Re: What's Wrong With Content Protection

2001-01-22 Thread Carl Ellison
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At 05:29 AM 1/22/01 GMT, David Wagner wrote: >Free markets may be the best hope we've got (or they may not), but >in any case, wouldn't it be fair to say that reliance on free markets >to eliminate content protection is a little risky? [...] >Now su

my padlock

2001-01-30 Thread Carl Ellison
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 http://world.std.com/~cme/html/padlock.html It's self-explanatory. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.5.2 iQA/AwUBOnSoNXPxfjyW5ytxEQLviwCfahPcp0FGP+1UB4cs0J6MlN2Em20AoMhq CHIn1FgxwKhGz8LR9S6WzSkF =/Izn -END PGP SIGNATURE- +

Re: electronic ballots

2001-01-30 Thread Carl Ellison
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At 05:28 PM 1/25/01 -0600, (Mr) Lyn R. Kennedy wrote: >First the basics: > > 1. An electronic election system need only be as good as the current > system. While perfection remains the goal, the minimum criteria > is that it be no worse. Aft

Re: Making One-time pad using the soundcard

2001-02-20 Thread Carl Ellison
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At 03:31 PM 2/14/01 +0200, Paul N wrote: > >It is secure to make a onetime pad using 16 bit input from soundcard using >the following algorithm? > >Each bit of the output is the result of XOR-ing all 16 bits from the input >sample... so, for making

Re: my two cents

1998-12-05 Thread Carl Ellison
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- At 07:27 PM 12/4/98 -0500, Perry E. Metzger wrote: > >The new Wassenar abomination has to be the end of this, one way or >another. Amen, brother Metzger. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP for Personal Privacy 5.5.3 iQCVAwUBNmjrCRN3Wx8QwqUtAQHi6QP+In7

Re: my two cents

1998-12-05 Thread Carl Ellison
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Oops -- I didn't mean to send that last reply to the whole list. Oh well. Although I share your anger and desire for a show-down, I worry about the result. Back when the Clipper chip was fresh in the papers was the time for this showdown. There is so littl

Re: Why privacy is important? Looking for essays/opinion pieces

1999-04-03 Thread Carl Ellison
M Taylor wrote: > In my limited experience of dealing with administrators, they question why > they should worry about privacy of other people's personal information, > citing the general rise in data warehousing and the old saying "if you've > got nothing to hide..." > > So I'm looking for piece

Re: How to donate a clue to a lawyer?

1999-05-08 Thread Carl Ellison
At 09:18 PM 5/7/99 -0700, Jay D. Dyson wrote: >-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > >On Fri, 7 May 1999, Anonymous wrote: > >> Here's Lance Rose's take on the Bernstein decision: >> >> Sorry to say, but the 9th Circuit took the dumb approach I mentioned in my >> earlier post. >>     Their who

Re: How to donate a clue to a lawyer?

1999-05-09 Thread Carl Ellison
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- At 02:26 PM 5/8/99 -0700, EKR wrote: >Carl Ellison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Source code is human speech, for human-to-human communication. It has a >> side-effect of being compilable into machine code, but it is in a human >&g

Re: How to donate a clue to a lawyer?

1999-05-09 Thread Carl Ellison
>From my declaration for the Bernstein case: http://www.eff.org/pub/Privacy/ITAR_export/Bernstein_case/Legal/960726_filing/ellison.decl "18. Attached hereto as Exhibit C is an excerpt from the August 1967 CACM, giving another example of an article which consists solely of source code.

Re: entry level cryptography books

1999-06-02 Thread Carl Ellison
Markus Kuhn wrote: > > "MIKE SHAW" wrote on 1999-06-01 15:43 UTC: > > Can anyone recommend some entry level cryptography books? > > I'm looking for something that will just start to get into the > > nitty-gritty of the math involved. > > Those who are more comfortable with reading German than M

Re: Word needed for Entropy

1999-06-29 Thread Carl Ellison
Matt Crawford wrote: > > As some sort of a physicist, I the way the word entropy is used in > crypto does not bother me at all. It corresponds well with the > statistical mechanics definition of entropy as a measure of the > number of microstates of a system which correspond to the same > macros

Re: Ten Risks of PKI

1999-12-13 Thread Carl Ellison
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At 06:40 PM 12/13/99 -, lcs Mixmaster Remailer wrote: >However this is just the first step in an effective compromise. Now you >need to get him to use a bogus certificate when he thinks he is using >a good one. He tries to connect to a secure si