June 2002 - cypherpunks-legacy

mount filesystem and run a program when hotplugged
by Eugen Leitl 28 Jun '02

28 Jun '02

I've bought me a little (32 MBytes) hotpluggable USB flash stick (a TrekStor). It mounts fine, but what I'd like to do is to automount it, and fire up a program (I intend to put my keyring on it) if hotplugged. The system I'm testing this on is RH 7.3. I've been using mount -t vfat /dev/sda /mnt/usbhd to mount it manually and put diverse entries into /etc/fstab, to no avail. Any suggestions?

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Re: DOJ proposes US data-rentention law.
by Steven M. Bellovin 28 Jun '02

28 Jun '02

In message <3D11ED40.9040403(a)ariolimax.com>, "David G. Koontz" writes: >Trei, Peter wrote: >> - start quote - >> >> Cyber Security Plan Contemplates U.S. Data Retention Law >> http://online.securityfocus.com/news/486 >> >> Internet service providers may be forced into wholesale spying >> on their customers as part of the White House's strategy for >> securing cyberspace. >> >> By Kevin Poulsen, Jun 18 2002 3:46PM >> >> An early draft of the White House's National Strategy to Secure >> Cyberspace envisions the same kind of mandatory customer data >> collection and retention by U.S. Internet service providers as was >> recently enacted in Europe, according to sources who have reviewed >> portions of the plan. >> ... > >If the U.S. wasn't in an undeclared 'war', this would be considered >an unfunded mandate. Does anyone realize the cost involved? Think >of all the spam that needs to be recorded for posterity. ISPs don't >currently record the type of information that this is talking about. >What customer data backup is being performed by ISPs is by and large >done by disk mirroring and is not kept permanently. This isn't clear. The proposals I've seen call for recording "transaction data" -- i.e., the SMTP "envelope" information, plus maybe the From: line. It does not call for retention of content. Apart from practicality, there are constitutional issues. Envelope data is "given" to the ISP in typical client/server email scenarios, while content is end-to-end, in that it's not processed by the ISP. A different type of warrant is therefore needed to retrieve the latter. The former falls under the "pen register" law (as amended by the Patriot Act), and requires a really cheap warrant. Email content is considered a full-fledged wiretap, and requires a hard-to-get court order, with lots of notice requirements, etc. Mandating that a third party record email in this situation, in the absence of a pre-existing warrant citing probable cause, would be very chancy. I don't think even the current Supreme Court would buy it. --Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb (me) http://www.wilyhacker.com ("Firewalls" book) --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to majordomo(a)wasabisystems.com

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Teeth bleach kit sold by dentists online! 18452
by Hellen Kearsley 28 Jun '02

28 Jun '02

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Ross's TCPA paper
by Lucky Green 28 Jun '02

28 Jun '02

I recently had a chance to read Ross Anderson's paper on the activities of the TCPA at http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/ftp/users/rja14/.temp/toulouse.pdf I must confess that after reading the paper I am quite relieved to finally have solid confirmation that at least one other person has realized (outside the authors and proponents of the bill) that the Hollings bill, while failing to mention TCPA anywhere in the text of the bill, was written with the specific technology provided by the TCPA in mind for the purpose of mandating the inclusion of this technology in all future general-purpose computing platforms, now that the technology has been tested, is ready to ship, and the BIOS vendors are on side. Perhaps the Hollings "Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Promotion Act" bill would be more accurately termed the "TCPA Enablement Act". BTW, the module that Ross calls a "Fritz" in his paper after the author of the bill, long had a name: it is called a Trusted Platform Module (TPM). Granted, in the context of the TCPA and the Hollings bill, the term "trusted" is used somewhat differently than the customers of future motherboards, which are all slated to include a TPM, might expect: "trusted" here means that the members of the TCPA trust that the TPM will make it near impossible for the owner of that motherboard to access supervisor mode on the CPU without their knowledge, they trust that the TPM will enable them to determine remotely if the customer has a kernel-level debugger loaded, and they trust that the TPM will prevent a user from bypassing OS protections by installing custom PCI cards to read out memory directly via DMA without going through the CPU. The public and the media now need to somehow, preferably soon, arrive at the next stage of realization: the involvement in the TCPA by many companies who's CEO's wrote the widely distributed open letter to the movie studios, telling the studios, or more precisely -- given that it was an open letter -- telling the public, that mandating DRM's in general-purpose computing platforms may not be a good idea, is indicative of one of two possible scenarios: 1) the CEO's of said computer companies are utterly unaware of a major strategic initiative their staff has been diligently executing for about 3 years, in the case of the principals in the TCPA, such as Intel, Compaq, HP, and Microsoft, several years longer. 2) the CEO's wrote this open letter as part of a deliberate "good cop, bad cop" ploy, feigning opposition to DRM in general computing platforms to pull the wool over the public's eye for hopefully long enough to achieve widespread deployment of the mother of all DRM solution in the market place. I do not know which of the two potential scenarios holds true. However, I believe public debate regarding the massive change in the way users will interact with their future computers due to the efforts of the TCPA and the Hollings bill would be greatly aided by attempts to establish which of the two scenarios is the fact the case. --Lucky Green

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Re: Diffie-Hellman and MITM
by Jack Lloyd 28 Jun '02

28 Jun '02

On Thu, 27 Jun 2002, Mike Rosing wrote: > On Thu, 27 Jun 2002, Marcel Popescu wrote: > > > Is there a defense against MITM for Diffie-Hellman? Is there another > > protocol with equivalent properties, with such a defense? (Secure > > communications between two parties, with no shared secret and no out-of-band > > abilities, on an insecure network.) > > What do you mean by no shared secret? The point of DH is that you > get a shared secret. I think the original poster meant no shared secrets at the beginning of the protocol. > Check out MQV protocol for MITM defense and forward secrecy. It > uses permenent public keys and ephemeral public keys for each > session. In any protocol, the out-of-band check of the public > keys is still a "good thing". You can also do this with DH (use a pair of DH keys, one long term and the other for that single exchange). IEEE 1363 includes this as well as MQV. I don't know how the security compares between these two options, though. -J

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by TONY OKEKE 28 Jun '02

28 Jun '02

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Ebay Marketing Secrets: Click Here
by Ebay Masters 28 Jun '02

28 Jun '02

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Investment News
by fsti＠aol.com 28 Jun '02

28 Jun '02

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UTMOST IMPORTANCE
by ABEL SESESEKOH 28 Jun '02

28 Jun '02

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Today is your Lucky day!
by Tim Gilpatrick 28 Jun '02

28 Jun '02

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