Computerized outdoors idea serves users virtual baloney

2004-11-28 Thread R.A. Hettinga
<http://www.adn.com/outdoors/story/5849296p-5765085c.html> Computerized outdoors idea serves users virtual baloney (Published: November 28, 2004) A Texas businessman wants to rig a robotic, high-power rifle to a Webcam in a game park so people can punch buttons and "hunt''

Blunkett's Bad Idea

2004-11-26 Thread R.A. Hettinga
<http://online.wsj.com/article_print/0,,SB110142750390883913,00.html> The Wall Street Journal November 26, 2004 REVIEW & OUTLOOK Blunkett's Bad Idea November 26, 2004 Amidst Tuesday's pomp and pageantry that was the State Opening of the British parliament, the bigg

DIY fingerprint idea thwarts ID thieves

2004-11-25 Thread R.A. Hettinga
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/11/24/fingerprint_fights_id_theft/print.html> The Register Biting the hand that feeds IT Original URL: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/11/24/fingerprint_fights_id_theft/ DIY fingerprint idea thwarts ID thieves By John Leyden (john.ley

Training in the Judgment Business -a Great new Business idea

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Your crazy idea can potentially make you a fortune

2004-05-16 Thread JustForYou
You are receiving this message as a subscriber to the Just For You Network. To cancel, see the instructions at the end of this mail. Yes! Your "crazy" idea can potentially make you a fortune! http://zmfnvvwsp.lcky4u.com/xziszer.html Over 100,000 patents are granted in the US each

Re: Idea: Offshore gambling as gateway between real and electronic money

2004-04-17 Thread Bill Stewart
At 11:35 AM 4/17/2004, Thomas Shaddack wrote: Adoption of anonymous e-money is to great degree hindered by the lack of infrastructure to convert this currency to/from "meatspace" money. However, there is possible a method, using offshore gambling companies. You're trying too hard. Gambling has alwa

Idea: Offshore gambling as gateway between real and electronic money

2004-04-17 Thread Thomas Shaddack
Adoption of anonymous e-money is to great degree hindered by the lack of infrastructure to convert this currency to/from "meatspace" money. However, there is possible a method, using offshore gambling companies. There may be a special kind of "gamble", that looks from the "outside" like regular b

Idea: opportunistic TCP-level crypto

2004-03-02 Thread Thomas Shaddack
There is plenty of space available in the form of (normally unused) payload of TCP SYN, SYN/ACK, and ACK packets. Could they be used to announce the intention/capabilities for an encrypted connection, eventually serve for authenticating the connection? This way there would be virtually no overhea

Re: openssl/gpg and IDEA

2004-01-20 Thread J.A. Terranson
On Tue, 20 Jan 2004, Brian Minder wrote: > On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 11:58:56PM -0600, J.A. Terranson wrote: > > > > IDEA seems to be completely missing from everything everywhere :-( Does > > nybody know how to enable openssl for IDEA (no, I don't require the >

Re: openssl/gpg and IDEA

2004-01-20 Thread Brian Minder
On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 11:58:56PM -0600, J.A. Terranson wrote: > > IDEA seems to be completely missing from everything everywhere :-( Does > nybody know how to enable openssl for IDEA (no, I don't require the > commercial license for this)? You may be using a pre-built versio

openssl/gpg and IDEA

2004-01-19 Thread J.A. Terranson
IDEA seems to be completely missing from everything everywhere :-( Does nybody know how to enable openssl for IDEA (no, I don't require the commercial license for this)? Thanks! -- Yours, J.A. Terranson [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Unbridled nationalism, as distinguished from a sane and

Re: Idea: Simplified TEMPEST-shielded unit (speculative proposal)

2003-12-15 Thread Anonymous Sender
While I agree with much of what you say I don't think it's likely that any kind of advanced SIGINT operation was what brought him down. The most important thing to have is intelligence from humans. From insiders. This is partly the problem with the intelligence agencies today. They think

Re: Idea: Simplified TEMPEST-shielded unit (speculative proposal)

2003-12-15 Thread John Young
There's a good possibility that Saddam was traced by Tempest sensing, airborne or mundane. The technology is far more sensitive than a decade ago. And with a lot of snooping technology kept obscure by tales of HUMINT, finks, lost laptops and black bag jobs. For less sensitive compromising emanati

Re: Idea: Simplified TEMPEST-shielded unit (speculative proposal)

2003-12-14 Thread Tim May
On Dec 14, 2003, at 8:33 PM, Thomas Shaddack wrote: TEMPEST shielding is fairly esoteric (at least for non-EM-specialists) field. But potentially could be made easier by simplifying the problem. If we won't want to shield the user interface (eg. we want just a cryptographic processor), we may put

Idea: Simplified TEMPEST-shielded unit (speculative proposal)

2003-12-14 Thread Thomas Shaddack
ofing), and replacement of all potentially radiating external data connections with fiber optic. I should disclaim I have nothing that could vaguely resemble any deeper knowledge of high frequencies; therefore I lay out the idea here and wonder if anyone can see holes in it (and where they are).

Re: Idea: Using GPG signatures for SSL certificates

2003-12-12 Thread Thomas Shaddack
> Thomas Shadduck writes: - cute :) Though I am more often called Shaddup. > > The problem that makes me feel uneasy about SSL is the vulnerability of > > the certification authorities when they get compromised, everything > > they signed gets compromised too. > > Technically th

Re: Idea: Using GPG signatures for SSL certificates

2003-12-12 Thread Anonymous
Thomas Shadduck writes: > The problem that makes me feel uneasy about SSL is the vulnerability of > the certification authorities when they get compromised, everything > they signed gets compromised too. Technically this is true, but the only thing that the CA signs is other keys. So it merely me

Idea: Using GPG signatures for SSL certificates

2003-12-11 Thread Thomas Shaddack
ver's authentication information, and report any changes, like SSH does. The location of the signature may vary; it can be stored in a default place on the server (https://secure.server.com/cert-gpgsignature.asc), or the location can be specified in a X509 field. Is it a good idea? Could it f

Remote Control Helicopter- Great gift idea

2003-11-30 Thread Hot Christmas Toy
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Re: Idea: GPG signatures within HTML

2003-11-22 Thread Henryk Plötz
Moin, Am Sat, 22 Nov 2003 14:54:39 +0100 (CET) schrieb Thomas Shaddack: > A trick with HTML (or SGML in general) tag and a comment, a browser > plugin(or manual operation over saved source), and a GPG signature > over part of the HTML file should do the job, with maintaining full > backward compa

Re: Idea: GPG signatures within HTML - problem with inline objects

2003-11-22 Thread Thomas Shaddack
There is a problem with images and other inline objects. There is a solution, too. The objects included into the document can get their hash calculated and included in their tag; eg, The tag has to be in the signed part of the document, so the hash can't be tampered with. Full digital signatures

Idea: GPG signatures within HTML

2003-11-22 Thread Thomas Shaddack
dynamically generated pages, and to have many different signed parts on one page. It should also allow manual checking of the signature, eg. by curl http://url | gpg --verify Feel free to use the idea if it is good. Opinions, comments?

EDRI-gram: RFID-blocker wins German idea-contest

2003-11-19 Thread Thomas Shaddack
. RFID-DETECTOR WINS GERMAN IDEA-CONTEST == The German civil rights and privacy-organisation FoeBuD is the winner of an idea-contest for a national awareness campaign about the infringement of civil liberties through new technologies. With the

Re: Idea: Small-volume concealed data storage

2003-10-11 Thread Morlock Elloi
And what is the purpose of connecting the key and data storage in the first place ? Data storage is data storage, concealed or not. You feed encrypted data to/from it. Key is required at human interface and has absolutely nothing to do with the storage. If you want better security than passphras

Idea: Small-volume concealed data storage

2003-10-10 Thread Thomas Shaddack
I mentioned here the AT24RF08 chip here for couple times already. I got an idea about another application for this nice toy. For an encrypted data storage, the storage of the key is crucial. If the key is recovered, everything is lost. Remembering 256 (or even 128) bits is a hassle, a storage

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Re: Idea: Homemade Passive Radar System (GNU/Radar)

2003-08-11 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 05:04 PM 8/11/03 +0200, Thomas Shaddack wrote: > This unit has to be cheap and expendable - it's easy to >locate and to destroy by a HARM missile. As a bonus, forcing the adversary >to waste a $250,000+ AGM-88 missile on a sub-$100 transmitter may be quite >demoralizing. Microwave ovens were us

Re: idea: brinworld meets the credit card

2003-07-11 Thread Adam Lydick
er hashing (for obvious reasons). I think this just raises the bar a tiny bit though, as an attacker could stalk their victim before stealing their card to get an idea about what appearance to forge. (or capture webcam traffic before lifting the card / identity info) Cheers, Adam Lydick On Tue,

Re: Idea: The ultimate CD/DVD auditing tool (meow)

2003-07-10 Thread Tyler Durden
's why I have a very hard time discerning the absolute phase difference when I hit the button. -TD From: Jim Choate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Idea: The ultimate CD/DVD auditing tool (meow) Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2003 23:51:47 -0500 (CDT) On Wed

Re: Idea: The ultimate CD/DVD auditing tool (meow)

2003-07-09 Thread Tyler Durden
that's sold in Circuit City or whatever. So I figure I may as well believe Jim Thiel's claim that phase coherence is important in a speaker. -TD From: Mike Rosing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Idea: The ultimate CD

Re: Idea: The ultimate CD/DVD auditing tool (meow)

2003-07-09 Thread Mike Rosing
On Wed, 9 Jul 2003, Major Variola (ret) wrote: > Yes this is for localization ---clicks are broadband, you need to > identify which freq components are used. I still think > humans can't discriminate the phase of a tone. In fact, MP3s > use this to cut bits. They can tell relative phase, but it

Re: Idea: The ultimate CD/DVD auditing tool (meow)

2003-07-09 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 11:45 AM 7/9/03 -0700, Mike Rosing wrote: >On Wed, 9 Jul 2003, Major Variola (ret) wrote: >> Actually I thought humans are insensitive to phase relations, modulo >> inter-aural timing at low frequencies for spatial location. Perhaps >> that >> is what you meant? But spatial location isn't the

Re: Idea: The ultimate CD/DVD auditing tool

2003-07-09 Thread Tyler Durden
mbience is also there. Put a great live recording on a great high-end sound system and "you are there". -TD From: "Major Variola (ret)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Idea: The ultimate CD/DVD auditing tool

Re: Idea: The ultimate CD/DVD auditing tool

2003-07-09 Thread Mike Rosing
On Wed, 9 Jul 2003, Major Variola (ret) wrote: > Do cats buy a lot of audiophile equiptment :8=|| Nope. That's why I have a job (for another couple of months anyway, till the grant runs out.) > Actually I thought humans are insensitive to phase relations, modulo > inter-aural timing at low freq

Re: Idea: The ultimate CD/DVD auditing tool

2003-07-09 Thread Tyler Durden
Tim May wrote... Most so-called high end tube amps do in fact sound different, perhaps "better," perhaps not. This is of course because tubes are usually rich in odd-order harmonics. That $4000 Krell tube amp is actually _coloring_ the sound. So much for 20-bit DACs in the signal source: the am

Re: Idea: The ultimate CD/DVD auditing tool

2003-07-09 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 07:15 PM 7/8/03 -0700, Mike Rosing wrote: >To produce 65kHz (for cats) my present boss prefers a 1 MHz sample rate. Do cats buy a lot of audiophile equiptment :8=|| >The human hearing system is capable of noticing phase relations at 100kHz >rates. Actually I thought humans are insensitive to

Re: Idea: The ultimate CD/DVD auditing tool

2003-07-09 Thread Sampo Syreeni
On 2003-07-08, Major Variola (ret) uttered to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: >I haven't, but it does ring true. You'd get 2 Khz as well as other >intermodulation products. Provided there's a nonlinearity, effective in the ultrasonic range, somewhere. Mere interference (which is what we usually refer to as "b

Re: Idea: The ultimate CD/DVD auditing tool

2003-07-08 Thread Mike Rosing
On Wed, 9 Jul 2003, Peter Fairbrother wrote: > the nyquist/lindquist/someone-else-who-was-pissed sampling theorems are > based on the possibility of mathematically extracting frequencies from > digital information in a STEADY_STATE situation. > > That doesn't mean that a speaker will properly repr

Re: Idea: The ultimate CD/DVD auditing tool

2003-07-08 Thread Peter Fairbrother
I wrote: the nyquist/lindquist/someone-else-who-was-pissed sampling theorems are based on the possibility of mathematically extracting frequencies from digital information in a STEADY_STATE situation. That doesn't mean that a speaker will properly reproduce those frequencies. Consider the dynami

Re: Idea: The ultimate CD/DVD auditing tool

2003-07-08 Thread Peter Fairbrother
okay I'm a bit pissed now. actually i'm raging pissed! Wh!!! the nyquist/lindquist/someone-else-who-was-pissed sampling theorems are based on the possibility of mathematically extracting frequencies from digital information in a STEADY_STATE situation. That doesn't mean that a speaker will p

Re: Idea: The ultimate CD/DVD auditing tool

2003-07-08 Thread Tim May
On Tuesday, July 8, 2003, at 04:09 PM, Major Variola (ret) wrote: At 03:14 PM 7/8/03 -0700, Tim May wrote: As for hearing heterodyning in 28 KHz and 30 KHz signals, maybe. CD players have brickwall filters to of course block such frequencies. Some analog groove-based systems can have some kind of

Re: Idea: The ultimate CD/DVD auditing tool

2003-07-08 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 03:14 PM 7/8/03 -0700, Tim May wrote: >As for hearing heterodyning in 28 KHz and 30 KHz signals, maybe. CD >players have brickwall filters to of course block such frequencies. >Some analog groove-based systems can have some kind of signal up there >at those frequencies, but not much. Regular vi

Re: Idea: The ultimate CD/DVD auditing tool

2003-07-08 Thread Tim May
On Tuesday, July 8, 2003, at 01:39 PM, Anonymous via the Cypherpunks Tonga Remailer wrote: As an audiophile (Krell+Levinson+Thiel gear at home), I definitely don't want to grab an analog signal. Doing that the signal is sure to retain characteristics of the extracting gear. But the vast majori

Re: idea: brinworld meets the credit card

2003-07-08 Thread Morlock Elloi
> Those are the hard problems. No one in biometrics > has yet been able to solve them in a general way. And the merchant example is the wrong application. The merchant doesn't care WHO you are - that's a false premise. Merchant cares if you can pay. Now, that's a completely solvable issue. Of

Re: Idea: The ultimate CD/DVD auditing tool

2003-07-08 Thread Nomen Nescio
Tyler Durden leaves the fight club and writes: > Do you have a reference? I don't remember reading that SACD was encrypted. > What I DO remember is that the reason there's no standard SACD or DVD-A > digital interface is because the Industry wants that digital interface to be > encrypted. The d

RE: Idea: The ultimate CD/DVD auditing tool

2003-07-08 Thread Anonymous via the Cypherpunks Tonga Remailer
> > As an audiophile (Krell+Levinson+Thiel gear at home), I definitely don't > > want to grab an analog signal. Doing that the signal is sure to retain > > characteristics of the extracting gear. But the vast majority of P2P kids > > won't care one iota that their file was analog for half a seco

Re: idea: brinworld meets the credit card

2003-07-08 Thread Eric Murray
t holder, > so a thief has no idea what to look like. But the vendor can > check the encrypted smartcard face to the face on the phone > or webcam. For high-value remote transactions, where you > pay someone to check faces, this might be viable in a few years. > In a few years

Re: Idea: The ultimate CD/DVD auditing tool

2003-07-08 Thread Tim May
On Tuesday, July 8, 2003, at 10:40 AM, Peter Fairbrother wrote: A curiosity, only tenuously related - I just came across a Feb 1994 copy of Elector magazine, with plans for a S/PDIF copybit eliminator (for SCMS). Seems people have been defeating copy protection for a while.. I've owned an "Audi

Re: Idea: The ultimate CD/DVD auditing tool

2003-07-08 Thread Mike Rosing
On Tue, 8 Jul 2003, stuart wrote: > Now, when DRM gets into windows, I'm sure Virtual Audio Cable will stop > working, RealAudio will stop making linux clients (why bother?), RIAA > will (try to) make CDs that can only be played with windows clients, > etc. Then someone will crack the formats of t

RE: Idea: The ultimate CD/DVD auditing tool

2003-07-08 Thread Trei, Peter
> Tyler Durden[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Nobody wrote... > > "There is a loss of quality if you go through an analog stage. Real and > wannabe audiophiles will prefer the real thing, pure and undiluted by > a reconversion phase. These are the people who are already swallowing > the mark

Re: Idea: The ultimate CD/DVD auditing tool

2003-07-08 Thread Tyler Durden
Nescio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Idea: The ultimate CD/DVD auditing tool Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2003 08:40:01 +0200 (CEST) Major Variola writes: > Any human-consumable (analogue) input is readily recordable with > a single, one-time ADC, and thereafter is toast. DR

Re: Idea: The ultimate CD/DVD auditing tool

2003-07-08 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 08:45 AM 7/7/03 -0700, alan wrote: >But the real issue is that all of these DRM methods rely on "security by >obscurity". Such methods eventually fail. Either the actual method is >discovered and published or the DRM method fails in the marketplace and is >never heard from again. Hilary R an

Re: Idea: The ultimate CD/DVD auditing tool

2003-07-07 Thread alan
On Mon, 7 Jul 2003, Tyler Durden wrote: > Do you have a reference? I don't remember reading that SACD was encrypted. > What I DO remember is that the reason there's no standard SACD or DVD-A > digital interface is because the Industry wants that digital interface to be > encrypted. Furthermore

Re: Idea: The ultimate CD/DVD auditing tool

2003-07-07 Thread Steve Schear
At 07:30 2003-07-07 +0200, Nomen Nescio wrote: This is only for the minimal forms of "protection" which are designed to work with existing CD/DVD players. If you look at the new audio formats like SACD, they use encrypted data. All your lasers won't do you any good unless you can pry a key (and

Re: Idea: The ultimate CD/DVD auditing tool

2003-07-07 Thread Tyler Durden
]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Idea: The ultimate CD/DVD auditing tool Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2003 07:30:05 +0200 (CEST) Thomas Shaddup writes: > As a welcomed side effect, not only we'd get a device for circumvention of > just about any contemporary (and possibly a good deal of the fu

Re: Idea: The ultimate CD/DVD auditing tool

2003-07-07 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 02:33 AM 7/7/03 +0300, Sampo Syreeni wrote: >On 2003-07-06, Major Variola (ret) uttered to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > >>There's a good reason why, viz: it would cost the drive developer to >>allow or export this flexibility. > >I'd guess either because of a) terminal stupidity or b) benefits to scale

Re: Idea: The ultimate CD/DVD auditing tool

2003-07-06 Thread Morlock Elloi
> There's a good reason why, viz: it would cost the drive developer to allow > or export this flexibility. Since very few customers are sick enough This will go the same way as radio. First, you have hundreds of separate boxes, each doing some custom modulation/frequency gig (am, fm, shortwave, T

Re: Idea: The ultimate CD/DVD auditing tool

2003-07-06 Thread Tyler Durden
As a basic idea it seems relatively workable. However, there's one detail that perhaps you might want to know about: "We can push the idea a step further, making a stripped-down CD/DVD drive that would be able basically just to follow the spiral track with its head in constant linea

Re: Idea: The ultimate CD/DVD auditing tool

2003-07-06 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 03:08 PM 7/6/03 +0300, Sampo Syreeni wrote: >. A writing drive capable of working at such a low level >could be used to experiment with new encodings beyond what standard CD's >can do -- say, substituting CIRC with RSBC and gaining some extra room on >the disc, getting rid of the subchannels, a

Re: Idea: The ultimate CD/DVD auditing tool

2003-07-05 Thread Major Variola (ret)
, we can sidestep the firmware. > >The drive contains the moving part with the head assembly. There is an >important output signal there: the raw analog signal bounced from the >disk and amplified. > >We can tap it and connect it to a highspeed digital oscilloscope card. This is a valid

Re: Idea: The ultimate CD/DVD auditing tool

2003-07-05 Thread Tim May
vidual sectors on the disc and extract them to a disc image file that we can handle later by normal means. So? Yes, this is all possible. Any moderately well-equipped lab can do this. So? If we'd fill this idea with water, would it leak? Where? Why? I have no idea what you mean by "fill

Idea: The ultimate CD/DVD auditing tool

2003-07-05 Thread Thomas Shaddack
ne skilled with digital signal processing). Now we can identify the individual sectors on the disc and extract them to a disc image file that we can handle later by normal means. We can push the idea a step further, making a stripped-down CD/DVD drive that would be able basically just to follow the spiral t

Re: IDEA

2003-04-05 Thread mindfuq
* Peter Palfrader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-03-22 16:08]: > On Sat, 22 Mar 2003, Eric Murray wrote: > > > I think that line means that mixmaster's install script isn't > > properly identifying the version of Openssl. If it were > > me, I'd fix the Mixmaster install script. > > The install script

do you have an idea?

2003-03-30 Thread Do You Have An Idea
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Re: IDEA

2003-03-22 Thread mindfuq
shoot the problem more, now that we've narrowed it down a bit. I certainly was to a point where I was going to give up, because I had no idea (get it? No "IDEA") whether the problem was in OpenSSL or MixMaster. It seems people are sure this is the MixMaster Install script. Maybe I'll grab the absolute latest Install script, and compare it.

Re: IDEA

2003-03-22 Thread Len Sassaman
On Sat, 22 Mar 2003, Eric Murray wrote: > >Looking for libcrypto.a... > >Found at /usr/local/ssl/lib/libcrypto.a. > >./Install: [: 90701f: integer expression expected > > I think that line means that mixmaster's install script isn't > properly identifying the version of Openssl. If it

Re: IDEA

2003-03-22 Thread Peter Palfrader
On Sat, 22 Mar 2003, Eric Murray wrote: > I think that line means that mixmaster's install script isn't > properly identifying the version of Openssl. If it were > me, I'd fix the Mixmaster install script. The install script needs to die. I think nobody argues that point. > BTW, if you will be

Re: IDEA

2003-03-22 Thread Eric Murray
On Sat, Mar 22, 2003 at 09:40:50AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > IDEA is listed on the fourth line, so it seems IDEA was installed with > OpenSSL, but MixMaster's install may be improperly detecting that IDEA > is absent. It's when I run the Mixmaster install

Re: IDEA

2003-03-22 Thread Peter Palfrader
On Sat, 22 Mar 2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > IDEA is listed on the fourth line, so it seems IDEA was installed with > OpenSSL, but MixMaster's install may be improperly detecting that IDEA > is absent. It's when I run the Mixmaster install that I get the > error: >

RE: IDEA

2003-03-21 Thread Lucky Green
Mindfuq wrote: > I compiling the Mixmaster remailer, I get an error the > OpenSSL was not compiled with IDEA support. However, OpenSSL > was supposed to have compiled with IDEA out of the box, with > only an option to disable it. What am I missing? You in all likelihood fell vi

IDEA

2003-03-21 Thread mindfuq
I compiling the Mixmaster remailer, I get an error the OpenSSL was not compiled with IDEA support. However, OpenSSL was supposed to have compiled with IDEA out of the box, with only an option to disable it. What am I missing?

Re: Idea: Sidestepping low-power broadcast regulations with infrared

2003-03-18 Thread Steve Schear
At 10:05 AM 3/18/2003 -0500, you wrote: I think you're on to something here. One quick thought that occurs to me is that for some of the gain, I see no reason forward error correction couldn't be used within the IP payload, at least for a few dB of gain (has this been tried?) Both coding (e.g.,

Re: Idea: Sidestepping low-power broadcast regulations with infrared

2003-03-18 Thread Tyler Durden
the FEC, but it might be possible for that to look just like good old Ethernet shared-bandwidth-based conjestion (but I'm no IP guy so I could be talkin' out my arse here). -TD From: Steve Schear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Tyler Durden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: [E

Re: Idea: Sidestepping low-power broadcast regulations with infrared

2003-03-18 Thread adg
On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 03:13:46PM +0100, Thomas Shaddack wrote: > Using a powerful high-frequency modulated infrared source (eg, a bank of > LEDs) located on a highly visible place, it couldbe possible to facilitate > local community broadcasts, effectively sidestepping all FCC regulations. Hi,

Re: Idea: Sidestepping low-power broadcast regulations with infrared

2003-03-17 Thread Steve Schear
Another possibility occurred to me. It might be possible to use the 802.11-like devices for this purpose. The problem for this application with Wi-Fi is its focus on high data rate and therefore low process gain. But there is no inherent reason why almost the same circuits (perhaps even the

Re: Idea: Sidestepping low-power broadcast regulations with infrared

2003-03-17 Thread Steve Schear
At 12:08 PM 3/17/2003 -0500, you wrote: Steve Schear wrote... "A detector that is only sensitive to this spectral region has the capability to operate in the daylight, even while pointing at the sun, and pick up little background radiation" How much are UV receivers (note, not the same thing as

Re: Idea: Sidestepping low-power broadcast regulations with infrared

2003-03-17 Thread Tyler Durden
Steve Schear wrote... I haven't checked but assume they should be relatively cheap. For example, I'm assuming this device isn't too expensive and the sensor itself should be available for a few $10s. http://www.ame-corp.com/UVB.htm Perhaps I misunderstand what you would want to use this device

Re: Idea: Sidestepping low-power broadcast regulations with infrared

2003-03-17 Thread Tyler Durden
snow are apparently fine). -TD From: Steve Schear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Thomas Shaddack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, cypherpunks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Idea: Sidestepping low-power broadcast regulations with infrared Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2003 08:40:05 -0800 At 03:1

Re: Idea: Sidestepping low-power broadcast regulations with infrared

2003-03-17 Thread Steve Schear
At 03:13 PM 3/17/2003 +0100, Thomas Shaddack wrote: Using a powerful high-frequency modulated infrared source (eg, a bank of LEDs) located on a highly visible place, it couldbe possible to facilitate local community broadcasts, effectively sidestepping all FCC regulations. Better to ignore low powe

Idea: Sidestepping low-power broadcast regulations with infrared

2003-03-17 Thread Thomas Shaddack
the broadcasting LED banks. The advantage is that we don't have nearby sensitive receiver circuits that would be jammed.) Maybe it's unusable. Maybe it isn't, and somebody will find some use for this idea.

Is KAGAA a good idea?

2003-03-09 Thread professor rat
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A piss poor idea.

2003-02-28 Thread professor rat
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Have a Newinvention or Great Product Idea but not sure what to do next?

2003-01-18 Thread newinventions
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Have a Newinvention or Great Product Idea but not sure what to do next?

2003-01-16 Thread newinventions
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Insanely great idea fails for lack of UK APster.

2002-09-23 Thread Matthew X
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Re: Jonathan Zittrain on data retention, an "awful idea"

2002-07-06 Thread Bill Stewart
eping Internet >monitoring. Most of them are doable as a technical matter, and all of them >would be unnoticeable to us as we surf. Forbes columnist Peter Huber's >idea is perhaps the most distilled version. Call it the return of the lock >box. He asks for massive government dat

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Re: Hey! I've Got A Good Idea...

2001-09-18 Thread mmotyka
Heavy Stuff. Puts to shame my GoodIdea of handing a basket of Official Major League Baseballs to each airline passenger upon boarding. Let's see a homicidal maniac with a toenail clipper stand up to that. Mike

RE: You have no idea

2001-03-03 Thread Aimee Farr
gt;have a longevity of insight that I don't have. Probably just the > >same-ole-same-ole to you... > > Believe me, you have NO idea. Obviously. > Then, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Aimee Elizabeth Farr) recited: > > >I can't figure out if you're irked by amateuris

Re: Idea for tamper-resistant PC hardware

2001-01-12 Thread mmotyka
I guess if your critical server is simply some sort of service provider and the only data requiring security are the operating keys then your hostile location is OK since rebuilding a system and restoring a few keys ( which can be hidden just about anywhere ) is easily done. Otherwise the loss of

Re: Idea for tamper-resistant PC hardware

2001-01-12 Thread David Honig
At 05:09 AM 1/12/01 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >So here's another solution. The hard drive itself is encrypted, and >the encryption/decryption hardware is part of the hard drive chips, >and all are mounted within a tamper-resistant enclosure. Also mounted >in this enclosure is a little batt

Idea for tamper-resistant PC hardware

2001-01-12 Thread drevil
Here's something I would like to see: a harddrive that is tamper-resistant. The threat model is a server is deployed in an untrusted machineroom, and recovery of plaintext from the system is unacceptable. One obvious attack, involving an encrypted hard drive, is for the attackers to have a "pow

Re: A cool idea that didn't hold up under cryptanalysis.

2000-09-22 Thread Ray Dillinger
On Thu, 21 Sep 2000, Marcel Popescu wrote: >Would you mind writing a "tutorial for the beginner cryptanalist"? > >Mark Maybe in a year or so. Right now I'm working on a reference book on cryptographic protocols, and it's looking like it's gonna take a pretty major chunk of work. Meanwhil

Re: A cool idea that didn't hold up under cryptanalysis.

2000-09-21 Thread Harmon Seaver
Jim Choate wrote: > > I'd also like to offer that Poe's Crypto Challenge might be a good way to > demonstrate the various attacks. > God, don't say that, you'll get that Emily Dickinson wacko going again. -- Harmon Seaver, MLIS Systems Librarian Arrowhead Library System

Re: A cool idea that didn't hold up under cryptanalysis.

2000-09-21 Thread Marcel Popescu
X-Loop: openpgp.net From: "Ray Dillinger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I've developed methods for solving vignere, general > transpositions, playfair, etc... just basically bringing > myself up to speed with the general background of the field. Would you mind writing a "tutorial for the beginner crypt

Blowfish and IDEA in Silicon

2000-08-18 Thread David Honig
Hi, I just posted a paper on hardware designs for Blowfish and IDEA. The paper was originally for CHES but rejected. As far as I know, this is the only design of Blowfish in an ASIC. The ciphers were designed in Verilog and synthesized to both PLDs and a standard cell library; they haven&#