Re: [fc-discuss] Financial Cryptography Update: On Digital Cash-like Payment Systems

John Kelsey wrote: From: cyphrpunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Digital wallets will require real security in user PCs. Still I don't see why we don't already have this problem with online banking and similar financial services. Couldn't a virus today steal people's passwords and command their banks to tr

Re: [fc-discuss] Financial Cryptography Update: On Digital Cash-like Payment Systems

R. Hirschfeld wrote: Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 11:31:39 -0700 From: cyphrpunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2. Cash payments are final. After the fact, the paying party has no means to reverse the payment. We call this property of cash transactions _irreversibility_. Certainly Chaum ecash has this prope

Re: [fc-discuss] Financial Cryptography Update: On Digital Cash-like Payment Systems

cyphrpunk wrote: If this is the model, my concern is that in practice it will often be the case that there will be few intermediate exchanges. Particularly in the early stages of the system, there won't be that much to buy. Someone may accept epoints for payment but the first thing he will do is

Re: How to Stop Junk E-Mail: Charge for the Stamp

Peter Gutmann wrote: Barry Shein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Eventually email will just collapse (as it's doing) and the RBOCs et al will inherit it and we'll all be paying 15c per message like their SMS services. And the spammers will be using everyone else's PC's to send out their spam,

Re: Identity thieves can lurk at Wi-Fi spots

R.A. Hettinga wrote: The facility uses software and sensors to monitor 480 wireless devices used by medical personnel at 110 access points. Last month, it stopped about 120 attempts to steal financial information from medical perso

Re: Dell to Add Security Chip to PCs

Ed Reed wrote: I'm just curious on this point. I haven't seen much to indicate that Microsoft and others are ready for a nymous, tradeable software assets world. No, and neither are corporate customers, to a large extent. Right, so my point (I think) was that without some indication that t

Re: Dell to Add Security Chip to PCs

Erwann ABALEA wrote: On Wed, 2 Feb 2005, Trei, Peter wrote: Seeing as it comes out of the TCG, this is almost certainly the enabling hardware for Palladium/NGSCB. Its a part of your computer which you may not have full control over. Please stop relaying FUD. You have full control over your

RE: [N-B] "Microstate": A Mouse Roars

hanged the law and withdrew the licences, effectively making those banks illegal. If a government can do this, without recourse to any effective appeal, in one area, it has the potential to do so in others. Ian. http://iansawyer.com http://iansawyer.ath.cx The state has grown used to tr

Re: AOL Help : About AOL® PassCode

Joerg Schneider wrote: So, PassCode and similar forms of authentication help against the current crop of phishing attacks, but that is likely to change if PassCode gets used more widely and/or protects something of interest to phishers. Actually I have been waiting for phishing with MITM to app

Re: AOL Help : About AOL® PassCode

R.A. Hettinga wrote: Have questions? Search AOL Help articles and tutorials: . If you no longer want to use AOL PassCode, you must release your screen name from your AOL PassCode so that you will no longer n

Re: Blinky Rides Again: RCMP suspect al-Qaida messages

ing out of sight. Either way, the public policy implication is to challenge any specious claims of how we need to control XXX because terrorists use it. In the case of crypto, it would appear they don't use much, and what's more, they shouldn't. > And see the link there to

L/Cs, e-gold and regulated banking

(Guys, this has drifted out of crypto into finance, so I have a feeling that it will disappear of the crypto list. But the topics that are raised are interesting and important enough to carry on, I think.) >> > [Hal:] >> > Interesting. In the e-gold case, both parties have the same bank, >> > e-

Re: Your source code, for sale

> Enzo Michelangeli writes: >> In the world of international trade, where mutual distrust between buyer >> and seller is often the rule and there is no central authority to >> enforce >> the law, this is traditionally achieved by interposing not less than >> three >> trusted third parties: the ship

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Re: Are new passports [an] identity-theft risk?

R.A. Hettinga wrote: An engineer and RFID expert with Intel claims there is little danger of unauthorized people reading the new passports. Roy Want told the newssite: "It is actually quite hard to read RFID at a distance," sa

Re: Printers betray document secrets

R.A. Hettinga wrote: US scientists have discovered that every desktop printer has a signature style that it invisibly leaves on all the documents it produces. I don't think this is new - I'm pretty sure it was published about 6 or 7 years back

Re: potential new IETF WG on anonymous IPSec

Joe Touch wrote: Ian Grigg wrote: On the backbone, between BGP peers, one would have thought that there are relatively few attackers, as the staff are highly trusted and the wires are hard to access - hence no active attacks going on and only some passive eavesdropping attacks. Also, anyone

Re: potential new IETF WG on anonymous IPSec

Bill Stewart wrote: Also, the author's document discusses protecting BGP to prevent some of the recent denial-of-service attacks, and asks for confirmation about the assertion in a message on the IPSEC mailing list suggesting "E.g., it is not feasible for BGP routers to be configured with the

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Re: Firm invites experts to punch holes in ballot software

Brian McGroarty wrote: On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 03:42:47PM -0400, Ian Grigg wrote: It seems to me that the requirement for after-the-vote verification ("to prove your vote was counted") clashes rather directly with the requirement to protect voters from coercion ("I can'

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Re: Digital cash and campaign finance reform

Steve Schear wrote: > By combining a mandated digital cash system for contributions, a cap on the > size of each individual contribution (perhaps as small as $100), randomized > delays (perhaps up to a few weeks) in the "posting" of each transaction to > the account of the counter party, it could

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Re: Maybe It's Snake Oil All the Way Down

Derik asks the pertinant question: > The question is: how do we convince M$ and Netscape to include something > else in their software? If it's not supported in IE, then it wont be > available to the vast majority of users out there. My view, again, IMHO: ignore Microsoft. Concentrate on the o

Re: Maybe It's Snake Oil All the Way Down

John Kelsey wrote: > So, what can I do about it, as an individual? Make the cellphone companies > build good crypto into their systems? Any ideas how to do that? Nope. Cellphone companies are big slow moving targets. They get their franchise from the government. If the NSA wants weak crypto,

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Re: [OT] why was private gold ownership made illegal in the US?

> From: Anonymous <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Just curious, but what was the rationale under which private posession > > of gold was made illegal in the US? It boggles the mind... > > Roosevelt needed to in effect devalue the dollar during the Great > Depression. In a deflationary depression, th

Making Veri$ign rich(er)

> Ian Grigg wrote: > > > Costs are still way too high. This won't change until > > browsers are shipped that treat self-signed certs as being > > valid. Unfortunately, browser manufacturers believe in > > cert-ware for a variety of non-security reaso

Re: When encryption is also authentication...

> SSL for commerce is readily in place without batting an eyelid these days. Costs are still way too high. This won't change until browsers are shipped that treat self-signed certs as being valid. Unfortunately, browser manufacturers believe in cert-ware for a variety of non-security reasons.

Re: Edinburgh Financial Cryptography Engineering 2002 - CFP

"R. A. Hettinga" wrote: > > The Third Edinburgh Financial Cryptography Engineering Conference > > This is so fucking boring. No one gets laid any more for doing FC. No, no, NO!! You are talking about Financial Cryptography, the conferences running on a bunch of Caribbean islands. Very dif

Re: Bad guys vs. Good guys

"R. A. Hettinga" wrote: > At 6:03 PM -0700 on 5/11/02, Eric Cordian wrote: > > > The reason we have ready availability of credit in the first place > > is because consumer debt is the most profitable business in the > > United States. What are the margins on consumer debt? Isn't it all securit

Re: gnutella's problems (Re: network topology)

s and grabbing from many people at once, that's just a client-side issue, not a protocol issue. [That being said, grabbing from multiple people at once requires you know *who's got* the _very same file_. The FastTrack protocol supports "search by hash value", but Gnutella doesn't seem to. Should be easy to fix, though.] - Ian

Re: 1024-bit RSA keys in danger of compromise

In article <00e101c1d2d8$c9768080$c33a080a@LUCKYVAIO>, Lucky Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >The panel, consisting of Ian Goldberg and Nicko van Someren, put forth >the following rough first estimates: I'd just like to credit the "O(minutes)" calculation

Re: zks freedom websecure trial (now for Linux!)

ookie info in persistent files, and put good locks around all accesses to them.] It's not speedy. Your performance will suck. It's written in perl, and forks for each web connection. It's not supported. If it breaks, you get to keep both pieces. ---8<---8<---8<--- Have fun! - Ian

Re: Peer to Peer Newscasting: Morpheus

;\end{cynical} I don't think that's cynical at all; it's pretty clearly exactly what they're doing. - Ian

Re: Congress drafts new "anti-terror" bill -- with expiration date

; bits in Title III (section 309). The sunset also applies to the IRS ratting on income generated from terrorist activities in section 405. - Ian

Re: Open 802.11b wireless access points and remailers

It's an 802.11 card in a Compact Flash socket. - Ian

Re: Vengeance Against Adobe

plan to use any Adobe >>software in the future. > > Is there a workable freeware alternative to Distiller? I've never used Distiller; is it more than a Postscript-to-PDF converter? The free ps2pdf is part of ghostscript. - Ian

Re: Janet Reno speaking at UC Berkeley Graduation, 9 May 01.

only open to graduating students and their families (oh, well :-) Oddly enough, I *am* a graduating student at UCB, but I'm not going to the (unviersity-wide) ceremony on the 9th (I won't even be in the US at the time). I guess I'll have to miss it. Darn the luck. - Ian

Re: Musings on the Economics of ZKS

ts to other platforms. If you think it's not going fast enough, you're welcome to hop on over to jobs.zeroknowledge.com and help out... - Ian

Re: Zero-Knowledge Sells Out

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Eric Cordian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Ian Goldberg's reputation capital is all that is holding up ZKS. He's >never fucked anything up before, and has performed many stunning >cryptographic feats in the past. > >Had he not b