Re: why should it be trusted?

2000-10-20 Thread brflgnk
It was said: -- begin quote -- >As to care, as I've said a lot before, care is most often more >expensive than coverage. Clearly this can't be true or every health insurance company would be going out of business. Coverage has to be more expensive than care of they wouldn't be in the business of

Re: Lions and Tigers and Backdoors, oh, my...

2000-09-27 Thread brflgnk
Tim said: -- begin quote -- I can't speak to the truth or falsity or plausibility of some of the claims here, but there is a general point: modularization. There is no real reason for crypto to be built into complex products, at least not when those products are well-suited for handling text (a

Re: Lions and Tigers and Backdoors, oh, my...

2000-09-27 Thread brflgnk
Ray said: -- begin quote -- I do not buy the story that what happened to PGP was an accident; on the contrary, it was just NAI doing what they had to do to get approval to put it up for international downloads, the same as Lotus just did what it had to do. -- end quote -- I have to agree. The

FBI "rejects" student profiling

2000-09-07 Thread brflgnk
http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23462-2000Sep6.html Of interest: though the unnamed spokesman asserted that the FBI is opposed to profiling students to detect potential school violence, the article still includes a laundry list of "warning signs": "The FBI provided a list of clues t

Re: Whipped Europeans

2000-09-04 Thread brflgnk
Said by Sampo Syreeni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: -- begin quote -- >Crack cocaine is made using a relatively simple procedure which changes >that equilibrium to where almost all of it blows into the brain at >once. This is why crack cocaine is considered worse than the "regular" >powder. 'Freebasing'

No Subject

2000-08-25 Thread brflgnk
It was said: -- begin quote -- Now that the PGP key management "bug" is public, I'd like to comment on some source code issues and follies. -- end quote -- The quotes around "bug" are quite appropriate. After reviewing Senderek's paper, I can only conclude that the addition of non-hashed subpac