On 25/02/12 18:50 PM, Jon Callas wrote:
"...We're not *stupid*."
Once upon a time ...ok skip the annoying anecdote and get to the question:
What would be the smallest steganography program that someone could type
in and use to hide ones secret archive in plain site?
iang
...a long long
Well put, James. Warren Buffet's arguments are, to my eye,
aligned with yours. He argues that gold has no intrinsic
value, unlike farmland or a company like Coca Cola. In that
way, his evaluation is as instrumentalist as is yours, to the
extent that I understand the both of you. His discussion
The following is an attempt to gather all the information on the Diginotar
meltdown in one place. There's references to external sources ("[REF...]")
and cross-links ("!!") which aren't present in the text, but apart from
that it should be pretty complete. I've posted it here in case anyone f
On Sun, 26 Feb 2012 08:48:05 -0500
d...@geer.org wrote:
>
> Well put, James. Warren Buffet's arguments are, to my eye,
> aligned with yours. He argues that gold has no intrinsic
> value, unlike farmland or a company like Coca Cola. In that
> way, his evaluation is as instrumentalist as is your
On Sun, 26 Feb 2012 17:57:14 +1000
"James A. Donald" wrote:
> > On 2012-02-26 1:18 AM, Benjamin Kreuter wrote: The demand
> > for Bitcoin as a currency is driven by its properties as a
> > digital cash system; people still need to get their
> > nation's currency at some point
>
> Frau Eisenm
On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 4:54 PM, Marsh Ray wrote:
>
> Still it might be worth pointing that if Wells Fargo really wanted to
> forbid a Trustwave network-level MitM, SSL/TLS provides the capability to
> enforce that policy at the protocol level. They could configure their web
> app to require a cl
On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 10:08 AM, Benjamin Kreuter wrote:
> On Sun, 26 Feb 2012 08:48:05 -0500
> d...@geer.org wrote:
> Money and government go hand in hand. Governments need money in order
> to manage taxes, fees, fines, and so forth; yet money becomes valuable
> because of the legal structure
On Sun, 26 Feb 2012 11:00:15 -0500
"Bill St. Clair" wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 10:08 AM, Benjamin Kreuter
> wrote:
> > On Sun, 26 Feb 2012 08:48:05 -0500
> > d...@geer.org wrote:
>
> > Money and government go hand in hand. Governments need money in
> > order to manage taxes, fees, fines,
On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 11:40 AM, Benjamin Kreuter wrote:
> On Sun, 26 Feb 2012 11:00:15 -0500
> "Bill St. Clair" wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 10:08 AM, Benjamin Kreuter
> I do not follow your argument -- how does eliminating government issued
> money stop governments from collecting taxe
On 02/26/2012 04:47 AM, Kevin W. Wall wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 2:22 PM, Ondrej Mikle wrote:
>
>> Estimating RSA key size: it's more an educated guess/magic given how the
>> sizes
>> are derived than anything else. And if you base your estimate for given time
>> window on Lenstra or ECRYP
On Feb 25, 2012, at 3:18 PM, Kevin W. Wall wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 2:50 AM, Jon Callas wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
>> But to get to the specifics here, I've spoken to law enforcement and
>> border control people in a country that is not the US, who told me
>> that yeah, they know all about Tr
[Jon Callas (2012-02-26 17:35:55 UTC)]
> On Feb 25, 2012, at 3:18 PM, Kevin W. Wall wrote:
> > But I'd be SOL when then went looking for a second
> > hidden volume simply because one doesn't exist. Guess if I ever go out of
> > the country with my laptop, I'd just better securely wipe that partio
On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 10:08 AM, Benjamin Kreuter wrote:
> On Sun, 26 Feb 2012 08:48:05 -0500
> d...@geer.org wrote:
>
>>
>> Well put, James. Warren Buffet's arguments are, to my eye,
>> aligned with yours. He argues that gold has no intrinsic
>> value, unlike farmland or a company like Coca Co
On 02/26/2012 11:35 AM, Jon Callas wrote:
On Feb 25, 2012, at 3:18 PM, Kevin W. Wall wrote:
On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 2:50 AM, Jon Callas
wrote:
I asked them about the case where someone has TrueCrypt but
doesn't have a hidden volume, what would happen to someone
doesn't have one? Their respons
On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 1:46 AM, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 10:47 PM, Kevin W. Wall
> wrote:
>>
>> [SNIP]
>>
>> Thanks for the link. It took me a LONG time to convince the ESAPI team
>> of this because I was the newb to them and I came in and said we
>> need to at least need
On 02/26/2012 04:47 AM, Kevin W. Wall wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 2:22 PM, Ondrej Mikle wrote:
>
>>> 5) They don't know what padding is, or when/why to use it.
>>
>> I vaguely remember some past attacks on (I think) PKCS#1 padding, it was long
>> time ago (I'm guessing it's fixed in PKCS#1-1
On Feb 25, 2012, at 6:35 PM, James A. Donald wrote:
> Jon Callas writes:
> > > I've spoken to law enforcement and border control people
> > > in a country that is not the US, who told me that yeah,
> > > they know all about TrueCrypt and their assumption is that
> > > *everyone* who has TrueCryp
On 02/26/2012 09:34 AM, Andy Steingruebl wrote:
On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 4:54 PM, Marsh Ray mailto:ma...@extendedsubset.com>> wrote:
Still it might be worth pointing that if Wells Fargo really wanted
to forbid a Trustwave network-level MitM, SSL/TLS provides the
capability to enforce that policy
On 27/02/12 03:00 AM, Bill St. Clair wrote:
You've just made a very good argument for eliminating money, at least
government issued money. Yes, governments just love to assess taxes,
fees, and fines. No, I have no need of any of that.
Maybe, maybe not. The princes, bandits argument is not on
On 26/02/12 14:47 PM, Kevin W. Wall wrote:
But if I could put to something that was about 5-8 pages about something
like "Ten Things Every Developer Should Know About Cryptography", that
would be great for starters. Does such a thing exist? Maybe it can't
distilled to only 10, but you get my poi
d...@geer.org wrote:
> Warren Buffet's arguments are, to my eye, aligned with
> yours. He argues that gold has no intrinsic value, unlike
> farmland or a company like Coca Cola. In that way, his
> evaluation is as instrumentalist as is yours, to the extent
> that I understand the both of you. H
See 2011 shareholder letter
www.berkshirehathaway.com/letters/2011ltr.pdf
Warren Buffet's argument leads to the conclusion that had Roman in the
time of Caesar invested a talent in land, or deposited some money with
the money lenders to earn interest, his descendents would now be worth
10^67
On 2012-02-27 1:28 AM, Benjamin Kreuter wrote:
If the US
Dollar were to fail, Bitcoin would be the last thing on anyone's mind;
we would probably wind up switching to some other government's currency
while we sorted out the mess (Yuan perhaps), or we would just spend our
time killing each other a
On 2012-02-27 1:28 AM, Benjamin Kreuter wrote:
> If the US Dollar were to fail, Bitcoin would be the last
> thing on anyone's mind; we would probably wind up switching
> to some other government's currency while we sorted out the
> mess (Yuan perhaps), or we would just spend our time
> killing eac
On 2012-02-27 3:35 AM, Jon Callas wrote:
> Remember what I said -- they're law enforcement and border
> control. In their world, Truecrypt is the same thing as a
> suitcase with a hidden compartment. When someone crosses a
> border (or they get to perform a search), hidden
> compartments aren't ex
On 2012-02-27 4:29 AM, Harald Hanche-Olsen wrote:
I know nothing about TrueCrypt, but I imagine a technical solution to
this kind of problem exists: Just give TrueCrypt the ability to have a
virtually unlimited number of hidden volumes. Now you can reveal them,
one after the other, in increasing
On 2012-02-27 5:09 AM, Marsh Ray wrote:
So everyone who now has a hidden 2nd Truecrypt partition with
incriminating things in it needs to make it their hidden 3rd partition
and in the hidden 2nd partition instead store things which are merely
embarrassing.
Except that as it is stipulated that th
On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 8:36 PM, James A. Donald wrote:
> On 2012-02-27 3:35 AM, Jon Callas wrote:
>> Remember what I said -- they're law enforcement and border
>> control. In their world, Truecrypt is the same thing as a
>> suitcase with a hidden compartment. When someone crosses a
>> border (or
From: "James A. Donald"
>Warren Buffet correctly argues that gold will, on average,
>lose value. However there is a significant risk that
>everything except gold will lose value.
There is no risk that potable water or salt or (properly maintained) rifles
with ammunition will lose value. Gold
Marsh Ray writes:
>Except that as it is stipulated that the captors are "not stupid", we must
>assume they are perfectly rational actors who will have worked out this
>strategy too.
It's not an exercise in game theory, it's standard police work. If they've
watched you downloading child porn f
Someone whose name has overflowed my nested-quoting stack wrote
> Perhaps you just need a short list of reasons why Bitcoin
> is not going to replace government issued currencies:
>
> 1. No offline transactions, which makes Bitcoin useless for
> a large class of transactions.
On Mon, 27 Feb 2012,
Ondrej Mikle writes:
>I've just found an article about the OAEP padding oracle (that I couldn't
>recall before):
There's another one that was published about a year ago that looks at things
like side-channel attacks via the integer-to-octet-string conversion
primitives and other really low-ba
On 02/26/2012 09:08 PM, Peter Gutmann wrote:
Marsh Ray writes:
Except that as it is stipulated that the captors are "not stupid", we must
assume they are perfectly rational actors who will have worked out this
strategy too.
It's not an exercise in game theory, it's standard police work.
My
"James A. Donald" writes:
>Hidden compartment? What hidden compartment? If I have one, you are welcome
>to search it. Go knock yourselves out.
James, meet Bertha. Sorry about her cold hands, just give her a minute to get
the gloves on. In the meantime if you'll drop your trousers...
Peter.
34 matches
Mail list logo
