Re: Forced Oaths to Pieces of Cloth

2003-02-12 Thread david
of a pledge of allegiance is individual liberty. As Ben Franklin said, Where liberty dwells, there is my country. David Neilson This will be the best security for maintaining our liberties. A nation of well-informed men who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them cannot

Re: The burn-off of twenty million useless eaters and minorities

2003-02-19 Thread david
zones unarmed? Why would any sane parent allow them to do so? David Neilson

thirty year plan

2003-03-05 Thread david
Here's a link to an interesting article about the US plan to control the world's oil supply. It points put the hazard of inviting the wolves to watch your henhouse for you. http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2003/10/ma_273_01.html David Neilson

Re: Fw: Drunk driver detector that radios police

2003-03-11 Thread david
on a competing company's roads. Live free or die, David Neilson

Re: Fw: Drunk driver detector that radios police

2003-03-11 Thread david
On Sunday 09 March 2003 18:16, you wrote: On Sunday 09 March 2003 10:31 am, david wrote: Neither you nor anyone else has the right to force me or any other individual to subsidize your welfare. This device, if forced on individuals by a government entity, would violate fourth amendment

Re: Fw: Drunk driver detector that radios police

2003-03-11 Thread david
On Sunday 09 March 2003 18:16, A.Melon wrote: On Sunday 09 March 2003 10:31 am, david wrote: Neither you nor anyone else has the right to force me or any other individual to subsidize your welfare. This device, if forced on individuals by a government entity, would violate fourth

Re: Biometrics helping privacy: excerpt from Salon article on fo rensics

2002-04-23 Thread David Howe
Peter Trei wrote: Encrypted files on a portable device that you keep with you would seem to be the best of all worlds. any of the usb mini drives can manage that - just set them to autorun Scramdisk Traveller and mount a SD volume from the device. just don't forget to dismount it before you

Re: Two ideas for random number generation

2002-04-24 Thread David Howe
Jim Choate [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But that changes the game in the middle of play, the sequence of digits in pi is fixed, not random. You can't get a random number from a constant. Otherwise it wouldn't be a constant. PRNG output is fixed/repeatable too - that is a properly you *want* from a

Re: Cypherpunks Europe

2002-04-28 Thread David Howe
On Sunday, April 28, 2002, at 07:32 AM, Jan Dobrucki wrote: Greetings, I've been reading the list for a while now, and what I find annoying is that there are mostly American news and little about what's happening in Europe. As little as I respect America, America is not all of the world.

Re: Cypherpunks Europe

2002-04-29 Thread David Howe
I don't think you get freelance IRA guys. Not with both kneecaps, anyway. might be surprised - donations from the states have apparently tailled off (having been the subject of a terrorist attack themselves they seem less willing to fund them) and they could do with the revenue - but you are

Re: Bad guys vs. Good guys

2002-05-12 Thread David Howe
Jim Choate [EMAIL PROTECTED] gave us the benefit of the following opinion: It makes no sense to talk about 'cheapness of payment' from the recipients view. It costs them nothing to get paid (outside of whatever service or labor was involved in the exchange). You have your cognates reversed

Re: Bad guys vs. Good guys

2002-05-14 Thread David Howe
Nope, Usually credit card transactions are free for the payer Bullshit, they charge interest on the loans and such. You should read your credit card bills closer. Not sure if the rules are different over there then - after all, you add on extra charges to the ticket price when you reach the

Re: Open-Source Fight Flares At Pentagon Microsoft Lobbies Hard Against Free Software

2002-05-24 Thread David Howe
Microsoft also said open-source software is inherently less secure because the code is available for the world to examine for flaws, making it possible for hackers or criminals to exploit them. Proprietary software, the company argued, is more secure because of its closed nature. Presumably the

Re: When encryption is also authentication...

2002-05-30 Thread David Howe
Mike Rosing [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Having it be transparent where the user doesn't need to know anything about how it works does not have to destroy the effectiveness of digital signatures or crypto. When people sign a document they don't know all the ramifications because few bother to

Re: When encryption is also authentication...

2002-05-31 Thread David Howe
Mike Rosing [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Having it be transparent where the user doesn't need to know anything about how it works does not have to destroy the effectiveness of digital signatures or crypto. When people sign a document they don't know all the ramifications because few bother to

Re: Ross's TCPA paper

2002-06-26 Thread David Wagner
Scott Guthery wrote: Perhaps somebody can describe a non-DRM privacy management system. Uhh, anonymous remailers? I never disclose my identity, hence there is no need for parties I don't trust to manage it. Come on, folks. This ought to be cypherpunks 101. DRM might be one way to achieve

Re: Piracy is wrong

2002-06-29 Thread David Wagner
Anonymous wrote: Piracy - unauthorized copying of copyrighted material - is wrong. http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html When an artist releases a song or some other creative product to the world, they typically put some conditions on it. Don't overlook the fact that when the

Re: DRM will not be legislated

2002-07-14 Thread David Wagner
Anonymous wrote: Legislation of DRM is not in the cards, [...] Care to support this claim? (the Hollings bill and the DMCA requirement for Macrovision in every VCR come to mind as evidence to the contrary)

Re: Virtuallizing Palladium

2002-07-15 Thread David Howe
Ben Laurie [EMAIL PROTECTED] was seen to declaim: Albion Zeglin wrote: Similar to DeCSS, only one Palladium chip needs to be reverse engineered and it's key(s) broken to virtualize the machine. If you break one machine's key: a) You won't need to virtualise it b) It won't be getting any new

Re: DRM will not be legislated

2002-07-17 Thread David Wagner
AARG! Anonymous wrote: David Wagner wrote: The Hollings bill was interesting not for its success or failure, but for what it reveals the content companies' agenda. The CBDTPA, available in text form at http://www.politechbot.com/docs/cbdtpa/hollings.s2048.032102.html, does not explicitly call

Re: Challenge to David Wagner on TCPA

2002-08-01 Thread David Wagner
James A. Donald wrote: According to Microsoft, the end user can turn the palladium hardware off, and the computer will still boot. As long as that is true, it is an end user option and no one can object. Your point is taken. That said, even if you could turn off TCPA Palladium and run some

Re: Seth on TCPA at Defcon/Usenix

2002-08-11 Thread David Wagner
AARG! Anonymous wrote: His description of how the Document Revocation List could work is interesting as well. Basically you would have to connect to a server every time you wanted to read a document, in order to download a key to unlock it. Then if someone decided that the document needed to

Re: Thanks, Lucky, for helping to kill gnutella (fwd)

2002-08-11 Thread David Wagner
R. A. Hettinga wrote: [Ob Cypherpunks: Seriously, folks. How clueful can someone be who clearly doesn't know how to use more than one remailer hop, as proven by the fact that he's always coming out of the *same* remailer all the time? I hope I don't need to point out that always using the same

Re: responding to claims about TCPA

2002-08-11 Thread David Wagner
AARG! Anonymous wrote: In fact, you are perfectly correct that Microsoft architectures would make it easy at any time to implement DRL's or SNRL's. They could do that tomorrow! They don't need TCPA. So why blame TCPA for this feature? The relevance should be obvious. Without TCPA/Palladium,

Re: Cryptogram: Palladium Only for DRM

2002-09-20 Thread David Wagner
AARG! Anonymous wrote: Lucky Green wrote: In the interest of clarity, it probably should be mentioned that any claims Microsoft may make stating that Microsoft will not encrypt their software or software components when used with Palladium of course only applies to Microsoft [...] First, it

Re: Best Windows XP drive encryption program?

2002-09-24 Thread David Howe
at Monday, September 23, 2002 10:35 PM, Curt Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] was seen to say: http://www.drivecrypt.com/dcplus.html DriveCrypt Plus does everything you want. I believe it may have descended from ScramDisk (Dave Barton's disk encryption program). As an aside - Dave Barton? Shaun

Re: What email encryption is actually in use?

2002-10-01 Thread David Howe
at Monday, September 30, 2002 7:52 PM, James A. Donald [EMAIL PROTECTED] was seen to say: Is it practical for a particular group, for example a corporation or a conspiracy, to whip up its own damned root certificate, without buggering around with verisign? (Of course fixing Microsoft's

Re: What email encryption is actually in use?

2002-10-01 Thread David Howe
at Tuesday, October 01, 2002 3:08 AM, Peter Gutmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] was seen to say: For encryption, STARTTLS, which protects more mail than all other email encryption technology combined. See http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/usenix02_slides.pdf (towards the back). I would

Re: What email encryption is actually in use?

2002-10-02 Thread David Howe
at Tuesday, October 01, 2002 6:10 PM, James A. Donald [EMAIL PROTECTED] was seen to say: Not so. It turns out the command line is now different in PGP 6.5.8. It is now pgp -sta to clearsign, instead of pgp -sa. (Needless to say the t option does not appear in pgp -h *nods* its in the 6.5

Re: What email encryption is actually in use?

2002-10-02 Thread David Howe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- at Tuesday, October 01, 2002 9:04 PM, Petro [EMAIL PROTECTED] was seen to say: Well, it's a start. Every mail server (except mx1 and mx2.prserv.net) should use TLS. Its nice in theory, but in practice look how long it takes the bulk of the internet to

Re: What email encryption is actually in use?

2002-10-02 Thread David Howe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- at Tuesday, October 01, 2002 9:04 PM, Petro [EMAIL PROTECTED] was seen to say: Well, it's a start. Every mail server (except mx1 and mx2.prserv.net) should use TLS. Its nice in theory, but in practice look how long it takes the bulk of the internet to

Re: What email encryption is actually in use?

2002-10-02 Thread David Howe
at Wednesday, October 02, 2002 3:13 AM, Peter Gutmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] was seen to say: As opposed to more conventional encryption, where you're protecting nothing at any point along the chain, because 99.99% of the user base can't/won't use it. That is a different problem. if you assume that

Re: Echelon-like...

2002-10-10 Thread David Howe
I assume everyone knows the little arrangement that lotus reached with the NSA over its encrypted secure email? I'm new here, so do tell if I am wrong. Are you referring to the two levels of Encryption available in Bogus Notes? More or less, yes. Lotus knew nobody would buy a 40 bit version

Re: Echelon-like...

2002-10-10 Thread David Howe
On Wednesday, October 9, 2002, at 07:28 PM, anonimo arancio wrote: The basic argument is that, if good encryption is available overseas or easily downloadable, it doesn't make sense to make export of it illegal. Nope. The biggest name in software right now is Microsoft, who wasn't willing to

Re: Echelon-like...

2002-10-11 Thread David Howe
Trei, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It was Sweden. They didn't really have an excuse - over a year earlier, Lotus announced their International version with details of the Work Factor Reduction Field at the RSA Conference. I immediately invented the term 'espionage enabled' to describe this

Re: UK Censors, Shayler, Bin Laden

2002-10-14 Thread David Howe
at Saturday, October 12, 2002 2:01 AM, Steve Furlong [EMAIL PROTECTED] was seen to say: On Thursday 10 October 2002 13:13, Tim May wrote: There are two advantages of web-based discussion fora over usenet: propagation time and firewalls. Not sure about that - propagation time is a issue of

Re: One time pads

2002-10-16 Thread David Howe
at Wednesday, October 16, 2002 2:01 PM, Sarad AV [EMAIL PROTECTED] was seen to say: Though it has a large key length greater than or equal to the plain text,why would it be insecure if we can use a good pseudo random number generators,store the bits produced on a taper proof medium. because

Re: The Register - UK firm touts alternative to digital certs (fwd)

2002-10-21 Thread David Howe
at Monday, October 21, 2002 3:14 PM, Trei, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] was seen to say: I'd be nervous about a availability with centralized servers, even if they are triple redundant with two sites. DDOS attacks, infrastructure (backhoe) attacks, etc, could all wreck havoc. Indeed so, yes. I

Re: The Register - UK firm touts alternative to digital certs (fwd)

2002-10-21 Thread David Howe
at Monday, October 21, 2002 4:20 PM, Eric Murray [EMAIL PROTECTED] was seen to say: Looking at their web site, they seem pretty generic about what it's for, but I did not see any mention of using it for payments. So I assume it's for logins. well, I was working from: The Quizid registry The

Re: commericial software defined radio (to 30 Mhz, RX only)

2002-10-17 Thread David Howe
at Thursday, October 17, 2002 4:54 AM, Morlock Elloi Also, if regular cheapo PC sounboards can digitize 30 MHz (and Nyquist says this requires 60 MHz sampling rate) then some product managers need ... flogging. If I am reading this correctly, they don't need to - a fixed-frequency first mixer

Re: One time pads

2002-10-17 Thread David Howe
at Wednesday, October 16, 2002 6:13 PM, Bill Frantz [EMAIL PROTECTED] was seen to say: OTP is also good when: (1) You can solve the key distribution problem. Its certainly usable provided key distribution isn't an issue - if it is also worth the trouble and expense is another matter. (2) You

Re: XORing bits to eliminate skew

2002-10-17 Thread David Howe
at Thursday, October 17, 2002 4:38 PM, Sarad AV [EMAIL PROTECTED] was seen to say: He wanted to know how I was able to do XOR on P(0) and P(1) when xor is defined only on binary digits. you don't. P(x) is a probability of digit x in the output. ideally, P(0)=P(1)=0.5 (obviously in binary, only

Re: One time pads

2002-10-17 Thread David Howe
at Wednesday, October 16, 2002 7:17 PM, David E. Weekly [EMAIL PROTECTED] was seen to say: As for PKI being secure for 20,000 years, it sure as hell won't be if those million-qubit prototypes turn out to be worth their salt. I wasn't aware they even had a dozen-qbit prototypes functional yet

Re: Office of Hollywood Security, HollSec

2002-10-28 Thread David Howe
at Saturday, October 26, 2002 1:18 AM, Tim May [EMAIL PROTECTED] was seen to say: Yes, but check very carefully whether one is in violation of the anti-hacking laws (viz. DMCA). By some readings of the laws, merely trying to break a cipher is ipso fact a violation. IIRC, you can't be arrested

Re: What email encryption is actually in use?

2002-11-04 Thread David Howe
at Monday, November 04, 2002 2:28 AM, Tim May [EMAIL PROTECTED] was seen to say: Those who need to know, know. Which of course is a viable model, provided you are only using your key for private email to those who need to know if you are using it for signatures posted to a mailing list though, it

Re: What email encryption is actually in use?

2002-11-04 Thread David Howe
at Monday, November 04, 2002 3:13 PM, Tyler Durden This is an interesting issue...how much information can be gleaned from encrypted payloads? Usually, the VPN is an encrypted tunnel from a specified IP (individual pc or lan) to another specified IP (the outer marker of the lan, usually the

Re: Did you *really* zeroize that key?

2002-11-07 Thread David Honig
At 03:55 PM 11/7/02 +0100, Steven M. Bellovin wrote: Regardless of whether one uses volatile or a pragma, the basic point remains: cryptographic application writers have to be aware of what a clever compiler can do, so that they know to take countermeasures. Wouldn't a crypto coder be using

Re: Transparent drive encryption now in FreeBSD

2002-11-11 Thread David Wagner
Tyler Durden wrote: Sorry, I'm new, but does this refer to the notion of splitting up a document holographically, and placing the various pieces of numerous servers throughout the 'Net? No. It is referring to conventional encryption of your local hard disk.

Re: Psuedo-Private Key -Methodology

2002-11-21 Thread David Howe
at Thursday, November 21, 2002 2:26 PM, Sarad AV [EMAIL PROTECTED] was seen to say: '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

Re: CNN.com - WiFi activists on free Web crusade - Nov. 29, 2002 (fwd)

2002-12-02 Thread David Howe
at Monday, December 02, 2002 8:42 AM, Eugen Leitl [EMAIL PROTECTED] was seen to say: No, an orthogonal identifier is sufficient. In fact, DNS loc would be a good start. I think what I am trying to say is - given a normal internet user using IPv4 software that wants to connect to someone in the

Re: Photographer Arrested For Taking Pictures Of Vice President'S Hotel

2002-12-15 Thread David Wagner
Declan McCullagh wrote: Also epic.org (not a cypherpunk-friendly organization, but it does try to limit law enforcement surveillance) [...] Is the cypherpunks movement truly so radicalized that it is not willing to count even EPIC among its friends?

Re: Libel lunacy -all laws apply fnord everywhere

2002-12-17 Thread David Howe
at Tuesday, December 17, 2002 5:33 AM, the following Choatisms were heard: Nobody (but perhaps you by inference) is claiming it is identical, however, it -is- a broadcast (just consider how a packet gets routed, consider the TTL for example or how a ping works). ping packets aren't routed any

Re: Singularity ( was Re: Policing Bioterror Research )

2003-01-07 Thread David Howe
at Tuesday, January 07, 2003 1:14 AM, Michael Motyka [EMAIL PROTECTED] was seen to say: financial resources, other than those that pass through verified identity gatekeepers; That's an odd way to spell Campaign Fund Contributing Corporations

Re: [IP] Open Source TCPA driver and white papers (fwd)

2003-01-24 Thread David Howe
at Friday, January 24, 2003 4:53 PM, Mike Rosing [EMAIL PROTECTED] was seen to say: Thanks Eugen, It looks like the IBM TPM chip is only a key store read/write device. It has no code space for the kind of security discussed in the TCPA. The user still controls the machine and can still

Re: the news from bush's speech...H-power

2003-01-30 Thread David Howe
at Wednesday, January 29, 2003 11:18 PM, Bill Frantz [EMAIL PROTECTED] was seen to say: Back a few years ago, probably back during the great gas crisis (i.e. OPEC) years, there were a lot of small companies working on solar power. As far as I know, they were all bought up by oil companies. Of

Re: Sovereignty issues and Palladium/TCPA

2003-01-31 Thread David Howe
at Friday, January 31, 2003 2:18 AM, Peter Gutmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] was seen to say: schnipp More particularly, governments are likely to want to explore the issues related to potential foreign control/influence over domestic governmental use/access to domestic government held data. In

Re: A secure government

2003-02-06 Thread David Howe
No, the various provisions of the Constitution, flawed though it is, make it clear that there is no prove that you are not guilty provision (unless you're a Jap, or the government wants your land, or someone says that you are disrespectful of colored people). Unfortuately, this is not true in

Re: A secure government

2003-02-06 Thread David Howe
at Thursday, February 06, 2003 11:21 AM, Pete Capelli Then which one of these groups does the federal government fall under, when they use crypto? In the feds opinion, of course. Or do they believe that their use of crypto is the only wholesome one? Terrorism of course, using their own

Re: Putting the NSA Data Overwrite Standard Legend to Death... (fwd)

2003-02-06 Thread David Howe
at Thursday, February 06, 2003 2:34 PM, Tyler Durden [EMAIL PROTECTED] was seen to say: I've got a question... If you actually care about the NSA or KGB doing a low-level magnetic scan to recover data from your disk drives, you need to be using an encrypted file system, period, no questions.

Re: A secure government

2003-02-06 Thread David Howe
at Thursday, February 06, 2003 3:44 PM, Peter Fairbrother [EMAIL PROTECTED] was seen to say: David Howe wrote: a) it's not law yet, and may never become law. It's an Act of Parliament, but it's two-and-a-bit years old and still isn't in force. No signs of that happening either, except a few

Re: A secure government

2003-02-06 Thread David Howe
at Thursday, February 06, 2003 4:48 PM, Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] was seen to say: Another point is that ``normal'' constables aren't able to action the request; they have to be approved by the Chief Constable of a police force, or the head of a relevant Government department. The full text

Re: Putting the NSA Data Overwrite Standard Legend to Death... (fwd)

2003-02-10 Thread David Howe
at Monday, February 10, 2003 3:09 AM, Jim Choate [EMAIL PROTECTED] was seen to say: On Mon, 10 Feb 2003, Dave Howe wrote: no, lilo is. if you you can mount a pgpdisk (say) without software, then you are obviously much more talented than I am :) Bullshit. lilo isn't doing -anything- at that

Re: Putting the NSA Data Overwrite Standard Legend to Death... (fwd)

2003-02-11 Thread David Howe
at Monday, February 10, 2003 3:20 AM, Jim Choate [EMAIL PROTECTED] was seen to say: On Sun, 9 Feb 2003, Sunder wrote: The OS doesn't boot until you type in your passphrase, plug in your USB fob, etc. and allow it to read the key. Like, Duh! You know, you really ought to stop smoking crack.

Re: School of the future

2003-02-20 Thread David Howe
at Thursday, February 20, 2003 2:04 AM, Harmon Seaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] was seen to say: The real school of the future won't have classrooms at all, and no teachers as we now know them. Instead there will be workstations with VR helmets and a number of software gurus in the machine

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

2003-02-20 Thread David Howe
at Thursday, February 20, 2003 1:28 AM, Harmon Seaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] was seen to say: No oil but lots of dope, especially lots of high grade opium and the CIA and the US scum military has been just desperate to get control of the world heroin trade again like they did in Vietnam days.

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

2003-02-21 Thread David Howe
at Friday, February 21, 2003 4:44 PM, James A. Donald [EMAIL PROTECTED] was seen to say: Highly capitalist nations do not murder millions. but their highly capitalist companies sometimes do. is this a meaningful distinction?

Re: Scientists question electronic voting

2003-03-07 Thread David Howe
at Thursday, March 06, 2003 5:02 PM, Ed Gerck [EMAIL PROTECTED] was seen to say: On the other hand, photographing a paper receipt behind a glass, which receipt is printed after your vote choices are final, is not readily deniable because that receipt is printed only after you confirm

Re: I for one am glad that...

2003-03-19 Thread David Howe
at Wednesday, March 19, 2003 3:39 AM, Keith Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] was seen to say: Which resolution took away any Member State's authority to all necessary means to uphold resolution 690? I think the problem here is who gets to define what is necessary - the UN Security council thinks it is

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

2003-03-27 Thread David Howe
at Thursday, March 27, 2003 6:36 AM, Sarad AV [EMAIL PROTECTED] was seen to say: there is a lot of self imposed sensor ship in US on the war.The Us pows's shown on al-jazeera were not broadcasted over Us and those sites which had pictures of POW's were removed as unethical graphics on web

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

2003-04-02 Thread David Howe
at Tuesday, April 01, 2003 11:53 PM, Kevin S. Van Horn [EMAIL PROTECTED] was seen to say: What's a legitimate government? One with enough firepower to make its rule stick? One with real (not imagined) WMD to frighten off american presidents. NK being a good example...

Re: Drunken US Troops Kill Rare Tiger

2003-09-22 Thread David Crookes
On Monday 22 September 2003 12:37 pm, Sarad AV wrote: Vote for some one who promises freedom,democracy These two don't co-exist too well if you're idle.

Re: Sunny Guantanamo (Re: Speaking of the Geneva convention)

2003-12-22 Thread David Crookes
On Friday 19 December 2003 20:35, James A. Donald wrote: In fact Glaspie told Saddam that if he invaded Kuwait, the shit would hit the fan. (That was not her words. Her words were subject of concern, Cite? The google groups article you linked to has two links to possible transcripts.

Re: I am anti war. You stupid evil scum are pro Saddam.

2003-12-22 Thread David Crookes
On Monday 22 December 2003 13:49, Michael Kalus wrote: Well, in america instead of being the slave to the man (just yet) you're the slave to your credit card bills By choice. your employers By choice, through a range that is barely enough to eat and drink to unimaginable heights in

Re: voting

2004-04-16 Thread David Jablon
, rather than have the system automatically choose for me. -- David At 11:05 AM 4/9/04 -0400, Trei, Peter wrote: 1. The use of receipts which a voter takes from the voting place to 'verify' that their vote was correctly included in the total opens the way for voter coercion. John Kelsey

Re: voting

2004-04-21 Thread David Jablon
David Jablon wrote: [...] Where is the privacy problem with Chaum receipts when Ed and others still have the freedom to refuse theirs or throw them away? At 11:43 AM 4/16/04 -0700, Ed Gerck wrote: The privacy, coercion, intimidation, vote selling and election integrity problems begin

Re: no anon conversations?

2004-05-03 Thread David Crookes
An Metet wrote: What technologies currently exist for receiving a/psuedononymous message? With Mixmaster, sending mail, posting news, and even blog posting are possible, However, receiving replies securely or, better, holding a private conversation is difficult or impossible. Best bet seems is to

Re: Is there a Brands certificate reference implementation?

2004-04-25 Thread David Crookes
Steve Furlong wrote: Does anyone know of a reference implementation for Stefan Brands's digital certificate scheme? Alternatively, does anyone have an email address for Brands so I can ask him myself? (I haven't gotten anything back from ZKS's contact us address. But I don't know if Brands is

Re: MD5 collisions?

2004-08-18 Thread David Honig
At 09:04 PM 8/17/04 -0400, R. A. Hettinga wrote: At 7:33 PM -0500 8/17/04, Declan McCullagh wrote: One is enough. Less is more. Let's eliminate redundancy, thus eliminating redundancy. LMAO RAH :-) = 36 Laurelwood Dr Irvine CA 92620-1299 VOX:

Re: Eyes on the Prize...not the Millicent Ghetto

2002-05-14 Thread David G.W. Birch
R. A. Hettinga e-said: Compared, again, to, regulated, monitored, bank-to-bank foreign exchange of several *trillion* dollars a *day*, it's chicken feed. On Bob's list, yesterday: About $1.2 trillion in currencies is traded daily, according to the Bank for International Settlements.

Re: DOJ proposes US data-rentention law.

2002-06-20 Thread David G. Koontz
Trei, Peter wrote: - start quote - Cyber Security Plan Contemplates U.S. Data Retention Law http://online.securityfocus.com/news/486 Internet service providers may be forced into wholesale spying on their customers as part of the White House's strategy for securing cyberspace. By

Re: Ross's TCPA paper

2002-07-05 Thread Seth David Schoen
Hadmut Danisch writes: You won't be able to enter a simple shell script through the keyboard. If so, you could simple print protected files as a hexdump or use the screen (or maybe the sound device or any LED) as a serial interface. Since you could use the keyboard to enter a

Re: Challenge to David Wagner on TCPA

2002-08-02 Thread David G. Koontz
Jon Callas wrote: On 8/1/02 1:14 PM, Trei, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So my question is: What is your reason for shielding your identity? You do so at the cost of people assuming the worst about your motives. Is this a tacit way to suggest that the only people who need anonymity or

Re: Wolfram on randomness and RNGs

2002-09-07 Thread David E. Weekly
; picking out which portions of the sequence to use end up becoming your secret and your sequence is truly only as unpredictable as this secret. In another sense, the sequence you're using is only as strong as its inputs. Just my $0.02; please bitchslap me if I got this wrong. David E. Weekly Founder

Re: One time pads

2002-10-16 Thread David E. Weekly
thinking about using OTP *now* if you have secrets you'd like to keep past when an adversary of yours might have access to a quantum computer. I'd put 50 years as an upper bound on that, 5 years as a lower. -d - Original Message - From: David Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Email List

Re: One time pads and Quantum Computers

2002-10-16 Thread David E. Weekly
David E. Weekly[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Which means that you should start thinking about using OTP *now* if you have secrets you'd like to keep past when an adversary of yours might have access to a quantum computer. ... OTPs won't help a bit for that problem. They're fine

ISP Utilty To Cypherpunks?

2002-10-31 Thread David E. Weekly
a server that's got a fixed IP, is up all the time, and has very low latency to most of the Net. How can we help? David E. Weekly Founder Director California Community Colocation Project http://CommunityColo.net/ PS: We are entirely volunteer-based. Nobody gets paid.

Re: What email encryption is actually in use?

2002-11-04 Thread David W. Hodgins
: On Sunday, November 3, 2002, at 06:14 PM, David W. Hodgins wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- The advantages really disappear, when the key used to sign the message isn't sent to the key servers {:. Those who need to know, know. You, I've never seen before. Even if you found

Re: Press Coverage, Snarky Media Personalities, and War

2003-03-02 Thread David W. Hodgins
On Sat, 1 Mar 2003 16:14:58 -0600, Shawn K. Quinn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At least two of my prior e-mail addresses made never ever spam these addresses lists (unlike remove lists, these are actually heeded by a lot of spamming vermin), so I know that this can work. Where can one sign up to these

Public hearing in Boston on Mass DMCA bill

2003-04-01 Thread David I Emery
For those on this list from the Boston area there is a public hearing on the Mass version of the Super-DMCA bill on Wed April 2nd at 10 AM in Room 222 of the Mass State house in downtown Boston. This might be a chance to find out who is sponsoring this legislation and raise some

Re: Logging of Web Usage

2003-04-03 Thread Seth David Schoen
will depend on what server operators are trying to accomplish. Some people just want to try to count unique visitors; strangely enough, they might get more privacy-protective (and comparably precise) results by issuing short-lived cookies. -- Seth David Schoen [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Very frankly, I am

Re: [camram-spam] Re: Microsoft publicly announces Penny Black PoW postage project

2004-01-04 Thread Seth David Schoen
cost. Or does hashcash only help moderated mailing lists (where it pays the moderator for her time)? My current impression is that it will benefit individual e-mail recipients but not help subscribers to large unmoderated mailing lists. -- Seth David Schoen [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Very frankly, I am

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

2005-10-20 Thread David Alexander Molnar
hosted on an IBM 4758. -David Molnar