Re: Got.net and its narcing out of its customers
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], James A. Donald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Searching GG on don frederickson got tim is maybe more reliable than pasting this URL. For long urls, compress with tinuyurl.com http://tinyurl.com/yc3s If you do that, you have to rely on both the Google URL not changing and on tinyurl not going away. -- Shields.
Re: Brinwear at Benetton.
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Mike Rosing [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah, and it takes a second or 2 to find the bar code. That's got to cost a few pennies doesn't it :-) It adds up, especially in low-margin businesses. Groceries are a good example; unpacking every cart, scanning, and bagging is an expensive bottleneck. The process could be streamlined a lot if an entire cart were scanned at once. There are serious engineering problems before we get there; but the demand from retailers is very real, and so a very real effort will be made to solve them. -- Shields.
Re: Fatherland Security measures more important than Bennetton tags!
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Adam Shostack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (New York just announced the abolition of tokens, making all subway travel linkable.) The last time I was in New York, you could buy a Metrocard for cash. As far as I know, there are no plans to change this. -- Shields.
Re: Encrypted hard drive enclosure for $139
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Bill Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now, 712 Mbit/sec is about 90 MByte/sec, which means if it were doing 3DES, it'd probably be about 30 MByte/sec, which is no longer fast enough to be entertaining. Yes, it is. Despite the disk manufacturers' intentionally misleading spec sheets, most hard disks are not very much faster than 30 MB/s. For example, the new Barracuda V transfers between 23 and 44 MB/s, depending on where on the disk you read from. http://www.storagereview.com/benchimages/ST3120023A_str.png Even if the disk were infinitely fast, the Firewire interface is limited to 50 MB/s. I think this product would be extremely useful, if it is trustable. -- Shields.
Re: CDR: Re: Palm Pilot Handshake
In article 003301c2c7c2$c734bbe0$0301000a@thishost, Steve Mynott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Palms do have fairly slow processors so checking keys may take a while and generating them probably quite a long time. For perspective, however, current-model Palms have 33 MHz Motorola 68k processors, which used to be considered a nice desktop CPU. In 1991, when PGP was first released, the Mac Classic II had a 16 MHz 68030 and 2 MB of RAM. If that was enough for PGP, then a Palm m500 ought to be capable of it also. Granted, you will want to use longer keys now. But the hardware in your pocket can do more crypto than you might think. And they're only getting faster. -- Shields.
Re: CDR: Re: Supremes and thieves.
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Marc de Piolenc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The US Constitution prohibits ex post facto laws. It seems to me that works could be removed from the public domain without passing an ex post facto law, as long as this hypothetical law did not affect works created or copies made during the period between the expiration of the copyrights and the law's passing. -- Shields.
Re: constant encryped stream
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Peter Fairbrother [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Get the pull from a party popper and wrap it in a dollar bill. Record the serial number of the bill (some crypto here maybe). Make it impossible to open the closet without setting the pull off, ie no trapdoor. Fairly good tamper-evidence, and the token is hard (and very illegal!) to forge. Most of the security features of a dollar bill are not directed toward the serial number; they are designed to prevent changing the denomination, or to increase the cost of creating a real-looking bill from scratch. Changing the serial number is likely to be fairly straightforward. For this to be secure, you would have to keep the serial number a secret; and in that case, the paper could be any piece of paper with a secret written on it. Depends on your threat model, of course. But of course. -- Shields.
