Re: Echelon-like...

2002-10-10 Thread Sarad AV
hi, > > The government knows exactly what it's doing. It > wants to discourage the use of encryption by any > means necessary, because of sheer numbers. Does n't govt intervension always increase the numbers? > > Basically, the more messages that are encypted, > the more hardware (and therefore

One time pads

2002-10-16 Thread Sarad AV
hi, An extract frm this months cryptogram goes as below. On the other hand, if you ever find a product that actually uses a one-time pad, it is almost certainly unusable and/or insecure. So, let me summarize. One-time pads are useless for all

Non linear feeback registers

2002-10-23 Thread Sarad AV
hi, For the output produced by ever non-linear shift feed back register does there exist a minimum period linear shift register that can mimic the output of a non linear shift feed back register?If yes,how do we find out the tap sequence of the minimum period LSFR which represents the non line

Independence and redundncy Re: XORing bits to eliminate skew

2002-10-19 Thread Sarad AV
ts/charecter of redundancy. Since in both files opened,english charecters are represented in the same set of ASCII charecters. there is redundancy in both the files. Does that mean that such bits we xor are not independent? Regards Sarath. --- David Howe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >

Random numbers fall mainly on the plane

2002-10-24 Thread Sarad AV
hi, Does any one have a reference to the actual paper- Random Numbers Fall Mainly in the Planes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (USA) 61 (September): 25-28 Thank You. Regards Sarath. __ Do you Yahoo!? Y! Web Hosting - Let the e

XORing bits to eliminate skew

2002-10-17 Thread Sarad AV
hi, In the book on Applied Cryptography by Bruce Schenier,it goes like this... let p(0) be the probability of occurance of 0 and p(1) be the probability od occurance of one. let p(0)=0.5+e p(1)=0.5-e where e is the bias of the bit towards 0 or 1 ideally e=0 & P(0)=P(1)=0.5(no bias condition,i

Seebeck effecte: fuel cells on planes, why bother?

2002-10-30 Thread Sarad AV
hi, It just makes me wonder of seebeck effect, on an aeroplane if you demand a cup of hot water,a cup of chilled wate and have connecting wires will it generate enough power to drive an explosive? Regards Sarath. --- Mark Szewczul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > on AA, if you look down between th

Doubt on Hill Cipher

2002-11-06 Thread Sarad AV
hi, I was going through Hill Ciphers at http://www.math.ohiou.edu/~qvu/crypto/6.html the very last line on the page regarding finding the inverse of the matrix A comma is placed to prevent space formating. k*k(inverse)= 131, 78 182, 105 //multiplication leads to 105 There is a small typo th

Re: New Protection for 802.11

2002-11-07 Thread Sarad AV
hi, Wi fi customers are more paranoid than comparingly ordinary web users who are not so concerened of their security. If we make a product,it should sell or the least a large number of people should use it(personal satisfaction),so it sells better with 'Wi Fi ' customers. Regards Sarath. --- "J

Doubt on triple torus

2002-11-12 Thread Sarad AV
hi, with reference to http://mathworld.wolfram.com/TripleTorus.html Could some one pls explain how a triple torus can be practically obtained from a sphere,I could understand upto how a double torus can be obtained. Triple Torus has 3 holes but with reference to the figure in the page is that

Re: New Wi-Fi Security Scheme Allows DoS (fwd)

2002-11-21 Thread Sarad AV
hi, >But there's a hitch: When WPA detects a break-in >attempt, it shuts down the network for a minute and >then restarts. During that time, legitimate users are >off the air too. Unauthorised access can be taken off by setting fake access points as such,whats the need for shutting down the net

Re: Psuedo-Private Key -Methodology

2002-11-21 Thread Sarad AV
hi, The methodology is very simple again. 'A' uses a very strong crytographic algorithm which would be forced out by rubber horse cryptanalysis Now if Aice could give another key k` such that the cipher text (c) decrypts to another dummy plain text(D) the secret police gets to read the dummy

Re: Psuedo-Private Key (eJazeera)

2002-11-21 Thread Sarad AV
hi, I had suggested the same for an encryption product called digisecret,this is what they had to say. >Here is an example where hiding cipher text in cipher text is ideal.. DigiSecret currently does not use assymmetric algorithms. Besides this the introduction of this technique will mean that

Re: CDR: Re: A couple of book questions...(one of them about Completeness)

2002-12-01 Thread Sarad AV
hi, --- Jim Choate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: hi, > > On Sat, 30 Nov 2002, Peter Fairbrother wrote: > > > > Godel didn't invent the term though, and may not > have said "this is the/my > > definition of completeness". I haven't read them > for some time, and can't > > remember. He may well hav

Re: A couple of book questions...(one of them about Completeness)

2002-12-01 Thread Sarad AV
hi, --- Jim Choate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, 1 Dec 2002, Sarad AV wrote: > > > We can't define completeness. > > We can define it, as has been done. okay,I get what you mean,thank you. How ever how do you 'precisely&

Question on P=NP

2002-12-01 Thread Sarad AV
hi, Is the problem P=NP or not 'Decidable'. Regards Sarath. __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com

Re: ...(one of them about Completeness)

2002-12-02 Thread Sarad AV
hi, Thanks for the replies,a few more queries. > Complete means that we can take any and all -legal- > strings within that > formalism and assign them -one of only two- truth > values; True v False. > > The fundamental problem is axiomatic. The rules > define -all- statements as > being -either

Re: A couple of book questions...(one of them about Completeness)

2002-12-02 Thread Sarad AV
hi, > How ever how do you 'precisely' define > completeness? > > There were a couple of examples in the message > you replied to. There > are different sorts of completeness as well. You > might also look into some > of the references I provided. Okay,I ask a legitimate question,how do yo

Re: CDR: Re: ...(one of them about Completeness)

2002-12-10 Thread Sarad AV
hi, > > > Jim Choate says: > > > > > Godel's does -not- say mathematics is > incomplete, it says we can't prove > > > completeness -within- mathematics proper. To do > so requires a > > > meta-mathematics of some sort. Mathametics is incomplete,other wise we would have known every thing about e

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

2002-12-14 Thread Sarad AV
hi, > All represive regiemes are short lived in a > historical context. The Taliban is still very much alive,when troops moved into kabul there were no traces of the taliban.They took what ever they wanted and were 'refugees' sneaking out when the bombing started.They placed what they needed ,ever

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

2002-12-15 Thread Sarad AV
nd' and the taliban will be back. Regards Sarath. > On Fri, 13 Dec 2002, Sarad AV wrote: > > > The Taliban is still very much alive,when troops > moved > > into kabul there were no traces of the > taliban.They > > took what ever they wanted and were 'refu

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

2002-12-17 Thread Sarad AV
hi, --- "James A. Donald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > US policy was to restore the status quo ante in > Afghanistan, > put things back the way they were before the Soviet > invasion. How does that make things better for 'afghan' people,after all the bombing done on their home land? The futur

Re: CRYPTO-GRAM, December 15, 2002

2002-12-17 Thread Sarad AV
hi, > Mr. Scheiner was always a bozo, If he is such a bozo,why are n't many of those saying this not as sucessful as he is? Mr. Sheiner's book on applied cryptography is a beauty for a beginer. --- Sleeping Vayu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mr. Scheiner was always a bozo, for those who > act

re:constant encryped stream

2002-12-21 Thread Sarad AV
hi, >Nothing serious, just throwing a quick thought out... >It has been mentioned that you should always use >crypto. If you wait >until >you actually have something private to send, then an >adversary will >know >exactly which message is important. Don't encrypt,post it by snail mail.I rememb

Re:Hullabo

2002-12-21 Thread Sarad AV
hi, > > "Be the change you wish to see in the world" > > -Mahatma Gandhi > So how we gonna change the world dude? Arise the masses,how he did that-I have no clue.How ever he did that in the 1940's when the only method of mass communication was radio(british controlled) and new paper(again brit

Re: Hullabo

2002-12-22 Thread Sarad AV
--- Tim May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Arise the masses,how he did that-I have no > clue.How > > ever he did that in the 1940's when the only > method of > > mass communication was radio(british controlled) > and > > new paper(again british controlled).To bring > together > > a diverse,multil

Re: Many Worlds Version of Fermi Paradox

2002-12-31 Thread Sarad AV
hi, A few queries. Does a paradox ever help in understanding any thing? We define a paradox on a base of rules we want to prove. Ok,let me pick an example. We make a paradox over a statement. This i found on the net The following is an implication that the Oracle does not exist. 1.Someone

re:constant encryped stream

2002-12-31 Thread Sarad AV
hi, Thank you for the reply. > they didn't really explain why; I think it was > leftover > regulations from wartime censorship during World War > II > or the Korean Police Action. I think so. > > Also, in the US, the police can request a "mail > cover" > (which means recording who all your sn

Re: Many Worlds Version of Fermi Paradox

2003-01-02 Thread Sarad AV
hi, --- Jim Choate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, 31 Dec 2002, Sarad AV wrote: > > > Does a paradox ever help in understanding any > thing? > > Yes, it can demonstrate that you aren't asking the > right questions within > the correct context.

Re: Many Worlds Version of Fermi Paradox

2003-01-03 Thread Sarad AV
hi, --- Jim Choate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Sarad AV wrote: > > > An axiom is an improvable statement which is > accepted > > as true. > > An axiom is a statement which is -assumed to be > universaly required-. > That is -

Liars Paradox

2003-01-03 Thread Sarad AV
hi, with reference to http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/p/par-liar.htm it says The Liar Paradox is an argument that arrives at a contradiction by reasoning about a Liar Sentence. The most familiar Liar Sentence is the following self-referential sentence: (1) This sentence is false. Experts in

Re: Liars Paradox & Fermi paradox

2003-01-04 Thread Sarad AV
ow away this paradox like every other paradox? Regards Sarath. --- Mike Rosing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 3 Jan 2003, Sarad AV wrote: > > > As it says-they are self referecial > statements.What do > > we learn from the liars paradox? > > > > We

Re: CDR: Re: Many Worlds Version of Fermi Paradox

2003-01-04 Thread Sarad AV
hi, --- Jim Choate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, 3 Jan 2003, Sarad AV wrote: > > > As you already see-what you say is correct for > your > > definition of proof and axiom. > > Here is the fundamental error in your thinking, you > are trying to a

Re: CDR: Re: Many Worlds Version of Fermi Paradox

2003-01-04 Thread Sarad AV
hi, --- Jim Choate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sat, 4 Jan 2003, Sarad AV wrote: > > > how do you know that apples and oranges are not > same > > or are same? > > Its the way you look at it. > > No, ever see Apple and Oranges cross-breed? well-

Re: Definitions, Proofs, Derivations

2003-01-05 Thread Sarad AV
hi, Thats a beautiful one. --- Jim Choate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: To assert that a theorem is > false means to deny > one or more of the axioms. However, to assert that a > theorem is true does > not necessarily mean to assert the truth of all > axioms. yes-it only means its time to update ou

Re: Liars Paradox & Fermi paradox

2003-01-05 Thread Sarad AV
observe and not what we speculate-so may be there is no point in speculating since we only end up with same questions and our understanding gets no better than it was. Regards Sarath. --- Bill Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 12:39 AM 01/04/2003 -0800, Sarad AV wrote: > >Ther

Re: Security cameras are getting smart -- and scary

2003-01-08 Thread Sarad AV
hi, So where does that put privacy to.Your whole life outside the house can be monitered-when there are many cameras. May be the worlds air getting polluted isn't so bad-atleast we could put anti-pollution masks and protect our identity :) Regards Sarath. --- Eugen Leitl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Definitions, Proofs, Derivations

2003-01-08 Thread Sarad AV
hi, > > Then, if any two or more axioms of an > > alleged mathematical > > theory are found to be inconsistent with each > other, > > the whole theory > > collapses." > there will be no inconsistency in a formal axiomatic systems-but can any one point me to a contradicting set of axioms in an ax

Re: Desert Spam

2003-01-16 Thread Sarad AV
hi, Iraqi high ranking officers had the oppurtunity to defect in the 1991 war too. By the way how many of these officers who go for battle ever check e-mail. --- "Major Variola (ret)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > radio broadcasts and leaflets > dropped from airplanes > inste

Re: Desert Spam(The war)

2003-01-18 Thread Sarad AV
surprises iraq can come up with. Regards Sarath. --- Mike Rosing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Sarad AV wrote: > > > There is a new oil pipe line being completed > through > > turkey-caspian sea.once thats over the war should > > start. &g

ICBM's and space programs

2003-02-01 Thread Sarad AV
hi, Would countries with an advanced space program and with capilities of launching satellites have ICBM capabilities.if yes can they be sucessfully launched with the knowledge that they can successfully launch medium range missiles (2000 to 3000 km range). Regards Sarath. _

Re: Diffie-Hellman question

2004-05-18 Thread Sarad AV
If your > prime is 2000 bits, > then that should be safe for the foreseeable future, > unless quantum > computers turn out to be practical for breaking > moduli of this size. Discrete Logarithms in GF(2^607)have been calculated over polynomial basis. http://listserv.nodak.edu/scripts/wa.exe?A2=in

Re: Diffie-Hellman question

2004-05-18 Thread Sarad AV
hi, In Diffie Hellman key exchange we choose a large prime in Fp. The prime is publicly known,so is g,preferably a generator in Fp*. The reason that you might need to change the prime frequently is only if you donot choose g(element of)Fp to be a generator in Fp or the prime field be too small. I

Re: Identifying Air Marshals is Too Easy

2004-06-03 Thread Sarad AV
You can pick a few of them by looking in the eye. They are usually very sharp people. Sarath. > "Secret Service people are notoriously known for > being snappy dressers," > said Capt. Steve Luckey, security chairman for the > Air Line Pilots > Association. __

Re: Wired on Navy's new version of Onion Routing

2004-08-06 Thread Sarad AV
hi, Since they are using symmetric keys, for a network of 'n' nodes, each node need to know the secret key that they share with the remaining (n-1) nodes.Total number of symmetric keys that need to be distributed is [n*(n-1)]/2. Key management is harder when they network gets larger. Sarath. -

Re: SHA-1 rumors

2004-08-18 Thread Sarad AV
--- "R. A. Hettinga" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This would > SEEM to put the SHA family into jeopardy as well, > but we should know > more tomorrow evening. > > John Black Wasn't the attack to find two chosen messages hashing to the same value? But that doesn't mean that it is easy to find a

Vote for nobody

2004-09-06 Thread Sarad AV
hello, the election commision of india had a proposal to the govt. that the voter should be able to vote for 'none of the above'. Though one can predict that such a proposal will never be approved by the government, it makes a lot of sense. Is any other democratic country seriously thinking of imp

Re: Maths holy grail could bring disaster for internet

2004-09-08 Thread Sarad AV
hello, The security of elliptic curve cryptosystems depend on the difficulty in solving the elliptic curve discrete log problem(ECDLP). If any body gets to prove that P=NP, then all the public key cryptosystemts which rely on 'hard' problems will be useless for crypto. Sarath. --- Sunder <[EMAI

Re: Perplexing proof

2004-09-11 Thread Sarad AV
--- "Major Variola (ret)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can someone explain how finding regularity in the > distribution of primes > > would affect any modexp() system? Suppose that you > have a function > F(i) which gives you the i-th prime. Since the PK > systems (eg RSA, DH) > use *randomn

Blowfish C code still chokes

2004-10-24 Thread Sarad AV
hello, The C code for the blowfish encryption algorithm posted in Mr.Schneier's site, acocording to Michael.B still 'chokes' as it is not corrected even though the bug report, mentions that it is a fatal bug. The bug report is available at http://www.schneier.com/blowfish-bug.txt His opinion is

Re: The Values-Vote Myth

2004-11-07 Thread Sarad AV
--- "R.A. Hettinga" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When asked about > the issue that most > influenced their vote, voters were given the option > of saying "moral > values." But that phrase can mean anything - or > nothing. Who doesn't vote > on moral values? If you ask an inept question, you > get

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

2004-12-18 Thread Sarad AV
>--- "R.A. Hettinga" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 11:41 PM -0600 12/14/04, Bruce Schneier wrote: > The theory is that eventually > the defender will > >reach the end of his memorized story, and that the > attacker will then > >notice the subtle changes in the defender as he > starts to make u

Re: International meet on cryptology in Chennai

2004-12-21 Thread Sarad AV
--- "R.A. Hettinga" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: They call it IndoCrypt http://www-rocq.inria.fr/codes/indocrypt2004/ Sarad. __ Do you Yahoo!? Meet the all-new My Yahoo! - Try it today! http://my.yahoo.com

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

2004-12-21 Thread Sarad AV
--- John Kelsey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If I say I'm a > chemical engineer, it's not going to take much depth > of knowledge for the questioner to find out I don't > know things any chemical engineer would know, for > example. (It wouldn't be hard to come up with some > computerized syste

Re: Searching with Images instead of Words

2005-01-14 Thread Sarad AV
hi, They had been researching on this line in Indian Institue of Science, Bangalore. I think image searching has fundamental limits. For successfully matching two images, there should be a subset of information in both that totally match or match with a high probability. Expecting a front view

Re: Researchers Combat Terrorists by Rooting Out Hidden Messages

2005-02-02 Thread Sarad AV
hi, Tyler Durden wrote: >Are there certain images that can hide stego more >effectively? IN other words, >these images should have a lot of spectral energy in >the same frequency bands where Stego would normally >show. Yes, there should be a lot of noise in the image, some way or the other. If

Re: GNFC launches Indian Digital Certification services

2005-02-10 Thread Sarad AV
Never heard of it though the website mentions that it is an enterprise of the gujarat state government. Strange indeed! Sarad. --- "R.A. Hettinga" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Gujarat Narmada Valley Fertilizer Company??? > > ;-) > > Cheers, > RAH > --- > > >

Re: [>Htech] Tracking a Specific Machine Anywhere On The Net (fwd from eugen@leitl.org)

2005-03-07 Thread Sarad AV
hi, After looking at RFC1323 below http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/cgi-bin/rfc/rfc1323.html#sec-4 the only reasonable option is to use the time old pseudorandom numbers for TCP sequence numbers in the TCP IP stack. Another option would be to synchronize the client with NTP but that wouldn't work

Re: [silk] Google Targeted ads - gmail (fwd from rishab@dxm.org)

2005-04-01 Thread Sarad AV
hi, Maybe it was just a bot parsing the contents of the mail. Cannot say for sure. Reading every ones g-mail doesn't appear to be practical. Sarad. --- Eugen Leitl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 09:17 17/03/2005, Biju Chacko wrote: > >Ok, that does it. I am now convinced that Google is > the

Google prioritises results for firefox and mozilla users

2005-04-05 Thread Sarad AV
hi, news below: http://www.net4nowt.com/isp_news/news_article.asp?News_ID=2809 Google is way too fast. Whats the difference seraching using google in 10 milliseconds and in 5 milliseconds?Perhaps they are taking some load off their server? I fail to see how it is useful to the search client.

Rebalanced-RSA-CRT

2005-04-07 Thread Sarad AV
hi, I am a little confused after reading this: http://www.rsasecurity.com/rsalabs/cryptobytes/CryptoBytes_January_2002_final.pdf RSA-CRT decryption is nearly four times faster than using only modular exponentiation for decryption. Is Rebalanced-RSA-CRT three times faster in decryption than RSA d

Cracking Blowfish in style

2005-04-29 Thread Sarad AV
Mentioned on the Fox show "24." http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2005/04/blowfish_on_24.html http://video.google.com/videopreview?q=blowfish&time=3205000&page=1&docid=4616599194372365303&urlcreated=1114565588&chan=KTVU&prog=24+%7C+Day+4%3A+1%3A00AM-2%3A00AM&date=Mon+Apr+25+2005+at+9%3A00+

Re: Pi: Less Random Than We Thought

2005-05-05 Thread Sarad AV
hi, If you remember D.E Knuth's book on Semi-Numerical Algorithms he shows some annoying subsequences of pi in it which are far from random. Sarad. --- cypherpunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This doesn't really make sense. Either the digits > are random or they > are not. You can't be a littl

Re: Pi: Less Random Than We Thought

2005-05-06 Thread Sarad AV
--- Tyler Durden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Let us remember, of course, that the digits of "pi" > are not random > whatsoever: they are the digits of pi! "Random is in > the eye of the > beholder." > -TD Exactly. What an algorithm gives out is always deterministic. We try to see if there

Re: Pi: Less Random Than We Thought

2005-05-06 Thread Sarad AV
hi, --- Gil Hamilton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For example, is this sequence > of bits random: > 01100100010? How about this one: 00? From > a true random number > generator, both are completely possible and equally > valid. Random as in the sense guessable and thus posing a problem

Zero knowledge( a>b )

2005-05-09 Thread Sarad AV
hi, If user A has the integer a and user B has the integer b, can a zero knowledge proof be developed to show that a>b,ahttp://tour.mail.yahoo.com/mailtour.html

Re: Secure MPC( a>b )

2005-05-19 Thread Sarad AV
hi, --- Adam Back <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There is a simple protocol for this described in > Schneier's Applied > Crypto if you have one handy... Yes, I found it. Thankyou. --- cypherpunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >That is > known as a multi party computation or MPC True, Its a secure M

Airport screeners could see X-rated X-rays

2005-05-25 Thread Sarad AV
The Homeland Security Department's justification for the electronic strip searches has a certain logic. In field test after field test, it found that federal airport screeners using metal-detecting magnetometers did a miserable job identifying weapons concealed in carry-on bags or on the bodies of

Fwd: Order of an integer

2005-06-01 Thread Sarad AV
--- Cletus Emmanuel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Two conjectures (or are they?): 1. The order of an integer 'a' modulo P^m = P^(m-1)*(Order of a mod P); where P is an odd prime . 2. If a, m, and n are elements of Z and (a,mn) = 1, then Order of a mod mn = QR/(Q,R); where Q = Order of a mod m and

Re: Private Homes may be taken for public good

2005-06-24 Thread Sarad AV
This is very bad news. A lot of people will loose their homes to private 'economic developers'. It certainly means no right to have a permenant home. When suburbs start developing, the people are going to be evicted over and over. How long will this continue? If they cant do any good for individu

Re: [Clips] "Clippre": Police ask for tough new powers

2005-07-24 Thread Sarad AV
The govt. puts the blame on the intelligence for failing and the intelligence community blames it on tough laws that prevent them from eavesdropping. Then they all go amending laws, show their commitment to the public and reach a win-win situation. Somebody somewhere should be responsible to take

Re: Something conspicuously missing from the media survival lists

2003-02-12 Thread Sarad AV
hi, > I've not followed it closely, but Powell claims to > have a tape of > Bin Laden talking to "Iraqi's". Al Jazerra denys > it's real. This is > all from NPR. The game is afoot, let's see who can > deliver the bigger > lie. A tape as an evidence?Is a tape still considered as a valid piece o

birthday attack

2003-02-17 Thread Sarad AV
hi, http://www.x5.net/faqs/crypto/q95.html If some function, when supplied with a random input, returns one of k equally-likely values, then by repeatedly evaluating the function for different inputs, we expect to obtain the same output after about 1.2k1/2. For the above birthday paradox, replace

RE: Trivial OPT generation method?

2003-02-28 Thread Sarad AV
hi, > You probably know this if you use it, but > /dev/random is the most > "random" one, as it always uses system entropy, > rather than falling > back on an algorithm to generate more bits than are > available in > the pool. Its always better to choose an algorithm because it has *known* pro

When is iraq expected to fall.

2003-03-20 Thread Sarad AV
hi, how long does US analysts expect iraq to be completely occupied by US and allied troops? Regards Sarath. __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Platinum - Watch CBS' NCAA March Madness, live on your desktop! http://platinum.yahoo.com

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

2003-03-22 Thread Sarad AV
hi, Terrorism only increases.Saying meet fire with fire is only an anology.The whole world is against the war but they are all oppurtunists-they will strike only when they can.The war may do more damage even than all the oil it can get. Regards Sarath. --- Mike Rosing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Re: Spending a billion dollars an hour produces a hell of a light show!

2003-03-22 Thread Sarad AV
hi, Every one is a suspect-Let me check all your pockets.Stand in the line syria,egypt,iran,korea! Whats happening with this world. Sarath. --- Tyler Durden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "As the Iraqis themselves said, and I paraphrase > (because the quote is not > handy): "If the U.S. says th

Re:Liberation party express concern over war

2003-03-22 Thread Sarad AV
hi, Starting a war with saudi is a simple thing.How ever unless they don't find enough oil in iraq,they will turn onto KSA. How ever Saudi with Mecca and Madina is a dangerous country to attack.Saudi will surely take it as a war on muslims and the impact of that is severe.Saudi is the holy countr

Re: Things are looking better all the time

2003-03-23 Thread Sarad AV
hi, > The US now has troops in over 100 countries. That's > a lot of targets to > pick at. Imagine losing a soldier somewhere once a > day, everyday for the > next 10 years. Maybe somebody will notice? Thats what happens in india over the pakistan border.Some body or the other gets killed dai

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

2003-03-26 Thread Sarad AV
hi, it doesnt matter as long as Al-Jazeera is live and kicking and the camera's are rolling. The highly classified bomb creates a brief pulse of > microwaves powerful enough to fry computers, blind > radar, silence radios, trigger crippling power > outages and disable the electronic ignitions in

Re: Things are looking better all the time

2003-03-26 Thread Sarad AV
hi, They are not working very well or US since the iraqi's are using gps jammers and US are already in a row with russians claiming that they sold it to iraq. Regards Sarath. --- Tim May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday, March 25, 2003, at 03:30 AM, Ken Brown > wrote: > > > Declan McCul

Regarding linear recurrences.

2003-03-27 Thread Sarad AV
hi, Need help on understanding the following marix multiplication. let _ denote subscript. w=32 bits(0 to 31) let X be a 32 bit vector X={X_(w -1),x_(w-2),..x_0} A= |1 0 . .| |0 .| |. . | |. .| |a_(w-1) a_(w-2)

Re: Things are looking better all the time

2003-03-28 Thread Sarad AV
hi, That cannot possibly even happen-by mistake.Al-jazeera is qatar based.They might hit a chinese embassy but not AL-Jazeera. 1500 turkish troops moved into north iraq-US cannot immediately do any thing about it since flying over Turkish air space is important for them. Sarath. (Before Al Jaze

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

2003-03-28 Thread Sarad AV
hi, All this happening on the worlds greatest demcoracy. may be you read this news. http://news.yahoo.com/fc?tmpl=fc&cid=34&in=tech&cat=hackers_and_crackers Unofficial reports are that 500 iraqi's died 2 days ago and day before yesterday another 1000 died.This is the word comming from Saudi-fro

iraqi civilians

2003-03-28 Thread Sarad AV
hi, well here is the news on death of iraqi civilians in basra. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20030328/ap_on_re_mi_ea/war_basra&cid=716&ncid=716 I think the reverse is true.After the 'desert rats' were forced out of basra-the iraqi's were using anti air craft guns on US sol

RE: Things are looking better all the time

2003-03-25 Thread Sarad AV
hi, for every bomb that explodes in U.S,civil liberties will keep comming down.This is not the case in other countries were more bombs are hurled or exploded daily.Though they are less concerned about their citizens,they are concerned of their civil liberties(atleast to some extent). Regards Sara

Missile -launchers in iraq

2003-03-29 Thread Sarad AV
hi, on the first or second day of the war-iraqi missiles hit kuwait-4 to 5 of them. After that there is no word of any more strikes in kuwait or else where.What is Iraq waiting for? Regards Sarath. __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Platinum - Watch CBS' N

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

2003-03-29 Thread Sarad AV
und troops fearing casualities.So may be if a country has 500,000 soldiers even US might not win a war against them. Regards Sarath. --- "James A. Donald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -- > On 28 Mar 2003 at 1:57, Sarad AV wrote: > yesterday another 1000 died. >

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

2003-03-29 Thread Sarad AV
helo, --- John Kelsey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Be fair about this. We own the skies above Baghdad, > bit too much, but it's not like we're targeting > civilian areas. If we > were, the images from Baghdad would be very > different; not just one market > with a bomb crater, and one hospital

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

2003-04-02 Thread Sarad AV
--- Damian Gerow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And then the whole world dies, because of ... what? > > Seriously, I *highly* doubt that any nation at this > time would *seriously* > think of bombing another nuclear-enabled nation with > a nuclear weapon. It's > just suicide. Well-pakistan has

Re: Nuking kasmir (Re: U.S. Drops 'E-Bomb' On Iraqi TV)

2003-04-03 Thread Sarad AV
helo, > > Hilarious, dude. Who got nukes first? India. Nope US did. India got after US and before pakistan.Pak claims to have nukes since 1983,though they were tested only in 1999-his report comes frm pakistan. > > See your own propoganda site, US is not the only counrty who can do that :-)

Re: Missile -launchers in iraq

2003-04-02 Thread Sarad AV
hi, Blitz comes with high casualities.Shock and awe technique can use troops paratrooping into baghdad.But casualities are always unacceptable to the U.S. So they do it the conventional way. Sarath. --- Ken Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tyler Durden wrote: > > [...] > > > PS: Anyone notic

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

2003-04-03 Thread Sarad AV
hi, yes-thats probabaly why they nuked hirsoshima and nagasaki. Dont undermine the hate.There was no logic either.There was no logic in nuking thousand of people in hirsohma saying their existance is less important to thousands of people who might live,if the city was nuked. Sarath.

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

2003-04-03 Thread Sarad AV
hi, Why are the suicide bombers after US troops-its the hate.It does work .Yesterday at najaf(iraq)-a family of 8 women and atleast 2 children were killed by allied troops.They claimed that the vehicle sped towards an allied check post.So they fired warning shots to *stop* the vehicle. When it di

Re: Blackout in NYC

2003-08-15 Thread Sarad AV
hi, There wasn't much of traffic congestion on the manhatten roads when they showed the images on bbc. The manhatten road network is used in examples of deflection routing. Also roads every where should be like that :-) In India during summer-we have around 8 hours of power cut daily. For a m

Q on associative binary operation

2003-08-28 Thread Sarad AV
hi, Table shown is completed to define 'associative' binary operation * on S={a,b,c,d}. *|a|b|c|d - a|a|b|c|d - b|b|a|c|d - c|c|d|c|d - d|d|c|c|d The operation * is associative iff (a*b)*c=a*(b*c) for all a,b,c element of set S. So can (a*d)*d=a*(d*d)=d conside

Re: paradoxes of randomness

2003-08-19 Thread Sarad AV
hi, --- Dave Howe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: . (Not > > saying you do, just quibbling with any claim that > readily calculated > > probabilities can be "surprising.") > I meant surprising for Sarad - Much of this > discussion pre-assumes that he > *does* misunderstand probability but is willing to

Re: Q on associative binary operation

2003-08-29 Thread Sarad AV
two elements of the set. x*y (ie, left*top) can be followed. Regards Sarath. --- BillyGOTO <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 12:14:20AM -0700, Sarad AV > wrote: > > hi, > > > > Table shown is completed to define 'associative&#x

Re: paradoxes of randomness

2003-08-18 Thread Sarad AV
hi, --- martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Okay- I need 5 bits to represent 32 coins.I count > as > > coin 0,coin 1,... coin 31. > > No, you can't count coin 0. Or how will you > represent no coins? I thought i could use the null set to point to the first coin,simply as a one to one

Re: paradoxes of randomness

2003-08-18 Thread Sarad AV
hi, Hope you can help on this. --- Tim May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I hope you are not saying that you think there will > always be 16 heads > and 16 tails! In a perfectly random experiment,how many tails and how many heads do we get? thanks. Regards Sarath. __

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