Re: employment market for applied cryptographers?

ou're really looking or not.) I feel very fortunate to still have a job, given all that's going on in this industry. >Perry --John Kelsey, [EMAIL PROTECTED] // [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: employment market for applied cryptographers?

it may cost a lot later, but they're going broke *now*. >-David --John Kelsey, [EMAIL PROTECTED] // [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Confiscation of Anti-War Video

it. (Something pretty similar happens with the FDA, right? If you get the new cancer drug a year earlier, you get all the benefit (maybe you get to go on living); the FDA gets the added risk of their being some horrible side effect. So they force a different trade-off on you than you'd prefer.) >--Tim May --John Kelsey, [EMAIL PROTECTED] // [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Katy, bar the door

kind of response to prevent these planes being used as low-tech cruise missiles seems like a win. Maybe it would make sense to add some kind of remote surveilance of the cockpit, though I imagine this wouldn't be too popular with pilots, and they'd definitely need to secure the channel prope

Re: Extradition, Snatching, and the Danger of Traveling to Other Countries

ul combattant), and even security measures that are likely to make citizens less safe from terrorist violence (like invading Iraq). Patience, persistence, truth, Dr. mike --John Kelsey, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Privacy qua privacy (Was: Photographer Arrested For Taking Pictures...)

ds can come up with?) ... Adam --John Kelsey, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Extradition, Snatching, and the Danger of Traveling to Other Countries

At 02:10 PM 12/15/02 -0500, cubic-dog wrote: On Sat, 14 Dec 2002, John Kelsey wrote: ... > running on a pro-freedom slate, politicians will be found to do that. Note > that guns are still legal in the US, despite the fact that armed private > citizens are apparently *very* unpopular

Re: Dossiers and Customer Courtesy Cards

this search for your top 16 suspects today, you'll be able to do it for your top thousand suspects in less than ten years, just assuming processing and storage gets cheaper at current rates --John Kelsey, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: biological systems and cryptography

rpoem.net | GNU/Linux software developer people.debian.org/~mbc | encrypted email preferred --John Kelsey, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: citizens can be named as enemy combatants

filling your paperwork out properly, but I'm afraid you're just not being effective enough at rooting out Al Qaida operatives. I'm sure you can do better, though--just find me five operatives in the next week" --John Kelsey, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: citizens can be named as enemy combatants

At 10:40 PM 1/13/03 -0800, Tim May wrote: On Monday, January 13, 2003, at 09:23 PM, John Kelsey wrote: ... Personally, I was shocked, *shocked*, to see the supreme court make a decision on the basis of politics instead of a careful reading of the constitution. Everything the Supreme Court

Re: Desert Spam

out with a small banking matter. It all kind-of balances out. :) Patience, persistence, truth, Dr. mike --John Kelsey, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Petro's catch-22 incorrect (Re: citizens can be named as enemy combatants)

., we're not going to be cool with people invading Canada), and free trade with almost everyone (I'd like to see us not trade with countries with really bad human rights records, though that's not exactly the direction we're heading in now). ... --John Kelsey, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Deniable Thumbdrive?

its to the number ot password guesses allowed per day, number of invalid password guesses before the thing just zeros out the key and tells the person making the attempt it has done so, etc. Trust me, you *want* the server to loudly announce that it will zero the key irretrievably after the t

Re: Deniable Thumbdrive?

hard to misplace or lend to your friends. --John Kelsey, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: DNA evidence countermeasures?

DNA evidence implies that the police, prosecutors, judges, and juries just aren't all that careful about checking the plausibility of evidence anyway. ... --John Kelsey, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [IP] One Internet provider's view of FBI's CALEA wiretap push

>From: Tyler Durden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Apr 23, 2004 10:09 AM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: [IP] One Internet provider's view of FBI's CALEA wiretap push .. >Well, what if there were 3 passwords: >1) One for Fake data, for amatuers (very few of the MwG will actually >be smart enough

Re: SASSER Worm Dude

fferent in that regard than fraud or theft. I think that's generally true. In some states, much younger people have been sentenced to death. --John Kelsey, [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP: FA48 3237 9AD5 30AC EEDD BBC8 2A80 6948 4CAA F259

Re: CDR: Re: Can Skype be wiretapped by the authorities? (fwd from em@em.no-ip.com)

ransmitting to the satellites, but it may be a matter of transmitting to the van parked outside your house ~~brian --John Kelsey, [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP: FA48 3237 9AD5 30AC EEDD BBC8 2A80 6948 4CAA F259

Satellite eavesdropping of 802.11b traffic

Guys, Does anyone know whether the low-power nature of wireless LANs protects them from eavesdropping by satellite? Is there some simple reference that would easily let me figure out whether transmitters at a given power are in danger of eavesdropping by satellite? Thanks, --John

Re: Palm Hack?

I think the notion of someone using your IR beaming capacity against your will is at least a possible threat (imagine what happens if I get a trojan onto your Palm that's supposed to leak data--it could just listen on the IR port, and hand over your data when I get it the right message.) Some p

Re: Tyler's Education

ted passwords by watching keystroke timings. J.A. Terranson [EMAIL PROTECTED] --John Kelsey

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

-Original Message- From: "Major Variola (ret)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Jul 30, 2004 10:25 PM To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Email tapping by ISPs, forwarder addresses, and crypto proxies The "profitably" part is a non-issue when you have black bud

Re: On what the NSA does with its tech

ut then you've got to make sure that device is always available, or you're unable to get at your data. And if that device is an online server somewhere, then password encryptions become partly traceable. --John Kelsey

Re: Forensics on PDAs, notes from the field

>From: "Major Variola (ret)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Aug 11, 2004 9:21 PM >To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Forensics on PDAs, notes from the field .. >Obvious lesson: Steganography tool authors, your programs >should use the worm/HIV trick of changing their signatures >wit

RE: Another John Young Sighting

27;ll bet the list of suspected terrorists never get a name removed other than by death, if then. Who wants to be the guy who correctly assessent the evidence to remove someone's name, only to have the same guy blow up a plane a year later? IMO, this seems like a fundamental problem with watchlists. >Peter --John Kelsey

Re: Seth Schoen's Hard to Verify Signatures

;ve seen this described in a paper by Abadi, Lomas & Needham as an alternative to a high iteration count for password hashing. >Hal Finney --John Kelsey

Re: BrinCity 2.0: Mayor outlines elaborate camera network for city

or Daley says the cameras will be located in public areas. Fortunately, all this is happening in a town noted for its trustworthy and honest government, and under a mayor with no tendency to use any excuse he can find to grab power, tear up airports he doesn't like in the middle of the night, etc. .. >R. A. Hettinga --John Kelsey

Re: "Forest Fire" responsible for a 2.5mi *mushroom cloud*?

>From: "Major Variola (ret)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Sep 13, 2004 3:50 PM >To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: "Forest Fire" responsible for a 2.5mi *mushroom cloud*? .. >AN is extremely deliquescent; perhaps the sulphate was for that? >Removing chunks with dynamite is try

Re: potential new IETF WG on anonymous IPSec

>From: "Major Variola (ret)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Sep 17, 2004 10:27 PM >To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: potential new IETF WG on anonymous IPSec >At 06:20 AM 9/17/04 +, Justin wrote: >>On 2004-09-16T20:11:56-0700, Major Variola (ret) wrote: .. >>Oh, come on. N

Re: Academics locked out by tight visa controls

>From: "R. A. Hettinga" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Sep 20, 2004 8:33 AM >Subject: Academics locked out by tight visa controls > >Posted on Mon, Sep. 20, 2004 >Academics locked out by tight visa control

Re: Implant replaces ID cards for access to restricted areas.

>From: Steve Furlong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Oct 9, 2004 7:44 AM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: Implant replaces ID cards for access to restricted areas. >On Thu, 2004-10-07 at 02:20, Nomen Nescio wrote: >> Mexican Attorney General, Staff Get Chip Implants >> >> Implant replaces ID cards

Re: Cash, Credit -- or Prints?

>From: Tyler Durden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Oct 12, 2004 1:43 PM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: Cash, Credit -- or Prints? .. >Very interesting question. I'd bet almost any amount of money that it's >fairly trivial to simply alligator-clip-out the fingerprint's fil

RE: Airport insanity

ons" to sell any of them to any (other) crazies. Why the only other place where there's a risk of nuclear proliferation is in the old Soviet Union--and we all know *they* don't have any Islamic fundamentalist terrorists running about. So we can clearly rest easy. It's a good thing we've got an administration in the White House who cares about security and the war on terror. Otherwise, I'd be a mite worried about now .. >-TD --John Kelsey

Re: Financial identity is *dangerous*? (was re: Fake companies, real money)

red isn't going to change that, right? (I know you've thought about this stuff a lot more than I have, so maybe I'm missing something) >Anyone want to pick up the other side of this and tell me why not? >No bugbears or horsemen need apply... >Cheers, >RAH --John Kelsey

RE: Mystification of Identity: You Say Yusuf, I Say Youssouf...

er at spotting terrorists (at least not obviously Arab-looking terrorists). They just have more power, and fewer consequences when they screw up. .. >-TD --John Kelsey

Re: "ID Rules Exist, But Can't Be Seen"

n skin and a Koran"--someone would leak it. Perhaps the written rules include things like this that they don't want to subject to court scrutiny, but then how do they get that down to the people doing the screening at the gate? The whole idea of laws that the citizens aren't al

RE: Airport insanity

>From: "James A. Donald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Oct 16, 2004 7:01 PM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: RE: Airport insanity .. >On 15 Oct 2004 at 16:32, Tyler Durden wrote: .. >> He might have looked odd from the photo you saw circulated in >> the press, but I'd bet a lot of money no one woul

Re: Airport insanity

>From: "James A. Donald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Oct 16, 2004 7:22 PM >To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: Airport insanity .. >> Oh, and every white American (recall numerous references to >> Mr. McVeigh) >Mc Veigh did not target innocents, and if he did target a plane

Re: Airport insanity

>From: "James A. Donald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Oct 16, 2004 2:27 PM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: Airport insanity >> For whatever reason, pictures of me always come out looking >> like some crazed religious fanatic. But that doesn't mean >> that I'm going to bomb anything. And I s

Re: US Retardation of Free Markets (was Airport insanity)

>From: Tyler Durden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Oct 19, 2004 10:23 AM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: US Retardation of Free Markets (was Airport insanity) .. >In developing markets the US track record is terrible. The more we interfere >and set up puppet governments and petty

Re: Airport insanity

>From: "James A. Donald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Oct 20, 2004 3:10 PM >To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: Airport insanity >Lots of murderous terrorists have been released from Guatanamo, >and in the nearly all cases the most serious of their >complaints make it sound l

Re: Airport insanity

em are associated with some action you really disagree with is just outside the realm of the sort of moral decision I can figure out. Just like flying planes into buildings full of people with almost nothing to do with what you're really getting at. > James A. Donald --John Kelsey

Re: Airport insanity

>From: Tyler Durden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Oct 23, 2004 7:41 PM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: Airport insanity >Let us not forget the more tangible 'value' in bombing the WTC and messing >up things downtown. First of all, the companies in the W

Re: Donald's Job Description

>From: Tyler Durden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Oct 25, 2004 9:40 AM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: Donald's Job Description >Well, the Bush "supporters" I've met aren't normally so sure. They'll kind >of hem and haw, or saw "Well, he's got advisors.

Re: US Retardation of Free Markets (was Airport insanity)

>From: "R.A. Hettinga" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Oct 27, 2004 9:37 AM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: US Retardation of Free Markets (was Airport insanity) .. >This is actually the running fantasy in Marxism since the 1950's, when it >turned out that that, instead of the "workers" eating th

Re: Geodesic neoconservative empire

>From: "R.A. Hettinga" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Oct 29, 2004 7:06 AM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: Geodesic neoconservative empire .. >It has always amused me that libertarians and anarcho-capitalists insist on >using the language of the left to describe the things they don't like. One >o

Re: This Memorable Day

>From: "R.A. Hettinga" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Nov 2, 2004 10:55 AM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: This Memorable Day .. >Expect more carnage than culture when Bush is elected. I gather we waited to start the offensive in Fallujah(sp?) until the polls were all closed. I'm not sure how

Re: This Memorable Day

>From: Nomen Nescio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Nov 3, 2004 6:50 AM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: This Memorable Day .. >The only way to move towards a more friendly world is to make >people feel they are able to share the wealth and prosperity of the >world. As long as there is one sing

RE: The Values-Vote Myth

>From: "J.A. Terranson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Nov 6, 2004 5:07 PM >To: Tyler Durden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: RE: The Values-Vote Myth >On Sat, 6 Nov 2004, Tyler Durden wrote: .. >> So: A 'moral values' question for Cypherpunks. Does this electio

Re: This Memorable Day

>From: Peter Gutmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Nov 6, 2004 2:10 AM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: This Memorable Day >The figure that's usually quoted is that 80% of German's military force was >directed against Russia. Of the remaining 20%, a lot had already been engage

Re: The Values-Vote Myth

>From: Eric Cordian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Nov 6, 2004 5:57 PM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: The Values-Vote Myth .. >Also, voting is in some sense political manipulation to blame the population >for the >actions of their government. Everyone who votes is a co-conspirator, and the >

Re: Fallujah: Marine Eye-Witness Report

>From: "R.A. Hettinga" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Nov 21, 2004 9:23 PM >To: John Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: Fallujah: Marine Eye-Witness Report .. >By the way, John, did you know that Bush Is Going To Revive The Draft??? I know this is currently known to be false b

Re: Fallujah: Marine Eye-Witness Report

>From: "R.A. Hettinga" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Nov 22, 2004 11:35 AM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: Fallujah: Marine Eye-Witness Report .. >I'm pretty heretical about this. I think if we had decapitated Iraq, went >after our military objectives, like securing what was a threat to us, >inc

Re: Fallujah: Marine Eye-Witness Report

>From: Tyler Durden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Nov 24, 2004 12:08 PM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: Fallujah: Marine Eye-Witness Report >James A Donald wrote... >>And the problem with a civil war in Iraq is? >And the answer is: 9/11 sucked. >Oh wait, I guess I have to ex

Re: Fallujah: Marine Eye-Witness Report

>From: "James A. Donald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Nov 24, 2004 1:02 AM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: Fallujah: Marine Eye-Witness Report .. >And the problem with a civil war in Iraq is? At least three: a. The pottery barn theory of foreign affairs--we'd be blamed for making things wor

Re: "Word" Of the Subgenius...

>From: Tyler Durden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Dec 4, 2004 8:33 PM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: "Word" Of the Subgenius... >I thought JR "Bob" Dobbs got beamed up to that comet with those LA Koolaid >kooks... No, but I do believe the comet kooks engaged in bobbitization (or perhaps, merely

Re: "Word" Of the Subgenius...

>From: Steve Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Dec 7, 2004 1:26 PM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: "Word" Of the Subgenius... .. >Tim May has probably gotten all strange in the last few years, living in >his remote hilltop home, waiting to see the end that will not come since >the y2k crisi

RE: Blinky Rides Again: RCMP suspect al-Qaida messages

are communicating with a lot of different people. If your stego is password-protected, some terrorist's laptop is going to have a post-it note on the screen with the password. .. >-TD --John Kelsey

RE: Blinky Rides Again: RCMP suspect al-Qaida messages

>From: "J.A. Terranson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Dec 9, 2004 1:19 PM >To: Tyler Durden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: RE: Blinky Rides Again: RCMP suspect al-Qaida messages . >As recently as two years ago, I

Re: Israeli Airport Security Questioning Re: CRYPTO-GRAM, December 15, 2004

>The difference here is that Bad_Guy is visiting the >country for the first time. Now, there are fewer >questions to ask. But that's a common enough situation that the questioners are going to be ready for it. And I bet a lot of the point of their questioning is just to see if they detect signs

Re: Coffee, Tea, or Should We Feel Your Pregnant Wife's Breasts Before Throwing You in a Cell at the Airport and Then Lying About Why We Put You There?

>From: Tyler Durden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Dec 19, 2004 4:23 PM >Subject: Re: Coffee, Tea, or Should We Feel Your Pregnant Wife's Breasts >Before Throwing You in a Cell at the >Airport and Then Lying About Why We Put >You There? .. >Funny how most Americans only wake up after it happens to t

Re: Flaw with lava lamp entropy source

>From: "James A. Donald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Dec 18, 2004 2:51 PM >To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: Flaw with lava lamp entropy source .. >These days the video entropy source is not a lava lamp, but a >lens cap - in the dark, the ccds generate significant thermal >n

Re: Israeli Airport Security Questioning Re: CRYPTO-GRAM, December 15, 2004

>From: "Major Variola (ret)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Dec 21, 2004 10:20 PM >To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: Israeli Airport Security Questioning Re: CRYPTO-GRAM, December >15, 2004 >At 02:16 PM 12/20/04 -0500,

Re: California Bans a Large-Caliber Gun, and the Battle Is On

Interesting questions: How hard is it for someone to actually hit an airplane with a rifle bullet? How often do airplane maintenance people notice bulletholes? My understanding is that a single bullethole in a plane is not likely to do anything serious to its operation--the hole isn't big e

Re: How to Build a Global Internet Tsunami Warning System in a Month

>From: "Major Variola (ret)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Jan 3, 2005 4:45 PM >To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: How to Build a Global Internet Tsunami Warning System in a Month .. >3. Homebrew warning systems will face the same problems as eg pro >volcano warning systems: t

Re: Ready, Aim, ID Check: In Wrong Hands, Gun Won't Fire

>From: "R.A. Hettinga" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Jan 6, 2005 11:47 AM >To: cryptography@metzdowd.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Ready, Aim, ID Check: In Wrong Hands, Gun Won't Fire .. >Ready, Aim, ID Check: In Wrong Hands, Gun Won't Fire > By ANNE EISENBERG I just wonder what the false negativ

Re: Ready, Aim, ID Check: In Wrong Hands, Gun Won't Fire

>From: Justin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Jan 10, 2005 7:35 PM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: Ready, Aim, ID Check: In Wrong Hands, Gun Won't Fire .. >Some gun "accidents" are suicides reported as such to avoid >embarrassment to the family. I've heard this from other people, too--some in r

Re: Secure erasing Info (fwd from richard@SCL.UTAH.EDU)

Just as a data point, PGPDisk works fine on CF devices. I use this for a CF card on which I keep a bunch of my work for movement between laptop and desktop machines. --John

Re: Pi: Less Random Than We Thought

>From: Sarad AV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: May 5, 2005 8:43 AM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: Pi: Less Random Than We Thought Well, if it were generated by a random process, we'd expect to see every n-bit substring in there somewhere, sooner or later, since the seque

Re: [IP] Real ID = National ID (fwd from dave@farber.net)

>From: Justin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: May 9, 2005 3:55 PM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: [IP] Real ID = National ID (fwd from [EMAIL PROTECTED]) .. >What do we need "security" for? We need security because a lot of >people hate the U.S., and because we won't close our borders, and >becau

Re: /. [Intel Adds DRM to New Chips]

>From: DiSToAGe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Jun 2, 2005 5:05 AM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: /. [Intel Adds DRM to New Chips] >I have read infos that say that audio and video drivers will be in the >trusted chain. If your hardware system is used by an os (i.e. win) on >which you can't creat

Re: Posion Pill for ED?

"Hey, I think I saw a bald eagle roosting up in that tree. You know, the one next to those buried Indian artifacts, right next to those rusting metal drums I got from Russel Bliss." --John

Re: Well, they got what they want...

>From: Tyler Durden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Jul 23, 2005 9:17 PM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: Well, they got what they want... .. >Saw a local security expert on the news, and he stated the >obvious: Random earches and whatnot are going to do zero >for someone deter

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Wikipedia & Tor]

>Damn good point. Now that I think of it, all the classic examples of >"anonymous" publication were really pseudonymous. (Publius, et al) They have different requirements. Votes and cash transactions and similar things require no history, no reputation. They're one-shot actions that should n

Re: Judy Miller needing killing

>The question is, can >she defy a subpoena based on membership in the privileged Reporter class >that an "ordinary" person could not defy? It seems like the real question is how membership in the class is determined. If anyone who's acting like a reporter in a certain context (say, Adam Shosta

Re: [fc-discuss] Financial Cryptography Update: On Digital Cash-like Payment Systems

From: cyphrpunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Oct 24, 2005 2:14 PM Subject: Re: [fc-discuss] Financial Cryptography Update: On Digital Cash-like Payment Systems On 10/22/05, Ian G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Note that e-gold, which originally sold non-reversibility as a key >benefit of the system,

Re: [fc-discuss] Financial Cryptography Update: On Digital Cash-like Payment Systems

>From: cyphrpunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Oct 24, 2005 5:58 PM >To: John Kelsey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: [fc-discuss] Financial Cryptography Update: On Digital Cash-like >Payment Systems .. >Digital wallets will require real security in user PCs. S

Re: On the orthogonality of anonymity to current market demand

ough they don't know, or trust, each other. Why do you say internet bearer transactions are more secure? I can see more efficient, but why more secure? It looks to me like both kinds of payment system are susceptible to the same broad classes of attacks (bank misbehavior (for a short time), som

Re: [PracticalSecurity] Anonymity - great technology but hardly used

point are pretty nice, for example), but Word is a disaster. >Eugen* Leitl http://leitl.org";>leitl --John Kelsey

Re: Return of the death of cypherpunks.

olitical wanking to technical posts and of talkers to thinkers to coders needs to be right for the list to be interesting. .. >--digsig > James A. Donald > 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG > AnKV4N6f9DgtOy+KkQ9QsiXcpQm+moX4U09FjLXP > 4zfMeSzzCXNSr737bvqJ6ccbvDSu8fr66LbLEHedb --John Kelsey

Re: On Digital Cash-like Payment Systems

>From: cyphrpunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Oct 27, 2005 9:15 PM >To: "James A. Donald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Cc: cryptography@metzdowd.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: On Digital Cash-like Payment Systems >On 10/26/05, James A. Donald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> How does one inflate a key?

Re: "Touching shuttle debris may cause bad spirits to invade your body!"

. Something like "The pieces surely aren't going to be dangerous, but moving them is going to mess up the investigation of the crash." Which presumably is what everyone with any technical background and common sense was thinking when they heard the original warning, right? --Tim May, Occupied America John Kelsey, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: \"Touching shuttle debris may cause bad spirits

ll," it's not a surprise if some of those people assume they're sick because of the dangerous space chemicals, rather than because of that potato salad they had at the picnic last Sunday. ... Jay --John Kelsey, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: patriot act and public key encryption

into your cell again, if you won't help us. What? You don't like Mongo as a cellmate? Pity, he sure seems to enjoy, er, like you." Steve FurlongComputer Condottiere Have GNU, Will Travel John Kelsey, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Stupid security measures, a contest

hack and get checked for weapons, rather than around the shack to save time. --John Kelsey, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Science Journal 'Self-Censorship'

ral reaction to being frightened by the threats of new technologies. (Ironically, the nasty terror weapons we're all worried about are mostly 1940s or earlier technology. Stuff that even a third-rate starving dictatorship can cook up.) -pete --John Kelsey, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Crypto anarchy now more than ever

ance. The saber-rattling serves both to communicate the threat and to advertise for buyers. James A. Donald --John Kelsey, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Stand back or I'll jump....

ed the "Blazing Saddles" strategy. -TD --John Kelsey, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Blood for Oil (was The Pig Boy was really squealing today

nvesting my own money in than an oil pipeline through Afghanistan. Lots of money invested up front, literally hundreds of small groups who could threaten to damage it as a way of demanding a share of the loot, very hard to defend, etc. What an opportunity! --John Kelsey, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: The burn-off of Tom Veil

ms to be working much better than the attempts to reform farm subsidies, say. And even with Republicans in control of everything, I'll bet we don't see any major cuts to NEA, say. -TD --John Kelsey, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: The burn-off of twenty million useless eaters and "minoritie s"

centralized decision-making makes larger projects possible sometimes, especially ones involving big, long wars. -- Vincent Penquerc'h --John Kelsey, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Identification of users of payphones

May "That government is best which governs not at all." --Henry David Thoreau --John Kelsey, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Journalists, Diplomats, Others Urged to Evacuate City

you have yourself to blame if you get bitten. So, I don't suppose you've heard about our more recent forays into the Balkans, Somalia, and Afghanistan --John Kelsey, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: What shall we do with a bad government...

won--nobody I know voted for him" by some New York Times columnist. (That's from memory, so I'm probably missing some essential facts...but then, the NYT does that occasionally, too.) --John Kelsey, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Libertarian Party expresses "concern" over war -- but does not

Pakistan, and not Germany or France. I wouldn't bet too much on us not going after North Korea sometime in the next year or two, if the invasion and takeover of Iraq goes well. --John Kelsey, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Journalists, Diplomats, Others Urged to Evacuate City

ons to objectionable folks who seem likely to help us fight our fights or accomplish our objectives. Surely it's not too hard to think of current examples --digsig James A. Donald --John Kelsey, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Things are looking better all the time

n's "Guy Fawkes Protocol.") There are pretty obvious reasons why the US government might not announce either of the last two cases, and why the terrorist group of your choice wouldn't announce "we have a bomb" until they had the thing planted where they wanted it. --Lucky --John Kelsey, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Things are looking better all the time [TERROR ALERT: Cerenkov Blue]

At 08:28 AM 3/26/03 -0800, Major Variola (ret) wrote: At 06:12 PM 3/25/03 -0500, John Kelsey wrote: ... >Maybe the FBI caught them and disarmed the >bombs before they went off. And they didn't claim any credit? This doesn't jibe with the puffery one observes. Well, there

RE: U.S. Drops 'E-Bomb' On Iraqi TV

soldiers, though, and we're not going to shoot them all even if the Iraqis do that to our captured soldiers. Regards Sarath. --John Kelsey, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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