From: "Donald E. Eastlake 3rd" <dee@cybercash.com>
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 1997 03:16:07 +0800
To: cryptography@c2.net
Subject: Re: Freeware SET?
In-Reply-To: <v03110701b08a31e6dc15@[139.167.130.246]>
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The SET reference implementation was written only with a concern for protocol
correctness and essentially no concern for operational usability.  It is not
clear to me that a product could be based on it without a lot of additonal
work.  But I suppose it might be useful for hacking... 


Donald

On Sat, 8 Nov 1997, Robert Hettinga wrote: 

> Date: Sat, 8 Nov 1997 10:12:49 -0500
> From: Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com>
> 
> 
> Date: Sat, 8 Nov 1997 04:49:34 +0100 (CET)
> From: Lucky Green <shamrock@cypherpunks.to>
> To: cypherpunks-announce@toad.com, cypherpunks@algebra.com,
>         cryptography@c2.net, andrada@earthlink.net, andrea.liles@nike.com
> Subject: Bay Area Cypherpunks meeting announcement
> Sender: owner-cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
> Reply-To: Lucky Green <shamrock@cypherpunks.to>
> 
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> Tomorrow's Bay Area Cypherpunks meeting will be held at the offices of
> C2Net Software in Oakland.
> 
> Agenda:
> o Andrea Liles will present some cool new ideas about virtual CA's.
> 
> o Lucky Green will demonstrate the Dumb Mouse, a universal chipcard
> reader, and associated analysis/manipulation software. If you are at all
> interested in smartcards, especially smartcards for crypto and
> authentication purposes, you don't want to miss this one. If there aren't
> too many attendees, we will host a workshop. Attendees are encouraged to
> bring any smartcards in their possession and discover what is /really/
> happening on the card. The Cypherpunks Smartcard Developers Association
> will accept smartcard donations after the workshop.
> 
> o Cypherpunks Tonga will announce the release of BSAFEeay, a BSAFE 3.0 API
> compatible crypto library based on SSLeay.
> 
> o Cypherpunks Tonga will then combine BSAFEeay with the freeware SETref
> (which requires BSAFE for the underlying crypto) and demonstrate the first
> ever globally available *freeware* SET solution.
> 
> Location:
> C2Net Software
> 1440 Broadway
> 7th Floor
> Oakland, CA
> 
> Date/time:
> Saturday, 11/8, noon
> 
> Directions:
> By BART:
> Exit the system at 12th Street Oakland. Walk north on Broadway one block.
> 1440 is on the right side of the street.
> 
> By car:
> http://www.mapquest.com/
> Choose "Trip Quest" from the menu.
> 
> - -- Lucky Green <shamrock@cypherpunks.to> PGP v5 encrypted email preferred.
>    "Tonga? Where the hell is Tonga? They have Cypherpunks there?"
> 
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> 
> -----------------
> Robert Hettinga (rah@shipwright.com), Philodox
> e$, 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA
> "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity,
> [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to
> experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'
> The e$ Home Page: http://www.shipwright.com/
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