December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: FC: Loving v. University of Oklahoma, from The Netly News Network
by Toto 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Declan McCullagh wrote: > The Netly News Network > http://netlynews.com/ > > Loving v. the University of Oklahoma goes to trial in a federal > court in Tulsa tomorrow morning. But the incidents that gave rise to > the civil action occurred more than 14 months ago when a local > anti-pornography group, Oklahomans for Children and Families, got wind > of the sprawling alt.sex.* hierarchy on Usenet. The porn watchdog > group complained to State Rep. Fred Perry (R-Tulsa) about the alt.sex > feeds that were, naturally enough, part of the university's Usenet > feed. > > Anderson told us that his group is training other activists to turn > in offending service providers. "There are plums ready to be picked," > he said. "We're encouraging people all over the country to take > action." I would advise all cryptographers and cryptanalysts to immediately remove any brooms they own from their homes. Especially those living in Salem. Toto

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[IMPORTANT] e$
by lucifer＠dhp.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Nature Registration Confirmation
by "registration＠nature.com"＠www.nature.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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DPD on the Web
by nobody＠replay.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Listen to the Dallas PD with RealAudio: http://www.policescanner.com/ Nobody

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RE: stop
by Butler, Scott 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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17 Dec '03

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Get me off this fucking list, or else.... (fwd)
by Rodrigo Espirito Santo 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 17 Jan 1997 16:30:25 +0000 (GMT) From: Rodrigo Espirito Santo <res(a)unidyne.uni.pt> To: cypherpunks(a)toad.com Cc: cypherpunks(a)toad.com Subject: Get me off this fucking list, or else.... Hey you dumb asses, i tried to unsubscribe this list in the correct way but you guys don't know SHIT about this!!!!1 If you don't get me out now i'll subscribe each and every one of you to some goddamn gay and lesbiann and freak mailing list!!!!!! get me out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Re: Newt's phone calls
by ca3sal＠isis.sunderland.ac.uk 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Greg Taylor wrote >After following this thread for some time, I have to question whether >Americans realise how far behind the rest of the world they are in >cellphone technology. With the attention the US media give of the UK's royal family and the fomer Princess of Wales I'm suprised the nobody did anything in the US after the "squigy tapes" a couple of years back. Ste

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Spam Hater URL :)
by harka＠nycmetro.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Alex Kelly Strikes Again
by Duncan Frissell 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Alex Kelly, our favorite Greenwich Connecticut high school jock, accused rapist, ex-fugitive who returned to the US to face trial after 8 years on the run in Europe has done it again. He filed the paperwork to gain recognition of Irish citizenship from the Irish Consulate and his claim has been recognized. He is now free to apply for an Irish Passport. The DA is trying to yank his $1,000,000 bail. The wire services incorrectly report that he has been "granted" Irish citizenship. Actually, like anyone who has at least one grandparent born in Ireland, he *is* an Irish citizen under that nation's permissive nationality law and merely had to register his (overseas) birth with the Consulate. DCF -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 4.5 iQCVAgUBMt+/eYVO4r4sgSPhAQHSbwP+NODK3r+64dMhpiOkDqSEUyD9OyHXJr58 rw9VFVN2y6JG2AIR5thogC+soMAMvUGuMKQiiXJkzSrTaHeanaFp/TG7FcDAi60d DlHQbYmc8iIAXgI3yUvl4oFqqdI44FAkwTfhFe0Qcf0Ha41OHEODP/S0DFNhp6/d +aQl7ECWsKo= =/GGg -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: Newt's phone calls
by Sean Roach 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 10:45 PM 1/15/97 -0500, Rabid Wombat wrote: > > >On Mon, 13 Jan 1997, Declan McCullagh wrote: > >> Don't be too sure that crypto is that far beneath the radar. I spent >> Thursday through Saturday at an annual privacy conference for activists >> from around the country, and they understood the principles. Their >> voicemails were filling up with calls from reporters last Friday about the >> Gingrich incident, and I know they were talking crypto. > ... > >"Call Privacy and Security" are listed in bold, with "Say goodbye to >eavesdropping" right below. Don't sell the public short; even me mum >knows her cordless phone is insecure. ;) > I had to tell my sister not to use the cordless phone to use the automated banking services that our bank has available on grounds that transfers are also available through the same service. Our father is a math teacher, computer hobbyists since 1979. Both of my parents have college educations. My sister pegged the scales on the state distributed proficiency tests. Yet she knows practically nothing outside of her field. I will probably have to show her the values of cryptography before she actually has any patient records to deal with, (she's a pharmacy major.)

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(Fwd) Black Liberation Radio
by Ross Wright 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 12:36:31 -0700 From: "Clover Hale" <clover(a)iaj.xo.com> Subject: Black Liberation Radio To: iaj-futuremedia(a)igc.org BLACK LIBERATION RADIO BUSTED! This morning, the FCC raided Black Liberation Radio in Decatur, Illinois and seized all the equipment. BLR, an unlicensed radio station operated by Napolean and Mildred Williams, has been a growing thorn in the side of the local power structure. BLR has brought together the predominantly white workers who have undergone bitter strikes in the 90s (Caterpillar, etc.) with unemployed blacks and whites. It has given them all a voice, not just locally but to a degree nationally (Napolean was the keynote speaker at the recent Micro Broadcasters Convention in Oakland). This pioneering station must go back on the air. Napoleon requests donations to help them fight this. Please send what you can to: Napoleon Williams, 637 E Center St., Decatur IL 63526. In the face of a growing police state, Napoleon and Mildred are fighting back. They need your help. *PLEASE* call to issue protests: State Attorney General Jim Ryan 217-782-1090 Macon County States Attorney Lawrence "Larry" Fichter 217-424-1400 101 South Main, Decatur,Il 62523. ------------ Makani Themba mthemba(a)igc.apc.org 3780 Webster Street, Oakland, CA 94609 (510) 655-3112 (voice) (510) 658-5122 (fax) "Whoever controls the flow of information dictates our perceptions and perspectives; whoever controls the news shapes our destiny." - George Clinton Stop the execution of Mumia Abu Jamal! =-=-=-=-=-=- Ross Wright King Media: Bulk Sales of Software Media and Duplication Services http://www.slip.net/~cdr/kingmedia Voice: 415-206-9906

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DES Key Recovery Project, Progress Report #6.
by Peter Trei 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

DES Key Recovery Project, Progress Report #6. Well, RSA now has put up the official rules, and some test data, for the DES Key Recovery Project. See http://www.rsa.com/rsalabs/97challenge/ if you haven't already. The actual challenge will be posted 28 Jan, and the prize will be $10,000. I've had some nibbles of interest from the FPGA community, but not too much yet. If you know anyone with FPGA or ASIC hardware handy, tell them about the project, and point them at Wiener's paper (it can be found at http://www.aist-nara.ac.jp/Security/doc/ among locations. My software is complete, except for one thing: I have not incorporated Svend Olaf Mikkelsen's new Pentium code (see http://inet.uni-c.dk/~svolaf/des.htm) This is about 25% faster than mine, and well worth the extra effort. The conversion turns out to be non-trivial; it uses a different initial and final perm, the key schedules look different, and the rounds seem to carry a lot of context from one round to the next in the registers. All but the final problem is not too important - the data are all different by simple permutations, and the conversion is not too hard. The final problem is more interesting, since I do the first DES round only part of the time. This means that I'll have to do more context setup for those times when I'm starting at the second round (most of the time), and preserve that extra context after the times I *do* run the first round. The other problem is that the 'half-matches' and penultimate round half-matches will be different for the two systems. This complicates results checking. Anyway, come Monday, I want to email to a few people the generic 'C' code, along with my assembler version. If you're interested in doing a serious critique and/or porting of the code, and are a US/Canadian citizen living in the US/Canada, then email me with a statement to that effect. I'm only sending out a few copies - this is a slow beta, after all. If I don't get the Mikkelsen code in there by Monday, it should follow soon thereafter. After the DES Challenge is underway, I may try looking at the RC5 Challenges. Who else will be attending Verisign Partner Days or the RSA Data Security Conference at the end of the month? I'd like to meet some of the other participants on this list. Peter Trei trei(a)process.com

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Re: Key Revokation Scheme
by Bill Stewart 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 11:32 PM 1/14/97 -0500, harka(a)nycmetro.com wrote: >I started thinking about the issue, how to set up a system to have >somebody else revoke your key for you, if you don't have the means >to do so yourself. >The possible case I had in mind was, what if you're maybe a >dissident, you get arrested and your apartment (incl. disks/keys) >gets raided. You don't have any means to revoke the key yourself, >don't even have e-mail in general, and with the "one phone call", [.... method deleted .... lawyer, alice, bob, ... ] Too complex for what you're really doing. Give your lawyer a floppy with the key revocation certificate and a yellow sticky about how to call Alice or Bob for help if your lawyer's not computer-literate enough to follow the README file. If you're paranoid about the cops getting your unindicted co-conspirators' names, use PGP Inc. or some computer consultant instead of Alice and Bob and have your lawyer pay their per-hour rate. On your One Phone Call, tell him to get the floppy out of the sealed envelope in his safe and use it. Key revocation certificates don't leak your private keys, so the only risk if the Bad Guys get a copy is denial of service, including the pain of rebuilding all your connections, etc.; it doesn't leak your communications or allow them to forge mail. # Thanks; Bill # Bill Stewart, +1-415-442-2215 stewarts(a)ix.netcom.com # You can get PGP outside the US at ftp.ox.ac.uk/pub/crypto/pgp # (If this is a mailing list, please Cc: me on replies. Thanks.)

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Re: Newt's phone calls
by azur＠netcom.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>On Thu, 16 Jan 1997, Phillip M. Hallam-Baker wrote: >> >> It was a conference call but over a cellular phone. Martin had hacked his >> Radio Shack Scanner using a well known technique. He had a radio ham >> license. >> >Phill > Actually I'd love to see this go to court & have the law itself >tossed out. How many years have the airwaves been free? Now it is >illegal to listen on the cellular frequencies. > >Sarah. > >============================================================================== >Sarah L. Green Hey, I never claimed to be >>osprey<< >Madison, AL (USA) a genius nor a typist greens(a)hiwaay.net >============================================================================== The concept that a corporation or individual transmitting information meant for receiption at 'significant' distances should be accorded the presumption of privacy is analogous that a person shouting out their window to a person on the street and assuming that insisting neighbors be required to turn a bind ear. However, since the government has pressed the point, couldn't one use this same logic to claim that since face-to-face conversations are assumed to be private that wire taps are illegal. I seem to recall that Chief Justice Brandice made this argument in the late '20s. Look where we are today. --Steve

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Forget DES, crack CAVE; was: Newt may be more receptive to encryption now
by azur＠netcom.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>I think what's important to stress is that technical fixes work, laws >don't. > >Net-advocates in DC are already planning to suggest to Republicans that >they use crypto as a hammer to nail Gore (the chief White House supporter >of the current policy) and draw votes and cash from Silicon Valley. > >-Declan > > >On Thu, 16 Jan 1997 Scottauge(a)aol.com wrote: > >> >> Given his troubles with this "hay seed" scanner recording democrats, ol' Newt >> may be more receptive to encryption. >> >> Our privacy certainly is getting trashed by this presidency and I am hoping >> an impeachment is coming down the line. >> >> Since the congress is who makes the laws, maybe we all can focus some snail >> mail to these guys. >> >> Perhaps EFF could even draft some laws for our protection (what a joke - just >> to keep busy body beaurocrats outta our business). >> >> What does it matter anyhow, these guys dont read their own 300 - 5000 page >> laws anyhow.... >> >> Hopeless.... >> >> Why don't we threaten to monitor and post RealAudio of all the politico's juciest cellular intrigues, or design and distribute CAVE cracking software to allow simple monitoring of digital cellular communications. IMHO, this would be a better demonstration that the DES crack being contemplated. -- Steve

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Re: encryption program
by ed.falk＠Eng.Sun.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> > I ran a quick Kappa test on it. ... I had a blast with this one. I was up until 4:30 last night working on Pierre van Rooyen's "Here follows a example..." cryptogram. It's like doing a jigsaw puzzle; there's a hump you cross over near the end where everything just falls into place. Jim Gillogly broke it in only a few hours, whereas I must have put in a whole day cumulatively (half of that writing software), but it was my first real cryptogram. It was a hell of a learning experience. They say that you can't design a crypto system until you've broken someone else's first, and this really drove it home.

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No Subject
by T. O'Brien 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Unsubcribe

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(U.S.) National Cryptography Policy (paper and report)
by Robert Hettinga 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

--- begin forwarded text Date: Fri, 17 Jan 1997 14:09:24 CST Reply-To: Law & Policy of Computer Communications <CYBERIA-L(a)LISTSERV.AOL.COM> Sender: Law & Policy of Computer Communications <CYBERIA-L(a)LISTSERV.AOL.COM> From: Lyonette Louis-Jacques <llou(a)MIDWAY.UCHICAGO.EDU> Subject: (U.S.) National Cryptography Policy (paper and report) Comments: To: net-lawyers(a)eva.dc.LSOFT.COM To: CYBERIA-L(a)LISTSERV.AOL.COM I'm forwarding this post to the CYBERIA-L and NET-LAWYERS lists as I think subscribers might be interested in these documents (include discussion of export controls), and their implication for international communications. Cheers, Lyo (Lyonette Louis-Jacques at llou(a)midway.uchicago.edu) Cryptography and the National Resource Council: The Role of Private Groups in Public Policy, by Kenneth W. Dam, is now available on the Web. http://www.law.uchicago.edu/Publications/Occasional/ The Role of Private Groups in Public Policy is adapted from a presentation made to the Presidents' Circle of the National Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Medicine, Washington, D.C., November 21, 1996. It was recently issued as Occasional Paper No. 38 by the University of Chicago Law School. Kenneth W. Dam, Max Pam Professor of American and Foreign Law, University of Chicago Law School, was the Chair of the National Research Council's Committee to Study National Cryptography Policy. The Committee unanimously recommended eliminating restrictions on domestic use of encryption, and progressively relaxing restrictions on export. The government's concerns that national security and law enforcement agencies would be unable to eavesdrop on criminals and terrorists must be balanced against the dangers that American firms would be unable to lawfully use encryption strong enough to protect electronic commerce, and that American software developers, forced to use key escrow/key recovery encryption in their products ("a Maginot Line of defense against hackers") would find no market for their products. A late draft of the Committee's Report, "Cryptography's Role in Securing the Information Society," is available at their home page: http://www2.nas.edu/cstbweb/2646.html ----------- Paradise is exactly like + where you are right now .&______~*@*~______&. m only much, much, better "w/%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%\w" mmm*** ------------------------ `Y""Y""Y"""""Y""Y""Y' mm***** Language -- it's a shipwreck, p-p_|__|__|_____|__|__|_q-q mm**Y** it's a job - Laurie Anderson _-[EEEEM==M==MM===MM==M==MEEEE]-_.|..|.... (two .sigs sighted on the Net) --- end forwarded text ----------------- Robert Hettinga (rah(a)shipwright.com) Philodox e$, 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "The cost of anything is the foregone alternative" -- Walter Johnson The e$ Home Page: http://www.shipwright.com/rah/ FC97: Anguilla, anyone? http://offshore.com.ai/fc97/ "If *you* don't go to FC97, *I* don't go to FC97"

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Albuquerque, Anyone?: Hettinga goes on the road...
by Robert Hettinga 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I'm going to be in Albuquerque seeing family for a week starting tomorrow. Any cypherpunks/e$/technomads folks out there wanna quaff a few, I'd be up for it. Also, I'm looking a temporary PPP dial-up in the Albuquerque for the week I'm there. No mail or news, just PPP, so I can hit my POPserver and run e$pam in remote-mode. Neither rain, nor snow, nor altitude, etc. can keep the e$pamster from his appointed rounds... Thanks! Cheers, Bob Hettinga ----------------- Robert Hettinga (rah(a)shipwright.com) Philodox e$, 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "The cost of anything is the foregone alternative" -- Walter Johnson The e$ Home Page: http://www.shipwright.com/rah/ FC97: Anguilla, anyone? http://offshore.com.ai/fc97/ "If *you* don't go to FC97, *I* don't go to FC97"

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Re: UNSUBSCRIBE
by ed.falk＠Eng.Sun.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Could someone help this luser? Is he responding like this to every post on the list? ----- Begin Included Message ----- >From spooke(a)ita.flashnet.it Fri Jan 17 12:44:24 1997 X-Sender: rm02129(a)ita.flashnet.it Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Fri, 17 Jan 1997 21:45:00 +0100 To: ed.falk@Eng (Ed Falk) From: Spooke <spooke(a)ita.flashnet.it> Subject: UNSUBSCRIBE globalkos.org >> >> Hi, my name is Tod, and I really want to be a cool hacker, ... > >This has *got* to be a troll. Nobody could be this clueless. > > >Well, actually, they could. > > ----- End Included Message -----

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Telecomm Act Reference (Was Re: Newt's phone calls)
by Sarah L. Green 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>From Damien Thorn's 'A CELLULAR COMMUNICATIONS PRIMER' (at http://www.l0pht.com/~drwho/cell/texts/thorn1192.txt) To calm fears that cellular calls were not private, the cellular industry lobbied congress into passing legislation known today as the Electronic Communication Privacy Act (ECPA) of 1986 which makes it a crime to monitor cellular phone calls and a host of other transmissions like digital pagers. This law is used by cellular equipment dealers and service providers to reassure customers that their conversations will remain private. Sarah. ============================================================================== Sarah L. Green Hey, I never claimed to be >>osprey<< Madison, AL (USA) a genius nor a typist greens(a)hiwaay.net ==============================================================================

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

17 Dec '03

Timmy C. May's reheated, refurbished, and regurgitated cud is completely inappropriate for the mailing lists into which it is cross-ruminated. |||~ (0 0) _ooO_(_)_Ooo__ Timmy C. May

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Enough is Never Enough -- pro-CDA alliances, from TNNN
by Declan McCullagh 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 17 Jan 1997 18:04:35 -0800 (PST) From: Declan McCullagh <declan(a)well.com> To: fight-censorship(a)vorlon.mit.edu Subject: Enough is Never Enough -- pro-CDA alliances, from TNNN [Attached are two excerpts from the article. For the rest, check out: http://cgi.pathfinder.com/netly/textonly/1,1035,549,00.html --Declan] ******** The Netly News Network http://netlynews.com/ Enough Is Never Enough By Declan McCullagh (declan(a)well.com) January 17, 1997 A broad coalition of conservative and anti-pornography groups and individuals will file legal briefs next Tuesday in the Supreme Court supporting the government's defense of the Communications Decency Act, The Netly News has learned. The alliance includes longtime supporters of the act, such as Enough is Enough, Focus on the Family, and the National Association of Evangelicals. Members of Congress will join a separate brief that the National Law Center for Children and Families is preparing. But a letter from the attorney representing the coalition asked the ACLU for permission to file a brief "on behalf of" 59 plaintiffs, including such unlikely participants as the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, PBS, SafeSurf... and Netscape. Netscape? The company that lobbied against the CDA? A firm with a reputation of putting their balls on the chopping block when fighting for Net-issues on Capitol Hill? Netscape was as shocked as I was to learn about their participation. "It wasn't authorized by me or my office. This is flabbergasting," Peter Harter, public policy counsel for Netscape, said. "I'd be crucified if this happened." [...] In their brief, which argues sociological rather than legal points, the groups hope to highlight the "dangers" of pornography online. They plan to supply the court with "legislative facts" to support the position Congress took when crafting the bill. The document also will include statistics discussing the effects of the Internet on children and the availability of material covered by the law. (Marty Rimm, where are you now?) Donna Rice-Hughes from Enough is Enough says: "It discusses three primary areas of our concern: letting the court know the problems on the Internet. Adult pornography, indecency, and child porn as well. A section on the harms of pornography. And a section dealing with the compliance issues: Is it feasible technically to comply with the CDA?" [...] Chris Stamper and Noah Robischon contributed to this report.

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cash machine PINheads (fwd)
by Petro 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

------- start of forwarded message ------- Path: news.suba.com!feeder.chicago.cic.net!wolverine.hq.cic.net!news.neca.com!news.shkoo.com!news1.mpcs.com!hammer.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!news.bbnplanet.com!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!csn!nntp-xfer-1.csn.net!news.hemi.com!news From: Tkil <tkil(a)scrye.com> Newsgroups: alt.sysadmin.recovery Subject: cash machine PINheads Date: 16 Jan 1997 11:27:04 -0700 Organization: Scrye.com Lines: 59 Sender: tkil(a)creepy.scrye.com Approved: yup. Message-ID: <m3680xfpc7.fsf_-_(a)creepy.scrye.com> References: <E3KH0p.55F(a)xcski.com> <5bh6ke$5rr(a)illuin.demon.co.uk> <5bhhd5$dfv$1(a)comet3.magicnet.net> <spberry.853431573(a)endeavor.ansci.iastate.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp2.hemi.com X-Attribution: Tkil X-Newsreader: Red Gnus v0.80/Emacs 19.34 found in <URL: http://axion.physics.ubc.ca/atm.html>: A number of security systems were developed, of which two captured most of the market. These were the IBM system, launched in 1979; and the VISA system, which extended it and was introduced shortly afterwards. These systems relate the PIN to the account number in a secret way. The idea is to avoid having a file of PINs, which might be stolen or copied. and to make it possible to check PINs in the ATM itself so as to allow transactions when it is not online to the bank's central computer site. The definitive reference is Meyer and Matyas' huge book Cryptography: a new dimension in computer data security; there is a shorter account in Davies and Price Security for Computer Networks. PINs are calculated as follows. Take the last five significant digits of the account number, and prefix them by eleven digits of validation data. These are often the first eleven digits of the account number; they could also be a function of the card issue date. In any case, the resulting sixteen digit value is input to an encryption algorithm (which for IBM and VISA systems is DES, the US Data Encryption Standard algorithm), and encrypted using a sixteen digit key called the PIN key. The first four digits of the result are decimalised, and the result is called the `Natural PIN'. Many banks just issued the natural PIN to their customers. However, some of them decided that they wished to let their customers choose their own PINs, or to change a PIN if it became known to somebody else. There is therefore a four digit number, called the offset, which is added to the natural PIN to give the PIN which the cusomer must enter at the ATM keyboard. and from <URL: http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/14.76.html>: *The Risks Digest Volume 14: Issue 76* [...] How is it possible to use an EXPIRED card to make $8000 in cash advances? It's possible because the ATM's verification center ONLY checks if the card number is on a list of STOLEN/LOST cards. If the card is not stolen/lost, the verification center then performs a verification check of the information FROM THE CARD ITSELF, not from some other database. So the perpetrators just wrote a new expiration date on the magnetic stripe of their fake card; the ATM verification center verified that the date hadn't yet passed and that was that. my apologies for the useful info, but the "yes it is" "no it isn't" bit was getting even more irritating. both of these items have quite a bit more text to them that makes for interesting reading -- i just excerpted the bits that dealt with where the PIN was verified. t. -- Tkil <tkil(a)scrye.com> emacs evangelist, hopelessly hopeless romantic "Like brittle things that break before they bend" -- The Sisters Of Mercy, _Floodland_, "Driven Like The Snow" [1987] ------- end of forwarded message ------- -- ***************** PLEASE TAKE NOTE: In an effort to reduce the amount of junk mail that I receive, I am no longer reading email sent to petro(a)suba.com. send email to login(a)encodex.com where login = petro. You send unsoliciated commercial email, and I will kill you.

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