In August I finally submitted my PhD thesis, coming close to wrapping up my
long career as a tenured graduate student. Although the work hasn't been
accepted yet, there has been some interest expressed in portions of it so I've
put a few chapters online. Note that these chapters represent a
[This is completely off-topic, but I thought I'd add a few comments]
"R. A. Hettinga" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
about a society of mostly pacifist, egalitarian hunter-gatherer (the kind you
get in resource poor areas, like the Australian outback or the Kalihari)
polynesians,
The Moriori.
I have released an updated version of my 1998 Usenix Security Symposium paper
"Software Generation of Practically Strong Random Numbers", this version is
more than twice as long as the original and includes a lot more information
than there was room for originally. You can get it from
I recently got to play with a Windows 2000 machine and noticed in passing that
it had been infected with Outlook Express, a widely-used virus distribution
mechanism created by Microsoft (apparently it masquerades as some sort of mail
client in order to fool users into using it). Recognising it
Wei Dai [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Tue, Mar 28, 2000 at 04:16:39PM -0500, Peter Gutmann wrote:
(For people who don't know what EMBASSY is, it's a kind of combination of
Clipper and DIVX, although recently they've tried to deemphasise this since
noone was buying it - see earlier posts
The following comment pointing out yet another negative effect of Echelon was
posted to nz.general recently. Since this group probably doesn't propagate
too far, I thought I'd forward it...
Peter.
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Newsgroups: nz.politics,nz.general
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Pears)
Subject:
"Phillip Hallam-Baker" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I think you are probably refering to Ron's paper in FC'98. I presented an
alternative and somewhat radical architecture at RSA'99 which demonstrated
that it was practical to distribute revocation info in real time for a
population of 5 billion
Thanks to the fine folks at www.ps2pdf.com, I've just updated my godzilla
crypto tutorial, and the resulting PDF files are about 25% smaller than those
produced by Distiller. Updated sections include coverage of PKCS #11, PC/SC,
JavaCard/OCF, iButtons, contactless smart cards, DNSSEC,
