June 2001 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: TIME.com: Nation -- Supreme Court: Relax. The Heat is Off
by George＠Orwellian.Org 14 Jun '01

14 Jun '01

John "Wascally Wabbit" Young <jya(a)pipeline.com> hopping huffing wrote: # # The reason I'm pursuing this is that I've been told we are not # asking NSA the right questions to be answered under FOIA, Why not [also] ask John "Huge Penis for Christ & Pornography" Ashcroft whether he interpretes (sigh) the Supreme Court decision as including TEMPEST pickups.

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July..anything resolved?
by georgemw＠speakeasy.net 14 Jun '01

14 Jun '01

There was a question brought up at the last BA cypherpunks meeting about what the July meeting agenda might be, depending onwho will be there vs, say, at Defcon instead. Was anything resolved? I might want to go to Defcon, whether I do or not depends largely on whether I feel there's anything to do around here. There's a Phish concert that weekend and I have a dentist appointment, so I think incentives for staying and going are about equal. George

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14 Jun '01

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MERGER ANNOUNCED!!!
by Stocknight ListServer 14 Jun '01

14 Jun '01

[Stocknight.com] [Image] [Image] Issue 7 June 13, 2001 Editor's Note [Image] Generally, at StockNight we tend to feature financial news items that have come out after market but sometimes news falls into our hands that is of such significance that we distribute to our members as soon as possible. We just received authorization moments ago to send this news to our members. Read on! Elast Technologies Inc. [Image] Elast Technologies Inc. (OTCBB: ELTI) is presently engaged in two unique industries using applications of its patented technology. The first, the innovative Electronic Allergo Sensitivity Test, is an instrument with which allergies and food and chemical sensitivities may be detected without invading the body. Another application, the Bio-Potential Instrument, allows chiropractors the means with which to gauge the benefit of chiropractic care. The merger with PTS Inc. today brings yet another unique body of technology under the ELTI listing, some of whch could be affected dramatically by Chinese admission to the World Trade Organization. Click here to read CNN's take on China, Technology & the WTO. Merger News [Image] ELAST Technologies Merges with PTS, Inc. LAS VEGAS-- ELAST Technologies, Inc. ( OTCBB: ELTI ) announced it has merged with PTS, Inc., a Nevada corporation organized in 1999. PTS is committed to the development of a truly global trading platform to facilitate everyday business transactions. Through its pending joint venture with a major Shanghai information technology firm and the venture's forthcoming launch of a China based business-to-business platform PTS will take a major step towards this goal. PTS' China platform will permit real time business transactions such as electronic payments, contract fulfillment and the dissemination of financial information in China. Upon China's accession to the World Trade Organization PTS will be uniquely positioned to expand its platform globally conducting transactions of any size, anywhere, across multiple currencies. Through this merger ELAST Technologies will be favorably positioned in two important and emerging fields, electronic payment and electronic medicine, and the potential presented by each is limitless. Moreover, ``ELAST's merger with PTS should assure early perfection and delivery of ELAST's diagnostic tools, as well as reduced engineering and production costs,'' predicts Thomas F. Krucker, President and CEO. Currently, ELAST is engaged in the development of two separate diagnostic tools: its allergy testing device and its chiropractic outcome-measuring instrument. These instruments stem from the Company's identification of commercial applications for worldwide patents secured by its founder, Robert D. Milne, MD. A primary application is the innovative Electronic Allergo Sensitivity Test or the ELAST Device(TM). The ELAST Device(TM) is a non-invasive medical tool that is being designed to accurately diagnose allergies, as well as food and chemical sensitivities. ELAST Technologies holds the patents, trademarks and legal rights to manufacture, sell and lease its electronic allergy-testing device and is making great strides in refining the prototype. A second application of ELAST's technologies is ELAST's Bio-Potential Instrument. The Bio-Potential Instrument can provide doctors of chiropractic with the means to measure the damage of vertebral subluxations, as well as the normalizing effect of chiropractic adjustments. ELAST plans initial delivery of its Bio-Potential Instrument shortly. Again, this is just part of the release. 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The summer of OAEP (fwd)
by Jim Choate 14 Jun '01

14 Jun '01

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: 13 Jun 2001 17:40:07 -0000 From: lcs Mixmaster Remailer <mix(a)anon.lcs.mit.edu> To: cryptography(a)wasabisystems.com Subject: The summer of OAEP These are some of the papers to be presented at Crypto 2001 in August[1]: A Chosen Ciphertext Attack On RSA Optimal Asymmetric Encryption Padding (OAEP) as Standardized In PKCS #1 James Manger OAEP Reconsidered Victor Shoup RSA--OAEP is Secure Under the RSA Assumption Eiichiro Fujisaki, Tatsuaki Okamoto, David Pointcheval and Jacques Stern Simplified OAEP for the RSA and Rabin Functions Dan Boneh Shoup's abstract[2] reads: The OAEP encryption scheme was introduced by Bellare and Rogaway at Eurocrypt '94. It converts any trapdoor permutation scheme into a public-key encryption scheme. OAEP is widely believed to provide resistance against adaptive chosen ciphertext attack. The main justification for this belief is a supposed proof of security in the random oracle model, assuming the underlying trapdoor permutation scheme is one way. This paper shows conclusively that this justification is invalid. First, it observes that there appears to be a non-trivial gap in the OAEP security proof. Second, it proves that this gap cannot be filled, in the sense that there can be no standard "black box" security reduction for OAEP. This is done by proving that there exists an oracle relative to which the general OAEP scheme is insecure. The paper also presents a new scheme OAEP+ along with a complete proof of security in the random oracle model. OAEP+ is essentially just as efficient as OAEP, and even has a tighter security reduction. It should be stressed that these results do not imply that a particular instantiation of OAEP, such as RSA-OAEP, is insecure. They simply undermine the original justification for its security. In fact, it turns out - essentially by accident, rather than by design - that RSA-OAEP is secure in the random oracle model; however this fact relies on special algebraic properties of the RSA function, and not on the security of the general OAEP scheme. The Fujisaki, et al abstract[3] reads: Recently Victor Shoup noted that there is a gap in the widely-believed security result of OAEP against adaptive chosen-ciphertext attacks. Moreover, he showed that, presumably, OAEP cannot be proven secure from the one-wayness of the underlying trapdoor permutation. This paper establishes another result on the security of OAEP. It proves that OAEP offers semantic security against adaptive chosen-ciphertext attacks, in the random oracle model, under the partial-domain one-wayness of the underlying permutation. Therefore, this uses a formally stronger assumption. Nevertheless, since partial-domain one-wayness of the RSA function is equivalent to its (full-domain) one-wayness, it follows that the security of RSA-OAEP can actually be proven under the sole RSA assumption, although the reduction is not tight. [1] http://www.iacr.org/conferences/c2001/accept.html [2] http://shoup.net/papers/oaep.ps.Z [3] http://cgi.di.ens.fr/cgi-bin/pointche/papers.html?FuOkPoSt00 --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to majordomo(a)wasabisystems.com -- ____________________________________________________________________ "...where annual election ends, tyranny begins;" Thomas Jefferson & Samuel Adams The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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Network library lcrzo 3.13 (fwd)
by Jim Choate 14 Jun '01

14 Jun '01

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 20:17:23 +0200 From: Laurent INFOS <infos(a)aql.fr> Reply-To: laurent.constantin(a)aql.fr To: coderpunks(a)toad.com Subject: Network library lcrzo 3.13 Hello, Version 3.13 of lcrzo is now available. Lcrzo is a network library, for network administrators and network hackers. Its objective is to easily create network programs. This library provides network functionnalities for Ethernet, IP, UDP, TCP, ICMP, ARP and RARP protocols. It supports spoofing, sniffing, client and server creation. Furthermore, lcrzo contains high level functions dealing with data storage and handling. Using all these functions, you can quickly create a network test program. Lcrzo, which means "Laurent Constantin R�ZO" (R�ZO=network in French), and can be pronounced " 'el' 'sea' 'reso'lv ", is available under the GNU LGPL license. This library was successfully installed under Linux, FreeBSD and Solaris. The library lcrzo provides : - network functionnalities : + address conversion + packet encoding/decoding/printing + spoofing + real/virtual UDP/TCP clients/servers + sniffing + device(network board) dealing + etc. - and general functionnalities : + data conversion + chained list + IPC + etc. Over 200 examples of lcrzo are included in lcrzoex. ** download ** You can read more about lcrzo and download it at : http://www.laurentconstantin.com/us/lcrzo/lcrzo/ [main server] http://laurentconstantin.free.fr/us/lcrzo/lcrzo/ [backup server] http://laurentconstantin.est-la.com/us/lcrzo/lcrzo/ [backup server] http://laurentconstantin.ctw.net/us/lcrzo/lcrzo/ [backup server] http://go.to/laurentconstantin/ [backup server] ** changes ** Lcrzoex/lcrzo 3.13 includes the following changes : Version 3.13 - 13-june-2001 ++ bugs ++ - In functions lcrzo_packet_decodem_xxx, negative sizes weren't forbidden : they were converted to big positive numbers. So, a segmentation fault appeared when a negative parameter was used. ++ major evolutions of liblcrzo ++ - Creation of lcrzo_icmp module. This module can create and decode various kinds of ICMP packets (rfc 792). - When converting ip addresses to Ethernet addresses, default spoofed addresses are the addresses of the local computer (a new type is created : LCRZO_INTSPOOF_TYPE_CONF). This can be reverted to old behaviour using : lcrzo_global_set_intspoof_ip_type(LCRZO_INTSPOOF_TYPE_COMP); With the old behaviour, problems appeared because some systems keep in mind the false adresses used in ARP requests ; then communicating with these systems were temporarily not possible for other computers (the spoofed one). ++ minor evolutions of liblcrzo ++ - Type of ICMP packets is displayed by lcrzo_hdrlicmp_fprint. - The libpcap package modified by RedHat is detected by genemake, and the variable LCRZODEF_LIBPCAPFROMREDHAT is defined. In the module lcrzo_sniff, this special package is now treated separately. - The special device "any" is supported in lcrzo_mtu_init_device and lcrzo_ipl_init_device. It allows to sniff on all devices of the computer. - Update of sniff functions to sniff on all devices with "any". - Installation on RedHat is easier because pcap.h is searched in /usr/include/pcap/. - Creation of lcrzo-config which permits to compile easily : gcc -o fich fich.c `lcrzo-config -cl` - The function pcap_freecode is now called (this function wasn't available in versions of libpcap previous to 0.6). ++ major evolutions of lcrzoex ++ - Rewrite of tools 138 and 172 : tcp traceroute. - Tools 244..247 : udp and icmp traceroute. - Tools 248 and 249 : icmp ping. - Tools 250 and 251 : tcp ping. - Tools 252 and 253 : tcp port scanner. - Tools 254 and 255 : udp port scanner. - Tools 256 and 257 : icmp scanner. ++ minor evolutions of lcrzoex ++ - Creation of lcrzoex__0000i.c to separate lcrzoex.c in smaller and faster to compile files. -- Laurent Constantin http://www.laurentconstantin.com/us/ [main server] http://laurentconstantin.free.fr/us/ [backup server] http://laurentconstantin.est-la.com/us/ [backup server] http://laurentconstantin.ctw.net/us/ [backup server] http://go.to/laurentconstantin/ [backup server] -- ____________________________________________________________________ "...where annual election ends, tyranny begins;" Thomas Jefferson & Samuel Adams The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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Frozen Light
by Jim Choate 14 Jun '01

14 Jun '01

http://www.sciam.com/2001/0701issue/0701hau.html James Choate Product Certification - Operating Systems Staff Engineer 512-436-1062 jchoate(a)tivoli.com

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YOU WON !
by winner2＠aol.com 14 Jun '01

14 Jun '01

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IP v US Constitution
by Jim Choate 14 Jun '01

14 Jun '01

http://www.Kuro5hin.org/?op=displaystory;sid=2001/6/12/181435/161 James Choate Product Certification - Operating Systems Staff Engineer 512-436-1062 jchoate(a)tivoli.com

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Medical precedent for calling Linux cancer discovered!
by Anonymous 14 Jun '01

14 Jun '01

TV ANNOUNCER: In a recent interview, Microsoft CEO Steve Balmer was quoted as saying: "Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches." The medical researchers at Beaker-Bunsen took up the challenge to carefully dissect Balmer's statement. They discovered there was indeed medical precedent for calling Linux a cancer. We asked them what the medical equivalent would be for Windows. "Tourette syndrome, of course" they replied. http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20010604

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