We are pleased to announce the beta release of the KeyNote v2 Trust
Management Toolkit and Reference Implementation for BSD Unix and
Linux. The toolkit was developed by Angelos Keromytis of the
University of Pennsylvania.
KeyNote is a small, flexible trust management system designed to be
espec
[This is silly, IMHO, but I decided to forward it anyway. I don't take
it the least bit seriously. Of course, digicrime.com largely consists
of such elaborate jests anyway... --Perry]
Quoting http://www.digicrime.com/itar.html :
"Our crack team of legal advisors has discovered a loophole in the
Remember when people were launching rockets with the fins made of win95 CDs?
The "technology" is already there, and the proof of concept has been tested on
dispensable items.
Mike Stay wrote:
>
> Quoting http://www.digicrime.com/itar.html :
>
> "Our crack team of legal advisors has discovered
This needs to be in an FAQ somewhere...
Mike Stay enscribed thusly:
> Quoting http://www.digicrime.com/itar.html :
>
> "Our crack team of legal advisors has discovered a loophole in the ITAR
> export restrictions on cryptographic devices from the US. Specifically,
> it now appears that c
Yes, it's funny, but it's also misleading.
If you read the regs, it makes it legal to put the crypto in orbit. It's
still an offense when it lands abroad. So when the rockets go up, you DO
care where they come down...
Been trying to get that one fixed for *years*.
-Digicrime's "Big MouthPiece
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 12:51:49 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
If you read the regs, it makes it legal to put the crypto in orbit. It's
still an offense when it lands abroad. So when the rockets go up, you DO
care where they come
Mike,
More of a cypherpunks topic...
They'd probably say that the intent was to land the rockets on foreign
soil and constituted an export. Besides, consider the press:
US Fires Rockets on Mexico, War Declared
Sporadic Firing on Mexican Front, 4 killed, 37 Wounded
President Calls Up Additional
| > [...continuing later...]
| >
| > (6) A launch vehicle or payload shall not, by reason of the launching
| > of such vehicle, be considered an export for purposes of this
| > subchapter...
|
| I believe that the standard reply is that it's not the "launch"
| that makes it an export
I think CAST-256 is the default symmetric encryption used in PGP 5.x,
6.x freeware; the openPGP draft supports a bunch of other algs including
IDEA, which is patented. Could we charge for a product that simply uses
those algorithms to get the secret key from the keyring (we're not
encrypting anyt
The monthly SF Bay Area Cypherpunks Meeting will be Saturday May 8.
We're looking for speakers and agenda items for the meeting.
Because the IEEE Crypto conference will be at the Claremont
starting the following Monday, we'll be meeting somewhere near there.
Th
It depends on how the patent is defined. The patent might explicitly
say used for protecting data on stored media. If you can find a way
to say you're using it in a way not described by the patent then you
have a good chance of getting away with it. Bottom line is you have
to read the patent to s
> > > Symantec agreed that the program fit its definition of a type of malicious
> > > program known as a Trojan horse, so it included the software in its
> > > continually updated list of dangerous programs, which include viruses,
> > > that cause warnings to pop up on its customers' computers.
>
Ben Kavanagh wrote:
>
> It depends on how the patent is defined. The patent might explicitly
> say used for protecting data on stored media. If you can find a way
> to say you're using it in a way not described by the patent then you
> have a good chance of getting away with it. Bottom line is yo
Further, if there is a chain of make, sell, use, the assignee may
prosecute an infringement case at any point in the chain.
IOW, if you make an infringing product and sell it to Big Blue, the fact
that you are the original infringer does not absolve IBM from liability.
In choosing an infringer
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