Re: Lots of random numbers

2000-11-18 Thread Bill Sommerfeld
> Don Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >perhaps surprisingly, i disagree with the other > > respondents. as long as you encrypt or MAC the > > incoming packets (& their interarrival times), > > with a closely-guarded secret key, before you > > stuff the bits into your entropy pool, then y

Re: [John Gilmore ] RSA claiming trademark on all uses of "RSA" to describe algorithm

1999-04-01 Thread Bill Sommerfeld
> I should think that the approach taken by generic pharmaceuticals, 'compare > with Brand X,' would also suffice to get around RSA's trademark issue. Or, "compatible with brand X" or "interoperates with brand X".. - Bill

Re: Intel & Symantec v. ZKS?

1999-04-29 Thread Bill Sommerfeld
> > Symantec agreed that the program fit its definition of a type of malicious > > program known as a Trojan horse, so it included the software in its > > continually updated list of dangerous programs, which include viruses, > > that cause warnings to pop up on its customers' computers. > > In f

Re: 1,000 Free Crypto Sites

1999-05-07 Thread Bill Sommerfeld
A posting by Cindy Cohn, one of Bernstein's legal team, to cyberia-l, archived at http://www.ljx.com/mailinglists/cyberia-l/20266.html suggests that it would be premature to create such sites. She writes: First, the decision is not final for at least 52 days (45 for the govt to see

Re: FW: FW: Bernstein Opinion Up

1999-05-07 Thread Bill Sommerfeld
[CC's to lists I'm not on trimmed; feel free to forward this as long as you CC: me on forwards..] Peter Junger has a list specifically for discussing the source-code-as-speech issue; for more info on the list, see http://samsara.law.cwru.edu/~sftspch/ The fact that source code is an e

Re: How to donate a clue to a lawyer?

1999-05-09 Thread Bill Sommerfeld
If readability of code doesn't matter, why have I seen so much angst within communities of developers indentation styles, identifier spelling, and line breaks? None of them make a bit of difference in the generated object code.. I think Sturgeon's Law may apply here: "90% of everything is crap".

Re: House committee ditches SAFE for law enforcement version

1999-07-26 Thread Bill Sommerfeld
[CC:'s to list I don't subscribe to deleted.] one possible escape clause here is a constitutional provision regarding immunity of legislators for acts in congress: [from article 1, section 6] ".. for any Speech or Debate in either House, they shall not be questioned in any other place." .. so,

Re: having source code for your CPU chip -- NOT

1999-09-24 Thread Bill Sommerfeld
> There are no Turing machines. Real computers are finite, and real > source codes are finite. I'm sure that if you set a limit on the > length of the source code which is recognized by the supposed trap, a > sufficiently large FSM can decide in a finite time whether there's a > trap. mere fini

Security algorithms for "3rd generation mobile phone networks"

2000-04-11 Thread Bill Sommerfeld
Someone told me that the cipher and integrity protection algorithms proposed for use in the next generation mobile phone networks are now publicy available on the etsi website: http://www.etsi.org/dvbandca/3GPP-ALGORITHMS/ Don't shoot the messenger, I don't have anything to do with this stuff.