November 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Jews Go Nuclear
by Eric Cordian 15 Nov '03

15 Nov '03

So much for non-proliferation of "weapons of mass destruction", right? http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,10613 ----- Israel deploys nuclear arms in submarines Peter Beaumont in London and Conal Urquhart in Jerusalem Sunday October 12, 2003 The Observer Israeli and American officials have admitted collaborating to deploy US-supplied Harpoon cruise missiles armed with nuclear warheads in Israel's fleet of Dolphin-class submarines, giving the Middle East's only nuclear power the ability to strike at any of its Arab neighbours. ... -- Eric Michael Cordian 0+ O:.T:.O:. Mathematical Munitions Division "Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be The Whole Of The Law"

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Re: [Mac_crypto] MacOS X (Panther) FileVault
by R. A. Hettinga 14 Nov '03

14 Nov '03

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NTK now, 2003-11-14 (fwd from tips@spesh.com)
by Eugen Leitl 14 Nov '03

14 Nov '03

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[s-t] the thompson gambit digest #1
by Eugen Leitl 14 Nov '03

14 Nov '03

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[s-t] the thompson gambit digest #1
by None 14 Nov '03

14 Nov '03

Re: needle in haystack digest #3 from Robert Walsh <rjwalsh(a)durables.org> and Nick Barnes <Nick.Barnes(a)pobox.com> Re: How a backdoor in the Linux kernel was thwarted (fwd) from V Layne <goliard(a)mixolydian.org> Re: How a backdoor in the Linux kernel was thwarted (fwd) from Oliver Xymoron <oxymoron(a)waste.org> Re: How a backdoor in the Linux kernel was thwarted (fwd) from Jamie McCarthy <jamie(a)mccarthy.vg> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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[s-t] the thompson gambit digest #1
by None 14 Nov '03

14 Nov '03

Re: needle in haystack digest #3 from Robert Walsh <rjwalsh(a)durables.org> and Nick Barnes <Nick.Barnes(a)pobox.com> Re: How a backdoor in the Linux kernel was thwarted (fwd) from V Layne <goliard(a)mixolydian.org> Re: How a backdoor in the Linux kernel was thwarted (fwd) from Oliver Xymoron <oxymoron(a)waste.org> Re: How a backdoor in the Linux kernel was thwarted (fwd) from Jamie McCarthy <jamie(a)mccarthy.vg> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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Deniable data storage
by James A. Donald 13 Nov '03

13 Nov '03

I want to store information deniably. So there would be a fixed sized block of data, say one megabyte, increasing by multiples of 8 as needed. This would contain various items of information that one could extract by supplyin a secret, symmetric, key. A random key would extract a block of gibberish of random length There would be no indication as to how many bits of meaningful data were stored in the block, though obviously they would have to add up to less than the size of the block. So one could store one's password list under one key, and the location of the dead bodies under another key, and absent that key, there would be no evidence that they key, or information hidden under that key, existed. What is a good algorithm for this?

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Re: [s-t] How a backdoor in the Linux kernel was thwarted (fwd)
by Jamie McCarthy 13 Nov '03

13 Nov '03

amerritt(a)spasticmutant.com (Spastic Mutant) writes: > Someone broke into a server at kernel.kbits.net and inserted > the following code into the Linux kernel: The code was inserted into a CVS mirror of the kernel. The kernel itself is stored and updated in BitKeeper, primarily on a machine of Linus's, and then copied to a public BitKeeper archive, and from there to the CVS mirror. Neither BitKeeper machine was not broken into and their code was not changed. So it's arguable whether the change, which was caught within 24 hours, constituted changing the Linux kernel. I would argue no. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/11/06/058249 and I'm told that this coverage is good, but you and I aren't able to read it for a week :) http://lwn.net/Articles/57135/ -- Jamie McCarthy http://mccarthy.vg/ jamie(a)mccarthy.vg ----------------------------------------------------------- ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07078, 11.61144 http://www.leitl.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE [demime 0.97c removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature]

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Re: [s-t] How a backdoor in the Linux kernel was thwarted (fwd)
by Jamie McCarthy 13 Nov '03

13 Nov '03

amerritt(a)spasticmutant.com (Spastic Mutant) writes: > Someone broke into a server at kernel.kbits.net and inserted > the following code into the Linux kernel: The code was inserted into a CVS mirror of the kernel. The kernel itself is stored and updated in BitKeeper, primarily on a machine of Linus's, and then copied to a public BitKeeper archive, and from there to the CVS mirror. Neither BitKeeper machine was not broken into and their code was not changed. So it's arguable whether the change, which was caught within 24 hours, constituted changing the Linux kernel. I would argue no. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/11/06/058249 and I'm told that this coverage is good, but you and I aren't able to read it for a week :) http://lwn.net/Articles/57135/ -- Jamie McCarthy http://mccarthy.vg/ jamie(a)mccarthy.vg ----------------------------------------------------------- ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07078, 11.61144 http://www.leitl.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE [demime 0.97c removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature]

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Re: [Mac_crypto] MacOS X (Panther) FileVault
by R. A. Hettinga 13 Nov '03

13 Nov '03

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