September 2000 - cypherpunks-legacy

CDR: Re: USA.net proxy: heh-heh-heh
by George＠Orwellian.Org 14 Sep '00

14 Sep '00

George(a)Orwellian.Org wrote: > > http://www.netaddress.com/tpl/Info/Popup?hidden___url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amaz… > > Continue clicking, and it's still via USA.net. Sunderizer wrote: # It's *NOT* anonymizing anything. DO NOT USE THIS IN PLACE OF AN ANONIMIZER!!! # # So while, yes, it does spy on what urls you visit,... # so it offers no protection!!! Gee, that goes without saying. Well, it should have. # All it does is log where you're going. It doesn't actually proxy anything. If the systems you connect to don't get your IP, it's a proxy. All of AOL is a proxy. # Should you hover your mouse over the links in Amazon you won't see the # netaddress.com url pop up. You'll see Amazon urls. [checking...] You're right. It's not proxying. It's just got a fixed first frame going through netaddress which keeps the netaddress.net URL in the URLbar. The other frames are direct connects. I was distracted by an Anna Kournikova commercial, okay? ---- Still, the original complaint stands.

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CDR: Re: VISA to smartcard the US
by Kerry L. Bonin 14 Sep '00

14 Sep '00

Take a look at Dallas Semiconductor's Crypto iButton family. FIPS level 2 and 3 certified DSA/SHA services with a JVM in a large watch battery form factor, under $50 for FOB and interface. (Disclaimer - I don't work there, I've just used their products for many years now and have designed them into a dozen odd products.) Many interesting places use these as personal certificate storage to authenticate access. At 02:18 AM 9/13/00 -0400, Ray Dillinger wrote: > > >Hmmm. These devices could be useful, even without using >them as credit cards. I wonder if you could buy a batch >of them from the manufacturer with custom software installed? > >It would sure be nice if I could make a physical key token >that would render my system completely useless if the key >were, say, in my wallet at work, and the computer found its >way to, say, the hands of someone carrying out an illegal >search and seizure. > >likewise it would be nice to store PGP keys on, etc -- bits >of data that you want to maintain complete physical control >of at all times. > >"Oppression is sometimes best fought with the tools that >the oppressors have built for their own use." > >I want a PGPdisk you can boot from. > > Bear > > >On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, A. Melon wrote: > >>Sep 12, 2000 - 07:27 PM >> >> Visa USA to Launch Smart Card in >> the U.S. >> The Associated Press >> >> NEW YORK (AP) - After success with its smart card in >> Europe and Japan, Visa is aiming squarely at the U.S. >> market with an upgraded version that contains more >> memory. >> >> Over the next couple of weeks, Visa USA, the >> companys U.S. division, will be launching smart cards >> - microprocessors embedded in plastic -that will offer >> prepackaged services to be determined by its issuers. >> >> Customers will be able to download information from >> their computers via special card readers. Over the next >> year or so, they will be able to store airline tickets, for >> example, and eventually use the cards as keys to their >> cars and homes. >> >> The card, which has 32 kilobytes of memory, is >> different from Visas original version, which has mainly >> served as a "monetary value card," said Al Banisch, >> senior vice president of consumer credit products. >> >> The new card will be available free to Visas 350 >> million cardholders. >> >> > > > >

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CDR: Re: censorship rears its head
by Private User 13 Sep '00

13 Sep '00

>WASHINGTON (AP) - Sen. Joe Lieberman decried a >"culture of carnage" surrounding Americas young So what is the end game of the violence monopoly ? To be able to blow the brains out of domestic sheeple (and, for sport, the faraway tribes) the state must have trained killers (cops, fedz, army.) If they are bred in somatized environment they will not be good at it (ie. blowing the brains out ...) So either we are going to see special camps that will take care of piglet education, or they will have to import foreign-trained carnivoras. It is funny - society of Morlocks and Eloi, but with the twist: Eloi are both stupid and ugly.

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CDR: Diffie-Hellman/DSS Cryptoanalysises?
by 023513090-0002＠t-online.de 13 Sep '00

13 Sep '00

Are there good cryptoanalysises of the Diffie-Hellman/DSS cipher as implemented in PGP 5.x ? (Or other usefull information about it ?) Bjoern Ganslandt

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CDR: Re: Quantum Computing Talk at WPI, 8/12
by 023513090-0002＠t-online.de.=?iso-8859-1?q? 13 Sep '00

13 Sep '00

Robert Hettinga wrote: > > > > Quantum computers, if ever built, will be able to factor numbers > beyond the reach of traditional methods. The development of quantum > computation would mean the demise of RSA and other public key > cryptosystems. We show the main idea of Shor's quantum factoring > algorithm and assess the complexity of the circuit implementing the > algorithm. We describe the current state of experimental quantum > computing and the most promising ideas concerning the implementation > of quantum logic. > > Classical supercomputers has recently reached the computational power > of one teraflop (10^12 floating point operations per second). We will > discuss the current effort to built a petaflops scale computer (peta > = 10^15) based on the combination of advanced technologies such as > superconducting digital electronics, cryogenic CMOS, optical > switches, and holographic memories. Breaking existing ciphers is > certainly one of the primary applications of this new class of > computing machines. > > For a Kris Gay's biography please check: > http://www.ee.rochester.edu/~ee492/bio/bio.html I think till quantum computers will crack RSA keys in days or less, it will take some time, because todays quantum computers have only about 3 Q-bits and factoring of a RSA key takes much more. Bjoern Ganslandt

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CDR: Bioterror in DC: Banning production of such weapons
by Declan McCullagh 13 Sep '00

13 Sep '00

HOUSE GOVERNMENT REFORM COMMITTEE Biological Weapons Convention National Security, Veterans Affairs, and International Relations Subcommittee hearing to examine the status of negotiations to develop an enforcement protocol to the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) prohibiting the development, production and stockpiling of such weapons. Witnesses: Ambassador Donald Mahley, special negotiator, Chemical and Biological Arms Control, State Department; representatives from General Accounting Office, Defense Department, and Commerce Department Location: 2154 Rayburn House Office Building. 10 a.m. Contact: 202-225-5074 http://www.house.gov/reform

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CDR: USA.net proxy: heh-heh-heh
by George＠Orwellian.Org 13 Sep '00

13 Sep '00

Previously I whined that USA.net was changing the URLs in received email to proxy through their server, meaning they had logs of all URLs you visited when clicking on hyperlinks while reading your personal email. That this violates their own privacy policy. For some reason Declan failed to report it. ;-) Analog film chemicals must be affecting his judgement. New note: if you bookmark the URL in the personal email someone sent you, it bookmarks it at the USA.net address. ---- Here is the resulting URL in the new window USA.net opens when you click on an URL in your email: http://www.netaddress.com/tpl/Info/Popup?hidden___url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amaz… I just tried scooping it and using it directly, trying amazon here. It worked. Anyone have direct access to their own server logs? What cookies/referrals/misc is logged on the receiving system? Continue clicking, and it's still via USA.net. It looks like a free "anonymizer" to me.

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CDR: Randseed dead?
by No User 13 Sep '00

13 Sep '00

Anybody know what's wrong with the randseed remailer? It hasn't been mailing yesterday or today.

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CDR: Personal Note from TroppoLotto's CEO
by TroppoLotto 13 Sep '00

13 Sep '00

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CDR: KERSHOFF
by edouvarjo＠webtv.net 13 Sep '00

13 Sep '00

Searching SS# for John/Jacob Kershoff, lived 1940-1950's onStaten Island, N.Y. Been told his name was JAY, could be nickname. Died before 1995, he was married to Margaret Whitehead and had two children. He was an officer in the US Navy during WW11. Thank you. Eileen Douvarjo

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