The New Digital Media: You Might Have It, But Not Really Own It

Anyone who knows about cryptography quickly comes to the conclusion that if it's encrypted, and I have the key it's *my* property. It doesn't matter what the lawyers say -- or even the guys they hire with guns at your friendly local geographic force monopoly. :-). Now if we can figure out a way

Cyber Fears On Fed's Web Plan

The New York Post CYBER FEARS ON FED'S WEB PLAN By HILARY KRAMER Email Archives Print Reprint August 15, 2004 -- With little fanfare, the Federal Reserve will begin transferring the nation's money supply over an Internet-based system this mon

RPOW - Reusable Proofs of Work

--- begin forwarded text To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RPOW - Reusable Proofs of Work Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2004 10:43:09 -0700 (PDT) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ("Hal Finney") Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'd like to invite members of this list to try out my new hashcash-based server, rpow.net. This sy

Websites, Passwords, and Consumers (Re: CRYPTO-GRAM, August 15, 2004)

At 11:26 PM -0500 8/14/04, Bruce Schneier wrote: > Websites, Passwords, and Consumers > > > >Criminals follow the money. Today, more and more money is on the >Internet. Millions of people manage their bank accounts, PayPal >accounts, stock portfolios, or other payment accounts online. It's

Re: Al Qaeda crypto reportedly fails the test

In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, John Denker writes: Here's a challenge directly relevant to this group: Can you design a comsec system so that pressure against a code clerk will not do unbounded damage? What about pressure against a comsec system designer? If I understand your question correctly,