Re: Comcast@Home bans VPNs

2000-08-21 Thread Dennis Glatting
Has comcast defined a VPN (i.e., IPsec, SSH, etc.)?

Re: Absolut Snake Oil?

2000-09-23 Thread Dennis Glatting
- > R. A. Hettinga > The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> > 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA > "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, > [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to > experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' -- Dennis Glatting Copyright (c) 2000 Software Munitions

Re: Critics blast Windows 2000's quiet use of DES instead of 3DES

2000-05-17 Thread Dennis Glatting
"L. Sassaman" wrote: > > > If a Microsoft user configures 3DES protection and tries to connect it > > a Linux FreeS/WAN box, the negotiation will fail -- with at least the > > Linux side reporting that they couldn't agree. > > Frankly, I can't understand why the IPsec protocol still allows DES

Re: Critics blast Windows 2000's quiet use of DES instead of 3DES

2000-05-17 Thread Dennis Glatting
"L. Sassaman" wrote: > > PGP's source code has always been available for public review. This has > not changed. There are no "back doors" for the NSA in PGP, and PGP has > never supported weak (under 128 bit) encryption, and never will. > Who's PGP? Last I looked PGP Inc. was owned by Network

Re: Critics blast Windows 2000's quiet use of DES instead of 3DES

2000-05-18 Thread Dennis Glatting
"L. Sassaman" wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Wed, 17 May 2000, Dennis Glatting wrote: > > > Who's PGP? Last I looked PGP Inc. was owned by Network Associates, a > > key recovery alliance member. > > Huh? PG

Re: Critics blast Windows 2000's quiet use of DES instead of 3DES

2000-05-18 Thread Dennis Glatting
"L. Sassaman" wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Wed, 17 May 2000, Dennis Glatting wrote: > > > > Frankly, I can't understand why the IPsec protocol still allows DES. It > > > should require strong encryption. H

NAI & KRA

2000-05-18 Thread Dennis Glatting
I found this dated November 1998: "Network Associates rejoins Key Recovery Alliance" http://www.slashdot.org/articles/98/11/12/0941259.shtml

Re: Electronic elections.

2000-05-30 Thread Dennis Glatting
"Arnold G. Reinhold" wrote: > ... > BTW, someone in this thread mentioned Internet voting for corporate > elections. Proxy Services Inc., which just about every public > corporation in the US uses, currently allows Internet voting at > www.proxyvote.com. If you gut a paper ballot, you jus

Re: random seed generation without user interaction?

2000-06-06 Thread Dennis Glatting
John Kelsey wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > At 07:08 PM 6/5/00 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >So I'm curious about what all methods do folks currently use (on NT > >and unix) to generate a random seed in the case where user > >interaction (e.g. the ol' mouse pointer wavin

Re: Electronic Signatures Yield Unpleasant Surprises

2000-07-01 Thread Dennis Glatting
Did anyone talk to the IRS? If I do not get a hard copy receipt, how do I prove purchase in case of audit? Moreover, if the transaction is electronic and the vendor's system crashed and the vendor lost his data, which I am confident he is not liable for, or the vendor goes out of business and the

Re: music encryption scheme

2000-07-04 Thread Dennis Glatting
"P.J. Ponder" wrote: > > >From the Edupage newsletter: > > PATENTS GRANTED FOR ENCRYPTION OF WEB MUSIC > Three mathematicians at Brown University recently were awarded a > patent for a system that encodes every second of music downloaded > from a Web site with a different encryption key, breakin