December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

steganography detection hazard?
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Suppose you take your plaintext, encrypt it, then spread the bits across an image as the LSBs. The LSBs will, if you've used a decent cipher, have perfectly uniform distribution. The 'noise' LSBs in a chunk of *digitized* bits will show a *uniform* distribution. (As indeed will the cipher's blocks, or any bitchunk larger or smaller.) Therefore an entropy test (see Maurer) will discriminate between the two. Please prove me wrong. --Stegosaur

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passwords and hashes
by Alexander Kjeldaas 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I'm looking into how passwords should be transferred into keys for the loopback filesystem in Linux. Currently, what happens is that you take the SHA or RIPEMD-160 hash of the password string and use that as a key. If the cipher only uses a 128-bit key, the last 32 bits of the hash is unused. I have some questions about this scheme: o In the case of a 128-bit cipher, do I lose any information by not using the last 32 bits of information? Should the last 32 bits be xored with the first 128 in order to not lose any info? o Is there any advantage to _not_ using a 256-bit hash function? (i.e - use a 128-bit hash for 128-bit ciphers). Currently there are lots of AES ciphers that don't get fed a 256-bit key because we only have a 160-bit hash. o Is there a good 256-bit hash function? I don't know of any other than snefru. In this application, speed doesn't matter much. Should I use a 256-bit cipher instead maybe? o Is it safe to always take the hash of the password, or is it better to use the password directly as the key if it is less than 16 characters for 128-bit cipher? astor -- Alexander Kjeldaas, Guardian Networks AS, Trondheim, Norway http://www.guardian.no/

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cfs' ecb+ofb mode vs. interleaved cbc mode
by Alexander Kjeldaas 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

For fast file-system crypto, you really want to implement the ciphers so that you encrypt several blocks at a time. CFS does this by using a special mode (described as ecb+ofb by schneier). The CFS documentation explains: "At attach time, CFS derives from the passphrase into two DES keys, K1 and K2. K1 is used to create two (or three) DES pseudorandom stream ciphers, each 128KB long, S1 and S2. To encrypt a file block, it is first XORd against a unique bitstream derived from the inode number of the file. The result is then XORd against S1 based on its offset in the file. This is then DES ECB encrypted with K2, and the result of that is XORd against the appropriate position in S2. The resulting ciphertext is what is stored. The cipher is reversed in the obvious manner. Filenames are similarly encrypted. There does not appear to be a feasible attack that allows an independent search for the two subkeys K1 and K2; in a brute-force known-plaintext attack, an attacker would have to try all 2**112 key combinations. Note that in the single DES mode, the two keys may be vulnerable to independent exhaustive search under a so-called "linear" attack, but this attack appears to require a large number of chosen plaintexts encrypted under the same inode number. Under most conditions where the attacker cannot introduce large numbers of chosen plaintexts, I believe even the single-DES CFS encryption to be very strong in practice. Note that this is not the same as a "proof". In any event, CFS is always at least as secure as DES or triple DES (as selected when the directory is created). If want high security, select triple DES (now the default); for better performance, use the hybrid single-DES option." I'd like to know how this method compares to using an interleaved cbc mode - for example 8-way interleaved cbc. The n-way interlaved cbc-mode works by chaining each n'th block together instead of each block. This means you get n more messages. For a 512-byte block and a 128-bit block length, this means that each message will be 512/(8*16) = 4 blocks long. For a 4k block you get messages that are 32 blocks long. This might or might not be a problem. With CFS you need 2x the key material - something that is really hard to get by when you're using 256-bit keys. It seems to me you'll have to type in an extremely long password or each of the keys will in practice be weaker than what the theory tells you. Another point is that CFS requires a lot more nonswappable memory than interleaved cbc mode. This means that interleaved cbc mode initially seems more attractive for file-system use. Am I missing something? astor -- Alexander Kjeldaas, Guardian Networks AS, Trondheim, Norway http://www.guardian.no/

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Nation's Biggest Jewish Singles Event: Dec. 24 @ Webster Hall
by theball＠matzah.cc 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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17 Dec '03

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17 Dec '03

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RE: Postcard Debates
by Wilson, Jamie (J.R.) 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The problem with the USPS is that it is government run -- like anything government run, it doesn't work right. It's too expensive, too slow, and too unreliable. Email, on the other hand, is largely handled by the private sector. Hence, it works better. What I find interesting (in response to your note that the USPS would charge), is that the U.S. government had to actually pass a law to make sure the U.S. government doesn't start taxing the Internet. ____________________________________________________ Jamie R. Wilson -----Original Message----- From: Reeza! [mailto:howree@cable.navy.mil] Sent: Friday, 11 December, 1998 20:51 To: cypherpunks(a)toad.com Subject: RE: Postcard Debates This would open the door for the USPS to charge for each email sent. The same rules? No. Based on those rules, but not the same rules. The same rules would slow email down considerably also, wouldn't they???<g> Reeza! At 08:41 AM 12/11/98 -0500, Wilson, Jamie (J.R.) wrote: >If everyone just encrypted their messages then no suspicions would be raised >regarding the use of encryption. Most people use envelopes, plain and >simple -- and as a result no one questions what they are hiding. It's >understood that mail is private and therefore people have a right to seal it >in an envelope and not worry about people tampering with it. On the same >note, there are federal regulations and penalties (in the U.S. anyway) for >tampering with mail and interrupting the delivery of it. The same laws >should apply to email. > >____________________________________________________ >Jamie R. Wilson > > > >-----Original Message----- >From: Robert Wenzler [mailto:rwenzler@usachoice.com] >Sent: Thursday, 10 December, 1998 13:56 >To: Mbishop645(a)aol.com >Cc: maven(a)weirdness.com; hab(a)gamegirlz.com; Cypherpunks(a)toad.com >Subject: Re: > > > > >Mbishop645(a)aol.com wrote: >> >> >HaB wrote: >> ><snip> >> >> That's a good place to begin, though. "Would you send a letter to >> >> someone without an envelope?" "Then why not put your email in the >> >> electronic equivalent of one?" >> >> >> >> balance. >> > >> >Would I send a letter to someone without an envelope? >> >One word: postcard. >> >> Ahh, but would you tape a check for your phone bill to a postcard? Other >> than writing a greeting to someone what else do you use a postcard for? > >No, I would not tape a phone bill check to a postcard. There is the >chance for it to fall off. > >There is different methods of sending mail for different levels of >security and functionality. Some people make it obvious what is inside >an envelope. (who would not recognize a Christmas card from the >envelope?) Others make it as bland and normal as possible to >have it go by without much notice. > >It all depends on how secure you want it. Some things you can do >with what amounts to postcard security. > >What amount of security do you want for your email? Would you be >willing to do something extra for that security? > >This type of question is up to each person. How much risk is the >person willing to take. Each person has the responsibility to >understand what the risks are and to decide what risks they are >willing to take. > > >

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17 Dec '03

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by Igor Chudov 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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by Igor Chudov 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Re: Mathematician-to-silicon compilers and the Law
by Dutra de Lacerda 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At Sunday, you wrote: >what happens to the law when regular english is just a few clicks away from >being an executable? A chip? How about the best cipher of all?!? The one we carry between our ears? (Just proving the illegitimacy of such law attempts) >Politicians have particular problems linking abstractions to atoms. Will they understand the question: Can we decipher a Human memory by analysis of a brain?!? And if they consider crypto as a weapon what about cars and radios... ...and phones... and pens... etc. I'm thinking of the Jeep in military action... Cars are used by terrorists. They depend on them. Same with phones... pens... radios etc. ... (Not to talk again about human memory) All these items have the SAME importance as crypto... with an increasing treat cars can be when changed in REAL weapons. Are these anti-crypto folks just stupid... or insane?: Why don't they do laws limited to the terrorists?!? In my country guns are prohibited... but criminals have them. The arguments used by them just smell funny. So: Anti-Crypto can only have a point as a tool to political control. It also is the negation of all human rights including the one of intellectual property. Brave new World?!? >I see two extrapolated futures. In one, the end result is restrictions on >free speech in certain areas (e.g., crypto), for the benefit of national >insecurity and the Children. In the other, the Law will have to allow you >whatever posessions you like, and only punish *actions* after the fact. >Given recent historical trends... Only brought to public prepairing the anti-crypto campaign! What are the real links?!? Facts please! Fact: No government today governs... they now only manage economies. The result: The degradation of social and cultural links. ... and what have been the actions taken to such irresponsibility?!? Not actions of correction but of repression... Wrong path!!! D.L. - - - Antonio Manuel Melo de Carvalho Dutra de Lacerda Morada : Rua Rodrigues Cabrilho, 5 - 5 Esq. 1400 Lisboa, PORTUGAL Telefone : +351-(1)-3013579 FAX & BBS : +351-(1)-3021098

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IRS COMPUTER SYSTEMS TO BE BROUGHT UP TO DATE
by Secret Squirrel 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

A consortium of companies led by Computer Sciences has been awarded a major contract for a 15-year project intended to modernize the computer systems of the Internal Revenue Service. USA Today 10 Dec 98

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RE: Anyone Striking?
by Gomes, Carlos 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Even http://www.openpgp.net is still up and operational. I agree with Perry M. and Jim C. that the concept was good but the timetable was unfortunately unrealistic. I've not run across any strike pages. me -- Carlos Macedo Gomes gomes(a)netsolve.com NetSolve, Inc. > -----Original Message----- > From: Robert Hettinga [mailto:rah@shipwright.com] > Sent: Monday, December 14, 1998 10:01 AM > To: James Glave > Cc: cypherpunks(a)toad.com; cryptography(a)c2.net; dcsb(a)ai.mit.edu > Subject: Re: Anyone Striking? > > > At 10:29 AM -0500 on 12/14/98, James Glave wrote: > > > > Anyone participating in the strike today? > > Evidently not... > > Cheers, > Robert Hettinga > ----------------- > Robert A. Hettinga <mailto: rah(a)philodox.com> > Philodox Financial Technology Evangelism <http://www.philodox.com/> > 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA > "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, > [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to > experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' >

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I must admit. . .
by Joel O'Connor 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I wonder sometimes whether or not there is hope for us to ever stop this tyrrany. I've seen a bunch of us diss the strike saying it was an outlandish and foolish idea, but I hadn't seen anyone of you come up with something better. That act of protest, no matter how small, serves to raise awareness. Whether it's five minutes after finding out that a war has errupted, or ten years into the war, each serves its purpose. At least it was na idea, it was a start. We're never going to be able to do anything at all if we don't start somewhere and the strike seemed as good an idea as any. Hopefully we can follow in the footsteps of our ancestors who fought and died for freedom, true freedom not this crap we see displayed on the tube everynight. I hope we don't fall into that catagorie of the kinds of people that talk and talk and never do, for if this is the case, then we have already lost and might as well drive ourselves to the concentration camps. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 6.0.2 iQA/AwUBNnVz81MQ9C083U98EQI68wCfbCa/HA/NN1+u3865z7Oq3m5XvnEAn3kE wl2adBuq2l21DFm/Isn+5MzK =uEBu -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- == Ogre bounces like sonar. . .Peace. Ogre _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

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Re: Text of Wassenaar regulations, with comments
by Frank O'Dwyer 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

"Arnold G. Reinhold" wrote: > I am not a lawyer and different administrations could issue more > restrictive rules (as the US does), but the new Wassenaar regulations > themselves do not seem to affect free distribution of programs like PGP and > Linux as long as they qualify as "public domain" as Wassenaar defines it. Unfortunately, AFAIK copyrighted software is NOT public domain. GPL and the like usually make a big song and dance to the effect of "this s/w is copyrighted and not in the public domain". Even worse, I think the original PGP is pretty clearly not in the public domain, since commercial uses must be paid for. So does anyone know just how does Wassenaar define the term "public domain", and is open source indeed covered? Cheers, Frank.

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Re: COMMENT: Minimum Security Devices and Procedures and Bank Secrecy
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>If this act is passed, I know what my response will be. I will promptly >withdraw all my monies from any institution that follows these regulations, >refuse to do any sort of business with them, and urge all my friends and >family to do the same. I know that many others will do the same without >hesitation. Today I called the manager of the branch where I have account (for many years) and asked him about "Know your customer" thingy and reporting that they currently do. He seemed knowledgable to a certain extent about this matter, and assured me that today they report only the $10K+ cash transactions. Then I told him that I will take my business elsewhere should they decide to offer "know your customer" service to the government and asked him nicely to relay my stand to his manager. Call them. These people make living from your money.

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Some sites are...!!
by cyphrpnk＠rainbow.thinkthink.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Striking!
by Sun Toucher 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

well you could say I striked. "Twilight is upon me and soon night must fall"

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RE: Anyone Striking?
by Gomes, Carlos 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

My original statement is a bit off. I think the past weekend in Dallas is still with in spirit.... I don't think Jim nor Perry openly advocated the strike so let me chop that statement. And as for myself, I was hoping to see something a bit more active in regards to a protest and I was hoping that the call to strike would be a start. The call appears to have been slightly still born if not horribly premature. There were several ideas floating around: a) detach from the net and from work b) create a signed letter of disapproval published to appropriate orgs c) _short_ loosely organized burst of DoS against select online targets from widely distributed sources. All valid forms of protests (when properly organized and executed) all with varying forms of impact and visibility. For the record, I think option c) could be a valid and effective form of active protest. It is a form which has not been used in support of the cpunks' agenda (or many agenda's for that matter) to date and one that merits a review. On to the next online skirmish... regards, C.G. -- DISCLAIMER: The above views are mine and not of my employer or coworkers. I do not speak as a representative of their views. Only of my own. > -----Original Message----- > From: Tim May [mailto:tcmay@got.net] > Sent: Monday, December 14, 1998 12:39 PM > To: Gomes, Carlos; James Glave > Cc: cypherpunks(a)toad.com; cryptography(a)c2.net; dcsb(a)ai.mit.edu > Subject: RE: Anyone Striking? > > > At 9:29 AM -0800 12/14/98, Gomes, Carlos wrote: > >Even http://www.openpgp.net is still up and operational. I > agree with Perry > >M. and Jim C. that the concept was good but the timetable > was unfortunately > >unrealistic. I've not run across any strike pages. > > A foolish idea, that little "strike." Something out of the > lefty sixties. > Grape boycotts and all that nonsense. > [deletia] >

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Re: Mathematician-to-silicon compilers and the Law
by Mark Lanett 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Speaking of carrying... Can I export my theoretical closed-source-commercial-strong-crypto-using software by printing out the source at Kinko's, binding it, and flying out of the country? Any company can afford to set up a 1-person shop in a variety of countries as necessary (besides you need local ops to distribute and do tech support). Or do F-O-Speech rights only apply to books published in quantity and that I'm willing to let anyone read? [I assume I haven't been paying enough attention; if was this easy then Wassenaar wouldn't be effective.] ~mark -----Original Message----- From: Dutra de Lacerda <dulac(a)ip.pt> >How about the best cipher of all?!? The one we carry between our ears? >(Just proving the illegitimacy of such law attempts)

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Re: Text of Wassenaar regulations, with comments
by Arnold G. Reinhold 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 5:59 PM +0000 12/14/98, Frank O'Dwyer wrote: >"Arnold G. Reinhold" wrote: >> I am not a lawyer and different administrations could issue more >> restrictive rules (as the US does), but the new Wassenaar regulations >> themselves do not seem to affect free distribution of programs like PGP and >> Linux as long as they qualify as "public domain" as Wassenaar defines it. > >Unfortunately, AFAIK copyrighted software is NOT public domain. GPL and >the like usually make a big song and dance to the effect of "this s/w is >copyrighted and not in the public domain". Even worse, I think the >original PGP is pretty clearly not in the public domain, since >commercial uses must be paid for. So does anyone know just how does >Wassenaar define the term "public domain", and is open source indeed >covered? > This is the definition of PD from Wassenaar's "DEFINITIONS OF TERMS USED IN THESE LISTS" http://www.fitug.de/news/wa/Def.html: >GTN "In the public domain" > > GSN This means "technology" or "software" which >has been made available without restrictions upon its further >dissemination. > > N.B. Copyright restrictions >do not remove "technology" or "software" from > being "in the public domain". I think that is pretty clear, but it might be wise for people who are distributing open source crypto to include language in their legal notices stating that the material is to be considered in the public domain for the purposes of the Wassenaar arangement and waving any rights that would cause the export of the material to be prohibited under that arangement. Check with a good lawyer first, of course. Arnold Reinhold

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Forced DNA Collection
by Eric Cordian 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Top Story on AP... NEW YORK (AP) -- Despite objections from civil libertarians, the city's police commissioner proposed Monday to take a DNA sample along with the fingerprints of everyone arrested. Commissioner Howard Safir said the test would solve crimes and help curb repeat offenders. ``The innocents have nothing to fear ... only if you are guilty should you worry about DNA testing,'' he said. ... In Britain, where DNA samples are taken from every suspect, officials have solved 17 major cases using such data since 1995, according to the National Institute of Justice Journal. -- Eric Michael Cordian 0+ O:.T:.O:. Mathematical Munitions Division "Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be The Whole Of The Law"

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MEDIA RELEASE: Data Fellows Joins the Microsoft Security Partners Program
by Marita Nasman-Repo 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

This message comes from Data Fellows. You have previously expressed interest in our products or asked to be included on one of our press release lists. To remove yourself from our mailing lists, reply to this message with the text "remove " in the subject field. PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Data Fellows Joins the Microsoft Security Partners Program Helsinki, Finland, December 15, 1998-- Data Fellows, the global leader in developing data security software solutions, has been invited to join the Microsoft Security Partners Program. The Microsoft Security Partners Program (http://www.microsoft.com/security/partners) provides customers with the tools and information they need to establish, test and maintain effective information security for their computing infrastructure. The program brings together software manufacturers, security consultants and security trainers, making it even easier for customers to provide robust security in their Microsoft Windows NT operating system-based networks. Three Data Fellows products are included in the Microsoft Security Partners Program. F-Secure Workstation Suite consists of malicious code detection and removal as well as unobtrusive file and network encryption, all integrated into a policy-based management architecture. F-Secure VPN+ provides a software-based, IPSec/IKE VPN solution scaleable for large corporate networks as well as remote and small office networks. F-Secure FileCrypto is the first and only product to integrate strong real-time encryption directly into the Windows NT-based file system. "Microsoft is pleased to include Data Fellows as part of its Security Partners Program," said Karan Khanna, Windows NT Security Product Manager at Microsoft Corp. "This program will help our mutual customers develop and deploy secure solutions built on the Windows NT platform." "The relationship with Microsoft shows Data Fellows commitment to improve the native security of standalone and networked computers with a comprehensive, centrally managed suite of security services," said Risto Siilasmaa, president and CEO of Data Fellows. "Data Fellows is committed to providing globally available seamless security for Windows users; security that is strong yet easy to manage and economical." Data Fellows is one of the worlds leading developers of data security products. The company develops, markets and supports anti-virus, data security and cryptography software products for corporate computer networks. The company has head offices in San Jose, California, and Espoo, Finland, and branch offices in Washington, DC, Calgary, London, Paris and Munich, as well as corporate partners, VARs and distributors in over 80 countries. All F-Secure products are integrated into the F-Secure Framework management architecture, which provides a three-tier, scaleable, policy-based management infrastructure which minimizes the costs of security management. In addition to the products in the Microsoft Security Partners Program, the F-Secure product line also includes the following products. F-Secure Anti-Virus is the most comprehensive, real-time virus scanning and protection system for all Windows platforms. It utilizes multiple scanning engines, including F-PROT and AVP. F-Secure SSH provides secure remote login, terminal, and other connections over unsecured networks. It is the most widely used secure remote administration tool. F-Secure NameSurfer is the solution for remote Internet and intranet DNS administration. Its easy-to-use WWW user interface automates and simplifies DNS administration. Data Fellows has customers in more than 100 countries. Its customers include many of the worlds largest industrial corporations and best-known telecommunications companies, major international airlines, governments, post offices and defence forces, and several of the worlds largest banks. Data Fellows was named one of the Top 100 Technology companies in the world by Red Herring magazine in its September 1998 issue. Other commendations include the Virus Bulletin 100 % award (several times in 1998); Hot Product of the Year 1997 (Data Communications Magazine); and the 1996 European Information Technology Grand Prize. For more information, please contact USA: Data Fellows, Inc. Mr. Pirkka Palomaki 675 N. First Street, 8th floor San Jose, CA 95112 USA Tel. +1 408 938 6700, fax +1 408 938 6701 E-mail: Pirkka.Palomaki(a)DataFellows.com Europe: Data Fellows Ltd. Mr. Ari Hypponen PL 24 FIN-02331 Espoo Finland Tel. +358 9 859 900, fax. +358 9 8599 0599 E-mail: Ari.Hypponen(a)DataFellows.com -- Marita.Nasman-Repo(a)DataFellows.com, World-Wide Web http://www.DataFellows.com

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....
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> For fast file-system crypto, you really want to implement the ciphers > so that you encrypt several blocks at a time. ... > I'd like to know how this method compares to using an interleaved cbc > mode - for example 8-way interleaved cbc. The n-way interlaved > cbc-mode works by chaining each n'th block together instead of each > block. [...] Am I missing something? In either case, you need to be sure that changed data is always encrypted with different parameters -- that is, a changed file should be encrypted with a new IV or different offset into S1 and S2. Otherwise, the attacks used to recover badly wiped information could be used to look back in time, so to speak, and figure out which portions of the file were changed. It's more of a problem if you're using ofb o ecb o ofb (i.e., the CFS mode) than an interleaved CBC mode. The 8-way interleaved CBC mode should have different IVs for each "lane" (that is, a monster 512-bit IV) -- otherwise, files data types with repetitions in the headers could be identified. The IV should be secret to completely rule out leakage. However, there are some important restrictions on how you can use the key in making an IV -- I suggest something like this to ensure nothing is messed up: hash the passphrase into K0, use nDES-OFB with K0 to make a K1 and K2, then nDES-OFB with K1 for making the IVs which nDES-interleaved-CBC uses with K2 for the actual encryption. > > astor > > -- > Alexander Kjeldaas, Guardian Networks AS, Trondheim, Norway > http://www.guardian.no/

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No Subject
by holist 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Tim May wrote: >Clearly the Wassenaar folks will be so influenced by a few thousands >computer users withdrawing from the Net for one frigging day that they will >rethink their Orwellian plans and will admit their crimes in an orgy of >self-criticism. Like the Irony. But. I striked (or is it stroke?). Largely as practice - not checking my e-mail for a continuous 24 hours was a major spiritual trial. In return, I discovered a whole range of alternative ways of spending evenings. You may have heard that in several countries in Europe, telephone strikes by the public were successful in bringing telephone prices down radically. Similar strikes by interenet users were also successful in obtaining special deals, such as *flat rate local calls* (a brand new buzzword in the hereabouts), at least on internet calls. What I mean to say is there's a place for a strike. >The _only_ motivation was to induce journalists to give the think a few >column inches, if even that. "Hundreds of geeks cut their noses off to >spite their faces...details on page 75." Well, just imagine those one-day strikes becoming a kind of craze on the internet. Be honest now, you could do with one day a week when you simply avoided the frizzy screen, perhaps even two (heard about two-day week-ends, pal? When I went to school in seventies Hungary, we were allowed off every second Saturday as a great favour!) People could use their leisure-time, their time off-line, as capital, just by timing it with a little care! Boycott-brokerage! You'd be borrowing the muscle of the entire network: after all, they'd not be kind to anyone who somehow or other pissed customers off enough to drop network traffic by 10 percent? Exporting PGP within minutes of its release...now _that's_ a meaningful action! (And one which Cypherpunks continue to be good at.) How meaningful exactly? How do you know who gets it? The truly valuable work is the creation of the social structures wherein such exportation could be truly meaningful. I don't see a lot of that (perhaps you'll smirk and say they hid themselves too well). It is quite clear to me that educating the public is imperative: if people haven't got a clue as to what strong cryptography is, etc. then they're not going to remember something as foreign as Wassenaar even if it is on the evening news. But surruptitiously spreading PGP to other countries doesn't seem to do a great deal of that. What does? Hacker activities that are illegal and dangerous and probably difficult, too, have obvious potential. But I think there must also be legal options. comments, please Let's leave the "National Solidarity Against Racist Policies" crapola to the lefties. --Tim May

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Re: I must admit. . . (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1998 19:14:05 -0600 > From: mib <mib(a)io.com> > Subject: Re: I must admit. . . > On Mon, Dec 14, 1998 at 12:25:50PM -0800, you wrote: > > I wonder sometimes whether or not there is hope for us to ever stop > > this tyrrany. I've seen a bunch of us diss the strike saying it was > > an outlandish and foolish idea, but I hadn't seen anyone of you come > > up with something better. > > Cypherpunks write code? It's too bad they don't publish some of it in a newspaper or two... ____________________________________________________________________ What raises the standard of living may well diminish the quality of life. The Club of Rome The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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The grandest jury nullification?
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Has it occurred to anyone that if Congress really does end up voting for a censure instead of a full impeachment we will have the largest jury nullification in history, if it's based upon the consensus of the people per the various samples. ____________________________________________________________________ What raises the standard of living may well diminish the quality of life. The Club of Rome The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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17 Dec '03

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E-Snoop Law Review
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

South Africa published in November a discussion paper, "Review of Security Legislation" on electronic surveillance law in several countries -- South Africa, US, UK, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, Canada and Hong Kong, with detailed review of legislation of the last two -- as a basis for new legislation to protect against latest intrusive technology, or, rather, to restrict its usage to government agencies: http://jya.com/za-esnoop.htm (364K) Its comparative review of surveillance law is informative for the way it lays out the similarity of each country's definition of the threat of technology -- somewhat to citizen privacy but more importantly to law enforcement. It notes variations in privacy protection law, and finds, for example, US and UK deficiencies in that area even as these countries excell in manufacturing the evil tools. Still, South Africa is joining the crowd in tightening controls on technology by proposing that telecomm providers make their systems accessible to government (at their own expense), emulating the recent US-EU snooping agreement advanced by the FBI and Europol. Thanks to APB for pointing.

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Trans World Specials Fare Sales
by Trans World Specials 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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17 Dec '03

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Re: I must admit. . .
by Tim May 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 12:25 PM -0800 12/14/98, Joel O'Connor wrote: >I wonder sometimes whether or not there is hope for us to ever stop >this tyrrany. I've seen a bunch of us diss the strike saying it was >an outlandish and foolish idea, but I hadn't seen anyone of you come >up with something better. Public protests...what have they ever accomplished? (If you cite the so-called Civil Rights Movement, you get minus 10 points.) --Tim May Y2K -- LMGALMAO -- Loading my guns and laughing my ass off ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, ComSec 3DES: 831-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Licensed Ontologist | black markets, collapse of governments.

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FC99 Preliminary Conference Program
by Ray Hirschfeld 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Financial Cryptography '99 February 22-25, 1999, Anguilla, BWI Preliminary Conference Program FC99, the third international conference on financial data security and digital commerce, will be held in Anguilla, British West Indies. FC99 aims to bring together persons involved in both the financial and data security fields to foster cooperation and exchange of ideas. The conference is organized by the International Financial Cryptography Association (IFCA). PRELIMINARY CONFERENCE PROGRAM Monday 22 February Session 1: Electronic Commerce Experimenting with electronic commerce on the PalmPilot Neil Daswani, Dan Boneh (Stanford, U.S.A.) Blinding of credit card numbers in the SET protocol Hugo Krawczyk (Technion, Israel) Session 2: Anonymity Control Trustee tokens: Simple and practical anonymous digital coin tracing Ari Juels (RSA Laboratories, U.S.A.) A new approach for anonymity control in electronic cash systems Tomas Sander, Amnon Ta-Shma (ICSI, U.S.A.) Session 3: Fraud Management E-cash systems with randomized audit Yacov Yacobi (Microsoft Research, U.S.A.) Assessment of counterfeit transaction detection systems for smart card based ecash Kazuo Ezawa, Gregory Napiorkowski, Mariusz Kossarski (Mondex International, U.S.A.) Tuesday 23 February Session 4: Invited Speaker Adi Shamir (Weizmann Institute, Israel) Session 5: Public-Key Certificates Reasoning about public-key certification: On bindings between entities and public keys Reto Kohlas, Ueli Maurer (ETH, Switzerland) Online certificate status checking in financial transactions: The case for re-issuance Barbara Fox, Brian LaMacchia (Microsoft, U.S.A.) Online certificate checking: One year later Panel discussion led by Michael Myers (VeriSign, U.S.A.) Wednesday 24 February Session 6: Steganography Playing `hide and seek' with stored keys Adi Shamir (Weizmann Institute, Israel), Nicko van Someren (nCipher, England) On channel capacity and modulation in watermarking of digital still images Markus Breitbach, Hideki Imai (University of Tokyo, Japan) Session 7: Content Distribution Towards making broadcast encryption practical Michel Abdalla (U.C. San Diego), Yuval Shavitt and Avishai Wool (Bell Labs, U.S.A.) Conditional access concepts and principles David Kravitz and David Goldschlag (Divx, U.S.A.) Fair use, intellectual property, and the information economy Panel discussion led by Joan Feigenbaum (AT&T Labs, U.S.A.) Thursday 25 February Session 8: Anonymity Mechanisms Anonymous authentication of membership in dynamic groups Stuart Schecter (Harvard), Todd Parnell, Alexander Hartemink (MIT, U.S.A.) Some open issues and new directions in group signatures Giuseppe Ateniese (Universita di Genova, Italy), Gene Tsudik (USC ISI, U.S.A.) Session 9: Auctions and Markets Anonymous investing: Hiding the identities of stockholders Philip MacKenzie (Bell Labs, U.S.A.), Jeffrey Sorensen (IBM Research, U.S.A.) Fair on-line auctions without special trusted parties Stuart Stubblebine (AT&T Labs, U.S.A.), Paul Syverson (Naval Research Lab, U.S.A.) Session 10: Distributed Cryptography "Dynamic Fault"-robust cryptosystems meet organizational needs for dynamic control Yair Frankel and Moti Yung (CertCo, U.S.A.) Improved magic ink signatures using hints Markus Jakobsson (Bell Labs, U.S.A.), Joy Muller (Gutenberg University, Germany) RUMP SESSION In addition to the regular conference program, a rump session will be held on the evening of Tuesday 23 February to provide an opportunity for less formal presentations. Although the rump session will be organized during the conference itself, advance proposals may be submitted by email. Rump session contributions will not appear in the conference proceedings. Send rump session contributions to: Matt Blaze email: mab(a)research.att.com EXHIBITION An exhibition will be held in conjunction with the technical program, with product displays, demonstrations, and presentations of a business-oriented nature. Scientific sessions are primarily scheduled for the mornings and exhibition sessions for the afternoons. CONFERENCE VENUE The conference will be held at Chandeliers, the conference facility of the InterIsland Hotel, which is on Road Bay, near Sandy Ground Village, in the South Hill section of Anguilla. The conference will have TCP/IP internet access. Shuttle service between the conference and the Mariners hotel will be available. REGISTRATION Registration can be done via the web at URL http://fc99.ai/. The fee for the conference, which covers all conference materials and events (including preproceedings, final proceedings, attendance at scientific sessions, and breakfast and lunch each day of the conference), is: $850 regular registration $350 academic registration $150 student registration An additional $50 fee applies to registrations for which payment is received after January 1, 1999. A $100 discount ($50 for academic and student registrations) is available to participants who pay their registration fee by electronic money. Payment may be made by credit card, bank transfer, electronic money, or cash. STIPENDS A limited number of stipends to help defray the costs of attendance may be available to full-time students with a paper accepted for presentation at the conference. If you would like to apply for a stipend, please contact the General Chair at the email address listed below. HOTEL ACCOMODATION The conference hotel is not recommended except to those seeking budget accomodations. The recommended hotel is Mariners, where a block reservation has been made. To reserve a room, please call the hotel at +1 (809) 497-2671 and mention that you will be attending FC99. Information about other hotels is available at URL http://fc99.ai. WELCOME RECEPTION A welcome reception will be held from 6:30pm to 8:00pm on Monday, February 22, 1999, the evening of the first day of the conference. GENERAL INFORMATION Visas Visas are not required for citizens of most American and European countries. If you are uncertain about whether you need a visa, contact the local British consulate for information. Getting to Anguilla >From North America, Anguilla is usually reached via San Juan (Puerto Rico). From Europe, the best connections are via St. Maarten/St. Martin (from Amsterdam or Paris), or Antigua (from London). St. Martin is very close to Anguilla and is connected by ferry as well as by plane. Local Transportation The simplest way to get around Anguilla is to rent a car. You will need to buy an Anguilla drivers license, but this is a formality. Taxis are also available. Another possibility is to hitch rides from local residents, who are eager to provide them and will often stop to offer rides unsolicited. Transportation will be provided at specific times between Mariners and the InterIsland hotel. Weather Expect temperatures in the 20's or 30's Celsius, 70's or 80's Fahrenheit. There is often a strong wind, with cloudbursts that quickly blow over. Dress code for the conference is shorts and T-shirt. Money The local currency is the Eastern Caribbean dollar (EC$), with an exchange rate of approximately EC$2.7/US$1, but many goods and services in Anguilla, particularly those aimed primarily at tourists (such as restaurants and hotels) are priced in US dollars. US dollars are freely tradable everywhere on the island, so there is no need to obtain EC dollars before arrival. PROGRAM COMMITTEE Joan Feigenbaum, AT&T Labs Yair Frankel, CertCo Matthew Franklin, Xerox PARC David Goldschlag, Divx Markus Jakobsson, Bell Labs Ari Juels, RSA Labs Arjen Lenstra, Citibank Clifford Neuman, Univ. Southern California Berry Schoenmakers, Digicash Jacques Stern, ENS Yacov Yacobi, Microsoft Bennet Yee, U.C. San Diego Program Chair: Matthew Franklin email: franklin(a)parc.xerox.com ORGANIZING COMMITTEE General Chair: Rafael Hirschfeld email: ray(a)unipay.nl Local Arrangements Chair: Vincent Cate email: vince(a)offshore.ai SPONSORS FC99 is sponsored by: nCipher Corporation <http://www.ncipher.com> e-gold Transnational <http://www.e-gold.com> Hansa Bank & Trust Company <http://www.hansa.net/> Offshore Information Services <http://offshore.ai/> If you are interested in sponsoring FC99, please contact the General Chair at the email address listed above. For further information, please see the main FC99 conference web page at URL http://fc99.ai/.

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spy cell organization
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

This article is reprinted from Full Disclosure. Copyright (c) 1986 Capitol Information Association. All rights reserved. Permission is hereby granted to reprint this article providing this message is included in its entirety. Full Disclosure, Box 8275-CI3, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48107. $15/yr. The Central Intelligence Agency like many revoluntionary organizations (including the Russian KGB) organize their agent networks on a "cell" system, with small groups who meet and carry out specific activities. The small groups have very few connections with the rest of the organization. Typically, the connections between cells will involve only one person in each cell. See sample organizational chart prepared by the Central Intelligence Agency for use in Nicaragua by the "Freedom Commandos" (reprinted from Psychological Operations in Guerrilla Warfare, the CIA's Nicaragua manual). When this structure is used and a member of a cell is discovered and forced to talk, he can only inform on members of his own cell. If he was the person with a connection to another cell it is possible that other cell will also be compromised, but only after the connection is traced. However, the tracing procedure is very slow, giving the organization time to regroup. Although the tracing of the cell structure is very slow, intelligence information can be passed to the main organization quickly. The main problem with such a cell structure is that the messages which pass through many cells can get grabled and since the cells have great autonomy they sometimes work at cross purposes. The CIA extends the cell system to include Police Departments, Labor Unions, Student Associations, Medical Associations, Reporters/Editors etc. These cells are created by recruiting (or placing) an agent within the organization. The placement of the agent would depend on the main purpose of infiltrating the organization: information or control. Usually, most of the people in the "organization" cells don't know that they are working for the Central Intelligence Agency. In addition, the CIA controls numerous "private" corporations. Usually, only a few of the top officers are aware of the CIA connection. The corporations conduct normal business operations, and are also available to provide services for the CIA whenever necessary. A top-secret memorandum from Brigadier General Edward Lansdale to General Maxwell Taylor published in The Pentagon Papers, described "unconventional warfare resources in Southeast Asia" as follows: CAT [Civil Air Transport] is a commerical air line engaged in scheduled and nonscheduled air operations throughout the Far East, with headquarters and large maintenance facilities in Taiwan. CAT, a CIA proprietary [corporation], provides air logistical support under commerical air cover to most CIA and other U.S. Government Agencies' requirements. CAT supports covert and clandestine air operations by providing trained and experienced personnel, procurement of supplies and equipment through covert commerical channels, and the maintenance of a fairly large inventory of transport and other type aircraft under both Chinat [Chinese Nationalist] and U.S. registry. CAT has demonstrated its capabilities on numerous occasions to meet all types of contingency or long-term covert air requirements in support of U.S. objectives. During the last ten years, it has had some notable achievements, including support of the Chinese Nationalist withdrawal from the mainland, air drop support to the French at Dien Bien Phu, complete logistical and tactical air support for the Indonesian operation, air lifts of refugees from North Vietnam, more than 200 overflights of Mainland China and Tibet, and extensive air support in Laos during the current crisis... When the goal is to control the organization, the agent would be in a powerful place, like a Sergeant in a Police Department. This would enable the CIA to make use of the Police Department resources, computer data banks, officers, etc. The police officers might perform surveillance on a target for the Sergeant, not knowing that they were really working for the CIA. According to Philip Agee/1, "Thousands of policemen all over the world, for instance, are shadowing people for the CIA without knowing it. They think they're working for their own police departments, when, in fact, their chief may be a CIA agent who's sending them out on CIA jobs and turning their information over to his CIA control". Agents in Labor Unions can encourage strikes to cause economic difficulties when the CIA wants to stir up political problems in foreign countries. Reporters and editors can be used to plant propaganda in the press or have information withheld when its in the CIA's best interest not to have it printed/2. When the goal is information collection the target organization would more likely be other intelligence services, medical or technology associations. The agent would be placed so that he would have access to as much information as possible. This could be a communications or mail clerk, etc. The CIA also targets banks for infiltration. They are good organizations to provide cover for CIA personnel in foreign countries. The bank can provide necessary accounts in bogus names. They can also provide faked account balances so that background checks would out come out positive. Banks are also used for funding mechanisms. The Bank of Boston was used for such purposes by the CIA in Brazil/1. When the cells aren't aware that they're working for the CIA, or think they're working for someone else, they can be put to other devious uses. For example, if the CIA controlled a cell which thought it worked for the PLO, they could send it on a terrorist mission with the intent that they be caught. This would have a two fold advantage for the CIA, first, the PLO would be blamed (providing a good opportunity for the U.S. government to expouse propaganda against the PLO), and secondly, it would allow the CIA to commit a terrorist attack with extremely little risk of exposure -- to achieve a greater level of interference in the affairs of foreign governments. The CIA can also use cells within an organization which aren't aware of their connection to the CIA for less devious purposes. For examples, they can make public statement which have the effect of alienating their supporters. When one section makes offensive public statements, major disruptions can occur within the organization. #!/usr/local/bin/perl -0777-- -export-a-crypto-system-sig -RC4-3-lines-PERL @k=unpack('C*',pack('H*',shift));for(@t=@s=0..255){$y=($k[$_%@k]+$s[$x=$_ ]+$y)%256;&S}$x=$y=0;for(unpack('C*',<>)){$x++;$y=($s[$x%=256]+$y)%256; &S;print pack(C,$_^=$s[($s[$x]+$s[$y])%256])}sub S{@s[$x,$y]=@s[$y,$x]}

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Re: Forced DNA Collection
by pgut001＠cs.auckland.ac.nz 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Eric Cordian <emc(a)wire.insync.net> writes: >Top Story on AP... > >NEW YORK (AP) -- Despite objections from civil libertarians, the city's >police commissioner proposed Monday to take a DNA sample along with the >fingerprints of everyone arrested. > >Commissioner Howard Safir said the test would solve crimes and help curb >repeat offenders. ``The innocents have nothing to fear ... only if you are >guilty should you worry about DNA testing,'' he said. The Commissioner messed up the quote, it's actually: "I am returning to punish the guilty; the innocent have nothing to fear" - Lucius Cornelius Sulla, 90BC, just before he massacred the innocent en masse. Peter.

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No Subject
by DOOM Anonymous Untraceable User 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

"No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by the force of arms forever. There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom. Against that power governments, and tyrants, and armies can not stand. The Centauri learned this lesson once. We will teach it to them again. Though it take a thousand years, we will be free." -- G'Kar in Babylon 5: "The Long, Twilight Struggle" #!/usr/local/bin/perl -0777-- -export-a-crypto-system-sig -RC4-3-lines-PERL @k=unpack('C*',pack('H*',shift));for(@t=@s=0..255){$y=($k[$_%@k]+$s[$x=$_ ]+$y)%256;&S}$x=$y=0;for(unpack('C*',<>)){$x++;$y=($s[$x%=256]+$y)%256; &S;print pack(C,$_^=$s[($s[$x]+$s[$y])%256])}sub S{@s[$x,$y]=@s[$y,$x]}

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Re: Global Strike to protest Wassenaar
by Mixmaster 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Richard.Bragg(a)ssa.co.uk wrote: >The idea would be to exchange nothing while make it appear to be exchanging >information of real importance. OK so this will be just like any managment >memo but you must get my drift. There used to be a web site called "Throwing Sand into the All-Seeing Eye" which listed a long list of possible NSA-snooper keywords, such as military classifications and code words that could be sent for fun across the Internet for sole purpose of being flagged by the NSA.

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Re: The grandest jury nullification? - Irrelevant (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1998 21:13:22 +0000 > From: Ian Briggs <ian(a)deepwell.com> > Subject: Re: The grandest jury nullification? - Irrelevant > >Has it occurred to anyone that if Congress really does end up voting for a > >censure instead of a full impeachment we will have the largest jury > >nullification in history, if it's based upon the consensus of the people per > >the various samples. > > Has it occured to anyone that if Congress votes for censure, we will have > the fastest rulling by the Supreme Court that censure is unconstitutional > in the history of the U.S.? How's it going to get there? The ex_president certainly won't appeal (and face removal from office) and since Congress passed it they likely won't appeal. Besides the Constitution says that Congress must stop at removal from office and barring from future offices. It is clearly within their power to simply slap his hand or write him a bad report card. ____________________________________________________________________ What raises the standard of living may well diminish the quality of life. The Club of Rome The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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DARPA's Active Network page
by Robert Hettinga 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I saw an article on this in InfoWorld. NAI/TIS and DARPA talking about putting self-switching packets into the network. I don't see this as too far off from packets purchasing their passage across the network with micromoney of some kind. All spookiness of the current research principals aside, of course... Cheers, Robert Hettinga --- begin forwarded text Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 17:12:39 -0500 To: Digital Bearer Settlement List <dbs(a)philodox.com> From: Robert Hettinga <rah(a)shipwright.com> Subject: Darpa's Active Network page Sender: <dbs(a)philodox.com> List-Subscribe: <mailto:requests@philodox.com?subject=subscribe%20dbs> Here's ARPA's Active Network Page: <http://www.darpa.mil/ito/research/anets/> Cheers, RAH ----------------- Robert A. Hettinga <mailto: rah(a)philodox.com> Philodox Financial Technology Evangelism <http://www.philodox.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' --- end forwarded text ----------------- Robert A. Hettinga <mailto: rah(a)philodox.com> Philodox Financial Technology Evangelism <http://www.philodox.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'

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17 Dec '03

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Re: IP: Cell phone tapping stirs debate
by Secret Squirrel 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>From <http://www.ksfy.com/topstory.htm>: Last updated: 11:00 P.M. Thursday, December 10th, 1998. HIGH SPEED CHASE AND SUSPECT ARREST Cpl. Kevin Grebin/S.D. Highway Patrol: "It was the scanner traffic from his cell phone that the officers picked up that enabled us to capture him." A high speed chase and a cell phone conversation ends with one man in jail... Law enforcement officials from both Iowa and South Dakota chased the man at speeds in excess of 100 miles an hour. He was wanted on a Federal warrant for drug charges. K-S-F-Y's Judeka Drogt and Chief Photographer Lonnie Nichols were there and have the exclusive report. Natural Sound Of Arrest Being Made As It Happened. 32-Year old Tracy Fanning was quietly led out of a farm field 6 miles North of Lennox. Natural Sound Of Officers Going Through Suspect's Pockets And Finding Drugs. Officers found methamphetamine and two knives on him. This was the successful ending to a very long night for these officers. It all began in Iowa... That's where Fanning was spotted by the Iowa State Patrol. The chase began after they learned he was named in a Federal drug warrant. He crossed into South Dakota around 11:30 p.m. Fanning dumped his car at a rural home and ran... As Police followed him they had no idea what they were facing. Cpl. Kevin Grebin/S.D. Highway Patrol: "There was some ammo there that we could not find a weapon to so we weren't sure if he had the weapon on him when he took off." For the next 3 and a half hours Police used dogs and spotlights to search for him. That's not all. Fanning was using a cell phone to call a contact... He was hoping to be picked up... Instead it was the Police that were "picking up" his conversation... And his location. Fanning's last phone call led officers to his hiding place. Fanning was taken to the Minnehaha County Jail at 3:30 Thursday morning. LENNOX CHASE FOLLOW-UP Drug crimes, high speed police chases and manhunts are something many folks think happen only in big cities. But as we've shown you exclusively, that's not the case. K-S-F-Y's Brian DeRoy takes us to the site of this morning's manhunt. Betty Vanderwerf/Rural Lennox Resident: "You just don't want to go out in those trees in the daytime at least until somebody else could be caught." Betty Vanderwerf is still shaken about all the police cars near her rural Lennox home. Betty Vanderwerf/Rural Lennox Resident: "It makes you feel like you don't even want to take the dog out for a walk after dark, and you just want to keep your doors locked." Back where police finally caught up with Tracy Fanning...it was only after quite a long search... The suspect was running for a long time including back over in an area near Betty Vanderwerf's house. They located Fanning just behind some trees is where Betty Vanderwerf lives. Betty Vanderwerf/Rural Lennox Resident: "Hopefully you don't think he's a killer out on the run, he's just getting away from authorities for his problem." Things are quiet in downtown Lennox. But the talk in the grocery store is how close the armed suspect was to town. Verg Musch had his doors unlocked Wednesday night. Verg Musch/Lennox Resident: "Grew up in the country and from there into a small town like this, I would imagine most of the people don't." Well, maybe not. Brian DeRoy/Dakota First News: "How many of you lock your doors at night, raise your hands...most of you." Lennox Resident #1: "We just always do, I don't know, always have." Lennox Resident #2: "I'm on the highway and I'm just afraid if I'm alone at night." Back outside town, Betty won't be taking country living for granted anymore. Betty Vanderwerf/Rural Lennox Resident: "It just kind of goes to show when you go to bed at night, lock your doors." A reality no matter what your address. Lennox is still a pretty sleepy place. The town has only three full-time Police officers. So was it really intercepted cell phone traffic on a police scanner, or did they get his location from the cell phone company? #!/usr/local/bin/perl -0777-- -export-a-crypto-system-sig -RC4-3-lines-PERL @k=unpack('C*',pack('H*',shift));for(@t=@s=0..255){$y=($k[$_%@k]+$s[$x=$_ ]+$y)%256;&S}$x=$y=0;for(unpack('C*',<>)){$x++;$y=($s[$x%=256]+$y)%256; &S;print pack(C,$_^=$s[($s[$x]+$s[$y])%256])}sub S{@s[$x,$y]=@s[$y,$x]} > >From: believer(a)telepath.com >Subject: IP: Cell phone tapping stirs debate >Date: Sun, 25 Oct 1998 08:49:06 -0600 >To: believer(a)telepath.com > >Source: USA Today >http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/ctd698.htm > >10/22/98- Updated 12:08 PM ET > The Nation's Homepage > > Cell phone tapping stirs debate > > WASHINGTON -- Law enforcement officials say they need to > know where a suspected criminal is when he makes a cellular > telephone call. Federal regulators are proposing to give them the > capability to find out. > ...

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DoS considered harmful [WAS: RE: Anyone striking?]
by Trei, Peter 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Someone using the name Carlos Gomes [GomesC(a)netsolve.net] wrote: > [...] > There were several ideas floating around: a) detach > from the net and from work b) create a signed letter of > disapproval published to appropriate orgs c) _short_ > loosely organized burst of DoS against select online > targets from widely distributed sources. > All valid forms of protests (when properly organized > and executed) all with varying forms of impact and > visibility. For the record, I think option c) could be > a valid and effective form of active protest. It is a > form which has not been used in support of the cpunks' > agenda (or many agenda's for that matter) to date and > one that merits a review. > [...] > regards, > C.G. A DoS (Denial of Service) action is a really, really, really bad idea. It's both illegal and counterproductive. It's the sort of thing I would expect to hear from an 'agent provocateur' bent on discrediting critics of government policy, by casting them as malicous hackers. We went through this once before. Back when I was getting the DES challenges going, some one proposed that the target should be a live bank transaction (I think in Germany). I argued strenuously against such a move, and in favor of a specifically created target This goal was fullfilled when I got RSA to set up and sponsor the Symmetric Key Challenges. If a group of people coordinated in any way to mount a DoS attack, the effects would include: 1. Lump anyone taking an anti-Wassenaar position together with a gang of destructive hackers. This would be a tremendous setback for the Good Guys, and play straight into the hands of the those who would remove freedom. 2. Anyone engaging in such an attack would face real-world LEA investigation for computer hacking. 3. Anyone who discusses such an attack with anyone who actually goes out and does it (other than to argue against it, as I am doing) could be charged with conspiracy. [So, if any of you are idiotic enough to do this, do the rest of us a favor, and keep your discussion to private channels and *off* the mailing lists. I *don't* want to know.] 4. Most importantly, It Would Be Wrong. As long as legal channels exist to right the errors of government policy, they should be used. That governments stoop to dishonest, deceitful, and unconstitutional activities (or activities 'legal' only in the Clintonian sense) does not justify others abandoning the moral high ground. I don't think a strike is going to fly, either. What might work is a Web page blackout, similar to that done for the original CDA nonsense. Peter Trei ptrei(a)securitydynamics.com [Disclaimer: In this message, I speak for myself only.]

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Reminder: key changes at notatla
by Antonomasia 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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WEAK3-EX -- A Layman's 56-bit Data Encryption Algorithm
by Mok-Kong Shen 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

In the previous products of my WEAK series of data encryption algorithms I have very strongly exploited the possibility of using arbitrarily long keys. Since this conflicts with the recent requirement of using 56-bit keys, a new program, WEAK3-EX, has been designed specifically for users that can only use 56-bit encryption keys. The design draws upon various techniques that have been accumulated in the course of the development of the previous WEAK3-E. Besides employing constant length 56-bit keys, a new feature that is introduced in WEAK3-EX is a user choosable scaling factor for the initialization time of the algorithm. Normally the initialization time of crypto algorithms are small and is for obvious reasons to be reduced as far as technically possible. In fact, the initialization time of almost all known encryption algorithms is negligible compared to the proper record processing time. Our algorithm, which contains author's compound PRNG, is however an exception to the rule. For, depending on the number of the constituent generators of the compound PRNG used, this can under circumstances indeed attain a non-trivial value. This is till present a necessary evil of our WEAK3-E which now fortunately in the special case of key length restriction (with the obvious accompanying unfavourable strength reduction effect) can be turned into a virtue of our new WEAK3-EX. In fact, if the (variable) parameters to be chosen by the user (in particular the number of rounds) of our algorithm are adequate, brute force would be the only feasible method of attack. Now the average time for brute force is equal to the time of running a single encryption/decryption process multiplied by one half of the size of the key space. If the initialization time of the algorithm is increased, the time for brute forcing correspondingly increases so that through suitable choice of the said scaling factor it can reach practically infeasible value for analysis without however on the other hand rendering the total processing time of the user (which of course also augments) to amounts entirely inacceptable for him. (The multiplying factor of one half of the key space is the leverage we exploit here.) Technically, the scaling factor determines the number of pseudo-random numbers retrieved from the shuffling buffer (of Bays and Duncan) that are to be combined into one pseudo-random number through the addition mod 1 operation (device of Wichmann and Hill) for subsequent utilization in building up the constituent generators of author's compound PRNG. The larger the scaling factor, the longer it will take to build up the compound PRNG. The multiple-seed standard PRNG employed in WEAK3-E is abandoned in WEAK3-EX in order to comply with the 56-bit key restriction. In its place is a standard PRNG that consists of two internal (single-seed) PRNGs which are activated alternatingly and which each accepts a seed of 28 bits, totalling 56 bits. An implementation in Fortran 90 is given in http://www.stud.uni-muenchen.de/~mok-kong.shen/#paper13 Both source and a binary executable file for PC can be downloaded via my main Web page. I wish to thank CWL and ZFS for suggesting the use of the scaling factor. Constructive critiques, comments and suggestions for improvements are sincerely solicited. M. K. Shen P.S. For space and obvious reasons, I plan to remove the code and binaries of WEAK1, WEAK2, WEAK3 and WEAK3-E from my Web page this Friday, leaving in future WEAK3-EX the single encryption software accessible.

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Re: First "Crypto Refugee"?
by tony＠secapl.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> the shakespeare analysis seems like a good idea to > me. I am not aware of literate papers that try to > analyze it with frequency analysis instead of > just vague assertions by the authors. there is > a huge set of literature that tries to link of > the writings of shakespeare to someone else, but > as far as I know not much of it is computer analysis. This was what brought William Freidman to Riverside, where he both created monographs on cryptanalysis and met his wife. (described in detail in Kahn.)

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Re: IP: Cell phone tapping stirs debate
by Duncan Frissell 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Cellphones are not going to make great tracking devices in the future. I was just visiting the UK and checking out how the cellphone industry has been developing there. "Pay as you call" phones are the fastest-growing segment of the industry. You can buy a phone for as little as 49 GBP ($83). Cellnet sells one for 69 GBP ($117) that works on the Continent as well. You can buy the cards to "feed" these phones from hundreds of UK vendors. Throw away phones are becoming popular in the US as well. As prices decline towards the $20 level, it will be increasingly difficult for the authorities to track the huge number of anonymously purchased disposable phones. DCF "Did you hear the one about the Chinese contractor who promised Burlington Coat Factory jackets trimmed with cainus latrans but substituted canis familiaris instead?"

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RE: DoS considered harmful [WAS: RE: Anyone striking?]
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 07:09 AM 12/16/98 +0100, Anonymous wrote: >> > disapproval published to appropriate orgs c) _short_ >> > loosely organized burst of DoS against select online >> > targets from widely distributed sources. >> A DoS (Denial of Service) action is a really, really, >> really bad idea. ["clarification", or something, elided] >Example: A public web page is setup with information on the next "sit in" or >"log writing campaign" containing the agenda behind the protest, contact >persons for more information, target site with explanation of choice, start >time and stop time. Let's further that the cause is able to get a couple >hundred or couple thousand supporters to, for example, repeatedly telnet to >port 80 on the remote server during a specific 5 minute window and type in: > >GET I do not support your sites views on such and such see >www.stop_this_now.org for details. > >Given the right level of logging on the server you'd quickly fill up the >target's logs with a record of the number of people (or actually computers) >that don't agree with the target's agenda. [...] You clearly don't run a website. Logs are very valuable. Any admin who doesn't have space for at least several days of normal traffic available on their logging device is simply not doing a good job. A network admin running a website doesn't lose logs - careers live and die on them (if this seems an overstatement to you, go look at http://www.abcinteractiveaudits.com/ and report your findings. -10 points for declaring it stupid.). If you didn't mean "fill up the target's logs" (which I took to mean overflow available disk space), but rather "pepper the logs with many instances of some sort of odd political commentary", that could have an effect. It could throw off reporting and make a new conversation topic for editors, which might, if you managed to organize enough people, earn you a CNET story. "CyberActivists Make An Obtuse Statement - Click Here For Soundbyte". Great job. Truth is, on any major site, you'd need hundreds of robots making your bogus requests to show up - manually telneting to port 80 is line noise these days to any serious site, unless you're poking at potential security problems. If you really want to try this, at least take the bother to make valid HTTP requests that most servers will recognize. Your example above should be something like: GET /I/dont/support/your/sites/views/on/such/and/such/see/www.stop.this.now.org/ for/details HTTP/1.0 (note the two newlines at the end of the request) A sysadmins reality check, T. Pynchon

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NZ government to legalise black bag jobs
by pgut001＠cs.auckland.ac.nz 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

15 December 1998 GOVERNMENT TO INTRODUCE AMENDMENT TO NZSIS LEGISLATION The Government will introduce an amendment to legislation this week covering the operations of the New Zealand Security Intelligence Service, and will also seek to appeal part of the Choudry decision of the Court of Appeal, Prime Minister Jenny Shipley said today. "In Mr Choudry's case, the Court of Appeal pointed out the need for Parliament to provide express authority for the NZSIS to enter private premises, without permission, to intercept communications." "It is vital that the NZSIS is able to carry out its functions properly in gathering intelligence on security threats to New Zealand. In some rare instances, this may require covert entry to private property, which the amendment to the legislation will allow. The existing law had been presumed to allow this to occur. The Court has said if this is the intention, it should be made explicit as is the case in Canada, the United Kingdom and Australia." [...] Mrs Shipley said the Government would also seek leave to appeal against one aspect of the Court of Appeal's decision in Mr Choudry's case. The issue concerns the procedure the Court should follow when the Government asserts it is necessary, in the course of litigation against the Crown, to withhold from the Court, and other parties, access to information, in order to protect national security interests. Commentary: Choudry was a protestor against the 1994 APEC meeting held in Auckland (a bunch of foreign politicians turned up to talk for a week, shutting down the city centre in a way that wasn't equalled until Mercury Energy earlier this year). At the time the SIS's mandate had been widened to include "economic security", bringing the APEC meeting into its sphere of interest. As part of the APEC brouhaha, they carried out a black bag job on Choudry and got caught, causing the government some embarassment. The current bill, rushed through under urgency just before parliament shuts down (which means it gets rubberstamped with no scrutiny or debate), would legalise these things in the future, just in time for the next big politicians powwow next year (which has already lead to the army invading the university as part of some training exercise which involved a simulated search for dissidents). The second part is more worrying, what it'll do is remove any provision for judicial review of dubious actions by the government by allowing them to claim national security concerns as a blanket excuse for whatever they do. Certainly in the Choudry case the real concern was job security, not national security. Peter.

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Fwd: Anne McLellan's voters reject gun registration...
by Jean-Francois Avon 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

==================BEGIN FORWARDED MESSAGE================== >Received: from bernie.compusmart.ab.ca (bernie.compusmart.ab.ca [199.185.131.34]) > by cti13.citenet.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id NAA22703 > for <jf_avon(a)citenet.net>; Tue, 15 Dec 1998 13:02:25 -0500 (EST) >Received: from remote322.compusmart.ab.ca ([206.75.84.147]:1035 "EHLO compusmart.ab.ca") by mail.compusmart.ab.ca with ESMTP id <409327-12752>; Tue, 15 Dec 1998 10:52:54 -0700 >Message-ID: <3676A210.9C6687B8(a)compusmart.ab.ca> >Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 10:53:20 -0700 >From: Peter Kearns <kearns(a)compusmart.ab.ca> >Organization: KEARNS & McMURCHY >X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (Win95; I) >MIME-Version: 1.0 >To: Canadian Firearms Digest <cdn-firearms-digest(a)sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca>, > "Anne Mclellan (Parliament)" <McLellan.A(a)parl.gc.ca>, > Bernard Johnston <johnston(a)pacific.net.sg>, > Bob Burgess <dq2(a)monarch.net>, Bob Lickacz <firearms(a)planet.eon.net>, > Brad Browne <coffee(a)ns.sympatico.ca>, > Dale Blue <bluedl(a)telusplanet.net>, > David Tomlinson <nfadat(a)telusplanet.net>, > Don Davies <nstn2906(a)fox.nstn.ca>, > Donna Ferollie <donnaferolie(a)sympatico.ca>, > Frank Szojka <dszojka(a)compusmart.ab.ca>, > Frank Williamson <afss(a)connect.ab.ca>, > Garry Breitkreutz <BreitG0(a)parl.gc.ca>, > Gordon Hitchen <acardin(a)v-wave.com>, > Jean-Francois Avon <jf_avon(a)citenet.net>, > Jim Hinter <jhinter(a)shopnfa.com>, > "John St. Amour" <marstar(a)hawk.igs.net>, > LE QUEBECOIS LIBRE <libre(a)colba.net>, > Manuel De La Paz <simonjes(a)hotmail.com>, > Mark Hughes <mkhughe(a)north.nsis.com>, > Pierre Bourque <pierre(a)achilles.net>, > Lorne Gunter <lgunter(a)thejournal.southam.ca>, > Shafer Parker <shaferp(a)sprynet.com>, > Pat & Mike Ryan <theryans(a)sympatico.ca>, > Paul Bennett <paul.bennett1(a)sympatico.ca>, > Paul Rogan <firearms(a)hypertech.yk.ca>, Peekay <peter(a)firearms.ab.ca>, > Peter Cronhelm <cronhelm(a)nucleus.com>, > Peter Figol <pjfigol(a)canada.com>, Ken Epp <Epp.K(a)parl.gc.ca>, > Preston Manning <Manning.P(a)parl.gc.ca>, > Jack Ramsay <Ramsay.J(a)parl.gc.ca>, Deb Grey <Grey.D(a)parl.gc.ca>, > Monty Solberg <Solberg.M(a)parl.gc.ca>, > Raheem Jaffer <Jaffer.R(a)parl.gc.ca>, > "Robin Leech \"SPIDERMAN\"" <robinl(a)connect.ab.ca>, > Tony Bernardo <teebee(a)sprint.ca> >Subject: Anne McLellan's voters reject gun registration... >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >X-UIDL: ddaaa1595eab8ceea7515c82b013fcca > "The Edmonton Examiner" a local community newspaper, ran an editorial entitled "Gun lobby has a point." In it they accused the "pro-gun" faction of posturing and paranoia, but then went on to say the so called "lobby" is correct in it's assessment of the registry. The paper said, "the government has failed to show how gun registration will reduce crime, which is the sole reason for registration." The newspaper also asked how would knowing that people own rifles deter crimes, while "the new law does nothing to deter the easy access to guns smuggled in from the U.S." Another statement follows, "and of course the criminal element has no interest in registering guns." The editor makes one last telling remark, "So exactly what is the point? Essentially, it is to gather information. All governments love information, the more the better. But there is no proof at all that registering guns deters criminal activity." Sounds like an editor sounding off..... Right? What follows indicates the writer likes to do a little investigative journalism.... The editor then conducted a telephone poll asking the question "ARE YOU IN FAVOUR OF THE GOVERNMENTS GUN REGISTRY PROGRAM? (Remember folks, the constituents of "Idle Annie" had their say in this poll.) The results were 76% AGAINST the registration program with 24% in favour..... Oh dear, Annie..... You'd better hope they change their minds come election time...... Comments from those opposed to the registry, "I have never owned a gun, but I resent this program which smacks of a police state." Another said, "I have yet to undertstand how having the gun registered that killed those students in Montreal registered would have prevented that terrible deed." The last and most telling, "It is simply a way to enable the confiscation of firearms in order to prevent any insurrection or revolt against a government that may be imposing oppressive measures." The usual comments equating registering cars and guns, and the "only one life" bleat came from the 24% who actually liked the registry. One even said "Gun owners have to wait hours to get their guns, instead of minutes. Get over it you big whiny crybabies." (Kinda makes you question the maturity of that one!) The polls are turning in our favour, and they are doing so because we are educating the public. The more they know about the registration process and the costs, the less they like the idea. We have accomplished this without breaking any laws, and without the need to indulge in civil disobedience. If we break (even unjust) laws and engage in publicised acts of civil disobedience then we will lose. The newsmedia will then (rightly) portray us as a bunch of right wing fanatics, and elements of the lunatic fringe. The NFA has proved we can be heard, and that the public is seeing things our way without the need to engage in silly demonstrations. Let's see how far we can go within the law, during the next four years. regards, Peter Kearns NFA Communications Simon says: "Well what about it Annie? What do your spin doctors have to say about a poll that included the people who voted in the last election in Edmonton West? (Weren't you elected to represent the views of the people who voted for you?)........... ===================END FORWARDED MESSAGE===================

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