December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: Stego-empty hard drives... (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 13:04:15 -0500 > From: Petro <petro(a)playboy.com> > Subject: Re: Stego-empty hard drives... (fwd) > At a certain threat level or level of "interest" in your affairs, > whether you can hide the fact that you are using crypto or not is going to > become irrelevant. When you're at that level you don't carry the data across the line you get some Johnnie Mnemonic to do it for you or put it in a diplomatic pouch... > If your opponent is using tempest, you are operating at that level. > Tempest is expensive, and I'd imagine would have to be calibrated not only > for each processor ([3-6]86, with all the variations (sx/dx, celeron, xenon > etc,) as well as the NEC. AMD. and Cyrix clones thereof, ARM & StrongARM > processors, PPC 601/3/4/G-3 processors, Motorola 68k processors, sparc > processors etc) but (if you are looking at what the POST & BIOS actually > does) for each BIOS AND OS. This is NOT an easy task, nor can it be done by > a Bozo operating a X-Ray machine at an airport. Consider that at any given time there are only a few hundred BIOS'es, made from a few dozen base images, driving all the machines out there. The number of companies that develop their own BIOS in toto for in-house products is next to nil (I know of none). What they do is buy a license and then re-write the sections they need to. The TEMPEST signal will be effected by speed, I see no reason to suspect that it's going to be processor dependant. Since the code gets executed in the same sequence in these shared BIOS there is going to be a shared footprint, which may get squeezed because of increased clock speed. Measuring that footprint at ranges of inches is nowhere near as expensive as trying to catch a monitor image from a block away. If you store those few thousand footprints and do a compare any bozo can in fact run the machine. Just sit and watch to see if the red light comes on and call your supervisor. ____________________________________________________________________ The seeker is a finder. Ancient Persian Proverb The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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Fwd: RE: HOAX: I don't care if this is real or not! But forwarding is not hard for me if I help
by Chiu Ngan 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Re[2]: ArcotSign (was Re: Does security depend on hardware?)
by jnbailly＠west.raytheon.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Woah.... I hate to interject noise, but I have to comment. Maybe Bruce's reply WAS a bit curt and not terribly helpful. But it's better to just let it drop, and not resort to criticizing typos. I'm a member of this list in the hopes that I'll learn something. While it's true that I didn't learn anything from Bruce's reply, I don't think anyone gains anything from grammar/spelling corrections! *smile* Jacob ______________________________ Reply Separator _________________________________ Subject: Re: ArcotSign (was Re: Does security depend on hardware?) Author: proff(a)iq.org at mime Date: 9/22/98 10:40 AM > >the legitimate user has, excepting the 'remembered secret'. Or is > >there anything wrong with my logic? > > Yes. There is something wrong with you logic. > > Bruce > ********************************************************************** > Bruce Schneier, President, Counterpane Systems Phone: 612-823-1098 There's something wrong with you grammer. Cheers, Julian. RFC-822-headers: Received: from CONVERSION-DAEMON by mail.hac.com (PMDF V5.1-12 #26580) id <0EZP00401AHMT4(a)mail.hac.com> for "jacob n bailly"@mime.mail.hac.com; Tue, 22 Sep 1998 12:37:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from PROCESS-DAEMON by mail.hac.com (PMDF V5.1-12 #26580) id <0EZP00401AHJSC(a)mail.hac.com> for "jacob n bailly"@mime.mail.hac.com; Tue, 22 Sep 1998 12:36:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fw-tu05.hac.com by mail.hac.com (PMDF V5.1-12 #26580) with ESMTP id <0EZP0028FAHI2D(a)mail.hac.com> for "jacob n bailly"@mime.mail.hac.com; Tue, 22 Sep 1998 12:36:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from toad.com ([140.174.2.1]) by fw-tu05.hac.com (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id MAA16615 for <jnbailly(a)west.raytheon.com>; Tue, 22 Sep 1998 12:38:01 -0700 (MST) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by toad.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA03863 for coderpunks-outgoing; Tue, 22 Sep 1998 10:40:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from iq.org (proff(a)frame-gw.iq.org [203.4.184.233]) by toad.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA03857 for <coderpunks(a)toad.com>; Tue, 22 Sep 1998 10:40:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 17488 invoked by uid 110); Tue, 22 Sep 1998 17:40:08 +0000 Date: Wed, 23 Sep 1998 03:40:08 +1000 (EST) From: proff(a)iq.org Subject: Re: ArcotSign (was Re: Does security depend on hardware?) In-reply-to: <4.0.2.19980922114142.00956610(a)mail.visi.com> Sender: owner-coderpunks(a)toad.com Message-id: <19980922174008.17487.qmail(a)iq.org> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Precedence: bulk

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by jal＠jb.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Re: Stego-empty hard drives... (fwd)
by Brian B. Riley 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On 9/22/98 3:48 PM, Jim Choate (ravage(a)einstein.ssz.com) passed this wisdom: >When you're at that level you don't carry the data across the line >you get some Johnnie Mnemonic to do it for you or put it in a >diplomatic pouch... I think the real answer here, and totally in keeping with the KISS rule, has already been suggested. If you have sensitive data you keep it on a PCMCIA hard drive card and remove it when not in use (or a CD-R or a ZipDisk, though the PCMCIA hard drive does allow it to be a 'working' volume featuring speed and capacity that a Zip or a CD-R cannot offer). It can work as easily for a desktop as for a laptop. You can add to the security of this by using your platform of choice's flavor of Secure Drive, Cryptdisk, PGPDisk, etc. The ultimate stego is that the card is nowhere near the computer with the main hard drive and they don't bother looking beyond when the drive evaluation turns nothing up. If its trafficking in illicit data the "mule' shouldn't even be carrying a computer (or maybe only a Palm Pilot!) so the hounds have even less reason to be looking for comp[uter stuff on him. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP for Personal Privacy 5.0 Charset: noconv iQEVAwUBNggY7j7r4fUXwraZAQG3swf8C3ypMG6EyI6t2I2LIpcwyV37Khv6Vm06 15HZ7rFOzrqwXG8RjDw4e99f5H76IG9FuDJUbUfJX0lS9aKtEaeeuSPUmtso8Au9 NrdTp3lHxMYJH9q+d8l1gVZWOnLQCjiJ7Ytd4LCmhmb3Ds58Sa41YoM71EFKZJkK AIBC2pmkRT1ido4uvtLc9qjPDf/jtLHVH17tMdBKCvn6R8jbLq4QHk6T0J9rJt1O +owC6R8YGpWjXPkIicsgfDD6qJiyyLLAMRX/1qWLVI+2CjeImhMsUGjafkq98x/B UU6bGq8B5m2aJmpVMqGFceuJe4mUTtqxLfYF/MlwLokib7ap8+EEZw== =A9fC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- Brian B. Riley --> http://members.macconnect.com/~brianbr For PGP Keys <mailto:brianbr@together.net?subject=Get%20PGP%20Key> "First say to your self what you would be; then do what you have to do." Epictetus (35-135 A.D.)

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Re: Stego-empty hard drives... (fwd)
by Brian B. Riley 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On 9/22/98 1:43 PM, Jim Choate (ravage(a)einstein.ssz.com) passed this wisdom: >Forwarded message: > >> Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 11:07:34 -0500 >> From: Petro <petro(a)playboy.com> >> Subject: Re: Stego-empty hard drives... (fwd) > >> I don't know how hard this would be, but how about running a >> seperate memory check, and while those numbers are flashing on the screen, >> do the wait for imput? > >So hide the keyscan in the memory counter code. Would work externaly, would >probably not show up on TEMPEST. Since both the keyscan and the memory scan >are repetitive TEMPEST might have a problem telling them apart. Provided you >could get the keyscan in the same footprint as the mem check the BIOS >would not show up as anomolous in size. As long as they're not running >around doing checksums you'd be ok (I suspect). Don't most memory scans do a keyscan anyway? looking for an ESC to bypass the scan? So have it also check for something else to bring up your special routine. It should pass all but the most detailed signature analysis. Brian B. Riley --> http://members.macconnect.com/~brianbr For PGP Keys <mailto:brianbr@together.net?subject=Get%20PGP%20Key> "Give a man a fish and you have fed him for a day, but give him a case of dynamite and soon the village will be showered with mud and seaweed and unidentifiable chunks of fish." -Joe Chew

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Re: Stego-empty hard drives... (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > Subject: Re: Stego-empty hard drives... (fwd) > Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 18:04:28 -0400 > From: "Brian B. Riley" <brianbr(a)together.net> > Don't most memory scans do a keyscan anyway? looking for an ESC to > bypass the scan? Some do, some don't. A lot of new machines resolve those issues in the BIOS with a setting that allows you to choose between a couple of options at post. > So have it also check for something else to bring up > your special routine. It should pass all but the most detailed signature > analysis. Maybe, the fact that you've added an extra block of code in there to check for the additional keystroke would cause the cycle length of that section of ML to be slightly longer, probably no more than 30 - 40 clock cycles. If you're looking at the EM radiation that lengthening could show up. ____________________________________________________________________ The seeker is a finder. Ancient Persian Proverb The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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17 Dec '03

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respect due to anonymous (Re: CHALLENGE response (fwd)) (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 20:20:37 +0100 > From: Adam Back <aba(a)dcs.ex.ac.uk> > Subject: respect due to anonymous (Re: CHALLENGE response (fwd)) > Munge signatures!? He generated an RSA key pair to match the > pre-published signature based on generating primes of special form > and/or using multiple smaller primes to construct an n which he could > perform discrete logs in (plus a dead beef attack), and all you can > say is the above. You should take you hat off to anonymous. What he did is respectable. Is he the first? I doubt it. ____________________________________________________________________ The seeker is a finder. Ancient Persian Proverb The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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public key problems
by bill payne 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Tuesday 9/22/98 5:59 PM Smith http://www.softwar.net/softd.html I am reading http://www.softwar.net/mcc.html I scanned-in the attached letter from McNamara. Morales and I have been considering an appropriate response. Public key has cost NSA and the gov BIG BUCKs. Numerical analyst Richard Hanson worked in the same math group as Simmons, Brickell and Norris. http://www.vni.com/products/imsl/hanson.html Mike Norris, Hanson told me, designed the reciprocal approximation used for division. Hanson told me several days ago he knows what went wrong mathematically. Hanson told me that he is even thinking of writing an article about it. I WAS TOLD what went wrong electronically. By John Wisniewski. And FUNCTIONALLY by Ron Kulju. best bill NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY FORT GEORGE G. MEADE, MARYLAND 20755-6000 Serial: J9343A-98 19 August 1998 Mr. William H. Payne 13015 Calle de Sandias Albuquerque, NM 87111 Dear Mr. Payne: This replies to your 15 May 1998 letter appealing the National Security Agency's (NSA) decision to deny your request for a fee waiver for your Freedom of Information Act request for invoices from various companies to NSA for payments for developing public key-related chips or Clipper chip-related hardware between January 1980 and February 1998. Your appeal was received in the Office of General Counsel on 29 May 1998. I have reviewed your 27 February 1998 request, the Office of Policy's 30 March 1998 response, and your appeal letter; and I have concluded that the fee waiver should not be granted. In reaching this decision, a number of factors were evaluated in light of the Act's purpose of promoting an informed citizenry. The key issue I considered in my review is whether disclosure of the information is likely to contribute to the pubic understanding of the operations or activities of the government. See 5 U.S.C. § 552 (a)(4XA)(iii). Implicit in this standard is a requirement to assess the nature of the information requested and whether it will likely be disseminated to the general public and will contribute to increased public understanding of the operations of the government. In order to support a fee waiver; the connection between furnishing the requested information and benefiting the public should be substantial. You have not indicated how you intend to disseminate any information which might be released; we assume that you intend to place the material on the Internet. Making information available by posting it on the Internet so that a segment of interested persons might seek access to it does not meet the burden of demonstrating with particularity that the information will significantly contribute to the understanding of the public at large. You have not demonstrated that you have the skills and knowledge to be able to compile, analyze, and turn the materials into a distinct work understandable to the general public. Accordingly, I have determined that the public interest is better served in this instance by requiring, rather than waiving, the fee assessment. This response may be construed as a denial of your appeal. Accordingly, you are hereby advised of your right to seek judicial review of my decision pursuant to 5 U.S.C. § 552(a)(4)B) in the United States District Court in the district in which you reside, in which you have your principal place of business, in which the Agency's records are situated (U.S. District Court of Maryland), or in the District of Columbia. As the Deputy Director of Policy explained to you, you have been placed in the"all other" category for fee purposes; this entitles you to 2 hours of search time and up to 100 pages free of charge. Your case file has been returned to the Office of Policy. Processing of your request has been suspended pending receipt of your certified check or money order made payable to the Treasurer of United States in the amount of $750.00. If you have any questions or wish to narrow your request in order to reduce fees, please contact the Office of Policy between 0830 and 1600 EST on 301-688-6527. If we do not hear from you within 30 days, we will assume you are not interested in pursuing this request. Sincerely, BARBARA A. McNAMARA Freedom of Information Act/Privacy Act Appeals Authority Friday February 27, 1998 3:15 PM By e-mail and US mail Lieutenant General Kenneth A Minihan, USAF Director, National Security Agency National Security Agency 9800 Savage Road Fort George G. Meade, MD 20755-6000 Dear General Minihan: Purposes of the letter are to 1 request information under the Freedom of Information Act 2 explore settlement possibilities of our current lawsuit. In about 1986 Sandia National Laboratories assigned me the task of design and construction of a Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty seismic data authenticator. In the initial stages of the project, Sandia cryptographer Gustavus Simmons attempted to convince both Sandia management and NSA employees Tom White, Mark Unkenholtz, and Ed Georgio that a form of public key authentication should replace NSA employee Ronald Benincasa's National Seismic Station/Unmaned Seismic Observatory 11-bit data authentication algorithm. My Sandia supervisor John Holovka and project leader H B [Jim] Durham ordered me to write a paper explaining public key cryptography. This paper, RSA ENCRYPTION, along with my SAND report describing my implementation of Benincasa's algorithm and filings in our lawsuit, now appear on Internet at http://www.jya.com/index.htm, click CRYPTOME, then OpEd, then http://www.jya.com/whprsa.htm. Sandia explored the merits of switching from Benincasa's algorithm to a public key-based authentication method suggested by Simmons. For Sandia's evaluation of the merits of public key, electronic tagging, and Bureau of Engraving and Printing projects , I bought for Sandia samples both the Cylink CY1024 and AT&T A & B two chip sets for modulo m arithmetic computations. NSA employee Tom White sent me a copy of the SECRET classified NSA report on IBM's hardware public key chip FIREFLY. I wrote in my tutorial paper RSA hardware computations The slow speed of software RSA computations plus the potential wide use prompted several companies to build chips which compute modular arithmetic to at least several hundred bits. Most of these chips "cascade" to compute with a larger number of bits. Corporations involved in building these chips are 1 IBM Firefly 2 AT&T 3 Motorola (apparently a three chip set) 4 Cylink Pittway-First alert 5 Sandia Labs (Algorithm M and predecessor chip) Details of the IBM chip is classified. AT&T as of July 1987 has not released details of their chip. Little information is available on the Motorola chip set. The Cylink chip is commercially available. Its price dropped from $1,500 to $600 each in June 1987. Data is transferred to and from the chip with serial shift register communication. The early Sandia chip was limited in speed. The replacement chip is cascadeable, communicates with 8 or 16 bits parallel, matches the speed of the Cylink chip, but is not out of fabrication. Rumors circulate that there is about an order of magnitude performance difference between some of these chips. These hardware chips improve exponentiation speed about 3 orders of magnitude over software implementation benchmarked on an Intel 8086 family microcomputer. Whitfield Diffie writes about both the Cylink and Sandia chips. And is quoted at http://www.aci.net/kalliste/nukearse.htm. Sandia had terrible luck with its public key chips. I reported SOME of the troubles to Electronic Engineering Times editor Loring Wirbel [http://techweb.cmp.com/eet/823/] on March 23, 1994. Dr. John Wisniewski was a supervisor at Sandia's Center for Radiation-hardened Microelectronics. Wisniewski was a graduate student at Washington State University in about 1975. I was a professor at WSU. Wisniewski knows all about the failing Sandia chips in the nuclear arsenal. I took notes on February 13, 1993. Wisniewski reviewed the problems again for me. 1 No quality initiative. Each chip lot had a different process. 2 Overall yield - 40-50%. Down to 10% after packaging. 3 Metalization problems. No planarization. No flow of glass. Couldn't use high temperature. Step coverage problems. Layed down over tension. 100% field returns over several years. 4 Sandia would store lots of parts for replacements. Sandia management made the decision to place low yield parts in the nuclear arsenal. Sandia must meet DOD schedules management reasoned. Hundreds of millions spent on CRM. Sandia must show productivity. Wisniewski told me that low yield chip test survivors are those whichthe tests failed to detect failures. Wisniewski will talk. 503-625-6408. Wisniewski now works for Intel in Oregon. Have Wisniewski tell you about the fire in the CRM clean room! Sandia supervisor Jerry Allen later told me it cost $300,000 each to remove Sandia's failing chips at Pantex from a nuclear bomb. NSA apparently is biased toward hardware implementations of cryptographic and authentication algorithms. As opposed to software implementation. NSA representatives and Sandia management decided not to use a public key authentication scheme for its CTBT seismic data authenticator because of all of the problems with implementing public key algorithms. But NSA surely has spent MUCH MONEY on public key chip implementations. NSA is promoting its Clipper crypto chips as described at http://cpsr.org/dox/clipper.html. And we get some information about technical specifications of NSA's Clipper chip at http://www.us.net/softwar/http://www.us.net/softwar/clip.html Clipper Chip Information MYK-78 CLIPPER CHIP ENCRYPTION/DECRYPTION ON A CHIP 1 micron double level metal CMOS technology 0.35 watts power 28 pin plastic leaded chip carrier (PLCC) package Transistor to transistor logic (TTL) interface Chip ID, family key and device unique key are installed at programming. Chip ID, family key and device unique key are installed at programming facility and are completely transparent to the user. Therefore, Under the provision of the Freedom of Information Act, 5 USC 552, I am requesting access to: 1 Copies of all invoices from A AT&T B Motorola C IBM D Sandia National Laboratories to NSA for payments for developing ANY public key-related chips between January 1, 1980 and February 27, 1998. 2 Copies of all invoices to NSA from ANY corporation involved in development of ANY Clipper chip-related hardware between January 1, 1980 and February 27, 1998. The public has a right to know how much NSA spent on TRYING monoploize the crypto business. If there are any fees for searching for, or copying, the records I have requested, please inform me before you fill the request. As you know, the Act permits you to reduce or waive the fees when the release of the information is considered as "primarily benefiting the public." I believe that this requests fits that category and I therefore ask that you waive any fees. If all or any part of this request is denied, please cite the specific exemption(s) which you think justifies your refusal to release the information and inform me of your agency's administrative appeal procedures available to me under the law. I would appreciate your handling this request as quickly as possible, and I look forward to hearing from you within 20 working days, as the law stipulates. With respect to our current FOIA lawsuit, I feel that we should settle this unfortunate matter. I see from your biography at http://www.nsa.gov:8080/ and http://www.nsa.gov:8080/dirnsa/dirnsa.html that you are 1979 Distinguished Graduate Master of Arts degree in National Security Affairs Naval Postgraduate School Monterey, California One of my former M.S. and Ph.D students in Computer Science, Ted Lewis, is currently the chairman of Computer Science at Naval Postgraduate School [http://www.friction-free-economy.com/] Small world. But I think that this emphasizes that WE SHOULD all be on the same side. Not engaged in a conflict in US federal court. Or on Internet. NSA attempts to withhold requested information are possibly unwise. In our wired world the aggrieved know what happened to them. [http://www.aci.net/kalliste/speccoll.htm] http://www.wpiran.org/, http://www.netlink.co.uk/users/impact/namir/namirm.html And moderates in Iran, [http://persia.org/khatami/biography.html] appear want settlement too. My family and I have been damaged by these crypto wars. I ask you that consider fair settlement of damages caused by the National Security Agency. I cannot find your e-mail address on Internet. Therefore I will forward the e-mail copy of this FOIA/settlement letter to Ray Kammer of NIST [http://www.nist.gov/] who along with the FBI [http://www.fbi.gov/, http://www.fbi.gov/fo/nyfo/nytwa.htmand] and NSA are trying to control the crypto business so that Kammer can possibly forward an e-mail copy of the FOIA/Settlement letter to you. Sincerely, bill William Payne 13015 Calle de Sandias Albuquerque, NM 87111 505-292-7037 [I am not reading e-mail]

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Re: (99% noise) Stego-empty hard drives... (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 19:45:34 -0400 > From: Sunder <sunder(a)brainlink.com> > Subject: Re: (99% noise) Stego-empty hard drives... (fwd) > Jim Choate wrote: > > > Consider that at any given time there are only a few hundred BIOS'es, made > > from a few dozen base images, driving all the machines out there. The number > > of companies that develop their own BIOS in toto for in-house products is next > > to nil (I know of none). What they do is buy a license and then re-write the > > sections they need to. > > See: http://www.ping.be/bios/ for bioses and flash upgrades. Ok, so I went and looked. That particular page covers ONLY Award and AMI BIOS's. Every one of those *thousands* of machines have a BIOS which is about 90% cherry and built from only a few dozen base builds. It actualy supports my premise that despite the thousands of machines the base BIOS images that drive them are really not that large. > Come on guys, this is silly. Why the fuck would the UK tempest scan your > notebooks? Manufacturers produce new machines every month, each with modified > BIOSes for the features in their new notebooks, with hardware variations and > imperfection, with different power levels of batteries, different PC cards > installed, different CPU speeds, different options and other inconsistencies > you get a very difficult situation. And everyone one of them available publicly. You seriously think it's harder to keep up with the number of BIOS'es out there than say tracking the number of international phone calls in a year? > Your speculation that someone out there will tempest scan to see if you've > modded your notebook is silly. Are you just pissing against the wind, or do > you have knowledge that they actually do this? Not if it is only one or two, if it becomes a serious issue you bet they'll do it in a heartbeat. > You're forgetting your threat model and planning for a level that's beyond > demented paranoia. Your absolutely correct, they are paranoid. ____________________________________________________________________ The seeker is a finder. Ancient Persian Proverb The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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Re: CHALLENGE response
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> What form are your primes (did you use Maurers idea to increase the > relative hardness of factoring compared to discrete log, or did you > just use more smaller primes?) How many primes have you used, and how > many CPU hours did it take to calculate the discrete log to discover e? N is the product of two primes, but each p-1 has about 16 small prime factors (about 25-35 bits) to allow calculating the discrete log efficiently. With this choice of primes it took about three hours to run the discrete log. > Also is the code for finding discrete logs given the prime > factorisation of the modulus available? Here you go. This uses cryptolib by Jack Lacy of AT&T (not to be confused with cryptlib by Peter Gutmann), available from ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/crypt/cryptography/libs/cryptolib_1.1.tar.gz /* Calculate discrete log using various algorithms */ /* Algorithms based on Handbook of Applied Cryptography by Menezes et al */ #include "libcrypt.h" /* Modular multiplication - m1*m2 mod n */ static void bigMultiplyN (BigInt m1, BigInt m2, BigInt n, BigInt result) { BigInt tmp = bigInit(0); bigMultiply (m1, m2, tmp); bigMod (tmp, n, result); freeBignum (tmp); } /* Modular addition, m1+m2 mod n */ static void bigAddN (BigInt m1, BigInt m2, BigInt n, BigInt result) { bigAdd (m1, m2, result); if (bigCompare (result, n) >= 0) bigSubtract (result, n, result); } /* Iterate the pollard rho. Modify x, a, b with next values */ static void prhoiter (BigInt base, BigInt val, BigInt mod, BigInt order, BigInt *x, BigInt *a, BigInt *b) { int xgroup; /* First decide what group x is in */ /* This is a cheat to be fast */ xgroup = ((unsigned)(*x)->num[0]+1) % 3; switch (xgroup) { case 0: bigMultiplyN (*x, val, mod, *x); bigAddN (*b, one, order, *b); break; case 1: bigMultiplyN (*x, *x, mod, *x); bigAddN (*a, *a, order, *a); bigAddN (*b, *b, order, *b); break; case 2: bigMultiplyN (*x, base, mod, *x); bigAddN (*a, one, order, *a); break; } } /* Pollard rho algorithm for discrete log */ BigInt pollardrho (BigInt base, BigInt val, BigInt mod, BigInt order) { BigInt x = bigInit(1), a = bigInit(0), b = bigInit(0), x2 = bigInit(1), a2 = bigInit(0), b2 = bigInit(0); int cnt = 0; for ( ; ; ) { prhoiter (base, val, mod, order, &x, &a, &b); prhoiter (base, val, mod, order, &x2, &a2, &b2); prhoiter (base, val, mod, order, &x2, &a2, &b2); if (bigCompare (x, x2) == 0) break; if (++cnt % 1000 == 0) { printf ("%d\r", cnt); fflush (stdout); } } if (cnt >= 1000) printf ("\n"); if (bigCompare (b, b2) < 0) bigAdd (order, b, b); bigSubtract (b, b2, b); if (bigCompare (a2, a) < 0) bigAdd (order, a2, a2); bigSubtract (a2, a, a); if (bigCompare (b, zero) == 0) { printf ("Pollard rho failed\n"); exit (1); } getInverse (b, order, b2); bigMultiplyN (a, b2, order, a); return a; } /* * Do the CRT with multiple congruences. congs are the values that the * answer should be congruent to, mods are the moduli for each congruence. * n tells how many in each array. */ static BigInt crtmult (BigInt congs[], BigInt mods[], int n) { int i; BigInt prod = bigInit(0); BigInt prod1 = bigInit(0); BigInt sum = bigInit(0); BigInt quot = bigInit(0); BigInt rem = bigInit(0); BigInt dum = bigInit(0); BigInt inv = bigInit(0); BigInt term = bigInit(0); /* Compute product of moduli */ bigCopy (one, prod); for (i=0; i<n; ++i) { bigMultiply (prod, mods[i], prod1); bigCopy (prod1, prod); } for (i=0; i<n; ++i) { bigDivide (prod, mods[i], quot, dum); bigDivide (quot, mods[i], dum, rem); getInverse (rem, mods[i], inv); bigMultiplyN (congs[i], quot, prod, term); bigMultiplyN (term, inv, prod, term); bigAddN (term, sum, prod, sum); } return sum; } /* Pohlig-Hellman discrete log algorithm for composites */ /* Return the exponent such that base^exponent == val modulo mod. */ /* Group order is product of factors[], of which there are n */ /* Assume each factor is to the first power */ BigInt phlog (BigInt base, BigInt val, BigInt mod, BigInt factors[], int n) { BigInt prod = bigInit(0), prod1 = bigInit(0), exp = bigInit(0), dum = bigInit(0), b = bigInit(0), v = bigInit(0); BigInt *dlogs; BigInt dl; int i; dlogs = (BigInt *) malloc (n * sizeof (BigInt)); /* Compute product of factors to get group order */ bigCopy (one, prod); for (i=0; i<n; ++i) { bigMultiply (prod, factors[i], prod1); bigCopy (prod1, prod); } /* Sanity check */ bigPow (base, prod, mod, b); if (bigCompare (b, one) != 0) { printf ("Inconsistency in group order on b\n"); fBigPrint (b, stdout); } bigPow (val, prod, mod, v); if (bigCompare (v, one) != 0) { printf ("Inconsistency in group order on v\n"); fBigPrint (v, stdout); } for (i=0; i<n; ++i) { bigDivide (prod, factors[i], exp, dum); bigPow (base, exp, mod, b); bigPow (val, exp, mod, v); printf ("Trying dlog with factor: "); fBigPrint (factors[i], stdout); printf ("b: "); fBigPrint (b, stdout); printf ("v: "); fBigPrint (v, stdout); /* Special case for 2, pollardrho doesn't work too well on it */ if (bigCompare (factors[i], two) == 0) { if (bigCompare (b, v) == 0) { dlogs[i] = bigInit(1); } else if (bigCompare (v, one) == 0) { dlogs[i] = bigInit(0); } else { printf ("Inconsistent b, v for factor == 2\n"); exit (1); } } else { /* Now find log of v mod b, has group order factors[i] */ dlogs[i] = pollardrho (b, v, mod, factors[i]); } printf ("dl: "); fBigPrint (dlogs[i], stdout); bigPow (b, dlogs[i], mod, b); if (bigCompare (b, v) != 0) { printf ("Error in discrete log calc!\n"); exit (1); } } /* Combine results with CRT */ dl = crtmult (dlogs, factors, n); return dl; }

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Re: Stego-empty hard drives... (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 20:29:28 -0400 > From: Sunder <sunder(a)brainlink.com> > Subject: Re: Stego-empty hard drives... (fwd) > Why would they implement it when they can simply have their software scan the > BIOS code if that's what they feared? It may cost them $10k each, but it'll > cost them millions to design and scan every notebook type on the planet, and No, again, they only have to scan the BIOS types and there are only a couple thousand (if that many) of those. It really isn't that complicated, there are only a few cpu's, there are only a few glue chip sets, only a few video driver chip sets, only a few LCD panels, etc. Admitted when multiplied together there are a lot of combinations. Now the board manufacturers, the BIOS manufacturers, and the various glue chipset makers get together and share data and the manufacturers look to their marketing to define their target point. Then they do a cost analysis on the chipset combo's and pretty soon you find the market only handles a handful of fundamentaly different machines. If there was as much variety at the hardware level as you assume nobody could afford to introduce new computers every few months. > then they'll have to get their hands on newer models as soon as they hit the > market. You're talking about a project that's bigger in magnitude than the > NSA. No it isn't. All it takes to get the BIOS before it hits the market is get a license agreement with the BIOS manufacturer. Hell, when I worked at Compu-Add we did this sort of stuff with Award and Phoenix all the time. We would get alpha copies to test in our new hardware on a regular basis. > Why should YOUR BIOS need to contain encryption code or device drivers for that > matter? All it needs to do is to HIDE the existance of the extra partition. And the code in the BIOS which means it needs to be hidden just like some viruses. Realisticaly it isn't this complicated. All one needs to do is write a program that allows the operator to talk directly to the hard drive controller. At that point it's a trivial matter to go out and find those hidden partitions. You could use normal drive recovery software if you had a mind, and that only costs a few hundred to a few thousand dollars and can be bought in the back of Computer Shopper. > You patch your BIOS by replacing a few bytes of code with CALL's and NOP's. > Maybe 4-8 bytes at most to modify. The routine that checks for the track range > is only several bytes: > > > Somehwere in INT13 code: > blah > blah > blah > CALL biospatch > NOP ; to fill in the overwritten code to the next opcode > > > biospatch PUSH AX ;save the register if you need it > MOV AX,switch ;get the value of the hack switch switch > JE popbye > POP AX > CMP AX,1234 ;or whatever register or whatever value > JLE bye > deny MOV AL,FAIL ;some reg and some value that says error, likely AL > RET > > popbye POP AX > bye ;insert the code that you overwrote with your CALL to this patch > re > RET > > > Homework: Someone please take this code, optimize it for size and build a TSR > patching INT 13 that JIM can install and run under DOS. Don't bother, I already know how to do that. This would stand out like a sore thumb. ____________________________________________________________________ The seeker is a finder. Ancient Persian Proverb The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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IP: Police seek to intercept emails without warrant: UK
by Vladimir Z. Nuri 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

From: believer(a)telepath.com Subject: IP: Police seek to intercept emails without warrant: UK Date: Sun, 20 Sep 1998 11:13:14 -0500 To: believer(a)telepath.com Source: London Telegraph http://www.telegraph.co.uk:80/et?ac=000150689433551&rtmo=wMontQMb&atmo=99999 999&P4_FOLLOW_ON=/98/9/20/nemai20.html&pg=/et/98/9/20/nemai20.html UK News Electronic Telegraph Sunday 20 September 1998 Issue 1213 Police seek to intercept emails without warrant By David Bamber THE police will be able to intercept private emails without obtaining a warrant, under a new agreement being finalised with Internet providers. The Telegraph has discovered that the police are negotiating the right to monitor electronic letters by examining information held on disks at the offices of the computer companies providing the links. Because the laws on interception were drafted before emails were widely used, the police do not need to obtain individual warrants to read the correspondence. Telephone tapping and the interception of ordinary post require a warrant from the Home Secretary, Jack Straw. The police say they need access to emails sent by the country's eight-million Internet users so that they can monitor criminal activity, especially paedophile and pornography rings. Mr Straw is backing the proposed agreement. The police want all Internet providers to keep copies of emails for a week. But the far-reaching moves have led to fears that the private correspondence of innocent people and businesses will be routinely monitored. Liz Parratt, of the civil liberties organisation, Liberty, said: "Allowing the police to read emails without a warrant would be akin to allowing them to steam open our letters as soon as we put them in the post box. I'd be interested to hear if any Internet providers signed up to this shabby deal." The first of three forums between Internet providers and the Association of Chief Police Officers will be held in Edinburgh on Tuesday. © Copyright Telegraph Group Limited 1998. ----------------------- NOTE: In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, this material is distributed without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving this information for non-profit research and educational purposes only. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ----------------------- ********************************************** To subscribe or unsubscribe, email: majordomo(a)majordomo.pobox.com with the message: (un)subscribe ignition-point email@address ********************************************** www.telepath.com/believer **********************************************

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SLICK WILLIE'S SHITHOUSE SPECIAL!!!
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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German court: DES is no good
by pgut001＠cs.auckland.ac.nz 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

http://www.thestandard.net/articles/display/0,1449,1780,00.html German Court Ruling Another Blow To U.S. Encryption Standard By Mary Lisbeth D'Amico MUNICH - A German district court has ordered a bank in Frankfurt to repay a customer 4,543 marks (US$2,699) for money withdrawn from her bank account after her bank card was stolen. The decision, made public Monday, again points to the holes in the 56-bit encryption technology used in Eurocheque cards, called EC Cards, according to the Chaos Computer Club, a German hackers group. Calling the encryption technology for the EC bank cards "out-of-date and not safe enough," a Frankfurt District Court held the bank responsible for the amount stolen from the 72-year old plaintiff in February 1997. Neither the bank's name or that of the plaintiff were revealed. An EC card is like a bank card which can be used at bank automats and point-of-sale terminals throughout Europe. The cards feature the U.S. government's data encryption standard, which uses 56-bit encrypted code to scramble the security information. [Rest snipped]

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NSF grants to Internet at risk)
by Declan McCullagh 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 20:28:31 -0700 (PDT) From: Declan McCullagh <declan(a)well.com> To: politech(a)vorlon.mit.edu Subject: NSF grants to Internet at risk [Seems to me that this dispute involves two perils: class action suits and government funding of technology that can be easily paid for by the private sector. I mean, it's not like the world's corporations hasn't figured out the Internet is important. Besides, government funding often means greater control. Early on in public broadcasting, the government barred TV stations from editorializing. Currently government grants to community radio stations don't go to ones with eclectic and thus probably more interesting programming -- which need the cash the most. And remember that Senate encryption bill that basically said government-funded networks must use key escrow? Obviously the details of the suit and the fund are important here, but the broader point is worth keeping in mind. --Declan] ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 20:40:17 -0400 From: David Lytel <david(a)lytel.com> To: Declan McCullagh <declan(a)well.com> Subject: Fwd: URGENT breaking news: Internet funding crisis [personal note snipped. --dbm] Internet Funding Crisis: A Call to Action for CyberCitizens For more information call David Lytel of Sherpa Consulting Group at 1-315-473-8996 or 1-888-GUIDING Unknown to the rest of the world, Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott is engaged in an effort to remove millions of dollars from the budget of the National Science Foundation (NSF) that the Congress has previously made available to invest in new Internet technologies. Lott is trying to repeal action earlier this year that ratified the Internet Intellectual Infrastructure Fund as a congressionally authorized tax on the registration of Internet domain names. This was necessary because of a lawsuit brought against Network Solutions, Inc., which has been acting as a domain registration authority for the Internet under a cooperative agreement with the NSF. In Thomas v. Network Solutions, Inc., 1998 WL 191205, US District Court Judge Hogan ruled that the domain name registration fee was an unauthorized tax. Based on Congress's belated ratification of the fee (in the VA/HUD Supplemental Appropriation bill earlier this year), Hogan ruled that it was authorized. This issue is being appealed to the United States Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit. Regardless of the outcome of the Lott amendment, this means that the DC Circuit will consider the lawfulness of the fund. Lott's maneuver is to add the repeal of the ratification to the Internet Tax Freedom Act, which has passed the House and may reach the floor as early as this week. In the Senate, the Internet Tax Freedom Act has passed both the Commerce and the Finance Committees without the change, but Lott is circulating a draft managers amendment that would repeal the ratification. What is at stake: At stake is about $60 million that the NSF would no longer have available to invest in research and development of high speed networks and bandwidth-intensive applications. If this is settled in the courts, about $15 million would go to the attorney for the plaintiffs and most of the rest would be lost to administrative fees as Network Solutions finds ways to make rebates people who have registered domain names. The payoff to individual domain holders would be only a few dollars. The NSF would lose funds that are supposed to be available to aid universities as they upgrade their connections from today's commodity Internet connections to tomorrow's Internet 2 level connections. For the commercial Internet, this means that advanced research on different approaches relieve Internet congestion will be slowed or stopped. The NSF funds experimental networks that address the fundamental problem of traffic congestion on today's Internet. The problem goes beyond the limitations of access technologies such as today's modems or even access technologies such as ISDN. There are segments of what are supposed to be the Internet's high speed corridors that are significantly blocked during periods of peak use. Part of the solution is building more and bigger pipes to carry Internet traffic. But it is also quite likely that demand is growing quickly enough to fill much of this capacity. The Internet traffic problem is not unlike the automobile traffic problem in our major cities in the 1960s, when no matter how many new bridges and highways we built we never managed to get ourselves out of a traffic jam. This is why a significant part of the Internet's original academic pioneers are experimenting with new technologies to separate and prioritize Internet traffic. The Internet's underlying technologies are designed to implement what is called a "best effort" level of servicemeaning that if packets cannot be delivered the Internet keeps trying to send them for three days before giving up. Just as HOV (high occupancy vehicle) lanes have been part of the solution to the problem of highway traffic, tomorrow's Internet will support quality-of-service or QoS distinctions so that the bits containing an MRI moving between a primary care physician and a specialist are given the priority they deserve over more playful uses of the Internet. While industry is addressing the problem of congestion in various ways, it is often the university research community that produces the innovative solutions that no one has yet thought of. This ability to prioritize packets, in conjunction with the ability to reserve bandwidth in advance rather than just hoping for the best, may be the foundation of tomorrow's multimedia Internet. With the right underlying technologies, tomorrow's Internet will handle voice and video services with greater ease than it handles email and Web pages today. Some of the next generation of Internet success stories will once again come from the networking laboratories of university-based researchers. Who is behind this: The driving force behind the lawsuit is Attorney William Bode in Washington (202-862-4300) on behalf of a client called the American Internet Registrants Association. If Lott is successful the ratification will be repealed and the lawsuit will be settled in favor of the plaintiffs. Although it is not yet possible to link Bode to Senator Lott's actions, a search of the Federal Election Commission's campaign contributors on the Center for Responsive Politics site (www.crp.org) reveals Bode as an active financial supporter of the Republican National Committee, former Senator Bob Dole, and Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY), who is chair of the Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee. What CyberCitizens can do: The most important members of the Senate to contact are Lott, Senator William Roth (R-DE, chair of the Finance Committee) and Senator John McCain (R-AZ) chair of the Senate Commerce Committee and the bill's Republican floor manager). It is also useful to contact the Democratic floor manager, Senator Byron Dorgan (D-ND). A staffer in the office of Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR), who has sponsored the Internet Tax Freedom Act, says Wyden will not make any effort to get the objectionable amendment removed, saying "we do not have a dog in that fight." Others worth contacting are Finance Committee members Senator Al D'Amato and Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan from New York, the state with the highest number of 4 year, Ph.D.-granting institutions and the highest number of students at 4 year schools, who would benefit from the NSF funding. Their e-mail addresses: Senator Trent Lott (R-MS) senatorlott(a)lott.senate.gov or fax 202-224-2262 Senator William Roth (R-DE) comments(a)roth.senate.gov Senator John McCain (R-AZ) senator_mccain(a)mccain.senate.gov Senator Byron Dorgan (D-ND) senator(a)dorgan.senate.gov Senator Alphonse D'Amato (R-NY) senator_al(a)damato.senate.gov Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-NY) senator(a)dpm.senate.gov Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) senator(a)wyden.senate.gov In addition, universities, Internet industry associations and companies should consider supporting Network Solutions in its legal battle over the lawfulness of the Internet Intellectual Infrastructure fund. If any group or individual is interested in filing an amicus brief in support of the lawfulness of the registration fee, they should contact Mark Davies at mdavies(a)mayerbrown.com for more details. For more on the Internet domain name controversy see the Domain Name Handbook at www.domainhandbook.com Others who could be interviewed include: Joel Widder, Deputy Director of the NSF's Office of Legislative and Public Affairs at 703-306-1070 or jwidder(a)nsf.gov Tony Rutkowski, formerly Executive Director of the Internet Society and now head of the independent Center for the Next Generation Internet (www.ngi.org) at 703-437-9236 or amr(a)ngi.org Howard Sartori (202-917-2935), president of the American Internet Registrant's Association (www.aira.org or 202-862-4363) Gabe Battista 703-742-4842) president of Network Solutions, Inc. (www.netsol.com or 703-742-0400) **version 1.2 **end new address: 5 Brattle Road Syracuse, NY 13203-2803 315-473-8996

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Does God know Peano Algebra?
by strawman＠ehmail.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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IP: US Easing Bank Rules on Big Cash Transactions
by Vladimir Z. Nuri 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

From: believer(a)telepath.com Subject: IP: US Easing Bank Rules on Big Cash Transactions Date: Mon, 05 May 1997 15:44:45 -0500 To: believer(a)telepath.com Source: New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/news/financial/cash-transactions-reuters.h… September 22, 1998 U.S. Is Easing Bank Rules on Big Cash Transactions By REUTERS WASHINGTON -- The Treasury Department announced Monday that it was trimming its requirements for reporting large cash transactions. The measures had been introduced to try to curb money laundering. Banks had criticized the requirements, the Treasury said, "because they mandated repetitive paperwork" for routine transactions. The changes will lighten the banks' paperwork load but will make bankers responsible for acting as monitors and reporting anything to the authorities that they think is out of the ordinary and that might indicate criminal activity. The new rules will permit banks to conduct most transactions with "cash intensive businesses" without having to report to the Government under the 1970 Bank Secrecy Act. But banks will still have to file reports on transactions of $10,000 or more with individuals and with certain types of businesses. "This rule does not exempt banks from reporting suspicious activity involving those exempted activities," the Treasury said. "In addition, certain categories of businesses, such as real estate brokers, automobile dealers and money transmitters, may not be exempted." The reporting requirements were originally established to help law enforcement officials combat money-laundering by drug dealers and other criminals who pass large amounts through businesses and banks to give an appearance of legality. The new rules, published today in The Federal Register, will permit a bank to exempt a domestic business that routinely needs large amounts of cash simply by filing a form stating that the business is exempt. The business must have been a customer of the bank for at least a year. Banks, savings institutions and credit unions can begin using the new rules on Oct. 21. The Treasury said businesses exempted from reporting rules by a bank must have their exemptions reviewed every two years. But it said it was dropping a requirement that banks include details about all of a customer's transactions on the renewal form. In 1997, the Treasury said, more than 12 million currency transaction reports were filed. It said that as a result of the latest rules changes, as well as an earlier streamlining of reporting requirements for transactions between banks, financial institutions should be able to reduce such filings by about 30 percent. Copyright 1998 The New York Times Company ----------------------- NOTE: In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, this material is distributed without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving this information for non-profit research and educational purposes only. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ----------------------- ********************************************** To subscribe or unsubscribe, email: majordomo(a)majordomo.pobox.com with the message: (un)subscribe ignition-point email@address ********************************************** www.telepath.com/believer **********************************************

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Key Goal for UN: Accelerating Fight Against Terrorism
by Vladimir Z. Nuri 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

From: believer(a)telepath.com Subject: Key Goal for UN: Accelerating Fight Against Terrorism Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 15:48:01 -0500 To: believer(a)telepath.com Source: USIA http://www.usia.gov/current/news/latest/98092101.plt.html?/products/washfile /newsitem.shtml 21 September 1998 KEY U.S. GOAL FOR UNGA: ACCELERATING FIGHT AGAINST TERRORISM (Ambassador Burleigh cites U.S. priorities for 53rd UNGA) (1110) By Judy Aita USIA United Nations Correspondent United Nations -- Emphasizing the Clinton administration's "full measure of support" for the United Nations, the chief U.S. delegate to the 53rd General Assembly said that U.S. priorities include furthering international cooperation against weapons proliferation, terrorism, and international crime. Ambassador A. Peter Burleigh, head of the U.S. Mission to the United Nations, said, "We face in the 53rd session of the General Assembly a crucial agenda of work, in a year of crucial significance for the United States and its relationship with the world body, and at a time when it is more imperative than ever for nations of the world to face united the threats to our common economic, political, social, and environmental security." "The UN provides political and economic options benefiting Americans in the form of a safer, more prosperous world, and at a savings through collective cost-sharing rather than unilateral burdensharing," he said at a press conference September 18. "We are convinced that by remaining engaged in the UN we promote vital American leadership, and reflect the depth of quiet support felt for the UN among the American people," Burleigh said. The General Assembly began September 9 overshadowed by crisis situations around world: the nuclear tests conducted by India and Pakistan in May, terrorist bombings at U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, growing tension between Iran and Afghanistan, Iraq's refusal to cooperate with UN weapons inspectors, and continued fighting in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Citing the terrorist bombings in Nairobi and Tanzania and U.S. efforts to bring to trial two Libyan suspects in the Pan Am bombing almost 10 years ago, Burleigh said "the U.S. and UN are engaged in a struggle against international terrorism. Our weapon of choice is international cooperation." "Our policy is this: No deals with terrorists, bring terrorists to justice, and pressure states that sponsor and harbor them," he said. Burleigh noted that the United States remains committed to UN reform, which has been a major U.S. concern for several years. "Progress is occurring," the ambassador said. "The UN has cut its budget and staff, established an inspector general's office, and strengthened both peacekeeping and administrative operations. The secretary general's reform initiatives, endorsed by the General Assembly, are in large part the same as our own goals and will substantially improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the UN system." Ironically, during the 53rd UNGA session, the United States could lose its voting rights unless the U.S. Congress appropriates the funds requested by the Clinton administration for UN dues. According to Article 19 of the UN Charter, any UN member that owes two years' annual dues loses its voting rights in the assembly. As of August 31, 1998, the United States owed the United Nations more than $1,600 million. Of that, $572 million is for the regular budget; $1,041 million for peacekeeping; and $2.8 million for the international tribunals. In January the U.S. 1999 assessment of $297.7 million will be due. "Article 19 does not affect our participation in the Security Council or other UN bodies and it does not alter our joint agenda for the coming UNGA session," the ambassador said. The US delegation will pursue a "vigorous, active agenda," he stressed. "We were disappointed this year that the legislation passed by Congress to enable the U.S. to pay its UN arrears included provisions on international family planning that were totally unacceptable to the (Clinton) administration," Burleigh said. "The president has repeatedly voiced his determination that the U.S. must start repaying its UN arrears," the ambassador said. "I don't think Congress wants to see a situation where the U.S. loses its vote," he added. "We hope before adjourning in October Congress will appropriate the funds. The president and secretary of state are actively lobbying to make that happen." President Clinton will be one of more than 30 heads of state or government who will be addressing the assembly during its traditional two-week general debate, which begins on September 21. Burleigh pointed to the president's recent speech on global economic challenges to the Council on Foreign Relations as significant for U.S.-UN work as well. Clinton said that "at this moment of financial turmoil, we are called upon once again to lead -- to organize the forces of a committed world to channel unruly energy into positive channels that advance our interest, reinforce our values, and enhance our security...Now it is time for us to rise to our responsibility, as America has so many times before, so that we can redeem the promise of the global economy, and strengthen our nation for the 21st Century," Burleigh recalled. "President Clinton's words call (upon) us too, at the start of the UNGA, to redeem the full promise and potential of the United Nations for the world," the ambassador said. The assembly will deal with a wide variety of issues on its 165-item agenda -- including human rights, arms control and disarmament, the environment, refugees, drug trafficking, and population. U.S. goals for the UNGA include: -- recommitting the international community to human rights during the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; -- convincing India and Pakistan to adhere to the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty and discouraging other potential nuclear weapons states from conducting nuclear tests; -- supporting the work of the Middle East peace negotiators to renew momentum in the process and avoiding condemnatory resolutions of past assemblies; -- keeping the 1998 budget within the approved $2,533 million and continuing more reforms; and -- encouraging countries to meet reporting obligations under the UN Register of Conventional Arms and the Wassenar Arrangement on conventional and dual-use technology exports. The Security Council also will take advantage of the large number of top officials attending the debate to hold a ministerial-level meeting on Africa September 24. This will continue its major initiative of last year to focus attention on the African continent. This year the council members, including Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, will review Secretary General Kofi Annan's report on Africa entitled "The Causes of Conflict and the Promotion of Durable Peace and Sustainable Development in Africa" released in April. In that report Annan stressed that the time is long past when the responsibility for producing change in Africa can be shifted onto others' shoulders. Both African nations and the international community must "summon the political will" to end wars on the continent, take good governance seriously, and invest in Africa's resources, he said. ----------------------- NOTE: In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, this material is distributed without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving this information for non-profit research and educational purposes only. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ----------------------- ********************************************** To subscribe or unsubscribe, email: majordomo(a)majordomo.pobox.com with the message: (un)subscribe ignition-point email@address ********************************************** www.telepath.com/believer **********************************************

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Re: Speaking of political consims - Land of the Free (fwd) [fun]
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: >From consim-l-return-15556-ravage=ssz.com(a)net.uni-c.dk Tue Sep 22 23:33:14 1998 Mailing-List: contact consim-l-help(a)net.uni-c.dk; run by ezmlm Reply-To: consim-l(a)net.uni-c.dk Delivered-To: mailing list consim-l(a)net.uni-c.dk Date: Wed, 23 Sep 1998 04:04:54 +0000 (GMT) From: Tracy Johnson <tmj(a)primenet.com> To: consim-l(a)net.uni-c.dk Subject: Re: Speaking of political consims - Land of the Free In-Reply-To: <85037379.36082228(a)aol.com> Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.96.980923040158.6538C-100000(a)usr09.primenet.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Actually Justin Thyme has been doing these games for years with our player teams at conventions, but without computers. On Tue, 22 Sep 1998 BillR54619(a)aol.com wrote: > In a message dated 9/22/98 5:18:24 PM Eastern Daylight Time, > olboggy(a)hotmail.com writes: > > Hasbeen Interactive announces its new, Java-enabled, interactive WWW gaming > experience, BILLOMACY. "Billomacy" extends the concepts pioneered in the > classic TAHGC game, DIPLOMACY, placing you in a virtual social computing world > full of sovereign, petty, and touchy players. How many of them can YOU piss > off, and still stay in the game ? For the goal of BILLOMACY is not to win, but > to keep the game going for as long as you can. Chat and email functions allow > you to communicate with the other players almost instantaneously, to plot your > vast right wing conspiracies, or to indulge in hurling anathemas in the form > of press releases. The possibilities are endless !! Each game lasts as long as > you want to keep playing, from just one evening, or until kingdom come. > BILLOMACY supports an infinite number of strategies and playing styles, from > the passive-aggressive "Kaiser Wilhelm" mode to the sneaky, unprincipled, > "Guilliame Talleyrand" mode, not to mention the famous "Wild Bill" cowboy > mode, and of course, the ultimate in popularity, "Bill Clinton, Secret Agent > Man", which allows you to enter our special "adults only" area for phone sex > and other goodies. And for the spiritually inclined, we have included the high > toned "Billy Graham" sermonizing option, for a low extra price. BILLOMACY, the > favorite interactive game of (who else) Bill Gates, is an experience we think > you'll really like !! > > --- > > Bill R. Tracy Johnson tmj(a)primenet.com

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No Subject
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 07:10 PM 9/21/98 -0500, Jim Choate wrote: >It is further clear the police don't carry them for their own protection >either. Wonder why they do carry them?... The fastest practical way to disable a metazoan is to puncture the circulatory system supplying their brain. Any questions? "Go for the head shot" -a former employee of the President

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No Subject
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

To all: We don't care so much that WJC did it with Buddy, or whatever, so much that he lied under oath. It is only rarely we get the sons of bitches on tape, and then you'll have to pardon us for exploiting it. What the fuck, the TLAs leveraged their POTUS bugs for years... The only regret is that Frank Zappa was not alive to put it all to music. Oottoott Count of Monte Carlo

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No Subject
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 09:00 PM 9/21/98 -0700, Kurt Buff wrote: >I (as a militant atheist) merely say that if you can define your God, I can >probably prove he doesn't exist. Unless, of course, your definition is so >broad as to have no meaning in the first place. As a thinker I find the term atheism dignifies the concept of theism, so I find it offensive. Theists are primitives and one needn't stoop. In my religion, saying unprovable things in public is a stonable offense. Joe Momma

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Forwarded mail...
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > Date: Wed, 23 Sep 1998 06:15:33 +0200 > From: Anonymous <nobody(a)replay.com> > It is only rarely we get the sons of bitches on > tape, and then you'll have to pardon us for > exploiting it. Take what you can get and run like hell with it! > The only regret is that Frank Zappa was not alive > to put it all to music. I hadn't even thought of the potential for yellow snow rides... ____________________________________________________________________ The seeker is a finder. Ancient Persian Proverb The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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