved away from USENIX's core and forte to where every conference organizer on the planet had an e- commerce workshop of some sort up

Missing pieces?

What are the fundamental building blocks that we're missing for a bright 'n' shiny crypto-future?

Re: Missing pieces?

Mister Heex wrote: What are the fundamental building blocks that we're missing for a bright 'n' shiny crypto-future? Cluefull users. Politicians who aren't trying to grab power. -- Steve FurlongComputer Condottiere Have GNU, Will Travel Vote Idiotarian --- it's easier than thinking

Re: IP: I know some will get angry at this one Thinking the Unthinkable 2002

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At 5:59 PM -0400 on 5/27/02, Dave Farber wrote: We can no longer endure what you have tolerated. We will not allow you to be passive spectators at our steady destruction, or to content yourself with pro forma gestures. We are forced to make

RE: NAI pulls out the DMCA stick

[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 27 May 2002 at 19:56, Peter Gutmann wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My impression is that S/MIME sucks big ones, because it commits one to a certificate system based on verisign or equivalent. I'll say this one more time, slowly for those at the back: What you're

Re: Missing pieces?

Mike Rosing wrote: Speaking of power grabs, I just sent a 4 page letter to my senator on the Judiciary committee on S.2048 - the bill to make A/D converters test for copyright notice. We can't stop power grabs, but we can at least educate clueless politicians. Probably won't change

Forward-secure public-key encryption eprint

Forward-secure public-key encryption has been discussed here, on sci.crypt, and elsewhere. To recap - the goal is that an adversary who breaks into your computer today can't read messages sent/received yesterday. In the interactive case, you use ephermal Diffie-Hellman. The non-interactive case

Re: NYT: Techies Now Respect Government

Sounds like more of the same kinds of words inserted into Phil Zimmermann mouth by Ariana Cha to me. Hmmm, smells like bullshit, looks like bullshit, there's a bull looking a bit relieved a few feet away, I wonder what it could be?

Re: Missing pieces?

On Tue, 28 May 2002, Steve Furlong wrote: My senators are Clinton and Schumer. Makes me damn proud to be an American, I tell you. Neither's office has responded to any of my Yeah, that's a grim position to be in. At least my congress critters write back. letters, probably because I didn't

Re: Edinburgh Financial Cryptography Engineering 2002 - CFP

Peter, Does anyone know what happened to the Usenix e-commerce conferences? They were in the vein of what FC used to be ... there's also the EC-Web conference, although that has more of an emphasis on web technology than EC. I founded this series in 1995 and was proud to have done

Anti-snooping operating system close to launch

Anti-snooping operating system close to launch 16:28 28 May 02 NewScientist.com news service Computer activists in Britain are close to completing an operating system that could undermine government efforts to the wiretap the internet. The UK Home Office has condemned the project as

Re: Anti-snooping operating system close to launch

An interesting thread concerning M-o-o-t can be found at http://www.topica.com/lists/m-o-o-t-os-group/read Of particular interest to cypherpunks may be the Threats and Weaknesses analysis begun in Dec 2000 Threats and Weaknesses == Workstation: · Hardware/firmware traps