Re: [fc-discuss] Financial Cryptography Update: On Digital Cash-like Payment Systems

2005-10-21 Thread R. Hirschfeld
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 11:31:39 -0700 From: cyphrpunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2. Cash payments are final. After the fact, the paying party has no means to reverse the payment. We call this property of cash transactions _irreversibility_. Certainly Chaum ecash has this property. Because

Re: [fc-discuss] Financial Cryptography Update: On Digital Cash-like Payment Systems

2005-10-21 Thread R. Hirschfeld
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 11:31:39 -0700 From: cyphrpunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2. Cash payments are final. After the fact, the paying party has no means to reverse the payment. We call this property of cash transactions _irreversibility_. Certainly Chaum ecash has this property. Because

Re: Firm invites experts to punch holes in ballot software

2004-04-08 Thread R. Hirschfeld
Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2004 15:42:47 -0400 From: Ian Grigg [EMAIL PROTECTED] It seems to me that the requirement for after-the-vote verification (to prove your vote was counted) clashes rather directly with the requirement to protect voters from coercion (I can't prove I voted in a particular

Re: Firm invites experts to punch holes in ballot software

2004-04-08 Thread R. Hirschfeld
Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2004 15:42:47 -0400 From: Ian Grigg [EMAIL PROTECTED] It seems to me that the requirement for after-the-vote verification (to prove your vote was counted) clashes rather directly with the requirement to protect voters from coercion (I can't prove I voted in a particular

Re: Thanks, Lucky, for helping to kill gnutella

2002-08-11 Thread R. Hirschfeld
Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2002 16:42:52 +0200 (CEST) From: Eugen Leitl [EMAIL PROTECTED] Calling Lucky a liar is no more illuminating than others calling you an idiot. You're confusing a classification for an argument. The argument is over. You can read it up in the archives. If you think

Re: Thanks, Lucky, for helping to kill gnutella

2002-08-10 Thread R. Hirschfeld
Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2002 20:25:40 -0700 From: AARG!Anonymous [EMAIL PROTECTED] Right, as if my normal style has been so effective. Not one person has given me the least support in my efforts to explain the truth about TCPA and Palladium. Hal, I think you were right on when you wrote: But

Re: Challenge to TCPA/Palladium detractors

2002-08-10 Thread R. Hirschfeld
Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2002 19:30:09 -0700 From: AARG!Anonymous [EMAIL PROTECTED] Re the debate over whether compilers reliably produce identical object (executable) files: The measurement and hashing in TCPA/Palladium will probably not be done on the file itself, but on the executable content

Re: Thanks, Lucky, for helping to kill gnutella

2002-08-10 Thread R. Hirschfeld
Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2002 20:25:40 -0700 From: AARG!Anonymous [EMAIL PROTECTED] Right, as if my normal style has been so effective. Not one person has given me the least support in my efforts to explain the truth about TCPA and Palladium. Hal, I think you were right on when you wrote: But

Re: Challenge to TCPA/Palladium detractors

2002-08-10 Thread R. Hirschfeld
Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2002 19:30:09 -0700 From: AARG!Anonymous [EMAIL PROTECTED] Re the debate over whether compilers reliably produce identical object (executable) files: The measurement and hashing in TCPA/Palladium will probably not be done on the file itself, but on the executable content

Re: Challenge to TCPA/Palladium detractors

2002-08-08 Thread R. Hirschfeld
Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2002 12:50:29 -0700 From: AARG!Anonymous [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'd like the Palladium/TCPA critics to offer an alternative proposal for achieving the following technical goal: Allow computers separated on the internet to cooperate and share data and computations such

Re: Challenge to TCPA/Palladium detractors

2002-08-08 Thread R. Hirschfeld
Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 21:55:40 +0200 From: R. Hirschfeld [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2002 12:50:29 -0700 From: AARG!Anonymous [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'd like the Palladium/TCPA critics to offer an alternative proposal for achieving the following technical goal: Allow

Re: dangers of TCPA/palladium

2002-08-08 Thread R. Hirschfeld
Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2002 16:25:26 -0700 From: AARG!Anonymous [EMAIL PROTECTED] The only way that TCPA will become as popular as you fear is if it really solves problems for people. Otherwise nobody will pay the extra $25 to put it in their machine. Although I support the

Re: Challenge to TCPA/Palladium detractors

2002-08-08 Thread R. Hirschfeld
Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2002 12:50:29 -0700 From: AARG!Anonymous [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'd like the Palladium/TCPA critics to offer an alternative proposal for achieving the following technical goal: Allow computers separated on the internet to cooperate and share data and computations such

Re: Challenge to TCPA/Palladium detractors

2002-08-08 Thread R. Hirschfeld
Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 21:55:40 +0200 From: R. Hirschfeld [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2002 12:50:29 -0700 From: AARG!Anonymous [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'd like the Palladium/TCPA critics to offer an alternative proposal for achieving the following technical goal: Allow

Re: Challenge to David Wagner on TCPA

2002-08-01 Thread R. Hirschfeld
From: James A. Donald [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 20:51:24 -0700 On 29 Jul 2002 at 15:35, AARG! Anonymous wrote: both Palladium and TCPA deny that they are designed to restrict what applications you run. The TPM FAQ at