December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Rape as Performance Art
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I can sympathize with the demonstrators that the Humboldt Sheriff's Department sprayed with pepper spray during their sit-in/protest. The police have done the same thing to me during the closing scenes of my performance art, as I climb out of the performance victim's window and try to make a run for it. I have found that judges are seldom impressed with a plea of, "Everyone wants to be a critic!" Art Lover (aka 'SouthSide Slasher') "It's not art until *I* have slashed it with a razor."

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Re: Return of the Living Zundel, from The Netly News
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Steve Thompson wrote: > In local.lists.cypherpunks-moderated you write: > >http://cgi.pathfinder.com/netly/editorial/0,1012,1561,00.html > >The Netly News Network (http://netlynews.com/) > > "A lot of people think this case is about censoring the Net," > > said Bernie Farber, national director of community relations for the > > Canadian Jewish Congress. "It isn't. It's about a Canadian violating > > Canadian law. In Canada and in every other Western democracy but the > > U.S., there are limits to free speech and one of those points is > > vilification. > I took a short 'course' on hate-crimes in downtown Toronto where this goof was > the speaker. In very short order, I had decided that his agenda was merely to > be in some small position of authority. He's a pro-censorship freak who wants > to protect the chiiillldreeeen from views he doesn't like. It was quite > amusing to pin him down a little -- he squirmed and stated that he _did_ want > the government to protect him from things he didn't want to hear; in a rather > shrill tone. It made me laugh in retrospect but at the time I was, I confess, > shocked -- having encountered such idiocy only in print or on USENET. After the government has finished arming park rangers, as well as all federal daycare workers and filing clerks, I suppose they will begin giving surplus military weapons to USENET censors, and the like, and deputizing them so that they can legally enforce their own narrow views. > It boggles the mind. Hey! Watch your language, pal. You can't say 'boggles' on a family list! BogglesMonger

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Re: Some IDIOT called CRYPTO CZAR INTERNATIONAL
by VME Encryption 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Please forward to this coward that have no balls to put his real email address on his emails (I using you guys as he put CC to you guys in his letter, but by no means does this reffer to you). Dear CRYPTO CZAR INTERNATIONAL Idiot, usually we ignore people at your level, but we'll try our best for you, as it might be just temorary insanity. 1) The million dollars challenge have ended at May 15,1997. The current challenge have NO monetary prize. 2) VME flowchart, algorithms and the VME application itself is already in the hands of the large 250 sotware corporations for evaluation. If any of them will prove otherwise, then you might be able to jump and make an idiot of yourself as you did now. 3) We beleive they might like what they saw, as we currently have them lined up to license the technology. 4) Try to keep your pathetic self away from the court room, as next time around you will face legal steps for alleging "fraud". Maybe you really should try and develop some future encryption algorithm instead of mumbling with envy showing your stupidity and ignorance, But on the other hand you're probably not capable of - you're too narrow minded and busy sticking your long nose where it does not belong. Do us and you a favour, keep yourself in your pathetic hole and shut your mouth up. Thanks and worst regards, (we won't bother putting our name on the same email with your name). At 11:06 PM 11/8/97 -0600, you wrote: >CCI: > CRYPTO CZAR INTERNATIONAL ANNOUNCES UNBREAKABLE CRYPTO CHALLENGE > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > >Crypto Czar International would like to announce the development of the >fastest and most secure encryption product on the market today. >We plan to develop this product early next week, as our employee has >already finished the first two chapters of 'Applied Cryptography.' > >We are so confident of our future product that we are challenging >MagNuts, Micro$oft, Nut$crape and everyone else to break it. We are >willing to pay out a $10,000,0000 prize to anyone willing to give us a >$1,000 good-faith deposit, which will be returned upon completion of our >open-ended Crypto Challenge. > >Please send ten copies of this to your friends and to your business >associates. > > The address to send the good-faith deposit to: > Crypto Czar International > c/o Electronic Fraud Foundation > Box 281, > Bienfait, Saskatchewan > CANADA S0C 0M0 > >

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Re: Some IDIOT called CRYPTO CZAR INTERNATIONAL
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

VME Encryption wrote: > Please forward to this coward that have no balls to put his real email > address on his emails (I using you guys as he put CC to you guys in his > letter, but by no means does this reffer to you). Obviously, no one has informed the night janitor at VME that regular list subscribers generally just put Toto's email address in replies to particularly cowardly and/or stupid anonymous posts, since we then have a 90% chance of having sent it to the right person. As an act of mercy toward Toto, I will personally correct the spelling and grammar in the night-janitor's post and forward it to the madman at 'Che(z) Sympatico.' > Dear CRYPTO CZAR INTERNATIONAL Idiot, > 1) The million dollars challenge have ended at May 15,1997. The current > challenge have NO monetary prize. ... > 4) Try to keep your pathetic self away from the court room, as next time > around you will face legal steps for alleging "fraud". According to a claim by TruthMonger, Dr. Vulis found the backdoor in VME's encryption program, and the test message contained a plea for donations from the Georgia Cracker remailer operators. I was originally skeptical about this claim, until sources at C2Nut confirmed it. Sincerely, Ura Fishpal, Flounder and Comptroller Electronic Fraud Foundation

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Re: 1st Ammendment Tossed in Paladin Case
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Tim May wrote: >But in many ways, this is good news. The war is coming faster than I thought. WSJ reports today on the increasing conservatism of the military and disputes about the pretense of civilian control, with some officers calling for responsible action to compensate for societal breakdown. It cites several examples of military members preparing for war at home, as mentioned here earlier by Attila and others, with two Marine writers claiming that the next Somolia will be here. This, coupled with reports on LEA inheritance of military equipment and lavish civilian funding to fight terrorism, portends more than Jim Bell (Tim May?) -type sniper takeouts. Free fire zones may be in the offing, or surgical wasting of underground bunkers and germmakers (troublemakers). Wrathful Mars sees no innocents, so preaches the terrorist freedom warfighters pursuing a dream of winner take all, so sorry constitutional fundies, we're the warmonger biz.

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17 Dec '03

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17 Dec '03

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[URGENT] ZKP
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Tim C. Maypole, a product of anal birth, appeared with a coathanger through his head. (_) _____ (_) /O O\ Tim C. Maypole ! I ! ! \___/ ! \_____/

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Re: WARNING: Serious Pentium Bug
by nobody＠neva.org 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Anonymous <anon(a)anon.efga.org> wrote: >There is a SERIOUS bug in all pentium CPUs. The following >code will crash any machine running on a pentium CPU, MMX or no >MMX, any speed, regardless of OS (crash as in instant seize, hard >reboot the only cure): > >char x [5] = { 0xf0, 0x0f, 0xc7, 0xc8 }; > >main () >{ > void (*f)() = x; > f(); >} > >This require no special permissions to run, it works fine with >average-joe-userspace permissions. I have verified this, it works. >Demand a new CPU from Intel. This didn't crash my Pentium. Hoax?

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Re: WARNING: Serious Pentium Bug
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>Anonymous <anon(a)anon.efga.org> wrote: >>There is a SERIOUS bug in all pentium CPUs. The following >>code will crash any machine running on a pentium CPU, MMX or no >>MMX, any speed, regardless of OS (crash as in instant seize, hard >>reboot the only cure): >> >>char x [5] = { 0xf0, 0x0f, 0xc7, 0xc8 }; >> >>main () >>{ >> void (*f)() = x; >> f(); >>} >> >>This require no special permissions to run, it works fine with >>average-joe-userspace permissions. I have verified this, it works. >>Demand a new CPU from Intel. > >This didn't crash my Pentium. Hoax? Absolutely not. It crashed mine and is a major bug. It doesn't seem to affect the PPro, though, and not the P2 due to its relation to the PPro. It might be fixed in later Pentiums, which begs the question of why Intel didn't issue a recall back then. Supposidly they were informed about it months ago. Read comp.sys.intel.

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Money Laundering Nonsense.
by Black Unicorn 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Note- cypherpunks: reply by mail, I'm not on the list any longer. Chicago Tribune Monday, November 10, 1997 Money Laundering law netting more small fry. Prosecutors putting new tool to work. A sentencing weapon Congress intended for use against drug lords is being wielded against other defendants. Judges and others say this has diminished legal fairness. By Jan Crawford Greenburg Washington Bureau Washington- Jose Caba considered himself a hardworking, law-abiding man, and immigrant who built a business selling groceries in a poor Brooklyn neighborhood. But when he started illegally redeeming food stamps and depositing the proceeds into a bank account, prosecutors thought otherwise. They accused him of money laundering and sought a harsh sentence. Caba, who thought he was only bending administrative rules, isn't the kind of criminal Congress had in mind when it decided to give prosecutors a weapon to bring down powerful drug lords. Nevertheless, he is one of a growing number of defendants who commit routine fraud and find themselves facing big-time charges of money laundering. [...] More and more prosecutors are invoking [money laundering statutes] in simple fraud, bribery and embezzlement cases, a trend that doesn't sit well with many federal judges or the U.S. Sentencing Commission. In a strongly worded report, the commission... is recommending that the sentences for money laundering be reworked. The penalties are unfair, the commission said, because they often vastly exceed the seriousness of the crime. Caba would have faced 2 to 2 1/2 years in prison for food stamp fraud, but because he deposited the funds in a bank- thereby meeting the definition of laundering the money- he was looking at 10 to 12 years. [...] Nationally, statistics show a marked increase in money laundering cases. In 1995 prosecutors charged 1700 people with money laundering, up from 250 in 1990. More than half of the defendants charged in 1995 were involved in non-drug related crimes. Critics say the charged is used even more than the figures show because prosecutors threaten defendants with the charge to get them to plead guilty to the underlying crime. "It has tremendous implications in the criminal justice system because prosecutors can use it as a tremendous bargaining stick..." said Gordon Greenberg, a defense attorney and an expert on money laundering. "Every single crime, theoretically, can be converted into money laundering because the statute is that broad." What's more, prosecutors in some areas routinely file the charge, while others decline to do so. As a result, "proportionality is lost and appropriate uniformity is lost," said Jonathan Wroblewski, director of legislative and public affairs for the sentencing commission. [] stiff sentences also apply to defendants who make no attempt to cover up their proceeds. Caba laundered money by depositing it into a bank, even though his deposits were by check and he paid taxes on his proceeds. "For all intents and purposes, if you use your ill-gotten gains, it's money laundering." said Alan Chaset, a lawyer who chairs the American Bar Association's committee on sentencing guidelines. "If you take money and put it in a bank and then withdraw it and buy a stick of gum, it's money laundering." Some judges refuse to impose the sentence in cases where there was no elaborate scheme to conceal the money, such as a 1994 case in which prosecutors charged a defendant with money laundering when he put cash from drug sales into a shoe box. [...]

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Re: Freeware SET?
by Donald E. Eastlake 3rd 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The SET reference implementation was written only with a concern for protocol correctness and essentially no concern for operational usability. It is not clear to me that a product could be based on it without a lot of additonal work. But I suppose it might be useful for hacking... Donald On Sat, 8 Nov 1997, Robert Hettinga wrote: > Date: Sat, 8 Nov 1997 10:12:49 -0500 > From: Robert Hettinga <rah(a)shipwright.com> > > > Date: Sat, 8 Nov 1997 04:49:34 +0100 (CET) > From: Lucky Green <shamrock(a)cypherpunks.to> > To: cypherpunks-announce(a)toad.com, cypherpunks(a)algebra.com, > cryptography(a)c2.net, andrada(a)earthlink.net, andrea.liles(a)nike.com > Subject: Bay Area Cypherpunks meeting announcement > Sender: owner-cypherpunks(a)cyberpass.net > Reply-To: Lucky Green <shamrock(a)cypherpunks.to> > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Tomorrow's Bay Area Cypherpunks meeting will be held at the offices of > C2Net Software in Oakland. > > Agenda: > o Andrea Liles will present some cool new ideas about virtual CA's. > > o Lucky Green will demonstrate the Dumb Mouse, a universal chipcard > reader, and associated analysis/manipulation software. If you are at all > interested in smartcards, especially smartcards for crypto and > authentication purposes, you don't want to miss this one. If there aren't > too many attendees, we will host a workshop. Attendees are encouraged to > bring any smartcards in their possession and discover what is /really/ > happening on the card. The Cypherpunks Smartcard Developers Association > will accept smartcard donations after the workshop. > > o Cypherpunks Tonga will announce the release of BSAFEeay, a BSAFE 3.0 API > compatible crypto library based on SSLeay. > > o Cypherpunks Tonga will then combine BSAFEeay with the freeware SETref > (which requires BSAFE for the underlying crypto) and demonstrate the first > ever globally available *freeware* SET solution. > > Location: > C2Net Software > 1440 Broadway > 7th Floor > Oakland, CA > > Date/time: > Saturday, 11/8, noon > > Directions: > By BART: > Exit the system at 12th Street Oakland. Walk north on Broadway one block. > 1440 is on the right side of the street. > > By car: > http://www.mapquest.com/ > Choose "Trip Quest" from the menu. > > - -- Lucky Green <shamrock(a)cypherpunks.to> PGP v5 encrypted email preferred. > "Tonga? Where the hell is Tonga? They have Cypherpunks there?" > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: PGP 5.0i > Charset: noconv > > iQA/AwUBNGPhYvXUPTw3WtkkEQKztACeIQwx4voyUVIP6u1HmosCWklX7osAnROD > TTJn3K2jCIrKUQtOc5Z3oW1P > =byR/ > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > --- end forwarded text > > > > ----------------- > Robert Hettinga (rah(a)shipwright.com) Philodox > e$, 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA > "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, > [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to > experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' > The e$ Home Page: http://www.shipwright.com/ > Ask me about FC98 in Anguilla!: <http://www.fc98.ai/> ===================================================================== Donald E. Eastlake 3rd +1 978-287-4877(tel) dee(a)cybercash.com 318 Acton Street +1 978-371-7148(fax) dee(a)world.std.com Carlisle, MA 01741 USA +1 703-620-4200(main office, Reston, VA) http://www.cybercash.com http://www.privacy.org/ipc

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Motorola Boo-Boo
by Eric Cordian 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

In the discussion of the Intel F00FC7C8 problem, it was alleged that the instruction "unlk a7" will lock up a Motorola 68040 CPU even from user mode. Would someone care to test this on an old MAC? Is anyone aware of non-privileged instructions which kill other popular CPUs, like Alphas, SPARCS, and MIPS? -- Eric Michael Cordian 0+ O:.T:.O:. Mathematical Munitions Division "Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be The Whole Of The Law"

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Kill -9.9
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Eric Cordian wrote: > In the discussion of the Intel F00FC7C8 problem, it was alleged that > the instruction "unlk a7" will lock up a Motorola 68040 CPU even from > user mode. > Is anyone aware of non-privileged instructions which kill other popular > CPUs, like Alphas, SPARCS, and MIPS? In a world where government agencies using fear of the 'enemy' and bragging about their 'dirty tricks' to gain increasing funding, I am surprised that few seem to realize that many of the 'bugs' are actually 'features,' and that when one finds a true, non-designed bug in major hardware or software, there are certain government agencies which may pay handsomely for the information, depending on the potential and obscurity of the bug. In a world where the value of 'tracking chips' and 'kill switches' on personal automobiles is recognized, does anyone truly believe that government agencies with billions of dollars worth of funding have not recognized and instituted this technology surrupticiously in the same areas where they brag about introducing 'faulty parts' into weapons systems? The government is desperate to maintain their electronic snooping and warfare abilities as Year2000 approaches. Hardware & Software == Intel & MicroSoft == VX-Chip & GAK/GMR The government is using Anti-Trust actions to muscle both computer giants. A million dollar a day assault on MicroSoft, and release of compromising 'bug' information to put the squeeze on Intel. KillMonger

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by RealPlayer News 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Re: WARNING: Serious Pentium Bug
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

"William H. Geiger III" <whgiii(a)invweb.net> wrote: >For the same reason Intel does nothing about any of thier bugs: they are >assholes. The only way any of these type of things are ever addressed is >by enough users putting pressure on Intel to fix their fuckups. (Really >slopy not testing the microcode) Yeah. A conspiracy theorist might be prompted to theorize that Intel deliberately placed this in their processor, took a chance that nobody else would find it and publically release it, and then leaked the information themselves. If they refuse to replace the P5s many people will upgrade to a PPro or a P5. Of course Cyrix and AMD throw a wrench into this theory, but I doubt there are a whole lot of people who won't be buying any more Intel products due to this, and some of the clones have or did have big problems such as annoyingly slow FPUs. If they don't make it extraordinarily easy for me to replace my processor I'll probably be one of the people who falls into the latter catagory and goes off to Cyrixland.

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Key Signing
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Bill Stewart wrote: > > In particular, if you publish the key with your first posting, > then you can demonstrate later that you're the poster who > used that name. Thus, Checkered Daemon announced his nym with > a key, and since I could find no other record of use of that name, > I was willing to sign that key 0x50EC521D as his (I do use > a separate key for signing nyms; I've signed them for a few other > people such as Black Unicorn, some of whom I've since met in person.) > You can also get similar results by posting your key fingerprint > in your messages and sending the key to a keyserver, and it's > a bit more compact, but for a first posting using a nym > it's worthwhile to include the key. Excellent advice, Bill! I am including the key (below) for my new nym, which has not been used before, and would like for people to sign it and send the signed key to the list. This way, people will know by the signature, that it is, indeed: Necessarily Knot, ME - -----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE----- Version: 2.6.2 lQD4AzRmZWoAAAECAMnJrqd/TERCLeFscdgNvwVxrVG4tRm0VThMEXXkctCGMaUD jcETxcV0ZseRUcyUKfqlLd3CRsIwClozlWHHR7EABREAAfwJ5D1Ecilit/Mwsn4N GcWZXWpg3mM6/Epzs2pEhi3I926ZiWPB1DKmdZR4nVemsnwv47SWLJyCnE4sben5 h8oHAQDTFaJDJSN7+9NToOE4NFiruAXXMIHEQ6ZH21oW1sYSiwEA9LmhvfahDVKo 1/CMtxxozAtG8rWycBYVIVrkDKiVgjMBAKeB2VY/f7tzmv7KxUUtN9607+CQlWPp E3HBLTlwtuRAUxC0FU5lY2Vzc2FyaWx5IEtub3R0LCBNRQ== =caeb - -----END PGP MESSAGE----- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP for Personal Privacy 5.0 Charset: noconv iQBVAwUBNGZSSApaM5Vhx0exAQHWcQH/VHc1j8RenSUsPd+UJMCcrPWS5Euu+VVn hD4zGvaJ9irsyh1eKDLbMOUO5dOwxQuOQGDI5rB6cRuoh9ULdQjQyw== =c+x0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: [patent] Secure electronic message transfer and voting scheme
by ulf＠fitug.de 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>Patent Number: 5682430 >Inventor(s): Kilian, Joseph John{#buSako, Kazue#} The full text is available at <http://patent.womplex.ibm.com>. The novelty in this patent is an algorithm that uses Fiat-Shamir to prove that the mixes operate correctly. The general idea of using non-interactive zero-knowledge proofs to verify that mixes follow the protocol was already published by Rackoff and Simon in 1991, although that is not acknowledged in the patent specification. Does anyone have details about Kilian's patent application on identity escrow, other than the paper at <http://www.princeton.edu/~erez/ident.ps>?

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No Subject
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

In the grand tradition of RSA-in-3-lines-of-perl, we present Crash-A-Pentium-in-44-characters: main(){int i=0xc8c70ff0;void (*f)()=&i;f();} - f00fie

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No Subject
by Mix 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Monday, November 10, 1997 - 04:25:17 MET The following is from http://www.mobil.com/speedpass/ Note that I've only quoted the parts I think are relevent to a security discussion... ---begin quote--- How does Mobil Speedpass work? Speedpass uses an electronic system located in the pump to "talk" with a miniature radio-like device (a transponder). Together, these electronic devices provide "instant" access to gasoline by automatically charging fuel purchases to the credit card you've selected. The technology is similar to the state-of-the-art technology successfully used by many tollways. What happens if my Speedpass is lost, stolen or damaged? Treat it just like a credit card. Immediately notify our Service Center at 1-800-459-2266. Tell us your name or Speedpass number. And we'll cancel your old Speedpass and send you a new one right away. You should write down your Speedpass number (8 digits on tag) and keep it in a safe place. Is there a pin code with my Mobil Speedpass? No. Can other people intercept the transmission of my credit card number? No. The Speedpass system operates on a dedicated transponder identification code. Your credit card code remains outside the Speedpass signal system, maintaining the confidentiality of that information and protecting your account from unauthorized use. ---end quote--- I see several options, none seem too secure: 1) "dedicated transponder identification code" (dtic from now on) is sent in the clear. Anyone who can listen and re-transmit can get free gas. 2) Speedpass and the gas pump negotiate DH key exchange and use DES/RC5/IDEA/Whatever. Anyone who can impersonate a gas pump can gain access to dtics and get free gas. 2) Gas pumps have an RSA keypair, and all of the speedpasses know the public key. The dtic is encrypted to the gas pump's key along with some random data. Anyone who can compromise the gas pump's private key (including service station operators/employees?) can imitate a gas pump and get dtics, with which to get free gas. The third option seems pretty secure at first, until you realize that it's like putting all of your eggs in one basket and giving thousands of people physical access to the basket. Anybody know how they are actualy doing it? Is there some more secure way I haven't thought of? -Some anonymous guy with no 'nym

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Gun Control brings on a new arms race
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Tim May wrote: At the San Francisco Gun Show this past weekend, I watched with great amusement as the San Mateo County Sheriff's Office deputies and Brisbane Police stared in apparent horror as citizen-units loaded up on high-capacity mags, armor-piercing ammo, Class III body armor, and on and on. The cops are stationed at the door, ostensibly to spot gross violations of the law, such as carry of loaded weapons. The cops asked me if I was carrying guns into the show to sell...I just shrugged. Without a warrant, they were helpless to do more than just ask. It was a gas. Gee, sounds like Christmas. Christmas starts earlier every year. Sparticus

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Australian banks using uncracakble IDEA!
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Conflicting agendas cloud accord on internet trading By John Davidson http://www.afr.com.au/content/971110/inform/inform3.html Banks will lose their shirts; retailers will go bust if the import tax threshold isn't lowered; retailers will go bust if the threshold isn't raised; individuals will be monitored by a person or persons unknown; the Tax Office will kill it first, or maybe it won't. These are just some of the often strange and always contradictory claims heard by the Joint Parliamentary Committee of Public Accounts during the Sydney leg of its inquiry into internet commerce last week. [...] One expert witness, who said he had been involved in the establishment of the internet more than 20 years ago, testified that internet commerce should be banned because the speed and security of the network had barely improved in the last decade. Modem speeds, said Richard Marschall from Marschall Acoustics, were still limited to 9600bps (contrary to the claims of ISPs and modem makers, which offer speeds of around 50kbps) and using the internet was still grossly inefficient compared to putting a disk in the post. Worse, 90 per cent of all internet bandwidth was used to (slowly, one presumes) download pornography. Claims that the internet could be used for serious business were also grossly inflated, he said. Dr Marschall said that any banks that chose to use the internet for commerce would "lose their shirts" because the security of the internet was so poor. The cryptography relied on by banks to scramble data on the public network could readily be cracked, he said, because law enforcement agencies refused to let people use strong versions of the software for fear of it falling into the hands of criminals. (Those Australian banks that offer Web banking sites do, in fact, use a strong form of cryptography known as IDEA, which is thought to be effectively uncrackable.) "The internet (is) an ideal media (sic) for fraud and other unethical practices," he said in his submission. "It is not clear if there is any fix for these problems -- short of pulling the plug and banning internet commerce. Commercial transactions were banned for the first 15 years of the internet's existence for precisely these reasons."

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Appellee's Brief filed; Government granted extension
by Cindy Cohn 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Hi all, The Brief for the Appellee Bernstein was filed today in the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. It should be posted at the Electronic Frontier Foundation site (www.eff.org) soon. In addition to the Appellee's Brief, five amicus briefs were filed today in support of the Appellee. Cindy ************************ Cindy A. Cohn McGlashan & Sarrail, P. C. 177 Bovet Road, 6th Floor San Mateo, CA 94402 (415) 341-2585 (tel) (415)341-1395 (fax) Cindy(a)McGlashan.com http://www.McGlashan.com

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Crypto smartcard demo at the monthly meeting
by Lucky Green 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

It seems that everybody had fun watching my smartcard demo at this month's Cypherpunks meeting. It certainly generated a lot of interest in this, to many US programmers still novel, technology. I sincerely hope that the attendees walked away with more than the realization, as you saw in my demonstration, that a 16 bit keyspace is not cryptographically secure. :-) On behalf of the Cypherpunks Smartcard Developer Association, I would like to again issue a call for smartcards and smartcard Programmer Reference Manuals. Without both, it will be difficult to move our research forward in a timely fashion. If you have access to either, especially to those made by Siemens or Bull, please contact me. Anonymous donations are encouraged. We also need inverse readers and serial port sniffers that do not affect the traffic on the serial port. Pointers to commercial sources are welcome. Schematics or better yet donations are preferred. Furthermore, I would like everybody interested in obtaining one of the universal smartcard readers used in the demo to contact me. Given enough interest, I volunteer to coordinate another production run. Thanks, -- Lucky Green <shamrock(a)cypherpunks.to> PGP v5 encrypted email preferred. "Tonga? Where the hell is Tonga? They have Cypherpunks there?"

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17 Dec '03

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