Suspected Creator Of Melissa Virus Arrested

[I'm only permitting this because of the general interest. I will accept NO OTHER MELISSA RELATED MESSAGES, PERIOD. --Perry] http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19990402S0008 Suspected Creator Of Melissa Virus Arrested (04/02/99, 12:21 p.m. ET) By Christine Casatelli, A New Jersey man has bee

Re: McCain and 64-bit crypto

> I guess it all depends on what "entities" means: point of information: in any policy document, the game is at least half over by the end of the "definitions" page. read them carefully before you invest... --dan

RE: McCain and 64-bit crypto

>Before cheering too much about McCain's apparent change >of heart, it's >worth doing some arithmetic. I guess it all depends on what "entities" means: Permit the exportation of non-defense encryption (above 64 bits) to responsible entities and governments of North Atlantic Treaty Organizati

McCain and 64-bit crypto

Before cheering too much about McCain's apparent change of heart, it's worth doing some arithmetic. 64-bit ciphers are vulnerable to a brute force attack that costs 256 times what an attack on the same 56-bit cipher would cost. Plug in EFF's 250K and you see that a similar design would cost $64M

McCain URL

Dave Anderson wrote to note both that McCain's original press release is at: http://www.senate.gov/~mccain/encrypt.htm Perry

Senator John McCain ends support of key escrow

Senator John McCain ends support of key escrow, joins Senators Burns, Leahy and Wyden in sponsoring liberalization legislation. This could be a major reversal for the anti-crypto forces -- Senator McCain was a big obstacle to crypto export deregulation in the past. NY Times URL: http://www.nyt

Re: Trademark issues

On 1 Apr 99 at 20:34, Greg Broiles wrote: > A popular misconception about trademark rights is the assumption > that they're created by the filing of a trademark application. > That's not correct. Trademarks are created and maintained when > someone (who can be a person or other form of legal per

Re: Neal Stephenson's "Cryptonomicon"

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Michael Curry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Neal included an interesting piece about his view of operating >systems). Which is quite a nice piece. Also on the page is an excerpt from the book. Ooohhh... I want more... :-) I'll even ignore the technical errors (as

Re: Neal Stephenson's "Cryptonomicon"

Jeff Simmons writes: > There's also a page at http://www.well.com/user/neal/cypherFAQ.html > that is aimed at the cypherpunk list. Most interesting part is that > evidently Bruce Schneier designed a special cypher for use in the novel, > based on a deck of playing cards. (?) I'll ask the obv

Re: Neal Stephenson's "Cryptonomicon"

The novel is quite fun. It's full of cypherpunks, both modern and WW2-era. The main characters are doing confusion operations to cover up for Enigma-reading gaffes, and setting up a fully encrypted data haven in an island nation. You'll recognize several characters, though you might not be sure

Trademark issues

Apropos the discussions about the appropriateness of RSADSI and their attempt to gain trademark status for the acronym "RSA" applied to a particular public key system - A popular misconception about trademark rights is the assumption that they're created by the filing of a trademark application.