It would seem to be an excellent idea indeed to incorporate a register
which gets filled with fresh entropy (from amplified circuit noise,
for instance) at every clock tick into the CPU directly, particularly
if it is to be used for embedded crypto gadgets.
Of course one would have to believe th
> If we lose crypto, we must already have guns laid by.
How likely do you think it is that when you use rhetoric like this, it
is *not* then used to discredit you in the top-secret briefings the
Senate gets from the anti-crypto lobbyists? You must know that having
guns laid by is just going to
On Wed, 28 Jul 1999, John Denker wrote:
> In my case X- is the unreseeded PRNG behavior of /dev/urandom. The
> designers of linux-ipsec have evidently decided this is good enough,
> because that's where they get key material.
More accurately, we have decided that /dev/urandom is the proper
*inte
Actually, um, kiddies, the more "corruption", the better. Corruption
meaning "greed". Profit, in other words.
I say buy the bastards off. Literally.
Make so much money with financial cryptography, with economic
cryptography, with crypto-economics, that state actors -- like Reno,
and Aaron, a
At 09:54 AM 7/29/99 -0700, Tom Perrine wrote:
>Ever taken a look for pgp.2.6.x, Kerberos, SSH or other "controlled
>software" available for anonymous FTP from .GOV and .MIL systems? A
>few minutes with your favorite search engine is quite enlightening :-)
What astonishes me is that some governm
I've thought for some time that it's time to just solve the
problem. All we need is a couple hundred million bucks.
Given that Ross Perot was able to make a credible run for
President on a hundred million dollars, it should be perfectly
feasible to find someone who is electab
> On Wed, 28 Jul 1999 17:52:04 -0700, John Gilmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>> >use of the Internet to distribute encryption products
>> >will render Wassenaar's controls immaterial."
See below :-) s/Internet/.GOV and .MIL computers/
John> If Ms. Reno had a clue, she'd fire L
> Secrecy is more useful to the weak than to the strong.
Governments everywhere hate privacy because the
efficiency of regulation is proportional to the
perfection of its surveillance.
Quoting the ever-prescient Phil Agre,
The global integration of the economy is ... commonly held to
I've thought for some time that it's time to just solve the
problem. All we need is a couple hundred million bucks.
Given that Ross Perot was able to make a credible run for
President on a hundred million dollars, it should be perfectly
feasible to find someone who is electable, marketable, has a
Changes with Apache-SSL 1.3.6/1.36
*) Add experimental Keynote (http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~keynote)
support. Not
only does this provide a very cool way to do stuff based on
certificate
attributes (and more), but it also demonstrates that it is possible
to
write independent add-on
On 1999-07-28 17:52:04 -0700, John Gilmore wrote:
> * footnote: Actually, Wassenaar used to control military crypto
> gear. To the extent that commercial, civilian crypto software is
> now a functional replacement for controlled military crypto gear,
> despite the fact that it has never been desi
Of course the German government will submit to US demands. Understand that
at present, crypto isn't an immediate thread to USG's interests, despite the
claims to the contrary by both crypto advocates and the government.
The US and its allies have made certain that virtually every piece of
mass-ma
--
At 05:52 PM 7/28/99 -0700, John Gilmore wrote:
> Why do other countries' governments work so much better on this
> issue than our own goverment?
The US has a bigger spy apparatus, one created and perfected in
struggle with the Soviet Union which at one time had an even larger
and more pow
John Kelsey wrote:
Quoting me:
> >Proposal:
> >
> >Could we do a large part of this with a fairly simple chip,
> >all digital, without diodes etc.? A system bus has typically
> >at least 32 data and 32 address lines plus a bunch of
> >control signals. Perhaps 80 bits that can be sampled at
> >pe
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