Re: Wolfram on randomness and RNGs

2002-09-06 Thread David E. Weekly
them from being a good source of secrecy; picking out which portions of the sequence to use end up becoming your secret and your sequence is truly only as unpredictable as this secret. In another sense, the sequence you're using is only as strong as its inputs. Just my $0.02; please bitchsl

Re: One time pads

2002-10-16 Thread David E. Weekly
Naive question here, but what if you made multiple one time pads (XORing them all together to get your "true key") and then sent the different pads via different mechanisms (one via FedEx, one via secure courier, one via your best friend)? Unless *all* were compromised, the combined key would stil

Re: One time pads and Quantum Computers

2002-10-16 Thread David E. Weekly
> > David E. Weekly[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > Which means that you should start thinking about > > > using OTP *now* if you have secrets you'd like to keep past when an > > > adversary of yours might have access to a quantum computer. ... > > OTPs

Re: What is the truth of the anti war rallys?

2002-10-28 Thread David E. Weekly
James, I was in San Francisco and saw the tail end of the demonstrations. My best friend Nathan saw the brunt of it. 42,000 seems like a very just and reasonable estimate for the size of the total march. Then all of the reasonable people went home (when the permit was up) and there were left some

ISP Utilty To Cypherpunks?

2002-10-31 Thread David E. Weekly
bandwidth (<500kbps aggregate), but require a server that's got a fixed IP, is up all the time, and has very low latency to most of the Net. How can we help? David E. Weekly Founder & Director California Community Colocation Project http://CommunityColo.net/ PS: We are entirely volunteer-based. Nobody gets paid.