Ben's blinding, plus pre-publishing

2002-06-10 Thread Jason Holt
>Maybe you could say more about the details of your credential system. >Such a system built on Wagner blinding might be very interesting. I've been thinking it would be nice to post my entire paper here (and maybe on sci.crypt.research) before sending it off to the journals. What are th

RE: PGP and Speak Freely (fwd)

2002-06-10 Thread Trei, Peter
What these people ought to be doing is using the PGP messages only to transmit authentication data. eg: "When I talk today, I'm going to mention the Yankess". That way if a criminal cracks their system and reads plaintext copies of their email, they can't decrypt stored traffic. What they propose

Re: Degrees of Freedom vs. Hollywood Control Freaks

2002-06-10 Thread Ken Brown
"Major Variola (ret)" wrote: > Jeezum, how old *are* you? We haven't called vacuum tubes 'valves' for > some time.. Oh yes we do! I never call them anything but "valves".

Re: PKI: Only Mostly Dead

2002-06-10 Thread lynn . wheeler
I think there is even less "I" than most people suspect. I've recently taken to some manual sampling of SSL domain name server certificates ... and finding certificates that have expired ... but being accepted by several browsers that i've tested with (no complaints or fault indications). there