January 2002 - cypherpunks-legacy

Slashdot | Mathematical Analysis of Gnutella
by Jim Choate 16 Jan '02

16 Jan '02

http://slashdot.org/articles/02/01/15/2229223.shtml -- -- ____________________________________________________________________ Day by day the Penguins are making me lose my mind. Bumper Sticker 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: CFP: PKI research workshop (fwd)
by Jim Choate 16 Jan '02

16 Jan '02

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 08:38:40 +0800 From: Enzo Michelangeli <em(a)who.net> Reply-To: Enzo Michelangeli <em(a)em.no-ip.com> To: EKR <ekr(a)rtfm.com>, Stef Caunter <stefan.caunter(a)senecac.on.ca>, "D. A. Honig" <dahonig(a)home.com> Cc: cryptography(a)wasabisystems.com Subject: Re: CFP: PKI research workshop > Here you're talking about "reputation of nyms", which doesn't require > third parties or certs, just well-kept secret keys of a PK pair. > If the remote entity keeps using the same PK keys, you can reasonably > update reputation > based on that alone. (They're essentially signing their behaviors.) On the other hand it must be said that, if reputation really worked as we would like, some sloppy and deservingly accident-prone Certification Authorities would be out of business by now. Enzo --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to majordomo(a)wasabisystems.com

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NSA crippling of crypto makes Congress vulnerable to attack,Yahoo!
by mattd 16 Jan '02

16 Jan '02

>>Something that's sad is that the National Security Agency has abdicated its role in helping to secure communications critical to these United States.<< Not to me,any division and mistrust in the enemies ranks is an opportunity to divide and rule them.It is sad how low a pseudo anarchist can stoop in his fog of senility. >>To wit, its COMSEC role. Part of the charter of the NSA is to provide COMSEC for critical communications, including ensuring strong ciphers. << That for critical communications.The recent Anthrax/9-11 scare showed congress is expendable >>Because it has spent much of the past decade trying to slow down strong encryption<snip> Blueberries and similar devices are now being given to Congressmen and other government employees and officials << Thats great,they are expendable,even Faustine knows that. as a means of communicating with them in times of national emergency. Laptops <snip> Thank the NSA and folks like Dorothy Denning for stunting the implementation of good crypto in consumer products. << Probably why I haven't issued a fatwa against her yet.She's as dumb as paint so should be an *asset* Good to know that Al Quaida knows the ARDIS hacks << Those fuckwits dont even know APster! Is there an arabic translation of Assassination politics? Hasan al fuck invented the word Assassination. and will have them ready to go when they strike next: Blueberry Emergency Alert to Rep. Barney Frank: "Rep. Frank, report soonest to this [isolated] location in the woods [where our agents can kill you]. signed, Agent Farr [Abdullah Al Ragheda]."<< Forest grunts are already out there.They pay tax and live off others taxes.They can expect no mercy from me.Im not JB. --Tim May, Occupied America Caves of Corralitos,Cali actually,where I bitch and moan constantly about big Goobermint and high taxes and do fuck all about it.Look on my works ye mighty and despair.(kill the president.) "They that give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin, 1759.Yeah what happened to cyberliberty Tim? That was safe.

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Cypherpunk Agitprop.
by Aimee Farr 16 Jan '02

16 Jan '02

I'm so damn mad, I can't even subscribe to a mailing list.....

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by Aimee Farr 16 Jan '02

16 Jan '02

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CD-RW serial numbers
by Neil Johnson 16 Jan '02

16 Jan '02

To get around the CD-RW serial-number issue should be easy. Buy a CD-RW with cash at a computer-fest or ham (amateur-radio) swap meet. DON'T burn anything on the CD-RW that could be traced back to you. At the last ham swap meet I attended there was a guy selling loads of complete DSS systems off a pallet for $35 cash (It was a reputable swap-meet, so I don't think they "fell-off " a truck). 2 rows over was another guy selling smart cards. Another row over was a guy selling smart card programmers. Inside a building was a guy selling "technical information" on how DSS smart cards work, including source code for "example" smartcard programs to "test" various "features" of the DSS system. He had big disclaimers saying "Don't use this info for illegal purposes". Yeah right. I wonder how many morons bought all this stuff AND STILL plugged the DSS receiver into the phone line. Attention MPAA/RIAA: I didn't purchase anything. There's enough crap on TV as it is, and I don't need an extra 500 channels of it. -Neil

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Blueberry encryption for boston pigs?
by xganon 16 Jan '02

16 Jan '02

We are interested in the 'encryption' used in these over-the-air queries... ........... http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGAUW7L9HWC.html Handhelds Join Handcuffs at Boston Airport in Fight Against Terrorism By Leslie MillerAssociated Press Writer Published: Jan 15, 2002 BOSTON (AP) - A pager-sized device that's more likely to be found in a Wall Street briefcase than on a state trooper's belt may take its place in the war against terrorism. Logan International Airport is the first in the nation to test the BlackBerry as an electronic gateway to state and federal criminal databases, giving law enforcement officers the kind of immediate information resource they've longed for, but lacked. The wireless devices, made by Waterloo, Ontario-based Research in Motion since 1999, are ubiquitous in the corporate world, particularly by businesspeople who spend a lot of time away from their desks and need to check e-mails or surf the World Wide Web. The BlackBerries being tested at Logan are packaged with software that lets officers send encrypted queries to state and federal databases over a wireless network and get responses in less than a minute. State trooper Barry Newell carries his BlackBerry on patrols around Logan. With the device, Newell can check whether a suspicious person is on the FBI's terrorist watch list - without using a radio, dispatcher, cruiser or computer. "The beauty of this system is you can do it yourself," Newell said. Logan officials are using the system as part of their effort to strengthen security after 10 terrorists boarded two passenger jets on Sept. 11 and crashed them into the World Trade Center. The BlackBerry patrols began two months ago after Aether Systems Inc., which makes the PocketBlue software, offered to let Logan try the $89-a-month devices for free. Aether said airports in three other major cities are considering similar tests, but declined to say where. At Logan, 10 troopers who'd been trained in counterterrorism were taught to scroll through the BlackBerry's menu and send simple queries to a distant computer about a suspect's criminal history. A "hit" automatically sends an alarm to other troopers carrying a BlackBerry. It's more efficient than a phone or radio query. "If you go and ask for a couple of registration checks through a dispatcher, they'll get a little upset because you're adding to the workload," said Gerald Burke, director of the New England Law Enforcement Management Institute. Newell said he's identified several stolen cars in Logan's parking using the device. Whether the BlackBerries could have helped prevent the terrorist attacks isn't clear because the watch list only came into being after Sept. 11, FBI spokeswoman Gail Marcinkiewicz said. "There was intelligence information out there," she said. "But the watch list as we know it, as of Sept. 11, that format did not exist." State Police Capt. Thomas Robbins, Logan's interim public safety director, thinks the BlackBerry-toting troopers may become a permanent fixture at the airport, which is trying everything from facial recognition systems to training ticket agents to recognize suspicious activity. Aether's PocketBlue software was launched in June and is now being used by law enforcement agencies in seven states, said David Grip, marketing director for the mobile government division of the company, which has headquarters in Owings Mills, Md. "Since Sept. 11, there's now a focus within airports and port authorities to use the product," he said, adding Logan is the first airport to try it. Law enforcement agencies are also using the software in Ohio, Florida, California, Minnesota and the District of Columbia, he said. There may be a market for the software, but, "there's a little bit of a feeding frenzy," said Tim Quillin, an analyst with Stephens Inc. in Little Rock, Ark. Federal transportation officials are open to the experiment. "We're interested and looking at anything that might improve transportation security," said Paul Takemoto, spokesman for the Transportation Security Administration.

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