December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

43 Public Comments
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

We've completed conversion of the 43 public comments on encryption tranfers at BXA from PDF to HTML: http://jya.com/bxapctoc.htm The TOC links to each in a separate file. Instructive reading. Microsoft and a few others punch hard, claiming betrayal by the Admin for not consulting industry as promised and rushing out the Interim Rule. Nearly all say stronger crypto is a must to compete globally. Yep, a few brown-nose the bosses; guess who.

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Re: [CRYPTO] One-time pads
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Here, Timmy C[unt] May descends into total inanity. He should have a cold shower and/or a Turkish coffee. /_/\/\ \_\ / Timmy C[unt] May /_/ \ \_\/\ \ \_\/

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Re: Moderation/censorship
by Dale Thorn 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

E. Allen Smith wrote: > There was some discussion from Toto et al (whom I'd guess you'd (sensibly) > filtered out) of blocking postings from Senate and House addresses, [snip] > (If DLVulis was a participant in the discussion (I wouldn't notice, > given that I generally delete his messages before reading), he > would be a probable exception to the latter part of the last sentence.) [snip] So here's this Eastern-establishment George Bush wanna-be piece-of-shit whiny asshole Smith beating up on Toto and Vulis for the nth time. Just can't give it up, can you, bozo? Why don't you dig a hole, crawl in, and pull the dirt in over you. Then not only would you not be unhappy any more, every one else would be happy too.

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Meet-in-the-middle attack
by lucifer＠dhp.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Timothy Mayflower's wee-wee is so tiny that only his mommy is allowed to touch it. . o c , `'#v-- --v#`' Timothy Mayflower /'> <`\

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Presidential decrees and emergency powers
by pgut001＠cs.auckland.ac.nz 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The letter/executive order from Bill Clinton which transfers control of encryption and related items to the EAR contains a mention of: ... the national emergency described and declared in Executive Order 12924 of August 19, 1994, and continued on August 15, 1995, and August 14, 1996, necessitated by the expiration of the Export Administration Act (EAA) on August 20, 1994, I hereby report to the Congress that pursuant to section 204(b) of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, 50 U.S.C. 1703(b) (the "Act"), I have today exercised the authority granted by the Act to issue an Executive order (a copy of which is attached)... Does anyone know what national emergency this refers to, and what the section of the emergency economic powers act covers? I seem to remember a post by someone who had traced it back through endless levels of indirection to a police action in Korea or something, but haven't been able to find any more information. Peter.

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Re: DNSSEC Encryption for DNS registration and ITAR Nonsense
by jim bell 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 08:30 PM 2/27/97 -0800, Bill Stewart wrote: >At 10:14 AM 2/12/97 -0500, "Donald E. Eastlake 3rd" <dee(a)cybercash.com> wrote: >But then there's the politial correctness part of the web page :-) >> Trusted Information Systems, Inc. has received approval from the >> United States Government for export and reexport of TIS/DNSSEC software >> from the United States of America under the provisions of the Export >> Administration Regulations (EAR) General Software Note (GSN) license >> exception for mass market software. Under the provisions of this license, >> this software may be exported or reexported to all destinations except >> for the embargoed countries of Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Libya, North Korea, >> Sudan and Syria. Any export or reexport of TIS/DNSSEC software to the >embargoed >> countries requires additional, specific licensing approval from the >> United States Government. > >Yup. Can't let those Cubans secure their DNS..... At least the government >did decide to permit export. When Clipper was a new proposal, a reporter stated that Clipper-equipped telephones were going to be exportable...to anywhere except terrorist-supporting countries like Libya and Iraq. My first reaction was, if those chips had their keys escrowed within reach of the US government, WHAT DID IT MATTER that the phones get exported to Libya?!? In fact, they'd presumably want to airdrop them there, right? Jim Bell jimbell(a)pacifier.com

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Re: Presidential decrees and emergency powers
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

There's a list of Executive Orders from 1970-96 on emergency powers at: http://jya.com/eo-export.txt A related Presidential Notice is at: http://jya.com/no081496.htm Some of the latest Executive Orders related to export administration are listed under "background" at: http://jyacom/eartoc.htm The range of consequences of "emergency power" is vast, and traces of its affect is found in many governmental regulations and legislation. We're adding documents to our site as we find them, from the Departments of State, Defense and Commerce: http://jya.com/crypto.htm

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128_bit
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

2-26-97. "Security Dynamics Unveils RSA SecurPC 2.0" The package is claimed to the first 128-bit encryption software to be exported from the US and its territories, and allows companies to implement "seamless, full-strength encryption" worldwide. ----- 128_bit

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Counterintel Center
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The National Counterintelligence Center (NACIC) announced today in the Federal Register a new system of records. There's an explanation of the NACIC and what it tries to do, reciting the James Angleton/Aldrich Ames myrrh mantra. http://jya.com/ncc022797.txt The new records system includes: "6. Compromised Names Database. The purpose of the database is to notify US intelligence community personnel whose names were potentially compromised as a result of espionage or other foreign intelligence collection activity. NACIC reviews pertinent reports to determine documents that were possibly passed in a particular case and then reviews those documents for names. The database contains the names of persons potentially compromised, date of the memo sent to the person or their employer informing them, the document number of where the person's name came from, document title, and document date."

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Re: Presidential decrees and emergency powers
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

We've put the full 50USC Chapter 35 -- International Emergency Economic Powers at: http://jya.com/50usc35.txt (284K) Section 1701 is the great bulk of it, and describes the purpose of emergency economic power. And lists the current enemies -- rogue nations and terrorists -- used, as were predecessors, to justify its never-ending renewal.

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