Re: The next time you see someone on TV in a newsroom

2003-02-26 Thread Bill Stewart
At 04:40 PM 02/24/2003 -0800, Tim May wrote: Putting up fake newsrooms is quite another matter, though. I don't recall seeing this static shot of the New York Times-Washington Bureau newsroom. It seems like a silly thing to do, to have a photo of a newsroom with nobody in it. On the backdrops

RSA Conference Awards Nominations now open.

2003-02-26 Thread Trei, Peter
I'm sure the folks on this list can come up with some interesting nominations :-) Peter Trei Deadline March 3rd Nominations opened today for the sixth annual RSA. Conference Awards. The Awards recognize individuals and organizations that make significant and

Re: Ethnomathematics

2003-02-26 Thread Peter Gutmann
Bill Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Actually doing a female-oriented physics or teaching curriculum is fine, if somebody can do a good job of it. Well, I made a start a few years ago with Network Security: A Feminist Perspective (done when people ask me to do security talks for them without

Trivial OPT generation method?

2003-02-26 Thread Thomas Shaddack
I am playing with an one-time pad generator. I have a FM radio receiver card in the computer, as /dev/dsp3. I wrote a small simple program that takes the filename and file size as arguments, then produces the desired file as full of random numbers. The algorithm of generating the numbers is

RE: Trivial OPT generation method?

2003-02-26 Thread Vincent Penquerc'h
1) Get 8 bytes from /dev/urandom. (Just for sure.) Put them into the You probably know this if you use it, but /dev/random is the most random one, as it always uses system entropy, rather than falling back on an algorithm to generate more bits than are available in the pool. Since you only need

Be careful about technological self help methods

2003-02-26 Thread Declan McCullagh
http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-booby25.html Family of electrocuted thief gets $75,000 February 25, 2003 BY DAN ROZEK STAFF REPORTER The family of a convicted burglar who was electrocuted in 1997 when he tried to break in to a bar in Aurora after-hours and triggered a homemade

Mischief afoot in Bolivia from IMF et al U.S. proxies?

2003-02-26 Thread Steve Schear
[Translation via Craig Spencer] http://www.buscabo.net/20030223/economia_8.html The Hidden Agenda of the IMF The IMF has been urging an income tax (on Bolivia) for 4 years. ...which included provisions for progressive rates between 13% and 25%... ... according to this document

Re: Be careful about technological self help methods

2003-02-26 Thread Steve Schear
At 10:46 AM 2/26/2003 -0500, you wrote: http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-booby25.html Family of electrocuted thief gets $75,000 February 25, 2003 BY DAN ROZEK STAFF REPORTER The family of a convicted burglar who was electrocuted in 1997 when he tried to break in to a bar in Aurora

Re: Trivial OPT generation method?

2003-02-26 Thread gabriel rosenkoetter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 03:37:10PM -, Vincent Penquerc'h wrote: 1) Get 8 bytes from /dev/urandom. (Just for sure.) Put them into the You probably know this if you use it, but /dev/random is the most random one, as it always uses system

Re: Ethnomathematics

2003-02-26 Thread John Bethencourt
On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 10:02:05PM +1300, Peter Gutmann wrote: Well, I made a start a few years ago with Network Security: A Feminist Perspective (done when people ask me to do security talks for them without bothering to specify which aspect of security they want me to talk about) about

Re: Trivial OPT generation method?

2003-02-26 Thread Dan Veeneman
At 10:55 AM 2/26/03 -0500, you wrote: He only needs a pseudo-random seed, though. The real random comes from the radio white-noise. [...] After that, you actually want to feed the entropy you're getting from the radio tuner *into* /dev/[u]random. He may wish to pre-process the raw bits to remove

Re: Say Bush is Nuts, Go to Jail

2003-02-26 Thread Tim May
On Wednesday, February 26, 2003, at 11:53 AM, Eric Cordian wrote: http://santafenewmexican.com/site/ news.cfm?BRD=2144dept_id=415763newsid=7071930PAG=461rfi=9 - ... According to Andrew J. O'Connor, 40, a former Santa Fe public defender, two city police officers removed him from the

cryptome log downloads

2003-02-26 Thread Nomen Nescio
These IPs downloaded access log from cryptome during hacked state. pcp259331pcs.howard01.md.comcast.net 212.54.205.184 host.159-142-70-179.gsa.gov c-889471d5.021-3-73746f50.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se 217.167.197.20 193.128.179.38 217.167.197.20 host.21.88.68.195.rev.coltfrance.com 216.155.104.95

Re: Trivial OTP generation method? (makernd.c)

2003-02-26 Thread Thomas Shaddack
After that, you actually want to feed the entropy you're getting from the radio tuner *into* /dev/[u]random. He may wish to pre-process the raw bits to remove any potential bias they may have. Here's what I do for random bits: http://www.etoan.com/random-number-generation/index.html

Re: cryptome log downloads

2003-02-26 Thread lcs Mixmaster Remailer
On Wed, 26 Feb 2003 23:50:06 +0100 (CET), you wrote: These IPs downloaded access log from cryptome during hacked state. list of ip's snipped Didn't everybody who wanted to know who had downloaded the log, which includes you, have to download the log? Idiot.

Re: Say Bush is Nuts, Go to Jail

2003-02-26 Thread Steve Furlong
On Wednesday 26 February 2003 17:15, Tyler Durden wrote: Gulp. But then again, are they going to arrest all 250 million of us? cf The Asylum from Douglas Adams' _So Long and Thanks for All the Fish_. Just turn the entire US into a jail with a few, small not jail locations. -- Steve Furlong

Say Bush is Nuts, Go to Jail

2003-02-26 Thread Eric Cordian
http://santafenewmexican.com/site/news.cfm?BRD=2144dept_id=415763newsid=7071930PAG=461rfi=9 - ... According to Andrew J. O'Connor, 40, a former Santa Fe public defender, two city police officers removed him from the school's library about 9 p.m. Thursday while he was using a computer. They

Re: Say Bush is Nuts, Go to Jail

2003-02-26 Thread Tyler Durden
Damn. Some odd details there. Crap I'm getting paranoid. Wait, I may be paranoid but that doesn't mean I'm wrong. So the guy was known to belong to an Anti-Pallestinian group, and this was known to the SS folks prior to him being arrested. So apparently, they were watching this guy. Gulp. But