rijndael question

2000-12-07 Thread mmotyka
On the rijndael page I see this note below the optimized code link : >IMPORTANT NOTE ! This code was written in order to clarify the mathematical >description, and to run the statistical test. Without modification, it should not >be used to encrypt files, or for any other application. What exact

Re: Re: About 5yr. log retention

2000-12-05 Thread mmotyka
Jim Choate wrote : >On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, John Young wrote: > >> But that is trivial compared to your claim that you decide what is evidence >> and that it then becomes illegal to alter or destroy it. That appears to be >> playing cop without the authority. > >No John, that is not my claim. You wish

Re: manual crypto

2000-12-04 Thread mmotyka
I've got sources kicking around somewhere that do this with noise patterns in monochrome bitmaps. I'm not sure if the effect using ascii is achieved in the exact same way - no doubt it is very closely related but not as dense as the bitmaps. Mike > >Well, not crypto but stego. > >I was looking fo

Re: Pigs Blind Woman, Then Arrest Her for "Interfering"

2000-12-01 Thread mmotyka
It's a top-down problem. They're only doing what they believe is their job as defined by their controllers. These sort of events just show what those in power think of their fellow citizens. Expect it to get worse if we get a Republican-controlled government and the resulting Republican Supreme Co

The Canine Excrement Effect

2000-11-09 Thread mmotyka
The Canine Excrement Effect : whereupon having stepped squarely into a fresh heap, the weary traveller experiences an epiphany and declares, "whether it's on my right foot or my left is irrelevant, it's foul and it stinks" then proceeds to perform an erratic twisting, sliding dance across the gras

Re: Visit a hacked site, loose your computers.

2000-10-31 Thread mmotyka
Wouldn't the time of the hack be pretty well known and wouldn't the RPI firewall logs be timestamped or am I naive? Is knowledge being used as evidence of guilt? Mike >Andres Salomon, a fairly clued in RPI student, heard on > IRC that the Yankees website had been hacked. He > checked it out, no

Re: Bush Calls Administration Encryption Policy "Outdated"

2000-10-31 Thread mmotyka
> Bush Calls Administration Encryption Policy "Outdated" > Responding to a question about encryption technology in an ongoing > Internet debate, Texas Gov. George W. Bush castigated President Clinton > and Vice President Gore for what he called "outdated" technology policy. > "The Clinton adm

Nathan's fear of nothingness

2000-10-25 Thread mmotyka
Amusing. >Here is my last post in this thread, because I feel that it is going >nowhere: > Isn't that a CP thread hallmark? Is this a preview of item 2) ? >My views are irreconcilable with those of the libertarians on this >list. Here's the way I view the world: > > 1) Life has no inheren