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2004-09-01 Thread Sandy Harris
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Re: Saving Opportunistic Encryption

2004-03-16 Thread Sandy Harris
Tarapia Tapioco wrote: We've recently seen FreeS/WAN die, not least due to the apparent practical failure of Opportunistic Encryption. The largest blocking point for deployment of OE always seemed to be the requirement for publishing one's key in the reverse DNS space. ... Yes. So, the apparent s

Re: research paper

2004-03-03 Thread Sandy Harris
someone wrote: I'm currently doing a research paper, with the topic of cryptography being essiantial for society, ... I was wondering if there where any particular books, websites, ... One web page with a lot of links: http://www.freeswan.org/freeswan_trees/freeswan-2.05/doc/politics.html

Re: XORing bits to eliminate skew

2002-10-20 Thread Sandy Harris
Sarad AV wrote: --- Sandy Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: there's a well known simple scheme ... I read that Intel chipsets use something similar, its given in rfc 1750 5.2.2 Using Transition Mappings to De-Skew I know the von Neumann te

Re: Finding encrytion algorithm

2002-07-11 Thread Sandy Harris
Mike Rosing wrote: > > On Thu, 11 Jul 2002, gfgs pedo wrote: > > > suppose a cryptanalysis only has encrypted data-how is > > going 2 know which is the encrytion algorithm used 2 > > encrypt the data ,so that he can effeciently > > cryptanalyse if > > > > 1:>he has large amount of cipher text on

Re: Piracy is wrong

2002-06-30 Thread Sandy Harris
Anonymous wrote: > > This shouldn't have to be said, but apparently it is necessary. > > Piracy - unauthorized copying of copyrighted material - is wrong. Piracy involves someone other than a warring state attacking ships. The only recent example I can think of was the French gov't blowing up G

Re: Ross's TCPA paper

2002-06-25 Thread Sandy Harris
"Peter D. Junger" wrote: > : > There is not even social opprobrium; look at how eager > : > everyone was to look the other way on the question of whether the DeCSS > : > reverse engineering violated the click-through agreement. > : > : Perhaps it did, but the licence agreement was unenforceable.

Re: Bad guys vs. Good guys

2002-05-12 Thread Sandy Harris
Morlock Elloi wrote: > Mental constructs like this one, complicated schemes that require knowledge of > modular aritmetic to understand, is why this will not happen. > > Whatever aspires to replace paper cash for purposes where paper cash is a must > (in real life, conferences don't count) has t

Re: Two ideas for random number generation

2002-04-24 Thread Sandy Harris
Jim Choate wrote: > > PRNG output is fixed/repeatable too - that is a properly you *want* from a > > PRNG. > > No it isn't. You -want- a RNG but you can't have one. Nobody -wants- a > PRNG, they -settle- for it. That is nearly true for crypto applications, but it certainly isn't for some other

Re: Two ideas for random number generation: Q for Eugene

2002-04-22 Thread Sandy Harris
Ben Laurie wrote: > > gfgs pedo wrote: > > > > hi, > > > > --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > On 22 Apr 2002 at 0:08, Ben Laurie wrote: > > > > > > Oh surely you can do better than that - making it > > > hard to guess the seed > > > > is also clearly a desirable property (and one that > > > the s

Re: Two ideas for random number generation

2002-04-20 Thread Sandy Harris
gfgs pedo wrote: > > hi, > > Here are two ideas which came up in my mind. > Since I have done a few diagrams for illustration and > thought that it will not be a good idea as > attachment,I have put the ideas at the following url > http://www.ircsuper.net/~neo/ > > I sincerely appreciate ur com

Re: FreeSWAN & US export controls

2002-01-10 Thread Sandy Harris
John Gilmore wrote: > > Anonymous said: > > The major problem that holds back the development of FreeS/WAN is > > with its management. [Management that cares more about sitting on > > its pulpit, than getting useful software into the hands of people.] > > Unless things have changed recently, the