Re: Secure telephones

2004-07-19 Thread Dave Howe
Jack Lloyd wrote: Well, nothing stopping you from treating your datagram-based VPN (ie, DTLS) as an IP tunnel, and doing TCP-like stuff on top of it to handle the IM and file transfer. Actually I'm working on something rather like that now, which may or not get finished soon. *lol* aren't we all.

Re: Email tapping by ISPs, forwarder addresses, and crypto proxies

2004-07-19 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 01:07 PM 7/18/04 -0500, J.A. Terranson wrote: Let me fill in what he left out. Yes, the industry is moving towards MPLS over POS. That's not where it is now though. At least not for most interfaces. Right now the industry is chock full of lagacy gear, mostly old fashioned ATM. You think

Cheap TDR for fibers?

2004-07-19 Thread Thomas Shaddack
The laser diodes used in eg. CD players have a feedback photodiode, sensing the laser's optical output. If the lasers used for optical fibers have similar mechanism too, and if the diode is sensitive to the light coming to it not only from the chip but also from the fiber itself, and can

Re: 1984 Comes To Boston (fwd from brian-slashdotnews@hyperreal.org)

2004-07-19 Thread Riad S. Wahby
Eugen Leitl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: from the panopticonjob dept. walmass writes In preparation for the DNC in Boston, [1]75 cameras monitored by the Federal government will be operating around the downtown Boston location. There are also an unspecified number of state police

Re: Email tapping by ISPs, forwarder addresses, and crypto proxies

2004-07-19 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Mon, Jul 19, 2004 at 07:56:05AM -0500, J.A. Terranson wrote: None of which qualify here - remember, the discussion was based upon a quiet implementation. A VPN link from a *nivore box streaming filtered info is pretty quiet. There are plenty of dedicated network processors for packet

Re: Email tapping by ISPs, forwarder addresses, and crypto proxies

2004-07-19 Thread Tyler Durden
As suggested, tapping oversea fibres in shallow waters is probably the Way To Do It. Apparently NSA has it's own splicing sub for this purpose. As for US fibers, I've spoken to folks who have actually seen the splice in cable landings that went over to W. VA or wherever. -TD

Re: Email tapping by ISPs, forwarder addresses, and crypto proxies

2004-07-19 Thread Tyler Durden
Gimme an intel IXA network processor and no problem. ATM is fixed size data, not as tricky as IP decoding. Predicatable bandwidth. Stream all into megadisks, analyze later. I'm gonna have to challenge this bit here, Variola. Let's back up. You've got an OC-48 or OC-192 fiber and you want to grab

RE: Cheap TDR for fibers?

2004-07-19 Thread Tyler Durden
Telecom-grade laser packages (and the lasers inside them) not only do not have a monitoring diode, they are designed very carefully to prevent the kind of feedback you're talking about (it destabilizes the laser and causes a power penalty). However, there's no real reason not to be able just

Why there is no anonymous e-cash

2004-07-19 Thread James A. Donald
As I predicted, transactions are increasingly going on line. And as Hettinga predicted, the more anonymous and irreversible the transaction service, the cheaper and more convenient its services. All happening as predicted. So why don't we have anonymous chaumian cash by now? Because, the

Re: Reputation Capital Article - 1st Monday: Manifesto for the Reputation Society

2004-07-19 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Mon, Jul 19, 2004 at 02:09:59PM -0400, Steve Furlong wrote: It's ok, you can still say Tim May around here. You rang? http://groups.google.com/groups?q=%22Tim+May%22hl=enlr=ie=UTF-8sa=Gscoring=d -- Eugen* Leitl a href=http://leitl.org;leitl/a

A cypherpunk in Baghdad (was re: giantlaser: Ali Baba returns)

2004-07-19 Thread R. A. Hettinga
It looks like Ryan's going to Baghdad... Same as it ever was. Click the link to see details, like a pic or two. :-). Tyler's been running a sattelite ISP there for about a year. I've been reading his LJ for about 6 months now, or so. Great story. Anarchocapitalism at its finest, ladies and

Re: Reputation Capital Article - 1st Monday: Manifesto for the Reputation Society

2004-07-19 Thread Steve Furlong
On Mon, 2004-07-19 at 13:43, Sunder wrote: Here's a paper/article/screed on reputation capital. A subject we discussed here a long while ago back when dinosaurs ruled the earth, etc... well, not quite that long ago. It's ok, you can still say Tim May around here.

Re: Why there is no anonymous e-cash

2004-07-19 Thread Steve Schear
At 08:41 AM 7/19/2004, James A. Donald wrote: As I predicted, transactions are increasingly going on line. And as Hettinga predicted, the more anonymous and irreversible the transaction service, the cheaper and more convenient its services. All happening as predicted. So why don't we have

Reputation Capital Article - 1st Monday: Manifesto for the Reputation Society

2004-07-19 Thread Sunder
Here's a paper/article/screed on reputation capital. A subject we discussed here a long while ago back when dinosaurs ruled the earth, etc... well, not quite that long ago. This doesn't seem to mention anything about anonymous users, however.