Re: cpunk-like meeting report
Tim May wrote: On Dec 14, 2003, at 6:07 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've been admiring your and Tim's contributions, and I was wondering if either of you were planning to subscribe to the (new) news list. http://lists.cryptnet.net/mailman/listinfo/cpunx-news No, we don't need a cpunx-news list. This is what Google and the ability to see hundreds of various lists and sites is for. I don't even plan on subscribing myself. I just wanted to get the traffic off of cypherpunks. Back when I first joined this list, cypherpunks where known for making news, not reading it. I recognized some addresses posting here recently from other lists that may suggest a revival is possible if we can clean things up a bit. For the most part, the only people who subscribed to the new list are the people who tend to forward news announcements. There seems to be very few consumers (4 out of 7 subscribers on the new list - there's 8 total so far, one person subscribed twice). - VAB -- V. Alex Brennen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cryptnet.net/people/vab/ F A R B E Y O N D D R I V E N !
Re: cpunk-like meeting report
Eugen Leitl wrote: On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 09:57:09PM -0800, Morlock Elloi wrote: http://lists.cryptnet.net/mailman/listinfo/cpunx-news Be sure and check the archive before posting. It is still small. Cookies, members only archive access. Bad deal. Will not happen. Very few consumers here. To see the collection of prior postings to the list, visit the cpunx-news Archives. The current archive is only available to the list members. No good. Please fix. Archive it your selfs you fucking wankers. Damn. Since when can cypherpunks not even handle setting up a public mailing list archive? If that's beyond you, you probably don't belong on the cypherpunks list. What do you need a government assistance program? Some public service announcements? A welfare sponsored skills training program? Here's the hand out you're looking for: http://www.mail-archive.com/faq.html#newlist - VAB
Re: [linux-elitists] Monday 15 Dec: first all-Open Source System-on-Chip (fwd from schoen@loyalty.org)
Eugen Leitl wrote: The comments from linux-elitists were clueful, and apropos. As I said, I don't intend to make it a habit, but my Mailman isn't working yet, and I don't have time to debug the setup to resurrect cpunx-news. Here: https://lists.cryptnet.net/mailman/listinfo/cpunx-news k thx. - VAB -- V. Alex Brennen [EMAIL PROTECTED] F A R B E Y O N D D R I V E N
Re: Partition Encryptor
Stirling Westrup wrote: Does anyone know of a good partition encryptor for Windows? I know of an accountant who would like to encrypt her client's financial data. She's stuck with Windows until such time as a major company starts shipping yearly tax software for linux. Something like PGPdisk, only open source, would be best. Given your requirements, you may want to run VMWare on a Linux host computer. The windows partition you'd like to encrypt would then appear as a file in a Linux partition which could be operated on by the tools and technologies available for Linux. - VAB
Re: Cryptographic privacy protection in TCPA
On Mon, 2 Sep 2002, Nomen Nescio wrote: It looks like Camenisch Lysyanskaya are patenting their credential system. This is from the online patent applications database: http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2Sect2=HITOFFp=1u=/netahtml/PTO/search-bool.htmlr=1f=Gl=50co1=ANDd=PG01s1=camenischOS=camenischRS=camenisch Does anyone know how to contact the PTO regarding proposed patents, perhaps to point out prior art? It's best not to contact the PTO or the patent holder with prior art. Gregory Aharonian has written some interesting material on this in his Patent News newsletter. If you contact the patent holder or the PTO with the prior art, it will likely be listed in the patent, or future patents if the application has already been granted. In the case of an existing patents, presenting prior art to the PTO can result it the prior art being given a previously reviewed status. Prior art with a previously reviewed status, or prior art listed on the patent are both much less effective in a defense case against an infringement claim. Therefor alerting the patent holder or the PTO to prior art would actually make the patent stronger and less likely to be invalidated. Basically, the patent system is so corrupt, the best thing to do is to avoid participating it in. Just like the US democratic system. - VAB
Re: Vinnie is looking for work..
At the cypherpunks meeting in SF during CodeCon, I think it was Dave Del Torto who asked for a show of hands of punks looking for work. It was better than half. With the economy starting to improve and rumors of a trickle of VC money, now might not be a bad time to try and launch a start up. I know Sandy was trying to get something started down south. I've been spending allot of time on cypherpunk type projects, but with a day job progress has been slow and hard. I'd be interested in joining a company to work on something that could translate into technical progress for the cypherpunk movement. I think there's good opportunity in digital signature applications, PKI alternatives, and reputation systems. Unfortunately, I don't see opportunity with electronic currency - at least not in the US. - VAB
Re: 1024-bit RSA keys in danger of compromise
On Mon, 25 Mar 2002, Bill Stewart wrote: While SSL implementations are mostly 1024 bits these days, aren't PGP Diffie-Hellman keys usually 1536 bits? I think there's a general consensus that the minimum recommended key size for X9.42 Diffie-Hellman PGP keys is 1024bits. I'm not sure if the standard size is 1536bits. I might be wrong, but I don't believe such a key length standard exists. I think the only size related limitation in X9.42 was related only to size of the prime defining the Galos Field. I haven't worked with X9.42 before. There does not appear to be many 1536bit keys in the global PGP public keyring (the keys of the synchronized public keyservers). I count 1,057 in my copy of the ring, or 0.0748% of the total keys in the ring. Here is more information about that ring: http://gnv.us.ks.cryptnet.net/stats.html Notice the % of keys which is = 1024bits. - VAB --- V. Alex Brennen Senior Systems Engineer IBM Certified Specialist e-TechServices.com IBM Business Partner Bus: 352.246.8553 Fax: 770.216.1877 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-techservices.com/people/vab/
