Re: FUCANN Fully UnCentrallized Authority for Naming and Numbers

2002-04-08 Thread Graham Lally
Frob the Builder wrote: The problem comes when the server a domain points to is the map for several domains, say via Virtual Hosts or selected forwarding. Many servers use this if they're on a dedicated web-hoster, or for subdomains. Ahah, because the 'physical' server uses the URL to map to

Re: Got carried away...

2002-04-29 Thread Graham Lally
Jan Dobrucki wrote: I do have an idea thou. I'm thinking how to implement PGP into car locks. And so far I got this: The driver has his PGP, and the door has it's own. Path of least resistance - *access* to the car is generally not the problem. Instead weaker attacks such as breaking the

Re: When encryption is also authentication...

2002-05-29 Thread Graham Lally
Mike Rosing wrote: If digital crypto, signatures or e-cash are going to get into mass appeal, then their operations will be magic to the majority. And it all has to work, to 1 part in 10^8th or better, without user comprehension. It may well take user intervention to create a signature,

Re: sources on steganography

2002-05-30 Thread Graham Lally
Hector Rosario wrote: Why would I be interested in fool[ing] [you]. All I asked was for some help with sources. If you cannot be of help, at least don't be a hindrance. Besides, don't claim to speak for others. If envy is what drives you, then I suggest that you work on that. hr On Wed,

Re: FC: Hollywood wants to plug analog hole, regulate A-D

2002-06-03 Thread Graham Lally
Mike Rosing wrote: On Mon, 3 Jun 2002, Dave Emery wrote: And telling the public that they face serious jail time if they don't turn in that Creative Soundblaster from the old PC in the attic closet isn't going to fly. The sheeple may be sheep but even they aren't going to accept that

Re: Hollywood Hackers

2002-07-31 Thread Graham Lally
Anonymous wrote: On Tue, 30 Jul 2002 20:51:24 -0700, you wrote: When we approve a file, all the people who approved it already get added to our trust list, thus helping us select files, and we are told that so and so got added to our list of people who recommend good files. This gives people

RC5-64 solved

2002-09-26 Thread Graham Lally
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Just noticed on /. that distributed.net wound up 4 years of intense CPU cycles, by getting the key to RSA's RC5-64 challenge. Distributed.net release: http://www.distributed.net/pressroom/news-20020926.html On 14-Jul-2002, a relatively

Re: JYA ping

2002-10-03 Thread Graham Lally
Eugen Leitl wrote: On Wed, 2 Oct 2002, Anonymous wrote: Cryptome has nor been updated since 9/23 ... any clues, anyone ? No. Anyone knows whether John Young is okay? Can't get through to http://www.jya.com/ either (plus Google hasn't cached it, for some reason...?) - can't resolve it at

Re: Interesting KPMG report on DRM

2002-10-07 Thread Graham Lally
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Peter Gutmann wrote: | KPMG have a report The Digital Challenge: Are You Prepared? available at | http://www.kpmg.com/news/index.asp?cid=660 [snip] | Media companies have so far failed to pioneer new business models that would | rob piracy of its

Re: QuizID

2002-10-17 Thread Graham Lally
On Thursday 17 Oct 2002 3:15 pm, Adam Shostack wrote: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/2334491.stm and www.quizid.com [snip] The card works in conjunction with the Quizid vault - a large collection of computers that can process 600 authentications per second. The system cost millions

Hey be careful, I have three bombs in here

2004-01-21 Thread Graham Lally
Surprised this hasn't gone through the list yet. Did it get much coverage in the US? http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/shropshire/3415525.stm 'According to the arrest report, Miss Marson placed her bag on the belt at a security check, telling a Transportation Security Administration

BBC on all-electronic Indian elections

2004-04-20 Thread Graham Lally
Current report: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/3641419.stm The tech: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/3493474.stm Bit scant on details.. anyone know anything more about how the machine (/system) is fully tamper-proof? .g -- I Me My! Strawberry Eggs

Re: Fact checking

2004-04-28 Thread Graham Lally
Damian Gerow wrote: Why bother putting something up in a library? Chances are, if someone's reading it there, they're already somewhat knowledgable about the candidates. Or heck, maybe they're even there to do /research/ on them! [...] I don't see any way to educate the mass public. Indeed, why