October 2000 - cypherpunks-legacy

CDR: Autarchic Creed, The
by Jim Choate 31 Oct '00

31 Oct '00

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CDR: Re: (no subject)
by Nomen Nescio 31 Oct '00

31 Oct '00

ShamrockAgent(a)aol.com wrote: > Could you posibly send me instructions on how to construct a bomb and > what materials that are needed? Thank you~ *snort* Ask HettingaAgent(a)aol.com or SunderAgent(a)aol.com.

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CDR: Seattle Match.com Gallery Mixer
by eventseries＠match.com 31 Oct '00

31 Oct '00

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CDR: RE: Re: Visit a hacked site, loose your computers.
by Trei, Peter 31 Oct '00

31 Oct '00

Read the article. Of course the time is well known, and the logs are stamped. You are naive, though, if you beleive that will stop an LEA from trashing the lives of innocents... ...and of course they'll get away with it. Peter [Now, I'm not excusing the FBI's jackboot tactics in this case, but I will point out that Mr. Salomon poked at 'unusual' ports, and zone transfered yankee.com during his investigation. An IDS might well trigger an attack alert under those conditions. The government's theft of his property after all this was explained, is of course inexcusable.] > ---------- > From: mmotyka@lsil.com[SMTP:mmotyka@lsil.com] > Reply To: mmotyka(a)lsil.com > Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2000 3:19 PM > To: cypherpunks(a)cyberpass.net > Subject: CDR: Re: Visit a hacked site, loose your computers. > > Wouldn't the time of the hack be pretty well known and wouldn't the RPI > firewall logs be timestamped or am I naive? > > Is knowledge being used as evidence of guilt? > > Mike > > >Andres Salomon, a fairly clued in RPI student, heard on > > IRC that the Yankees website had been hacked. He > > checked it out, noted some well-known Red Hat > > security holes, and came to the conclusion that > > there had been a DNS redirect attack. Total time: > > 5 minutes. > > > > The next day, the FBI raided his dorm room and > > seized his computers (along with a copy of ORA's > > DNS & BIND). > > > > Peter Trei > > >

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Susan Landau on crypto policy
by Christof Paar 31 Oct '00

31 Oct '00

Please note the different day, time, and *building* of this seminar talk. For those coming from outside: Fuller Labs is the large concrete building next to Atwater Kent. - Christof *********************************************************************** ECE GRADUATE SEMINAR TITLE: Have the Crypto Wars Been Won? PRESENTER: Dr. Susan Landau Sun Microsystems Laboratories Place: Fuller Labs, Rm 320 Date and Time: Thursday, Nov. 9, 11 AM ABSTRACT: Telecommunication has never been perfectly secure, as the Cold War culture of wiretaps and international spying taught us. Yet many of us still take our privacy for granted, even as we become ever more reliant on telephones and the Internet. The security of these transactions has become a source of wide public concern and debate. Cryptography is a solution, but because cryptography can provide perfectly concealable communications, over the last quarter century the U.S. government has sought to prevent its proliferation. As a result there have been numerous battles between academics and industry on the one hand, and the U.S. government on the other, over the publication and deployment of strong cryptographic systems. In January of this year, in a major change, the U.S. government removed a number of export restrictions on cryptography. In this talk I will put current cryptography policy in the context of decisions over the last twenty-five years, and I will discuss the legal background behind the government controls, the purpose of the export regulations, and the subtleties behind the remaining restrictions. I will examine: is the battle over, and have the crypto wars been won? BIOGRAPHY: Susan Landau is Senior Staff Engineer at Sun Microsystems Laboratories. Before joining Sun, she was a faculty member at the University of Massachusetts and Wesleyan University, and held visiting positions at Yale, Cornell, and the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute at Berkeley. She and Whitfield Diffie have written ``Privacy on the Line: The Politics of Wiretapping and Encryption,'' which won 1998 Donald McGannon Communication Policy Research Award. Landau is also primary author of the 1994 Association for Computing Machinery report ``Codes, Keys, and Conflicts: Issues in US Crypto Policy.'' ---------------------------------------------------------------------- DIRECTIONS: The WPI Cryptoseminar is being held in the Atwater Kent building on the WPI campus. The Atwater Kent building is at the intersection of the extension of West Street (labeled "Private Way") and Salisbury Street. Directions to the campus can be found at http://www.wpi.edu/About/Visitors/directions.html ATTENDANCE: The seminar is open to everyone and free of charge. Simply send me a brief email if you plan to attend. TALKS IN THE FALL 2000 SEMESTER: 9/27 Christof Paar et al., WPI Elliptic Curve Cryptography on Smart Cards without Coprocessors 10/11 Prof. William Martin, WPI Introduction to resilient and correlation-immune boolean functions 10/25 Prof. Berk Sunar, WPI Implementing New Public-Key Schemes 11/9 Susan Landau, Sun Microsystems Laboratories Have the Crypto Wars Been Won? 11/22 Seth Hardy, WPI Elliptic Curve Point Counting with the CM Method in Java 12/6 Scott Guthery, Mobile-Mind Who are You? Novel Means of Human Authentication TBA Adam Woodbury, WPI Public-key Cryptography in Constraint Environments (MS Thesis presentation) See http://www.ece.WPI.EDU/Research/crypt/seminar/index.html for talk abstracts. MAILING LIST: If you want to be added to the mailing list and receive talk announcements together with abstracts, please send me a short email. Likewise, if you want to be removed from the list, just send me a short email. Regards, Christof Paar ! WORKSHOP ON CRYPTOGRAPHIC HARDWARE AND EMBEDDED SYSTEMS (CHES 2001) ! ! Paris, France, May 13-16, 2001 ! ! www.chesworkshop.org ! *********************************************************************** Christof Paar, Assistant Professor Cryptography and Information Security (CRIS) Group ECE Dept., WPI, 100 Institute Rd., Worcester, MA 01609, USA fon: (508) 831 5061 email: christof(a)ece.wpi.edu fax: (508) 831 5491 www: http://ee.wpi.edu/People/faculty/cxp.html *********************************************************************** For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "dcsb-request(a)reservoir.com" with one line of text: "help". --- end forwarded text -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah(a)ibuc.com> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 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'

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Susan Landau on crypto policy
by Christof Paar 31 Oct '00

31 Oct '00

Please note the different day, time, and *building* of this seminar talk. For those coming from outside: Fuller Labs is the large concrete building next to Atwater Kent. - Christof *********************************************************************** ECE GRADUATE SEMINAR TITLE: Have the Crypto Wars Been Won? PRESENTER: Dr. Susan Landau Sun Microsystems Laboratories Place: Fuller Labs, Rm 320 Date and Time: Thursday, Nov. 9, 11 AM ABSTRACT: Telecommunication has never been perfectly secure, as the Cold War culture of wiretaps and international spying taught us. Yet many of us still take our privacy for granted, even as we become ever more reliant on telephones and the Internet. The security of these transactions has become a source of wide public concern and debate. Cryptography is a solution, but because cryptography can provide perfectly concealable communications, over the last quarter century the U.S. government has sought to prevent its proliferation. As a result there have been numerous battles between academics and industry on the one hand, and the U.S. government on the other, over the publication and deployment of strong cryptographic systems. In January of this year, in a major change, the U.S. government removed a number of export restrictions on cryptography. In this talk I will put current cryptography policy in the context of decisions over the last twenty-five years, and I will discuss the legal background behind the government controls, the purpose of the export regulations, and the subtleties behind the remaining restrictions. I will examine: is the battle over, and have the crypto wars been won? BIOGRAPHY: Susan Landau is Senior Staff Engineer at Sun Microsystems Laboratories. Before joining Sun, she was a faculty member at the University of Massachusetts and Wesleyan University, and held visiting positions at Yale, Cornell, and the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute at Berkeley. She and Whitfield Diffie have written ``Privacy on the Line: The Politics of Wiretapping and Encryption,'' which won 1998 Donald McGannon Communication Policy Research Award. Landau is also primary author of the 1994 Association for Computing Machinery report ``Codes, Keys, and Conflicts: Issues in US Crypto Policy.'' ---------------------------------------------------------------------- DIRECTIONS: The WPI Cryptoseminar is being held in the Atwater Kent building on the WPI campus. The Atwater Kent building is at the intersection of the extension of West Street (labeled "Private Way") and Salisbury Street. Directions to the campus can be found at http://www.wpi.edu/About/Visitors/directions.html ATTENDANCE: The seminar is open to everyone and free of charge. Simply send me a brief email if you plan to attend. TALKS IN THE FALL 2000 SEMESTER: 9/27 Christof Paar et al., WPI Elliptic Curve Cryptography on Smart Cards without Coprocessors 10/11 Prof. William Martin, WPI Introduction to resilient and correlation-immune boolean functions 10/25 Prof. Berk Sunar, WPI Implementing New Public-Key Schemes 11/9 Susan Landau, Sun Microsystems Laboratories Have the Crypto Wars Been Won? 11/22 Seth Hardy, WPI Elliptic Curve Point Counting with the CM Method in Java 12/6 Scott Guthery, Mobile-Mind Who are You? Novel Means of Human Authentication TBA Adam Woodbury, WPI Public-key Cryptography in Constraint Environments (MS Thesis presentation) See http://www.ece.WPI.EDU/Research/crypt/seminar/index.html for talk abstracts. MAILING LIST: If you want to be added to the mailing list and receive talk announcements together with abstracts, please send me a short email. Likewise, if you want to be removed from the list, just send me a short email. Regards, Christof Paar ! WORKSHOP ON CRYPTOGRAPHIC HARDWARE AND EMBEDDED SYSTEMS (CHES 2001) ! ! Paris, France, May 13-16, 2001 ! ! www.chesworkshop.org ! *********************************************************************** Christof Paar, Assistant Professor Cryptography and Information Security (CRIS) Group ECE Dept., WPI, 100 Institute Rd., Worcester, MA 01609, USA fon: (508) 831 5061 email: christof(a)ece.wpi.edu fax: (508) 831 5491 www: http://ee.wpi.edu/People/faculty/cxp.html *********************************************************************** For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "dcsb-request(a)reservoir.com" with one line of text: "help". --- end forwarded text -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah(a)ibuc.com> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 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'

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CDR: Re: ZKS goes GAK
by Anonymous Remailer 31 Oct '00

31 Oct '00

>If the original Freedom product is: > >a. as unbreakable/untraceable as was originally planned (verdict is out, IMO) > >and > >b. is continued to be supported and distributed > >then why would the new "trusted third parties" system be needed? Risking to fall into the doomsayer trap, I would call this a classical "bait switch" technique. Bait was a genuine product, probably developed by the genuine company and people. Switch happened later, when men with guns decided to pick up this thing. But what really pisses me off is that seemengly intelligent people keep on ranting about their intentions. Who the fuck cares what the intentions are/were ? Establishing trust with the crypto-savvy is what ZKS did. That asset is owned by whoever owns the company, not by hired hands. And the use of that asset will be whatever they decide. Creating such an asset brings responsibility, and ZKS folks failed there: their work will be used for other purposes, and there is nothing they can do about it. Assuming that one can make money by providing protection from the people that print that money is just plain silly.

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CDR: Yahoo! News Story - $1 Million Pot Tax Bill Stirs Fight
by Yahoo! News 31 Oct '00

31 Oct '00

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CDR: Yahoo! News Story - $1 Million Pot Tax Bill Stirs Fight
by Yahoo! News 31 Oct '00

31 Oct '00

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CDR: Visit a hacked site, loose your computers.
by Trei, Peter 31 Oct '00

31 Oct '00

It'll probably be slashdotted by the time you get to it, but see: http://devrandom.net/~dilinger/ Andres Salomon, a fairly clued in RPI student, heard on IRC that the Yankees website had been hacked. He checked it out, noted some well-known Red Hat security holes, and came to the conclusion that there had been a DNS redirect attack. Total time: 5 minutes. The next day, the FBI raided his dorm room and seized his computers (along with a copy of ORA's DNS & BIND). He described them as 'nice' -after all, they left him his CD-Rs of mp3, divx & pr0n. Peter Trei

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