September 2000 - cypherpunks-legacy

CDR: segfault story on RSA
by Tom Vogt 07 Sep '00

07 Sep '00

I think this guy put it much better than the official press release. :) http://www.segfault.org/story.phtml?mode=2&id=39b6e1b5-0685fba0

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CDR: Re: Good work by FBI and SEC on Emulex fraud case
by Bill Stewart 07 Sep '00

07 Sep '00

>At 1:12 PM -0700 8/31/00, Eric Murray wrote: >>A small note: IW digitally-signing the releases would not >>have made a difference in this case-- the guy used his knowledge >>of IW's procedures to social-engineer IW into accepting the >>fake release without doing their usual checking procedures. At 01:22 PM 8/31/00 -0700, Tim May wrote: >The system I envision would mean each chunk of text ("press release") >would carry a digital sig, which could be checked multiple times. >Hard for social engineering to get past the fact that Emulex, say, >had not digitally signed their own alleged press release. How often do people check signatures? If they check them, and they pass, how often do they check keys? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1

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CDR: 'Shoot to Kill Bill' set to pass the Senate with no safeguards
by Julian Assange 07 Sep '00

07 Sep '00

Tuesday, 5 September 2000 New ALP Sell-Out Completes Capitulation on Defence Amendment Bill 'Shoot to Kill Bill' set to pass the Senate with no safeguards The ALP today completed its capitulation to the Government by accepting new Government amendments to Defence Legislation Amendment (Aid to Civilian Authorities) Bill, Greens Senator Bob Brown said today. "The ALP has refused to accept Greens amendments that would guarantee troops could never be called out against a peaceful protest or industrial dispute," Senator Brown said. "On top of that they have watered down their already weak amendments. Previously the ALP amendment had said that once called out the troops could not be used unless there was 'a direct and immediate threat of death or serious injury'. These words have been replaced by "reasonable likelihood of death or serious injury". "Now, in a stunning overnight turnaround, the ALP has accepted a new government amendment that would allow troops to be used against civilians when there is 'serious damage to property'. This gives the government and military free reign to call out the troops because in almost every situation 'serious damage to property' could be envisaged. "This is a backflip on sell-out on back-down. Labor has failed to defend a century of law and convention in Australia which has prevented the Defence forces from being involved in armed conflict with civilians. "The bill will now pass into law with no sunset clause, and no real safeguard that would prevent troops being used on strikers and peaceful protestors Further information: Ben Oquist 02 62773170 or 0419704095 ---------------------------------------------- Ben Oquist Australian Greens Senator Bob Brown Parliament House, Canberra 2600 Australia +61 2 62773170 ph +61 2 62773185 fx 0419704095 mobile http://www.greens.org.au/bobbrown

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CDR: Crescendo News - September 2000
by LiveUpdate News 07 Sep '00

07 Sep '00

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CDR: Information You Requested
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07 Sep '00

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07 Sep '00

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CDR: Permutations in DES
by Augusto Jun Devegili 06 Sep '00

06 Sep '00

Hi all, I was just wondering... In DES, there's an Initial Permutation (IP) on the plaintext, then 16 rounds, and then the inverse permutation (IP^-1) of the result to produce the ciphertext. How effective are these permutations? Do they really add diffusion to the algorithm, considering that they don't depend on the key? Someone told me that they are necessary to provide reversibility to DES. Is this correct? Thanks in advance, Best Regards, Devegili

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CDR: Mind altering drugs
by EPKuzas＠webtv.net 06 Sep '00

06 Sep '00

Can mind altering drugs be given to someone without - that person knowing?

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CDR: SF Bay Cypherpunks, 9/9/00, E-Dome, Santa Cruz Mountains
by Bill Stewart 06 Sep '00

06 Sep '00

SF Bay Area Cypherpunks September 2000 Physical Meeting Announcement General Info: DATE: Saturday Sept 11 2000 TIME: 12:00 - 6:00 PM (Pacific Time) PLACE: Eric Messick's Dome, Santa Cruz Mountains Agenda This is a low-key meeting at Eric's home in the mountains, beginning about 1pm. ~12 -Bring lunch, undo geographical delocalization, admire mountain roads and wildlife. Carpooling would be a good idea, given limited parking. ~1 - Admire the E-Dome, Hugh's Lab and the Copper-Insulated Wall, socialize, discuss Burning Man, Plan RSA Patent-expiration party ** - Eric Blossom's Starium Bump-in-the-wire Cryptophone demo - They're finally here, 3DES and everything. ** - Bill Scannell's trip to Ascension Island - An alternate landing site for the space shuttle, Ascension island is forbidden turf, occupied by NASA, NSA, and several other American spook agencies. ** - Hugh Daniel - IPSEC and FreeS/WAN update and demo. As usual, this is an open public meeting on US soil. Please leave the US soil outside :-) RSA has released the RSA patent to the public domain two weeks early, so bring code! There will still be a party around 9/20-9/23. Whit Diffie and Dave Del Torto will speak at an EFF meeting Mon 9/11 7:30pm at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco Airport in Burlingame. Details http://www.eff.org/EFF/BayFF/ will be posted soon. Location Most of the online maps provide unreliable directions, so use the attached. I find the drive takes about 30 minutes from Mountain View or 15-20 from the 280/17 intersection except during heavy traffic; parking is country roads and dirt driveways. Postscript Map to Eric's House - for printing <a href="http://cryptorights.org/cypherpunks/2000/0909-SF-map.ps">Map</a> % Human readable text directions to the E-Dome: % % Eric Messick or ||ugh Daniel % 15139 Old Ranch Road % Los Gatos, California, 95030-8506 % Latitude 37 08' 02", Longitude 121 59' 40" % edome(a)syzygy.com % eric_&_messages(+1 408 353 4751) % % From San Jose, take Highway 17 south from Interstate 280 or Highway 85. % From Santa Cruz, take Highway 17 North from Highway 1. % Exit Highway 17 at Summit Road and head west, in both directions that's % a right off the highway and left onto Summit Road. % Follow Summit Road past two streets on the left until Summit makes a hard % right turn at the third street, you want to turn left from Summit Road onto % Hutchinson Road which is more like going straight (in the day time be VERY % carful making this 'blind to oncoming traffic' turn!). % Follow Hutchinson until just after Riva Ridge Road veers up on the left % and you see a long group of black mailboxes on the right, make an acute % right turn here from Hutchinson Road onto Old Ranch Road. % At the first curve/split of Old Ranch road you want to stay right when the % road splits, (there is a "SLOW 10 SPEED LIMIT" sign at the fork; keep % to the right of this sign). % Follow the drive down the hill until it flattens out and the trees thin % out above you, you should see the top of the E-Dome on your left, our % driveway is the next left. % % Distance table: % South on 17 from Interstate 280 to Summit Road 15.0mi / 21.0km % South on 17 from Highway 85 to Summit Road 10.0mi / 14.0km? % North on 17 from Highway 1 to Summit Road 12.5mi / 17.5km % Then: % West on Summit from Highway 17 to Hutchinson Road 00.5mi / 00.7km % West on Hutchinson Road from Summit Road to Old Ranch Road 00.2mi / 00.3km % Hutchinson Road down Old Ranch Road to our driveway 00.4mi / 00.6km % % % Schematic ASCII map to the E-Dome: % % this way to San Jose % | . % | |\ % |S |H | % Old |u |W | N % Ranch |m |Y | o % Road |m | | r % | */ |i |1 | t % |__/ |t |7 | h % /. | | % ------++--+--+-+--+-=-------------- % Hutchinson Road / | Summit Road % / | % Riva Ridge Road | % |1 % |7 % | % this way to Santa Cruz % -/_| Road % + Road Intersection % = Overpass % . Line of mail boxes % * E-Dome % If you have questions, comment or agenda requests, please contact the meeting organizer: Bill Stewart bill.stewart(a)pobox.com Cell +1-415-307-7119 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- This announcement has been sent to the meetingpunks and cypherpunks lists. To UNSUBSCRIBE an address from the meetingpunks list send email to: meetingpunks-request(a)majordomo.cryptorights.org with "unsubscribe meetingpunks [optional-address]" in the BODY. To SUBSCRIBE an address to this list send email to: meetingpunks-request(a)majordomo.cryptorights.org with "subscribe meetingpunks [optional-address]" in the BODY. 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CDR: Re: 'Shoot to Kill Bill' set to pass the Senate with no safeguards
by Anonymous 06 Sep '00

06 Sep '00

On 07 Sep 2000, Julian Assange wrote: > "The bill will now pass into law with no sunset clause, and no real > safeguard that would prevent troops being used on strikers and peaceful > protestors Unrestricted, unregulated private ownership of firearms is the only effective "safeguard." This is a textbook example of why the right of the shee^H^H^H^H citizenry to keep and bear arms is crucial to the maintenance of a free society.

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