It was said:
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Now that the PGP key management "bug" is public, I'd like to comment
on some source code issues and follies.
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The quotes around "bug" are quite appropriate. After reviewing Senderek's
paper, I can only conclude that the addition of non-hashed subpac
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From: "Tim May" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Speaking of which - does anybody have any hints on how to determine the
> >entropy of an input string? [Needed in Yarrow, and so far I don't know
how
> >to do it - my implementation multiplies the length of the input string
(in
> >bits) w
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From: "Tim May" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Had the Second Amendment not been as explicit as it was, guns in the
> U.S. would have been heavily regulated and/or confiscated a long,
> long time ago. The Second is far from perfect, but history shows that
> the Second was a useful dete
Anonymous wrote:
>
> Now that the PGP key management "bug" is public, I'd like to comment
> on some source code issues and follies.
>
> The source for versions in question (starting from 5.*) has been available
> for more than two years.
>
> While many crypto experts intensely bullshit about th
At 02:00 AM 8/25/00 -0400, Anonymous wrote:
>While many crypto experts intensely bullshit about the importance
>of the source code to counter "security through obscurity", it appears
>than none really looked at the sources closely.
A lot of metallurgists inspected a lot of beams and bolts
but the
At 06:26 PM 8/24/00 -0400, Tim May wrote:
>At 3:08 PM -0400 8/24/00, Marcel Popescu wrote:
>>
>>Speaking of which - does anybody have any hints on how to determine the
>>entropy of an input string? [Needed in Yarrow, and so far I don't know how
>>to do it - my implementation multiplies the length
TMI phones also had to be equipped with
geo-positioning technology so the FBI could pinpoint a suspect's location when he made
a
call.
This was crucial, as Deputy Attorney General Eric Holder wrote in a June 14, 1999,
letter to FCC Chairman William Kennard. "Finding out that a drug deal, murde
On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 09:53:05PM -0400, Adam Back wrote:
>
>
> Tim writes:
> > At 3:08 PM -0400 8/24/00, Marcel Popescu wrote:
> > >
> > >Speaking of which - does anybody have any hints on how to determine the
> > >entropy of an input string?
> > > [...]
>
> Traditionally CPRNGs pass this p
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From: "David Honig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> You could also use Shannon's formula directly to compute informational
> quantity. This might work better for short strings.
Can you give me more info on that one?
> More appropriate for testing RNG outputs: Ueli Maurer has a
> comp
On Thu, 24 Aug 2000, Tim May wrote:
> At 6:26 PM -0400 8/24/00, Matt Elliott wrote:
> > >Never let the Jesus freaks define what rights are.
> >
> >Why? Is there something inherent in believing in Christ Jesus, that makes
> >one incapable of rational thought on the issue of rights?
>
> I never
At 9:12 AM -0400 8/25/00, Marcel Popescu wrote:
>
> > There are many
> > well-meaning folks who claim that a "right to decent housing and
> > adequate medical care" is a God-given right. Never let the Jesus
>> freaks define what rights are.)
>
>I don't remember that in the Bible. I only rememb
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From: "Tim May" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> (P.S., the Russkies have been drugging their political dissenters for
> many decades. "Psychiatric prisons" were and are common over there.
I was going to point that out. My first wife had a cousin who was caught
trying to (illegally, of
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From: "Tim May" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Instead of calling you a Xtian, perhaps I should call you an XORtian.
You can call me anything you like, Tim. I am tired of explaining you that
words aren't things / actions, together with many other points too subtle
for a super-human li
http://www.users.skynet.be/avalon/avalonuk/technical/radio1.htm
Describes radios that can go through 500 m
of rock. (This is not easy with conventional
RF; they use an 87 Khz carrier.) Of passing
interest for TEMPEST afficionados, it indicates
how far certain whispers carry.
On Fri, 25 Aug 2000, Phaedrus wrote:
> This happens, for certain... I'm not sure if mindfreedom picked it up (I
> usually only catch it once or twice a month or so, but it's on my
> regularly read list) but within the last few days a woman in Missouri was
> being
gack! I knew there was somethin
> To: Multiple recipients of list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: CDR: Re: Black Hoes screw Disney, trample free speech
> From: Anonymous <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 17:48:49 -0400
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>
>Just becau
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