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1999-05-19 Thread Keith Dawson
[Some parts of this description make me nervous. Why are PRIVATE keys being stored on a server, for instance? Why use SSL to send keys when you could use SSL to just send the data? Etc., etc... --Perry] FYI, I just put up this piece as a Tasty Bit of the Day at http://tbtf.com/#tbotoday . ___

Re: Dataglyph findings (was: Re: Xerox supplies stego?)

1999-05-19 Thread sinster
Enough people expressed interest that I'm passing along my dataglyph implementation. I've cleaned it up and commented it somewhat. Use as thou wilt. I've waited to reply to Steve's message until now so I could include the cleaned-up dataglyph implementation. It's stuck at the end of this email

RE: US spying on Europe

1999-05-19 Thread Lucky Green
James A. Donald: > The US officials planning the deal did not consciously know > they were lying. The European offiicials that accepted the > deal did not consciously know they were being lied to. People > with that kind of hostile and cynical attitude do not get > appointed to those kind of jobs

British Parliament Committee slags cryptography bill...

1999-05-19 Thread Perry E. Metzger
British Parliament Committee slags cryptography bill... http://news.bbc.co.uk/low/english/sci/tech/newsid_347000/347550.stm Exerpt: Key escrow now dropped "Now that key escrow has been dropped by the government, the committee believes that the rationale for an electron

Re: US spying on Europe

1999-05-19 Thread James A. Donald
-- At 07:12 PM 5/18/99 -0400, Dan Geer wrote: > Let us eliminate the impossible so that the remainder, >however improbable, is true. (1) If the NYT has it, then it >cannot be news to the victims (2) If it is not news to the >victims, then it cannot be news to >at least some of their g

Earthweb, by Marc Stiegler

1999-05-19 Thread Bill Frantz
It is a future where pseudoanonymous identities with persistent reputation contract, over the web and in person. Decisions are guided by anonymous betting on idea future contracts. Reporters must be honest and accurate, because bi-directional, reputation endorsed public commentary follows them w

Re: US spying on Europe

1999-05-19 Thread Hadmut Danisch
> pieces, they didn't disassemble the antennas and reduce the stuff, as ^ sorry, should be "staff". My english is horrible...

Re: US spying on Europe

1999-05-19 Thread Dan Geer
> What does shock me, however, is that so many European countries > have been completely blind to what has been going on up to this > point. Let us eliminate the impossible so that the remainder, however improbable, is true. (1) If the NYT has it, then it cannot be news to the vict