Re: What would you like to see in a book on cryptography for programmers?

orithms not being any stronger than the basic algorithms, since this is a popular snake oil approach. Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639

Re: Using signature-only certs to authenticate key exchanges

>[...] > >Cheers -- > >Enzo > > > > > > Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639

Re: Using signature-only certs to authenticate key exchanges

of which pieces are integrated and which are separate. Do your import restrictions apply to intangibles like downloading software in the net? Some places only restrict import/export of physical objects. Thanks! Bill Bill Stew

Re: PGP ADK Bug Fix

and threatens to publish Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639

Re: RSA Security releases RSA algoritm into public domain two weeks early. [cpunk]

include the RSA algorithm occurring after >September 6, 2000. Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639

Re: reflecting on PGP, keyservers, and the Web of Trust

of the key you have is in the message itself. I've recently installed 6.5.8 (still Eudora 3.x), and it's improved a bit, but I haven't tested it extensively. Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639

Re: I foresee an increased interest in secret-sharing

handle her job while she's away. Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639

Re: DMCA Final Rule

me.org/dmca-dvd.htm Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639

Re: Is PGP broken? - public keys in every message

[EMAIL PROTECTED] DBY838ylRbu3lT5qQ5kM6XI++JHR0NBZtaQ52Egs7Vq KcdeXicUTIlSnilH+vKrYZJjNTTRlyOemCgX/z5M 4cko2RYx7R+ZRoVTBDDDu0TIrXfAwscgUjSH733Pw Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639

Re: migration paradigm (was: Is PGP broken?)

oblem - if you've got your database of known public keys sorted by email address, it's ok, but if you've got it sorted by public key, you may have a problem. Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639

Re: Is PGP broken?

rd went from "angelic" >to "distinctly tarnished", I stopped using it. Many other people I >know did as well. I've switched to GPG, which hasn't got any track >record so far, once it became stable. We'll wait and see how they do.

Re: Cryptographic Algorithm Metrics

Very Weak (VW) cipher is one that can be broken >by determining the key systematically in a short >period of time with a small investment (8 hours >and $20K). No examples. > Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639

Re: Fwd: from Edupage, December 22, 2000

ogether over distances of a hundred meters to a hundred kilometers (if the quantum crypto can go that far unamplified, otherwise ~2km) may find it more practical than pressurized cable. If you're going less than a hundred meters, stick to pressurized cable and armed guards :-)

Re: The Shining Cryptographers Net

e.g. transmit all 0s when there's no data, then a 1 bit to indicate that there's data following. It doesn't take much overhead. Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639

Re: small crypto that isn't predictable

s up many different attacks on the (plaintext1 xor plaintext2) stream. If you've got room for an IV, you _could_ do something like XORing the IV with the key, not the data stream - that means that it isn't really using the same algorithm for the IV as for the rest of the data stream, but yo

Re: electronic ballots

e on the card to reduce that problem, but that increases the privacy problems. Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639

Re: Pinoy math enthusiast finds fast way to decode RSA encryption

encryption. > >... > > > > Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639

April RSA, Cypherpunks Meeting Schedule - Request for Comments?

ter is the 15th. Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639

Web Hosting Providers in Many Countries? For crypto archives.

H TO 128 OR THE #define MODULUSLENGTH TO 2048 AND RECOMPILE" Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639

Re: MD5

h work each time. Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639

Re: Needing references on FWZ-1 algorythm

ade to 48 or 56 bits. Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639

Re: crypto-stego

the colors used and chose what colors to use as alternates to indicate the hidden bits based on the stats. Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639

Re: Mailinglist programs with PGP-encryption?

Ask the Oracle for pointers to "pgpdomo". Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639

Re: France Allows 128 Bit Crypto

rict? Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639

RE: France Allows 128 Bit Crypto

ck. Alice sends Bob g**x mod m, Bob sends Alice g**y mod m, both calculate the public key to User's Swiss account. Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639

ANNOUNCE: SATURDAY Bay Area Cypherpunks Meeting - Stanford University

visitors/vicinity.html Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639

Re: France Allows 128 Bit Crypto

less some special >circumstances apply. One such special circumstance is an official piece >of paper with your name on it... Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639

Re: Liquid Audio & MP3

disrupt watermarks rather than impersonate them.) But there's a lot of room to hide large numbers of bits, letting you play spread-spectrum code-division kinds of games that can still tell you some bits about the user even after voting kills lots of them. Thanks

ANNOUNCE: Bay Area Cypherpunks Meeting, Saturday 2/13/1999

http://www.freedomfighter.net/freedomfighter/cypherpunks/990213.html February 1999 Physical Meeting Announcement General Info: Bay Area Cypherpunks Meeting: DATE: Saturday, 13 February 1999 TIME: Noon (Pacific Time) PLACE: Edgewater West Resort, Oakland CA Heads-Up for February! In

Brin, Zimmermann, Godwin, Friedman speak Sunday at CA LP Convention, San Jose

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Re: Strengthening the Passphrase Model (was Re: PGP compromised on Windows 9x?)

o hand out four sets, so it's equivalent to a PIN rather than a password or passphrase (and was therefore snake-oil material, given the way they were over-promoting it :-) Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, [EMAIL PROTECTED] P

Re: quantum cryptanalysis

out that I misspoke - I meant to say 'the encrypter >> wins' Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639

Re: Using crypto to solve a part of the DNS/TM mess

t;Like I always say, I'm not a cryptographer, I just know several. > > >A. Michael Froomkin |Professor of Law| [EMAIL PROTECTED] >U. Miami School of Law, P.O. Box 248087, Coral Gables, FL 33124 USA >+1 (305) 284-4285 | +1 (305) 284-6506 (fax) | http://www.law.tm >--> It's warm here. <-- > > > > Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639

Re: Using crypto to solve a part of the DNS/TM mess

tively-defined naming system rather than an absolute-rooted system, and there's a paper by (I think) Ken Thompson and Rob Pike called "The Hideous Name" on why that's a Good Thing. I don't know if Inferno kept that or not. Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639

Re: (eternity) high availability domains, dns, eternity

27;s harder to be revoked if you own your own country. cocacolarecipe.eternity.co.uk isn't as cool as cocacolarecipe.com or cocoacolarecipe. or maybe cocacolarecipe.taz, but it'll do. Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639

ANNOUNCE: SF Cypherpunks Hackers' Tour of SFO, Saturday 3/13 1:00

ANNOUNCE: SF Cypherpunks Hackers' Tour of SFO, Saturday 3/13 1:00 The San Francisco Bay Area March Cypherpunks meeting will be Saturday, 3/13, at 1:00. Meet at the San Francisco Airport International Terminal Food Court, and we'll go wandering around 3:00 or so. Note that this is an open public

ANNOUNCE: SF Bay Cypherpunks Mtg, Sat 10 April, Probably at Stanford

n the web at www.freedomfighter.net. It's been posted to the following mailing lists: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you received it, it was probably from one of those sources. Thanks!

Re: Starium announces STU-III for the masses

ble crypto for commercial users, DES, an NSA hardware-based algorithm, and maybe something else. Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639

RE: Starium announces STU-III for the masses

o sell in that price range should be reasonable assuming you can sell enough volume. I'm glad it's actually being done! Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639

PLANNING May 8 SF Cypherpunks Meeting, Berkeley/Oakland

near there. Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639

Re: Xerox supplies stego?

area is impaired by ink marks, staples and other kinds >ofimage damage." Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639

Re: ICSA certifies weak crypto as secure

ately someone from Siemens had also discovered it and patented it in Germany and then the US :-) But almost any public-key system can give you a good mechanism for a challenge/response and set up a shared secret for encrypting or AHing a login session so it doesn't get hijacked.

Re: personal encryption? (fwd)

reading once that fingerprints have about 32 bits of entropy; not sure if that's for one finger or each one. Eyeballs probably have more. But even swapping that eyeball-reading laser may just be sleight of hand... Thanks!

Re: Bridge

f >the selected hand is full, give the card to the next unfilled hand >clockwise. That's 100 bits for the first 50 cards. The 51st card >needs at most one bit and the 52nd needs none. Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639

Re: Bridge

rried that your opponents have 11 spades because the deck wasn't shuffled right :-) Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639

Re: The Beer Bottle Cipher (some fun summer reading for you...)

ow [EMAIL PROTECTED] replied >Have you tried getting an export license for it? Does it pass the Reinheitsgebot, or is it wimpy American beer? Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639

RE: US export restrictions - a travellers guide ?

And it's almost guaranteed that none of them will know the answer - so that ought to get you to the Ambassador if you're patient... Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639

Re: Encrypting filenames

ame key? (Thus, 3-DES is fine.) Do you need two-way encryption, or is a 1-way hash adequate? Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639

Re: depleting the random number generator

so if you need the high quality randomness, you need hardware randomizers. Some of the key setup protocols are designed to reduce CPU-busting attacks; Photuris does so explicitly, but I think someone's said that ISAKMP/IKE doesn't do this well enough.

Re: depleting the random number generator

m swamping you with attempts. But the various ipsec key exchange protocols aren't going to provide a handle for including it. (Too bad - you could also toss the hashcash into the entropy pool :-) Thanks! Bill Bill Stewa

Re: Questions regarding export restrictions in Europe

Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639

Re: PGP encryption

Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639

Re: depleting the random number generator

living in a state of sin :-) Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639

Re: linux-ipsec: Re: TRNG, PRNG

y gets root access. Such an attacker >*could* do something much worse than merely reading the keyfile -- but >might be afraid to. Altering the system has to be done very carefully or >it will leave fingerprints. This is a non-problem - once the attacker gets root, you've lost

Re: linux-ipsec: /dev/random

e more resistant to attacks or give you something more to bootstrap randomness from if your gateway's been compromised. Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639

Re: Summary re: /dev/random

s >operation. This is good. Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639

Re: Paul Brown on Solitiare randomness flaw?

do math. Of course, you can get a low-end Palm Pilot for about $130-150 (or cheaper if you buy used from somebody upgrading.) More memory, and you don't have to program in Basic. Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, [EMAIL PROTECT

ANNOUNCE - SF Bay Area Cypherpunks Saturday 11 September 1999 Physical Meeting

You're invited to the SF Bay Area Cypherpunks Saturday 11 September 1999 Physical Meeting! This is an open public meeting on US soil. General Info: DATE: Saturday 11 September 1999 TIME: 1:00 - 6:00 PM (Pacific Time) PLACE: AT&T, 2730 San Tomas Expressway, Santa Clara CA Meeting Agenda:

Re: crypto on calculators

ard. Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639

Re: message-signing at the MTA level

ewalls, which is mostly out of your control - having software with your name on it that gets abused this way would be Really Bad. Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639

Re: US encryption announcement: Business as usual

at they have as criteria for review or how they can claim to be doing anything other than prior restraint (generally banned as a first-amendment speech-chiller) without them. Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639

Re: Why did White House change its mind on crypto?

used to initiate this alleged wiretap", and then question that. Yet it seems like the proposed law forbids that as well. Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639

Re: Ecash without a mint, or - making anonymous payments practical

yments and soon for everyday transactions. Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639

Radicchio PKI standards group for mobile phones

om the cryptographic community, or as yet another broken proprietary system waiting for Ian Goldberg or Bruce Schneier to crack over lunch :-) The web page looks positive, at least. http://www.psd-design.co.uk/radicchio/pages/pki.html Bill Stewart Here's a short a

RE: Is SSL dead?

;re talking to https://www.attacker.com, which can use 2.0 if it wants. Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639

[SFBCA] SF Bay Area Cypherpunks 09 October 1999 Meeting

s) Collateral Damage, Known Parties, etc. URBAN WASTELAND ENCORE - Sameer Parekh and friends - East Bay 10pm-dawn Call 510.594.4000x217 after 10 for directions. PENSFA at Howard Davidson's in San Carlos 10/16 will have an all-weekend Party at Ian's Friends' Place and a Revel

Re: Almost-Everywhere Superiority for Quantum Computing

rtables, Pocket Area Networks, Pencil Area Networks, RF grocery tags, you-are-here broadcasters on store shelves or license plates, etc. Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639

Re: DEA says drug smugglers used crypto & Net but cops got around it

"encryption" as most of the members of this >list understand it. Is there enough information in Mr. Marshall's >description to be able to associate the FUD with a case and then >find out what kind of evidence they present? Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639

Re: Marked cash in Lucre

.. There are two issues to deal with - whether the blinding works technically, and whether it's possibly covered by Chaum's patents. After all, the prime importance of Wagner's blinding work was that it hopefully wasn't stuck in the Chaum patent mess.

Re: 128-bit support

Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639

Re: 128-bit support

ovider can't use it to also provide privacy (at least without reverse engineering, which is much more work than just writing new stuff themselves or downloading software from Finland or whatever.) Thanks! Bill Bill St

Re: Semantic Forests, from CWD (fwd)

setup data to figure out which calls you want to eavesdrop on, the scale becomes much more manageable. Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639

Re: sci fi (was Re: Onhand, clapping? (was Re: NTK now, 1999-12-10))

PDA in your pocket or carrying case, or put black tape over it when you visit the NSA museum (:-), but Bluetooth is made to work even while it's in your pocket, and obviously cellphone-related systems need to be on the air, though they may not support high enough data rates to do drive-by upgr

[SFBCA] Cypherpunks MEETING PRE-ANNOUNCEMENT for 15 Jan 2000

Originally sent to "SFBay Cypherpunks Announce List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> by [EMAIL PROTECTED] Forwarding to [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] and a few Bcc:s Subject: [SFBCA] Cypherpunks MEETING PRE-ANNOUNCEMENT for 15 Jan 2000 You can subscr

Announce: Cypherpunks MEETING 15 Jan 2000, San Jose Convention Center, 12-6pm

C%3A=Convention+Center&AD2=150+West+San+Carlos&AD3=San+Jose%2C+CA Here are the building maps - find Room A3 upstairs. Portrait: http://idiom.com/~wcs/sjcc.gif Landscape: http://idiom.com/~wcs/sjccls.gif If you have trouble getting in when you arrive, call Bill Stewart, +1-41

Re: The problem with Steganography

arkers at the beginning like PGP, you should be ok. Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639

Re: small authenticator

spond to. On my side, I'd need to prevent chosen-cipehrtext attacks. >-- >Mike Stay >Programmer / Crypto guy >AccessData Corp. >mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639

Re: [PGP]: PGP 6.5.2 Random Number Generator (RNG) support

assuming the pool is used in some hashed fashion rather than exposed to the public directly? Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639

Re: Smartcard anonymity patents

-known Cypherpunk :-) At least at the time it was founded, it was the only group providing smartcard development support that wasn't part of or strongly tied to a specific smartcard manufacturer. Thanks! Bill Bill Stewar

Re: TechWeb 10/2/2000: "E-Spying Bill Called 'Escrow By Intimidation'"

crow is a failed >policy by which users of encryption software lodge copies of security keys >with third parties approved by government. .. Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639

Re: Legal/patent analysis of Lucre?

nected cypherpunks were doing so :-) Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639

Re: please help FreeNet by becoming a node

and would like to help the Freenet project >please click here for instructions on how to install a Freenet server. Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639

Re: hiding plaintext

s that knowing message sizes doesn't tell the traffic analyst very much. Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639

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

ic spying was justified because European >companies had a "national culture" of bribery and were the "principle >offenders from the point of view of paying bribes in major >international contracts in the world". Thanks!

Re: Encrypting folders in Win95/98

t worked mapping files across a net from a file server. I suspect the pseudo-disk products like Scramdisk do the right thing (or else refuse to work entirely) but I don't know if the NTFS-like systems do the compression on the file server or the client or just refuse to work.

Re: secret-sharing code

ent bignum calculator (as opposed to the XOR method, which can be done by hand or abacus :-) Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639

Re: secret-sharing code

the same time, Penn wrote a scathing criticism of Clipper in his computer-magazine column, but he took the moral high road that escrow is none of their business rather than the "I could steal *that*" approach :-) Thanks!

ANNOUNCE 4/8 Bay Area and Toronto Cypherpunks Meetings

there April 8th, so there will be a Cypherpunks Meeting (and Party at Ian's Place.) Dave Del Torto is coordinating the agenda; possible location City Hall. The Bay Area instantiation will be at Fort NOCs, 19925 Stevens Creek Blvd, Cupertino. Bill Stewart is coordinating the agenda. Cindy Cohn wi

Junger wins in Appeals Court - Junger v. Daley, 6th Cir. 4/4/00

they've got to >: go to the Supreme Court? (Or win in another Circuit first >: and then try appealing to the Supremes?) > >Yes. But they may want to see what happens on remand before appealing. >(And, of course, it is theoretically possible that we would lose on >r

Re: Article about TriStrata in Fortune

/17/boo.html Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639

Re: Clinton signs bill to count wiretaps that encounter encryption

they could >get around the encryption as you describe. Declan points out that the >law was worded more carefully than the press release, so things are >not as bad as I feared. Point for Congress. Thanks! Bill Bil

Re: Automatic passphrase generation

change than the shared secret alone could do. The main objective is to make it safer to use human-rememberable passphrases with low risks from attacks like dictionary search. Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fi

Re: GPS and cell phones

t; >The article mentioned accuracy is now around 48 to 60 feet of resolution due >to the decrypting of civilian GPS signals. > >Bob > > > Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639

Re: From NewsScan: new EU export rules...

erned that some of its communications could be vulnerable > to hacking by Corsican terrorists." Yow! Corsican hackiere-terroristes will certainly be stopped by that! They'd have to download GSM-crackers with instructions in English instead of French or Italian!

Re: NSA back doors in encryption products

Campaign for Real Primes[1]? >[1] Apologies if this quip dies in translation! :-) The Campaign for Real Ale was a Good Thing... Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639

Re: Planned Net-treaty limits privacy, may compel key disclosure

the other hand, "US law" just means "the laws the politicians have made so far", which is a moving target - they can change them any time they want, though some laws are sufficiently entangled with other laws or political agendas that it's sometimes hard.

Re: GNU Privacy Guard license question

ssible. >I don't have a copy of the old PGP license around. I presume one could >continue to use PGP 2.x indefinitley under the old license. Yup. Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639

Re: FBI involves itself in Verio merger

turn over a signature key that can only be used for forgery than a decryption key which could reveal past session keys. Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639

Re: FBI announcement on email search 'Carnivore'

t;law, and when and if it is, it may not include provision for such a box. Yes, but now that the US has legalized export of crypto hardware to EU and other friendly governments, they can have 10 of them there overnight :-) Thanks!

Re: Weak user keys, strong servers.

o Kong, this may not be usable, but I'm assuming you're trying to do something different. Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639

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