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NASDAQ Market
by OTS 02 Aug '01

02 Aug '01

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OPT: perl OpenPGP posted at CPAN (fwd)
by Jim Choate 02 Aug '01

02 Aug '01

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2001 20:32:43 -0700 From: Paul Harrison <pth(a)ibuc.com> To: cryptography(a)wasabisystems.com Subject: perl OpenPGP posted at CPAN Benjamin Trott <mailto://ben@rhumba.pair.com> has posted the Crypt::OpenPGP module (v0.11) at CPAN: <http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=Crypt-OpenPGP-0.11> because "Of *course* the world needed a pure-Perl PGP implementation." According to the ReadMe "including support for all versions of PGP and GnuPG." --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to majordomo(a)wasabisystems.com

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Re: The real enemies of the poor
by Faustine 02 Aug '01

02 Aug '01

Jim worte: On Fri, 27 Jul 2001, Faustine wrote: > What argument from authority? Barring the sudden onset of senility or > insanity, familiarity with past work gives you a general indication of > whether or not you want to read something. >>Your question is your own answer. Your belief in their consistency, and >>it's acceptability by your sensibilities, is an 'authority'. You've given >>them trust a priori. I prefer they earn it each and every time anew. No, that's not it: the only "trust" you give them comes with getting you on the first page in the first place, not what you come to think of it afterward. Surely you dont mean to say you never make choices of what to read based on something's potential value to you. Haven't you ever picked up a book because you anticipated enjoying it, started reading it, and put it down when you realized the methodology was flawed or the scholarship was poor after all? If not, maybe you need to be more discriminate... I bet you have though, and aren't quite the non-judgemental tabula rasa your comments indicate. >>A personal note, I hate sequels. > Even reading this list, I'm sure there are people you read first and >people you skip totally...And how likely is it that the first 15 essays are excellent but they saved the crappy ones for 16 on? ha! >>Actualy I read just about every submission to the list, I don't in general >>pick viewpoints based on personality. The whole 'cult of personality' crap >>makes me queezy. Agh, not personality, it comes back to the matter of not wasting time: Some people seldom have anything to say that I find remotely interesting, so I've learned it's in my best interest to skip them. On the other hand, some people put really put some effort into their contributions and write in a relevant and thoughtful way--so when I'm pressed for time, (as I usually am) I read them first. If the subject is important enough I'll read all the comments, but otherwise it gets prioritized, like everything else. And none of this has the slightest thing to do with whether or not I agree with or like someone. Jeez, who haven't I argued with here... >As to essays, I find it a rare author who writes 15 pages, let alone 15 >essays, I don't find problems with. If you can read a >book and go through an entire chapter without saying "wait just a damn >minute..." then you're either not absorbing what is being said, you are >reading material that is already in line with your views/expectations, or >else it's 'fluff'. Absolutely. I just happen to think you can have the highest degree of respect for someone's work you don't agree with, and that people you do agree with shouldn't get a free pass. Check the archives, that's basically what I've said all along. >I'll make an observation, at the risk of offending sensibilities, from >your past commentary you look for work that goes along with what you >believe/want. Look for? There's reading and then there's recommending. ;) > Myself, I tend to go places where I'm the minority (this >mailing list being an example) because the dialog is much more >invigorating than sitting in a bunch of people who already agree with me. Oy vey, that's what I've already said... I don't think anyone would exactly characterize my views as representative of the list as a whole either. Or maybe you don't see it, being focused on your own "me versus the list" dynamic, eh? > All I'm saying is that his background credentials and published work was > every bit as impressive the performance at the meeting...and that one of > his essays is on the list. :) Now with a backstory like that, you > actually mean to tell me I don't have a good reason to look forward to > reading it? HA! >Actually it demostrates my thesis above. You had a view, you found his >view to be complementary (you agreed with everything he said), No, not at all actually. Believe it or not, I'm not so arrogant and self- assured that I have to agree with someone to be able to admit when they've got their opposition thoroughly outclassed in terms of sheer knowledge of the subject. Unlike other people in the room, the topic wasn't something I was heavily invested in in terms of reputation, career etc: anyone who tries to deny that makes a difference in how open-minded they are is fooling themselves. But everthing about the way he conducted himself presenting his arguments merited respect. If you can't change your mind in the face of new evidence, you're too dogmatic, not intellectually flexible enough. Sure, he influenced me, where's the shame in admitting that. Learning from someone doesnt mean you gave up your own independent judgement. And I'd rather change my mind than be an ignorant blockhead stuck in an ideological rut. Like far too many I'm sure we both could name. >and now you pursue that. Me, I'd hunt for the holes in his theory/argument >(and I guarantee they are there). Of course. And if it were my main area of interest, you can bet he'd be the first person I'd go to to argue with and sound my own theories out on. I'll save the second half for tomorrow... ~Faustine.

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Pi
by Eric Cordian 02 Aug '01

02 Aug '01

Interesting article recently posted on the Nature Web site about the normality of Pi. http://www.nature.com/nsu/010802/010802-9.html "David Bailey of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California and Richard Crandall of Reed College in Portland, Oregon, present evidence that pi's decimal expansion contains every string of whole numbers. They also suggest that all strings of the same length appear in pi with the same frequency: 87,435 appears as often as 30,752, and 451 as often as 862, a property known as normality." Of cryptographic interest. "While there may be no cosmic message lurking in pi's digits, if they are random they could be used to encrypt other messages as follows: "Convert a message into zeros and ones, choose a string of digits somewhere in the decimal expansion of pi, and encode the message by adding the digits of pi to the digits of the message string, one after another. Only a person who knows the chosen starting point in pi's expansion will be able to decode the message." While there's presently no known formula which generates decimal digits of Pi starting from a particular point, there's a clever formula which can be used to generate HEX digits of Pi starting from anywhere, which Bailey et al discovered in 1996, using the PSLQ linear relation algorithm. If you sum the following series for k=0 to k=infinity, its limit is Pi. 1/16^k[4/(8k+1) - 2/(8k+4) - 1/(8k+5) - 1/(8k+6)] (Exercise: Prove this series sums to Pi) Since this is an expression for Pi in inverse powers of 16, it is easy to multiply this series by 16^d and take the fractional part, evaluating terms where d>k by modular exponentiation, and evaluating a couple of terms where d<k to get a digit's worth of precision, yielding the (d+1)th hexadecimal digit of Pi. Presumedly, if one could express PI as a series in inverse powers of 10, one could do the same trick to get decimal digits. Such a series has so far eluded researchers. -- 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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Slashdot | FDA Approves Swallowable Camera
by Jim Choate 02 Aug '01

02 Aug '01

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The Register - MS drops app blocking into XP
by Jim Choate 02 Aug '01

02 Aug '01

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NASDAQ Market
by OTS 02 Aug '01

02 Aug '01

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by rroberts＠ishopsecure.com 02 Aug '01

02 Aug '01

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02 Aug '01

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Another Part of the Game ( or not )
by mmotyka＠lsil.com 02 Aug '01

02 Aug '01

Maybe it doesn't matter if the missile defense system that is ultimately deployed ( or not ) works ( or not ) as long as many billions are spent in the process. Charging straight to the techie issues like bulls for the red cape and missing the proud, smiling matador - Ole!

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