Enfopol

http://www.dbai.tuwien.ac.at/marchives/ece/0612.html http://nyheter.idg.se/display.pl?ID=990312-CS5 http://www.dascom.or.at/zentai/enfopol.htm Enfopol - a european (EU) variant of the Echolon project appears to be concidered for construction. Perhaps soon the EU will start tapping of the phonesys

Does any patent cover Wagner's ecash scheme?

-- On the coderpunks list Wei Dai suggested that a MAC based scheme for unlinkable ecash would not be covered by existing patents, and then interpreted Wagner's scheme as MAC based, an interpretation others disputed. So I looked up the patent li

(Reciprocal)^2 (was Re: @NY Vol. 4, No. 28)

Bill's probably going to lose his lunch-money on this one. Either the copy protection is hacked by cypherpunks for grins :-), or more likely, artists, even the record companies themselves, will bypass it because they will have a cash-settled auction market, paradoxically of sufficiently *small* e

FW: VeriSign OK'd for strong-crypto exports

A colleague offered the following comment on the Verisign press release forwarded with their permission. > This appears to be a very fast implementation of the > Administration's new crypto export policy, particularly with > respect to the sales to online merchants, health care and > insurance