Re: On the orthogonality of anonymity to current market demand

2005-11-01 Thread Chris Palmer
James A. Donald writes: Further, genuinely secure systems are now becoming available, notably Symbian. What does it mean for Symbian to be genuinely secure? How was this determined and achieved? -- http://www.eff.org/about/staff/#chris_palmer signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: packet traffic analysis

2005-11-01 Thread Travis H.
I very much doubt it. Where did that factor of half come frome. During lulls, you are constantly sending chaff packets. On average, you're halfway through transmitting a chaff packet when you want to send a real one. The system has to wait for it to finish before sending another. QED. Ah,

Re: Multiple passports?

2005-11-01 Thread Ken Brown
Bill Stewart wrote: When I saw the title of this thread, I was assuming it would be about getting Mozambique or Sealand or other passports of convenience or coolness-factor like the Old-School Cypherpunks used to do :-) Actually the only passports that are significantly more convenient than

Re: Multiple passports?

2005-11-01 Thread Chris Clymer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Peter Gutmann wrote: Gregory Hicks [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: As for applying for one now, I think the deadline for the non-RFID passwords is about 3 days away (31 Oct 2005), but I could be wrong. (In other words, if your application is not in

Re: packet traffic analysis

2005-11-01 Thread Travis H.
Modes that are based on a small window of previous plaintext, such as OFB, would be vulnerable too. My mistake, OFB does not have this property. I thought there was a common mode with this property, but it appears that I am mistaken. If it makes you feel any better, you can consider the PRNG

Re: On the orthogonality of anonymity to current market demand

2005-11-01 Thread Peter Gutmann
Chris Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: James A. Donald writes: Further, genuinely secure systems are now becoming available, notably Symbian. What does it mean for Symbian to be genuinely secure? How was this determined and achieved? By executive fiat. Peter.

Re: On the orthogonality of anonymity to current market demand

2005-11-01 Thread James A. Donald
James A. Donald writes: Further, genuinely secure systems are now becoming available, notably Symbian. Chris Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] What does it mean for Symbian to be genuinely secure? How was this determined and achieved? There is no official definition of genuinely secure, and it is