My daughter was ordering a CD this evening from the site cdnow.com
and I noted that besides the SSL option they also had a PGP option.
Take a look at
http://www.cdnow.com/cgi-bin/mserver/SID=0/pagename=/RP/HELP/order.html#8q
This is new to me.
--dan
Today, I attended a fascinating hearing in State of California Superior
Court (county of Santa Clara). The issue at bar was a request by the "DVD
Copy Control Association, Inc." (DVDCCA) to issue a temporary restraining
order (TRO) against various named and unnamed operators of websites and
other
The only reason that justifies the existence of the player keys in the
CSS scheme is control of the DVD consortium over the licensees: they
can always threaten to revoke the player key of a given licensee if
that licensee doesn't play by the rules (Macrovision, Region Codes,
etc.).
Now
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Paul Crowley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ian Goldberg) writes:
The expected number of collisions you get if you sample S items out of
a universe of size U (=2^N in the above case) is about (S^2)/U.
I know this is a month old but I'm only now
Date: Wed, 29 Dec 1999 20:06:32 -0800
From: Lucky Green [EMAIL PROTECTED]
First, basing the litigation on trade secret seems sub-optimal. Not that a
different legal argument would be anywhere near compelling, but it appears
that an argument based on copyright would have been a better
From: Andreas Bogk [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 01 Jan 2000 22:37:18 -0500
Is it just me, or did the DVDCCA not exist when DeCSS was released?
I've never heard of them, and when I tried to obtain a CSS license,
the information I had was that CSS is licensed by some japanese
company (which by
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
I just got email from Warren Agin, of Swiggart and Agin, this afternoon.
Swiggart and Agin has offered to be the first partial sponsor of the EFF
fundraiser we've been kicking around on the DCSB list recently, a direct
result of discussions on the cypherpunks
On Mon, 3 Jan 2000, Ray Hirschfeld wrote:
Date: Wed, 29 Dec 1999 20:06:32 -0800
From: Lucky Green [EMAIL PROTECTED]
but it appears that an argument based on copyright would have been
a better approach.
I conjecture they did it this way because the prohibition against
circumventing
FirstEcom.com's secure credit card payment gateway, designed by myself, uses
(on top of SSL) OpenPGP for DSA signature and symmetric encryption of
certain pieces of data. No WoT or PKI are used: only bilateral public key
exchanges between FirstEcom and each merchant site, with out-of-band
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 01/03/00
at 11:46 PM, bram [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
On Mon, 3 Jan 2000, Dave Del Torto wrote:
Here the plot thickens: If the only two sigs on the key at CDNOW are
the key-owner's sig and David's, then the ability of any CDNOW
customer to trust the key's security
At 10:46 pm -0500 2000-01-01, Dan Geer wrote:
My daughter was ordering a CD this evening from the site cdnow.com
and I noted that besides the SSL option they also had a PGP option.
Take a look at
http://www.cdnow.com/cgi-bin/mserver/SID=0/pagename=/RP/HELP/order.html#8q
This is new to me.
I've been debating whether to ditch this or not, but I feel it needs to
be said. So, as the Duke of Wellington may, or may not, have said,
"publish, and be damned".
Cheers,
Ben.
.
Seven and a Half Non-risks of PKI: What You Shouldn't Be Told about
Public
On Mon, 3 Jan 2000, Dave Del Torto wrote:
Here the plot thickens: If the only two sigs on the key at CDNOW are
the key-owner's sig and David's, then the ability of any CDNOW
customer to trust the key's security is based on David's "trustability
quotient" as well as the ability of CDNOW to
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