Re: Digital Contracts: "Lie in X.509, Go to Jail"

1999-10-20 Thread Robert Hettinga
At 10:24 PM -0400 on 10/19/99, Dan Geer wrote: > What is it about wanting to change the instantaneous & electronic world > that generates this sort of time & paper hazing ritual? The lack of bearer microcash? :-). Once again, the cobbler's children have no shoes... Cheers, RAH --

IP: [FP] California inaugurates digital signatures - cnn.com

1999-10-20 Thread Robert Hettinga
"Lie in X.509, Go to Jail", pt. 2 Cheers, RAH --- begin forwarded text From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 19 Oct 1999 20:58:00 -0500 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: IP: [FP] California inaugurates digital signatures - cnn.com FORWARDED: -- From: "ScanThisNews" <[EMAIL PROT

Re: Bernstein Delay Motion

1999-10-20 Thread John Gilmore
[Perry, I don't know if this is worth the list's time, we're getting into minutiae...zap it if you agree.] [Nah, I think its of interest. --Perry] > On a more serious note, when Patel issued Bernstein III, I seem to > recall a quote where she admonished the government for changing the > regula

Re: Digital Contracts: "Lie in X.509, Go to Jail"

1999-10-20 Thread Ryan Lackey
Anyone want to try redistribution in the US? I could order 10-20 copies from Stefan Brands, assuming he's willing to sell in quantity, and then handle resale in the US for e-gold or US checks or regular postal money orders or whatever. If you're interested, email me. An "international postal mo

Re: Digital Contracts: "Lie in X.509, Go to Jail"

1999-10-20 Thread Arnold Reinhold
At 4:06 AM -0700 10/20/99, Ryan Lackey wrote: >Anyone want to try redistribution in the US? I could order 10-20 copies >from Stefan Brands, assuming he's willing to sell in quantity, and then >handle resale in the US for e-gold or US checks or regular postal money >orders or whatever. If you're

Re: Digital Contracts: "Lie in X.509, Go to Jail"

1999-10-20 Thread Robert Hettinga
At 10:35 AM -0400 on 10/20/99, Arnold Reinhold wrote: > No. The complexity of international distribution agreements and >general stupidity are much bigger factors than cash settlement >costs. Two of my books are translated into Spanish. The US is the >second largest Spanish speaking market in th

The sound of one shoe, dropping (was Re: IP: Jane's News Briefs)

1999-10-20 Thread Robert Hettinga
At 8:51 PM -0500 on 10/19/99, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > FORWARDED: > -- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Tue, 19 Oct 1999 13:31:59 -0400 (EDT) > Subject: Jane's News Briefs > > ** > DEFENCE > Website: http://defence.janes.com > *

["NewsScan" ] NewsScan Daily, 20 October 1999 ("Above The Fold")

1999-10-20 Thread Perry E. Metzger
I thought this would be amusing. --- Start of forwarded message --- From: "NewsScan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Multiple recipients of list newsscan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 11:06:02 -0700 Subject: NewsScan Daily, 20 October 1999 ("Above The Fold") R

Re: Is there an anonymous contribution protocol?

1999-10-20 Thread t byfield
> Date: Tue, 19 Oct 1999 15:48:28 -0400 > From: Reusch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Is there an anonymous contribution protocol? > > A couple of months ago, someone (unfortunately, I don’t > recall the name or date) wrote to the New York Times, > suggesting that all political contributions b

Re: IP: [FP] California inaugurates digital signatures - cnn.com

1999-10-20 Thread bram
On Wed, 20 Oct 1999, Robert Hettinga wrote: > "Lie in X.509, Go to Jail", pt. 2 > > [snip] I don't don't understand what the big deal is - fraud is fraud, even if it's in plaintext email. Making digital signatures have the same legal staatus as physical signatures doesn't change that at all. -

Microsoft distributes strong crypto to the masses

1999-10-20 Thread staym
Before OSR2, Windows PWL (cached password database) files reused the same RC4 stream for known plaintext and the cached passwords. Someone exploited this and published code. Apparently, MS has fixed the problem. PWL files under '95/OSR2 and '98 are protected with a single RC4 stream whose 128-b

Re: Microsoft distributes strong crypto to the masses

1999-10-20 Thread staym
I wrote: >Resources and passwords don't have to conform to anything; they're >arbitrary binary strings. The PWL file is a database of (type,name,resource) triplets; it can store up to 255 of these; I don't know how long each can be. -- Mike Stay Programmer / Crypto guy AccessData Corp. mailto:[E