December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: ascii art is not a digital signature (Re: Cypherpunk Policeman?)
by Information Security 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> From aba(a)dcs.ex.ac.uk Wed Feb 25 04:19:12 1998 > > Guy <guy(a)panix.com> writes: > > > From aba(a)dcs.ex.ac.uk Tue Feb 24 18:55:45 1998 > > > > > > You sure? I mean it could as easily as not been someone spoofing him, > > > what with the various anonymous mails, etc., that you reported. > > > > It is a blatant obviousity. > > > > [series of ascii art posts posted via different remailer addresses, > > and bwalk.dm.com email addresses] > > It is not at all obvious. You seem to be under the illusion that an > ascii art image is some kind of digital signature. You seem to think people couldn't share a digital signature. > > Traffic analysis simply means convincing one or more people > > that it's the same person... > > Doesn't prove anything. Sure it does, I've proven that with PSI. Guess what happens if those people are a jury? > Here to make the point, I'll use one of your magic digital signature > ascii arts which somehow proves incontrovertably that the post was > made by Dimitri. I can see that one flew over your head, and pooped on you. ---guy

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No Subject
by Trei, Peter 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 23:38:58 -0600 From: David McNett <nugget(a)slacker.com> To: rc5(a)lists.distributed.net Subject: [RC5] [ADMIN] The secret message is... Sender: owner-rc5(a)llamas.net Precedence: bulk Reply-To: rc5(a)llamas.net Status: RO --UlVJffcvxoiEqYs2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Once again I have the great privilege of coming to you with good news. It is with great pleasure (and a sigh of relief) that I can now inform you that the DES-II-1 challenge has been successfully met by distributed.net. The winning key to the challenge was detected and submitted to RSA Labs at 02:26 GMT on Monday, 23-Feb-1998. The correct key, 76 9E 8C D9 F2 2F 5D EA, revealed the words which we've been anticipating these past 39 days: "The secret message is: Many hands make light work." (If you ask me, this is a nice nod in our direction. Thanks, RSA Labs!) In addition to proving that 56-bit DES is no longer sufficient for protecting valuable information, we've now also proved that blind luck need not be a factor in brute-force decryption attacks. The original DES Challenge and the more recent RC5-56 wins were fortunate and did not have to sweep a significant portion of the keyspace. This time around, however, we managed to complete almost 90% of the keyspace and have now proven that even when the law of averages chooses to catch up to us and forces us to pay our dues, we are still an unstoppable force. Our collective victory is all the more impressive when you consider what we had to accomplish to achieve it. We tested sixty-three quadrillion keys. That number is simply staggering. Assuming *0* growth between now and July, we'll be able to sweep the entire DES-II-2 keyspace in just under 29 days. That's assuming that we do not recruit another person, don't add any more machines, and are even more unlucky next time. I daresay at least one of those assumptions is probably false. I'd invite all of you to join us in IRC (efnet, #distributed) for a rowdy victory party. Take a breather. Sit back and watch your clients automatically roll over to RC5-64. The only other issue at hand is *who* found the key. The person who found the winning key has politely asked to remain anonymous. Rest assured, I've been in contact with them and they know they've won. They will be receiving their full share of the prize and are quite excited about the victory. All I'd ask is that we all respect this person's wishes and not bother the list with public speculation as to their identity. I'm sure we all appreciate just how important privacy and anonymity can be. Here are some numbers to chew on while the stats are down: Project statistics: Start of contest: January 13, 1998 at 09:00 PST Start of distributed.net effort: January 13, 1998 at 09:08 PST End of Contest: February 23, 1998 at 02:26 PST Size of keyspace: 72,057,594,037,927,936 Approximate keys tested: 63,686,000,000,000,000 Number of 2^30 (average) keyblocks: 67,108,864 Number of keys in average keyblock: 1,073,741,824 Peak blocks per day: 5,540,982 Peak keys per second: 34,430,460,000 The unencrypted message: Many hands make light work Computing equivalents: Distributed.net is equivalent in processing power to: 11,264 DEC Alpha 21064 533s 15,316 Sun Ultra I 167s 22,393 Intel Pentium II 333s 68,859 Macintosh PowerPC 604e/200s. 41,712 Intel Pentium 166s 399,374 Intel 486DX2/66s 7,446,033 Intel 386SX/20s (based solely on DES client performance) Prospective: If Keys were dollars, we could pay off the U.S. National Debt in 6.25 minutes If Keys were pennies, we could buy 536249385 Mazda Miatas each day. If Keys were pennies, we could buy 256728249 Jeep Cherokees each day! If you printed a single page to represent each key block as it was checked and placed those pages in a stack, it would grow 12.83 inches taller every minute. If blocks were liters of Dr. Pepper, we could produce 6381493 six-packs each day If Key Blocks were cheeseburgers, fries, and a large Dr. Pepper, we could feed the entire city of Toronto, Ontario lunch each day. (on a personal note, It sure feels nice to be doing RC5 blocks again. I feel like I've just slipped on an old, comfortable pair of loafers that were lost in the attic for two months) -- ________________________________________________________________________ |David McNett |To ensure privacy and data integrity this message has| |nugget(a)slacker.com|been encrypted using dual rounds of ROT-13 encryption| |Birmingham, AL USA|Please encrypt all important correspondence with PGP!| --UlVJffcvxoiEqYs2 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBNPOucPqEj3HEBeehAQEKBgQAizpn1SrmYhz/Ycx1aNUxewi9r7X8gRTr ifuwC+4qAJXWcDOesdOx1V1IzQ6eSHLFuiaDyLsNmUwIoUpwJm0CTlmwtYIDDc4R mGrO7t0FUne+l+YhFyYJTarnMjmCpySJjEf9I/GNrWfGTnFAWAaaGQp+f1ZyBTkJ 1bDtm3rzbjk= =iv/8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --UlVJffcvxoiEqYs2-- -- To unsubscribe, send 'unsubscribe rc5' to majordomo(a)lists.distributed.net rc5-digest subscribers replace rc5 with rc5-digest

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So what *does* happen to a city without power for 6 days
by David Honig 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

A part of Aukland is finding out. http://www.tampabayonline.net/news/news101l.htm ------------------------------------------------------------ David Honig Orbit Technology honig(a)otc.net Intaanetto Jigyoubu If you plan to enter text which our system might consider to be obscene, check here to certify that you are old enough to hear the resulting output. http://www.bell-labs.com/project/tts/voices.html

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Prologue 3
by Linda Reed--PCC West Campus CSC 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

~ SPACE ALIENS HIDE MY DRUGS / PROLOGUE 3/0 ©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©© The Most Dangerous Man In Lost Wagess: They had followed him from the CypherPunks physical meeting to the outskirts of Las Vegas, before losing him. Two days of frantic searching by a variety of law enforcement agencies led to the Plaza Hotel and Casino, where he was playing the penny slot machine and associating with a variety of local riff©raff and no©accounts. An in©depth consultation with the Plaza head of security revealed that they had been keeping a close eye on the subject for the last two days. "He doesn't cause any real trouble, or anything," the head honcho said, shrugging, "but everything about him seems just a little strange, if you know what I mean." This comment seemed designed to elicit some sort of response from the poker©faced men questioning him, but they failed to respond, merely waiting for him to continue. "He buys ten dollars worth of pennies," and tips the change lady a dollar. "He plays for hours on end, also tipping the waitresses a dollar every time they bring him a free beer. Hell, he even tips the cleaning people when they clean his ashtray." The honcho shook his head, as if this type of behavior from someone spending most of their time playing the penny slots was puzzling and also disconcerting. "Sleeps in his car, with his dog. Only leaves the slot machines to feed, water, and run his dog around our parking lot. It's kind of unnatural, the way he seems to dote on that animal." the security honcho winked knowingly. "Has he met with anyone who doesn't usually frequent your casino?" one of the men asked, impatiently, tired of hearing odd details of the man's lifestyle which seemed intriguing to the denziens of normality that they were constantly having to interview in regard to the subject's movement and activity. "He ran into some legal©eagle named Larry Joe," the honcho said, noting the first sign of interest shown by his interrogators. "My second©shift security chief says he's a middle©weight poker player, taking part in a tournament at the Rio..." adding with a knowing tone, "but the mouthpiece is hanging with one of the heavy hitters on the local poker scene." "Larry Joe Dowling, an Austin attorney." one of the interrogators said to the others. "He usuallyÜj We'd better shift our surveillance team into high gear." The man rose to leave, telling the others, "Dig up all you can here, file a report, and get some sleep. You're going to need it." Boogers? We don't need no stinking boogers!: The agent pulled out his hanky and wiped the disgusting mess off of his jacket sleeve. "I can't believe that they pulled us off of the Tim May detail to check out this fucking loser." "Shit!" he screamed, as he brushed his arm against the steering column and picked up another piece of disgusting slime on his jacket sleeve. "I've shaken down this guy's personals before." the man's partner said, with a grin. "That's why I gave you the driver's side of the vehicle to check out." "He feeds his nose©candy to his dog, and he always leaves her a little desert on the steering wheel for her to chow down on after he brings her back from her walk." He laughed as he saw the bile rising to his new partner's throat. He couldn't help himself©©he reached over and plucked a booker off of the horn button and told his partner, "I'll trade you a green one for a yellow one..." His partner lurched out of the vehicle and concentrated on tossing his lunch while not messing up his shiny new shoes. The more experienced agent finished snapping photos of the gathered items and then replaced them carefully in the same position they had been in before their intrusion. "He usually walks Baby for about ten minutes, to give us time to make a complete pass of his vehicle, so our time is about up." The agent closed and locked the doors of the vehicle, motioning his green©faced partner toward their vehicle. It's A Nuke! No, It's Anthrax! No, It's...AAARRGGGHHHH!!!": Justin Case, Special Agent in Charge of the current investigation, was bothered by the fact that the suspect had seemed to be doing nothing more than wandering around various sites and casinos in Las Vegas, with no apparent pattern or plan to his movement and actions. Until he read the report of the suspect's lingering interest in the placement of the columns serving as the foundation for the Stratosphere Casino, and the layout of the preliminary work on the new Foley Federal BuildingÜj "Soft targets." agent Case said out loud, causing a considerable amount of disconcertment to his fellow agent, Bobby Siller. "Damn!" Siller swore, "We have reports of him having met with Leavitt and Harris, but we didn't have any taps on them, so we don't have any details of what they are planning." "Don't worry about it," Case seemed unconcerned, "if he's scouting soft targets, then he's not planning any sudden moves." "Patience comes to those who wait." Justin Case said, softly, quoting the Author, and making a mental note to have agent Siller shake the Anthrax Twins down a few days after the suspect departed Vegas. "Hold it!" agent Siller shouted, motioning for his superior to remain silent, as Siller adjusted his earpiece to more clearly hear the live report he was receiving from his agents at the Riviera gun show. "The suspect went into the gun show empty handed, and left with several copies of 'Gun List' and then returned to his vehicle. He took his dog for a walk and our agents discovered a 'Dalian' watch wrapped in tear©outs from the firearms paper, dealing with Romanian AK rifles and Bulgarian SLR©95's. The 'Dalian' watch is some type of Polish/Chinese make, or something." Justin Case rolled his eyes, but remained silent. The suspect was yanking the chains of the agents who were shaking down his personals, and it looked like Siller's men didn't have the experience to know when they were being toyed with. The agent that Case had pulled off of the Tim May detail would be wise to the suspect's shenanigans, but it was unlikely he would get in the way of Siller's men making fools of themselves. "He's returning to the casino, using the copies of 'Gun List' to hide whatever it is he's carrying." agent Siller said, with great excitement. "I think we ought to take him in the parking garage, before he reaches the main building at the Riviera." Siller anxiously awaited the word from his superior. "Maintain." was Case's nonchalant reply, causing Siller to have an ill©disguised internal shit©fit. If this operation went totally to hell, it would be Siller's ass on the line, being the Las Vegas station chief.

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Prologue3a
by Linda Reed--PCC West Campus CSC 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

SAHMD 3A ©©©©©©©© "Maintain," Siller told his agents, but couldn't help adding, "and disclose." This was a vague term meant to signal his men to intercept the suspect and do a bump©and©run on him to sniff out what it was he was hiding©©without alerting Siller's superior that his orders were being countermanded. "The Electronic Privacy Papers." agent Case said, to no one in particular. "What?" Siller asked, perplexed. "Documents on the Battle for Privacy in the Age of Surveillance, by Bruce Schneier and David Banisar, ISBN: 0©471©12297©1." Much to agent Siller's consternation, his superior continued, "That's what your men are going to discover he is hiding furtively under those copies of the 'Gun List' magazines when they disobey my orders and risk blowing their cover." "It's the suspect's form of humor." Justin Case smiled at his subordinate's discomfort. "He's laughing at all the spooks from various agencies, including yours and mine, who are at the gun show shadowing the Anthrax Twins, the Samsonite Nuclear Warrior, and various members of the Loose©Screw Gun Nut Club." Seeing the confused look on agent Siller's face, he explained further. "The suspect is laughing because he believes he is carrying the most dangerous weapon available at the gun show." "And he's probably right..." Case said, with a far© away look in his eyes that sent shivers down agent Siller's spine. Special agent Justin Case took a tattered copy of a paperback titled, "Paper Prison" out of his inside jacket pocket, and stared at it©©lost in a universe that belonged far in the past, but which seemed to be intersecting the present in a manner which bode nothing but ill for those who continued to live in both. "The future is now..." Justin Case said, in a low monotone voice that seemed to come from a world beyond the one in which he and agent Siller were so diligently pursuing the 'Threat of the Day'. "He's carrying a book." the voice came crackling through Siller's earpiece. "Never mind." Siller said, adding, "Maintain." "Maintain." Siller repeated inwardly, to himself,Üj crept up his spine and into the lower regions of his mind as he observed the strange, semi©hypnotic state that his superior had entered into. "Maintain."

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Prologue 4
by Linda Reed--PCC West Campus CSC 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Prologue 4/0 SPACE ALIENS HIDE MY DRUGS ©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©© A Nuclear Bullet, With *Everyone's* Name On It: [Your Name Here] Excerpt from an interview with Marilyn Manson on NPR: MM: A lot of the lies spread by Fundamentalist Christians about our tour were believed by people because they read them on the InterNet. The InterNet is the CB Radio of the 90's. People perceive it as a legitimate news source, which it's not. Eventually there will need to be some sort of laws or something... Top Ten Ways To Convince The Sheeple The Revolution Is NOW: 10,9,8,.7,6,5,4,3,2... 1. Put Marilyn Manson's name on the first bullet. "Give me nuclear freedom, or give me death." ~ Patrick Hussein The TRUTH About Area 51: It's a resort©spa for the reptilian Nazis who are shaping our present and our future, preparing to rule all of mankind when they emerge from the underground bunkers beneath Los Alamos, Livermore, Colorado Springs, Muleshoe, Texas, etc., at the end of the Milleniuum. Why can't you buy a straight 2"x4" anymore? The reptilian Nazis are keeping all of the good stuff for themselves. The reason for the tight security at Area 51 is not because of secret spy©planes and the like. The reptilian Nazi's don't want us to know that they are all driving '56 Chevy's. (Their original plan was to have earthlings all driving Edsels, but they tried to implement the plan before their mind©control experiments had proven successful.) Who It Is OK To Put A Fucking Bullet Through Their Head: Officially Recognized Bad Guys©©For the Sheeple, this is Saddam Hussein, Timothy McVeigh, Dennis Rodman, paramilitarists, grandmothers who plug other people's parking meters, Branch Davidians (but it's a shame about the children), and The Subject Of A Ten©Second Sound©Byte To Be Named Later. For Republicans, this is welfare cheats, the homeless, tax cheats making less than $100,000 per year, liberals, Ralph Nadar, CypherPunks, Alt2600 avocados, the 4 Horsemen, and anyone who looks like me. For the Democrats, this is the non©avant©guarde wealthy,Üj liberals consume, Rush Limbaugh, Republican presidents, rednecks, people who drink water straight out of the tap, and anyone who looks like me. For Kris Kristofferson, this is "People doing something dirty, decent folks can frown on..." "Sunshine is the best disinfectant." ~ Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis, 1928 "Bullet holes let the sun shine in." ~ Supreme Asshole TruthMonger, 1998 When Existence Is Outlawed, Only Outlaws Will Exist: The revolution is now. The only question that those who have the balls to participate in the inevitable chaos which will be needed to balance the Tao against the current onslaught of digitally structured reality that is being forced upon humanity by the new technology being promoted by the pawns of the reptilian Nazis whose headquarters is deep within the confines of the AdamAntarctic is: "Whose brain do I put my first bullet through?" For many, the answer will be, "TruthMonger!" Nobody likes to hear the truth, and the truth is: We all deserve to die. Not only that, but the extinction of humanity, according to our current values, epitomizes the crowning glory of our evolutionary path. What places us *above* the other primates and the other forms of life on our planet? What is it that makes us special, that deems us worthy of ruling over all other life forms on the planet Earth? It is our ability to control; our ability to master our environment and the objects and life©forms contained within its bounds. Ultimately, it is our ability to *kill* whatever stands in the way of the fulfillment of our desires and our goals. For all of our soul©searching, spiritual posturing, deep down inside we all know that we live in a predatorial universe. Republicans cry out for bigger guns to defend our way of life from everyone who fails to salute the flag. Democrats cry out for the press and political leaders to invent enemies to justify the liberals crying out for bigger guns to protect us from the 'bad guys.' And it's all bullshit... The reason we need to launch wars and destroy our environment is to keep the price of our refrigerators and our color TV's reasonable©©to keep the price of aÜj dollar high enough that we can feel good about ourselves for saving a starving child for less than ten cents a day, while ignoring the fact that an obese Sally Fields could save more starving children in a week than we possibly could in a lifetime, just by donating one of her lunches to the charity she is promoting. Think About This, You Stupid Fucking Bastards: Why do we need to allow our basic human rights and freedoms to be compromised?: In order for our hallowed leaders and our protectors in the law enforcement community to adequately protect us from the 'bad guys.' Why do we need to be protected from the 'bad guys'?: Because if they win out over the 'good guys', they will take away our basic human rights and freedoms. The Reason TruthMonger Will Die Broke And Alone: Because he invested all of his money in ClueServers, believing that the Sheeple might one day find them to be of value. "TV Is Real! (Just go back to sleep, dear.)"

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From Peter Gutmann Re: So what *does* happen to a city without power
by David Honig 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I wrote: > >>A part of Aukland is finding out. >> >>http://www.tampabayonline.net/news/news101l.htm Peter G replies: >It's pretty serious, so far it's affected (at various times) a number of >banking data centres (the first day the power went out was on the Thursday >when everyones pay is supposed to be processed - the data centres themselves >have generators, but the sources feeding them information don't), the stock >exchange, some (unidentified) central city post office buildings, customs and >immigration, inland revenue, internal affairs, social welfare, the Auckland >City Council, the central police station, Aucklands main hospital and medical >school complex (they have generators, but one of them failed, leaving the >childrens hospital without power for awhile), the city campus of the >university and technical institute (affecting 30,000 students in the middle of >enrolment), several TV and radio stations, and God knows what else (the >government departments have tentacles all over the city, so it's not so bad >for them). Although many of these places have generators, there were various >glitches in switching over and one or two breakdowns which have caused >problems, and most of the generators can't handle anywhere near the load being >placed on them but were designed to power only essential services. One >comment I've heard is that the power company may not survive the lawsuits >which follow this (taking out some suburb is serious enough, but taking out >the central business district with its cluster of multinational accounting and >legal firms, banks, government departments, and whatnot is really bad). > >There's fairly detailed coverage of what's going on at >http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/power.txt, with a temporary copy at >http://www.kcbbs.gen.nz/users/peterg/power.txt (the Auckland site doesn't have >power at the moment, the other one is located outside the city centre, I'll >move things to the first site once power is restored). > >Peter (usually pgut001(a)cs.auckland.ac.nz when we have power). > ------------------------------------------------------------ David Honig Orbit Technology honig(a)otc.net Intaanetto Jigyoubu The Internet Protocol's only guarantee is that your packets will not clog the net.

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DES search
by Dr. Alan Sherman 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Why doesn't someone speed up the DES search with Hellman's time-space tradeoff, whose precomputation could be done within a month? Alan T. Sherman sherman(a)cs.umbc.edu

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bugging the swiss
by David Honig 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Mossad was busted for bugging Swiss telephones today. http://www.newsday.com/ap/rnmpne0j.htm Swiss Claim Israelis Were Spying By IRENE HARNISCHBERG Associated Press Writer BERN, Switzerland (AP) -- Switzerland said today it had caught Israel's spy agency in an attempt to bug telephones on the outskirts of the Swiss capital. It was the third highly publicized Mossad bungle to embarrass the Israeli government in recent months, and angered Swiss leaders. ``The least Israel can do is apologize quickly,'' said spokesman Franz Egle of the Swiss Foreign Ministry, which formally protested the alleged bugging attempt as a violation of national sovereignty. Israel radio said the Israeli agents were trying to eavesdrop on Iranian diplomats, but Swiss officials denied the report, saying the targets were neither Iranian nor diplomats. ...... ------------------------------------------------------------ David Honig Orbit Technology honig(a)otc.net Intaanetto Jigyoubu The Internet Protocol's only guarantee is that your packets will not clog the net.

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KRA Dis-Trust
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Federal Register: February 27, 1998 (Volume 63, Number 39) [Page 10040-10041] >From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993; Key Recovery Alliance (``KRA'') Notice is hereby given that, on October 20, 1997, pursuant to Sec. 6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993, 15 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. (``the Act''), the Key Recovery Alliance (``KRA'') has filed written notifications simultaneously with the Attorney General and the Federal Trade Commission disclosing (1) The identities of the parties and (2) the nature and objectives of the venture. The notifications were filed for the purpose of invoking the Act's provisions limiting the recovery of antitrust plaintiff's to actual damages under specified circumstances. Pursuant to Sec. 6(b) of the Act, the identities of the parties are: Apple Computer, Inc., Cupertino, CA; Cylink Corporation, Sunnyvale, CA; Data Securities International, Inc., San Diego, CA; Digital Equipment Corporation, Nashua, NH; Golden Star Technology, Inc., [[Page 10041]] Cerritos, CA; Information Resource Engineering, Inc., Baltimore, MD; Intel Corporation, Hillsboro, OR; International Business Machines, Inc., Somers, NY; Motorola, Scottsdale, AZ; NCR, West Columbia, SC; Novell Inc., Provo, UT; Sourcefile, Atlanta, GA; Sun Microsystems, Inc., Mountain View, CA; Trusted Information Systems, Inc., McLean, VA. KRA was formed for the following purposes: (a) Stimulate global electronic commerce by encouraging the harmonization of market driven solutions available globally for secure communication using strong encryption; (b) serve as a focal point for industry efforts to develop commercially acceptable solutions for recovery of encrypted information; (c) determine interoperability concerns and potential architectural solutions among key recovery technologies and non-key recovery technologies; (d) support the development of a global infrastructure that supports recovery of encrypted information and (e) promote the implementation, deployment and use of interoperable key recovery technologies in the market. In furtherance of the foregoing purposes, KRA may undertake research, development, analysis, testing, study, and experimentation concerning or relating to key recovery technologies, and it may engage in the collection, exchange and analysis of research information concerning key recovery technologies. Additional parties may become members of KRA. KRA will file supplemental written notifications disclosing all new members. Constance K. Robinson, Director of Operations, Antitrust Division. [FR Doc. 98-5014 Filed 2-26-98; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4410-11-M

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DES, MMX, and FPGAs
by Trei, Peter 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

In DES key search, the speed of a given machine is controlled by three main factors: clock speed, the algorithm used, and the availability of multiple issue (the last refers to perfoming 2 or more instructions in parallel). Clock speed can be easily factored out for comparison purposes. Algorithm is harder; a bitslice algorithm is a clear win on 64 bit machines with lots of registers, but is roughly equivalent to non-bitslice algorithms on 32 bit machines with a low register count (eg, Intel processors, even using MMX). Multiple issue can greatly speed up a specificly tuned assembly language version. I can't speak for the non-intel processors below, but the Pentium code below is all tuned for the vanilla Pentium, and does not get a boost from the PPro or P2. Let's do the numbers: d.net peak keys per second: 34,430,460,000 cpk (clocks per key) = (equiv * clock speed)/34B Processor clock (MHz) equiv cpk DEC Alpha 321064 142 (4) DEC Alpha 21066 220 (4) DEC Alpha 21064 533 11,264 176 (1) DEC Alpha 21164 (Deschall) 94 (3) Sun Ultra I 167 15,316 75 (1) SGI r10k 69 (4) Macintosh PowerPC 604e 200 68,859 403 (1)(2) Macintosh PowerPC 604e 200 137 (4) Intel Pentium II 333 22,393 219 (1)(6) Intel Pentium Pro 232 (4)(6) Intel Pentium 166 41,712 203 (1) Intal Pentium (Bryddes) 195 (5) Intel 486DX2 66 399,374 775 (1) Intel 386SX 20 7,446,033 4380 (1) (1) D.net press release. (2) This figure comes from the press release. I don't believe it for a moment. The next line gives a speed determined from a posting to the d.net mailing list, and is much more believable - if anything, it appears a little slow. (3) Deschall client (4) based on d.net mailing list posting. (5) Sven Mikkelsen's page. (6) I'm not aware of any fielded bitslice software for Intel MMX platforms. I suspect that it would not speed things up too much - there are simply too few registers, and you'd spend a lot of time moving stuff in and out of cache. I wouldn't be suprised if some of the figures above are incorrect, but it's clear that the best processors are getting down to 70-100 clock cycles per key. Wiener's keysearch engine unrolls the 16 rounds of DES, and is thus able to run in a similar way to an assembly line; once it's 'filled up' it tests 1 key per clock cycle. Any other version would run a lot slower. Some highly uninformed blather about FPGAs follows: Wiener's paper uses custom VLSI chips, and claims a need for 26k "gates" or 78257 "sites". I'm not sure how this translates to silicon requirements in FPGAs - it seems that "gate" and "site" are nominal terms which are not directly equivalent to actual, physical gates. I've found one reference to a general DES FPGA implementation which requires 25k gates, though it's not clear if this reuses the round circuitry, or 'unrolls' it (I suspect the latter, which would be good). I'm also not certain if a FPGA running at, for example, 50 MHz, can actually run logic operations at that speed. Some things I've read suggest that FPGAs run ops at several clocks per operation - which is still a lot better than a general purpose microprocessor. The fastest and largest FPGAs I'm aware of are the Xilinx 4000 series: The xc40125 has about 80,000 gates, and runs at around 100 MHz (and costs $1500!!). Suppose we use this chip, and everything works out optimally. We can fit 3 des engines per chip, and get 300 Mkeys/sec checked. To duplicate d.net's speed, we would need about 115 chips, or about $170k for the chips alone. A better choice would be the Xilinx Spartan XL series. This might be in the $20 - $40 a chip, and would run at 80MHz, and would fit only one des engine. This would be around $9k - $17k, which is still pretty high for an individual. At this speed (34Gkey/sec), it would still take 12 days to search half the keyspace, and the prices quoted are for the chip alone, no boards, chassies, or SW, and the speeds are assumed to be 1 key/engine/clock, which is optomistic. On the plus side, implementing a DES cracker in an FPGA actually affords us some efficiency savings over a non-reconfigurable chip. The cipher and plaintexts can be compiled into the design, and if you're willing to reload the chip frequently, the slower-changing portions of the key can be built in as well. This cuts the gate count considerably. I'd really like to see the next DES challenge taken on by some organization with a few hundred under utilized FPGA boards. Peter Trei ptrei(a)securitydynamics.com

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New enhancements introduced today!
by Gartner Interactive 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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17 Dec '03

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This is your NEW HOUSE, or BOAT, or ROLLS ROYCE
by rdshea＠20315.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

This is your NEW HOUSE, or BOAT, or ROLLS ROYCE THIS CAN BE YOUR BEST OF DREAMS! TRY IT! THIS MAY BE THE MOST SIGNIFICANT LETTER YOU WILL RECEIVE THIS YEAR!! ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ***Please, Follow The Instructions Of This Letter Very Carefully. Immediately Make A Copy, And Read It Twice.*** Subject: It's Only a Game, But You Win Big Money! Greetings, Hopefully my name is still on the list below. I am a retired attorney, and about two years ago a man came to me with a letter. The letter he brought me is basically the same as the letter in front of you now. He asked me to verify the fact that this letter was legal. I told him that I would review it and get back to him. When I first read the letter I thought it was some off-the-wall idea to make money. A week later I met again with my client to discuss the issue. I told him that the letter originally brought to me was not 100% legal. My client asked me to alter the letter to make it 100% legal. I advised him to make a small change in the letter and it would be alright. I was curious about the letter, so he told me how it works. I thought it was a long shot, so I decided against participating. Before my client left, I asked him to keep me updated as to his results. About two months later he called to tell me that he had received over $800,000 in cash! I didn't believe him so he asked me to try the plan and see for myself. I thought about it for a couple of days and decided that there was not much to lose. I followed the instructions exactly and mailed out 200 letters. Sure enough, the money started coming! It came slowly at first, but after three weeks I was getting more than I could open in a day. After about three months the money stopped coming. I kept a precise record of my earnings and at the end it totaled $868,439.00. I was earning a good living as a lawyer, but as anyone in the legal profession will tell you, there is a lot of stress that comes with the job. I told myself if things worked out I would retire from practice and play golf. I decided to try the letter again, but this time I sent 500 letters out. Well, three months later I had totaled $2,344,178.00!!! I just couldn't believe it. I met my old client for lunch to find out how this exactly works. He told me that there were a few similar letters going around. What made this one different is the fact that there are six names on the letter, not five like most others. That fact alone resulted in far more returns. The other factor was the advice I gave him in making sure the whole thing was perfectly legal, since no one wants to risk doing anything illegal. I bet by now you are curious about what little change I told him to make. Well, if you send a letter like this out, to be legal, you must sell something if you expect to receive a dollar. I told him that anyone sending a dollar out must receive something in return. So when you send a dollar to each of the six names on the list, you must include a slip of paper saying, "Please put me on your mailing list" and include your name, mailing address, and email address. (Your phone # is optional). This is the key to the program! The item you will receive for a dollar you send to the six names below, is this letter and the right to earn thousands. We will be working together to improve each others lives! Follow the simple instructions below exactly, and in less than three months you will receive over $800,000.00 GUARANTEED!!!!!! A) Immediately send $1.00 to each of the six people on the list below. Wrap the dollar in a note (type written or handwritten) saying "Please add me to your mailing list" and include your name, mailing address, and email address. Your phone number is optional: 1) Anthony Thomas 8150 East Hildale St. Detroit, MI 48234 2) Phillip Smith 24321 Sunnypointe Southfield, MI 48034 3) Claudia Stephan PO Box 1819 Carmichael, CA 95609 4) Nadia Segun PO Box 1357 Rancho Cordova, CA 95741 5) Lidia Zoring 3500 Data dr. # 147 Rancho Cordova, CA 95670 6) James Thomas 11329 S Peoria St. Chicago, IL 60643 B) Remove the name next to #1 on the list and move the rest of the names up one position. Then place your name in the #6 spot. This is best done by typing a new list and taping or gluing it over the old one. Or by saving this to a text file and editing it yourself and saving the new edited copy. C) When you have completed the above instructions, you have an option of mailing your new letter out in two ways: 1) Through the U.S. Postal Service or 2) through e-mail. This letter has been proven perfectly legal for both ways as long as you follow the above instructions, because you're purchasing membership in an exclusive mailing list . To mail this out over the internet, you can browse through areas and find people to send this to all the time. All you have to do is cut and paste email addresses wherever you are on the Internet. Remember, it doesn't cost anything to mail on the Internet. Or you can get a Mass Mail Network to mail it out in large volumes for you. 2 One that we recommend is: Cyber Mail ($15 / 200 names) ($25 / 500 names) ($50 / 1,500 names) 16500 North Park Dr. Suite 413 Southfield, MI 48075 (248) 557-7778 Either way will bring big payoffs. If you are going to use the traditional U.S. Postal Service to do this program, you will want to order a minimum 200 names from a mailing list company. Two that have been most effective for these lists are: ***Be sure to ask for "Opportunity Seekers" and request a list less than 30 days old*** S.E. Ring Mailing List ($26 / 200 names) P.O Box 15061 Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33318 (954) 742-9519 Advon Distributors ($28 / 200 names) P.O. Box B-11 Shelly, ID 83274 (800) 992-3866 ***Keep in mind- there is no limit to the amount of names you can send out. The more names you send, the more money you'll make. We strongly encourage you to mail this letter to family, friends and relatives as well.*** D) When your mailing list arrives, place one label on a stamped envelope and drop it in the mail box (Be sure to send out at least 200). Within 90 days, you will receive over $800,000. E) Keep a copy of this letter and all the names you receive. Mail it out again in about 6 months. But mail it to the addresses you received with each dollar. It will work again, only much better. THIS IS A SERVICE AND IS 100% LEGAL ! (Refer to title 18, Section 1302 & 1342 of the U.S. Postal and Lottery Laws) 3 Assume for example you get a 7.5% return rate, which is very conservative. My first attempt was about 9.5% and my second time was over 11%. 1) When you mail out 200 letters, 15 people will send you $1.00. 2) Those 15 mail out 200 letters, and 225 people will send you $1.00 3) Those 225 mail out 200 letters, and 3,375 people will send you $1.00 4) Those 3,375 mail out 200 letters, and 50,625 people will send you $1.00 5) Those 50,625 mail out 200 letters, and 759,375 people will send you $1.00 At this point your name drops off the list, but so far you have received $813,615.00!!!!! It works every time, but how well depends on how many letters you send out. In the example above, you mailed out 200 letters, if you mailed out 500 letters, you would have received $2,006,917!! Check the math yourself, I want you to, but I guarantee it is correct! With this kind of return, you've got to try it. Try it once and you will do it again!!! Just make sure you send a dollar to each of the six names on the list with a note to be added to their mailing list. Together we will all prosper!!!! PS You've read this far, so let me ask you one simple question: Q. What do you have to lose?? A. Only $ 6.00 What you can gain is an income, like the example in this letter. Small Risk, Small Expense, HUGE Potential Return!!! What do you have to loose? I invite you to join our mailing list today!!! Don't throw this away. Keep it, think about it, and in several months you will try it! I looked at it for over two months and then I said "it's only $6" I have to be nuts not to try it.

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Fwd: Paint War
by Perrin . 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

remember................... You Can't Get Someone Whos Already Shot You!!!!!!!!!! ssssSPLATTTT!!!! SHMUSH * ** * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * hehe...couldn't resist!!! (Hey, wipe the paint off the side of your head...LOL) :-) RUMMOR HAS IT THAT THIS IS A PAINT WAR........AND YOU HAVE BEEN SPLATTED..........SO.......TEE HEE......I GOT YOU FIRST !!!!! TEE HEE HEEE........NEENER NEENER NEENER.....YOU HAVE BEEN PAINT SPLATTERED !!!!!!!!! You Are Now Officially Involved In "Paint War '98" You Have taken A Severe Shot To The Head. You must Get As Many People As You Possibly Can. ------------ Fixed by Perrin pleontks(a)Hotmail.com http://members.tripod.com/~pleontks http://www.angelfire.com/az/69frank69 ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

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by sara.a.james＠usa.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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re: Request for Web Browser Information
by dmumford＠dmumford.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Of course, you can always download a copy of NFR and watch as the traffic passes. Dodge Original message: Date: Sat, 21 Feb 1998 05:51:41 -0800 From: dstoler <dstoler(a)globalpac.com> To: cypherpunks(a)toad.com Subject: Request for Web Browser Information I would like to know the information my browser makes available to web sites. I use both Netscape and Internet Explorer. Obviously web sites can determine my IP address for any given session; they can also look at cookies left by themselves and other sites. Can anyone point me to where I can learn exactly what other information is made available (browser version?, OS version?, system name?, user name?, etc.)? Thanks in advance. David

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(crosspost) [IWAR] ANONYMITY HTML risk (fwd)
by Ken Williams 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

---------- Forwarded message ---------- >>From: <jericho(a)dimensional.com> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >From: 7Pillars Partners <partners(a)sirius.infonex.com> To: g2i list <g2i(a)xmission.com>, IWAR list <iwar(a)sirius.infonex.com> Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 09:30:06 -0800 (PST) Reply-To: iwar(a)sirius.infonex.com Subject: [IWAR] ANONYMITY HTML risk Two points: military personal should be particularly aware of this problem, and users with needs for anonymity should be certain to check out the options provided by the Anonymizer. --MW Is Web-Based Mail Bad for Your Anonymity? by Steve Silberman 5:03am 26.Feb.98.PST It's the kind of scare story, posted from an anonymous address, that makes the rounds of computer security mailing lists and newsgroups. This time, however, the scenario was so simple as to be highly plausible. The post - made last week to the Cypherpunks mailing list - began ominously: "I just had my online pseudonym outed to my company's VP of marketing, with potentially serious internecine political consequences." The author explained that, like many people, he maintains two separate email addresses: a work account, and an alternate account on a remote server at the local college. For the latter, the author employs a pseudonym. This, he says, allows him to speak his mind about political views, as well as his disdain for his employer's use of unsolicited bulk emailings - spam - without fear of reprisal. The author's cover was blown, he said, the day he used Netscape Mail on his workstation to fetch a message mailed by his company to his account on the college server. So where was the leak? Like more and more email programs, Netscape Messenger - along with Outlook Express, Eudora 4.0 and many free Web-based mail services such as Hotmail - offers users the ability to send and receive not only text messages, but fully-rendered Web pages, in all their graphical glory. If a user has both Eudora 4.0 and Internet Explorer, for instance, Eudora will borrow IE's HMTL-rendering capabilities to display Web pages sent in mail messages. The mail targeted by the company to the author's pseudonymous address was written in HTML, and contained a standard image tag. When Netscape opened the mail and rendered the page, the tag sent a call to the company's Web server to fetch the image, which left a tell-tale footprint - the IP address of the author's machine - on his employer's logs. Busted! As software designers aim for a seamlessly integrated desktop - with multiple email accounts, the Web, and local file access all a click away - the tools you select for everyday tasks are more important than ever. "This isn't really a mail security issue," observes Eric S. Raymond, author of a remote mail-retrieval utility called fetchmail. "Email security is nonexistent anyway unless you use a strong end-to-end encryption method like PGP, but that wouldn't have helped here. The issue was an unintended side effect of having an intelligent agent read your mail and go off to the Web to get a piece of information. If he'd been using a [text mail] program like Elm or Pine or Mutt, he wouldn't have gotten bitten." Cryptography consultant Bruce Schneier, author of E-Mail Security: How to Keep Your Electronic Messages Private, points out that exchanging text-only messages and exchanging HTML entail different levels of information exchange between sender and recipient. "HTML is a robust protocol designed to make things run smoothly, therefore it passes a lot of information behind the scenes. That's why it's useful," he says. Reading Web pages with an HTML-enabled mail program doesn't leave any more of a trail behind you than surfing through a site - but it doesn't leave any less of one, either. You may not even know when you're on the Web when you read your mail with a Web-enabled program. Several online publications - including Wired News - are available in email form, via options such as Netscape In-Box Direct. The text portion of the publication is sent to your in-box, but images may be siphoned from a remote server when you open the message. Clicking on links may take you out on the Web while you still think you're reading mail on your own hard drive. For Simson Garfinkel, author of Web Security and Commerce, the lessons to be gleaned from this incident are not about text vs. HTML mail software, but about workplace rights. "This individual was using his computer at work, and he thought that because he was reading personal mail on another ISP, his computer was not subject to his employer's scrutiny. Employees have no rights to privacy in this country," Garfinkel says. "If you want to maintain a digital pseudonym, don't read your personal mail at work." Ken Williams /--------------------------[ TATTOOMAN ]--------------------------\ | ORG: NC State Computer Science Dept VP of The E. H. A. P. Corp. | | EML: jkwilli2(a)adm.csc.ncsu.edu ehap(a)hackers.com | | EML: jkwilli2(a)unity.ncsu.edu ehap-secure(a)hackers.com | | WWW: http://www4.ncsu.edu/~jkwilli2/ http://www.hackers.com/ehap/ | | FTP: ftp://152.7.11.38/pub/personal/tattooman/ | | W3B: http://152.7.11.38/~tattooman/w3board/ | | PGP: finger tattooman(a)152.7.11.38 | \----------------[ http://152.7.11.38/~tattooman/ ]----------------/

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260298 Concrete Protection & Resurfacing
by cmp＠iddqd.org 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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FBI national wiretap stalled for $$
by David Honig 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The telcos don't want to be stuck for the > $500,000,000 cost of installing the national surveillience infrastructure. http://www.newsday.com/ap/rnmpwh19.htm Reno: Impasse on Digital Wiretaps WASHINGTON (AP) -- Attorney General Janet Reno says an ``impasse'' between the government and telephone companies is delaying installation of new technology that would enable the FBI and other law enforcement agencies to wiretap into new digital phone lines. Under a 1994 law the government was to pay the phone companies up to $500 million to develop new computer codes and switches and have them installed by next October. The effort, however, was delayed for at least two years while the FBI and the phone companies battled with each other over the extent of how much wiretapping capability would be provided. Testifying Thursday before a House appropriations subcommittee, Reno conceded that meeting law enforcement's future needs will likely cost the phone companies more than $500 million. She said the phone companies have balked at moving forward unless the government agrees to reimburse their costs above that amount. ``We may be at an impasse,'' she said. ``Simply said, industry's proposal is that all equipment, services and facilities installed or deployed as of October 1998 would be deemed in compliance forever ... unless the government agrees to pay to modify or to upgrade it.'' Reno said the Justice Department likely will file a petition with the Federal Communications Commission next month ``stating that the proposed industry technical solution is deficient'' and asking the agency to make the phone companies meet law enforcement needs. She said the FBI's electronic surveillance is already being hampered because of the impasse. But given the six months that the FCC says it would need to decide the case and another 18 months required to install the necessary software and switches, Reno said it may be two years before police agencies' wiretapping capability fully is restored. Meanwhile, the Justice Department has asked for another $100 million in next year's budget to reimburse the phone companies. The subcommittee's chairman, Rep. Harold Rogers, R-Ky., told Reno to not expect any more money until the dispute is resolved. ``I not only hope that it's going to happen; I'm going to make it happen,'' he said, ``or you won't get any money. I don't know how more bluntly I can put it. You dragged your feet for three years ..., the industry has dragged their feet. I think it's a plague on both your houses.'' ------------------------------------------------------------ David Honig Orbit Technology honig(a)otc.net Intaanetto Jigyoubu The Internet Protocol's only guarantee is that your packets will not clog the network.

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cyber FOIA/settlement e-mail
by bill payne 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Friday February 27, 1998 11:18 AM 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 Benincasas 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 Benincasas 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 Benincasas algorithm to a public key-based authentication method suggested by Simmons. For Sandias 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 IBMs 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 which the 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 Sandias 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 NSAs 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.wpiran.org/,http://www.netlink.co.uk/users/impact/namir/namirm.h… 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: FBI national wiretap stalled for $$
by William Towey 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Prologue 5/0
by Linda Reed--PCC West Campus CSC 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Prologue 5a/0
by Linda Reed--PCC West Campus CSC 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Prologue 5c/0
by Linda Reed--PCC West Campus CSC 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Prologue 3/0
by Linda Reed--PCC West Campus CSC 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

~ SPACE ALIENS HIDE MY DRUGS / PROLOGUE 3/0 ©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©© The Most Dangerous Man In Lost Wagess: They had followed him from the CypherPunks physical meeting to the outskirts of Las Vegas, before losing him. Two days of frantic searching by a variety of law enforcement agencies led to the Plaza Hotel and Casino, where he was playing the penny slot machine and associating with a variety of local riff©raff and no©accounts. An in©depth consultation with the Plaza head of security revealed that they had been keeping a close eye on the subject for the last two days. "He doesn't cause any real trouble, or anything," the head honcho said, shrugging, "but everything about him seems just a little strange, if you know what I mean." This comment seemed designed to elicit some sort of response from the poker©faced men questioning him, but they failed to respond, merely waiting for him to continue. "He buys ten dollars worth of pennies," and tips the change lady a dollar. "He plays for hours on end, also tipping the waitresses a dollar every time they bring him a free beer. Hell, he even tips the cleaning people when they clean his ashtray." The honcho shook his head, as if this type of behavior from someone spending most of their time playing the penny slots was puzzling and also disconcerting. "Sleeps in his car, with his dog. Only leaves the slot machines to feed, water, and run his dog around our parking lot. It's kind of unnatural, the way he seems to dote on that animal." the security honcho winked knowingly. "Has he met with anyone who doesn't usually frequent your casino?" one of the men asked, impatiently, tired of hearing odd details of the man's lifestyle which seemed intriguing to the denziens of normality that they were constantly having to interview in regard to the subject's movement and activity. "He ran into some legal©eagle named Larry Joe," the honcho said, noting the first sign of interest shown by his interrogators. "My second©shift security chief says he's a middle©weight poker player, taking part in a tournament at the Rio..." adding with a knowing tone, "but the mouthpiece is hanging with one of the heavy hitters on the local poker scene." "Larry Joe Dowling, an Austin attorney." one of the interrogators said to the others. "He usuallyÜj We'd better shift our surveillance team into high gear." The man rose to leave, telling the others, "Dig up all you can here, file a report, and get some sleep. You're going to need it." Boogers? We don't need no stinking boogers!: The agent pulled out his hanky and wiped the disgusting mess off of his jacket sleeve. "I can't believe that they pulled us off of the Tim May detail to check out this fucking loser." "Shit!" he screamed, as he brushed his arm against the steering column and picked up another piece of disgusting slime on his jacket sleeve. "I've shaken down this guy's personals before." the man's partner said, with a grin. "That's why I gave you the driver's side of the vehicle to check out." "He feeds his nose©candy to his dog, and he always leaves her a little desert on the steering wheel for her to chow down on after he brings her back from her walk." He laughed as he saw the bile rising to his new partner's throat. He couldn't help himself©©he reached over and plucked a booker off of the horn button and told his partner, "I'll trade you a green one for a yellow one..." His partner lurched out of the vehicle and concentrated on tossing his lunch while not messing up his shiny new shoes. The more experienced agent finished snapping photos of the gathered items and then replaced them carefully in the same position they had been in before their intrusion. "He usually walks Baby for about ten minutes, to give us time to make a complete pass of his vehicle, so our time is about up." The agent closed and locked the doors of the vehicle, motioning his green©faced partner toward their vehicle. It's A Nuke! No, It's Anthrax! No, It's...AAARRGGGHHHH!!!": Justin Case, Special Agent in Charge of the current investigation, was bothered by the fact that the suspect had seemed to be doing nothing more than wandering around various sites and casinos in Las Vegas, with no apparent pattern or plan to his movement and actions. Until he read the report of the suspect's lingering interest in the placement of the columns serving as the foundation for the Stratosphere Casino, and the layout of the preliminary work on the new Foley Federal BuildingÜj "Soft targets." agent Case said out loud, causing a considerable amount of disconcertment to his fellow agent, Bobby Siller. "Damn!" Siller swore, "We have reports of him having met with Leavitt and Harris, but we didn't have any taps on them, so we don't have any details of what they are planning." "Don't worry about it," Case seemed unconcerned, "if he's scouting soft targets, then he's not planning any sudden moves." "Patience comes to those who wait." Justin Case said, softly, quoting the Author, and making a mental note to have agent Siller shake the Anthrax Twins down a few days after the suspect departed Vegas. "Hold it!" agent Siller shouted, motioning for his superior to remain silent, as Siller adjusted his earpiece to more clearly hear the live report he was receiving from his agents at the Riviera gun show. "The suspect went into the gun show empty handed, and left with several copies of 'Gun List' and then returned to his vehicle. He took his dog for a walk and our agents discovered a 'Dalian' watch wrapped in tear©outs from the firearms paper, dealing with Romanian AK rifles and Bulgarian SLR©95's. The 'Dalian' watch is some type of Polish/Chinese make, or something." Justin Case rolled his eyes, but remained silent. The suspect was yanking the chains of the agents who were shaking down his personals, and it looked like Siller's men didn't have the experience to know when they were being toyed with. The agent that Case had pulled off of the Tim May detail would be wise to the suspect's shenanigans, but it was unlikely he would get in the way of Siller's men making fools of themselves. "He's returning to the casino, using the copies of 'Gun List' to hide whatever it is he's carrying." agent Siller said, with great excitement. "I think we ought to take him in the parking garage, before he reaches the main building at the Riviera." Siller anxiously awaited the word from his superior. "Maintain." was Case's nonchalant reply, causing Siller to have an ill©disguised internal shit©fit. If this operation went totally to hell, it would be Siller's ass on the line, being the Las Vegas station chief.

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Prologue 3a/0
by Linda Reed--PCC West Campus CSC 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

SAHMD 3A ©©©©©©©© "Maintain," Siller told his agents, but couldn't help adding, "and disclose." This was a vague term meant to signal his men to intercept the suspect and do a bump©and©run on him to sniff out what it was he was hiding©©without alerting Siller's superior that his orders were being countermanded. "The Electronic Privacy Papers." agent Case said, to no one in particular. "What?" Siller asked, perplexed. "Documents on the Battle for Privacy in the Age of Surveillance, by Bruce Schneier and David Banisar, ISBN: 0©471©12297©1." Much to agent Siller's consternation, his superior continued, "That's what your men are going to discover he is hiding furtively under those copies of the 'Gun List' magazines when they disobey my orders and risk blowing their cover." "It's the suspect's form of humor." Justin Case smiled at his subordinate's discomfort. "He's laughing at all the spooks from various agencies, including yours and mine, who are at the gun show shadowing the Anthrax Twins, the Samsonite Nuclear Warrior, and various members of the Loose©Screw Gun Nut Club." Seeing the confused look on agent Siller's face, he explained further. "The suspect is laughing because he believes he is carrying the most dangerous weapon available at the gun show." "And he's probably right..." Case said, with a far© away look in his eyes that sent shivers down agent Siller's spine. Special agent Justin Case took a tattered copy of a paperback titled, "Paper Prison" out of his inside jacket pocket, and stared at it©©lost in a universe that belonged far in the past, but which seemed to be intersecting the present in a manner which bode nothing but ill for those who continued to live in both. "The future is now..." Justin Case said, in a low monotone voice that seemed to come from a world beyond the one in which he and agent Siller were so diligently pursuing the 'Threat of the Day'. "He's carrying a book." the voice came crackling through Siller's earpiece. "Never mind." Siller said, adding, "Maintain." "Maintain." Siller repeated inwardly, to himself,Üj crept up his spine and into the lower regions of his mind as he observed the strange, semi©hypnotic state that his superior had entered into. "Maintain."

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Medical Privacy Alert --- please redistribute to all concerned
by JWRCLUM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF MASSACHUSETTS 99 Chauncy Street, Suite 310, Boston, MA 02111 (617) 482-3170 Fax (617) 451-000 CONTACT: John Roberts (617) 482-3170 http://users.aol.com/mcluf/home.html BENNETT-JEFFORDS BILL PLACES MEDICAL RECORD PRIVACY AT RISK The confidentiality of the doctor-patient relationship will be totally undermined as medical records become widely available without patient knowledge or consent. BOSTON - February 27, 1998. On Thursday 2/26/98 the United State Senate's Labor and Human Resources Committee heard testimony concerning a bill proposed by Senators Bennett and Jeffords that, if passed, would license the widespread disclosure of personal medical information contained in files held by doctors, hospitals, employers, educational institutions, and others. The bill which purports to be a privacy bill is, in fact, just the opposite. It places virtually no restrictions on the disclosure of personal medical records within health care entities (no matter how large and geographically widespread) or to a long list of other entities and agencies including the following: - any agents or contractors of the health care entities - Public Health Agencies, Oversight Agencies - Health Care Accreditation Agencies - State Health Care Databases There are major loopholes in access provisions for - Health Care Researchers - "Outcome" analysts ("cost/benefit" analysts for hospitals, HMO's, insurers, etc) Even law enforcement agencies will have easy access to browse computerized medical record systems for so-called "legitimate" investigatory purposes. This will make every American's medical record part of a new massive law enforcement database. The bill will destroy the confidential "doctor-patient relationship" and replace it with a new "patient-health care industry relationship." "This bill serves only the interests of the burgeoning health care industry," said John Roberts, Executive Director of the ACLU of Massachusetts. "It allows the transfer of your medical records to many entities that stand to profit from its information. Gone is doctor-patient confidentiality. Your doctor cannot protect your most sensitive medical information from many entities outside your medical facility. Even employers who have health plans are considered 'health care providers' in the Bennett-Jeffords bill. How many of us want our employers to have access to any of our medical records without our knowledge or consent?" The bill will also - Impose requirements that patients sign blanket consent forms for release of information as a condition of getting treatment, even for self-pay patients - Redefine "treatment" to make the patient's record a subject of continuous research - Blur the boundaries between individual patient care and the so-called "Population Management" and "Disease System Management" The bill will pre-empt all state laws which may be more protective of the confidentiality of medical records. The bill will not apply even its own minimal privacy protections to so-called "non-identifiable" medical records information. But...interestingly, the bill also refers to issuing "keys" to re-identify previously purportedly "non- identified" information. A formal logical analysis of this reveals that the bill itself admits that what it calls "nonidentifiable" medical record information is actually identifiable (i.e. containing patient information). The ACLU of Massachusetts believes that what is really needed for medical privacy protection would be the following: - Federal law should set a foundation or floor of privacy protection - State laws which are more-protective of patient's rights should not be preempted - No "Unique Patient Identification Numbers" - No electronic "linkage" of patient records stored in various sites - Computerized patient records must be encrypted with keys provided only to those directly involved in the individual patient care - The right of the individual patient to contract directly with physicians and health care providers regarding the privacy of the patient's medical records. -end-

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WOW-COM News Update
by wowcom＠ctia.org 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

====================================================== This update is sponsored by Hughes Network Systems http://www.hns.com/2CAREERS/careerMain.html ====================================================== WOW-COM named a "TOP WEBSITE" by Mobile Computing & Communications Magazine (2/98) Dear WOW-COM Reader: WOW-COM(TM) is the wireless industry's online information source, a free service of CTIA. The world of wireless is in constant motion. Stay on top of the news and benefit from CTIA's analysis by reading http://www.wow-com.com everyday. INDEX: ====== 1) LARGEST WIRELESS INDUSTRY SHOW, WIRELESS 98, BEGAN TODAY IN ATLANTA, GA. 2) CTIA AGAIN CALLS ON FCC TO TAKE ACTION ON WIRETAP STANDARDS 3) CTIA ASKS FCC FOR IMPROVEMENTS IN ENHANCED 9-1-1 RULES **WIRELESS JOB OPPORTUNITY OF THE WEEK*********** http://www.hns.com/2CAREERS/careerMain.html Company: Hughes Network Systems Job Title: Senior Digital Design Engineer - Hardware Location: Germantown, MD - US Job Description: Lead digital design engineer for satellite baseband communications hardware. Position requires experience in design of digital communications subsystems such as modulators, demodulators, digital filters, NCOs and FEC encoders/decoders. Requires BSEE (MSEE preferred) and 7-10 years of digital design experience with emphasis on communication circuit design. ********************************************************************** WIRELESS 98 TO BEGIN NEXT WEEK IN ATLANTA ========================================================== http://www.wow-com.com/professional/convention/ CTIA's WIRELESS 98 is breaking all records. Sessions at the largest, global wireless convention feature hot topics and top industry speakers. On February 23-25, join the largest gathering of analysts, CEO's, equipment suppliers, hardware manufacturers, network operators, retailers, regulators, software developers and venture capitalists from around the world for the most comprehensive wireless telecommunications exposition - - WIRELESS 98. It's only 6 days away! Don't miss it! CTIA AGAIN CALLS ON FCC TO TAKE ACTION ON WIRETAP STANDARDS ========================================================= http://www.wow-com.com/professional/WirelessDigest/ The Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association has filed comments with the Federal Communications Commission again asking that it take several steps in regard to implementation of the federal Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act. CTIA points out that the telecommunications industry has moved forward towards timely implementation of the Act, but that the law enforcement community, represented by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, has continued to delay the process. Read it here. Simply click above for full text. CTIA ASKS FCC FOR IMPROVEMENTS IN ENHANCED 9-1-1 RULES ========================================================== http://www.wow-com.com/results/professional/news/index.cfm "Enhanced 9-1-1" will provide the next generation of emergency services for wireless phone users. The basic outline for Enhanced 9-1-1 services was developed jointly by the public safety communications community and CTIA. In a petition filed yesterday, CTIA points out that the FCC should improve wireless emergency calls throughout the United States. To learn more about CTIA's petition and other implementation issues regarding 9-1-1 please click above. ============================= MORE WOW-COM(TM) FEATURES ============================= WOW-COM(TM) is current: Routine Updates throughout the business day WOW-COM(TM) is insightful: CTIA's unbiased analysis WOW-COM(TM) is beneficial: Find products and services in WOW-COM(TM)'s Virtual Trade Show. List open positions in the WOW-COM(TM) Career Center, receive resumes via email and hire qualified individuals. ======================================================== This update sponsored by: HUGHES NETWORK SYSTEMS http://www.hns.com/2CAREERS/careerMain.html Hughes Network Systems is one of the fastest-growing digital communications companies in the world, providing world-class wireless, satellite and broadcast products to customers in over 60 countries. Today, HNS employs over 500 software engineers and 200 hardware engineers dedicated to developing our products, services and systems from our Germantown, Maryland headquarters and San Diego, California facility. To be part of the next HNS breakthrough, visit our Web site: http:// www.hns.com/2CAREERS/careerMain.html to explore the 100+ opportunities currently available.

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Cylink + NSA
by Ernest Hua 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Did anyone notice that Cylink just got a new VP of product development? Did anyone notice that this person just retired from the NSA? Care to guess the name and former rank? Ern

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With Respect to the Japanese
by bill payne 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Friday 2/27/98 5:27 PM Merat After Sandia unloaded on me for TRYING to be friendly with a Japanese [and perhaps other things too] , I enrolled in the UNM US-Japan program. One of the professors in the program is Jack Condon. name: John Carl Condon work_phone: 505 277-5811 title: Professor organization: Communication & Journalism org_address: C & J Building Condon teaches both at the University of New Mexico and a Japanese University. Condon is a very nice touchy-feely-type person. Condon wrote [amazon.com] With Respect to the Japanese by John C. Condon List: $12.95 Our Price: $12.95 Availability: This title is currently on back order. We do not have a reprint date for this title, but we expect to be able to ship it to you within 3-5 weeks. Paperback Published by Intercultural Press Publication date: June 1983 ISBN: 0933662491 Condon told our class, The US does not do very well without an enemy. So. Lets do OUR BEST to insure that that US does not do very well, at least with Iran. And Merat, another of my former Ph D students in Computer Science is name: John Sobolewski work_phone: 505 277-8125 title: Assoc VP,Info Technology organization: CIRT - Administration org_address: 2701 Campus Blvd NE email: jssob(a)unm.edu Let's all hope this mess gets settled. Best bill Title: UNM Computer and Information Resources and Technology (CIRT) Help! How to get quick help: Answers to frequently asked questions, Help Desk, publications and documentation, who to contact, CIRT hours. Services What CIRT can do for you: Details about our services such as computing facilities (pods), help desk, consulting, hardware maintenance, security, software distribution, computer accounts, training, conference support and much more. ¿Qué Pasa? What's happening at CIRT: Announcements, important systems news, scheduled system availability, major projects we've undertaken, technical directions and job opportunities. About CIRT Who we are and how we are organized: Our mission and vision, a map of the CIRT building, CIRT group organization, the annual report, our system configurations and standards. Send us your ideas on how CIRT can improve services to the UNM community! Comments to CIRT Publications: docs(a)unm.edu Last Revised: 10/28/97 The University of New Mexico Albuquerque, New Mexico USA Copyright © 1995 The University of New Mexico. Title: Welcome to the Japan America Society of New Mexico <img src="http://www.us-japan.org/jasnm/crane.GIF" alt="Crane logo" width="127" height="138"> JAPAN AMERICA SOCIETY OF NEW MEXICO <img src="http://www.us-japan.org/jasnm/crane.GIF" alt="Crane logo" width="127" height="138"> Ohayoo Gozaimasu! Greetings and welcome to the Web site of the Japan America Society of New Mexico. The Board of Directors and the Membership extend to you our desire that you visit the "Land of Enchantment" and sample the "chili-hot" welcome and hospitality shown here. The vistas are broad; the cuisine superb. In a multi-cultural environment, we embrace all that is the state, and wait to enfold you as well! Please enjoy. Yoroshiku, onegai shimasu! <img src="http://www.us-japan.org/jasnm/cvr-pg2.gif" align="top" width="579" height="653"> <a href="http://www.us-japan.org/jasnm/bg&miss.htm" name="Buttons"><img src="http://www.us-japan.org/jasnm/s-lant4.gif" alt="single lantern image" align="middle" width="49" height="50"> BACKGROUND AND MISSION <img src="http://www.us-japan.org/jasnm/s-lant4.gif" alt="single lantern image" align="middle" width="49" height="50"> BOARD OF DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS <img src="http://www.us-japan.org/jasnm/s-lant4.gif" alt="single lantern image" align="middle" width="49" height="50"> MEMBERSHIP <img src="http://www.us-japan.org/jasnm/s-lant4.gif" alt="single lantern image" align="middle" width="49" height="50"> BENEFITS <img src="http://www.us-japan.org/jasnm/s-lant4.gif" alt="single lantern image" align="middle" width="49" height="50"> FUNDING <img src="http://www.us-japan.org/jasnm/s-lant4.gif" alt="single lantern image" align="middle" width="49" height="50"> CONTACT INFORMATION <img src="http://www.us-japan.org/jasnm/s-lant4.gif" alt="single lantern image" align="middle" width="49" height="50"> FUTURE EVENTS <img src="http://www.us-japan.org/jasnm/s-lant4.gif" alt="single lantern image" align="middle" width="49" height="50"> PAST EVENTS 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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17 Dec '03

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Re: FC: Quotes of the Day (and cybercrime)
by Bill Stewart 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

James Glave's Wired News article at http://www.wired.com/news/news/technology/story/10605.html is nice, especially the quote from Peter Neumann about how this may be a con game by Janet Reno to get more budget. After all, the Feds has been doing computer security for a while, though not with the expertise of the NSA. So if they're so hot, why do they keep getting cracked so badly, and on such critical stuff as payroll data, which in the government is almost certain to include SSNs? There's already a National Computer Security Center - she could ask them for help, rather than starting a competing one. >LIVERMORE, Calif. (AP) - To combat the threat of cyber attack, Attorney >General Janet Reno said Friday a new high-tech crime center will be >created under the jurisdiction of the FBI. ... > Reno played down the Big Brother aspects of an Internet police >force. > "We must not and we will not sacrifice any constitutional >protections," the attorney general said. Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, bill.stewart(a)pobox.com PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639

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Radio Frequency Warfare Hearing
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

We offer the lengthy prepared testimony at the Joint Economic Committee hearing February 25 on "Radio Frequency Weapons and Proliferation: Potential Impact on the Economy." http://jya.com/rfw-jec.htm (112K) Or zipped: http://jya.com/rfw-jec.zip (39K) It provides descriptions of the RF weapons, their development, research and testing, global spread, and threat to the infrastructure and national security. The Internet availability of Carlo Kopp's paper on the E-bomb and similar RFW information is cited as evidence of the spread of the threatening technology. The hearing evolved from JEC hearing testimony in June 1997 which described the threat from RFW, especially that developed by the Former Soviet Union: Magnetohydrodynamic Generator Frequency (MHDGF) Explosive Magnetic Generator of Frequency (EMGF) Implosive Magnetic Generator of Frequency (IMGF) Cylindrical Shock Wave Source (CSWS) Spherical Shock Wave Source (SSWS) Ferromagnetic Generator of Frequency (FMGF) Superconductive Former of Magnetic Field Shock Wave (SFMFSW) Piezoelectric Generator of Frequency (PEGF) Superconducting Ring Burst Generator (SCRBG)

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Backyard RF Weapon
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Excerpt from congressional hearing on RF weapons: Mr. David Schriner is the Principal Engineer directed energy studies with Electronic Warfare Associates and a recently retired engineer with the naval weapons testing facility at China Lake. He has numerous patents, has received superior service awards, and given technical presentations over 42 years of civil and military service. He will discuss the difficulty in building a RF weapon and the terrorist threat. [Excerpt] In support of the information presented in this testimony and taking advantage of the winter's need to work indoors, a unit that uses oil spark-gaps was designed, built, and tested. The materials for it were mail-ordered at a cost of about $500 and about one week was needed to fabricate the mechanical hardware. It use two ignition coils and a battery for power, an automobile fuel pump and filter for the oil circulation, and commonly available transformer oil. An additional week was required to work out all of the electrical wiring, the oil lines, and the general finishing details. This unit was ready for testing in two weeks after starting the effort. The signal radiated from the unit was measured and found to be a very significant power level that can be compared against available vulnerability and susceptibility levels of military equipment. When the weather permits, this unit will be tested against a set of infrastructure targets at an official test range. >From the measurements and known signal levels, this unit is expected to be consistently deadly to many types of infrastructure items at ranges suitable for terrorist usage. This quickly-developed low-cost system could easily be placed in a small van and used in a parking lot or directed at buildings that the van was driven past. It is highly likely that this type of device would be a very effective terrorist system and the findings of its design could be factored into another either a larger, higher powered device, or a more advanced design each with significantly greater effectiveness. The net result of all of this design, experimentation, fabrication and measurement proves that such a weapon system could be made by anyone with an engineering degree or even a bright technician with good hardware experience. The technical information required can be found in open sources, if not just from good common engineering sense. The materials needed are nothing special and if the effort is made, advanced concepts can be made using everyday hardware such as automotive ignition systems. The testing to date has been very limited but the results of this testing have provided considerable insight to just what is vulnerable in infrastructure systems. This insight and work leads to a firm opinion that a terrorist would have little trouble developing such technology and that he would have a high probability of success in the use as an RF weapon against our infrastructure elements found in any city or near facilities around the country. This work has been done within the proper security guidelines since: 1.The models made in my home laboratory/workshop used off-the-shelf materials and open-source references. 2.The laboratory tests of this hardware were made in a controlled environment with the proper security in place. 3.The results of these tests, the data capabilities, and the target set identities are kept in a facility cleared for classified storage. 4.The development of any of this hardware is reported on a regular basis to those with whom I relate at a classified level to assure that they are informed of the work and are able to apply this to their interests and efforts if necessary. Any of this hardware can be used by them for any determination of utility to military interests. Work in this area will be continued and an aggressive test and evaluation of these "back yard" techniques and methods will be accomplished. This process will be done in cooperation, and if requested, under the direction of agencies with an interest in this non-military weapon related process. The author of this report will, if requested, provide to the Committee further details at a classified level in the proper security environment. ----- Full hearing testimony: http://jya.com/rfw-jec.htm

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by BBopper 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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HP Crypto Export
by Michael Elder 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>From the NY Times online (www.nytmes.com) February 28, 1998 Hewlett-Packard Granted License For Encryption System By PETER WAYNER The Commerce Department has granted Hewlett-Packard an export license for its VerSecure encryption architecture allowing the company and its licensees to export strong encryption tools, the company announced Friday. The catch is that the products must take their orders from a central computer system that will dictate how all the products will behave in each country. The company hopes that the solution would break the deadlock between the Clinton Administration, which continues to restrict the export of secure computer technology throughout the world, and the computer industry, which contends that foreigners are not interested in buying products that don't protect their secrets. The new solution effectively disconnects the problem of distributing encryption technology from the process of determining the policy for government access to information. The heart is a new class of trusted hardware cards and chips that take their orders from a central company known as a Security Domain Authority or SDA. In countries, like France, that require people to keep a record of keys for unlocking data, the SDA would only allow the computers to encrypt information if it complied with the laws. In countries with no laws about encryption usage like the United States, Germany and Great Britain, the SDA would allow users to encrypt in whatever manner they choose. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ It is very hardware-specific with the flexibility of software and that gives us a lot of strength in terms of tamper resistance Feisal Mosleh, business development manager at Hewlett-Packard ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Hewlett-Packard sees the solution as a win for the industry, which will be able to build one set of hardware and software that can be shipped throughout the world. The SDA's will set the local rules because the computers will not encrypt information without first getting permission from the SDA. Doug McGowan, one of the director of Hewlett-Packard's efforts, said in a telephone interview, "Never before has a general purpose cryptography tool been exportable from the United States, with or without key recovery. We're opening a huge market for American industry to enable commerce on a worldwide basis." The price for this flexibility is the need for specialized hardware that treats the SDA as its master. In an ordinary computer, the owner can control all aspects of what the computer does. This extra hardware will raise the price of machines and is bound to be more expensive than software which can be distributed at minimal cost. Feisal Mosleh, a business development manager at Hewlett-Packard, pointed out that specialized hardware can offer faster performance and more security. "It is very hardware-specific with the flexibility of software and that gives us a lot of strength in terms of tamper resistance" he said in a phone interview. Many security experts continue to point out that general-use microcomputers and their operating systems are dangerously insecure. In one recent attack, hackers were able to begin transfers from a bank account by manipulating accounting software. Off-loading the process to specialized hardware makes it simpler to ensure that the system is secure because the special hardware has only one job. Hewlett-Packard says that it is licensing the architecture to a number of different computer vendors and announced that IBM, Motorola, CertCo, Trusted Information System, Microsoft and RSA Data Securities had already signed licenses. The vendors will be free to choose how they implement the special computer hardware, but most will probably use firmware with an embedded microprocessor. The initial version will reportedly include DES, tripleDES, RSA, RC2, RC4 and DiffieHellman algorithms. Each of these solutions can be sped up by specialized hardware, but only a general microprocessor can handle all of them with equal agility. The specialized hardware will also be tamper-proof to prevent people from circumventing the commands of the SDA. When an encryption card is first started up, it cannot begin working until it has received instructions from an SDA in its country. This information is contained in a "policy token." Joe Beyers, general manager of Hewlett-Packard's Internet Software business unit, explained, "The token says, 'You can use this amount of key, this amount of strength for this amount of time.'" Beyers went on to say, "The aspect of time allows the government to evolve their policy. Time limits are one of the attributes that made it attractive to the U.S. government." It would be possible for a government to change policy with the system from time to time, perhaps forcing citizens to use long keys in time of war to protect themselves and then relaxing the policy after peace emerged. In the current plan, policy tokens would be good for one year, forcing computers to re-register with an SDA in order to keep working. The SDA would have no control of a token after it was issued and would only be able to change policies at the renewal. The relationship between the SDA and the key recovery program is more difficult to describe. The SDA would not keep any records of any keys that would allow the police to eavesdrop on calls. But the policy tokens would force the embedded hardware to obey the local laws that might include key recovery. The FBI has asked Congress to mandate key recovery systems that give it clear access to all communications. The yearly interrogation between the SDA and the individual computers does not mean that the system will be foolproof. Someone could simply carry a laptop from a country that allows personal privacy to a country with more invasive laws and use it freely until the policy token runs out. Also, it may be possible to spoof the token authorization procedure by pretending that the request came from one country instead of another. Some critics found the use of special hardware to be problematic. Jim Lucier, a policy analyst for the Americans for Tax Reform, a Republican think tank, pointed out that specialized hardware was ignored by the marketplace in the past. "None of it ever works" he said, "because the more obvious solution, which is end-to-end encryption, is already there." Lucier also pointed out that specialized hardware is more complicated to engineer and much more expensive to distribute than software. "Atoms cost more than bits, it just comes down to that," he said. In a press conference Friday morning, Beyers promised that the new hardware was "months, not years away" and also promised that the hardware costs would be as low as possible. Marc Rotenberg, director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, suggested that replacing the current export control bureaucracy with a network of SDA's was not a significant advance. "Government efforts to regulate crypto will only slow the development of commerce," he said. In fact, the decision by the United States government to grant a license to Hewlett-Packard's architecture is far from liberating. Companies making VerSecure products can only ship them to countries approved by the United States government, a list which at this time is limited to the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Denmark and Australia. More countries will become open if and when they create an SDA infrastructure that is acceptable to the United States. Hewlett-Packard has gone to great lengths to prevent rogue nations from setting up their own unauthorized SDA's by cloning hardware. The infrastructure uses CertCo's secure certificate servers to restrict the ability to create the software necessary to build the tokens. Beyers says that no one person at Hewlett-Packard has the ability to do this in order to reduce the potential for corruption and theft. Hewlett-Packard is also working heavily with foreign countries to assure them that the system does not include back doors that might be accessible by the United States government. Beyers said that the company had retained an international group of cryptographic experts to vet the system and allay any fears of hidden back doors. A press release from Hewlett-Packard quoted William A. Reinsch, undersecretary of commerce, as saying, "We are pleased to support HP's effort to develop and market encryption products that encourage the use of key recovery in providing robust, secure encryption. This approval and our ongoing dialogue with the industry are consistent with the Clinton Administration's goal of allowing the market to develop recoverable encryption products." Peter Wayner at pwayner(a)nytimes.com welcomes your comments and suggestions. Copyright 1998 The New York Times Company

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cyber FOIA/settlement e-mail
by bill payne 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

God, what a nut! Friday February 27, 1998 11:18 AM 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. .... etc. shit deleted.

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by VG2Hot 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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17 Dec '03

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by Linda Reed--PCC West Campus CSC 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Prologue 4/0 SPACE ALIENS HIDE MY DRUGS --------------------------------------- A Nuclear Bullet, With *Everyone's* Name On It: [Your Name Here] Excerpt from an interview with Marilyn Manson on NPR: MM: A lot of the lies spread by Fundamentalist Christians about our tour were believed by people because they read them on the InterNet. The InterNet is the CB Radio of the 90's. People perceive it as a legitimate news source, which it's not. Eventually there will need to be some sort of laws or something... Top Ten Ways To Convince The Sheeple The Revolution Is NOW: 10,9,8,.7,6,5,4,3,2... 1. Put Marilyn Manson's name on the first bullet. "Give me nuclear freedom, or give me death." ~ Patrick Hussein The TRUTH About Area 51: It's a resort-spa for the reptilian Nazis who are shaping our present and our future, preparing to rule all of mankind when they emerge from the underground bunkers beneath Los Alamos, Livermore, Colorado Springs, Muleshoe, Texas, etc., at the end of the Milleniuum. Why can't you buy a straight 2"x4" anymore? The reptilian Nazis are keeping all of the good stuff for themselves. The reason for the tight security at Area 51 is not because of secret spy-planes and the like. The reptilian Nazi's don't want us to know that they are all driving '56 Chevy's. (Their original plan was to have earthlings all driving Edsels, but they tried to implement the plan before their mind-control experiments had proven successful.) Who It Is OK To Put A Fucking Bullet Through Their Head: Officially Recognized Bad Guys--For the Sheeple, this is Saddam Hussein, Timothy McVeigh, Dennis Rodman, paramilitarists, grandmothers who plug other people's parking meters, Branch Davidians (but it's a shame about the children), and The Subject Of A Ten-Second Sound-Byte To Be Named Later. For Republicans, this is welfare cheats, the homeless, tax cheats making less than $100,000 per year, liberals, Ralph Nadar, CypherPunks, Alt2600 avocados, the 4 Horsemen, and anyone who looks like me. For the Democrats, this is the non-avant-guarde wealthy,\j liberals consume, Rush Limbaugh, Republican presidents, rednecks, people who drink water straight out of the tap, and anyone who looks like me. For Kris Kristofferson, this is "People doing something dirty, decent folks can frown on..." "Sunshine is the best disinfectant." ~ Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis, 1928 "Bullet holes let the sun shine in." ~ Supreme Asshole TruthMonger, 1998 When Existence Is Outlawed, Only Outlaws Will Exist: The revolution is now. The only question that those who have the balls to participate in the inevitable chaos which will be needed to balance the Tao against the current onslaught of digitally structured reality that is being forced upon humanity by the new technology being promoted by the pawns of the reptilian Nazis whose headquarters is deep within the confines of the AdamAntarctic is: "Whose brain do I put my first bullet through?" For many, the answer will be, "TruthMonger!" Nobody likes to hear the truth, and the truth is: We all deserve to die. Not only that, but the extinction of humanity, according to our current values, epitomizes the crowning glory of our evolutionary path. What places us *above* the other primates and the other forms of life on our planet? What is it that makes us special, that deems us worthy of ruling over all other life forms on the planet Earth? It is our ability to control; our ability to master our environment and the objects and life-forms contained within its bounds. Ultimately, it is our ability to *kill* whatever stands in the way of the fulfillment of our desires and our goals. For all of our soul-searching, spiritual posturing, deep down inside we all know that we live in a predatorial universe. Republicans cry out for bigger guns to defend our way of life from everyone who fails to salute the flag. Democrats cry out for the press and political leaders to invent enemies to justify the liberals crying out for bigger guns to protect us from the 'bad guys.' And it's all bullshit... The reason we need to launch wars and destroy our environment is to keep the price of our refrigerators and our color TV's reasonable--to keep the price of the dollar high enough that we can feel good about ourselves for saving a starving child for less than ten cents a day, while ignoring the fact that an obese Sally Fields could save more starving children in a week than we possibly could in a lifetime, just by donating one of her lunches to the charity she is promoting. Think About This, You Stupid Fucking Bastards: Why do we need to allow our basic human rights and freedoms to be compromised?: In order for our hallowed leaders and our protectors in the law enforcement community to adequately protect us from the 'bad guys.' Why do we need to be protected from the 'bad guys'?: Because if they win out over the 'good guys', they will take away our basic human rights and freedoms. The Reason TruthMonger Will Die Broke And Alone: Because he invested all of his money in ClueServers, believing that the Sheeple might one day find them to be of value. "TV Is Real! (Just go back to sleep, dear.)"

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SAHMD 5/0
by Linda Reed--PCC West Campus CSC 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Prologue 5/0 ------------- The Story Thus Far: (Or so we would have you believe...) It is now commonly known that: American overt and covert spook agencies of one sort or another monitor--legally and illegally--almost all of the electronic communications in the world. American overt and covert spook agencies, legally and illegally make and break the finances of nations and corporations around the world. Overt and covert spook agencies of other nations do exactly the same thing, on differing scales. Internationally powerful financial agencies, groups and individuals make daily decisions affecting the lives of individuals, societies and nations, based on the desires and goals of individuals who are above and beyond the control of any nation or group of nations. Joe and Jane Sheeple are not privy to information as to who, exactly, these people are, or what their ultimate designs are for our future. Human rights and freedoms, throughout the world, are contingent upon heavily armed governments allowing us those rights and freedoms which they perceive to be in our best overall interest. Those heavily armed governments are increasingly acting in concert with one another, dividing up our finances, property and our human rights among themselves at the slightest whim. If It Prevents Just A Single Starving Biafran Child >From Exposure To A Picture Of A Naked Breast...: This is why 'Higher Authority' (government, business, a person with a large wallet or a large gun) feels compelled to 'serve and protect' the Sheeple. Of course, this all comes at a cost... Own your own home? Bullshit! I don't care if you paid cash and have clear title--if you fail to pay property taxes to men with guns who say that you *have* to, then you are out on the street, tomorrow. Growing organic vegetables? Bullshit! Unless you have proper state certification, after having filled in the mountains of documentation and paid numerous filing fees, registration fees, incremental fees and excremental fees, as well as having paid for a mountain of testing by an independent (government approved) laboratory, thenyour sorry ass is going to jail if you whisper the word "organic" in your sleep. Do you have a name? Bullshit! I don't care what you call yourself, what your momma calls you, or what name is on your birth certificate, you are a number, and you goddamn well better *have* that fucking number ready if you want to drive a car, cross the street, make a purchase, sell something, stand in line to get a number, or breathe. NEWS FLASH!!! [Author's Note: You may want to skip the next paragraph, if you have a weak heart, or have suicidal tendencies, because it speaks a truth that is too ugly for most of us to face, even in the best of times.] The ONLY time that the powers-that-be recognize you as a unique individual with a personality, character and a history, is when they want to USE you, or FUCK you. Trust me, you don't really want to think about this too much, unless you are prepared to face the truth, because the more you think about it, the more obviously true it becomes. The information you are required to provide in applying for a driver's license--picture, height, weight, race, hair and eye color--is for the purpose of connecting you, and only you, to the number on the license. Contributed to Social Security all of your life, and now you are entitled to collect? If you have the wrong numnber, Fuck You! If the government has misplaced your number, Fuck You! If the government is using a new numbering system, Fuck You! Your name is Joe Sheeple, and you worked at the same job all of your life, and your employer, your family and your CongressPerson can all attest to the fact that you paid your share of SS each and every week, and you are now old enough to retire? Fuck you! Got a number? You are a number. Your number is used to categorize your position and status in life for use by the government and business during your journey from the cradle to the grave. Fought for your country in the Gulf War? Picked up some sort of exotic disease or disability? Spare me the detail, pal. It doesn't matter how hard you fought, how valiantly you risked your life, how many kids you have to feed, what sort of medical history you can provide about yourself before, during and after the event. Your number gets lumped in with the other numbers who got sick or disabled, and then the number-crunchers decide if the country you defended can afford for you all to be sick and disabled. Sorry, pal, but the figures are too high. So you and all of the other numbers get a big, group, Fuck You! You are a number. Trust me on this. If you can't trust 608-335-345, then who *can* you trust?

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SAHMD 6/0
by Linda Reed--PCC West Campus CSC 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

PROLOGUE 6/0 -- SPACE ALIENS HIDE MY DRUGS ------------------------------------------ Wasting (Everyone) Away In Mongeritaville: A man with a gun came to my door recently, and demanded that I pony-up thirty dollars to members of his gang's protection racket. If I refuse to pay, he will be back with other armed thugs. If I resist them, they will kill me. Sure, when they drag me in front of one of the big bosses in their protection racket, I can try to talk them out of robbing and/or killing me, but it will inevitably end up with Frank Moretti telling Al Capone, "If we let this schmuck walk away without ponying-up, then how are we going to keep the others in line." In the end, I either pay up or die. It's all because of my dog... "Dog running at large." That's what the first threatening message from the Town of Bienfait said. "Voluntary fine." It also said that--with a veiled hint that if I refused to 'do the right thing', that I might find myself having a little 'trouble'. I had an uncle who found himself forced to deal with these kind of thugs when he had a small shop on the bad side of the tracks in a big city. Then he moved to the 'good side of town' and found out that the only difference was that the vigorish was higher, and the thugs were better dressed. It's the American Way (TM)... If you want to be robbed by a better class of thugs, then you can expect to pay a little more for being beaten with gold-knuckles, instead of brass-knuckles, if you're a little late on your payment. I'm A Funny Guy, Eh?: No, I'm serious... If I fail to pay the Town of Bienfait thirty dollars for allowing my dog, whom I have not had a single complaint about from any of my neighbors or fellow citizens, to experience the freedom that should be the birthright of every living creature, then those who rule over the land I currently live on (under the authority of armed enforcers), are willing to put me to death. They don't like to kill the goose that laid the golden egg, Jane or Joe Sheeple, so they prefer to start by placing them in bondage, kidnapping them, and holding them prisoner in small cages until they get the message that they are not to be fucked with. If you resist being kidnapped and imprisoned, they have no choice but to send more and better armed thugs to overcome your resistance, murdering you if you refuse to recognize and submit to their authority over you, no matter how unjust or uncivilized their decisions and their actions. My dog, Baby, doesn't speak Cherokee, so when the armed thugs approach, she just barks. She barks, "The Revolution Is NOW!" TownShip of MongerItaville -- Population - 1: I have self-incorporated (self-actualized, for you people living in New Age, California) the Township of MongerItaville, in my own mind, and voted myself the Grand Pooh-Bah(Humbug) of the domain it encompasses, which can be found by reaching behind myself and grabbing my ass. (Wherever I go, there I am...) I was elected unanimusly (not a typo), since in MongerItaville dogs can vote, but women can't. (Sorry, Baby, but I only had the Founding Fathers to use as a role-model...there weren't any Founding Mothers.) As the sole citizen and the head of government of MongerItaville, I had to make a decision as to whether it was better to attempt to reinvent the wheel, so to speak, by following the example of the founders of American democracy, or to take a more realistic approach and automatically grant myself all of the same powers as have been assumed by the current governmental and bureacratic representatives of the evolution of freedom and democracy. In the beginning, I decided to do both, no matter how schizophrenic the results, since it seemed obvious that anything less would be the equivalent of bending over for the soap in the shower at the Home For The Criminally Insane. I wrote a 'Realistic Bill of Rights' for the TownShip] of MongerItaville, including such gems as: ~A well-armed and well-lubricated milita being essential to the security of my butt-hole, my right to get stinking fucking drunk and 'Load and Lock' (or whatever) shall not be a bridge over troubled water. [Editor's Note: Realistically, the preceeding should read, "Load (Boom!--"Goddamn, I just blew my foot off!") and Lock."] ~My right to be secure in my person (especially in the rear part) and my electronic emmissions (internal and external) will be the responsibility of no one other than myself (and possibly Phil Zimmerman and Matt Blaze). ~I will not discriminate against anyone on the basis of age, race, sex, sexual orientation, or breed. (Although I reserve the right to call any living entity 'old fart', 'nigger', 'slut', 'faggot', or 'mutt', if they--start a sentence with, "Kids nowdays...'--give me soap, instead of crack, for my twenty dollars--fuck all of my friends and everyone in my band--drop the soap in the shower-- jump into bed before me and take the good pillow.) Hey! Those Aren't Amendments! Those Are Justifications!: I decided on only two amendments. One to my physical constitution--a double-shot of Jim Beam, and one to my intellectual Constitution--I'm the government, and I can do anything I fucking want..." I suppose that the latter amendment may no be politically correct in a Berkeley kind of society, but at least it is consistent with the recognition of my right to life, liberty, and pursuit of cynicism. I May Be A Stupid Fuck, But At Least I'm Not A Stupid Fuck: Anyone who thinks I am overreacting reads the daily news with their blinders on... Remember the old broad in New England whose family decided she had to be imprisoned against her will in a looney bin for observation ("We just want to ask you a few questions...") because she had put up with society's bullshit long enough to have earned the right to be 'eccentric'. (That's what you're called if your filthy fucking rich and let your toenails grow so long that they curl up like a ram's horns.) Would the armed thugs pretending to 'serve and protect' have been using rubber bullets if there was no press present? (Can you say 'Ruby Ridge'? Sure you can...) What if the grandmother busted for helping a stranger avoid paying vigorish to the armed thugs by plugging parking meters had told the thugs, "Fuck you! You assholes are crazy and out of control. I refuse to be subject to the insanity of your armed rule over every detail of the citizen's life."? She would be one dead cunt... What's Good For The Gander Is Good For Those Getting Goosed: Am I overreacting? I am being muscled by thugs that will murder me over thirty dollars, just to maintain their control over the Sheeple that they rule. Any way you want to cut it, you cannot deny that you know this is true. Do you understand? Do you understand that these people are willing to murder a compound full of people holding 'eccentric' religious beliefs--men, women and children--justifying their actions on the grounds of what they later admit are lies? Do you understand that instead of admitting to their criminal actions, they will make criminals of the survivors, placing them in prisons designed to reinforce upon the citizenry that even their children will be slaughtered if they are so bold as to say, "The King has no clothes." I Know You Can Read...But Can You Understand?: Can you pick up a paper without reading about some atrocity being perpetrated on individuals and groups of citizens by the armed thugs in power? [Tuscon Nutly News--MILITARY ANALYSTS REPORT THAT IN the last three years, 42,384,672 senior and general Army officers were accused of offenses including child molestation and adultery--and not one was prosecuted. Each was allowed simply to retire. Sgt. Maj. Gene C. McKinney, however, not being an officer, faces 55 years in prison for lechery, as a result of being accused of an act of foreplay that occured during consensual sex with a woman not his wife. Sgt. Maj. McKinney, when reached for comment by the Left Nutly News, said, "I should have 'accidentally' killed her after sex. Under the Uniform Code of Military Justice, negligent homicide only carries a maximum sentence of *three* years." Joseph Finder, author of the novel "High Crimes," told Nutly News reportwhores, in response to allegations that the Nutly News was misquoting his article and inflating the numbers involved for shock effect, said, "I write for the mainstream media. I'm supposed to pretend that murdering a hundred innocent children makes someone more of a monster than murdering a single innocent child, especially if the murderer voted to give my publisher a huge tax-break for requiring his staff to make certain that the child was born naked, and thus was obviously involved in some sort of child-pornography ring." When asked for comment, a Pentagon spin-liar told Nutly News reportwhores, "It's called the Uniform Code of Military Justice because we look at what kind of uniform they are wearing, and then decide what kind of justice they are going to get."] Can you pick up a newspaper without reading about some totally clueless dickwad--who is licensed to carry a gun, shoot any citizen on the slightest whim, and then lie about it in court under cover of a neatly-pressed uniform and shiny badge--performing some outrageous act that an ordinary citizen would be lynched for? [Tucson Nutly News--WHEN THE POLICE OFFICER WHO PLAYS THE role of McGruff, the police dog (Take a bite out of crime) was unavailable, a fellow police monger called upon the services of an inmate incarcerated for child molestation to fill in as McGruff, in a school classroom containing one of the child rapist's victims. Although the voice of Charles Darwin could be heard calling out from the grave, "Put a bullet in this ignorant Pig's head, before he breeds.", the citizenry merely turned to the weather section of the paper, to see if the weekend would be nice enough for them to take their children to the park, where the same ignorant piece-of-shit police officer would be in charge of 'serving' the children up to convicted child-molesters, and 'protecting' himself from suffering the consequences of his incompetence by making sure that his union dues were paid up. When asked for comment, McGruff, the police dog, told this reportwhore, "The regular guy's not back yet...do you have any children...do you have any pictures of them naked?" In the 'Real Sports' section of the same newspaper, the ClueServer Sports Wire reported the results of the True Justice Championship Game as: Child Molesters - 1, Children - 0.] Lucky Strike, Lucky Green -- by Defcon McCullagh Chainsaw [Time We Found The Path--FOR THE FIRST TIME IN DIGITALLY recorded history, the voice of the netizens has triumphed over the paid political spin-doctoring of the mainstream media. In a startling development with global consequences, the recent actions taking place in a Cult of One community in Southern Saskatchewan, the TownShip of MongerItaville, have been embraced by citizens around the globe in light of the information reported by independent observers relaying a wide variety of details via the InterNet and the World-Wide-Web, rather from the standard government hand-outs provided to the mainstream media reportwhores gathered around the free drinks and snacks left over from Desert Storm. TruthMonger, the Grand Pooh-Bah(Humbug) of the physico-virtual nation of MongerItaville, launched a surprise First Strike against the dangerous armed thugs who had threatened his physico-virtual existence over the paltry sum of thirty dollars. TruthMonger told this reportwhore, "John Lennon called me the 'Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse' because I used to say, 'Throw them all in the laundry bag, and let the maid sort them out.' I know that this statement doesn't make any sense, but, believe it or not, this is one of my *good* days." Cult of One analysts from around the globe agree that the straw-dog that broke Joe Camel's back was provided by a post to the CypherPunks mailing list by Lucky Green and his secret lover, Anna R. Christ. "We finally understand what 'The Xenix Chainsaw Massacre' was all about. "It was about an individual whose brain had been destroyed from too many electroshock treatments and years of drug abuse, finally taking a stand and deciding to do what was right, even though he had no idea what that meant. "It was about people who heard the voice barfing in the wilderness, which told them that it was OK to tell the fruitcakes wearing crystals around their necks to go fuck themselves, and kick their ass if they didn't give them back the five hundred bucks they paid to take a seminar which was nothing more than 'The Power of Positive Thinking' with a Barnum & Bailey/New Age spin-doctoring tacked on to rook Spiritually Correct Rubes. "It was about learning to follow your own wisdom, your own conscience, and give the guru whose ass you just kicked a few dollars to cover the cost of the hot-dog provided by the Sufi vendor at the back of the seminar hall, who delivered on his promise to '...make you one with everything.' "It was about ninety pages long..." Jean Chretien, the former Prime Minister of Canada, the country brought down by the Cult of One seperatist movement inspired by the seige at MongerItaville, said, "You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of they time, but...hey, we kept the citizens believing, for a hundred years, that Louis Riel acted alone..." When contacted by this reportwhore, God, the Supreme Creator of the Universe, said that, due to the Cult Of One phenomena currently sweeping over the face of the earth, due to everyone now having their own web site, "Now I, like Dog, speak only for myself..." This is Defcon McCullagh Chainsaw, going with the flow and mediating on the Zen koan, "Is this a new spin on the revolution, or vice-versa?"] Am I Being Silly Again?: Sure...so what's your point?

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///// Have You Ever!! ////////////
by real＠inet.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Be prompt, professional, and follow the directions accurately. * Send for the four reports IMMEDIATELY so you will have them when the orders start coming in because: When you receive a $5 order, you MUST send out the requested product/report to comply with the U.S. Postal & Lottery Laws, Title 18,Sections 1302 and 1341 or Title 18, Section 3005 in the U.S. Code, also Code of Federal Regs. vol. 16, Sections 255 and 436, which state that "a product or service must be exchanged for money received." * ALWAYS PROVIDE SAME-DAY SERVICE ON THE ORDERS YOU RECEIVE. * Be patient and persistent with this program. If you follow the instructions exactly, the results WILL undoubtedly be SUCCESSFUL! * ABOVE ALL, HAVE FAITH IN YOURSELF AND KNOW YOU WILL SUCCEED! *******YOUR SUCCESS GUIDELINE******* Follow these guidelines to guarantee your success: If you don't receive 10 to 20 orders for REPORT #1 within two weeks, continue advertising until you do. Then, a couple of weeks later you should receive at least 100 orders for REPORT #2. If you don't, continue advertising until you do. Once you have received 100 or more orders for REPORT #2, YOU CAN RELAX, because the system is already working for you, and the cash will continue to roll in! THIS IS IMPORTANT TO REMEMBER: Every time your name is moved down on the list, you are placed in front of a DIFFERENT report. You can KEEP TRACK of your PROGRESS by watching which report people are ordering from you. If you want to generate more income, send another batch of e-mails and start the whole process again! There is no limit to the income you will generate from this business! NOTE: If you need help with starting a business, registering a business name, how income tax is handled, etc., contact your local office of the Small Business Administration (a Federal agency) for free help and answers to questions. Also, the Internal Revenue Service offers free help via telephone and free seminars about business taxes. *******T E S T I M O N I A L S******* This program does work, but you must follow it EXACTLY! Especially the rule of not trying to place your name in a different position, it won't work and you'll lose a lot of potential income. I'm living proof that it works. It really is a great opportunity to make relatively easy money, with little cost to you. If you do choose to participate, follow the program exactly, and you'll be on your way to financial security. Sean McLaughlin, Jackson, MS My name is Frank. My wife, Doris, and I live in Bel-Air, MD. I am a cost accountant with a major U.S. Corporation and I make pretty good money. When I received the program I grumbled to Doris about receiving "junk mail ". I made fun of the whole thing, spouting my knowledge of the population and percentages involved. I "knew" it wouldn't work. Doris totally ignored my supposed intelligence and jumped in with both feet. I made merciless fun of her, and was ready to lay the old "I told you so" on her when the thing didn't work... well, the laugh was on me! Within two weeks she had received over 50 responses. Within 45 days she had received over $147,200 in $5 bills! I was shocked! I was sure that I had it all figured and that it wouldn't work. I AM a believer now. I have joined Doris in her "hobby." I did have seven more years until retirement, but I think of the "rat race" and it's not for me. We owe it all to MLM. Frank T., Bel-Air, MD I just want to pass along my best wishes and encouragement to you. Any doubts you have will vanish when your first orders come in. I even checked with the U.S. Post Office to verify that the plan was legal. It definitely is! IT WORKS!!! Paul Johnson, Raleigh, NC The main reason for this letter is to convince you that this system is honest, lawful, extremely profitable, and is a way to get a large amount of money in a short time. I was approached several times before I checked this out. I joined just to see what one could expect in return for the minimal effort and money required. To my astonishment, I received $36,470.00 in the first 14 weeks, with money still coming in. Sincerely yours, Phillip A. Brown, Esq. Not being the gambling type, it took me several weeks to make up my mind to participate in this plan. But conservative that I am, I decided that the initial investment was so little that there was just no way that I wouldn't get enough orders to at least get my money back. Boy, was I surprised when I found my medium-size post office box crammed with orders! For awhile, it got so overloaded that I had to start picking up my mail at the window. I'll make more money this year than any 10 years of my life before. The nice thing about this deal is that it doesn't matter where in the U.S. the people live. There simply isn't a better investment with a faster return. Mary Rockland, Lansing, MI I had received this program before. I deleted it, but later I wondered if I shouldn't have given it a try. Of course, I had no idea who to contact to get another copy, so I had to wait until I was e-mailed another program...11 months passed then it came...I didn't delete this one!...I made more than $41,000 on the first try!! D. Wilburn, Muncie, IN This is my third time to participate in this plan. We have quit our jobs, and will soon buy a home on the beach and live off the interest on our money. The only way on earth that this plan will work for you is if you do it. For your sake, and for your family's sake don't pass up this golden opportunity. Good luck and happy spending! Charles Fairchild, Spokane, WA My name is John and I live in Bradenton, FL. a friend of mine has mad $15,000 and is driving around a new jeep chrrokee and it makes me jealous!!! So I am going to try it and collect my $5 bills!!!!!!!! John Miller, Bradenton Florida ORDER YOUR REPORTS TODAY AND GET STARTED ON THE ROAD TO FINANCIAL FREEDOM!!!

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Chemical, Biological, or Radiation (CBR) weapons
by bill payne 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Saturday 2/28/98 7:22 PM Tim May Just saw your stuff at jya.com. Got in the mail today Volume 9, Number 4, 1997 MILITARY PSYCHOLOGY The Official Journal of the Division of Military Psychology American Psychological Association Special Issue: Effects of Chemical Protective Clothing of Military Performance Guest Editors: Gerald P. Krueger and Louis E. Banderet Ill transcribe some of the text. The US government drugs soldiers before they go into battle. Trust me. Banderet was ANOTHER of my Ph. D. students. Later bill Title: HP Crypto Export 28 February 1998 Date: Sat, 28 Feb 1998 14:18:22 -0500 To: cypherpunks(a)toad.com From: Michael Elder <melder(a)descartes.coker.edu> Subject: HP Crypto Export >From the NY Times online (www.nytmes.com) February 28, 1998 Hewlett-Packard Granted License For Encryption System By Peter Wayner The Commerce Department has granted Hewlett-Packard an export license for its VerSecure encryption architecture allowing the company and its licensees to export strong encryption tools, the company announced Friday. The catch is that the products must take their orders from a central computer system that will dictate how all the products will behave in each country. The company hopes that the solution would break the deadlock between the Clinton Administration, which continues to restrict the export of secure computer technology throughout the world, and the computer industry, which contends that foreigners are not interested in buying products that don't protect their secrets. The new solution effectively disconnects the problem of distributing encryption technology from the process of determining the policy for government access to information. The heart is a new class of trusted hardware cards and chips that take their orders from a central company known as a Security Domain Authority or SDA. In countries, like France, that require people to keep a record of keys for unlocking data, the SDA would only allow the computers to encrypt information if it complied with the laws. In countries with no laws about encryption usage like the United States, Germany and Great Britain, the SDA would allow users to encrypt in whatever manner they choose. Hewlett-Packard sees the solution as a win for the industry, which will be able to build one set of hardware and software that can be shipped throughout the world. The SDA's will set the local rules because the computers will not encrypt information without first getting permission from the SDA. Doug McGowan, one of the director of Hewlett-Packard's efforts, said in a telephone interview, "Never before has a general purpose cryptography tool been exportable from the United States, with or without key recovery. We're opening a huge market for American industry to enable commerce on a worldwide basis." The price for this flexibility is the need for specialized hardware that treats the SDA as its master. In an ordinary computer, the owner can control all aspects of what the computer does. This extra hardware will raise the price of machines and is bound to be more expensive than software which can be distributed at minimal cost. Feisal Mosleh, a business development manager at Hewlett-Packard, pointed out that specialized hardware can offer faster performance and more security. "It is very hardware-specific with the flexibility of software and that gives us a lot of strength in terms of tamper resistance" he said in a phone interview. Many security experts continue to point out that general-use microcomputers and their operating systems are dangerously insecure. In one recent attack, hackers were able to begin transfers from a bank account by manipulating accounting software. Off-loading the process to specialized hardware makes it simpler to ensure that the system is secure because the special hardware has only one job. Hewlett-Packard says that it is licensing the architecture to a number of different computer vendors and announced that IBM, Motorola, CertCo, Trusted Information System, Microsoft and RSA Data Securities had already signed licenses. The vendors will be free to choose how they implement the special computer hardware, but most will probably use firmware with an embedded microprocessor. The initial version will reportedly include DES, tripleDES, RSA, RC2, RC4 and DiffieHellman algorithms. Each of these solutions can be sped up by specialized hardware, but only a general microprocessor can handle all of them with equal agility. The specialized hardware will also be tamper-proof to prevent people from circumventing the commands of the SDA. When an encryption card is first started up, it cannot begin working until it has received instructions from an SDA in its country. This information is contained in a "policy token." Joe Beyers, general manager of Hewlett-Packard's Internet Software business unit, explained, "The token says, 'You can use this amount of key, this amount of strength for this amount of time.'" Beyers went on to say, "The aspect of time allows the government to evolve their policy. Time limits are one of the attributes that made it attractive to the U.S. government." It would be possible for a government to change policy with the system from time to time, perhaps forcing citizens to use long keys in time of war to protect themselves and then relaxing the policy after peace emerged. In the current plan, policy tokens would be good for one year, forcing computers to re-register with an SDA in order to keep working. The SDA would have no control of a token after it was issued and would only be able to change policies at the renewal. The relationship between the SDA and the key recovery program is more difficult to describe. The SDA would not keep any records of any keys that would allow the police to eavesdrop on calls. But the policy tokens would force the embedded hardware to obey the local laws that might include key recovery. The FBI has asked Congress to mandate key recovery systems that give it clear access to all communications. The yearly interrogation between the SDA and the individual computers does not mean that the system will be foolproof. Someone could simply carry a laptop from a country that allows personal privacy to a country with more invasive laws and use it freely until the policy token runs out. Also, it may be possible to spoof the token authorization procedure by pretending that the request came from one country instead of another. Some critics found the use of special hardware to be problematic. Jim Lucier, a policy analyst for the Americans for Tax Reform, a Republican think tank, pointed out that specialized hardware was ignored by the marketplace in the past. "None of it ever works" he said, "because the more obvious solution, which is end-to-end encryption, is already there." Lucier also pointed out that specialized hardware is more complicated to engineer and much more expensive to distribute than software. "Atoms cost more than bits, it just comes down to that," he said. In a press conference Friday morning, Beyers promised that the new hardware was "months, not years away" and also promised that the hardware costs would be as low as possible. Marc Rotenberg, director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, suggested that replacing the current export control bureaucracy with a network of SDA's was not a significant advance. "Government efforts to regulate crypto will only slow the development of commerce," he said. In fact, the decision by the United States government to grant a license to Hewlett-Packard's architecture is far from liberating. Companies making VerSecure products can only ship them to countries approved by the United States government, a list which at this time is limited to the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Denmark and Australia. More countries will become open if and when they create an SDA infrastructure that is acceptable to the United States. Hewlett-Packard has gone to great lengths to prevent rogue nations from setting up their own unauthorized SDA's by cloning hardware. The infrastructure uses CertCo's secure certificate servers to restrict the ability to create the software necessary to build the tokens. Beyers says that no one person at Hewlett-Packard has the ability to do this in order to reduce the potential for corruption and theft. Hewlett-Packard is also working heavily with foreign countries to assure them that the system does not include back doors that might be accessible by the United States government. Beyers said that the company had retained an international group of cryptographic experts to vet the system and allay any fears of hidden back doors. A press release from Hewlett-Packard quoted William A. Reinsch, undersecretary of commerce, as saying, "We are pleased to support HP's effort to develop and market encryption products that encourage the use of key recovery in providing robust, secure encryption. This approval and our ongoing dialogue with the industry are consistent with the Clinton Administration's goal of allowing the market to develop recoverable encryption products." Peter Wayner at pwayner(a)nytimes.com welcomes your comments and suggestions. Copyright 1998 The New York Times Company Date: Sat, 28 Feb 1998 12:08:30 -0800 To: Michael Elder <melder(a)descartes.coker.edu>, cypherpunks(a)toad.com From: Tim May <tcmay(a)got.net> Subject: Re: HP Crypto Export At 11:18 AM -0800 2/28/98, Michael Elder wrote: >>From the NY Times online (www.nytmes.com) >Hewlett-Packard Granted License >For Encryption System > >By PETER WAYNER >known as a Security Domain Authority or SDA. In countries, like France, >that require people to keep a record of keys for unlocking data, the SDA >would only allow the computers to encrypt information if it complied with >the laws. In countries with no laws about encryption usage like the United >States, Germany and Great Britain, the SDA would allow users to encrypt in >whatever manner they choose. Until, of course, the U.S. changes its policy. A constant danger with any of these "solutions" is that they make later imposition of controls so much easier. Consider the implications of widespread deployment of the HP-type system (which, BTW, I don't think will happen in the U.S., or elsewhere). A simple change in the law and all new tokens (and they must be renewed yearly, so says HP) will implement the new law. The camel's nose in the tent strategy. The HP/IBM product is perniciously evil and should be fought with all technical and memetic means. --Tim May Just Say No to "Big Brother Inside" ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, ComSec 3DES: 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Higher Power: 2^3,021,377 | black markets, collapse of governments. Title: Untitled Document Viewing this page requires a browser capable of displaying frames. 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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chemical, biological, or radiation (CBR) weapons
by bill payne 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Saturday 2/28/98 9:44 PM I transcribe some of what I got in the mail today. Volume 9, Number 4, 1997 MILITARY PSYCHOLOGY The Official Journal of the Division of Military Psychology American Psychological Association Special Issue: Effects of Chemical Protective Clothing of Military Performance Guest Editors: Gerald P. Krueger and Louis E. Banderet Psychological Aspects of Chemical Defense and Warfare James W. Stokes U.S. Army Medical Department Center and School Fort Sam Houston, Texas Louis E. Banderet U.S. Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine Natick, Massachusetts Concerns about chemical, biological, or radiation (CBR) weapons and their potential for warfare can be very stressful. Such concerns subject people to unfamiliar threats in highly ambiguous situations, in which people feel they may be wronged or they are helpless. Maladaptive psychological overreactions or underreactions may result. Such reactions to chemical warfare are illustrated with the experience from World War I, the 1991 Persian Gulf War, and the 1995 terrorist attack in the Tokyo subway. General principles of psychology suggest strategies and tactics for training and materiel development that should enhance military performance and reduce maladaptive stress in CBR threat situations. Some of these practices may be relevant to nonmilitary law enforcement and relief agencies that manage CBR threats. page 395. Now I transcribe some of the more relevant stuff. Effects of Chemical Protective Clothing on Military Performance: A Review of the Issues Gerald P. Krueger Star Mountain, Inc. Alexandria, Virginia Lous E. Banderet U.S. Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine Natick, Massachusetts This review in this special issue of Military Psychology on the effects of chemical protective clothing (CPC) on military performance provide a historical perspective on continued anxieties over likely use of battlefield chemical-biological weapons and summarizes significant concerns of military personnel weaning CPC in training and combat. This review describes pschophysiological stresses such protective ensembles have on personnel and how these affect military performance, and it summarizes major military psychological research program on the effect of wearing CPC. This article reviews what is known about wearing CPC, describes future CPC developments, and identifies domains for improved military training with CPC. MEDICAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL EFFECT OF C-B WEAPONS There are many medical, physiological and psychological reactions from exposure to chemical-biological (C-B) weapons. Many bio-warfare agents and most chemical weapons are designed to interfere with function of the nervous system and to disrupt normal control of vital organ systems that sustain life. For example, the more common chemical war nerve agents involve organophosphate compounds, similar to insecticides, that inhibit cholinesterase enzymes throughout the body. Because cholinesterase hydrolyzes acetylcholine where ever liberated, this inhibition results in excessive concentrations of acetylcholine at various sites - from the ending of the parasympathetic nerves to smooth muscles of the iris, ciliary body, bronchi, gastrointestinal trace, bladder, and blood vessels; to secretary gland of the respiratory tract and to endings of the sympathetic nerves to sweat glands (Newhouse, 1987; Simmons et at 1989). Exposure to large amounts of nerve agent may lead to loss of muscle control, twitching, paralysis, unconsciousness, convulsions, coma, and even death. The most common cause of death after acute exposure is respiratory arrest. Death may occur within minutes or take several hours. In terms of psychological functioning, moderate but nonlethal exposure to nerve agent produces severe impairment in cognition, vigilance, memory and language. Acute intoxication produces confusion, drowsiness, and difficulty in concentration (Newhouse, 1987). These impairment make it difficult to continue to perform may soldier tasks. Effects on cognition may persist after only a slight exposure. Performance improvement appears to correlate with the bodys regeneration of acetycholinesterase, usually requiring several months. Neurophysychological testing (Newhouse, 1987) reveals that chronic exposure to organophosphates significantly impairs higher mental function requiring use of the frontal lobes, particularly the left lobe. Organophosphate poisoning selectively impairs memory of recently learned information, and this impairment is likely related to cholinergic involvement in the memory processes. The effects include defects in long-term memory, visual searching, and response alteration - effects similar to those caused by a frontal lobotomy. In chronically exposed individuals, speed of task performance and overall cognitive efficiency also declines. Persistent visual impairments are reported in workers poisoned with anticholinesterase insecticides, and acute poisoning impair oculomotor function. Poisoning with nerve agents may also cause psychiatric disturbances such as depression. Use of C-B weapons results not only in large number of physical casualties on the battlefield by in may psychological casualties as well. Concern over the mere threat that C-B weapons might be used raises battlefield anxiety of combatants and can produce a level of fear disproportionate to that evoked by countless alternative conventional battlefield means of killing or maiming, such a with guns, artillery, and bombs. Such anxieties can create large numbers of psychological stress casualties contribution to unit ineffectiveness on the battlefield and combat losses. Such adverse emotions may also cause posttraumatic stress disorders after combat ceases. DEVELOPMENT OF COUNTERMEASURES FOR THE COMBAT THEATER Modern military forces recognize the C-B weapons can be the attention-getting equivalent of a poor countrys nuclear weapons. Such weapons can be counter-acted, however, and concerned nations prepare their forces to preserve their health and safety against C-B warfare. ... I will send a complete copy to John Young. So I skip to the next section. THE THREAT OF C-B WARFARE Although biological warfare was used centuries ago by the Romans and was used in the 14th century by the Tartars, who catapulted plague-infected bodies into cities under siege (Hewish, 1997), military forces have made scant use of biological warfare in modern times. The more recent innovation of chemical warfare dates to 1914 when the French used tear gas against unprotected German forces, who in turn introduced chlorine and phosgene in 1915 and mustard gas in 1917 against the British, who sustained 14,000 casualties in 3 months (Hewish, 1997). May World Ware I soldiers were grotesquely injured or died in gas war trenches in France and Russia; Russias gas casualties exceed a half million, including 50,000 fatalities (Westerhoff, 1980). In 1925, many countries signed a Geneva Protocol prohibiting first use of chemical and bacteriological weapons. However, during the 1930s, several countries, notably Germany, encouraged chemists to develop chemical weapons as a by-product of insecticide research production. By World War II, Germany and powers stockpiled huge caches of chemical, but probably due to fear of in-kind retaliation, chemical weapons were not used in World War II. After the war, Germanys organophoshporous arsenal fell into Russian hands, and for the next 50 years, military forces relegated C-B warfare efforts to relatively quiet development programs for future battlefields. Since World War II, C-B weapons have been employed several times on a relatively small scale. In the 1970s, the Vietnamese used chemical and yellow rain biological agents in Cambodian jungles, the Soviets used chemical in Afghanistan (U.S. Department of State, 1980), Iraq used sulfur mustard and other chemical in the Iran-Iraq conflict (1979-1980), and Iraq used chemical in 1980 - this time against its own people, the northern Kurds (Studeville, 1997). There have been periodic threats to use chemical weapons on a grand scale. In the 1970s, the Warsaw Pact possessed huge stockpiles of chemical weapons ( mostly soman, cyanide, and mustard gas), and Soviet chemical warfare teams openly conducted extensive training in gas warfare tactics. Such readiness for large scale C-B warfare was underscored in the Persian Gulf War of 1991, as Iraq threatened to use chemical (sarin) and biologicals (anthrax spores) against coalition forces and possibly against neighboring cities in Saudi Arabia and Israel (Begley, Barry, & Hager, 1991). By January 1991, Saudi Arabia had predug 50,000 graves planned for burying civilian (noncombat) casualties expected to succumb to Iraqi chemical poisoning from anticipated rocket attacks on Saudi cities or aerosols drifting from the battlefields (Kaplan, 1991). Although Iraq did not unleash such chemical, and the battles were ultimately short, many U.S. military personnel may been exposed to chemical during the March 1991 destruction of Iraqi weapon stockpiled (mostly sarin) near Khamisiyah, Iraq (Stuteville, 1997). The U. S. government continue to investigate whether exposures to chemical agents may have contributed to the so-called Gulf War illnesses experienced by many U.S. military veterans of that encounter. Exposure of soldiers to multiple chemical and and environmental stressors may be linked to psychophysiological illnesses that manifest in symptomatology such as disabling fatigue, insomnia, malaise, joint and muscle pains, skin sores, hair loss, and gastrointestinal and respiratory difficulties (Brown & Priest, 1996). Others asset that U.S. military personnel were exposed to Iraq chemical warfare from Scud missiles, artillery and aircraft (Stuteville, 1997) PUBLIC CONCERN Open, frank, public news of existent military chemical stockpiles, proliferation of chemical or biological weaponry, and periodic saber-ratting threats to use such weapons amplify world public concerns over the enormity of what someday could be a horrific chemical or biological calamity. Unprotected civilian populations fear they may be deliberately attacked by chemical and biological weapons or inadvertently by aerosol warfare agents drifting into populated areas of a battlefield. Disastrous incident like the one in 1984 at a chemical factory in Bhopal, India, which killed over 2,000 people and sickened countless others, sensitized citizenry to the lethal potential of such chemical compounds. In 1995, terrorist attacks on the Tokyo subway, and news media discussion of possible use of nerve agents in terrorist disruption of public gathering like the 1992 and 1996 Olympics, heightened Public fears over such chemical incidents have become almost visceral. News of recent advances in genetic technologies (Dando, 1997) suggest use of future biological weapons with unprecedented insidiousness and specificity is possible. Moreover, the mass media and media expert sources remind the public that the United States may not be adequately prepared or trained to defend itself against chemical or biological warfare (Beal, 1997). ... Send more money, of course. Banderets Ph. D. thesis article is Visual Marking Following Transient Adaptation Journal of the Optical Society of America, Vol 51, 7 955-958 July 1971 Banderet has worked for US Army Institute of Environmental Medicine since 1971. Banderet is another of my former Ph. D. students. In human factors, not computer science. US soldiers, of course, need some tranquilizers to calm them down is the face of such threats. To improve battlefield performance. Keep in mind guys that the US goverment is not above killing a bunch of its own citizens for its own BUSINESS goals. Keep up-wind bill Title: Untitled Document Viewing this page requires a browser capable of displaying frames.

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17 Dec '03

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HP Crypto Hardware
by Mixmaster 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

With regard to: > Hewlett-Packard Granted License For Encryption System > > The Commerce Department has granted Hewlett-Packard an > export license for its VerSecure encryption architecture... > The catch is that the products must take their orders > from a central computer...will dictate how...products > will behave in each country. No fucking way! > The company hopes that the solution would break the > deadlock between the Clinton Administration...and the > computer industry... "The company hopes that its solution of a gun that will shoot forward in jurisdictions that allow possession of firearms and backward in jurisdictions that prohibit same will break the deadlock between overweening, self-inflated, scum-sucking, dog-fucking, shit-brained totalitarians and those seeking nothing more than to be LEFT THE FUCK ALONE." Whores! Two-dollar whores! 25-cent whores! HP can stick its encryption card and everything else it makes straight up its mercenary ass. HP just created a powerful incentive for a lot of very capable and creative people to see to it that HP products don't exactly shine in the marketplace, if you get my drift. > The new solution effectively disconnects the problem > of distributing encryption technology from the process > of determining the policy for government access to > information. Wonderful! That's like selling nerve gas that calls Washington to ask permission before it deploys. Stupid, stupid, STUPID fucking assholes! > The heart is a new class of trusted hardware cards and > chips that take their orders from a central company > known as a Security Domain Authority or SDA. In countries > like France that require people to keep a record of keys > for unlocking data, the SDA would only allow the computers > to encrypt information if it complied with the laws. The communists were right on one point. Capitalists will sell them the rope that will be used to hang them. And hang their children. Stupid, stupid, STUPID! > In countries with no laws about encryption usage like > the United States, Germany and Great Britain, the SDA > would allow users to encrypt in whatever manner they > choose. Yeah, _today_. And what about _tomorrow_, you astronomical fuckwits? What about when the USG decides that with this neat mechanism in place they will just advise Slavery Central that citizen-units in the US may no longer encrypt things "in whatever manner they choose?" Names. We need names publicized. Who thought of this monstrous product? Who approved it? Who developed it? Who signed off on it, saying, "Yeah, this will really make our stockholders proud! Who gives a shit if their kids and grandchildren live under the iron fist of a U.S. technocratic dictatorship? We're gonna score a few points here, make a little extra bonus this year, lock it in with a couple of patents... Who cares if we all end up with brainchip implants?" > Hewlett-Packard sees the solution as a win for the > industry, which will be able to build one set of > hardware and software that can be shipped throughout > the world. The SDA's will set the local rules because > the computers will not encrypt information without > first getting permission from the SDA. This is too abominable for words. It's the ultimate sell-out. I know now that there is no hope, not even a spark of the flame of freedom to illuminate the gloom into which we are headed. What's the use of being a well-behaved citizen-unit when this kind of utter shit is afoot or underfoot? It's war. It's always been war, we just haven't understood that it was war. The other side has understood it from the start. > Doug McGowan, one of the director of Hewlett-Packard's > efforts, said in a telephone interview, "Never before > has a general purpose cryptography tool been exportable > from the United States, with or without key recovery. > We're opening a huge market for American industry to > enable commerce on a worldwide basis." !!! Some justification, eh Doug? Hey Doug! When they ask for cerebral implants that explode on command, will you offer a similar product that checks with Citizen Control Central before detonating, to make sure the target is in a country that authorizes it? "Hey, no problem!" says Doug. "Our new CerebSecure will only explode heads in countries like Iran, Iraq, Cuba, and North Korea when people attempt to make unauthorized purchases with its electronic purse feature. In countries with no laws about political or religious transactions like the United States, Germany^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H and Great Britain, the SDA would allow users to purchase in whatever manner they choose." > The price for this flexibility is the need for > specialized hardware that treats the SDA as its > master. In an ordinary computer, the owner can > control all aspects of what the computer does. > This extra hardware will raise the price of machines > and is bound to be more expensive than software which > can be distributed at minimal cost. Yeah, this is just the kind of thing that Americans, even with their severly dulled sense of freedom, will run right out to buy! Sure. First we can expect to see the feds mandate this for all government purchases, then at some point mandate the chipset for all computers, then outlaw encryption that doesn't use the chipset. And I don't even own a crystal ball anymore! > Feisal Mosleh [said], "...It...gives us a lot of > strength in terms of tamper resistance." OK, I give up. Where is the tamper resistance for the Constitution? Is anybody working on that? HEL-lo???? <deathly still silence> FuckWithMeMongerII

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