December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

NWS Internet Newsletter--Complimentary Issue
by NWS＠juno.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

__/ __/ __/ __/ __/ __/ __/ __/ __/ __/ __/ __/ __/ Net.WWWorth STRATEGIES *INTERNET NEWSLETTER* <tm> __/ __/ __/ __/ __/ __/ __/ __/ __/ __/ __/ __/ __/ (C) NET.WWWORTH STRATEGIES ------- Week of May 20, 1997 _____________________________________________________________________ |_____________________________________________________________________| WELCOME to the "Net.WWWorth STRATEGIES Internet Newsletter", your Guide to Success in Marketing On the Internet! Due to prior interest in topics presented here, we have sent you this Free copy of the NWS Internet Newsletter. If for any reason you decide you do not want to continue to receive this Newsletter in the future, please see the end of this Issue for easy instructions to subscribe or un-subscribe. In future issues you will find highlights of online articles placed on the Net.WWWorth Strategies Web site designed to provide valuable information to assist you in your Home-Based Business and Online Marketing. In this issue of NWS Internet Newsletter, you will also find New Strategies that will provide you with successful "netvertising" tips and techniques. * Please Note: Net.WWWorth STRATEGIES does NOT make available its subscriber list to other companies. We value each and every subscriber and respect your privacy. _______________________________________________________________________ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^> IN THIS ISSUE <^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 1. Wealth Building on the Internet! 2. PERFECT CREDIT! Free Software to Repair or Improve Your Credit! 3. Using Online Classified Advertising for FREE! (Over 2 Dozen Listing Sites you can use NOW for FREE!) ______________________________________________________________________ Net.WWWorth STRATEGIES Internet Newsletter SECTION 1 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ WEALTH BUILDING ON THE INTERNET ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Do you know how to use email? Then you should be making money hand over fist on the Internet! Many are earning Thousands Weekly simply by using this one idea.... By the time you're finished reading this article, you'll know EXACTLY how others are doing it, and how YOU can too! > Introducing the New Net.WWWorth STRATEGIES > "INTERNET WEALTH BUILDING SYSTEM." With this system you will be able to make a bundle of money on the Internet in a short time. Here's why.... The "Internet population explosion" is now under way. The actual numbers are a little hard to fathom, but here they are.... Last year in 1996 over A MILLION people per MONTH signed up with an Internet access provider! That's over 12 MILLION people per year! Even if this rate remains the same, and many expect it to increase, there will be more than 100 MILLION people online by the year 2000! So what does this mean to you? Simple. Like you, many of these 12 MILLION newcomers per year will be looking for legitimate business opportunities. 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HERE'S A SMALL PORTION OF WHAT BROACH'S BOOK REVEALS: * How to project your final ad result when you have only a few days of results. * Exactly which magazines pull the most profitable response. * How a letter to your own mother could be the most profitable letter you ever write. * The single most important line in your direct mail piece and how to get it right. * How to save at least 17% on all your newspaper and magazine advertising. * How you can easily advertise FREE in Card Decks and other print ads. * The most difficult magazine in which to place an ad (this one will certainly surprise you.) * Step by Step how to write a classified ad that pulls response like crazy! * How to deal with federal and state regulatory agencies. * How to deal with the mail order rip-off artists. * Where to place a small display ad for maximum response. * A "by-product" of the mail order business that could make you as much profit as your main operation. * The one thing that will always kill a classified ad in its tracks! * The 10 best selling information subjects of all time. * How to easily DOUBLE the pull of a commission circular! 10. 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I'd like to pass on something to you for FREE that I wish someone had shared with me several months ago when I was just getting started advertiszing online. You already know classified ads work, but where do you place them on the Internet to get the best responses? And where are the FREE ones with no strings attached? Did you even know they exist? *** Here is a listing of over A DOZEN SITES where you can place *** FREE CLASSIFIED ADS on the Internet! I am using almost all of them myself...and am glad to say I will earn over $12,000. this month (May) from business generated from ads such as the ones I've placed on these sites. And they're all FREE! Good Luck! ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ ***** Net.WWWorth STRATEGIES TOP 10 FREE Classified Ads Sites ****** 1. http://www.gatewayads.com/index.html --- The Cyber Shopping Centre 2. http://www1.clearlight.com/~abotaleb/classifieds/index.html - Entr 3. http://www.netimages.com/classifieds.html ------------- Net Images 4. http://peoplesmarket.com/ ---------------- The Peoples Marketplace 5. http://www.americanet.com/Classified ------------------ Americanet 6. http://www.inetexchange.com/submit.htm --------- The Inet Exchange 7. http://www.icemall.com/allabout/links.html --------------- Icemall 8. http://www.1second.com//index.htm ------------------- 1 Second.com 9. http://ep.com/ -------------------------------------------- E-Page 10. http://www.jetcity.com/~perfect/welcome.html -------- Business Opp _______________________________________________________________________ PLUS a few MORE!!! * http://www.freeclassifieds.com/ * http://webcom.com/abc/abchome.html * http://www.dollarads.com --------- FREE for the first week * http://www.bargain-classifieds.com * http://www.comcorner.com/ *** This one, from the Top 10 List above is a One-Stop index of OVER 90 of the best Classified Ad Sites on the Internet! *** http://www.icemall.com/allabout/links.html ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ Note: Every one of these Free Classifieds Sites is effectively operational and responsive as of 5-20-97. There are many more sites that have Free Classified Ads, but I have eliminated many that do not maintain their site well or generate significant traffic. This list of highly effective Classified Ad Sites has taken me many, many hours over several months to compile and qualify. I hope you can put this list to good use. I can tell you...Free Ads work! If you would like more information about the STRATEGIES I am using so successfully, or other helpful pointers on advertising and marketing online, please feel free to contact me personally at Net.WWWorth STRATEGIES. STRATEGIES. I wish you success! Sincerely, Morgan D. Westerman President -- Net.WWWorth STRATEGIES mailto:admin@net-wwworth.com \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// _____________________________________________________________________ |_____________________________________________________________________| (C) NET.WWWORTH STRATEGIES ------- Week of May 20, 1997 To SUBSCRIBE to the "Net.WWWorth STRATEGIES Internet Newsletter," and receive your FREE bi-weekly copy filled with valuable information... mailto:newsletter@net-wwworth.com with "SUBSCRIBE" in the subject. to UNSUBSCRIBE, mailto:newsletter@net-wwworth.com with the word "UNSUBSCRIBE" in the subject. The Staff at Net.WWWorth STRATEGIES would like to thank you for taking the time to share a few of our STRATEGIES for SUCCESS. We Wish you the BEST of WEALTH and PROSPERITY! * Note - This electronic newsletter is Copyright (C)1997, Net.WWWorth STRATEGIES. No portion may be altered or reproduced without prior written consent from the publisher.

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Re: PGP 5.0 beta is out at PGP.com
by Lucky Green 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 12:20 AM 5/20/97 -0400, Lynne L. Harrison wrote: >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > >Well, now that I've seen some good and bad reviews regarding the beta >version, I'm still curious to hear from someone who uses PGPMail ver. 4.5 >with Eudora Pro. From what I've read, it seems the new beta version has >nothing new to add - except some quirky bugs and the source code that's >supposed to be available at some time in the future. I used PGPMail 4.5 since it first came out. Version 5.0 adds easy lookup of keys not on your keyring and support for PGP/MIME. And of course DSS/DH keys. Since those are not backwards compatible, it may be a while before they take off. -- Lucky Green <mailto:shamrock@netcom.com> PGP encrypted mail preferred "I do believe that where there is a choice only between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence." Mahatma Gandhi

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Sun Exploits Encryption Loophole
by ! Drive 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

http://www.techweb.com/investor/newsroom/tinews/may/0519sunw.html Sun Microsystems prepares to take on federal government with plans to offer a product from Russia that provides 128-bit and triple DES encryption over the Internet. ----------------------- "The user does not know what he wants, until he sees what he gets"

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Do Not read
by nobody＠huge.cajones.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Re: More on the Jim Bell
by harka＠nycmetro.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- -=> Quoting In:alan@ctrl-alt-del.com to Harka <=- In> The news story was a pretty interesting hatchet job. Included In> a number of horsemen and prominently mentioned encryption. In> They claimed that the reason for the raid on East's home was In> because he sent Bell encrypted messages containing various In> evil and unauthorized thoughts. In> Why am I not surprised... Why am I surprised...How the hell did they know, what the messages were about?? (Unless Jim saved his e-mails in plain-text to his hard drive, didn't bother to use SFS or something similar and all this stuff was recovered as a result of the initial search of his house. In which case a lot of list-members might want to start thinking about various possibilities...) Ciao Harka ... This is as bad as it can get -- but don't bet on it. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQEVAgUBM4FrhDltEBIEF0MBAQHFBgf+N22d3ObZH16A4i/GrO9oAyXgdeHzpHRP qRqXigYjy0HrgNGR4ja6i3AqAZjzmIEZKhut+shOqD6wtKhUQHXP6kMxPoVx95Ex FTEOZd6wmAFLzBpqnCxmcla9e7GFAcladnscf8BJhBBq3hBlGY6fkkA43wQOl68T o78wi6XL96JR6rvVSAU3iLXceEQnj3q5o/RfK4cU+s2MMpsuc78iAEujQ2y7FUsU SESRB0UU/h3UggqquPjoEbRNW349OQGEP8Oe+cOIVar3ZCczZqyps1TNllALsYti C6Eo1tcK3fqsRc38GOdSvzp3xj7BkyvX0+lnGFVWrGgYEGyl+G6OzA== =N/hb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- If encryption is outlawed, only outlaws will have encryption...

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Mixmaster@remail.obscura.com
by de Wet Vorster 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Hi, Is this remailer still operational ? Will the following work ? :: Request-Remailing-To:CRIMSTOP@MAGNFS10.eskom.co.za Your help will be appreciated de Wet Vorster Eskom Corporate Investigations

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Re: Public Key Break Paper
by pgut001＠cs.auckland.ac.nz 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>John Young, <jya(a)pipeline.com>, writes: >>In early April we posted a message which referred to William H. Payne's paper >>"Public Key Cryptography is Easy to Break." > >First, it is not a general attack on public key cryptography, but rather it is >a specific method for attacking RSA. > >Second, I remember seeing this algorithm discussed on sci.crypt in the past, >probably in 1996. There was also a response/rebuttal to this paper in RSA's Ciphertext newsletter, Vol.2, No.1 (Summer 1994), p.9, "Public Key Cryptography is Not Easy to Break" which shows that it's not nearly as easy as the author of the original paper thinks. (I had another look at the unbalanced RSA proposal in the Autumn 1995 CryptoBytes as I was trying to find the above article, did anyone ever do anything with unbalanced RSA or was it just left as a curiosity?). Peter.

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Re: Question: RC5 assembly code?
by pgut001＠cs.auckland.ac.nz 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>I have the source code for RC5 encryption algorithm, but it is in C, well it >is still cool since it is "portable" but I am actually looking for a PowerPC >assembly code for the same, or at least for the Key Expansion, Encryption and >Decryption routines. > >The "formula" for RC5 is pretty interesting and looks like is made to be >implemented in Assembler. Not if it's x86 assembler. On the Pentium each rotate uses 4-5 non-pairable cycles, so rotates are very slow (each rotate is the equivalent of (in the best case) 8-10 normal instructions, so the two rotates in an RC5 round are the equivalent of 16-20 other instructions). According to Intel shifts and rotates have been optimised on the PPro so they're slight faster than on the P5, but I haven't looked at the details yet. I haven't tried to formulate the RC5 core in asm yet (because of the patent - what good is it writing code which noone can use?) but on Intel hardware it's certainly going to be a lot slower than it looks (the much more complex CAST core is faster than just the rotates from the RC5 core). This is kind of unfortunate, because it's a nice algorithm. Peter.

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A little list... [Re: Jim Bell goes to Jail!]
by Peter Trei 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

DCF writes: >At 09:12 PM 5/18/97 -0700, Alan Olsen wrote: >>Some of his statements could have been taken as advocating the killing of >>federal employees of various sorts. The question is whether he actually >>tried >>to arrange it in real life. (Which I doubt.) >In the U.S., it is legal to advocate killing anyone except Clinton and his >family and maybe the veep. >DCF While I think AP is appalling (I regard all premeditated killing as unacceptable, whether committed by the state or individuals), the following might be fun: Set up a web page which collects names of 'people you'd like to see hit by a bus'. This is a poll, not AP - no money is involved, and there is no suggestion that these desires be carried into action. Allow people to anonymously add their vote to names already on the list, or nominate new ones themselves. While there is the possibility of abuse (someone sets up a 'bot to nominate their ex-wife 10,000 times), clearly you would not want to try to keep track of who voted for who. I expect we'd see The Usual Suspects, and a lot of people who are known in only limited spheres (sports figures, widely disliked bosses and CEOs). There would also be many individuals with a single vote against them, and a lot of people notorious only on the net. One refinement might be to display names only for people with some threshold of strikes against them - say 20 votes. Another would be to allow people to register both 'yea' or 'nay' on names on the list. I don't have a facilities to set this up myself, so don't ask me. If someone else does it, I hope they check to see of there are any legal implications. Peter Trei trei(a)process.com --------------------------- [ KOKO (the newly appointed Grand High Executioner): I am happy to think that there will be no difficulty in finding plenty of people whose loss will be a distinct gain to society at large. SONG--KO-KO with CHORUS OF MEN. As some day it may happen that a victim must be found, I've got a little list--I've got a little list Of society offenders who might well be underground, And who never would be missed--who never would be missed! There's the pestilential nuisances who write for autographs-- All people who have flabby hands and irritating laughs-- All children who are up in dates, and floor you with 'em flat-- All persons who in shaking hands, shake hands with you like that-- And all third persons who on spoiling tete-a-tetes insist-- They'd none of 'em be missed--they'd none of 'em be missed! etc.... Gilbert & Sullivan, "The Mikado" ]

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Microsoft Responds To Java Security Issues By Posting Fix
by Site Builder Network 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Swiss Consortium Chooses RPK Fast Public Key Cryptosystem for Next Generation Wireless Electronic Transactions
by Jack Oswald 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Also see recent press coverage in Infoworld: RPK announces deal for fast crypto with Swiss consortium http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayStory.pl?97059.wrpk.htm SET 2.0 on the way http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayArchive.pl?/97/16/t04-16.1.htm PRESS RELEASE For Release May 19, 1997 RPK, Inc.: Jack Oswald, +1 408.479.7874, joswald(a)rpkusa.com, http://www.rpk.co.nz ADESA, Inc.: Maurice Jaccard,+41 22.910.29.14, maujacca(a)iprolink.ch Swiss Consortium Chooses RPK Fast Public Key Cryptosystem for Next Generation Wireless Electronic Transactions Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) and ADESA, Inc. introduce HAWK VLSI cryptography-enhanced processor San Francisco, CA - RPK, Inc. announced today that a consortium of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) and ADESA, Inc., a Swiss application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) design firm have chosen the RPK Fast Public Key Cryptosystem to provide strong cryptographic security in a next generation wireless electronic transactions application. At the same time, EPFL and ADESA unveiled HAWK a new generation cryptography-enhanced microprocessor specifically designed for use in high speed/low power embedded applications. "The RPK encryption technology won the design review after an extensive evaluation of all existing cryptosystems based on well known and understood cryptographic techniques," said Maurice Jaccard, Managing Director of ADESA, Inc. "With RPK there are no compromises. We get uncompromised security, high speed and low cost of implementation." "RPK is a strong encryption technology based on well know and trusted cryptographic techniques," said Jack Oswald, President and CEO of RPK Inc. "Having RPK chosen by the Swiss for this breakthrough electronic-commerce application is the strongest endorsement we could possibly achieve for the RPK technology." Wireless Electronic Transactions Application The collaboration of RPK, EPFL and ADESA has resulted in a prototype application that promises to become the "wallet of the future". This new wireless electronic transaction application may take the form of a credit card, a watch or a key chain and will sport features analogous to the leather wallets used today by billions of people worldwide. Early designs of the system allow the user to withdraw and hold cash in multiple currencies, as well as, purchase and hold vouchers for hotels, planes and car rentals all through the use of wireless communications technology. Officials in charge of the project envision that such devices could also become a personal key chain for gaining access to motor vehicles, offices and dwellings, in addition to traditional credit card uses. ADESA concluded that performance of the RPK implementation in the prototype far exceeded existing smart card implementations based on the RSA and other algorithms. The RPK technology performs the necessary encryption functions in less than 10 milliseconds using an 823-bit key compared to the best performing RSA-based equivalents that require greater than 100 milliseconds to perform the same type of function using a much weaker 512-bit key. The application is not limited to 823-bit keys. The design of the system, based on the new HAWK processor is flexible and can accommodate and process various sized keys, smaller or larger than 823 bits based on downloadable parameters. ADESA officials explained that the simplicity of the RPK algorithm makes it much simpler to implement than the popular RSA approach. It was RPK's simplicity, offering a much faster and cheaper solution while providing even higher security, that drove the choice over RSA for this application. About the RPK Fast Public Key Cryptosystem RPK is a relatively new public key cryptosystem that is based on mathematics widely used in cryptography today. It was designed to be immediately commercially viable without the years of study that a new area of mathematics normally requires, such as the Elliptic Curve Cryptosystem (ECC). The source of the security for RPK is the same as that of Diffie-Hellman key exchange, a widely used and well studied cryptographic technique. RPK offers real advantages for high speed networking, SmartCard, wireless communication applications as well as high volume software processes such as credit card transactions. RPK has at its core an invention called a Mixture Generator. In the preferred implementation, three fairly long linear feedback shift registers are used. This state machine has two modes of operation. One that uses the shift registers for exponentiation and the other as a generator of a random stream of bits used in a combining phase for the actual encryption. Effectively, RPK allows for the amortization of two "costly" exponentiations over the entire length of a message because the core engine is used to initially establish a secure state of the machine and then switches modes to perform very high speed encryption. This has been referred to as a paradigm shift where the operation of encryption does not require the costly calculations that an RSA or even an ECC implementation would require for each block of data that is about the size of the key. This mechanism can also be implemented in silicon quite efficiently such that at high strength it is much cheaper to produce than alternative technologies. Finally, it is also possible to create a Mixture Generator that is made up of Elliptic Curve groups which would provide a similarly speedy and efficient initialization mode that could still produce high speed encryption as noted above. About the HAWK VLSI Crypto Processor The HAWK VLSI cryptography-enhanced processor is the result of more than three years of research and development conducted at the EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland in the area of high speed compression and encryption. The HAWK processor will benefit most cryptography implementations but is particularly well suited for use with RPK. "The HAWK processor is the most innovative approach that we have seen yet for implementing cryptographic processes in silicon," said Bill Raike, Chief Technology Officer for RPK Inc. and inventor of the RPK fast public key cryptosystem. "HAWK breaks the barrier for high speed, low cost, low power and high strength encryption for embedded systems." Background RPK, Inc. is a supplier of next generation fast public key encryption technology. RPK was invented and originally patented in New Zealand. The company is therefore unaffected by restrictive U.S. export rules. RPK has been successfully exported to virtually all countries of the world at high strength. The company's headquarters are based in San Francisco, California, USA, with an offshore research and development center located outside of Auckland, New Zealand. http://www.rpk.co.nz ADESA, Inc. is a leading ASIC design firm based in Geneva, Switzerland with expertise in embedded and cryptographic applications. EPFL is a leading teaching and research technical institute in Lausanne, Switzerland. The school is known for its work in advanced processor design. ***

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Re: Public Key Break Paper
by Hal Finney 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Peter Gutmann, pgut001(a)cs.auckland.ac.nz, writes: > (I had another look at the unbalanced RSA proposal in the Autumn 1995 > CryptoBytes as I was trying to find the above article, did anyone ever do > anything with unbalanced RSA or was it just left as a curiosity?). The unbalanced RSA idea, by Shamir, was to choose primes p and q with p considerably less than q, e.g. p = 500 bits, q = 4500 bits. With numbers of this size, the difficulty of factoring a 5000 bit n = pq is still just as hard as if p and q were both about 2500 bits. Then, you only encrypt numbers < p, and it turns out that you can do the decryption mod p rather than mod n, so decrypt is much, much faster than for a conventional 5000 bit modulus. There have been some attacks on this. The main limitation is that the encrypted number is supposed to be < p. There is a chosen-cyphertext attack, taking an x a few bits larger than p, encrypting it, and asking for the resulting decryption. This produces x mod p, which combined with x can be used to find p. Another attack along these lines is to guess x about the size of p, send a legitimate message based on it, then watch the receiver's behavior to try to determine whether the message had decrypted correctly. If x < p it would decrypt OK, otherwise it would decrypt to garbage. Repeat this to narrow down an interval containing p. I believe these were presented by Quisquater at the Crypto 96 rump session, although I think he was referring in part to some attacks which had already been discovered. Hal

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Disneyfication, Privatization of the Public Domain... Turn the Planet into a Strip-Mall and Theme Park.....
by mf＠mediafilter.org 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Disneyfication, Privatization of the Public Domain... Turn the Planet into a Strip-Mall and Theme Park..... Hear the realaudio netcast of Infinity Factory Hosted by Richard Metzger of Disinfo.com talking with Paul Garrin about name.space and the future of the net. originally netcast live on May 11, 1997. (this is a realaudio link, so be prepared...) http://www.pseudo.com/archives/infinityMay11_1997_0848pm.ram name.space: http://name.space.xs2.net DisInfo: http://www.disinfo.com

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PGP version 5 source code?
by lucifer＠dhp.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Will PGP Inc make the source code for the new version of pgp available?

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Jim Bell 2
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The Oregonian, May 20, 1997, Metro Section P-1: IRS says suspect discussed sabotage An affidavit says a Vancouver man arrested Friday talked of sabotaging Portland's 9-1-1 computer and Bull Run water By John Painter, Jr., of the Oregonian staff Vancouver, Wash. -- A Vancouver man arrested Friday by Internal Revenue agents discussed sabotaging the computers in Portland's 9-1-1 center and talked about using a botulism toxin to contaminate the Bull Run water supply, a federal agent said Monday. James Dalton Bell, 38, appeared Monday afternoon in U.S. District Court in Tacoma and was accused in an 18-page affidavit of scheming to overthrow the U.S. government. U.S. Magistrate J. Kelly Arnold set Friday for a detention and preliminary hearing. The government has asked that Bell be held without bail because he is a danger to the community. Bell, who describes himself as a libertarian, has a history of tax disputes with the IRS, which says Bell "has a large, outstanding unpaid balance." Bell is the author of "Assassination Politics," a 10-part essay about a risk-free way of rewarding assassins who successfully kill designated public officials. The essay has circulated on the Internet. The strategy, which Bell says he wrote and posted for discussion, involves uses of encryption to predict and confirm assassinations and electronic digital cash to pay for the killings. Federal agents raided Bell's Vancouver home April 1. He is accused of obstructing government officers and employees and using false Social Security numbers. But government agents think he is far more dangerous than the charges suggest, the affidavit filed by IRS Inspector Phillip G. Scott said. Scott's affidavit said Bell, who has a chemistry degree from the Massaschusetts Institute of Technology, had discussions about using carbon fiber particles to attack computer systems with Greg Daly, a friend who is an electronics specialist overseeing Portland's 9-1-1 communications center. "Daly stated that he and Bell had 'laughed' about attacking the 9-1-1 center with fiber," the affidavit said. Daly also told IRS agents that he had hypothetical discussions with Bell about contaminating water supplies and about making botulism toxin from green beans, the affidavit said. In the April 17 and 18 interviews with IRS agents, Daly said that as part of his job, he "has keys and direct access to the Portland Bull Run water treatment facility." Daly said Monday that the conversations that he and Bell had were merely "intellectual fun-and-games discussions" between old friends who enjoy technical things. "There's a difference between reasonable freedom of speech and unreasonable probability of attack," Daly said. "Standing around and flapping our lips about how it would be funny is way different from even contemplating actual attack." Daly described his friend of 15 years as a "bit of an odd unit" but never dangerous and never serious about attacking the 9-1-1 systems or the Bull Run watershed. "I'd rat him out in a heartbeat for that," Daly said. Thursday, IRS agents searched the home of Robert East, a merchant radioman and a friend of Bell's. Among items seized was 3-foot length of carbon fiber. The affidavit said East told agents that he and Bell had discussed "the possibility of putting the fibers down the air vents of a federal building" to kill its computers and about using the fiber against the IRS. However, Bell has described himself as a "man of ideas, not action," and East said Bell was a "talker, not a doer." [End] Thanks to John Painter.

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Hey, what does this mean?
by Tim May 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Anybody know what this means? ARLINGTON, Va. (Reuter) - David Aaron, a Special Ambassador to an internationoal organization known as the OECD, has been arrested following a pre-dawn raid on his home in the posh Lake Barcroft section of Arlington, near Washington, D.C. According to Arlington detective Tom DeGongue, Aaron was charged Monday in Arlington Circuit Court with one felony count of possession of bomb-making instructions and one misdemeanor count of resisting arrest. According to DeGongue, there were indications found in the home that Aaron had also talked about nuclear weapons and terrorism with others, which could open the door for more charges to be filed. Speaking for Mr. Aaron, his attorney Charles L. Klausen stated that the alleged bomb-instructions were related to research Mr.Aaron had done for novels about terrorists and nuclear weapons, including "State Scarlet" and "Agents of Influence." "Mr. Aaron was legally entitled to read the materials allegedly containing bomb-making instructions," said Mr. Clausen. "In fact, the books seized and the tape-recordings of notes may also be protected by the Special Rights of Journalists Act of 1986," he added. Mr. Aaron could not be reached for comment. He was heard by several witnesses, including memmbers of the tabloid community invited in by the Arlington detectives, to say, "This is outrageous. I'm a well-respected member of the Cosmos Club and the Bohemian Club! I am establishing the world's crypto policy and I fly to capitals around the world. I'm not some two-bit militia member like that guy arrested out in Portland for talking about sabotaging computers! What do you think this is, Soviet Russia?"

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For Whom the Bell Tolls
by mpd＠netcom.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The current troubles for Jim Bell, and the representation in government affidavits that casual speculation with friends over infrastructure vulnerabilities constituted some sort of conspiracy to do harm, should make all Cypherpunks nervous. Indeed, such discussions about vulnerabilities and risks have been a central theme of this mailing list over the years. I hope I don't wake up tomorrow morning to headlines in the Seattle Times reading "Atomic Force Microscope Central in Duvos Smartcard Plot" or some equally silly thing, based on an out-of-context grep of the Web archives. It is unfortunate that in a country which advertises itself as some sort of bastion of free speech, one must constantly guard ones speech to make sure that it contains no snippets suitable for an inflammatory sound byte on the evening news. Just another of the many manifestations of "The Policeman Inside." -- Mike Duvos $ PGP 2.6 Public Key available $ mpd(a)netcom.com $ via Finger. $

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Re: The USA is the world's biggest terrorist state
by Peter Trei 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Tim may wrote: >[much over-the-top exaggeration of the eevull you-ess gubmint > deleted, then he gets personal:] > I noticed with interest this morning that Peter Trei had an interesting > thought experiment for implementing a variant of assassination politics. > Interesting because not much more than a week or two ago Peter was making > the point that I seemed to have gone off the deep end, or at least was no > longer writing "thoughtful" essays and/or was not focussing on what he > wanted to read about (a hopeless task, of course, to tune one's writings to > the interests of others). > Peter has now thrown in with the "let's see how AP might work." His > variant, "Who do we want to see hit with a bus?," is of course essentially > identical to AP. No, it is not. The above paragraph totally misconstrues what I posted, and I am (again) putting it into the record with this post that I oppose all forms of premeditated killing. What I posted was an idea for a POLL, nothing more. There was no suggestion that of any kind of action or incentive - no advocacy of murder, no anonymous cash, no payoffs, nothing. This is NOT 'implementing a variant of assassination politics', and I take strong exception to your implication that I would support such a thing. I really hate it when you misread, misconstrue, and misquote other people. You really seem to have a very tenuous love of truth and accuracy when falsehood will serve your purpose better (if you think that sounds like the tactics of a certain large organization you dislike, you're right.) Let's take just one paragraph from your latest screed. Can you back up all or even most of the points in it? I don't think so. You wrote: >The United States of America is the world's leading terrorist state. Matter of opinion. I suspect that Libya, Iraq, and Iran are better candidates. If you include internal terrorism, add China, North Korea, and many others ahead of the US. >From mining harbors in countries with democratically elected >governments... I've got only a quibble with this one. We did mine Managua, ie one harbor in one country. While this was clearly unacceptable behaviour, it does demonstrate your tendency to play fast and loose with numbers. >...to financing the blowing up of airliners by dissident >groups Really? Which ones? Be specific. Which airlines, which flights? What were the circumstances in each case? You're using plurals again, so you'd better have multiple instances. >...to assassinating dozens of leaders of countries the USA wished >to shape in different directions, the USA is Terror State Numero Uno. Dozens? As in 12+? Again, which ones? When? Any since the (Carter?) exec order forbidding attacks against heads of state? Tim, can you back up your words with facts, or are your recent posts "... full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."? There are sufficient *real* problems with US policy that your exaggerations are counter-productive. Peter Trei Disclaimer: My posts represent my own opinions, no one elses.

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Metal Virus
by mpd＠netcom.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

With all this talk of germ warfare and carbon fiber attacks, I started thinking of another useful technology which made its appearance a number of years ago, and promptly vanished from sight. Not so long ago, some university scientists invented a catalyst which, even in microscopic amounts, would prevent formation of the contiguous oxide film which protects metals from rapidly reacting with the oxygen in the air. They called a press conference to demonstrate their new invention, which was carried on CNN, and after placing one drop of their magic solution on a metal plate, held it in front of the cameras as white power erupted from various points on its surface and it promptly crumbled to pieces. Now I found this quite an interesting demonstration, and much to my non-surprise, this invention was never mentioned in the media again. A few years later, in an article for Omni Magazine on scientifically advanced technologies for knocking out critical infrastructure, G. Gordon Liddy made mention of a "Classified Liquid Metal Embrittlement Technology," in which a liquid catalyst could be concealed in a object like a magic marker, and applied in small amounts to structurally significant components of aircraft, which would later undergo catastrophic structural failure in fight. This sounded to me a whole lot like the stuff the scientists had shown on CNN in the press conference. Anyone remember this? Would any chemists in the audience care to hazard a guess as to the chemical composition of said catalyst and the mechanism of its interaction with the target to be destroyed? -- Mike Duvos $ PGP 2.6 Public Key available $ mpd(a)netcom.com $ via Finger. $

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Disneyfication, Privatization of the Public Domain... Turn the Planet into a Strip-Mall and Theme Park..... Corection!
by mf＠mediafilter.org 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Sorry if you received this twice! the link to the realaudio has been corrected! Disneyfication, Privatization of the Public Domain... Turn the Planet into a Strip-Mall and Theme Park..... Hear the realaudio netcast of Infinity Factory Hosted by Richard Metzger of Disinfo.com talking with Paul Garrin about name.space and the future of the net. originally netcast live on May 11, 1997. (this is a realaudio link, so be prepared...) http://www.pseudo.com/netcast/shows/infinity/archives/infinityMay11_1997_084 8pm.ram name.space: http://name.space.xs2.net DisInfo: http://www.disinfo.com

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Oregon Intel (Inside GAK)
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

5-21-97, PR Newswire: New Cryptanalysis Course Announced by NTI One Day Course for Corporate, Military and Law Enforcement Computer Specialists Covers Issues in Cryptography and Cryptanalysis Gresham, Ore., May 20 -- NTI today announced a one day class which gives corporate, military and law enforcement MIS personnel a state-of-the-art grounding on the topics of computer cryptography and cryptanalysis. With materials developed by Eric Thompson, one of the world leading experts in this field, attendees will receive instruction in the technological and procedural elements of cryptanalysis. Unlike other sources of information on the topic, this presentation covers the analysis of existing commercial applications and their weaknesses. This course joins NTI's other courses in forensic computer science. The forensic courses covers state-of-the-art information regarding computer evidence processing, evidence preservation and the identification of relevant data. "This class in cryptography grew out of requests for more information on encryption from our forensics course attendees. The course is highly focused and is presented with state-of-the-art materials," stated Michael R. Anderson, the President and co-founder of NTI, "and it covers material that has historically not been presented from a practical perspective. Computer and data security are rapidly becoming a top priority as organizations become increasingly aware of their vulnerability to information attack and encryption is a vital part of reducing that vulnerability." Topics covered in the NTI cryptography course include: Cryptographic terms and lexicon Basics of crypto system design Isolating cryptographic weakness in commercial systems Cryptography in electronic commerce Cryptography in Internet security applications International issues in cryptography and secure applications The Future of Cryptography and Cryptanalysis "Eric Thompson, our senior cryptographer, developed the materials used in the presentation of this unique course," continued Anderson. "Eric is a world class cryptographer, highly respected in both commercial and government cryptography circles. In this class he brings to the topic at hand real world, practical experience that has helped a majority of government agencies deal with encryption issues." Courses are regularly scheduled for presentation at the NTI headquarters in Gresham, Oregon, and at conference facilities throughout the United States; custom courses can also be scheduled for presentation at corporate or government sites. Attendance is $995 per person and includes all course materials, luncheon and a certificate of completion. NTI (New Technologies, Inc.) is a world leading developer of software utilities, procedures and training for computer forensics and enterprise system security. Founded in 1996 by a group of internationally recognized experts on computer forensics and security issues, the company is privately held with headquarters in Gresham, Oregon and field offices in Eugene, Oregon; Provo, Utah, and Atlanta, Georgia. Visit NTI's Internet web site at http://www.secure-data.com. 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Re: Forgery detection
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Date: Mon, 19 May 1997 14:35:57 -0600 (MDT) From: Graham-John Bullers <real(a)freenet.edmonton.ab.ca> Cc: cypherpunks(a)toad.com Subject: Re: Forgery detection On Mon, 19 May 1997, Anonymous wrote: I think Vulis needs each of us to send ten copies of this back to him. > Tim C. May is just another garden variety Intel pansy that has been misusing its > `manhole' so badly that the overstretched Graham-John Bullers cannot hold back the shit that > all Intellers are full of and it spills out onto this mailing list. > > /\_/\ > ( x x ) > -oo0-(o o)-0oo- Tim C. May > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Graham-John Bullers Modulator of alt.2600.modulated ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ email : real(a)freenet.edmonton.ab.ca : ab756(a)freenet.toronto.on.ca ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ http://www.freenet.edmonton.ab.ca/~real/index.html ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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Re: OTP
by nobody＠huge.cajones.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 00:23:51 -0600 (MDT) From: Graham-John Bullers <real(a)freenet.edmonton.ab.ca> Cc: cypherpunks(a)toad.com Subject: Re: OTP Sender: owner-cypherpunks(a)cyberpass.net Reply-To: Graham-John Bullers <real(a)freenet.edmonton.ab.ca> On Wed, 14 May 1997, lucifer Anonymous Remailer wrote: I think Vulis needs each of us to send ten copies of this back to him. > Timmy May's reheated, refurbished, and regurgitated cud is completely > inappropriate for the mailing lists into which it is cross-ruminated. > > \|/ > /~~~~~~~\ > | O O | > -ooo-----U-----ooo- Graham-John Bullers > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Graham-John Bullers Modulator of alt.2600.modulated ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ email : real(a)freenet.edmonton.ab.ca : ab756(a)freenet.toronto.on.ca ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ http://www.freenet.edmonton.ab.ca/~real/index.html ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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Re: The USA is the world's biggest terrorist state
by Tim May 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 7:47 AM -0800 5/20/97, Peter Trei wrote: >What I posted was an idea for a POLL, nothing more. There was no >suggestion that of any kind of action or incentive - no advocacy >of murder, no anonymous cash, no payoffs, nothing. This is NOT >'implementing a variant of assassination politics', and I take >strong exception to your implication that I would support such >a thing. All Bell ever proposed was a kind of POLL. A series of bets. There is very little distinction. In fact, were a POLL to be used as the scoreboarding mechanism, any number of clever derivatives of the same poll could be used to implement AP. (To flesh this out, imagine Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas posting the poll the way they post racing results...others could then take bets on who would appear on the poll. If "Janet Vegas" led the poll of "Living Persons Desired to be Dead," and I knew approximately when Janet Vegas were to die--similarities with AP intentional--then I could make a fair amount by betting that Janet Vegas would soon disappear from that list of "Living Persons Desired to be Dead" poll. My point was not that you were supporting the kiling of anyone, Peter, but that your playing around with a variant--and I maintain that this is what your POLL is--of Bell's variant is essentially just what Bell was doing. (I happen to think it's a lot cleaner and more efficient to have primary market, using untraceable contact and payment systems to contract for murders, and that Bell's AP was clumsy and inefficient and would probably have outcomes far from what he speculated might be the outcome.) > >I really hate it when you misread, misconstrue, and misquote >other people. You really seem to have a very tenuous love of truth >and accuracy when falsehood will serve your purpose better (if >you think that sounds like the tactics of a certain large >organization you dislike, you're right.) As I said, I wasn't claiming you supported AP or killings in general. I was noting that your playing with related ideas, which surely you must admit bear several similarities to AP, is just what Bell was doing. >Let's take just one paragraph from your latest screed. Can you back >up all or even most of the points in it? I don't think so. You wrote: > >>The United States of America is the world's leading terrorist state. > >Matter of opinion. I suspect that Libya, Iraq, and Iran are better >candidates. If you include internal terrorism, add China, North >Korea, and many others ahead of the US. As you say, a matter of opinon. Next point. > >>From mining harbors in countries with democratically elected >>governments... > >I've got only a quibble with this one. We did mine Managua, ie one >harbor in one country. While this was clearly unacceptable behaviour, >it does demonstrate your tendency to play fast and loose with >numbers. It seems you agree with me on this. Next point. >>...to financing the blowing up of airliners by dissident >>groups > >Really? Which ones? Be specific. Which airlines, which flights? >What were the circumstances in each case? You're using plurals >again, so you'd better have multiple instances. Cuban Airlines, for example, by CIA-funded Cuban guerillas. Cf. the URL http://www.cubaweb.cu/noticias/violence.html, one of many describing the details. "The U.S. government has taken almost no action against Cuban emigree terrorists who operate freely from U.S. territory, despite the fact that that country pretends to condemn terrorism around the world. Further, when Cuban defectors have hijacked planes and boats and/or killed people in the process, U.S. has refused to return them to Cuba for prosecution and, in fact, have released them with at most a gentle verbal slap. "The most awful terrorist action occurred on October 6, 1976, when a bomb planted aboard a "Cubana Airlines" plane exploted after the passenger jet took off from Barbados, killing all 73 people aboard -57 Cubans (including the entire fencing team), 11 Guyanese and 5 North Koreans." The CIA also engineered the bomb timers Terpil and Wilson, either CIA agents or CIA renegades, or both (you decide), used in several airliner destructions. (Why was the CIA building altitude-sensing bomb fuzes which could be disguised in radios? Only one guess allowed.) (It's also been reported that Abu Abbas has worked for the Agency, and that much of the Bekaa Valley/Syrian/Lebanese drug trade is connected with these areas. No time to write about it here, but do searches on BCCI, Abbas, Castle Bank, Terpil, Wilson, Bekaa, etc.) >>...to assassinating dozens of leaders of countries the USA wished >>to shape in different directions, the USA is Terror State Numero Uno. > >Dozens? As in 12+? Again, which ones? When? Any since the (Carter?) >exec order forbidding attacks against heads of state? It would take too long to find all the URLs and supporting evidence for a precise count, but here are some of the _countries_ and leaders in which the U.S. has been fairly convincingly linked to the killings: * Iran/Mossadegh * Algeria/Ben Bella * Congo/Lamumba (and the guy who came before or after) * Viet Nam, Diem, and other regional leaders * Cuba, several attempts on Castro, well-documented (they got Che Guevara) * Chile, Allende * several other smaller African nations, whose leaders were assassinated in what are believed to be CIA and DIA actions (or where CIA, etc. provided support) As to Carter's order, so? Do we know, or even have reason to believe, that Reagan, Bush, and even Clinton have not had government officials of even heads of state in other countries whacked? (Noriega claims, fairly convincingly, that he holed up in the Catholic hospital (or church, whatever) because he understood the desire of the U.S. was to kill him and not have to have a very public trial in the U.S. This is not a proved claim, but the "smoking gun" on these sorts of things is rarely found. Many analysts have stated that avoiding taking Noriega alive was a goal of "Operation Just Cause.") >Tim, can you back up your words with facts, or are your recent >posts "... full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."? Well, it seems we agreed the first "claim" was a matter of opinion, the second one was as I stated it, the third one was evidenced by the Cuban airliner blown up by CIA-funded terrorists (excuse me, "freedom fighters"), and possibly other examples in the Mideast. Which leaves the last point, about assassinations of foreign leaders. Counting all the killings of leaders, I believe the body count for U.S.-sponsored or -encouraged killings will exceed a dozen. Maybe a couple of dozen over the past several decades. In any case, if you want me to taken the "s" out of "dozens," as I cannot document 24 such kilings, I will be happy to. (Here's one analysis, of many, of the Lamumba situation: "CHARLAYNE HUNTER-GAULT: Le Mumba, the first democratically elected leader in all of Africa, was aligned with the Soviet Union, and in the post-independent chaos was murdered, if not with CIA help, many believed with CIA blessing. Urquhart argues that the politics of the Cold War severely retarded Zaire's political development. "SIR BRIAN URQUHART: These were proxy Cold War battles, and, of course, the Congo, now Zaire, originally got into trouble on an East-West split because the West of the United States backed President Kazabubu and the East and Soviet Union backed the prime minister, who was Patrice LaMumba." Add to this list the others I mentioned. I'd say it's fine tribute to a democartic people's republic like the USA. >There are sufficient *real* problems with US policy that >your exaggerations are counter-productive. > I stand by what I wrote. --Tim May There's something wrong when I'm a felon under an increasing number of laws. Only one response to the key grabbers is warranted: "Death to Tyrants!" ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay(a)got.net 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Higher Power: 2^1398269 | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."

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LSE UK crypto politics conference
by Adam Back 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I went to the conference in London on Monday organised by PI (Privacy Intl.) and GILC (Global Internet Liberty Campaign.) Speakers were DTI representatives, Whit Diffie, Phil Zimmermann, Ross Anderson, Carl Ellison, IBM UK representative, a few people from LSE (London School of Economics, who hosted the conference). I don't take notes, but here's a list of points I considered interesting. If you want details on any issues I can give more detail as required. If anyone else reading went and did take notes they might be able to attribute quotes a little more accurately. I understand there's supposed to be an audio transcript on the web http://www.privacy.org/pi/conference/dti might be a good place to look. Government Presentation of proposal 1) David Hendon and Nigel Hickson from DTI presented the DTIs arguments. They argued that this is a green paper only, the government has changed, the document was partly the views of the previous government and partly the views of the DTI. This I viewed as an attempt to deflect criticisms, as they could not specify what has changed, and were not planning to change the document. (The new government have not looked at the issue at all). The labour party had a much more reasonable policy they published before they got in power; but it remains to be seen whether they will stick to this or whether the CESG/GCHQ will lobby them to adopt GAK/TTPs etc., which are in the CESGs interests. They claimed to not want to escrow signature keys, but only to escrow encryption keys. (The wording in the document clearly states that they wish to escrow all keys as a condition of being a TTP). They said they had many comments on this issue. (Clearly the only use for escrowing signature keys is to allow forgeries. Why would the government want to forge messages from citizens? To provide law enforcement access they only need access to private encryption keys.) The DTI said much of licensing requirements for TTPs were modelled after banking regulations. Architectural and Technical 2) Ross Anderson gave the example of the health service's experience with CESG/GCHQ foisting flawed cryptography solution CASM on it (complete with key escrow and secret algorithm Red Pike). The BMA (British Medical Assoc), and even DoH (Dept of Health) rejected this `offer'. Ross is a computer security advisor to the BMA. He also debunked many of the lies spread by GAK proponents, and gave a potted history of the behind the scenes GAK activities in the UK and Europe. He also said that CASM was now the laughing stock of Europe in the crypto community, and that in response the CESG had allocated a new project manager and given CASM a cosmetic name change to CLOUD COVER. 3) Whit Diffie argued about the importance of privacy in the information society. Explained how PK crypto removed the previous problems with centralised key distribution services. 4) Phil Zimmermann gave his usual talk about the ethical case for free use of crypto. Civil rights workers, resistance fighters against governments with poor civil rights records, etc. Also made the point that the backdoor into crypto the DTI appeared to be pushing would allow the current government to abuse it's power to stay in government. Legal and Commercial 5) Peter Sommer, LSE made some points on legal topics digital signature legislation, etc. 6) Carl Ellison, Cybercash argued against the centralised trust model, and against X509. Arguing instead for distributed trust models particulary Rivest's SDSI and his own work on distributed trust. Carl argued that trust should represent permissions, and be administered by the interested parties. (eg your bank gives you a key with permission to draw money from your bank account, not some government licensed TTP). 7) IBM (in the form of Peter Dare, IBM UK) sold out to GAK. Peter Dare's presentation started with a list of things he liked about the DTI proposal, then a few minor criticisms (very respectfully put), and as a punchline to his talk presenting IBM GAKware (forget the product name) and his talk finished with a sales pitch for this product. At the end of which Whit Diffie shouted out from the audience can Carl Ellison have equal time for a cybercash sales pitch! International 8) John Dryden representing the OECD gave a presentation of the OECD guidelines. (T-shirt and jeans odd the rest of the government and business types wore suits.) He explained the guidelines as a significant relaxation. The guideline referring to key escrow was changed to a `may' escrow keys rather than a `should' escrow keys. Said most of the time spent during the OECD SOGIS discussions was spent arguing about key escrow. He considered the guidelines a significant step forward. The guidelines are non-binding recommendations. He said 28 countries signed up, which should indicate that their countries representatives found the guidelines consistent with national laws. 9) Alistair Kelman, visiting position at LSE Made the point (as several others had) that a general principle should be that trust should mirror existing user trust relationships. People do not trust government, nor the sort of large organisations the DTI is clearly envisaging as suitable TTPs. He argued that GPs (General Practitioners, family doctors) would be suitable candidates as trusted members of the local community. Kelman also seemed to be arguing that keys should handed to the user, and not generated by the user. I queried him about this afterwards, as it is clearly a bad security model, and he said he considered it a usability issue, generating keys being too difficult for the user. I don't agree, the usability is a matter to be solved by good software, not by centralising key generation. Civil Rights and Privacy 10) Simon Davies, PI argued that case for commonality of interests between business and privacy issues. 11) David Banisar, EPIC talked about the history of the US clipper series, and raised the topic of digital telephony bill (where the government requested access to first 1% and then reduced simultaneous wiretaps). Following up from this someone from the floor claimed that the telephone networks are tappable without the phone company (BT, British Telecom's) cooperation. Indeed the person making this claim (who claimed comprehensive experience and knowledge of phone routing hardware) said that BT would not even be aware that the tap had taken place. Several others in the audience confirmed this was the case. Whit Diffie said that he had not heard this claim, and that it was not the case to his knowledge in the US. The person making the claim said that he knew the switches used in the US were the same (and quoted the switch model), and so he didn't see why not. The question was raised as to why digital telephony was necessary at all with this type of phone switch being used in the US. Law Enforcement 12) The guy from NCIS (National Criminal Intelligence Service) didn't turn up because he had to go to hospital due to an eye problem. The chair, Prof Ian Angell, LSE suggested this might have been due to looking through too many keyholes :-) Panel and Open Discussion Panel: Carl Ellison, legal advisor to GLIC (forget name), Nigel Hickson DTI, someone from TIS (?) who spoke too quitely. Chair was Caspar Bowden, Scientists for Labour. Most of the panel session consisted of arguments directed at the DTI and questions for Nigel Hickson representing the DTI. Hickson had made jokes about the hostility he was expecting. He appeared quite competent at avoiding answering questions directly where this suited him. Each panelist was given the opportunity to summarise their position. Nigel Hickson claimed the main motivation for the proposal was to encourage user and business confidence in digital signatures for business purposes, and thereby to promote electronic commerce. He used this as justification for the banning of un-licensed TTPs. Several comments from the floor that it would be better to let the market decide, and to allow unlicensed certification authorities, key servers etc to continue unmolested, and in competition with GAKked government licensed services. Hickson also claimed key escrow was a small part of their consideration. (I'm sure it's true that this is the part they wish to downplay as this is the part which causes the majority of resistance.) The question was raised as to whether the DTI understood that the TTP system could be trivially bypassed by the criminals it was supposedly designed to catch. An example given was that anyone wishing to bypass could use the sigature key helpfully certified by the TTP to authenticate non escrowed keys they generated outside the TTP system. The point that there were many other subliminal channels was raised also. Nigel Hickson acknowledged this, but said in defence that some criminals are stupid, that criminals must talk to non-criminals. Someone put it to Hickson "What is the worst thing that could possibly happen if the government did nothing?" ie what if the government didn't legislate anything, ie why doesn't the government get the fuck out of the way so that business can get on with commerce unimpeded. Several business people put it to the DTI that they didn't need any `help', and that the regulations had held up electronic commerce for too long already. Several people argued that business is most interested in authentication, and not in confidentiality. So for business purposes (which what after all the DTI claim is the main reason for the paper, and the DTI being after all the `Department of Trade and Industry' and having a mandate to further the interests of UK businesses), they could achieve what they wanted without bringing escrow into the argument at all, as they have acknowledged that they will now not be requiring copies of secret part of signature keys. People argued against the high cost of becoming a TTP. The point was raised that it should be SME (Small to Medium-sized Enterprises) which are encouraged in electronic commerce. Also that many internet innovations start as small or even one man consultancies. Several asked whether the paper should be re-written as a result of comments before being presented to the new government, as the comments if listened to would remove most of the current content. Also the question was asked as to whether the deadline for comments could be extended beyond end of May. No substantive answer was given to either of these two questions. My conclusions The DTI didn't really clarify their position much, most of the contentious stuff (mandatory licensing, key escrow, financial barriers to becoming a TTP) there were no substantive replies to from the DTI, other than that they were collating the comments. They said they would present the Labour science minister/labour government with the green paper unmodified together with the comments. (And one presumes a few spooks from GCHQ/CESG will get the opportunity to present the four horsemen/spook special interest perspective). The only clear statement I noticed the DTI spokespersons make was that they wouldn't hold the private halves of signature keys. On the positive side, the labour statement on encryption prior to coming to office was no where near as draconian as the DTI paper. Anyway, we'll see. Adam -- Have *you* exported RSA today? --> http://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/ print pack"C*",split/\D+/,`echo "16iII*o\U@{$/=$z;[(pop,pop,unpack"H*",<> )]}\EsMsKsN0[lN*1lK[d2%Sa2/d0<X+d*lMLa^*lN%0]dsXx++lMlN/dsM0<J]dsJxp"|dc`

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