Re: Beginners books on security

2000-06-15 Thread Julian Assange
Ben Laurie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I was asked to recommend books on security/crypto/copy protection for the non-tekky and realised I had no idea at all! Does anyone out there have suggestions? Cheers, Ben. I hear that `Underground', http://www.underground-book.com/ is excellent foie

more snake oil

1999-12-21 Thread Julian Assange
[Forwarded only because it has been a slow week -- normally, I don't really want "snake oil of the week" postings because, frankly, there is too much snake oil and most of it is uninteresting. This example is no exception -- there is nothing more amusing about this snake oil than most others.

multi-party untrained unconstrained speech transcription

1999-12-10 Thread Julian Assange
http://speechbot.research.compaq.com/ The "transcript" that is output by the speech recognition software (and shown in small extracts on the Results and Details pages) rarely matches what was spoken exactly, and often often does not read very well. Because different people speak at

Re: NSA pre-oversight-hearing moaning and weeping [was cracking GSM A5/1]

1999-12-07 Thread Julian Assange
Vin McLellan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Talking about timely and untimely comments. Check out Newsweek's credulous, confused, and tech-ignorant report about the (pre-oversight-hearing) moaning and and weeping at Fort Meade. This [Sy Hersh] story has been re-reported

Spies in the 'forests'

1999-11-22 Thread Julian Assange
spy on terrorists, he said that the NSA's "blanket approach" to monitoring telephone calls and e-mails was "a serious breach of privacy rights". Cryptographer Julian Assange, who moderates the online Australian discussion forum AUCRYPTO, discovered the departme

DVD cracks

1999-11-01 Thread Julian Assange
[from ntk] Just when you thought you'd wait forever for a free DVD player, along come two cracks at once. The first was the leaking onto the Linux LIVID player mailing list of the DVD Content Scrambling System code used by the Jon Johansen's cracker

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

1999-10-19 Thread Julian Assange
Robert Hettinga [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Evidently, there are only 500 in the first printing, but I bet Stefan didn't give them *all* away. :-). I bet that if you put in a special order to Amazon with the ISBN and the publisher in it, they'll manage to sell one to you on order. Upon

Re: Almost-Everywhere Superiority for Quantum Computing

1999-10-18 Thread Julian Assange
Anonymous [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Quantum computers help cryptanalysis in a couple of specific ways. They aren't all-purpose speeder-upers. No. The reason I posted this abstract is because it says exactly the opposite. *almost* any given Turing machine T can be turned into a quantum machine

Almost-Everywhere Superiority for Quantum Computing

1999-10-17 Thread Julian Assange
Quantum Physics, abstract quant-ph/9910033 From: "Lane A. Hemaspaandra" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date (v1): Fri, 8 Oct 1999 03:48:56 GMT (17kb) Date (revised v2): Mon, 11 Oct 1999 19:03:38 GMT (17kb) Almost-Everywhere Superiority for Quantum Computing Authors: Edith Hemaspaandra (RIT), Lane A.

Re: crypto camouflage in software

1999-10-13 Thread Julian Assange
"paul a. bauerschmidt" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: neat question: http://www.arcot.com/arcot_ieee.pdf a method of protecting private keys using camouflage, in software, to prevent dictionary attacks. one password will decrypt correctly, many other passwords will produce alternate,

graphical authentication

1999-10-08 Thread Julian Assange
Mention was made recently of a graphical keying method out of stanford (?) for palm-pilots. Does anyone have a reference or url for the paper/code involved? Cheers, Julian.

key revokation ain't

1999-09-20 Thread Julian Assange
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IQ.ORG Cryptography Server

1999-02-06 Thread Julian Assange
Welcome to the IQ.ORG Cryptography Server (aka Blinded)! This is a private IRC server. It exists primarily as an encrypted live communications network for the cryptography community and friends as represented by the following mailinglists: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: AUCRYPTO: Bidzos pro-wassenaar posturing.

1999-01-10 Thread Julian Assange
Rich Salz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hm, I read the quote as "yeah, right, like herding cats it will happen." Seeing "Bad" ulterior motives in RSA/Australia is also impugning Eric and Tim, remember. Bidzos and RSA have a pretty good record vis-a-vis US controls, and it seems doubtful

Re: AUCRYPTO: Bidzos pro-wassenaar posturing.

1999-01-08 Thread Julian Assange
[I figured I'd let people get out a message or two more but I don't think I'm going to let the Bidzos slamming run much longer. It isn't that I love him -- it is that I don't think the discussion is really what the readers of Cryptography want to be viewing in their mailboxes. --Perry] Darren

Bidzos pro-wassenaar posturing.

1999-01-07 Thread Julian Assange
"Recently, the administration announced that the 33 Wassenaar countries had agreed on a common framework for export controls for encryption products," added Bidzos. "This move appears designed to strike a balance between industry and governments - it puts government desired limits