Re: [303] If you're sick of crypto talk don't read this (fwd)

2002-04-16 Thread Morlock Elloi
> at the time but perhaps others. One might imagine, in the > paranoid spirit of good cryptologists, that the release was > intended to divert attention away from X, for example, to > encourage public trust in PK as with the Germans and > Enigma. This is probably the sanest method of estimating c

Re: [303] If you're sick of crypto talk don't read this (fwd)

2002-04-16 Thread Morlock Elloi
> What is peculiar about the rejoinders to Lucky's sensible proposal > is the dismissal of it with elaborate affirmations of mathematical > surety, as if there has not been voluminous warnings to never > rely on mathematical surety when weaknesses are far more > likely to be found in the faulty im

Re: Supremes Legalize Virtual Kiddieporn

2002-04-16 Thread keyser-soze
[Considering what a hot button this topic has become its a bit surprising that the robbed ones kept this aspect of the 1st intact. It should be interesting to if Congress can craft a new reg which can pass muster. Meanwhile, look for "pedo" computer games to appear.] April 16, 2002 Supreme C

Schneier on Bernstein factoring machine (fwd)

2002-04-16 Thread Jim Choate
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 20:44:06 +0200 (CEST) From: Anonymous <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Schneier on Bernstein factoring machine Bruce Schneier writes in the April 15, 2002, CRYPTO-GRAM, http://www.counterpane.com/crypto-gram-0204.ht

in club we trust (fwd)

2002-04-16 Thread Jim Choate
[SSZ: This is funny...don't have a clue where the quote came from.] Subject: in club we trust "If the IRS cuts down on its audits and enforcement, more people are going to say, 'The IRS isn't out there with a club, so we can do anything we want,'" warns Congressman Amo Houghton (R-New York), "

Re: [303] If you're sick of crypto talk don't read this (fwd)

2002-04-16 Thread John Young
Morlock wrote: >So do not easily dismiss possibility that someone may not care about >implementation vulnerabilities at all, as long as cyphertext is available. Agreed that there may well be ways to access cyphertext that does not attack its crypto-mathematical shield, which could indeed be prac

[303] If you're sick of crypto talk don't read this (fwd)

2002-04-16 Thread measl
Just to add to the saga... -- Yours, J.A. Terranson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Forwarded message -- Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 09:47:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Person <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [303] If you're sick of crypto talk don't read this Quote from http://www.rsasecurity.com/rsala

Re: [303] If you're sick of crypto talk don't read this (fwd)

2002-04-16 Thread John Young
What is peculiar about the rejoinders to Lucky's sensible proposal is the dismissal of it with elaborate affirmations of mathematical surety, as if there has not been voluminous warnings to never rely on mathematical surety when weaknesses are far more likely to be found in the faulty implementati

Re: [303] If you're sick of crypto talk don't read this (fwd)

2002-04-16 Thread Mike Rosing
On Tue, 16 Apr 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > -- Forwarded message -- > Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 09:47:02 -0700 (PDT) > From: Person <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [303] If you're sick of crypto talk don't read this > > > Quote from > http://www.rsasecurity.com/rsalabs/technot

Re: Supremes Legalize Virtual Kiddieporn

2002-04-16 Thread Eric Cordian
DCF writes: > According to WABC at 10:30, the Supremem Court overturned the ban on > virtual or morphed kiddie porn. I'm sure the child sex whackos in Congress will immediately craft a new law designed to pass Constitutional muster. Does this wipe out all those state laws which criminalize tex

Supremes Legalize Virtual Kiddieporn

2002-04-16 Thread Duncan Frissell
According to WABC at 10:30, the Supremem Court overturned the ban on virtual or morphed kiddie porn. DCF