Florida absentee ballots

2000-11-16 Thread George
http://www.tvdance.com/bush-gore/ Overseas absentee ballots, as opposed to in-state... http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0046/elect4.shtml WASHINGTON, NOVEMBER 15-With the presidential election supposedly hanging on Friday's count of absentee ballots from overseas, observers

Katz /. piece on improving political technology

2000-11-16 Thread R. A. Hettinga
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/11/09/2042224 While I understand the rubber-hose vote-coercion problem, My own opinion still remains that we need to solve the voting problem for *business* reasons, and that's how we'll get to use it first. You need

Re: Public Key Infrastructure: An Artifact...

2000-11-16 Thread Lynn . Wheeler
As an aside ... AADS (http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/ ) relies on existing business processes that provide secure bindings in account records ... just adding public key digital signature to existing authentication processes for non-face-to-face and/or face-to-face transactions (i.e. the meaning

Re: identity-as-bits vs. identity-as-meat

2000-11-16 Thread R. A. Hettinga
...which brings us to http://www.acs.ohio-state.edu/units/law/swire1/pscrypto.htm Which is, mostly, based on Professor Peter Swire's opinion on the cypherpunk "identity is bits" paradigm delivered at FC97, though apparently edited some since then. Not that I agree with him, at all, actually,

Re: Aces high

2000-11-16 Thread George
White Supremacist Tim "I'd like to see a race riot" May Moroned: #Even if meant in jest, as a comment on the situation, #it undermines the basic issue of law. Like, "Needs killing."

Re: Public Key Infrastructure: An Artifact...

2000-11-16 Thread Bram Cohen
On Sat, 11 Nov 2000, R. A. Hettinga wrote: Conventional, hierarchical PKI, built around the ISO standard X.509, has been, and will continue to be, a substantial failure. This paper examines that form of PKI architecture, and concludes that it is a very poor fit to the real needs of

Re: Public Key Infrastructure: An Artifact...

2000-11-16 Thread Bram Cohen
On Thu, 16 Nov 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bram Cohen writes: In the vast majority of cases, preventing man in the middle attacks is a waste of time. In the sense that, in the vast majority of communications, there is no man in the middle attack being mounted? Yes. Couldn't the

Re: Schneier: Why Digital Signatures are not Signatures (was Re: CRYPTO-GRAM, November 15, 2000)

2000-11-16 Thread obfuscation
Keep in mind that the recent E-Sign bill is not about digital signatures. It's about electronic signatures. An electronic signature doesn't necessarily have to have anything to do with cryptography. It is simply an electronic means of registering consent. This may be as simple as a mouse