we are not impressed

2004-06-16 Thread Major Variola (ret)
http://www.modusdata.net/consultants.html We Will Not Be Impressed By: CISSP Security and other Computer Certifications Security Clearances acheived in the military Illegal and Unethical acts perpetrated by you in the past Illegal defacement and intrusion to our webserver(it is not hosted by u

Hiawatha's research

2004-06-16 Thread Jason Holt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 "Hiawatha's Research" Jason Holt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> June, 2004, released into the public domain. Dedicated to Eric Rescorla, with apologies to Longfellow. ("E. Rescorla" may be substituted for "Hiawatha" throughout.) Hiawatha, academic, he could sta

Re: Low-elevation skymapping at 2.45 Ghz

2004-06-16 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 06:03 PM 6/16/04 +0200, Eugen Leitl wrote: >Aperture is tiny (and expensive, exponentially so). Visible wavelength vs. >microwave is a >complete overkill in terms of mirror precision (lambda/10..100). Exactly. I wasn't suggesting using the optical reflector (front surface Al over glass) but ra

Re: Low-elevation skymapping at 2.45 Ghz

2004-06-16 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 10:50:34AM -0400, Tyler Durden wrote: > Do optical mirrors still work in the microwave regime? I have no idea. Aperture is tiny (and expensive, exponentially so). Visible wavelength vs. microwave is a complete overkill in terms of mirror precision (lambda/10..100). Depend

RE: Low-elevation skymapping at 2.45 Ghz

2004-06-16 Thread Tyler Durden
Do optical mirrors still work in the microwave regime? I have no idea. -TD From: "Major Variola (ret)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Low-elevation skymapping at 2.45 Ghz Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 15:09:26 -0700 Telescopes are sold for < $200 which include pr

[IP] Face-Recognition Passports (fwd from dave@farber.net)

2004-06-16 Thread Eugen Leitl
- Forwarded message from David Farber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - From: David Farber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 07:19:28 -0400 To: Ip <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [IP] Face-Recognition Passports X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.618) Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cnn.com/2004/TE

Re: Simplified base64 conversion

2004-06-16 Thread Werner Koch
On Fri, 11 Jun 2004 14:23:18 -0400, An Metet said: > int /* outlen */ > enc64 (char *out, unsigned char *in, int inlen) Please add an argument for the available size of the buffer OUT and check this length while encoding. Over short or long someone will for sure use your function and forget

Low-elevation skymapping at 2.45 Ghz

2004-06-16 Thread Major Variola (ret)
Telescopes are sold for < $200 which include programmable positioning devices (2 axes obvioiusly). I suppose its just a reduction drive and the usual electro-mech-control stuff but it implies a high degree of angular resolution for cheap. Has anyone: 1. ever used the refractor type telescope tube

Re: crypto on *really* cheap hardware

2004-06-16 Thread Peter Gutmann
>I presume most people have by now read Cringely's piece on hacked Linux for >Linksys WRT54G (and clones): > >[...] > >It does VoIP, prioritizes traffic, has currently VPN pass-through and will do >IPsec on future mesh-supporting firmware. You forgot to mention "sometimes it'll stay up for as long

Re: crypto on *really* cheap hardware

2004-06-16 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 01:19:30AM +1200, Peter Gutmann wrote: > You forgot to mention "sometimes it'll stay up for as long as several hours > before crashing/locking up". I guess this is a security feature, if someone > breaks in they'll only be able to use it for a short time before it locks up

Re: Breaking Iranian Codes (Re: CRYPTO-GRAM, June 15, 2003)

2004-06-16 Thread John Ridge Cook
James Bamford is an author of several books, including some of the first on the National Security Agency, the code breakers and signals intelligence operators. He has written a recent book on intelligence manipulation in the run up to the Iraq war. During a radio interview he was asked about the Ir