DeCSS defense briefs

2000-01-10 Thread Lucky Green
The EFF has made available for download the briefs filed in opposition to the preliminary injunction requested by the DVD Copy Control Association in the DeCSS case. The plaintiff has until the 12th to file their response. The PI hearing will be held on the 14th. http://www.eff.org/pub/In

US Cyber Security Plan

2000-01-10 Thread John Young
Thanks to Will Rodger we offer the National Plan for Information Systems Protection, Executive Summary, released by the White House on January 7: http://cryptome.org/cybersec-plan.htm (109K) Zipped: http://cryptome.org/cybersec-plan.zip (32K)

An excellent DeCSS site

2000-01-10 Thread Lucky Green
For those of you that follow the DeCSS case, there is an excellent site that offers not only all legal documents, but also features relevant press clippings and additional information on copyright and IP issues. Lot's of background material is available as well. http://www.virtualrecordings.com/m

I'm teaching a crypto course near NYC...

2000-01-10 Thread Perry E. Metzger
I've agreed to teach an in depth introduction to crypto at Stevens, which is an engineering school across the river from Manhattan in Hoboken, NJ. I'm posting this largely just in case someone out there really wants to enroll in such a course, doesn't otherwise know where to find one, and happens

stories requested

2000-01-10 Thread Sameer Parekh
Folks, I'm giving a talk at the RSA show next week entitled "An Unconventional Look at the History of the Cryptography Industry." The idea is to give the attendees, in particular those who haven't been involved in crypto and security for a while, a taste of some of the strange things that

Killer PKI Applications

2000-01-10 Thread Peter Cassidy
Friends, I am engaged in an expansive and challenging authoring assignment regarding PKI's rationale in the large e-commerce plexus. I'm casting about for ideas on the killer PKI application. I'd like to hear any ideas - however wild or domesticated - in this space. I can repay all kindnesses wi

Killer PKI Applications (fwd)

2000-01-10 Thread Jim Choate
- Forwarded message from Peter Cassidy - Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 18:08:00 -0500 (EST) From: Peter Cassidy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Killer PKI Applications I am engaged in an expansive and challenging authoring assignment regarding PKI's rationale in the large e-commerce plexus. I'm

GSM awnser to A5/1

2000-01-10 Thread Per Kangru
Found this somewere. Any coments? /Per 16 December 1999 Joint statement by Chairman GSM Association Security Group and Chairman ETSI SMG10 Security Group Many questions were raised by the paper of Alex Biryukov and Adi Shamir [1] on the GSM A5/1 over the air encryption algorithm, we would l