Re: "Gale", a secure, distributed, open-source chat system

2000-01-19 Thread Eivind Eklund
On Tue, Jan 18, 2000 at 08:20:24PM -0800, Ryan Lackey wrote: > The main competition for gale is: > * IRC > IRC is used by perhaps 100 000 users worldwide. IRC affords > no message encryption, minimal authentication (identd is > sometimes used, which is almost worse than nothing

Re: Killer PKI Applications

2000-01-11 Thread Eivind Eklund
On Mon, Jan 10, 2000 at 06:08:00PM -0500, Peter Cassidy wrote: > > Friends, > > I am engaged in an expansive and challenging authoring assignment > regarding PKI's rationale in the large e-commerce plexus. I'm casting > about for ideas on the killer PKI application. I'd like to hear any ideas >

Re: DeCSS Court Hearing Report

2000-01-05 Thread Eivind Eklund
On Tue, Jan 04, 2000 at 11:20:16AM -0800, Martin Minow wrote: > Here's my translation of the law Eivind Eklund describes. Note that, > while I am a fluent speaker of Swedish, Norwegian is a similar, but > not identical language. This is a really quick translation and should > n

Re: DeCSS Court Hearing Report

2000-01-04 Thread Eivind Eklund
On Mon, Jan 03, 2000 at 11:46:48AM -0800, bram wrote: > On Wed, 29 Dec 1999, Lucky Green wrote: > > > 1. CSS was reverse engineered from Xing's DVD player. > > 2. Xing's player requires the user to click on a button accepting a license > > agreement prohibiting reverse engineering. > > 3. Reverse

Re: Spies in the 'forests'

1999-11-22 Thread Eivind Eklund
On Mon, Nov 22, 1999 at 03:14:45PM -0500, Russell Nelson wrote: > Craig Raskin writes: > > http://trec.nist.gov/pubs/trec6/papers/nsa-rev.ps > > Why would the NSA patent this? It's not like the NSA can't keep a > (trade) secret. My guess: They are expecting somebody else to develop it separate

Re: PGP encryption

1999-07-21 Thread Eivind Eklund
On Mon, Jul 19, 1999 at 01:43:23PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hans wrote: >> When implementing PGP base encryption, is this implementation MUST >> use symetrically Algorithms ?? Is it possible to use only the >> public/private key ? > > There currently isn't a way to do it under the OpenPG

Re: so why is IETF stilling adding DES to protocols? (Re: It's official... DES is History)

1999-06-26 Thread Eivind Eklund
On Fri, Jun 25, 1999 at 01:34:22PM -0700, Tom Weinstein wrote: > I think your view only makes sense if you are only interested in > protecting yourself against entities who have $100,000 (or $50,000, > or whatever) to build a DES cracking machine. If, on the other > hand, you're also worried abou

Re: Just the ticket for those conferences

1999-04-09 Thread Eivind Eklund
On Fri, Apr 09, 1999 at 02:32:08PM -, Russell Nelson wrote: > http://loaf.ecks.org/ > > Linux On A Floppy. Get networking params (IP address, subnet mask, > default router), power-down, insert floppy, reboot. Comes with ssh. http://www.freebsd.org/~picobsd/ - in case you want a GUI, too :-

Re: ETSI vote on key escrow

1999-03-12 Thread Eivind Eklund
On Sat, Mar 13, 1999 at 05:11:12AM +1300, Peter Gutmann wrote: > >[ETSI GAK vote] > > > >Yes: Belgium (5), Bulgaria (3), Cyprus (2), Czech Rep. (3), Hungary (3), > >Netherlands (5), Portugal (5), Slovak Rep. (2), Turkey (5), UK (10). > > > >No: Austria (4), Denmark (3), Finland (5), Germany (10),