Re: Yodels, new anonymous e-currency

2002-11-12 Thread Alan Barrett
On Tue, 12 Nov 2002, Nomen Nescio wrote: According to this link, http://www.infoanarchy.org/?op=displaystory;sid=2002/11/11/4183/2039, a new form of digital cash called yodels is being offered anonymously: [...] Supposedly, then, this is cash which can be transferred anonymously via IIP or

Re: The End of the Golden Age of Crypto

2002-11-12 Thread Eric Cordian
Tim wrote: It would be nice to have crypto systems based on at least problems which have been shown to be NP-complete. Even here, one has to be careful. The knapsack cryptosystem, based on the NP-Complete problem Subset Sum, crashed and burned spectacularly a number of years back. The

Re: Yodels, new anonymous e-currency

2002-11-12 Thread James A. Donald
-- On 12 Nov 2002 at 8:50, Nomen Nescio wrote: According to this link, http://www.infoanarchy.org/?op=displaystory;sid=2002/11/11/4183/2039, a new form of digital cash called yodels is being offered anonymously: [...] Supposedly, then, this is cash which can be transferred

Re: Yodels, new anonymous e-currency

2002-11-12 Thread James A. Donald
-- On Tue, 12 Nov 2002, Nomen Nescio wrote: According to this link, http://www.infoanarchy.org/?op=displaystory;sid=2002/11/11/4183/2039 a new form of digital cash called yodels is being offered anonymously: On 12 Nov 2002 at 7:31, Steve Schear wrote: Correct they are a bearer

Re: The End of the Golden Age of Crypto

2002-11-12 Thread Peter Fairbrother
Tyler Durden wrote: (I believe that the non-existence of the last prime number is also unprovable.) Could you give some details/ a ref please? The usual proof by contradiction is easy and well-known. Suppose there is a last prime. Generate a list of all the primes sooner than or equal to the

Re: The End of the Golden Age of Crypto

2002-11-12 Thread Tyler Durden
Look, I have no idea what your background is, beyond the fact that you're new to the list and are obviously neither Edward Norton nor Brad Pitt. I suggest you take a look at some of the books on algorithms, especially the Harel book. Garey and Johnson is the classic on NP-completeness, but it's

Codetalking, private business, harassment, EEOC, freedom of speech/association

2002-11-12 Thread Major Variola (ret)
of the United States. The suit was the first filed by the EEOC to involve a Native American language. snip http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20021112-044422-7977r [Libscoop: since neither employers nor employees should be coerced, the employers can morally require what they want, and the employees

Re: The End of the Golden Age of Crypto

2002-11-12 Thread Tim May
On Tuesday, November 12, 2002, at 11:04 AM, Tim May wrote: (There are famous examples of using Hamiltonian cycles for giving zero knowledge proofs. I wrote one up here for the list about 10 years ago...it may be findable by searching on the right keywords. But using one of the NP-complete

Re: Hollings loss is our gain

2002-11-12 Thread Declan McCullagh
Unless something really strange happens, McCain takes over the commerce committee. He's not as bad as Hollings on DRM, which is damming with faint praise, but hardly laissez-faire in general. He was one of the backers of the change-stock-options-accounting bill, quick to campaign against social