December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

RSA DES Challenge starting!
by Trei Family 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I'd like to remind people that Monday, July 13th, 1998, RSA Data Security is releasing the challenge data for the next RSA DES Challenge (the brute force solution of a DES encrypted message). For more information on this challenge, please see http://www.rsa.com. The prize stands at 10,000 USD for the first solution found within 10 days. If wish to attempt the challenge by yourself, I reccomend that you look at Svend Mikkelsen's Bryddes (http://inet.uni2.dk/~svolaf/des.htm) which is by far the fastest Intel implementation I know of - considerably better than my own Deskr. If you're interested in a joint effort, you could do worse than look at http://distributed.net. This group won the RC5-56 and January 1998 DES challenges, and are currently working on RC5-64. Their clients will automatically switch over to DES Monday morning. It looks like they should attain around 86 billion keys/second, which will exhaust the keyspace in under 10 days. However, only a fraction of the prize money goes to the person who finds the key. Cracking DES in these challenges serves a higher purpose than winning a prize or gaining bragging rights. Single DES (the kind used in this challenge) is the strongest general purpose encryption which Americans are currently permitted to send overseas without special and rarely granted waivers. As a result, the US government is turning over the world market in high quality cryptography to non-US firms, with a cost of billions of dollars a year to the US economy, thousands of American jobs, and increased crime and terrorism resulting from the poor security this policy promotes. Demonstrating how vulnerable US 'export quality' encryption actually is creates pressure to remove those restrictions entirely. I regard this as a desirable goal. Peter Trei trei(a)ziplink.net

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17 Dec '03

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by STUFFED/EUREKA! 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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CTIA Daily News from WOW-COM - July 14, 1998
by CTIA Daily News 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

============================================= Welcome to today's edition of the CTIA Daily News from WOW-COM. Please click on the icon / attachment for the most important news in wireless communications today. WIRELESS IT '98, The Next Generation in Personal Computing & Communications October 12-14, Las Vegas, Nevada Call (202) 785-0081 for more information! =============================================

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by Sergey Bobok 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Home/Officeland Defense
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Thanks to DT http://www.fcw.com/pubs/fcw/1998/0713/fcw-newscyber-7-13-98.html The Defense Department plans to create a new military organization to spearhead DOD's effort to protect the nation's critical computer systems against information warfare attacks, marking the first time DOD has taken responsibility for protecting infrastructure within the United States. ... The Pentagon also is considering the formation of a reserve cadre of "cyberdefense warriors," who would have hands-on responsibility for protecting the nation's sensitive information networks and systems from information warfare attacks. According to an industry source familiar with the project, about 300 Ph.D.-carrying reservists would work from home computers that would be tied into high-speed communications links. DOD has budgeted $10 million to jump-start the effort, the source said. ...

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Re: web site on 18 yr olds losing virginity
by Rabid Wombat 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Either "stopthis1" is a clever marketer drumming up interest in this site, or the christian coalition has become inbred to the point of unbelievable stupidty. Any bets? On Sat, 11 Jul 1998, Vladimir Z. Nuri wrote: > hmmmmmmm, just to show you the possibilities of cyberspace and > what it's coming to > > > From: stopthis1(a)juno.com > Date: Sat, 11 Jul 1998 02:25:08 > Subject: 2 kids to lose "virginity" LIVE on the Internet > > Please join me in shutting this website down. > > http://www.ourfirsttime.com > > I caught my grandson and his friends giggling over this website > where it says two 18 year old kids are going to lose their > virginity - LIVE on the Internet. > > Just because these two idiot kids saw a woman give birth LIVE on > the Internet, they have decided that anything goes and will have > sex for the first time on the Internet. What has the world come to > when people can do absolutely any lewd and deviant thing they want > to, and let innocent children watch on their computers. > > They are mocking the sanctity of marriage. What concerns me the > most is there are no controls on this website to keep children > out. Please send a protest email to your congressman or senator, > and ask them to "SHUT THIS OBSCENE WEBSITE DOWN" !!! > > Click here to go to the Christian Coalition's page of email > address for all Congressmen and Senators. Find your representative > and demand their help to stop the Internet from being prostituted > by brain damaged sex maniacs. > > http://www.christian-coalition.org/ > Email Guide to Congress from the Christian Coalition > > Also send emails to the following individuals asking for their > help to shut this site down - > > President Clinton - president(a)whitehouse.gov > > Jesse Helms - jesse_helms(a)helms.senate.gov > > Newt Gingrich - georgia6(a)hr.house.gov > > Jerry Falwell - chancellor(a)liberty.edu > > Pat Robertson - cbnonline(a)cbn.org > > Christian Coalition - coalition(a)cc.org > > Praise the Lord and pass this on to all. > > > > > > > > >

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17 Dec '03

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CTIA Daily News from WOW-COM - July 13, 1998
by CTIA Daily News 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

============================================= Welcome to today's edition of the CTIA Daily News from WOW-COM. Please click on the icon / attachment for the most important news in wireless communications today. WIRELESS IT '98, The Next Generation in Personal Computing & Communications October 12-14, Las Vegas, Nevada Call (202) 785-0081 for more information! =============================================

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Re: DirFBI: Danger of Encryption
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On Sunday, July 12, 1998, in The New York Times, Louis J. Freeh had the unmitigated gall of a lying Nazi Fuck to write: > To the Editor: > > Re "Privacy in the Digital Age" (editorial, July 6): No law > enforcement agency is "trying hard to prevent the growing > use of encryption." In the face of such overwhelming evidence as virtually litters the landscape and graces more than one court docket, how can Louis Fuck-the-Free open with such a bald-faced lie, unsupported by any data or argument whatsoever? His own agency, not to mention several "non-law-enforcement" agencies (is this the lawyer's catch in his assertion?) have been lobbying _vigorously_ and without letup for several years now to "prevent the growing use of encryption." The whole export control regime for encryption has as its sole purpose to "prevent the growing use of encryption." I'm all for a constitutional amendment that would put this kind of bald-faced lying by high public officials on the same footing as treason, with the same penalties. > But encryption represents a serious public safety concern. It sure does! The lack of widely available, fully functional strong crypto is a national and individual weakness that allows control freak fucks like Louis to make a reach for the ultimate levers of control and cement us into the ultimate surveillance state, from which there will be no return. > We are open to any solution that recognizes that it is > the ability to collect electronic evidence that has > allowed us to prevent airliners from being bombed and > to put major drug dealers behind bars. <SNORT!> Right! Like you prevented TWA 800, Lockerbee, and the ValuJet eaten in midair by illegally transported live oxygen canisters? Just HOW MANY AIRLINERS HAVE YOU SAVED, you lying Nazi fuck? Don't talk to us about the drug dealers... the ones who wouldn't be able to earn a penny if it weren't for the War on Drugs in the first place. We already know that the pharmaceutical market value of a dose of heroin is something like 25 cents, and that the only reason those addicts are breaking into our homes and killing us on the streets is because the GOVERNMENT has made it illegal for them to obtain their sleepytime meds at reasonable prices that even a minimum-wage burger flipper could afford if he wanted to waste himself that way. > Key escrow is one possible solution. No it isn't. It's not a solution to anything at all. It's the destruction of privacy through more heavy-handed tactics and intrusion into private affairs. It's the police state's wet dream, second only to full, real time monitoring of everything and everything. One step at a time, though, eh, lying Nazi fuck? > There are others, and certainly a statutory scheme can > be devised that will all but eliminate any risk of abuse > by law enforcement. You must be taking some of those drugs your agents seize! If there is one constant, one unchangeable feature of government landscape, it is that NO POWER can be safeguarded against abuse, and that EVERY POWER will be abused, just some more than others. This claim is an insult to the intelligence of even the most retarded, obedient American. Your mother clearly didn't wash your mouth with a strong enough brand of laundry soap to make an impression on your little proto-Nazi mind. We should really suspend the ENTIRE debate right now, pending the prosecution and imprisonment of the thousands of FBI personnel involved in past, DOCUMENTED violations of rights. Before we even take you seriously I want to see the asses of the SAs who have done "black bag jobs", who have killed and maimed men, women and children, who have instigated unlawful acts by incompetents through agents provocateurs, AND their SACs, AND their authorizing DDs, etc., ALL LANGUISHING IN LEVEL 6 FACILITIES doing the the HARD TIME of multiple life terms they so richly deserve for having arrogantly and systematically violated their oaths of office and the laws of the land. Then and ONLY THEN can we "talk," you strutting, lying little Nazi fuck! > But if we do not allow for court-ordered access, for the > first time in the history of this country a court order > for seizure of evidence will be an absolute nullity. Utter Nazi rubbish! The truth is that if you _do_ get what you want, for the first time in the history of this country it will be unlawful or even impossible for Americans to secure their communications as they could in 1789 when the Constitution was ratified. It is _not_ the ability to protect communications and writings that is new -- it is the invasive technology and the windfall to you of communications and records being handled by third parties that is new. Your claim of being locked out by new technology not contemplated by the Constitution is false. What was not contemplated and now needs to be remedied is that conversations easily secured against eavesdroppers in 1789 are now easily overheard, and communications easily secured in 1789 are now easily violated. THAT'S what needs to be fixed, NOT your inability to continue and expand your totalitarian invasion of the natural rights of Americans and others. > We want to work with industry on a real solution, More bullshit! You want what you want when you want it and you have been vigorously campaigning for new and expanded powers to every ear on Capitol Hill that would listen, even conducting closed briefings to make your one-sided case out of the light of public scrutiny. Admit it -- you're a thorough-going weasel, and proud of it! > recognizing that those who acquire encryption over the > Internet or from abroad naively make assumptions about > the security it affords. Oh, PLEASE! You have the security of naive Internet users at heart? Is that what we're supposed to believe? Do you really think we just fell off the turnip truck? The very encryption you fear most, strong public key encryption that you can't break and won't be able to break within the predicted lifetime of the universe, is presently available over the Internet, AND THAT IS PRECISELY WHAT YOU DON'T LIKE, you lying Nazi fuck! > We are not fighting encryption, HAVE YOU NO SHAME AT ALL, uttering bald-faced lies like that? > but we know what will happen if technology cannot be made > to work for law enforcement as it works for criminals > and terrorists. We know, too: freedom will continue to have a chance. You need to take a deep breath and consider that many people now understand the sham in which you are involved. More and more people are wondering why you don't just nail the truly bad guys the way they have been nailed for millenia -- by good, conventional police work. Bad guys have been apprehended since time immemorial without resort to data-mining the databases and eavesdropping on all forms of communication. Now, just because technology allows you means of invasion never contemplated by the Constitution, suddenly you can't do your job without them? Utter nonsense! Lying Nazi fuck nonsense! Louis J. FREEH (Louis J. FUCK-THE-FREE) Dir., Federal Bureau of Investigation (Generalisimo, Federal Bureau of Absolute Control) Washington, July 10,1998 (Disneyland-on-the-Potomac) TruthIsAsPlainAsTheNoseOnYourLyingNaziFuckFaceMonger II

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