October 2002 - cypherpunks-legacy

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Independent News
by anonymous 23 Oct '02

23 Oct '02

See below for article on Autonomy [http://www.autonomy.com] getting picked up by the US govt. Met a salesbod from Autonomy a few months ago, who gave an impressively scary demo of the stuff they were doing with uber-pattern-matching. Another article at http://www.vnunet.com/News/1136175 quotes: "The software searches names and words with variable spellings and retrieves information based on patterns that are related but may not match exactly." Most of it was tailored towards searching for related subjects and topics within text (BBC news use Autonomy to link stories) using "Information Theory" and Bayesian Inference, but they're also doing stuff with image-matching (such as studying landscapes to find different films from the same place), voice-matching (to find different audio samples by the same person), and audio-to-text conversion (which can then be subjected to all the usual matching). It's also designed to take information from anywhere, all ready to link into whatever Echelons and Black Lanterns and Netbuses governments are running these days. Surprised this didn't happen months ago. http://news.independent.co.uk/business/news/story.jsp?story=344482 Autonomy scoops American anti-terror deal By Susie Mesure 21 October 2002 Autonomy, the once-fjted information sorting software group, has scooped a multimillion-dollar deal with the US government that could be crucial in preventing terrorist attacks such as the recent bombing in Bali, Indonesia. Its software, which will form a key element of George Bush's war on terror, will be used by 21 US government agencies under the aegis of the Office of Homeland Security. "After 11 September, the US President realised one of the big problems was the very large number of government agencies [meant] they couldn't work together as one," Mike Lynch, Autonomy's chief executive, said. The new software package will help the plethora of security agencies pool any tip-offs they receive about possible terrorist attacks by working as a "backbone" to connect all of the pieces of information. Mr Lynch added: "The whole idea is to try and stop something like the Bali bomb happening." The contract win comes at a critical time for Autonomy, which has seen its shares collapse over the past four months amid a fresh downturn in spending on technology. Explaining how the US agencies would use the software, Mr Lynch said: "The whole problem is that you don't know exactly what you're looking for. This technology can read things. It has the ability to take something like an e-mail or a report and rather than just see individual words like a search engine, understand the ideas behind it."

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palladium presentation - anyone going?
by Adam Back 22 Oct '02

22 Oct '02

Would someone at MIT / in Boston area like to go to this and send a report to the list? Might help clear up some of the currently unexplained aspects about Palladium, such as: - why they think it couldn't be used to protect software copyright (as the subject of Lucky's patent) - are there plans to move SCP functions into processor? any relation to Intel Lagrange - isn't it quite weak as someone could send different information to the SCP and processor, thereby being able to forge remote attestation without having to tamper with the SCP; and hence being able to run different TOR, observe trusted agents etc. I notice at the bottom of the talk invite it says | "Palladium" is not designed to provide defenses against | hardware-based attacks that originate from someone in control of the | local machine. but in this case how does it meet the BORA prevention. Is it BORA prevention _presuming_ the local user is not interested to reconfigure his own hardware? Will it really make any significant difference to DRM enforcement rates? Wouldn't the subset of the file sharing community who produce DVD rips still produce Pd DRM rips if the only protection is the assumption that the user won't make simple hardware modifications. Adam -------- Original Message -------- Subject: LCS/CIS Talk, OCT 18, TOMORROW Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 12:49:01 -0400 From: Be Blackburn <be(a)theory.lcs.mit.edu> To: theory-seminars(a)theory.lcs.mit.edu CC: cis-seminars(a)theory.lcs.mit.edu Open to the Public Date: Friday, Oct 18, 2002 Time: 10:30 a.m.- 12:00 noon Place: NOTE: NE43-518, 200 Tech Square Title: Palladium Speaker: Brian LaMacchia, Microsoft Corp. Hosts: Ron Rivest and Hal Abelson Abstract: This talk will present a technical overview of the Microsoft "Palladium" Initiative. The "Palladium" code name refers to a set of hardware and software security features currently under development for a future version of the Windows operating system. "Palladium" adds four categories of security services to today's PCs: a. Curtained memory. The ability to wall off and hide pages of main memory so that each "Palladium" application can be assured that it is not modified or observed by any other application or even the operating system. b. Attestation. The ability for a piece of code to digitally sign or otherwise attest to a piece of data and further assure the signature recipient that the data was constructed by an unforgeable, cryptographically identified software stack. c. Sealed storage. The ability to securely store information so that a "Palladium" application or module can mandate that the information be accessible only to itself or to a set of other trusted components that can be identified in a cryptographically secure manner. d. Secure input and output. A secure path from the keyboard and mouse to "Palladium" applications, and a secure path from "Palladium" applications to an identifiable region of the screen. Together, these features provide a parallel execution environment to the "traditional" kernel- and user-mode stacks. The goal of "Palladium" is to help protect software from software; that is, to provide a set of features and services that a software application can use to defend against malicious software also running on the machine (viruses running in the main operating system, keyboard sniffers, frame grabbers, etc). "Palladium" is not designed to provide defenses against hardware-based attacks that originate from someone in control of the local machine. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to majordomo(a)wasabisystems.com

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