Austin Cpunks - Oct. 10 Physical Meeting

2002-09-30 Thread Jim Choate
Time:Oct. 10, 2002 Second Tuesday of each month 7:00 - 9:00 pm (or later) Location:Central Market HEB Cafe 38th and N. Lamar Weather permitting we meet in the un-covered tables.

Re: Random Privacy

2002-09-30 Thread Julian Assange
This is an old statistical technique. You need to know ahead of time which answer is more likely and have a bias in your randomizer. A classic example: Did you cheat on your wife last year? If you were born between January and September reverse your answer. -- Julian Assange

RE: smartcards

2002-09-30 Thread Trei, Peter
Steve Thompson[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: I'm surprised that nobody has mentioned cell-phones as a digital cash platform. Perhaps this belabours the obvious, but I'll spell it out anyways: o They are ubiquitous. o Most of them have an IR port and many contain enough storage

Re: smartcards

2002-09-30 Thread James A. Donald
-- On 30 Jan 2050 at 32:210, Steve Thompson wrote: I'm surprised that nobody has mentioned cell-phones as a digital cash platform.[] The problem is that phone software is (to my knowledge) all closed-source and running on proprietary hardware. What's the liklihood of manufacturers

What email encryption is actually in use?

2002-09-30 Thread James A. Donald
-- What email encryption is actually in use? When I get a PGP encrypted message, I usually cannot read it -- it is sent to my dud key or something somehow goes wrong. When I send a PGP encrypted message in reply, stating the problem, I seldom receive an answer, suggesting that the

Re: smartcards

2002-09-30 Thread Steve Thompson
Quoting James A. Donald ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): -- James A. Donald: When Chaumian money comes into wide use, I think that for most end users we will have to stash all unused tokens inside smartcards. Someone: Here in Hong Kong, contactless Octopus smartcards (based on the Sony

Re: Anyone can get a clearance these days...

2002-09-30 Thread Bill Stewart
At 09:38 AM 09/27/2002 -0400, Adam Shostack wrote: The US Government has mistakenly given secret documents to the only man charged so far in connection with the 11 September attacks, Zacarias Moussaoui. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/2284325.stm That wasn't because they gave him a security

Re: What email encryption is actually in use?

2002-09-30 Thread Petro
On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 12:53:36PM -0700, Joseph Ashwood wrote: - Original Message - From: James A. Donald [EMAIL PROTECTED] The chief barrier to use of outlook's email encryption, aside from the fact that is broken, is the intolerable cost and inconvenience of certificate

Re: What email encryption is actually in use?

2002-09-30 Thread Joseph Ashwood
- Original Message - From: James A. Donald [EMAIL PROTECTED] What email encryption is actually in use? In my experience PGP is the most used. When I get a PGP encrypted message, I usually cannot read it -- it is sent to my dud key or something somehow goes wrong. Then you are

Re: What email encryption is actually in use?

2002-09-30 Thread Morlock Elloi
What email encryption is actually in use? PGP 2.6.*, 6.* 7.* work like a charm across macs windoze unices provided that one specs RSA-legacy keys and limit algo to IDEA. In other words, be 2.6.2 compatible. If you need encryption, that is. If you don't need encryption (like in They Will Not

What email encryption is actually in use?

2002-09-30 Thread James A. Donald
-- James A. Donald: We have tools to construct any certificates we damn well please, Joseph Ashwood: The same applies everywhere, in fact in your beloved Kong, the situation is worse because the identities can't be managed. You are unfamiliar with Kong. The situation is better,