Re: What happened to this NY Times article on STOA andEchelon?

1998-12-10 Thread Peter Wayner
The search software at the NYT leaves much to be desired. If you enter from the front page, it assumes you only want to search TODAY's copy of the paper. You have to re-search and click on the whole archives. Of course, that often yields too many articles to wade through. For speed, here's the

ANSI standards for block ciphers?

1998-12-10 Thread Michael Paul Johnson
I was asked: >We have been reviewing the paper you published on your "Diamond Block >Cipher." From what we have reviewed so far, it appears to address a number >of problems we here at XXX are facing. One question that I have not seen >referenced, pertains to its' conformity with American Nati

Re: Building crypto archives worldwide to foil US-built Berlin Walls

1998-12-10 Thread kopi kau
Enzo Michelangeli wrote: > It would be helpful if the list included the approximate size in Mb of each > archive. I'm making arrangements for some mirrors here in Hong Kong, and I > need an estimate of the space needed. I'm also making some arrangements here in Malaysia and need to know how mu

Wassenaar summary (and a funny new loophole)

1998-12-10 Thread Ulf Möller
> The Wassenaar Arrangement has put up the Dec. 3 lists > agreed to by members: To summarize the crypto rules: Software is freely exportable if it has been made available without restrictions upon its further dissemination. Copyright restrictions do not count. Mass market cryto software is no l

Wassenaar Lists Up

1998-12-10 Thread John Young
The Wassenaar Arrangement has put up the Dec. 3 lists agreed to by members: http://www.wassenaar.org/List/Table%20of%20Contents%20-%2098web.html Most are in .DOC format. Thanks to TR: see also a version in HTML: http://www.fitug.de/news/wa/index.html

Encryption and security tutorial available

1998-12-10 Thread Peter Gutmann
I've just released my godzilla crypto tutorial, totalling 509 slides in 8 parts, of which the first 7 are the tutorial itself and the 8th is extra material which covers crypto politics. It's available from http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/tutorial/. The tutorial is done at a reasonably h