Re: Diffie-Hellman question

2004-05-18 Thread Peter Fairbrother
). The ephemeral keys cannot (or should not) be retrive(able)d. (below!) Or perhaps the question you were asking was "if finding DL's mod _this prime_ becomes possible, will I lose forward security?", in which case the answer is "yer fukked" - as are we all - if one

Re: Deniable data storage

2003-11-11 Thread Peter Fairbrother
stop some elementary mistakes. [1] http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/ftp/users/rja14/sfs3.pdf [2] www.cs.rice.edu/Conferences/IPTPS02/107.pdf -- Peter Fairbrother

Re: Power Grab: Ashcroft overturns 4th Amend

2003-09-16 Thread Peter Fairbrother
uot;There is a real difference when a > prosecutor knows 23 citizens are there observing what's going on," he > said > > ... > > The administration proposal was introduced in the House last week by > Rep. Tom Feeney (R-Fla.). > > Hmm, other Rep.tiles

Re: [eff-austin] Antispam Bills: Worse Than Spam?

2003-08-07 Thread Peter Fairbrother
would agree with that legislation. IMO, email should be similar. But it don't solve the spam problem :-( -- Peter Fairbrother *They do censor UK email, but they do it in the US. The relevant legal phrase is "public telecommunications service provider", not "common carrier". I

Re: A 'Funky A.T.M.' Lets You Pay for Purchases Made Online

2003-07-26 Thread Peter Fairbrother
se OE... Perhaps @lne.com and @minder.net could do this? Or, if people prefer, @einstein.ssz.com could stop setting the Reply-To: header? Or would having all the nodes do it the same way be too conventional for cypherpunks... -- Peter Fairbrother

Re: Defeating Optical Tempest will be easy...

2003-07-21 Thread Peter Fairbrother
ance is much higher. But most modern monitors will emit much less than that. I hope! > [**]< I replaced the black in Marcus's anti-em-tempest fonts with 180:210:210, and varied the other colours in proportion. > -- Peter Fairbrother

RE: Sealing wax & eKeyboard

2003-07-17 Thread Peter Fairbrother
Peter Fairbrother (me) wrote (in a different thread): > BTW, m-o-o-t uses a randomised virtual keyboard with (both EM and optical) > TEMPEST resistant fonts. It's okay for inputting keys, but it's a hassle > for inputting text. > > Which means that your keys might be s

Re: Security for Mafiosos and Freedom Fighters

2003-07-17 Thread Peter Fairbrother
NOT do this with crappy Apple keyboards! They are membrane-based and will be destroyed. They are also hard to open for repair, and when I asked an Apple chap about them he said "You should never drink near a keyboard". What crap! I give no guarantee that it won't destroy your keyboard

Re: Idea: The ultimate CD/DVD auditing tool

2003-07-08 Thread Peter Fairbrother
ly not me, i haven't the time just now) can probably apply wavelet theory and get all this from steady-state theory, and tie it up in a nice package. -- Peter Fairbrother

Re: Idea: The ultimate CD/DVD auditing tool

2003-07-08 Thread Peter Fairbrother
soidal waveform. And that's why good analogue is better then good digital. Doug Self etc. did some work on ultra-fast analogue systems in the mid 90's, and designed some amps that were and are regarded as pretty good - but afaik he didn't get the theory right. YHHH!-- Peter Fairbrother

Re: Orwell's "Victory" goods come home

2003-03-12 Thread Peter Fairbrother
J.A. Terranson wrote: > > http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/03/11/sprj.irq.fries/index.html > > WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The cafeteria menus in the three House office buildings > changed the name of "french fries" to "freedom fries," in a culinary rebuke > of France stemming from anger over the cou

Re: DOJ quietly drafts USA Patriot II w/crypto-in-a-crime penalty

2003-02-08 Thread Peter Fairbrother
ou wonder what they're on. Prisoner's Dilemma steroids, I suppose. -- Peter Fairbrother ps would it include using a GSM mobile in a bank robbery?

Re: A secure government

2003-02-06 Thread Peter Fairbrother
Parliament, but it's two-and-a-bit years old and still isn't in force. No signs of that happening either, except a few platitudes about "later". b) Plod would have to prove you have the key, and refused to give it, before you got convicted. Kinda hard to do. c) you already know this!!! -- Peter Fairbrother

Re: Transport, the near future

2003-02-05 Thread Peter Fairbrother
th) of line needed is _much_ (order of mag+) less than a space elevator. And you don't need a hypersonic 'plane. You can also fling things away from the tether when they're going away from the Earth. Can get any (reasonable) speed you like. -- Peter Fairbrother

Transport, the near future

2003-02-04 Thread Peter Fairbrother
me again. Space transport: I like the two-stage-to-orbit solution for humans, with the booster stage piloted. The maths works well. I don't know about scramjets etc for the booster, but a few rockets would do, with an aero fuselage to take off and land. Using current airline technology mostly. Saf

Duh, transport

2003-02-04 Thread Peter Fairbrother
quid fuel... Removes CO2 too. Not a new idea. -- Peter Fairbrother

Re: Supremes and thieves.

2003-01-21 Thread Peter Fairbrother
blic domain has been impoverished by this, in the sense that newer works have not fallen into it. -- Peter Fairbrother *who agreed not to charge me - must be on happy pills!

Re: Supremes and thieves.

2003-01-20 Thread Peter Fairbrother
hinations surrounding it, and the out-of-court not-really-a-settlement, is another interesting, but overlong, story - and perhaps "Wind in the Willows", but I don't know offhand who owns that one - might be the Bodleian). At least that was the position a couple of years ago, but anything may have happened since then, and plenty is about to happen. -- Peter Fairbrother

Re: Strange spam

2003-01-16 Thread Peter Fairbrother
uality verified email addresses to sell them to spam business. Would the spam business _want_ email addresses from people who download ripped games/ movies? Or would eg RIAA be more motivated? -- Peter Fairbrother

Strange spam

2003-01-15 Thread Peter Fairbrother
I just got this spam, and I was wondering if it was a honey-pot. Anyone? The site exists, and advertises games and movies for download. -- Peter Fairbrother > > Frank > > You've gotta see this website: http://209.132.227.38/lotr/index.htm > > I just downloaded Lor

Re: The Microsoft Xbox Key/dvd issues

2003-01-07 Thread Peter Fairbrother
d burn a DVD from such an image, so direct copying is probably easy enough. Maybe I'm wrong, I haven't tried it, but the pirates don't seem to have any technical trouble. The regionalisation issue was another monopoly grab. The DVD format is as much a monopoly as Microsoft or Intel (probably more...) -- Peter Fairbrother

Re: constant encryped stream

2003-01-03 Thread Peter Fairbrother
d (and very illegal!) to forge. Also the dollar bill is still spendable, so the only cost of your accesses are the "pull"s. Depends on your threat model, of course. -- Peter Fairbrother

Re: Extradition, Snatching, and the Danger of Traveling to Other Countries

2002-12-12 Thread Peter Fairbrother
f you don't choose to use these methods, the consequences are up to you. But secure comms alone will only provide you with useful information, by themselves they aren't enough; you need to vote. Lots of you. Nothing else really matters. To "them", and you. -- Peter Fairbrother

Re: [MPUNKS] Cypherpunks December Mtg: HIGHFIRE Design Session

2002-12-12 Thread Peter Fairbrother
ow the threats you are facing with GAK and the like. If you think a resume should be required... -- Peter Fairbrother i sing of Olaf glad and big whose warmest heart recoiled at war: a conscientious object-or his wellbelovid colonel (trig westpointer most succinctly bred) to

Re: DBCs now issued by DMT

2002-12-08 Thread Peter Fairbrother
ut why can't it be a distributed issuer without central control (or even distributed control?)? Can't the protocol deal with the problem of issue? (We'd have to write a damn good one, of course) -- Peter Fairbrother bear wrote: > > > On Thu, 5 Dec 2002, Peter Fairbrother wr

Re: DBCs now issued by DMT

2002-12-05 Thread Peter Fairbrother
lude an accounting of all the "money" issued. And not be reliant on one computer to keep the records. Or the propounders wanting to: make a profit/control the bank? -- Peter Fairbrother (who's drunk now, but will be sober tomorrow, and may regret posting this then...)

Re: ...(one of them about Completeness)

2002-12-05 Thread Peter Fairbrother
That it is unknowable. No he didn't. He proved Mathematics is incomplete, ie that there are universally valid but unprovable statements within it. He proved that any system that contains Peano arithmetic (roughly, a concept of the natural numbers) is incomplete. Mathematics certainly contains

Re: A couple of book questions...(one of them about Completeness)

2002-12-04 Thread Peter Fairbrother
uted meanings of "complete" are identical/the differences are irrelevant; - and that his definition (above) is sufficient, eg (but not ie) that proof of negation is not required. -- Peter Fairbrother

Re: CNN.com - WiFi activists on free Web crusade - Nov. 29, 2002

2002-12-02 Thread Peter Fairbrother
Eugen Leitl wrote: > On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, Peter Fairbrother wrote: > >> What I don't understand is how a node knows the location of a person >> who moves about in the first place. > > The node spans a cell. Similiar to your cellular phone, you can link an ID > to

Re: CNN.com - WiFi activists on free Web crusade - Nov. 29, 2002

2002-12-02 Thread Peter Fairbrother
n. It is a > good idea to use a few GPS anchor nodes, so that all domains are > consistent. What I don't understand is how a node knows the location of a person who moves about in the first place. Also, I don't like the idea that my location is known by the location of my equipment.

Re: A couple of book questions...(one of them about Completeness)

2002-11-30 Thread Peter Fairbrother
ssued? as ISBN 0-674-32449-8 at around $25, but I haven't seen the new version) which should also give you the history of the term. -- Peter Fairbrother * The one mentioned is available at http://www.ddc.net/ygg/etext/godel/godel3.htm if anyone wants to have a look. It's commonly called

Re: CDR: Re: The End of the Golden Age of Crypto

2002-11-27 Thread Peter Fairbrother
x27;s from the Greek para- "beyond"; but I've never heard the "paradox" story before. I hope this at least interested some, and was not just troll-food. -- Peter Fairbrother

Re: CDR: Re: The End of the Golden Age of Crypto

2002-11-27 Thread Peter Fairbrother
Jim Choate wrote: > > On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, Peter Fairbrother wrote: > >> Completeness has nothing to do with whether statements can or cannot be >> expressed within a system. >> >> A system is complete if every sentence that is valid within the system ca

Re: OPPOSE THE WAR! We are going to ruin Iraq to get the oil. Who's ne

2002-11-20 Thread Peter Fairbrother
more accurate than musket balls. Rifles take more training to use as well. But I think the main reason that rifles didn't play a bigger part, apart from the usual military inertia (google Ferguson rifle for a British example of this), was the simple lack of rifles, and their cost. Many men

Re: The End of the Golden Age of Crypto

2002-11-16 Thread Peter Fairbrother
Jim Choate wrote: > > On Wed, 13 Nov 2002, Peter Fairbrother wrote: > >> Jim Choate wrote: >> >>> >>> What I'd like to know is does Godel's apply to all forms of >>> para-consistent logic as well > >> However you can

Re: Yodels, new anonymous e-currency

2002-11-12 Thread Peter Fairbrother
ng. I think Ben (Laurie) was interested in doing something along these lines. -- Peter Fairbrother

Re: The End of the Golden Age of Crypto

2002-11-12 Thread Peter Fairbrother
though, but ordering in those fields where it doesn't apply is usually* impossible, so you can't even define a "last" prime there. Of course we can't even prove "cogito ergo sum", but I don't think that was your point. -- Peter Fairbrother Non-mathematici

Re: Bush admin cybersecurity report weighs anonymity

2002-09-17 Thread Peter Fairbrother
ve is to give citizens the feeling that something is being done, it's just more political bullshit, but with unfortunate consequences. I can't think of any other possible motives. -- Peter Fairbrother

Re: Spam blocklists?

2002-08-13 Thread Peter Fairbrother
that could limit the damage spam could do, and be a better way to do it than involving stopping real (false positive) emails. A slightly drunk (you don't see me here very drunk that often, lucky someone , -- Peter Fairbrother

Re: TCPA/Palladium -- likely future implications (Re: dangers ofTCPA/palladium)

2002-08-11 Thread Peter Fairbrother
usually, on Windows boxen) now install similar software keyloggers remotely, without needing to break in. -- Peter Fairbrother

Re: Challenge to David Wagner on TCPA

2002-07-31 Thread Peter Fairbrother
e general will plan his defences according to his opponent's capabilities, not according to his opponent's avowed intentions. However, in this case the intention to attack with all available weapons has not been well hidden. There may be some dupes who honestly profess that no attack is planned, and some naif's who cannot or will not see the wood, but they will reap the whirlwind. My humble opinion, -- Peter Fairbrother

Re: Which universe are we in? (tossing tennis balls into spinning props)

2002-07-16 Thread Peter Fairbrother
> Major Variola (ret) wrote: > At 03:27 PM 7/15/02 +0100, Peter Fairbrother wrote: >>> Optimizzin Al-gorithym wrote: >> >>> And while QM can't help you with a particular atom, it also doesn't > say >>> that its impossible that knowledge

Re: Which universe are we in? (tossing tennis balls into spinning props)

2002-07-15 Thread Peter Fairbrother
rnal states of the atom > wouldn't help you predict its fragmentation. Yes it does. Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle. Ring a Bell? -- Peter Fairbrother