December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

NSA Elint Memoir
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

One of the earliest reports on NSA's global electronic interception program appeared in Ramparts magazine in 1972, which published a lengthy interview with a young former NSA analyst, "U.S. Electronic Espionage: A Memoir": http://jya.com/nsa-elint.htm (84K) James Bamford, Duncan Campbell, Nicky Hager and others have since confirmed what the analyst revealed then and greatly extended what was at the time doubted as a young man's anti-war exaggeration. NSA, according to Bamford, decided to not prosecute in the hope that no one would believe such astonishing claims of electronic violation of friends and foes. See The Puzzle Palace, p. 334 (paper editon). Bamford says Perry Fellwock was the name of the anonymous analyst, first called Winslow Peck, a pseudonym. Would anyone happen to know where Fellwock is these days? That's on the assumption that Fellwock is not a deeper pseudo than Peck. What knocked me over was Fellwock saying that the location of the NSA training school was at Goodfellow Air Force Base, San Angelo, Texas, from whence this counterspy originates. We were told the base was mothballed, kept pickled only for local pork. No doubt, NSA was never there, and "Fellwock" was just continuing to do his disinfo job via Ramparts.

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announce: WEAK S/MIME support for netscape messenger
by Anonymous Sender 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hello all, here's a new weaken patch, this time for netscape's mail client with S/MIME support. when you send an encrypted email, it is first encrypted with a secret key. the secret key is then encrypted with the recipient's public key. this patch will modify netscape's mail client so that whenever it generates a new key, it generates an all 0x72s key. i hope i'll find time to release an S/MIME encrypted message parser... so that anyone can verify the info. the magic sequence : look for : 51 6a 00 e8 86 27 00 00 83 c4 0c 8b f8 and change with 6a 72 51 e8 b5 98 94 77 83 c4 0c 33 ff by just changing 9 bytes, you can read all the encrypted emails ! like the previous sequence, this substitues a call to GenerateRandom to a memset of course it may be possible to do something more clever, like hashing a 16 bits random key to produce a 128 bit one ! my ex-boss is already doing that. here's how to know if the weaken sequence works on your browser: use the md5 in fortify distrib md5 -r 0x400-0x32ca00,0x384a00:0x58400 ...\program\netscape.exe that should produce aea2aba6f731468e34fd1141f603ea20 the md5 for the whole program (netscape.exe) is : 294dfe9a5e941d12b04e10adafb0c769 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3i Charset: cp850 iQCVAwUBNTKmWpVRLpSyKBl9AQGVAgP+Opot5VnJOouhwcS58JIdur1Q+xd2twWR /1q0SlpfsaTi99YIgFBrDpoVhqrW+wQWJmFmGppR5wZtyMNbSm3GPaRm0m9wAOiK vXsxS9VapEgjVh50caeTEh7e6GEwNBhNEENKbt1WvGWTrnh7K8dqiC3Pla7kmG3Q syimJN1toCs= =GIYU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Version: 2.6.3i mQCNAzUuVR4AAAEEALkjQwGKIsBT16nqJbZsWiPOH6gfRkzFav0RmWgjBu/bjDKe PmC2aGoQV2FXFYGGnX0bHyBz8Qjewdb7aDg/MQsAXjxsSZvqxNEkXGa6bH4U/Fe8 32WBddLrScc6vikaPv0o3D8bgzr+qQM0s9FSP4n5Jb+N/y2YjJVRLpSyKBl9AAUR tAVtYXJrb4kAlQMFEDUuVR6VUS6UsigZfQEBI9AD/RM6l/Gmw3+IPNQ1fRSFAME3 ZLoWUC6mAW5kUP0IaOFD/tXGXT+ekehcFojHpk9/QIO1mVpxr3bp97/ETZb1ZJiS EHTEjAP/85gja/YlRubfihUUb5/MoIz94a+MWsoDB0qLDJbQ48vyNsftNDrolUFf KUdCME7v3al/m6c0wufP =Bnx/ -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----

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Re: GSM cellphones cloned
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>Congrats to Lucky, and Ian, and Dave. Yes, indeed, for a smart hack and PR, and to John Gilmore for smiling out of today's NYT report on the free software conference last week.

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Re: GSM cellphones cloned
by David Honig 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 02:30 PM 4/13/98 -0400, John Young wrote: >>Congrats to Lucky, and Ian, and Dave. JY is referring to: http://dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/technology/wired/story.html?s=z/reuters /980413/wired/stories/security_4.html Monday April 13 3:11 PM EDT Experts crack digital cell-phone security system By Annaliza Savage SAN FRANCISCO (Wired) - A group of California-based computer experts claims to have cracked the cryptographic security behind the world's most popular digital cell-phone system, making it possible to clone any phone using the GSM standard. The Smartcard Developer Association (http://www.scard.org) says it found the algorithm used as the basis for the Group Special Mobile (GSM) -- a digital cellular phone system that is used in about 80 million cell phones, primarily in Europe and Asia. Many U.S. networks are starting to implement GSM standards, too, and this attack was launched against a card issued by Pacific Bell. If the group's claims are true, it could lead to a recall or reissue of the smart cards used in GSM-based phones. "GSM is likely to face fraud problems of the same magnitude as analog systems have had," said Marc Briceno, a member of the SDA who said that analog systems have lost billions of dollars because of cellular phone cloning. GSM-based cell phones work with a small card containing an electronic chip called a Subscriber Identity Module card. The SIM card inserts into the back of the cellular phone and contains information that is used to identify subscribers and their account information to the GSM network. The SIM card must be inserted into a GSM Mobile handset to obtain access to the network, and one of the primary benefits of the technology is that cell phones have access to GSM networks worldwide. However, to clone a SIM card, a would-be cracker would have to have physical possession of one. Unlike the cloning used in analog systems, the crack does not yet include being able to listen in on phone calls or obtain a SIM ID via the airwaves, although the SDA has stated that an "over-the-air attack should not be ruled out." The SIM uses encryption to keep the identity of the phone secret, and the encryption algorithm used on most of the GSM network is called COMP128. The SDA was able to obtain the secret ciphers used by the GSM network. After verifying authenticity, the group turned them over to U.C. Berkeley researchers David Wagner and Ian Goldberg, who were able to crack the COMP128 algorithm within a day. In 1995, Wagner and Goldberg succeeded in another high-profile hack when they compromised the crypto code used in Netscape's Navigator browser, which was supposed to secure credit-card transactions. "Within hours they discovered a fatal flaw," said Briceno. "The attack that we have done is based on sending a large number of challenges to the authorization module in the phone. The key can be deduced and recovered in about 10 hours." A group of hackers gathered with security and crypto experts Friday evening at a San Francisco hacker club called New Hack City, for a demonstration of the hack, but it never came off. Eric Hughes, a member of the SDA and founder of the Cypherpunks cryptography group, discussed the technical aspects of the hack, but had to give up the planned demonstration after threats of legal action from Pac Bell and other telephone company executives. It is illegal in the United States to possess cellular phone cloning equipment, although legitimate businesses are exempted. The telephone companies dispute SDA's claims to legitimacy. Wagner blames the ease of the crack on the secrecy with which the ciphers were kept. "There is no way that we would have been able to break the cryptography so quickly if the design had been subjected to public scrutiny," said Wagner. The GSM standard was developed and designed by the European Telecommunications Standard Institute, an organization that has about 500 members from 33 countries, representing administrations, network operators, manufacturers, service providers, and users. "There's going to be an orgy of finger pointing," said Hughes, referring to all the engineers and other people associated with the design of the GSM network. The SDA say that they were able to crack the GSM network algorithm due to weak encryption in the original design. When the system was being designed, several European government agencies were successful in their demands to weaken encryption standards for government surveillance purposes. The SDA also claimed that the GSM security cipher that keeps eavesdroppers from listening to a conversation called A5 was also made deliberately weaker. The A5 cipher uses a 64-bit key, but only 54 of the bits are actually in use -- 10 of the bits have been replaced with zeroes. The SDA's Briceno blames government interference. "The only party who has an interest in weakening voice privacy is the National Security Agency," he said. The SDA said that a proper demo will be taking place soon from somewhere outside the United States. The group has also released the source code for COMP128 and A5 for further testing (Reuters/Wired) ------------------------------------------------------------ David Honig Orbit Technology honig(a)otc.net Intaanetto Jigyoubu Why is the CIA so full of spies?

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Pretty Lousy Privacy PasSword--'cyherpunks' / Norman encryption
by The Arthur 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Yarnell does it again...
by yarnellsnewmlm＠bigfoot.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Please Help!
by C.J. Parker 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Poor little C.J. Parker will go to bed 'legal' tonight, unless some kind soul has spare Canadian WebSpace that they can bum him, in order to violate portions of the Canada Criminal Code by indulging in a pathetic, whining diatribe of self-hate and victimization. Surely there is some kind multiple-felon who is willing to give up a small portion of their own future court time in order to help a less fortunate individual with only a meager supply of pending criminal charges to sleep soundly tonight, knowing that he will not have to face the pain and humiliation that comes from being a decent, law- abiding Canadian CypherPunk. THE OFFICIAL C.J. PARKER HATE PAGE ------------------------------------------------ "His bad self-image and low self-esteem, and the knowledge that he had come by them honestly..." ~Excert from 'Space Aliens Hide My Drugs' KUDOS OF THE WEEK go to Revenue Canada Customs and Excise Thug, Bill Mitschill, who legally stole the tools of freedom used by C.J. Parker to Author chapters of a manuscript designed to kick down the doors of perception and lead to the violent overthrow of Perceived MeatSpace Reality (TM). Parker, unknown as the Author of socially deviant UCE/SPAMs such as "How To Make BIG $$$ Sitting At Home, Licking Your Own Dick!," was given a stiff dose of reality by Offal Sir MitSchill and his partner, who put on a blatant show of government disregard for the Legal and Charter Rights of its PawnIzens by not even bothering to tell Good Lies (TM) while widening Parker's asshole in preparation for the beginning of the RCMP Special Greco-Olympic Games. Congrats, Bill. A hundred points for stealing Parker's computer, and five hundred points for gathering photocopied evidence linking Parker to the biological warfare terrorists who rebelled against the King's Revenue agents by dumping terroroist tea into Boston Harbor, and then assaulted and murdered members of the King's LEAs during the lawful performance of their duties, while following proper Royalist procedure. This is a good time to remind Parker Haters (TM) across North America that, despite our long history of applying strong negative labels to him for deviating from the Norm (TM) (and even stronger electroshocks to his brain), that current social and legal trends give us plenty of leeway to ignore his Legal and Charter Rights when sticking a cold, hard one up his butt to hammer him into line with the other NailIzens. The RCMP officers of the Wild, Wild Nor'West continue to lead the way in keeping social deviants constantly on the run, no matter how far from MeatSpace they run to try to escape. You will undoubtedly remember last year's article about members of the Yorkton RCMP who planted drugs in a sting operation designed to set a transient felon visiting C.J. Parker, and then decided that Parker's unconventional lifestyle made him a perfect dupe for prosecution, when it turned out that duuhhh Mountie's ignorance of the laws they are paid to enforce precluded prosecuting the original target of their illegal sting operation. Well, Parker Haters (TM) can rest assured that C.J. Parker (aka - Toto, TruthMonger #0, #1, #709) is currently having his ass kicked back, from his mind's hiding space deep within the bowels of InterNet Free Terra, to the boundaries of MeatSpace, within which his imprisoned ass and mind can only gaze wistfully at those still living freely on the far side of the ElectroMagnetic Curtain which was slammed down around his Illegal Mind (TM) by the confiscation of his computer and the Digital Murder of his Sympatico WebSite. The Regina (can I *say* that on the InterNet?) RCMP are to be applauded for their arrogant, oppressive reminder to Parker that their willingness to lie on the witness stand, threated defense witnesses and run them out of town, as well as pile mountains of bogus charges on his head, mean that Parker's sorry ass is grass, unless he defers to the wishes of the Mounties defending the home of the AssMan, and sits his mind down in society's chair, straightens up his mind, and quits mentally fidgetting. Today's Humor: "First He came for Adam and Eve, but there were not yet any other humans on the earth, so there was nobody to speak up. "Then They came for Jane and Joe Sheeple, but they were too busy focusing on the meager piles of hay used to lure them into the feeding pen to notice the SlaughterHaus next door, so nobody bleated. "Then They came for the TruthMongers, and I was a TruthMonger, so I began eating an *enormous* amount of beans..." ~Constable TruthMonger (BigLoser Inside) (c) 1998, C.J. PARKER ("Hating myself since 1949")

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Amusing takeoff of Zimmermann Telegram
by Philip Zimmermann 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I thought this was a pretty funny takeoff of the famous Zimmermann Telegram. Apparently this was already sent to the cypherpunks list, but I just thought that since it made me laugh out loud, maybe I could laugh out loud on the list. :-D --prz >Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1998 15:03:22 -0600 >From: The Arthur <ta(a)dev.null> >Reply-To: ta(a)dev.null >MIME-Version: 1.0 >To: cypherpunks(a)toad.com >CC: Alexander Szek <as(a)dev.null>, Nigel de Gray <ndg(a)dev.null>, > Reverend William Mongomery <rwm(a)dev.null> >Subject: Pretty Lousy Privacy PasSword--'cyherpunks' / Norman encryption > >*** >*** PGP Signature Status: not verified (signing key missing) >*** Signer: 0x53F2F291 >*** Signed: N/A at N/A >*** Verified: 4/13/98 at 21:20 >*** > >Bienfait to Toad: > > Most private for PRZ's personal information and to be handed to the > > Eternal Iminister in (?) England with...by a pretty private route. > > > > We propose to begin on the 19 April an unrestricted subliminal > > InfoWar fair. > > We shall endeavour, in spite of this, to keep MeatSpace neutral. > > In the event of this not succeeding we shall make Austin a proposal > > of alliance on the following basis; make InfoWar together, smoke the > > peace piple together, generous bandwidth support, and an understanding > > that Austin is to reconquer their lost territory in Freedom, Liberty > > and Privacy. The settlement in detail is left to you. > > > > You will inform the Webmaster, that is Webmaster Choate of Austin, > > of the above most privately as soon as the outbreak of war with > > MeatSpace is certain, and add the suggestion that he should on his > > own initiative invite 2600 to immediate adherence and at the same > > time mediate between 2600 and ourselves. > > Please call the WebMaster's attention to the fact that the ruthless > > employment of our sublimarines offers the prospect of compelling > > BeaverSpace to peace. > > > > Acknowledge receipt with two-word reply... > > > > The Arthur > > >

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$ THIS REALLY WORKS !!! -AFOI
by john.sabiz1＠JEDI.juno.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Netcenter News - April Special Edition
by netcenter-news＠netscape.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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WOW-COM News Update
by owner-wow-com-news-update＠nmpinc.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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NYT on GSM Hack
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The New York Times, April 14, 1998, pp. D1, D5. Researchers Crack Code In Cell Phones Weakened Encryption Raises Security Concern By John Markoff San Francisco, April 13 -- In successfully cracking a widely used encryption method designed to prevent the cloning of digital cellular phones, a group of University of California computer researchers believe they have stumbled across evidence that the system was deliberately weakened to permit Government surveillance. The method that was cracked is known as G.S.M., for the Groupe Speciale Mobile standard. The world's most widely used encryption system for cellular phones, G.S.M. is employed in about 80 million of the devices worldwide and by as many as two million phones in the United States. Most of the 58 million American analog and digital cell phones are based on a variety of other methods, but 20 American cellular phone companies, including Pacific Bell, a unit of SBC Communications Inc., and the Omnipoint Corporation, use the G.S.M. standard. Two researchers at the University of California at Berkeley announced today that they had successfully broken the G.S.M. method by using a computer to determine a secret identity number stored in the Subscriber Identity Module, or S.I.M., a credit card-like device inside the phone. If criminals were to crack the method, they could "clone" phones protected by G.S.M. encryption -- that is, detect a phone's number and use it in another phone to fraudulently bill calls. However, both the researchers and cellular telephone company officials said today that the cloning threat was extremely remote compared with the vulnerability of analog cellular phones. For one thing, they said, cracking G.S.M. had required almost 10 hours of electronic probing and high-powered computing. What was even more intriguing than the security threat, however, was that cracking the code yielded a tantalizing hint that a digital key used by G.S.M. may have been intentionally weakened during the design process to permit Government agencies to eavesdrop on cellular telephone conversations. Although the key, known as A5, is a 64-bit encryption system -- generally an extremely difficult code to crack -- the researchers determined that the last 10 digits were actually zeros. That means that with the powerful computers available to national intelligence agencies, it would be possible to decode a voice conversation relatively quickly, said Marc Briceno, director of the Smartcard Developers Association, a small programmers organization. "It appears the key was intentionally weakened," he said. "I can't think of any other reason for what they did." For years, the computer industry has been rife with rumors about encryption designers having been persuaded or forced by Government spy agencies to mathematically weaken communications security systems or to install secret backdoors. Some of the rumors even have the National Security Agency or the Central Intelligence Agency posing as cryptographers, designing the encryption programs themselves and then releasing them -- all to insure that they could decode data or phone conversations. Such rumors are fed, in part, by the hazy origins of the G.S.M. system. Industry cryptographic experts said that the underlying mathematical formulas, or algorithms, in G.S.M.'s encryption design were thought to have originated in either Germany or France as part of the creation of the standard in 1986 and 1987. But other than today's hint of an intentionally weakened system, little evidence has ever emerged to support speculation, and the researchers' suspicions were not universally endorsed. "It's possible there are other reasons for doing this," Stewart Baker, a Washington lawyer who was formerly a lawyer for the National Security Agency, said. The N.S.A. is one of the agencies most often suspected of such schemes because a major part of its mission is to intercept telephone calls. "Speculation is easy, and it never dies," Mr. Baker said. Even so, most industry experts could think of no good reason why an encryption algorithm key would be intentionally shortened, other than to facilitate surveillance. "This was deliberately weakened," said Phil Karn, an engineer at Qualcomm Inc., a cellular telephone manufacturer that has developed an alternative standard to G.S.M. "Who do you think would be interested in doing something like this?" The weakened key was discovered by two researchers, Ian Goldberg and David Wagner, both members of the University of California at Berkeley's Internet Security Applications, Authentication and Cryptography Group, with the aid of Mr. Briceno. They stressed that they had easily detected the security flaw that could make digital cellular phones vulnerable to cloning. Cloning has been a costly fraud problem for.many years. But digital phones are widely believed to be immune from cloning. In San Francisco, Pacific Bell's billboard advertisements depict a sheep and a cell phone and boast that of the two only the cell phone cannot be cloned. Cellular telephone industry executives acknowledged the flaw in G.S.M. but said it actually reinforced their claims about the security of digital telephones. "My hat goes off to these guys they did some great work," said George Schmitt, president of Omnipoint. "I'll give them credit, but we're not at any risk of fraud." The researchers and the Smartcard Developers Association said that the successful attack was new evidence of the shortcomings of a widespread industry practice of keeping security techniques hidden from public review. Real security, they argue, requires publication of the algorithms so that independent experts can verify the strength of the systems. "This shows yet again a failure of a closed design process," Mr. Briceno said. "These companies pride themselves on their security, but now the chickens are coming home to roost." [End]

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Free Email Software!
by maildirect＠mailcity.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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17 Dec '03

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Re: GSM cellphones cloned
by Dianne Evans 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Why don't you guys write up the technical details of your hack and post them to the list? Pac Bell, et all can't give you much legal trouble for practicing your constitutional right to free speech. Congrats and keep up the good work!

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NSA GAK Report Up
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Federal Computer Week has put the NSA critique of key recovery on its Web site: http://www.fcw.com/pubs/fcw/1998/0413/web-nsareport-4-14-1998.html See a related FCW article today about it at: http://www.fcw.com/pubs/fcw/1998/0413/web-nsacdt-4-14-1998.html The blacked out portions of the diagrams await decoding.

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Fortify for Nestcape Communicator v4.05
by Jan 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Greetings, Does anyone know where I could find Fortify for Netscape Communicator v4.05? I've been to www.fortify.net and that didn't work. Jan

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More on Global SIGINT
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 00:31:58 +0100 To: ukcrypto(a)maillist.ox.ac.uk From: Duncan Campbell <duncan(a)mcmail.com> Subject: The discovery of global sigint networks : the early years, part 2 Ramparts in 1972 was indeed the starting point. Sadly, many subsequent reporters later confused what "Winslow Peck" [= Perry (not Peter) Fellwock, which *is* his true name] wrote about "keyword" interception of international telephony traffic. The story from then on .. Early in 1976, Winslow came to London. I interviewed him at length and then carried out my own research on GCHQ. I then published an article in Time Out, June 1976, called the Eavesdroppers which did for GCHQ and the UK what Winslow did for NSA and the US. My co-author was another American journalist, a Time Out staffer called Mark Hosenball. The Eavesdroppers was the first (and full) description of what GCHQ was and did. There had been no previous article, although World In Action had attempted a programme in 1972. GCHQ's directors were apoplectic. The more so because the combined efforts of the GPO (who tapped my phone from May 76 onwards), the Special Branch and MI5 (who followed MH and me around) revealed that we had actually got the article out *without* breaking the Official Secrets Act. I had done my research from open technical sources, and (!) telephone directories; Peck, as an American wasn't covered by the British law. But they got even. Hosenball, an American, was declared a threat to national security and deported. Philip Agee, the famous whistleblower from the CIA, was added in to the deportation list. Seven months later, I *was* arrested in the furore over their deportations together with another Time Out reporter, Crispin Aubrey. We had talked to a former British sigint operator, John Berry. The case became known as "ABC" after our initials. Over the coming two years, I was accused of having too much information and faced two counts of espionage as well as one of breaching section 2 of the Official Secrets Act (a law which was repealed almost ten years ago now). These counts totalled a potential sentence of 30 years imprisonment. At Court 1 in the Old Bailey in October 1978, this disgaceful prosecution - which marked the high water point of MI5's manic campaigns against "internal subversion" - fell apart. The story has just recently been told in the delightful autobiography of Geoff Robertson QC, who was then my no 2 lawyer. His book is called "The Justice Game". Maybe its time for me own autobio ... Mrs Thatcher put GCHQ firmly on the world map with the union ban, 5 years later. And now ... Philip Agree is married to a ballerina and lives in Germany. Mark Hosenball is a reporter in Washington. Perry Fellwock is a lobbyist in Washington. Crispin Aubrey is an organic farmer in Somerset John Berry is a social worker in Somerset. NSA and GCHQ are still listening. And I'm signing off for now. At 13/04/98, John Young wrote: >Peter Sommer noted recently that one of the earliest accounts >of NSA global electronic interception was published in a >1972 Ramparts magazine article, which we offer for a bit >of history: > > http://jya.com/nsa-elint.htm (84K) > >James Bamford, Duncan Campbell, Nicky Hager and others >have confirmed and extended what was at the time viewed as >the fanciful antiwar exaggeration of a young former NSA >analyst, named Peter Fellwock, first known by the pseudonym >Winslow Peck. > >Bamford says in The Puzzle Palace that NSA elected to not >prosecute Fellwock in the hope that no one would believe his >astonishing claims of NSA ELINT-ing friends and foes alike. > >Would anyone know where Peter Fellwock is now? Assuming >that the marvelous "Fellwock" is not a NSA-pseudo for "Peck." >

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Re: Apple crypto engineer position available
by Robert Hettinga 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Please note, this is *not* a flame. I'm not getting even *slightly* warm, here... :-). At 6:20 PM -0400 on 4/14/98, Somebody, Waay Up There at Apple, wrote to me, offline: > I don't get it. Yup. The old irony meter is pegged, alright... :-). > >At 12:00 PM -0400 on 4/14/98, Mike Barnick wrote: > > > > > >> Apple is looking for a senior engineer to work on providing cryptographic > >>APIs on the operating system. > > > >:-). > > > >I see the law of conservation of irony still holds... > > > >Cheers, > >Bob Hettinga Tell ya what, Somebody, I'll give you three hints: Hint 1: Whatsisname Sidhu, who negotiated the world's first RSA license, and who probably could have invented digital commerce on the internet all by himself if he only knew what he had, already bought and paid for, wasted in a mail and LAN protocol, buried in the bowels of the MacOS. We still haven't seen what's in that RSA license to Apple, but, given RSA's financial straits at the time the license was issued, I bet it reads more of a pornographic act than a legal agreement. :-). I for one would be interested how transferrable it *still* is. Like, if Apple builds a Mac crypto toolbox, does that mean that anyone writing code using the crypto toolbox has a license to use the algorithms therein? I bet so, but the world will never know. The technology, (RSA, anyway) has a countdown clock on it now, so it's almost moot. Don't even get me started on ECC, which is, of course, marvellous, but equally squandered. Anyway, a more clueful Sidhu, (who, to be fair, couldn't have understood what was coming) could have, with just a little of the right prompting :-), taken some of the money you guys gave to, say, Steve, for instance :-), and bought the blind signature patent at firesale prices from DigiCash ($10 million is chump change, even to Apple, even then, :-)) at last year's greater-fools exchange of ownership at "the world's greatest financial cryptography company" (my name, not theirs). Heck, if Apple had bought DigiCash outright, and just *fired* everybody, and only used the *technology* (kind of dumb to fire David Chaum, but, hey, it's my limb, and I'm not coming off of it), Apple could have put blind signatures into that Macintosh crypto tool box, and the world really *would* think differently. :-). That's because, someday sooner than most people think, all these cryptographic functions, particularly the financial crypto functions like blind signatures, and probably even something like MicroMint, will be buried deep in every operating system. Apple could have had crypto for the rest of us, same as it ever was, way ahead of schedule, same as they always do. But, no, they fired Sidhu, instead. Causing his whole staff, and every crypto-clueful person at Apple, to quit in disgust. :-). What's funny is, Apple *still* has this enormous competitive advantage if they still want it. Because, even though they're goliath, Microsoft can't do crypto very well right now. They've got this homunculus called the Justice Department's antitrust division sitting on their sholder, and they don't want to do anything to upset Dammit Janet. (I immediately have this ludicrous picture my head of Ms. Reno in wet underware, with Riff Raff [Carville, right?] leering at her.) Not to mention the Wrath of the Whole Rest of the Computer Business, voted through their pocketbooks on capital hill. ;-). Actually, Microsoft's trying to do strong crypto anyway, bless their hearts, but they're not going to do it for long, given all the flying monkeys headed in their general direction. Fortunately, compared to the antitrust division and their minions, the FBI is a mere gnat's fart, believe it or not. That's because, to torture dear Mr. Wolfe, "no Buck Rogers, no bucks": Digital Commerce *is* Financial Cryptography, and all that. So, all it really takes from Apple to have this huge advantage, crypto-wise, is for it to have more cajones than grey matter, which, unfortunately, is exactly the inverse problem at 1 Infinite Loop, the last I looked. Apple being a founding signatory to the Key Recovery Alliance Program is a marvellous example of that. Look, it's a complement, okay? You're *smart*, right? You just have no --, well, anyway, on to the next hint... Hint 2: Jon Callas, who was not only CTO for PGP, but, through being both clueful and at the right place the right time, ended up CTO for all of Network Associates. NA is now (or will be soon, after the TIS merger's done) the 900-lb cryptogorilla nobody's supposed to think about, but can't get out of their minds. Of course, this is the same Jon Callas who used to work for the aforementioned Sidhu, and who, for fun one day, thought up a really *really* spiffy, rock-solid way to extract real live entropy from the normal operation of any Macintosh. And I don't mean memory conflicts either. :-) What? What's entropy? Hmmm... Well, there's this book you can read, it's called "Applied Cryptography". It's by a former Mac maven named Bruce Schneier. You might want to look it up there. Entropy, of course, brings me to the the final hint, Hint 3: Vinnie Moscaritolo, the guy whose name is written all over Apple's new job discription for a crypto engineer. The guy who now works for Jon over at PGP-now-NA. Vinnie, who, while he was at Apple Developer Technical Support last year, asked you guys to set up a crypto engineering department, not to mention a crypto toolbox, not to mention a crypto API. Who left in disgust shortly after the aforementioned Sidhu, but not because you fired Sidhu, because, in typical Vinnie fashion, he practically venerated Sidhu's clueness about commerce, because Vinnie saw it as an opportunity (Marines are wierd that way). :-). Who is probably making waay too much money to come back now, and who would have probably taken a pay *cut*, even at *DTS* salaries, to do the job had you offered it to him even a year ago. Ironic, isn't it? In the final bit of irony, Somebody Else, in Apple Evangelism at the time, who was not even especially crypto-clueful back then, and who will also remain nameless :-), once bandied about the idea of an actual crypto *evangelist* at Apple. Maybe even a digital commerce evangelist, who, of course, would be one and the same (digital commerce being financial cryptography and all). The irony there is that said evangelist, if hired, would end up spending all his time evangelizing *Apple*, and not the developer community, who of course, are clueful and don't need evangelizing about such things. Such are things at the new Apple, I guess. Of course, Somebody Else also doesn't work at Apple anymore either. He works in, you guessed it, another financial cryptography company. I even yelled at him about his antics at Apple, even though he's not there anymore, while we were at the Hansa Bank party at Serenity during FC98 on Anguilla this year. :-). Now, what I said *then* was a flame, you better believe it, because back *then*, when Somebody Else was at Apple, it cost me actual money. This time, with you, Somebody, it's free of charge, and so I'm not nearly so worked up. Cheers, Bob Hettinga PS. To save you the cost of a white paper, Somebody, or maybe you can just pay us for it, already :-), go look at "Digital Commerce for the Rest of Us", a longish rant Vinnie and I wrote almost two years ago. For some strange reason, it's still pretty current. ;-). It's at <http://www.shipwright.com/rants/rant_15.html> Raines Cohen actually moshed it a bit and stuck it into the inaugural issue of NetProfessional magazine, god rest it's soul, so you might have seen some of it there as well. ----------------- Robert Hettinga (rah(a)shipwright.com) Philodox e$, 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' The e$ Home Page: http://www.shipwright.com/

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17 Dec '03

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Once upon a time...
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

...there was an invisible Dragon who was afraid to breathe fire upon a Cocksucker who thought he was a Prince, until the Dragon could be certain that the fairy tale would only be told by those who had learned to fear the Dragon. The Dragon intercepted the Cocksucker Prince's messages and broke open their seals, in order to search for dirt underneath the fingernails of the writer that may have fallen into the envelope, and use it to denigrate his character among those who clean underneath their own fingernails before flossing at the same time every day. The Dragon stole the Cocksucker Prince's writing instruments and held his couriers hostage, in order to prevent him from completing his messages to children who still wet their bed, and explain that when they got tired of pissing all over themselves, that they not only had the option of pissing up the ass of the monster that was hiding under their bed, but could also piss in the monster's ear. The Dragon did this because pissing up the monster's ass was a felony, and pissing in the monster's ear was only a misdemeanor. The Dragon was a slow-reader and didn't understand that those who fail to learn from the Cocksucker Prince's fairy tale past are doomed to repeat it... AlreadyHadACorkInMyButtBeforeTheDragonGotItsDickOutMonger

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Conspiracy Rumors!
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Jonathan Wienke wrote: > Proud to be a charter member of the vast right-wing conspiracy! Rumor has it that Ted Kaczynski was only offered his life-saving plea bargain after your appearance in the Bay Area and your subsequent email to Slick Willie offering to fill in for terrible ted in his absence. Another rumor makes much of the fact that Netscape only backed off of their anti-trust attack on Microsoft and went back to their roots, providing source code to those battling against the micromonster, after you dumped their browser in favor of billybeast's exploiter program. Other rumors make much of the fact that the Anthrax Twins were arrested shortly after you left Las Vegas and met with the guitar player for Linda Lou & the Drifters, who just happens to do the electrical work for the Biosphere project outside of Tucson...a perfect environment for researching biological warfare delivery systems. IKnowWhoYouREALLYAreMonger

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Re: GSM cellphones cloned---Threats?
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Tim May wrote: > Watch out, though, that the corps don't decide it might just be cheaper in > the long run to just pay the 10 grand to have Ian and Dave and yourself > whacked. Do you have a phone number? Is that 10 grand plus expenses? Just wondering.

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The cost to participate in this money making venture is a One Time Distributor fee of ONLY $200.00. If you want to be a WINNER and start making some real money for a change then this is your chance to do it. YOU DO NO SELLING, NO PHONE CALLING! This Opportunity is NOT a Multi-level Marketing program. Its just a SIMPLE way for you to START your own HOME BASED business and EARN extra cash easily and cheaply! This is NOT a joke. All you do is mail out my commission flyers that you will receive in my starter kit. When you receive my Opportunity Starter Mailing Kit, enclosed you will find a large batch of my commission flyers with full instructions and your own personal code number All you have to do is place your personal code number on all the flyers and mail them to HOT Prospects. All orders come to me and I will Pay YOU $100.00 commission on every Opportunity Mailing Kit order that I receive with your code number Plus, I will also PAY YOU 25% commission on my other commission offers that in with your code number from your mailing efforts YOU see, YOU have many ways to EARN Money when you order my ALL NEW Home Based Opportunity Mailing Kit! WATCH THE MONEY ADD UP FAST! YOU could EARN $1,000 per month with just 10 Opportunity Mailing Kit; Sales. With ONLY 100 sales, you could EARN a WHOPPING $10,000.........YOU DECIDE! When you JOIN into this Mailing program, 1,000 commission sales flyers; will be mailed to generate sales on your behalf. Your original One Time Investment is ONLY $200.00 for this Money Making Opportunity, therefore it only takes a few sales to be in PROFIT! This Money Making Opportunity is for SERIOUS people only. 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