Yahoo to offer encrypted email option

2000-08-25 Thread anonymous
By Paul Festa Staff Writer, CNET News.com August 25, 2000, 4:00 a.m. PT URL: http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-2605437.html Yahoo plans to let its email account holders use data scrambling to protect the privacy of their messages, marking a potentially significant advance for the mainstream

Most consumers not ready to manage secure email

2000-08-25 Thread No User
By CNET News.com Staff August 25, 2000, 2:20 p.m. PT URL: http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-2613005.html By William Spernow, Gartner Analyst Encrypted-email services for consumers, such as the remote services Yahoo will provide through ZixIt, target people's concerns over Internet privacy a

Anonymous

2000-08-25 Thread Michael Motyka
> To: Multiple recipients of list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: CDR: Re: Black Hoes screw Disney, trample free speech > From: Anonymous <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 17:48:49 -0400 > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Just becau

Re: CDR: Re: Re: family of russion sub victims drugged

2000-08-25 Thread Phaedrus
On Fri, 25 Aug 2000, Phaedrus wrote: > This happens, for certain... I'm not sure if mindfreedom picked it up (I > usually only catch it once or twice a month or so, but it's on my > regularly read list) but within the last few days a woman in Missouri was > being gack! I knew there was somethin

tempest and caves

2000-08-25 Thread Anonymous
http://www.users.skynet.be/avalon/avalonuk/technical/radio1.htm Describes radios that can go through 500 m of rock. (This is not easy with conventional RF; they use an 87 Khz carrier.) Of passing interest for TEMPEST afficionados, it indicates how far certain whispers carry.

Re: Xtians vs. XORtians

2000-08-25 Thread Marcel Popescu
X-Loop: openpgp.net From: "Tim May" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Instead of calling you a Xtian, perhaps I should call you an XORtian. You can call me anything you like, Tim. I am tired of explaining you that words aren't things / actions, together with many other points too subtle for a super-human li

Re: family of russion sub victims drugged

2000-08-25 Thread Marcel Popescu
X-Loop: openpgp.net From: "Tim May" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > (P.S., the Russkies have been drugging their political dissenters for > many decades. "Psychiatric prisons" were and are common over there. I was going to point that out. My first wife had a cousin who was caught trying to (illegally, of

Xtians vs. XORtians

2000-08-25 Thread Tim May
At 9:12 AM -0400 8/25/00, Marcel Popescu wrote: > > > There are many > > well-meaning folks who claim that a "right to decent housing and > > adequate medical care" is a God-given right. Never let the Jesus >> freaks define what rights are.) > >I don't remember that in the Bible. I only rememb

Re: Why Cops and Cypherpunk Meetings Don't Go Together

2000-08-25 Thread Jim Burnes
On Thu, 24 Aug 2000, Tim May wrote: > At 6:26 PM -0400 8/24/00, Matt Elliott wrote: > > >Never let the Jesus freaks define what rights are. > > > >Why? Is there something inherent in believing in Christ Jesus, that makes > >one incapable of rational thought on the issue of rights? > > I never

Re: deriving yarrow test vectors

2000-08-25 Thread Marcel Popescu
X-Loop: openpgp.net From: "David Honig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > You could also use Shannon's formula directly to compute informational > quantity. This might work better for short strings. Can you give me more info on that one? > More appropriate for testing RNG outputs: Ueli Maurer has a > comp

Re: deriving yarrow test vectors

2000-08-25 Thread Eric Murray
On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 09:53:05PM -0400, Adam Back wrote: > > > Tim writes: > > At 3:08 PM -0400 8/24/00, Marcel Popescu wrote: > > > > > >Speaking of which - does anybody have any hints on how to determine the > > >entropy of an input string? > > > [...] > > Traditionally CPRNGs pass this p

FBI admits cellphone gps not for 911

2000-08-25 Thread Anonymous
TMI phones also had to be equipped with geo-positioning technology so the FBI could pinpoint a suspect's location when he made a call. This was crucial, as Deputy Attorney General Eric Holder wrote in a June 14, 1999, letter to FCC Chairman William Kennard. "Finding out that a drug deal, murde

Re: deriving yarrow test vectors

2000-08-25 Thread David Honig
At 06:26 PM 8/24/00 -0400, Tim May wrote: >At 3:08 PM -0400 8/24/00, Marcel Popescu wrote: >> >>Speaking of which - does anybody have any hints on how to determine the >>entropy of an input string? [Needed in Yarrow, and so far I don't know how >>to do it - my implementation multiplies the length

pgp bug forest for the trees?

2000-08-25 Thread Anonymous
At 02:00 AM 8/25/00 -0400, Anonymous wrote: >While many crypto experts intensely bullshit about the importance >of the source code to counter "security through obscurity", it appears >than none really looked at the sources closely. A lot of metallurgists inspected a lot of beams and bolts but the

Re: CDR: source code does nothing for crypto

2000-08-25 Thread sunder
Anonymous wrote: > > Now that the PGP key management "bug" is public, I'd like to comment > on some source code issues and follies. > > The source for versions in question (starting from 5.*) has been available > for more than two years. > > While many crypto experts intensely bullshit about th

Re: Why Cops and Cypherpunk Meetings Don't Go Together

2000-08-25 Thread Marcel Popescu
X-Loop: openpgp.net From: "Tim May" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Had the Second Amendment not been as explicit as it was, guns in the > U.S. would have been heavily regulated and/or confiscated a long, > long time ago. The Second is far from perfect, but history shows that > the Second was a useful dete

Re: deriving yarrow test vectors

2000-08-25 Thread Marcel Popescu
X-Loop: openpgp.net From: "Tim May" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Speaking of which - does anybody have any hints on how to determine the > >entropy of an input string? [Needed in Yarrow, and so far I don't know how > >to do it - my implementation multiplies the length of the input string (in > >bits) w

No Subject

2000-08-25 Thread brflgnk
It was said: -- begin quote -- Now that the PGP key management "bug" is public, I'd like to comment on some source code issues and follies. -- end quote -- The quotes around "bug" are quite appropriate. After reviewing Senderek's paper, I can only conclude that the addition of non-hashed subpac