Nice note, Greg, thank you.
I remember the call to arms of PGP, get the whole world encrypting
email. And who can forget Gilmore's Free S/WAN goal, to secure 5% of
Internet traffic by the end of 1996? These proclamations were hugely
inspirational for me.
These efforts helped advance practical c
>I'm spending more and more of my time these days in the free software
>community (not all that big a leap for a cypherpunk). I'm seeing the
>"crypto integration" problem all over the place.
This is an issue of serious concern; it's really holding up the
adoption of encryption, particularly at th
Forgive me for saying this, but I'm a bit dismayed at the arrogance of
people talking about "idiots" and "stupid" and "fools". People using
cryptography on computers are generally not stupid. If they are having
a hard time with passphrases, I humbly suggest it is because we as
cryptographers and s
>Eventually someone will write a trojan which searches memory for
>Interesting Things left there by other apps or pretends to be a
>trusted app to the user.
Can you name an operating system in common use today that doesn't
suffer from this problem? I see you have a PGP key - are you running
it a
I agree strongly that having weak crypto in a system is more dangerous
than on crypto. The major barrier to crypto these days is not math or
computer science, it's usability. Weak crypto creates a usability
nightmare.
Consider it from a user's perspective, mine. I trade stocks online. My
broker s
Declan asks, in his Wired News article at
http://www.wired.com/news/news/politics/story/21810.html
>Why did the Clinton administration cave on crypto?
I don't understand that they caved on crypto. They've made it easier
for commercial products to include crypto, yes. But there are still
contro
>I wonder if stego users will have to choose between uncrackable
>encryption or undetectable data.
I don't think so. Replacing the low-order bits of a picture with
random noise (or an encrypted message) is silly - like you say, anyone
can find it easily. But there is a certain amount of free entr
