Re: Germans to tax PCs for Lars

2000-09-08 Thread Tom Vogt
David Honig wrote: > >not quite right. it is NOT the government that collects, and this is not > >a tax. there's a "non-profit" organisation called GEMA that collects and > >re-distributes these things. > > So if you don't pay GEMA who *are* those folks with the guns? GEMA will most likely sue y

Re: Germans to tax PCs for Lars

2000-09-08 Thread Tom Vogt
Bill Stewart wrote: > So does the proposed law require companies to pay GEMA > if they make or sell anything in this category? I'm afraid that is what is being proposed. of course, similiar stuff has been proposed for a long time. the IP industry is greedy, as we all know. and since IP is an arti

Re: StoN, Diffie-Hellman, other junk..

2000-09-08 Thread Marcel Popescu
X-Loop: openpgp.net From: "Asymmetric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > The D/H is going to be used just to generate a key to securely transfer a > 4096 bit key for use in symmetrical crypto routines later in the program, You want to use a 4096-bit key for SYMMETRICAL crypto? Hello? Not only I don't know o

Re: Germans to tax PCs for Lars

2000-09-08 Thread David Honig
At 05:10 AM 9/8/00 -0400, Tom Vogt wrote: >David Honig wrote: >> >not quite right. it is NOT the government that collects, and this is not >> >a tax. there's a "non-profit" organisation called GEMA that collects and >> >re-distributes these things. >> >> So if you don't pay GEMA who *are* those f

Re: Permutations in DES

2000-09-08 Thread David Honig
At 08:02 PM 9/7/00 -0400, Kevin Elliott wrote: >Does this method work for apps that are generating and testing lots >of keys or does the initial key generation step still have to be >undertaken? The whole point of the blowfish technique was to >increase the attackers required effort. It was b

Re: Germans to tax PCs for Lars

2000-09-08 Thread Tom Vogt
David Honig wrote: > >> So if you don't pay GEMA who *are* those folks with the guns? > > > >GEMA will most likely sue you. but since GEMA isn't the government, > >that's a civil case. > > The "right" of GEMA to sue is enforced by folks claiming to be from > your "State" who carry guns, no? > >

Re: Germans to tax PCs for Lars

2000-09-08 Thread David Honig
At 07:09 PM 9/8/00 +0200, Tom Vogt wrote: >David Honig wrote: >> The "right" of GEMA to sue is enforced by folks claiming to be from >> your "State" who carry guns, no? >> >> A level of indirection doesn't change anything. > >on the ideological level, no. >on the practical level - a lot. for exam

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Re: Germans to tax PCs for Lars

2000-09-08 Thread David Honig
At 05:59 PM 9/8/00 -0400, Jim Choate wrote: >On Fri, 8 Sep 2000, David Honig wrote: >> Ultimately law is backed by violence. >> > >And therefore it is badyadda, yadda, yadda > >Bullshit. That is such a general statement as to be worthless. > >The 'law' stems from the individual right to self-

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Re: StoN, Diffie-Hellman, other junk..

2000-09-08 Thread Adam Langley
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 06:12:27PM -0400, Bill Stewart wrote: > Servers are the price of scalability. Correction - servers are the price of *easy* scalability. See Freenet for an example of self-organizing networks that are efficient. But it isn't easy, self-org networks are complex and subtle be

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2000-09-08 Thread A. Melon
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