DCSB: Mary Ellen Zurko; Jonah, IBM, Open Source, and Digital Commerce

1998-11-12 Thread Robert Hettinga
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[aaa-list] Tommy Flowers, Engineer who cracked German communications, dead, at, 92

1998-11-12 Thread Clive D.W. Feather
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Sandy Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >> If this refers to the ENIGMA codes used by the germans, im curious. >> According to my material, it was a swedish mathematician who was first to >> break the ENIGMA ciphers. >The original Enigma was a commercial product rel

Re: DCSB: Risk Management is Where the Money Is; Trust in Digital Comm

1998-11-12 Thread Enzo Michelangeli
-Original Message- From: Anonymous <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thursday, November 12, 1998 4:42 AM [...] >> There is one potential fly in this ointment, and I do not intend to >> dwell on it, but I cannot get this far and not mention the threat to >> strong security apparati of having them

Wiretapping law likely will cover Internet telephony

1998-11-12 Thread Declan McCullagh
[And what happens when, as I write below, some IP telephony providers begin to provide encrypted communications services? --Declan] http://www.wired.com/news/news/politics/story/16146.html Wiretapping Internet Phone Lines by Declan McCullagh 4:00 a.m. 10.Nov.98.PST A federal wiretapping la

Re: DCSB: Risk Management is Where the Money Is; Trust in Digital Comm

1998-11-12 Thread Dan Geer
Dear Annoymous <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, I refer you to a paper by Don Davis, "Compliance Defects in Public-Key Cryptography", Proc. 6th Usenix Security Symp, (San Jose, CA, 1996), pp. 171-178 which you can retrieve from http://world.std.com/~dtd/compliance/compliance.ps After some furthe

Network Associates re-joining Key Recovery Alliance?

1998-11-12 Thread Perry E. Metzger
Rumor on slashdot (http://slashdot.org/) has it that Network Associates has re-joined the Key Recovery Alliance, in spite of the fact that they withdrew from it a while back. Anyone have information on this? Perry

NAI Rejoins KRA

1998-11-12 Thread James Glave
Network Associates has quietly rejoined the key recovery alliance. I'm doing a short piece on this for Wired News if anyone on the list would like to comment for publication. See http://www.kra.org. jtg James Glave, News Editor, Wired News, http://www.wired.com +1 (415) 276-8430

Network Associates rejoins Key Recovery Alliance

1998-11-12 Thread Kathleen Ellis
As seen on Slashdot.. http://www.slashdot.org Posted by blizzard on Thursday November 12, @09:41AM from the gimme-your-data dept. Andrew Hagen writes "Network Associates, formerly McAfee, developer of PGP, has quietly rejoined the Key Recovery Alliance. Despite withdrawing from the group last De

Tommy Flowers, Engineer who cracked German communications, etc

1998-11-12 Thread Paul J. Bell
while Colossus is often said (mostly by the British (-: ) to be the world's first digital computer, (an argument i try to stay away from) it certainly wasn't a general purpose machine. it did run a program of sorts, but not a 'stored program' that was readily changed. there is no indication tha

Re: DCSB: Risk Management is Where the Money Is; Trust in Digital Comm

1998-11-12 Thread Lynn . Wheeler
slightly different take on risk management in financial transactions. X9.59 is financial industry draft standard for all retail payments ... and is based on an AADS-model. Account Authority Digital Signature AADS AADS is the application of digital signatures to

Re: DCSB: Risk Management is Where the Money Is; Trust in DigitalComm

1998-11-12 Thread Ed Gerck
On Wed, 11 Nov 1998, Dan Geer wrote: >> Dan previously wrote: >>> The full cost of revocation testing is proportional to the square of >>> the depth of the issuance hierarchy. >> > Anonymous replied: >> >>The first statement is false. Revocation testing is not proportional to >>the square of the

ANNOUNCE: SATURDAY Bay Area Cypherpunks Meeting - Stanford University

1998-11-12 Thread Bill Stewart
The November Cypherpunks Meeting will be Saturday 11/14 from 1-5pm at Stanford, at the tables outside Tresidder Union, near the bookstore. The tables are on the west side, which is the inside of the U-shape. Coffee and food are available in the building. If the weather is uncooperative, we will

FW: Pitney Bowes Taps Cybercash for Electronic Payments

1998-11-12 Thread Robert Hettinga
--- begin forwarded text From: Somebody To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: FW: Pitney Bowes Taps Cybercash for Electronic Payments Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 10:59:50 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Importance: Normal forward as you wish, **without** my name