re: Getting certificates.

2003-09-03 Thread Anonymous via the Cypherpunks Tonga Remailer
On Wed, 3 Sep 2003, James A. Donald wrote: > -- > SSH server public/private keys are widely deployed. PKI public > keys are not. Reason is that each SSH server just whips up its > own keys without asking anyone's permission, or getting any > certificates. > > Outlook and outlook express supp

Re: Getting certificates.

2003-09-03 Thread Dave Howe
> Outlook and outlook express support digital signing and > encryption -- but one must first get a certificate. > > Now what I want is a certificate that merely asserts that the > holder of the certificate can receive email at such and such an > address, and that only one such certificate has been

RE: Random musing about words and spam

2003-09-03 Thread Vincent Penquerc'h
> However, I immediately abandoned the idea, as a quick glance over the > content of my legitimate email - to and from developers, > technical mailing > lists, etc., revealed that almost all of my legitimate email > also contains > seemingly random bits of gibberish and pseudowords. You can stil

Re: Searching for uncopyable key made of sparkles in plastic

2003-09-03 Thread Michael Shields
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Morlock Elloi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anything that regular camera captures the attacker can also capture and > reproduce it for the benefit of the camera. Please read the paper. What's sent is not a picture of the token, but a hash of a picture of the pattern

RE: Random musing about words and spam

2003-09-03 Thread Andrew Thomas
Thomas: > > I must reiterate that, given the relentless efficiency of > > spam-spiders, merely publishing a shadow email address on all web > > documents that your real email address reside on, and deleting all > > email sent to both accounts is my current favorite anti-spam > > mechanism. Sim

Random musing about words and spam

2003-09-03 Thread Thomas Shaddack
Spammers recently adopted tactics of using randomly generated words, eg. "wryqf", in both the subject and the body of the message. These "pseudowords" are random, which makes them different from real words that are made of syllables. Could the pseudowords be easily detected by their characteristic

Re: Searching for uncopyable key made of sparkles in plastic

2003-09-03 Thread Morlock Elloi
> Several months ago, I read about someone who was making a key that > was difficult if not "impossible" to copy. They mixed sparkly things > into a plastic resin and let them set. A camera would take a picture This boils down to difficulty of faking the analog interface. Anything that regular

Re: Random musing about words and spam

2003-09-03 Thread Thomas Shaddack
On Wed, 3 Sep 2003, John Kozubik wrote: > Try to write the logic that distinguishes this: > > if_gre in the tree passes the mbuf to netisr_dispatch(), which in turn > calls if_handoff(), which does something similar. > > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > from this: > > dyeiluykxoer dyeiluykcqkutknig dyeiluyk

Re: Random musing about words and spam

2003-09-03 Thread John Kozubik
Hello, On Wed, 3 Sep 2003, Thomas Shaddack wrote: > Spammers recently adopted tactics of using randomly generated words, eg. > "wryqf", in both the subject and the body of the message. These > "pseudowords" are random, which makes them different from real words that > are made of syllables. > > C

Re: JAP back doored

2003-09-03 Thread Adam Shostack
On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 12:47:34PM -0700, Steve Schear wrote: | http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/jk-02.09.03-005/ | | German police have searched and seized the rooms (dorm?) of one of the JAP | developers. They were on the look for data that was logged throughout the | period when JAP had t