Sorry, I didn't bother reading the first message, and I won't bother reading
any of the messages further in this thread either. Kong lacks critical
functionality, and is fatally insecure for a wide variety of uses, in short
it is beyond worthless, ranging into being a substantial risk to the
securi
"Prior to that, the encrypted email I've sent in the past year or so has
almost always failed, because of version incompatibilities,"
While in Telecom I was auditing optical transport gear, and we adopted the
practice of encrypting all of our audit reports to vendors. Of course, the
chance of t
On Saturday, November 2, 2002, at 08:01 PM, Tyler Durden wrote:
"Prior to that, the encrypted email I've sent in the past year or so
has almost always failed, because of version incompatibilities,"
While in Telecom I was auditing optical transport gear, and we adopted
the practice of encrypti
List:
This Is Gloucestershire has published an interesting little series of
articles commemorating the GCHQ 50 years anniversary. The articles can be
found at:
http://www.thisisgloucestershire.co.uk/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=110560&command=newModule&sourceNode=84282
Yours
Bo Elkjaer, Denmark
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Joseph Ashwood:
> > > > So it's going to be broken by design. These are
> > > > critical errors that will eliminate any semblance of
> > > > security in your program.
James A. Donald:
> > > I challenge you to fool my canonicalization algorithm by
> > > modifying a message to as to chan
On Saturday 02 November 2002 06:38 pm, Major Variola (ret) wrote:
> Around a year ago a small private jet lost contact over the US. A jet
> was
> dispatched, saw iced windows, no response to signals. The plane was on
> autopilot, eventually crashed
> in the middle of nowhere. The passengers/pilo
At 09:37 PM 11/2/02 -0800, Tim May wrote:
>When I was at Intel we sent our designs for microprocessors to European
>branches and/or partners. One set of designs sent to MATRA/Harris, a
>partner in the 80C86, was stolen in transit. (The box of tapes arrived
>in Paris, but the tapes had been replace
On Sat, 2 Nov 2002, Tim May wrote:
> PK crypto has made a lot of things a lot easier, but expecting it all
> to work with a click of a button is naive. Of course, most of us don't
> actually have secrets which make protocols and efforts justifiable.
> There's the rub.
I expect it to work with the
On Sunday 03 November 2002 12:53, Len Sassaman wrote:
> On Sat, 2 Nov 2002, Tim May wrote:
> > PK crypto has made a lot of things a lot easier, but expecting it
> > all to work with a click of a button is naive. Of course, most of
> > us don't actually have secrets which make protocols and efforts
On Sunday, November 3, 2002, at 07:41 AM, Neil Johnson wrote:
On Saturday 02 November 2002 06:38 pm, Major Variola (ret) wrote:
Around a year ago a small private jet lost contact over the US. A jet
was
dispatched, saw iced windows, no response to signals. The plane was
on
autopilot, eventual
On Sun, Nov 03, 2002 at 11:23:36AM -0800, Tim May wrote:
| I think most users, even casual ones, would accept this advice:
|
| "Look, encrypted text is just a rearrangement of text. Compose your
| message in whatever editor or word processor you want, apply the
| encryption directly to that text
On Sun, Nov 03, 2002 at 12:41:11PM -0800, Tim May wrote:
| To expand on this point a bit, I suspect one of the main reasons people
| who once used PGP stop using it, either privately or at corporations
| (as we have heard folks here testify about), is because something
| changes and things "brea
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1
On Sunday, November 3, 2002, at 10:29 AM, Steve Furlong wrote:
>
> Agreed. Setup should be pretty simple, but daily use for the unwashed
> masses has to be one-click. And version compatibility problems have
> _got_ to disappear. Actually, PGP's Outl
On Sunday, November 3, 2002, at 12:19 PM, Tim May wrote:
As with the situation a decade ago, there are:
* several OSes in use (2-3 in Wintel world, 2 in Mac world, plus
outliers)
* various release versions of each
* about 5-8 major mail programs covering these platforms
* about 3-5 major newsrea
"New PCs Likely to Cede Some Control
Sun Nov 3, 1:58 PM ET
By MATTHEW FORDAHL, AP Technology Writer
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) - To thwart hackers and foster online commerce,
the next generation of computers will almost certainly cede some
control to software firms, Hollywood and other outsiders.
FWIW
In the Si biz, its quite common to encrypt files. I've
seen (albeit lame, and with guessable passwords)
zip encryption and the classic crypt used.
Between engineers, and between lawyers and engineers.
Typically the encrypted info is an attachment to unencrypted
email (often describing its co
On Sunday, November 3, 2002, at 06:14 PM, David W. Hodgins wrote:
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
The advantages really disappear, when the key used to sign the
message
isn't sent to the key servers {:.
Those who need to know, know.
You, I've never seen before. Even if you found my key
On Sunday 03 November 2002 17:17, Thoenen, Peter Mr. EPS wrote:
> Tried emailing direct but bounced so apologize to the list for the OT
> content :)
> > -Original Message-
> > From: Major Variola (ret) [mailto:mv@;cdc.gov]
Peter, you might want to google on "variola major" (not "major
va
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Hash: SHA1
On Sunday, November 3, 2002, at 09:53 AM, Len Sassaman wrote:
> What's naive is trying to ram such products down the public's
> collective
> throat. Cryptographic solutions are not of "all or nothing" strength. I
> don't know why UI hasn't been the
At 09:36 AM 11/3/2002 -0800, "Major Variola (ret)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
There exists a website by someone who enjoyed sending unusual things
through the US mail. He once sent a brick, with proper postage,
no envelope.
Some friends used to wrap up bricks and returned them to companies they
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
The advantages really disappear, when the key used to sign the
message
isn't sent to the key servers {:.
Regards, Dave Hodgins.
Tim May wrote:
>
> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
>
> (P.S. I'm going to do something I don't often do: sign a post.
> Reasons
Tried emailing direct but bounced so apologize to the list for the OT
content :)
You don't happen to have the url do you? Think it would make an amusing
read.
-Peter
> -Original Message-
> From: Major Variola (ret) [mailto:mv@;cdc.gov]
> Sent: Sunday, November 03, 2002 18:37
> To: [EMAI
One solution that would work:
1. keep the text paradigm - cyphertext is just a text for everyone involved.
2. Extract encrypt/decrypt functionality into a device (D) with longer lifetime
than OS/MUA/hw combo (C).
(2) assumes text interface between (C) and (D). (D) could be a PDA that can OCR
com
<--smax self :)
> -Original Message-
> From: Steve Furlong [mailto:sfurlong@;acmenet.net]
> Sent: Sunday, November 03, 2002 23:28
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Sending bricks through the mail
>
>
> On Sunday 03 November 2002 17:17, Thoenen, Peter Mr. EPS wrote:
> > Tried emailin
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