On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 05:53:16PM -0500, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> Speakers of such Native American languages as Navajo, Choctaw
> and Cheyenne served as radio operators, know as Code Talkers,
> to keep communications secret during both World Wars. Welsh
> speakers played
On Wed, 7 Feb 2007 15:04:40 -0800
"Saqib Ali" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> And here is the wired coverage of the BitFrost platform:
>
> http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,72669-0.html?tw=wn_culture_1
>
> >From the article:
> But it should come as no surprise -- given how thoroughly the proje
On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 05:42:49AM -0800, Sandy Harris wrote:
> He starts from information theory and an assumption that
> there needs to be some constant upper bound on the
> receiver's per-symbol processing time. From there, with
> nothing else, he gets to a proof that the optimal frequency
> dis
And here is the wired coverage of the BitFrost platform:
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,72669-0.html?tw=wn_culture_1
From the article:
But it should come as no surprise -- given how thoroughly the project
has rewritten the conventions of what a laptop should be -- that the
OLPC's secur
On Wed, 7 Feb 2007 12:44:30 -0600
Nicolas Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> http://www.omniglot.com/writing/mayan.htm
>
An interesting web site, which also contains the following
crypto-relevant statement:
Speakers of such Native American languages as Navajo, Choctaw
and C
Earlier today, I publicly released the architecture-level specification
for Bitfrost, the security platform on the One Laptop per Child machines:
http://dev.laptop.org/git.do?p=security;a=blob;hb=HEAD;f=bitfrost.txt
This is a complete but non-technical spec, with its technical complement
sched
Travis H. wrote:
On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 03:46:41PM -0800, Allen wrote:
[...]
> What about other languages? Does anyone know the relative entropy of
> other alphabetic languages? What about the entropy of ideographic
> languages? Pictographic? Hieroglyphic?
IIRC, it turned out that Egyptian he
On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 09:08:07PM -0600, Travis H. wrote:
> IIRC, it turned out that Egyptian heiroglyphs were actually syllabic,
> like Mesopotamian, so no fun there. Mayan, on the other hand, remains
> an enigma. I read not long ago that they also had a way of recording
> stories on bundles of
so the assertion in the previous post
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm26.htm#30 man in the middle, SSL
was that sitekey as being introduced because of shortcomings in SSL
countermeasures to
man-in-the-middle attacks however sitekey only deals with simple
impersonation
and is easily defeate
Thanks for all the comments in and off list. A revised write-up is
available at http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.jsp?articleId=281474976901451
More examples where convenience trumps ease-of-use, and risk, will be added
from time to time. Please check back. Comments and suggestions are welcome.
Be
Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
An idle question. English has a relatively low entropy as a
language. Don't recall the exact figure, but if you look at words
that start with "q" it is very low indeed.
What about other languages? Does anyone know the relative entropy
of other alphabetic languag
Leichter, Jerry wrote:
> Recall how SiteKey works: When you register, you pick an image (from a
> large collection) and a phrase. Whenever you connect, the bank will
> play back the image and phrase. You aren't supposed to enter your
> password until you see your own image and phrase.
i.e. it i
| somewhat related
| Study Finds Bank of America SiteKey is Flawed
| http://it.slashdot.org/it/07/02/05/1323243.shtml
Recall how SiteKey works: When you register, you pick an image (from a
large collection) and a phrase. Whenever you connect, the bank will
play back the image and phrase. You ar
Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
>
> On Sun, 04 Feb 2007 15:46:41 -0800
> Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Hi gang,
> >
> > An idle question. English has a relatively low entropy as a
> language.
> > Don't recall the exact figure, but if you look at words that start
> > with "q" it is very lo
Thorsten Kleinjung reports recent success on computing discrete
logarithms modulo 530-bit (160 decimal digits) prime:
http://listserv.nodak.edu/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind0702&L=nmbrthry&T=0&P=194
Max
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On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 03:46:41PM -0800, Allen wrote:
> An idle question. English has a relatively low entropy as a
> language. Don't recall the exact figure, but if you look at words
> that start with "q" it is very low indeed.
I seem to recall Shannon did some experiments which showed that wi
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