1,000 Free Crypto Sites

1999-05-07 Thread John Young
Heeding Hugh Daniels' call today to set up 1,000 US crypto sites free of unconstituional export restrictions as provided by the Bernstein opinion, we invite contributions of unlimited-strengh encryption programs and/or links to such programs for a new US section for unrestricted cryptography

Bernstein Opinion Up

1999-05-07 Thread James A. Donald
-- This judgment http://jya.com/bernstein-9th.htm is everything we need, but it is not a green light to do entirely as we please. For an export of code to be identical to the precedent, the exported document must be designed to be read by humans, rather than computers. We can export

Re: 1,000 Free Crypto Sites

1999-05-07 Thread Bill Sommerfeld
A posting by Cindy Cohn, one of Bernstein's legal team, to cyberia-l, archived at http://www.ljx.com/mailinglists/cyberia-l/20266.html suggests that it would be premature to create such sites. She writes: First, the decision is not final for at least 52 days (45 for the govt to

CORRECTION: PARC Forum 5/13 -- Reiner Hartenstein.Reconfigurable Computing: Taking Off to Overcome the Microprocessor

1999-05-07 Thread Bill Frantz
Given past discussions on building key crackers using FPGAs, I thought this forum might be of interest to people. - Bill Date: Thu, 6 May 1999 21:40:26 PDT From: Michelle Q Wang Baldonado [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: CORRECTION: PARC Forum 5/13 -- Reiner Hartenstein. "Reconfigurable Computing:

FW: FW: Bernstein Opinion Up

1999-05-07 Thread Elyn Wollensky
Here's Lance Rose's take on the Bernstein decision: Elyn Elyn Wollensky Programming Development Group IDG Technology Publishing 900 Third Avenue NYC, NY 10022 voice: +1.212.381.4517 fax: +1.212.381.4501 -Original Message- From: Lance Rose [ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL

Code-As-Speech

1999-05-07 Thread Perry E. Metzger
I hate to say this, because it sounds "convenient" and "weird", but I really believe that much source code *is* expression in the first amendment sense that the 9th circuit held. It isn't for nothing that for decades, students of computer science have had beaten into their skulls "remember,

Re: Exporting crypto from the US? Think first...

1999-05-07 Thread Greg Broiles
At 12:13 AM 5/7/99 -0700, James A. Donald wrote: Large numbers of people have been conspicuously breaking this law for a long time. Who has been prosecuted? Charles Booher of San Jose received investigatory attention and subpoena(s) from the BXA for his website posting of crypto code; I've lost

How to donate a clue to a lawyer?

1999-05-07 Thread Anonymous
At 10:37 AM 5/7/99 -0500, Elyn Wollensky wrote: Here's Lance Rose's take on the Bernstein decision: Sorry to say, but the 9th Circuit took the dumb approach I mentioned in my earlier post.     Their whole approach to "source code as speech" is misguided - unless we are talking about people

Re: FW: FW: Bernstein Opinion Up

1999-05-07 Thread Bill Sommerfeld
[CC's to lists I'm not on trimmed; feel free to forward this as long as you CC: me on forwards..] Peter Junger has a list specifically for discussing the source-code-as-speech issue; for more info on the list, see http://samsara.law.cwru.edu/~sftspch/ The fact that source code is an

Re: FW: FW: Bernstein Opinion Up

1999-05-07 Thread Ben Laurie
Elyn Wollensky wrote: -Original Message- From: Lance Rose [ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ] Sent: Friday, May 07, 1999 8:58 AM To: Elyn Wollensky Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: FW: Bernstein Opinion Up [snip] - the fact that we reach for the easiest, broad

more Mondex in Canada, Sherbrooke Quebec

1999-05-07 Thread M Taylor
Mondex isn't dead in Canada it seems. Though I've had no word on the NBTel/Royal Bank partnership in New Brunswick, it appears that yet another trial will roll out, this time in Sherbrooke Quebec. -M Taylor Source: www.mondex.ca SHERBROOKE (April 20, 1999) - Mondex Canada announced today that

Re: Code-As-Speech

1999-05-07 Thread Arnold G. Reinhold
I'd like to take this argument one step further. It might well be possible with existing technology to write a computerprogram that converted a plain English description of an algorithm into C. Natural language understanding programs do best with a limited vocabulary and clear semantics, as would

[ANN] Intertrader announces Mondex Internet Cafe at Bank of Scotland

1999-05-07 Thread Robert Hettinga
Somewhere, Doug Barnes is smiling... Cheers, RAH --- begin forwarded text Date: Fri, 07 May 1999 16:30:01 +0100 To: e$@vmeng.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Rachel Willmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ANN] Intertrader announces Mondex Internet Cafe at Bank of Scotland Sender:

Re: 1,000 Free Crypto Sites

1999-05-07 Thread Anonymous
Bill Sommerfeld [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A posting by Cindy Cohn, one of Bernstein's legal team, to cyberia-l, archived at http://www.ljx.com/mailinglists/cyberia-l/20266.html suggests that it would be premature to create such sites. She writes: First, the decision is not

Re: Bernstein Opinion Up

1999-05-07 Thread Jon Callas
At 5:21 PM -0700 5/6/99, James A. Donald wrote: The interesting question is of course whether the Bernstein decision applies only to printed documents, and not web pages. There is certainly nothing in the opinion restricting it to paper. Web pages are just as much publication,

Re: Code-As-Speech

1999-05-07 Thread Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law
I agree. But the next (legally and commercially) exciting question is to what extent this works for object code On 7 May 1999, Perry E. Metzger wrote: I hate to say this, because it sounds "convenient" and "weird", but I really believe that much source code *is* expression in the first

Re: Encryption software for the Mac

1999-05-07 Thread Arnold G. Reinhold
Of course PGP is available for the Mac. There are some free DES utilities and Secure Delete. You might be interested in http://nswt.tuwien.ac.at/htdocs/baudoin-goodie-hints/mac/secure_edit.html I would also call your attention to my http://ciphersqaber.gurus.com that tells how to write you own

Re: FW: FW: Bernstein Opinion Up

1999-05-07 Thread Karl A. Siil
At 03:23 PM 5/7/99 -0400, Matt Blaze wrote: But in the case of source code, there is no difference between a "photograph" of source code and the actual code itself. But, what if one created a machine that could render an exact duplicate pot (or one that at least *looks like* an exact duplicate)

Re: Exporting crypto from the US? Think first...

1999-05-07 Thread James A. Donald
-- At 12:13 AM 5/7/99 -0700, James A. Donald wrote: Large numbers of people have been conspicuously breaking this law for a long time. At 09:04 AM 5/7/99 -0700, Greg Broiles wrote: Charles Booher of San Jose received investigatory attention and subpoena(s) from the BXA for his website

Re: Code-As-Speech

1999-05-07 Thread David Honig
At 02:20 PM 5/7/99 -0400, Arnold G. Reinhold wrote: I'd like to take this argument one step further. It might well be possible with existing technology to write a computerprogram that converted a plain English description of an algorithm into C. Natural language understanding programs do best

Re: Did the court publish cryptography on the web?

1999-05-07 Thread David Honig
At 01:21 PM 5/7/99 -0700, Martin Minow wrote: The appeals court decision, at the web at http://www.ce9.uscourts.gov/web/newopinions.nsf/f606ac175e010d64882566eb00 65811 8/febd2452a8a4d79b8825676900685b71?OpenDocument contains source of the core of Bernstein's "Sunffle" program. (Search for

More on Triple-DES in Schlumberger's Java Card

1999-05-07 Thread J. Orlin Grabbe
In a previous email, I commented on problems in the Triple-DES implementation in Schlumberger's Java Card (which is called the "Cyberflex Access Card"). Apparently Schlumberger has addressed some of these problems with a new version which has an ATS (answer to reset) with a hex string ending in