RIAA wants your fingerprints

2004-06-04 Thread R. A. Hettinga
[Moderator's note: This barely fits inside the list charter, but it is too absurd to pass up. --Perry] The Register Biting the hand that feeds IT The Register » Internet and Law » Digital Rights/Digital Wrongs » Original UR

Re: Chalabi Reportedly Told Iran That U.S. Had Code

2004-06-04 Thread Bill Stewart
At 07:18 AM 6/2/2004, Perry E. Metzger wrote: The New York Times reports: Chalabi Reportedly Told Iran That U.S. Had Code June 2, 2004 By JAMES RISEN and DAVID JOHNSTON Ahmad Chalabi told an Iranian official that the U.S. had broken the communications code of Iran's intelligence service. And just

Re: Chalabi Reportedly Told Iran That U.S. Had Code

2004-06-04 Thread R. A. Hettinga
At 5:42 PM -0700 6/3/04, Eric Rescorla wrote: >http://www.rtfm.com/movabletype/archives/2004_06.html#000934 >>4.It's all a hoax and the NSA is reading the traffic some other >>way, perhaps by bugging the Iranian embassy. In this case, the NSA might >>actually want to have it spread around that

Re: New James Bamford book

2004-06-04 Thread Tim Brown
"Perry" == Perry E Metzger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Perry> James Bamford, of "The Puzzle Palace" and "Body of Secrets" fame, has Perry> written a new book called "A Pretext for War". Has anyone out there Perry> read it yet? If so, does it have any interesting new NSA or other Pe

New James Bamford book

2004-06-04 Thread Perry E. Metzger
James Bamford, of "The Puzzle Palace" and "Body of Secrets" fame, has written a new book called "A Pretext for War". Has anyone out there read it yet? If so, does it have any interesting new NSA or other general SIGINT related content? Perry --

PORTIA Workshop on Sensitive Data (fwd)

2004-06-04 Thread Perry E. Metzger
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: PORTIA Workshop on Sensitive Data (fwd) If you think that "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" would be interested in the enclosed, please forward it. Sincerely, Joan FEigenbaum -- Forwarded message -- Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2004 06:54:33 -0400 (EDT) From: Joan Feigenb

RE: [ISN] Simple passwords no longer suffice

2004-06-04 Thread R. A. Hettinga
--- begin forwarded text Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2004 01:29:59 -0500 (CDT) From: InfoSec News <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ISN] Simple passwords no longer suffice Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] List-Id: InfoSec News List-Archive: List-Po

Not Ready For Prime Time

2004-06-04 Thread R. A. Hettinga
Stories in the News Electronic Voting - Not Ready For Prime Time By Howard Dean June 01, 2004, 2004 Tuesday In December 2000, five Supreme Court justices concluded that a recount in the state of Florida's presidential election was u

Re: The future of security

2004-06-04 Thread Anne & Lynn Wheeler
minor ref: Hospital Adopts PGP Universal For HIPAA Compliance http://www.compliancepipeline.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=21401313 - The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTE

Re: Article on passwords in Wired News

2004-06-04 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Peter Gutmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.06.03.1014 +0200]: > One-time passwords (TANs) was another thing I covered in the "Why > isn't the Internet secure yet, dammit!" talk I mentioned here > a few days ago. From talking to assorted (non-European) banks, > I haven't been able to find

Re: Chalabi Reportedly Told Iran That U.S. Had Code

2004-06-04 Thread Eric Rescorla
"Perry E. Metzger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The New York Times reports: > > Chalabi Reportedly Told Iran That U.S. Had Code > > June 2, 2004 > By JAMES RISEN and DAVID JOHNSTON > > > Ahmad Chalabi told an Iranian official that the U.S. had > broken the communications code of Iran's intellig

Re: 3. Proof-of-work analysis

2004-06-04 Thread Ben Laurie
Adam Back wrote: Here's a forward of parts of an email I sent to Richard with comments on his and Ben's paper (sent me a pre-print off-list a couple of weeks ago): One obvious comment is that the calculations do not take account of the CAMRAM approach of charging for introductions only. You mentio