Multi-part security solutions (Was: Re: Rijndael & Hitachi)

2000-10-11 Thread Meyer Wolfsheim
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Arnold G. Reinhold wrote: > Derek Atkins adds: > > > > >Why try to pick a Medeco when it's locking a glass door? :-) > > The fact that some people put Medeco's in glass doors, doesn't mean > Medeco should never develop a better lock. S

Re: Electronic Signatures Yield Unpleasant Surprises

2000-06-28 Thread Meyer Wolfsheim
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > >|| The House people had talked extensively about digital signatures, > >|| when the bill is in fact about electronic signatures ... > > > > This is a pretty sad state of affairs. We don't really expect the elected > > members of Congress to know very much, b

Re: Electronic Signatures Yield Unpleasant Surprises

2000-06-30 Thread Meyer Wolfsheim
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, Rich Salz wrote: > > Their "speciality" in this case is making laws. If they are not capable of > > or willing to make an effort to comprehend that which they are > > legislating, then they are negligent in their duties. > > That seems a l

Re: FBI involves itself in Verio merger

2000-07-06 Thread Meyer Wolfsheim
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On 6 Jul 2000, Perry E. Metzger wrote: > >from http://www.internetnews.com/isp-news/article/0,2171,8_409201,00.html > >The FBI registered concerns with the Treasury Department about NTT's > >(NYSE:NTT) planned purchase of Verio (NASDAQ:VRIO) because agency is

Re: FBI announcement on email search 'Carnivore'

2000-07-12 Thread Meyer Wolfsheim
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, P.J. Ponder wrote: > http://www.sjmercury.com/svtech/reports/gmsv/ > >From today's 'Good Morning Silicon Valley': > > FBI unearths sequel to Orwell's 1984: Privacy advocates are outraged over > the FBI's deployment of a high-speed e-mail s

Re: FBI announcement on email search 'Carnivore'

2000-07-13 Thread Meyer Wolfsheim
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On 12 Jul 2000, Marc Horowitz wrote: > In the case of monitoring an individual's email, it would be > sufficient to monitor their spool file on whatever ISP mail server > stores their mail. The spool file only contains one person's email, > and only the ISP ne

Re: FBI announcement on email search 'Carnivore'

2000-07-13 Thread Meyer Wolfsheim
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, Jeffrey I. Schiller wrote: > I suspect that the reason they would want Carnivore as opposed to > looking at spool files is that it is less invasive then looking at spool > files, isn't dependent on the technology choices made by the ISP and

RE: FBI announcement on email search 'Carnivore'

2000-07-13 Thread Meyer Wolfsheim
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, Rodger, William wrote: > Meyer wrote: > > > > I guess this explains the FBI's opposition to the Verio > > merger. I wonder > > if a colocation company or service provider could be forced > > to disclose > > its participation in the Carni

Re: FBI announcement on email search 'Carnivore'

2000-07-15 Thread Meyer Wolfsheim
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Fri, 14 Jul 2000, Steven M. Bellovin wrote: > According to the AP, the ACLU has filed a Freedom of Information Act > request for information on Carnivore. See >http://www.aclu.org/news/2000/n071400a.html > and http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/w/AP-FBI-Snoo

RE: FBI announcement on email search 'Carnivore'

2000-07-17 Thread Meyer Wolfsheim
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sun, 16 Jul 2000, Lucky Green wrote: > Only time will tell. And it may be long time, indeed. The FBI is some 5 > years behind in some of their FOIA responses. That renders the FOIA almost totally useless in cases like this... > Still, I disclosure of the

Re: FBI announcement on email search 'Carnivore'

2000-07-17 Thread Meyer Wolfsheim
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sun, 16 Jul 2000, Ben Laurie wrote: > Lucky Green wrote: > > In > > particular, the "black box" monitoring device installed at the ISP level > > appears to be in the process of becoming the implementation of choice. > > Pioneered by Russia, this design has r

RE: Self Decrypting Archive in PGP

2000-07-21 Thread Meyer Wolfsheim
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Am I the only person left on earth who finds "self-extracting" bundles > to be a menace to security? --Perry] I am sure everyone on this list is well aware of the problems that public key crypto solves. Temporarily ignoring the virus/trojan threat, the securi

Re: Exact time/date of RSA Expiration

2000-07-24 Thread Meyer Wolfsheim
On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Will Price wrote: > Can anybody provide insight into the question of exactly when the RSA > patent expires beyond just September 20? > > Does that mean that previously infringing software can be made > available *on* September 20 or on September 21? Is there a particular > t