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Senate considering Tax-Free Net Bill The Almighty Buck Posted by Hemos
on Thursday October 01, @08:48AM
from the bloody-well-approve-it dept.
Well, although the House of Representations passed it way back in
June, the US Senate is finally getting close to passing the bill which
would temporarily close the Internet to any new taxes. It will be
considered today. It has been twice blocked by Senator Bob Graham
(D-Florida), but Senator McCain (R-Arizona) has pushed it forward.
Ask Slashdot: Cryptography and Digital Signatures Encryption Posted by
Cliff on Wednesday September 30, @09:40PM
from the encryption-101 dept.
Jonathan Squire writes in with questions concerning encryption. He
writes: '...is it considered "secure" to generate an MD5 of a
passphrase and then use the MD5 hash as the key to an RC4 cypher of a
message/file that you want to send to someone? What are the
implications of sending some alternative file with the same pass
phrase used if someone who does not know the pass phrase is able to
obtain both of the cyphertexts? What if they obtain both cyphertexts
and one clear text, how hard would it be (computationaly/finacially)
for them to derive the passphrase that was used?' There's more!
Click the link below...
Investigating Echelon Encryption Posted by Hemos on Wednesday
September 30, @02:29PM
from the white-or-black-spy dept.
It appears that the European Parliment is going to attempt to
investigae Echelon, the somewhat mystical eavesdropping entity that is
supposed to be able to listen to all Continental communications. This
article gives a great amount of detail about what it is alleged to
be, but apparently it's run by five security agencies, including the
NSA, and can intercept almost anything. I'd love to have this rig at
home. updated
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