I mean, if I, as the prosecution, don't have to reveal to the court how I decrypted the "evidence", doesn't that give me just a wee bit too much power?
I wonder if that part would stand up to Supreme Court review?
They (the studios) didn't have to file a patent. All that has to happen is to show that the idea was in circulation prior to the patent, and the patent is therefore shown to be non-original and thus invalid.
We still need to keep an eye out, to make sure that some elements of the administration don't try to sneak in some kind of compromise (escrowed keys, for instance).
Think about it. This is probably used to communicate with many different agents, all of whom would use different codes. If it were a OTP, how do you know where your message begins except by attempting decoding at every point? Too tedious.
Simple actually: My messages will always start at 12 minutes past every even hour (UTC), and the first three letters will always decode to 'NNN'. If I start decoding at the appropriate time and the letters don't match, it wasn't for me.
The www.dotcomnow.com site, which when I bookmarked it this morning took me to the login page, now takes me to an introduction & signup page. The original login seems to have vanished. There are now 3 different free mail domains (dotmail.com nsimail.com mymailbag.com) each with the same form, and when I try to use the id and password that worked this morning, they don't work now.
I may be missing something obvious here, but why for crying out loud can't people use PGP (or even the new GPG)? They are available free worldwide without any export restrictions (see PGPi.com and gnupg.org) and are many times stronger than standard 128-bit stuff.
No, they're not. The 1024 or 2047 bit RSA key is only used once, to set up a 128 bit key to do the actual message encryption (ref ftp://ftp.pgpi.org/pub/pgp/6.0/docs/IntroToCrypto. pdf, bottom of page 33). You don't bother trying to crack the RSA key, you go after the IDEA key. The disadvantage is that you have a different IDEA key for each message.
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Yes. It's either a tape recording or now computer generated, but it's definitely a human voice. The numbers are usually in Spanish.
Nope, because you did not sign a contract with Sony. You might get sued by them (cf: Hasbro vs. Clue Computing over clue.com), but as long as you're not impinging on their trademark area of business (music), you should be fine.
A contract is an agreement between two parties. If you didn't sign the contract, then you're not part of the agreement.
Bush made a lot of noise in September by announcing that he'd list every campaign contribution received on his new website (www.georgebush.com), but he's about as interactive as a concrete piling.
Bush did put the contribution list on his site, but it's in a few big pages - about 1600K of text each. And it's in Acrobat, which makes it harder to import into a database.
Well, for a view that is both Linux-oriented and somewhat entertaining, see My Linux Y2K Page. It actually cites some ancient legislation of hundreds of years ago...
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Bernoulli's principle still applies, even after the apocalypse.
Sure, but if the fly-by-wire control systems decide to flip out, it doesn't matter if the wings are generating lift or not.
I'm not too worried either, but I can't come to Mexico - the company has commanded all computer people be less than 4 hours away in order to respond in the event of a problem.
My biggest fear is the religious extremists deciding to go out with a bang.
Of course, that would be the dumb extremists, since most biblical scholars have found that the calculations for the date of Christ's birth are off by about 4 years, so the real millenium (for the Christian calendar, anyway) happened in 1996.
The 9/9/99 problem was way overblown. Most of the programs I was familiar with actually used a flag like 99/99/99, and September 9th would look more like 09/09/99.
April 9 was the 99th day of 1999. Some systems, in order to make sorting easier, use year number and day number: Jan 1, 1999 would be 99001, Jan 2 would be 99002, etc. The fear was that April 9 would look like 9999 and cause problems. That was a bogus worry, since it would really show up as 99099.
Yeah right, that's what they said about cancer 30 years ago too.
I advise you to do a little research. Cancer is a lot more treatable now than it was 30 years ago. It's not a completely solved problem, but it's getting there.
I just assumed that there was something about the human bio-energy field that the robots wanted. It wasn't just energy, but something about the human aura.
That's ok, it's just willing suspension of disbelief in action.
According to corporate law, if someone can prove that you don't enforce your trademark, it becomes dilluted and your right to use it is weakened.
This is only partially true. A trademark is limited in scope - usually to a particular area of trade. There can be no infringement outside of this area (with the exception of well-known marks). The classic example in the U.S. is "Delta". I can think of three right now - Delta Airlines, Delta Faucets, and Delta Dental (insurance). Despite the use of the same name, these three do NOT conflict as far as trademarks go.
Well-known marks would include something like McDonalds, which covers so much ground that McAnything is going to have a problem (yes, I know about the McDonalds in Scotland, and there have been court cases in the U.K. about this very issue.)
Hasbro is throwing its weight around. Based strictly on trademark law, I'd expect Hasbro to lose the appeals, since 'Clue' is not a well-known mark, and there's no significant cross-over between areas of trade. I just hope that Clue Computing can hang in there for the rest of the proceedings.
A few, not many. There are some trivial ones (video stores cannot release records of your rentals, for example). The medical ones are amusing - you have to sign a form releasing your medical history every time you do anything (presumably to let insurance companies pass it around), but you aren't allowed to look at it. Credit companies hand out their records with reckless abandon. The Government thinks privacy should be driving by initatives of industry, which to my mind is like putting the fox in charge of the hens (witness the conflict between the European data privacy laws and the U.S).
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I wonder if that part would stand up to Supreme Court review?
...phil
Or you could follow the links at www.senate.gov and bypass the middleman.
...phil
RSA does not hold a patent on DES. DH key exchange, yes.
...phil
They (the studios) didn't have to file a patent. All that has to happen is to show that the idea was in circulation prior to the patent, and the patent is therefore shown to be non-original and thus invalid.
...phil
We still need to keep an eye out, to make sure that some elements of the administration don't try to sneak in some kind of compromise (escrowed keys, for instance).
...phil
There's a site that discusses this very question, but the link's on my home PC and I'm at work now. Check again later.
...phil
Simple actually: My messages will always start at 12 minutes past every even hour (UTC), and the first three letters will always decode to 'NNN'. If I start decoding at the appropriate time and the letters don't match, it wasn't for me.
...phil
The www.dotcomnow.com site, which when I bookmarked it this morning took me to the login page, now takes me to an introduction & signup page. The original login seems to have vanished. There are now 3 different free mail domains (dotmail.com nsimail.com mymailbag.com) each with the same form, and when I try to use the id and password that worked this morning, they don't work now.
...phil
No, they're not. The 1024 or 2047 bit RSA key is only used once, to set up a 128 bit key to do the actual message encryption (ref ftp://ftp.pgpi.org/pub/pgp/6.0/docs/IntroToCrypto. pdf, bottom of page 33). You don't bother trying to crack the RSA key, you go after the IDEA key. The disadvantage is that you have a different IDEA key for each message.
...phil
Yes. It's either a tape recording or now computer generated, but it's definitely a human voice. The numbers are usually in Spanish.
...phil
A contract is an agreement between two parties. If you didn't sign the contract, then you're not part of the agreement.
...phil
Bush did put the contribution list on his site, but it's in a few big pages - about 1600K of text each. And it's in Acrobat, which makes it harder to import into a database.
...phil
...that Visio would get a dancing paper clip?
...phil
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...phil
Sure, but if the fly-by-wire control systems decide to flip out, it doesn't matter if the wings are generating lift or not.
I'm not too worried either, but I can't come to Mexico - the company has commanded all computer people be less than 4 hours away in order to respond in the event of a problem.
...phil
Of course, that would be the dumb extremists, since most biblical scholars have found that the calculations for the date of Christ's birth are off by about 4 years, so the real millenium (for the Christian calendar, anyway) happened in 1996.
...phil
The 9/9/99 problem was way overblown. Most of the programs I was familiar with actually used a flag like 99/99/99, and September 9th would look more like 09/09/99.
...phil
April 9 was the 99th day of 1999. Some systems, in order to make sorting easier, use year number and day number: Jan 1, 1999 would be 99001, Jan 2 would be 99002, etc. The fear was that April 9 would look like 9999 and cause problems. That was a bogus worry, since it would really show up as 99099.
...phil
I advise you to do a little research. Cancer is a lot more treatable now than it was 30 years ago. It's not a completely solved problem, but it's getting there.
...phil
That's ok, it's just willing suspension of disbelief in action.
...phil
This is only partially true. A trademark is limited in scope - usually to a particular area of trade. There can be no infringement outside of this area (with the exception of well-known marks). The classic example in the U.S. is "Delta". I can think of three right now - Delta Airlines, Delta Faucets, and Delta Dental (insurance). Despite the use of the same name, these three do NOT conflict as far as trademarks go.
Well-known marks would include something like McDonalds, which covers so much ground that McAnything is going to have a problem (yes, I know about the McDonalds in Scotland, and there have been court cases in the U.K. about this very issue.)
Hasbro is throwing its weight around. Based strictly on trademark law, I'd expect Hasbro to lose the appeals, since 'Clue' is not a well-known mark, and there's no significant cross-over between areas of trade. I just hope that Clue Computing can hang in there for the rest of the proceedings.
...phil
Sure, if by 'big enough' you include all the matter in the known universe to build it. Better go reread Applied Cryptography.
...phil
Not just CNN. CNet, Ziff-Davis, CMP (InfoWorld) and Wired are all apparently reading /., as are some of the more esoteric trade rags.
...phil
Everybody starts out as an amateur. Bruce Schneier isn't an amateur any more.
...phil
A few, not many. There are some trivial ones (video stores cannot release records of your rentals, for example). The medical ones are amusing - you have to sign a form releasing your medical history every time you do anything (presumably to let insurance companies pass it around), but you aren't allowed to look at it. Credit companies hand out their records with reckless abandon. The Government thinks privacy should be driving by initatives of industry, which to my mind is like putting the fox in charge of the hens (witness the conflict between the European data privacy laws and the U.S).
...phil