[FYI] SDMI cracked.

http://www.salon.com/tech/log/2000/10/12/sdmi_hacked/index.html - CUT SDMI cracked! Hackers break the recording industry's vaunted music protection system. By Janelle Brown Oct. 12, 2000 | Watch out -- recording industry execu

[FYI] Secret plan to spy on all British phone calls

http://www.observer.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,406191,00.html --- CUT --- Secret plan to spy on all British phone calls Kamal Ahmed, political editor Sunday December 3, 2000 Britain's intelligence services are seeking powers to seize all

Re: any IDEA licensees out there?

eb form under http://www.ascom.ch/systec/security/Policy/idea_olof.html I got some "IDEA USER REGISTRATION CARD" via snail mail to be returned to ASCOM. It looks as if this URL would not work anymore. Regards, Axel H Horns Patentanwalt -- Patentanwalt Axel H Horns[EMAIL PROTECTED

What is currently happening to http://www.cryptome.org/ ?

What is currently happening to http://cryptome.org/ Since last night I only get "Forbidden - You do not have permission to access the requested file on this server." Does anyone know whether the site has been taken down? Axel H Horns

Re: What is currently happening to http://www.cryptome.org/ ?

On 7 Feb 2001, at 10:18, I wrote: > What is currently happening to > > http://cryptome.org/ > > Since last night I only get > > "Forbidden - You do not have permission to access the requested file > on this server." > > Does anyone know whether t

Re: Pop Count Instruction and cryptoanalysis

rate hardware unit which I think was *very* expensive in those days (The core CPU of said CYBER model was made up of modularized and encapsulated printed circuit boards equipped with discrete transistors, AFAIK). Axel H Horns

Crypto usage in US-PTO

t been canceled from the agenda and that Escrowed Encryption Standard (EES) seems not to be dead. Axel H Horns

Re: Trademark issues

king into account that the legal situation outside the U.S. may well be substantially different. It would be risky to assume that RSADSI can't sue you in Europe if they would be unable to do so in the U.S. Regards, Axel H Horns Patentanwalt

[FYI] 1999/C 101/15 "Electronic Money Institutions"

http://europa.eu.int/eur-lex/en/oj/1999/c_10119990412en.html --- CUT --- 1999/C 101/15 Opinion of the Economic and Social Committee on: _ the `Proposal for a

CROCKER and population count opcodes on CDC mainframes

whether a project named "CROCKER" and mentioned in Mr. Moore's CV was related to the implementation of population count opcodes by CDC. Said particular opcodes appeared to be quite useless outside code-breaking business. Regards Axel H Horns --** http://jya.com/nsa-crocker.htm http

[FYI] DN: SPEECH/99/122 by Mr Erkki LIIKANEN on Crypto

http://europa.eu.int/rapid/start/cgi/guesten.ksh?p_action.gettxt=gt&do c=SPEECH/99/122|0|RAPID&lg=EN CUT --- Speech by Mr Erkki LIIKANEN Member of the European Commission for Enterprise and Information Society Trust and Security in E

Trilateral PKI Standard

ese Patent Office on a crypto standard for electronic filing of patent applications and the like. In general it seems to be not so bad (relying on well-known standards) but there are somewhat unclear text portions on key recovery. Axel H Horns

NEC Claims World's Strongest Encryption System - still more snake oil?

http://www.idg.net/idgns/2000/01/24/NECClaimsWorldsStrongestEncryption System.shtml --- CUT - NEC Claims World's Strongest Encryption System by Martyn Williams, IDG News Service\Tokyo Bureau January 24, 2000 TOKYO (01/24/2000) - N

[FYI] EU Directive 1999/93/EC on electronic signatures finally published

DIRECTIVE 1999/93/EC OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 13 December 1999 on a Community framework for electronic signatures Official Journal of the European Communities L13 (2000) of 2000-01-19, pp. 12ff. http://europa.eu.int/eur-lex/en/dat/2000/l_013/l_0132119en00120020.pdf

WIPO in support of Key Recovery?

think this would make an important difference. Axel H Horns

[FYI] ECHELON for combat of european "national culture" of bribery?

http://www.heise.de/tp/deutsch/special/ech/6662/1.html -- CUT - Former CIA Director Says US Economic Spying Targets "European Bribery" Duncan Campbell 12.03.2000 "We have spied on that in the past. I hope ... that the United States

[FYI] NL: Intelligence agency authorized to scan satellite communications

http://www.heise.de/tp/english/inhalt/co/6731/1.html --- CUT - Echelon in Holland Jelle van Buuren 11.04.2000 Dutch intelligence agency authorized to scan satellite communications The Dutch Intelligence Agency BVD is getting new

[FYI] 'Draconian' Crypto Ideas Still Exist

http://www.currents.net/newstoday/00/04/10/news10.html - CUT --- Daily News 'Draconian' Crypto Ideas Still Exist By Sylvia Dennis, Newsbytes April 10, 2000 While the Clinton administration has relaxed the international export

Re: [Fwd: Stambler patents]

in 7 5,267,314 Secure transaction system and method utilized therein 8 D290,548 Vehicular box for toys or similar article 9 RE31,302 Validation systems for credit card or the like - CUT - Of course, these are U.S. patents. There might be others aborad outside the U.S. HTH. Regards, Axel H Horns

[FYI] (Fwd) EU Echelon investigation knobbled? [OT]

--- Forwarded message follows --- From: Martin Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:EU Echelon investigation knobbled? [OT] Date sent: Tue, 23 May 2000 14:37:48 +0100 Send reply to: [EMAIL PROT

[FYI] European Union postponed decision on removing barriers to Export of Crypto

http://www.heise.de/tp/english/inhalt/te/8192/1.html --- CUT -- European Union postponed decision on removing barriers to Export of Crypto Jelle van Buuren 25.05.2000 The European Ministers of Foreign Affairs did not decide last mo

[FYI] European Justice and Home Affairs Council considers preventive measures against Echelon

http://www.heise.de/tp/english/inhalt/te/6816/1.html --- CUT European Justice and Home Affairs Council considers preventive measures against Echelon Jelle van Buuren 30.05.2000 Technical working group asked to look into measur

[FYI] Greens: European Parliament is obstructing inquiry

http://www.heise.de/tp/english/inhalt/te/6844/1.html -- CUT Greens: European Parliament is obstructing inquiry on Echelon Jelle van Buuren 09.06.2000 Legal service of Europan Parlimant says a temporary committee cannot lead an

[FYI] European Parliament will vote in july on inquiry committee on Echelon

http://www.heise.de/tp/english/special/ech/6852/1.html CUT - European Parliament will vote in july on inquiry committee on Echelon Jelle van Buuren 15.06.2000 Internal wrangling about procedural mistakes and rumours about B

WIPO: e-Government ante portas

ineering? 7. All data constituting the PCT application are packaged into a single container file using the ZIP format: http://www.pkware.com/appnote.html Again, this looks rather proprietary. Is it really a good idea to rely on ZIP instead e.g. on MIME? Is there software avalilable under the GNU

Re: software patents in Europe

er EP 0,482,154 B1. The only message seems to be that the EPC shall not be amended for allowing pure "business method patents" not involving any IT infrastructure. Axel H Horns Patentanwalt0100,0100,0100

[FYI] Statement Regarding the SDMI Challenge

http://www.cs.princeton.edu/sip/sdmi/announcement.html --- CUT -- Statement Regarding the SDMI Challenge The Secure Digital Music Initiative (SDMI) is developing a comprehensive system to prevent music piracy. Central to this system is

[FYI] Microsoft Signed code: Security or censorship?

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/001127/15/aqa88.html --- CUT - Monday November 27, 5:01 PM Signed code: Security or censorship? Depending on Microsoft's approach, code signing could not only secure the desktop, but the software giant's co

Re: Is PGP broken?

0 482 154 of ASCOM TECH AG has been filed on May 16, 1991. Add 20 Years. If ASCOM TECH AG pays annual renewal fees to the respective national Patent Offices every year. Otherwise it might lapse earlier. Axel H Horns

[FYI] Electronic filing of European patent applications and subsequent documents

[I would be interested on any comments on the issue whether or not this technical concept is really *sound* from computer security view; see the spec link indicated below. --AHH] http://www.european-patent-office.org/epo/president/e/2000_12_07_e.htm -

[FYI] European Parliament votes against inquiry committee on Echelon

http://www.heise.de/tp/english/inhalt/te/6891/1.html --- CUT - European Parliament votes against inquiry committee on Echelon Jelle van Buuren 05.07.2000 Temporary committee called a 'tootthless talkingshop' The European Parl