January 2001 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: Anglo-American communications studies
by Steve Mynott 09 Jan '01

09 Jan '01

Ray Dillinger <bear(a)sonic.net> writes: > On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, David Honig wrote: > > >At 08:17 AM 1/8/01 -0500, Ken Brown wrote: > >>and there are very few opportunities for real misunderstanding. We know > > > >The meaning of 'billion' differs by three orders of magnitude > >across the pond. That's plenty of room for confusion :-) No it doesn't 1,000 million is in more common use now. > And in the US, "billiards" is a game played with cues and balls > on a felt-covered slate table. In the UK, it's also a very large > number. Thankfully, so large that that definition rarely comes I have never heard "billiards" used as a number. -- 1024/D9C69DF9 steve mynott steve(a)tightrope.demon.co.uk whenever people agree with me i always feel i must be wrong. -- oscar wilde

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GSM encryption. Reduction of algorithm. Interesting doc from GSM Org.
by Bo Elkjær 09 Jan '01

09 Jan '01

<<A5 algorithm key length.rtf>> Jørgen Bo Madsen Fra: James Moran [james.moran(a)gsm.org] Sendt: 3. december 1999 12:02 Til: Jørgen Erik Bo Madsen Emne: A5 algorithm key length Prioritet: Høj Jorgen, Below you will find the answers to the questions posed in your letter dated 12th October. 1. Is the implementation of European GSM encryption algorithm A5/1 reduced in strength to 54 bits? The key length of Kc used in the GSM encryption is 64 bits but 10 of the bits are set to 0. Therefore the effective key length is 54 bits. 2. Is the implementation of the A5/1 encryption algorithm used in one or more GSM systems in Denmark reduced in strength to 54 bits? I can confirm that A5 must be used by all GSM operators and that all GSM operators in Denmark currently use the standard algorithm which has the 54 bit effective key length. 3. Why is the A5/1 algorithm reduced in strength? The key length is determined by control regulations that exist in many countries regarding the use of encryption. As algorithms are treated as dual use goods, similar to munitions, their movement and use is regulated and certain countries place a limit on their strength. As GSM was designed and developed to be used throughout Europe the design of the algorithm had to take the restrictions of various countries into account. 4. Who ordered the reduction of the A5 algorithm? The algorithm specifications were written by ETSI SAGE and this group would have decided on the key length. If you require anything further do not hesitate to contact me. Regards, James ================================================================ This e-mail is intended only for the addressee(s) named above. As this e-mail may contain confidential or privileged information, if you are not a named addressee, or the person responsible for delivering the message to the named addressee, please telephone the Association immediately on the number below. The contents should not be disclosed to any other person nor copies taken. James Moran Fraud and Security Director GSM Association Headquarters Avoca Court, Temple Road, Blackrock, Co. Dublin, IRELAND. Phone: +353 1 2091827; Fax: +353 1 2695958 GSM: +353 86 8565124 Email: james.moran(a)gsm.org Web: http://www.gsmworld.com/

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Re: Functional quantum computer?
by Reese 09 Jan '01

09 Jan '01

Jimbo's a real piece of work, ain't he? At 04:18 PM 1/8/01 -0600, Jim Choate wrote: > >On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Trei, Peter wrote: > >> Jim seems to have a real hard time with this concept. > >By the bitching you and others are making it's not I who has the problem. >I have none (zero, nadah, null, nil). > >> Last week, I privately mailed him a polite letter on > >And I told you to stop, you didn't. Don't give me consideration then don't >bitch when you don't get it. > > ____________________________________________________________________ > > Before a larger group can see the virtue of an idea, a > smaller group must first understand it. > > "Stranger Suns" > George Zebrowski > > The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate > Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com > www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 > -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- > --------------------------------------------------------------------

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Re: Anglo-American communications studies
by mmotyka＠lsil.com 09 Jan '01

09 Jan '01

>>>and there are very few opportunities for real misunderstanding. > >So Ken if you read that Blair was near Thatcher's house and knocked >her up, Yanks would think something very different from Brits. > That's where technology can help : catch it on video.

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Janet Reno on IP, piracy and terrorism
by mmotyka＠lsil.com 09 Jan '01

09 Jan '01

> A quote from > http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,20985,00.html: > > " Criminal organizations appear to be using the proceeds of > IP-infringing products to facilitate a variety of enterprises, > including guns, drugs, pornography and even terrorism. Invariably, > when there is intellectual property crime, there is tax evasion and > money laundering." > > Note that last sentence. > Yes. She's absolutely right. Just look at the DeCSS development. Clearly a case of drug and gun dealing terrorists developing SW to fund their nefarious activities. Same as Napster. What a stupid shit. Think the next prez will do any better picking an AG? Don't bet on it.

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09 Jan '01

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RE: History Channel television show on NSA (fwd)
by Daniel Orr 09 Jan '01

09 Jan '01

I agree, most of it was like a bad history of cryptography in America. I wish I had stuck watching Boston Public. Last year (1999/early 2000) Congress tacked a requirement onto an appropriations bill which required the NSA to report on Echelon and monitoring of American citizens. This was shortly after the director plead attorney client privilege with the NSA's Chief Counsel. Does anyone know what happened with this report? Were there any sections not classified? -----Original Message----- From: Declan McCullagh To: Jim Choate Cc: cypherpunks(a)einstein.ssz.com; The Club Inferno; austin-cpunks(a)einstein.ssz.com; sci-tech(a)einstein.ssz.com Sent: 1/8/01 10:57 PM Subject: Re: History Channel television show on NSA (fwd) Watched it, ET giving me a 3 hr advantage over you golden staters. A definite passover except for last 10 minutes, Echelon-dodging making the spooks limber enough to Macarena with Clipper Chip-endorsing Al with dispatch. "Trust us," DIRNSA proudly proclaims, with Church bells ringing in the near distance. Of note is latest permutation of horsemen riding in on backs of Defcon-going hackers as justification for existence of The Agency That Shall Not Be Named. -Declan, channeling JYA On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 05:18:24PM -0600, Jim Choate wrote: > > > ____________________________________________________________________ > > Before a larger group can see the virtue of an idea, a > smaller group must first understand it. > > "Stranger Suns" > George Zebrowski > > The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate > Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com > www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 > -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2001 16:38:19 -0500 (EST) > From: "P.J. Ponder" <ponder(a)freenet.tlh.fl.us> > To: cryptography(a)c2.net > Subject: History Channel television show on NSA > > The 'History Channel' cable TV network will air a show about the NSA > tomorrow night January 8, at 8 pm Eastern. Their website says this about > it: > > America's Most Secret Agency > > The National Security Agency, America's most secret and controversial > agency, is charged with safeguarding the nation's strategic intelligence > information and decoding the secret communications of our enemies. For > only the second time in its nearly 50 year history, the N.S.A. allowed > cameras inside its Ft. Meade, Maryland, headquarters, and the director, > Lt. General Michael V. Hayden, sits for a rare interview and addresses > issues such as privacy. Tune in and find out if Big Brother is watching > you! > > >

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CDR: RE: Re: Anonymous Remailers cpunk
by Trei, Peter 09 Jan '01

09 Jan '01

> ---------- > From: Jim Choate[SMTP:ravage@einstein.ssz.com] > Reply To: Jim Choate > Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2000 7:09 PM > To: cypherpunks(a)einstein.ssz.com > Subject: CDR: Re: Anonymous Remailers cpunk > > > On Tue, 3 Oct 2000, Steve Furlong wrote: > > > <<Proposal to limit spam sent through anon remailers by requiring that > > the traffic be encrypted>> > > > Perhaps we're talking at cross purposes. This subthread came along > > because some people have noticed that anonymous remailers are used for > > an awful lot of spam. Peter Trei proposed that remailers could pass > > along only encrypted mail. My understanding was that Alice, the > > message's author, would encrypt the message with Bob's public key; Bob > > is the end recipient: a person or a mailing list or whatever. Alice > > would send the message through Ramona, the anonymous remailer. Ramona is > > requiring that messages be encrypted as a means of filtering out spam. > > Ramona does not need to know Bob's public or private keys; Ramona cares > > only that the message is encrypted. > > So? I set up a email address that I offer to the spammers to sign up to > the anonymous remailers and then it proxies their email into the encrypted > network. I figure this baby'll stop'em for about six months. > Jim: A spammer (or your spammer's proxy) is not going to individually encrypt messages to thousands or millions of end-recipients, each with their own public key - the time factor makes this uneconomical, and the hassle factor of finding all the recipient public keys makes it impractical. Thus, only remailers which send out plaintext are useful to spammers as exit remailers. It is only exit remailers (ie, the remailer which sends to the final recipient) which get hassled for sending spam. The goal is to make remailer operators life easier by preventing them from being used to spam random lusers, who may initiate complaints against the remailer operator. It is not to prevent spam passing through a remailer somewhere in mid-cloud. While such encrypted spam will increase the volume of traffic, for most remailers that is a Good Thing - more material to confuse the traffic analysis. As long as it gets dropped before leaving the remailer network, no harm is done. Steve understands this, as does every one else but you. What's the problem? > For it to really stop spam it would need to be well distributed. So how do > you offset the increased sys admin issues this raises? > Any remailer operator can decide not to pass along plaintext. So long as the message sender is aware of this property, nothing more needs to be distributed. There are no increased sysadmin issues. > Then there is the old key management problem. > > James Choate > No, there is not, beyond the fact that the message originator must know the final recipient's public key. Jim, do you really understand how remailer chaining works? Peter Trei > Vizzini: HE DIDN'T FALL? INCONCEIVABLE! > Inigo Montoya: You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you > think it means. > - The Princess Bride > > >

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Re: Bell Case Subpoena
by montag montag 08 Jan '01

08 Jan '01

>The purpose of the alleged grand jury of my subpoena is a >mystery, but it's surely ham sandwich bait of some kind. An >invitation to perjure or self-incriminate. Look at the bright side - authugrities are afraid. Using the only "legal" recourse left - grand jury sub - to silence and intimidate is a clear sign of fear. These are good times. In bad times a pot joint would be discovered on JYA premises. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos - Share your holiday photos online! http://photos.yahoo.com/

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