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Complexity classes P and NP - Wikipedia (fwd)
by Jim Choate 24 May '03

24 May '03

http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complexity_classes_P_and_NP -- ____________________________________________________________________ We are all interested in the future for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. Criswell, "Plan 9 from Outer Space" ravage(a)ssz.com jchoate(a)open-forge.org www.ssz.com www.open-forge.org --------------------------------------------------------------------

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CNN.com - Proposed law: $500 per unwanted spam - May. 24, 2003 (fwd)
by Jim Choate 24 May '03

24 May '03

http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet/05/24/spam.bill.reut/index.html -- ____________________________________________________________________ We are all interested in the future for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. Criswell, "Plan 9 from Outer Space" ravage(a)ssz.com jchoate(a)open-forge.org www.ssz.com www.open-forge.org --------------------------------------------------------------------

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BBC monitoring Internet censorship in China (fwd)
by Jim Choate 24 May '03

24 May '03

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=9659 -- ____________________________________________________________________ We are all interested in the future for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. Criswell, "Plan 9 from Outer Space" ravage(a)ssz.com jchoate(a)open-forge.org www.ssz.com www.open-forge.org --------------------------------------------------------------------

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Why I Could Never Be a Lawyer
by Tim May 24 May '03

24 May '03

Or, rather, why I would likely do poorly in law school, and even if I managed to pass, would likely hate the kinds of b.s. little trials that 99% of lawyers have to work on to earn a living. In writing that last mini-rant about the Second Amendment and the "incorporation doctrine" and why the courts have not made it clear that states may not violate the Second any more than they may violate the First or the Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, etc., I realized something expressed by this analogy: memorizing baroque law:understanding principles of systems :: memorizing baroque Unix and security protocols:understanding physics and math. In English, the talent for being able to memorize a lot of often confusing and contradictory law is related to the talent for being interested in basic economic or system principles in the same way that the talent for understanding arcane Unix and security protocols is related to the talent for understanding math or physics. I confess, I'm not a "Unix geek." I skip most messages which talk about SSL, DNS, and the intricacies of Linux or BSD or the like. More and more "security" and crypto seems to be about this kind of stuff. It reminds me a lot of the law, where one just has to absorb thousands of cases and bits of "lore" about precedents and statutes. I would bog down, I expect, in not being able to simultaneously grok the Bill of Rights AND the aforementioned "incorporation doctrine" mess. Also, unlike many in the law business (at least as I see them being interviewed on video and in print), I don't see any "majesty" in the law. What I see instead is a massive deviation from the "kernel" of a largely self-running machine based on core (kernel) principles of "you leave me alone and I'll leave you alone" kinds of Schelling points. The law has become a baroque collection of "buttinsky" exceptions and mix-ins and overrides. (A mess of "before" and "after" methods, in Lisp terms.) Now I don't mean to insult any of those here who can write learnedly about the Unix-flavored hacks and about all nine layers of TCP/IP (or is TCP/IP just one of the layers of some other byzantine cake? I never bothered to learn the equivalent of "King Philip Could Only Find Good Strawberries"--Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species. The world needs all kinds. And right now, security and crypto seems to be mostly about knowing lots and lots of pieces of cruft. I surmise that the same skills--including the ability to absorb seemingly unrelated and even contradictory bits of stuff--useful for programmers are useful for lawyers. Which may be why several current or former Cypherpunks have become lawyers or are in law school. Gaak! And GAK! Two sayings appeal to me more: "Never memorize anything you can look up." --Einstein. "Think deeply about simple things." --motto of Ross Summer School, quoted often by physicist and mathematician John Baez. --Tim May "Stupidity is not a sin, the victim can't help being stupid. But stupidity is the only universal crime; the sentence is death, there is no appeal, and execution is carried out automatically and without pity." --Robert A. Heinlein

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Publishing Pork Data Decriminalized
by Eric Cordian 24 May '03

24 May '03

Regarding the ongoing "Justicefiles.org" brou-ha-ha. http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/123525_info24.html ----- Saturday, May 24, 2003 Judge: State silenced dissent He strikes down law banning publication of personal info on police By CANDACE HECKMAN SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTER A federal judge has struck down a new state law that banned the publication of such personal information about police, corrections and court officers as their home addresses and Social Security numbers without their permission. ... -- Eric Michael Cordian 0+ O:.T:.O:. Mathematical Munitions Division "Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be The Whole Of The Law"

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8-bit modular exponentiation code?
by Major Variola (ret.) 24 May '03

24 May '03

Anyone know of any open-source modexp code for 8-bit cpus? TIA

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Re: Followup -- encrypted hard drive enclosure for $139
by pgut001＠cs.auckland.ac.nz 24 May '03

24 May '03

Declan McCullagh <declan(a)well.com> writes: >The TDES engine offers the same throughput as that of DES engine as we have >engineered the pipeline design such that performance isn't degraded on TDES. >The only difference is the start up latency. The start up latency for X-Wall >SE-64A is 90 nano second and for X-Wall SE-128A is 270 nano second. The suspicion when this was discussed after the RSA conference was that, based on performance figures, they were doing something like using 3 DES engines and pushing 3 different blocks through them at once (or a single DES engine with per-round pipelining), this restricting them to the insecure ECB mode. Using one of the parallelisable modes would have been a better move. The fact that they were using ECB lead to the inevitable suspicions that there'd be other security problems present as well - I think Lucky's condemnation may have been a bit strong (it's not totally insecure), but the use of ECB mode doesn't exactly inspire confidence in the design of the rest of the system, even if it was done for pragmatic reasons. Peter.

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Re: Copyright Death Penalty
by Major Variola (ret) 24 May '03

24 May '03

At 09:05 PM 5/23/03 -0400, Duncan Frissell wrote: > Re: Copyright Death Penalty >Sort of..... >Unarmed man killed by New York police during counterfeiting raid Maybe he didn't hold up his wallet fast enough, like that Somali confronted with plainclothes... Maybe he didn't bend over for the plunger.. Maybe the gunshot saved him from a flashbang heart attack.. Maybe this is why we will smile at the next Al Q double-tap on the NYPD. First boom brings 'em in, second cleans 'em up. Infinite justice, baby. --- "Go for the head shot" --G Gordon Liddy

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Inferno: EFFector 16.14: Supreme Court to Hear California DVD Case on May 29, 2003 (fwd)
by Jim Choate 23 May '03

23 May '03

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 21 May 2003 23:21:20 -0400 Subject: Inferno: EFFector 16.14: Supreme Court to Hear California DVD Case on May 29, 2003 (fwd) Good Stuff <tm> all around :-P Read all the links to see the forest for the trees. ------------ Forwarded Message ------------ Date: Wednesday, May 21, 2003 6:11 PM -0700 From: Effector List <alerts(a)action.eff.org> Subject: EFFector 16.14: Supreme Court to Hear California DVD Case on May 29, 2003 http://www.tndf.net/ ---------- End Forwarded Message ---------- -- ____________________________________________________________________ We are all interested in the future for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. Criswell, "Plan 9 from Outer Space" ravage(a)ssz.com jchoate(a)open-forge.org www.ssz.com www.open-forge.org --------------------------------------------------------------------

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Copyright Death Penalty
by Duncan Frissell 23 May '03

23 May '03

Sort of..... http://www.kron4.com/global/story.asp?s=1292923&ClientType=Printable Unarmed man killed by New York police during counterfeiting raid New York-AP -- In New York, police are looking into the shooting of an unarmed African immigrant by a plainclothes police officer. The immigrant, Ousmane Zango (ooz-mahn ZHAHN'-goh), was shot four times after a winding chase through the hallways of a storage unit in Chelsea. The plainclothes police officer had been guarding counterfeit merchandise down the hall from Zango's unit. Police Commissioner Ray Kelly says two storage rooms had recently been raided by Staten Island officers investigating a compact disc counterfeiting operation. But Zango had no connection to that operation and no criminal record.

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