Re: Chaumian blinding public voting?

2003-11-02 Thread Neil Johnson
On Friday 31 October 2003 10:55 pm, Tim May wrote: .. (Standard Tim May Anyone who doesn't agree with me deserves to die a horrible death rant) ... --Tim May I figured that was coming. Chuckle. -- Neil Johnson http://www.njohnsn.com PGP key available on request.

Re: Chaumian blinding public voting?

2003-11-02 Thread Neil Johnson
On Friday 31 October 2003 12:10 pm, Major Variola (ret) wrote: Is is possible to use blinding (or other protocols) so that all votes are published, you can check that your vote is in there, and you (or anyone) can run the maths and verify the vote? Without being able to link people to votes

Re: Chaumian blinding public voting?

2003-11-02 Thread Steve Furlong
On Fri, 2003-10-31 at 23:55, Tim May wrote: Increasing voter turnout is, of course, a Bad Thing. For the reasons we discuss so often. Agreed. To the extent that I want a government at all, I support a constitutional republic, not a democracy. Legions of bleary-eyed, TV-addled, bigoted

Jim Bovard on C-SPAN, Sunday 11/02 8-9pm Booknotes, Terrorism and Tyranny

2003-11-02 Thread Freematt357
Author James Bovard will appear on C-SPAN 's Booknotes with Brian Lamb this Sunday, 11/02, from 8 pm to 9 pm (I believe it may re-air from 11 pm to midnight). Bovard will be discussing his new book Terrorism and Tyranny: Trampling Freedom, Justice, and Peace to Rid the World of Evil. I've

Re: ECC and blinding.

2003-11-02 Thread Adam Back
On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 09:06:10AM -0800, James A. Donald wrote: On 28 Oct 2003 at 13:49, Adam Back wrote: So for that reason I think Chaum's scheme practically would not be viable over EC. (Or you could do it but you'd be better off performance, security and key/messag size doing Chaum

Re: Chaumian blinding public voting?

2003-11-02 Thread Major Variola (ret)
First, much thanks to Howie Goodell for his reply. (Note that printing stuff on transparencies was proposed (by Shamir?) some time ago, perhaps for quorum-required info.) At 09:17 PM 10/31/03 -0600, Neil Johnson wrote: On Friday 31 October 2003 12:10 pm, Major Variola (ret) wrote: Is is

Spelling corrections are now export-controlled

2003-11-02 Thread Peter Gutmann
Looks like the USG is going to outdo its ITAR silliness of a few years ago with something even more ridiculous: Grammar and spelling corrections now require an export license. The following was forwarded to me by Clark Thomborson: -- Snip -- Dear colleagues, If I'm reading

Cisco LEAP (fwd)

2003-11-02 Thread J.A. Terranson
I thought this forum would be able to provide the good gentleman with more accurate data that the typical that is to be found on the below mentioned mailing list. -- Yours, J.A. Terranson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Every living thing dies alone. Donnie Darko -- Forwarded

Re: Chaumian blinding public voting?

2003-11-02 Thread howiegoodell
Hello -- David Chaum has a new system that is an optical one-time pad. It requires a printer that prints squares on both sides of a transparent 2-layer ballot. To the voter it looks like ordinary printing with a solid black border. Then s/he separates the layers, hands one in for counting

Re: Chaumian blinding public voting?

2003-11-02 Thread J.A. Terranson
On Fri, 31 Oct 2003, Tim May wrote: Or should we just add 20 of the remaining 30 list subscribers here to the list of 25 million in these united states who need to be sent up the chimneys? Works for me. Do we actually have 30 subscribers left? -- Yours, J.A. Terranson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

FLASH: DHS wants info on store refunds?

2003-11-02 Thread J.A. Terranson
Ahhh, the joys of shopping for new toys. A new sling. A scope mount and 4x. Music to the ears (after mufflers are properly applied :-). Here in the heart of Redneck Country, there are two stores with a decent selection that are under an hours drive: Dunn's and Galyans (a chain). Galyans is

Re: Chaumian blinding public voting?

2003-11-02 Thread Tim May
On Friday, October 31, 2003, at 07:17 PM, Neil Johnson wrote: On Friday 31 October 2003 12:10 pm, Major Variola (ret) wrote: Is is possible to use blinding (or other protocols) so that all votes are published, you can check that your vote is in there, and you (or anyone) can run the maths and

Re: Spelling corrections are now export-controlled

2003-11-02 Thread Steve Schear
At 01:47 AM 11/2/2003 -0800, Major Variola (ret) wrote: Of course there are limits in regards to freedom of speech. They are as follows: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the

Re: Spelling corrections are now export-controlled

2003-11-02 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 04:05 PM 11/2/03 +1300, Peter Gutmann wrote: Still... it occurs to me that the State department is setting itself up for a DOS attack -- what would happen if 10% of all US academics were to apply for one of these licenses? It would facilitate the blacklisting and later roundup. And hmm, where

Re: Spelling corrections are now export-controlled

2003-11-02 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 11:12 AM 11/2/03 -0800, Steve Schear wrote: At 01:47 AM 11/2/2003 -0800, Major Variola (ret) wrote: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people

cryptoIDs

2003-11-02 Thread Trevor Perrin
Hi cypherpunks, First-time poster. I've lurked awhile. I'm working on a system for key infrastructure, and I'd like to invite criticism, comments, help, etc., from anyone interested. You can find the paper and code here: http://trevp.net#cryptoID Here's a summary - The system is based on a

Re: ECC and blinding.

2003-11-02 Thread Adam Back
Fair enough. But this is not Chaum's scheme, it is Wagners and it is DH based (or ECDH based in your writeup). You said earlier: Simple Chaumian blinding works fine on EC. and the above scheme is not Chaumian blinding. Chaum never invented DH blinding, if you read Brands thesis even you'll

Re: ECC and blinding.

2003-11-02 Thread James A. Donald
-- James A. Donald: Simple Chaumian blinding works fine on EC. On 31 Oct 2003 at 15:26, Adam Back wrote: So Chaumian blinding with public exponent e, private exponent d, and modulus n is this and blinding factor b chosen by the client: blind: b^e.m mod n- sign: -