RE: X.BlaBla in PGP??? BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

2000-03-07 Thread Peter Gutmann
"Phillip Hallam-Baker" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I think you are probably refering to Ron's paper in FC'98. I presented an alternative and somewhat radical architecture at RSA'99 which demonstrated that it was practical to distribute revocation info in real time for a population of 5 billion

[Fwd: Export Administration Act of 1979]

2000-03-07 Thread William Allen Simpson
It was reported that Clinton was keeping the export controls going by executive order, even tho' congress had failed to re-authorize the sunsetted legislation. I asked my local congress-critter about it, and here is the response. I found it enlightening. Now, they are checking to see

VERISIGN ACQUIRES NETWORK SOLUTIONS

2000-03-07 Thread Arnold G. Reinhold
VERISIGN ACQUIRES NETWORK SOLUTIONS TO FORM WORLD'S LARGEST PROVIDER OF INTERNET TRUST SERVICES Mountain View, CA Herndon, VA, March 7, 2000 - - VeriSign, Inc. (Nasdaq:VRSN), the leading provider of Internet trust services, and Network Solutions, Inc. (Nasdaq: NSOL), the world's leading

Re: [Fwd: Export Administration Act of 1979]

2000-03-07 Thread Declan McCullagh
At 11:49 3/7/2000 -0500, William Allen Simpson wrote: It was reported that Clinton was keeping the export controls going by executive order, even tho' congress had failed to re-authorize the sunsetted legislation. I asked my local congress-critter about it, and here is the response. I found it

time dependant

2000-03-07 Thread Arrianto Mukti Wibowo
Hi, I want to know whether there is a crypto building block which doesn't allow someone to open an encrypted message before a certain date. [Damn hard. Math functions don't grok "date". The only reasonable way to do this without a trusted third party is to pick an encryption algorithm that will

time dependant

2000-03-07 Thread Raph Levien
mukti wrote: I want to know whether there is a crypto building block which doesn't allow someone to open an encrypted message before a certain date. The way I'd do this is to split up the encryption key with a shared secret scheme, then give the shares to a number of trusted third parties, who

Re: time dependant

2000-03-07 Thread Eric Murray
On Wed, Mar 08, 2000 at 05:05:24AM +0800, Arrianto Mukti Wibowo wrote: Hi, I want to know whether there is a crypto building block which doesn't allow someone to open an encrypted message before a certain date. [Damn hard. Math functions don't grok "date". The only reasonable way to do

Re: time dependant

2000-03-07 Thread Michael Paul Johnson
At 05:05 3/8/2000 +0800, Arrianto Mukti Wibowo wrote: Hi, I want to know whether there is a crypto building block which doesn't allow someone to open an encrypted message before a certain date. [Damn hard. Math functions don't grok "date". The only reasonable way to do this without a trusted

Re: [Fwd: Export Administration Act of 1979]

2000-03-07 Thread David Honig
At 11:49 AM 3/7/00 -0500, William Allen Simpson wrote: It was reported that Clinton was keeping the export controls going by executive order, even tho' congress had failed to re-authorize the sunsetted legislation. Clinton has waged wars without congressional approval. We don't need no

Re: time dependant

2000-03-07 Thread Zulfikar A Ramzan
One nice number-theoretic approach to the problem of preventing someone (including the original sender) from decrypting a message before a certain amount of time elapses can be found in the paper: Time-lock puzzles and timed-release Crypto by Ronald L. Rivest, Adi Shamir, and David A.