December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: LACC: Re: Is hate code speech? (fwd)
by Mike Scher 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

GAH. Sorry about that truncated comment -- Morning misfire - went to postpone to look up cites and sent instead. Grumble finger macros, grumble. The upshot being that a hostile work environment/harassment case with these facts would serve as a great 'tie breaker' in any Supreme Court decision between the "code is not speech" and "code is speech" split we're seeing between federal jurisdictions. That is to say, in the American jurisprudence system, if you want something protected from prior restraint as speech, you also have to take the responsibilities the system imposes on you for the effects of that speech. -M Michael Brian Scher (MS683) | Anthropologist, Attorney, Policy Analyst strange(a)cultural.com | http://www.tezcat.com/~strange/ strange(a)uchicago.edu | strange(a)tezcat.com Give me a compiler and a box to run it, and I can move the mail.

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Real World thoughts
by bill payne 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Wednesday 8/26/98 7:11 AM J Orlin Grabbe 1 Tuesday issue of the ABQ J always carries a special section on computers. t 8/25/98 COUNTDOWN TO Y2K Cataclysm or inconvenience? Of most interest to me was Old mainframes make sheer size of problem nearly overwhelming By Chris Allbritton The Associated Press NEW YORK - The shear number of unique solutions needed for the Year 2000 bug, not the technical aspects, are the real problem behind this glitch in time. ... for the reason of my book and translation Machine, Assembly, and System Programming for the IBM 360, New York: Harper & Row, 1969 Programacion en Lenguaje de Maquina, Asemblador, y de Sistemas con el IBM 360, Harper & Row, 1971 In the 1970s some IBM 360/70/40xx were STILL running IBM 650 simulators which hosted code which companies did not want to rewrite! The message published in the Monday ABQ J 98 Warning! Due to serious bugs and compatibility problems, we join many other PC builders in recommending AGAINST Windows 98 at this time. http://www.c-works.com/ makes me speculate that the hardware vendors were able to try out their new hardware on DOS, Win 3.xx, 95, NT but not on 98. Since Microsoft may not have had new hardware like the AMD K6 -2 [3d], 98 was not fully exercised on the newer architectures. I will send you page on Y2K. And also the copy of NSA deputy director Barbara McNamara's wrote me a letter dated 19 August 1998. http://www.nsa.gov:8080/mission.html McNamara DENIED my fee waiver appeal for search for invoices NSA spent on public key chips. From my inside dealings with NSA's R division and Sandia employees I learned that both had some VERY UNFORTUNATE EXPERIENCES with public key. I am sending both you and John Young copies of NcNamara's letter. McNamara wrote, This response may be construed as a denial of your appeal. Accordingly, you are hereby advised to your right to seek judicial review of my decision pursuant to 5 U.S.C. § 552(a)(4) (B) in the United States District Court in the district in which you reside, in which you have your principal place of business, in which the Agency's records are situated (U.S. District Court of Maryland), or in the District of Columbia. http://www.jya.com/hr105-37.txt I wonder if http://www.taliban.com/ is the real thing or an intelligence agency spy plot? Since we send Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1998 13:43:24 -0600 From: bill payne <billp(a)nmol.com> To: dpcintrn(a)osd.pentagon.mil, abumujahid(a)taliban.com it doesnt matter too much either way. We either get both or the same twice. I am reading http://www.aci.net/kalliste/ Impeachment Watch The High Cost of the War on Terrorism Bill Clinton's $100 Million Crusade Against Ken Starr by Charles R. Smith August was an expensive month for the U.S. taxpayer. For example, Bill Clinton shot $100 million on August 20, 1998 at "terrorist" sites in Sudan and Afghanistan. The 79 Tomahawk cruise missiles signaled a new "war" that Bill Clinton decided to declare on terrorism and not to be confused with the $100 million White House "war" on Ken Starr. ... Last night I was CAREFULLY STARTING to read HARCOPY OF http://www.softwar.net/plight.html especially Sensor input is processed through the A/D converter and provided as raw 8 bit data which is then saved in WAVformat. A program designed to extract randomization values from the raw data for use as a cipher key could takevarious forms. One form would be to serially store non-repeating samples of data into fixed length blocks for processing, such as 8 or 16 bytes. The sampled values would then be summed, XORed, left or right shift registered (LSR/RSR), least significant bit extracted, or any combination of math processes. The resulting byte of data would then represent the combination of photon values taken over the time period of the sample. Other processes could make use of various formulas, such as lossy or LZ, to give still other values for photons taken over the selected time period of the sample. 10 CLS:DEFINT A-Y:DEFDBL Z 20 OPEN "R",#1,"TEST.WAV",1 30 FIELD #1, 1 AS D$:J=1:O=0 40 Z1 = LOF(1):ZR=64:A=0:O$="" 50 ZR=ZR+1:IF ZR>Z1 THEN GOTO 100 60 GET #1,ZR:I$=D$ 70 GOSUB 110:IF FA=0 THEN GOTO 50 80 E=E+1:IF E>255 THEN E=0 90 GOTO 50 100 CLOSE #1:STOP 110 FA=0:SK=ASC(I$)+SK:IF SK>32510 THEN SK=SK-32510 120 IF S$<>I$ THEN GOTO 130 ELSE RETURN 130 FA=1:S$=I$:A=A+1:O$=O$+I$ 140 IF A=16 THEN GOTO 160 150 RETURN 160 A=0:B=0:O= E XOR J:K=SK MOD 256:O = K XOR O 170 FOR N=1 TO 16:X$=MID$(O$,N,1) 180 B=ASC(X$):O = B XOR O 190 NEXT N:O$="" 200 IF O=J THEN RETURN 210 PRINT O;:J=O 220 RETURN I STARTED to analyze what Smiths BASIC code did. I am STILL THINKING ABOUT the REASONS FOR 110 FA=0:SK=ASC(I$)+SK:IF SK>32510 THEN SK=SK-32510 which contains PROBABLY ZERO-initialized variable SK. Smith will likely NOT be indicted by BXA http://www.bxa.doc.gov/FOIA/Foiaintro.htm http://www.bxa.doc.gov/FOIA/Foialib.htm for distributing controlled code on Internet. The statement The sampled values would then be summed, XORed, left or right shift registered (LSR/RSR), least significant bit extracted, or any combination of math processes. does NOT EXACTLY TELL what Smith is doing in PCYPHER ENCRYPTION USING LIGHT. But Smith's APPARENT belief that terminal bits of samples taken from continuous distributions are, we believe, uniformly distributed. Payne, W. H., and T. G. Lewis, Continuous Distribution Sampling: Accuracy and Speed, Mathematical Software, ed., J. R. Rice, Academic Press: New York (1971), pp. 331-345. Lewis, T. G., and W. H. Payne, Generalized Feedback Shift Register Pseudorandom Number Algorithm, Journal of Assn. for Computing Machinery, 21, 3 (1973): 456- 468. http://www-hto.usc.edu/software/seqaln/doc/html/gfsr.3.html http://www.friction-free-economy.com Sobolewski, J. S., and W. H. Payne, Pseudonoise with Arbitrary Amplitude Distribution: Part I: Theory, IEEE Transactions On Computers, 21 (1972): 337-345. Sobolewski, J. S., and W. H. Payne, Pseudonoise with Arbitrary Amplitude Distribution: Park II: Hardware Implementation, IEEE Transactions on Computers, 21 (1972): 346-352. http://www.mhpcc.edu/general/john.html HOWEVER, us the the REAL PRACTICAL WORLD http://jya.com/da/whpda.htm might be a bit concerned what happens if the sensor output voltage exceeds EITHER in a plus or minus direction the INPUT range of the a/d converter. http://www.softwar.net/plight.html Collector-Emitter Voltage 30 Volt Emitter-Collector Voltage 5 Volt If the input voltage goes SOMEWHAT HIGHER, then the terminal bit MAY BE A 1 and not random. On the other hand, if the input voltage goes SOMEWHAT LOWER, then the terminal bit MAY BE A 0 and not random. If the input voltages goes LOTS HIGHER OR LOWER than the limits, it is SAYONARA a/d converter! The Real World again. SOME NSA KG schematics Brian Snow showed me had statistical test hardware built in to ATTEMPT to detect non-random output. If the output failed the test, then the KG unit shut down. Smith, I think, has a neat idea which needs to be looked at VERY CAREFULLY. Some of us continue to feel that the crypto key must be as long as the message encrypted. As was pointed out by Gilbert S. Vernam and Joseph O. Mauborgne in 1918. Pseudorandom sequences DONT WORK VERY WELL FOR ENCRYPTION. Pcypher Light is designed to measure the number of photons from around your PC (light particles) and create a random numbers from that light. Pcypher Light is NOT just software but hardware as well. It is easy to install and use. We give you SOFTWAR's advanced technology Light Probe, a highly sensitive phototransistor, which the software samples at thousands of times per second. Think of it as a microphone for light. In fact all you have to do is plug it directly into the MIC input of any PC sound card. That is it. Run the PC Windows software and start making REAL randomized keys. NOT A PSEUDO KEY GENERATOR. Two reasons are 1 There should always be TWO KEYs. The real key and the key you claim IN A LEGAL-SENSE is the real key in case you get CAUGHT. A Nuke them B Send flowers If you send A be sure to have a B key and a receipt for the flowers. 2 Pseudorandom sequences MAY make it difficult to find the SECOND key. So lets hope these crypto messes http://www.aci.net/kalliste/speccoll.htm http://caq.com/cryptogate http://jya.com/whpfiles.htm http://www.qainfo.se/~lb/crypto_ag.htm gets SETTLED SO THAT WE CAN ALL DEBATE TECHNICAL ISSUES and PUBLISH our results in RECOGNIZED SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS and POST on the Infobahn too. I want to revise my book for Windows and the 80C32 too. Best bill http://www.apcatalog.com/cgi-bin/AP?ISBN=0125475705&LOCATION=US&FORM=FORM2 http://jya.com/f86/whpf86.htm

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Is Hate Code Speech?
by mcw＠atreus.ncs.ncsc.mil 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I've searched the web and newsgroups several times, and found no mention of "Willa Jackson". I find it unlikely that this is real. Despite my respect for Mr. Geiger, I must disagree - I don't find the suit frivolous at all. Briefly, I think that anyone who maintains software will agree that naming variables & functions by any standard other than that of their function is poor programming practice, and impedes maintenance. Clearly the authors of the code had some intent other than that of writing maintainable code. The fact that there were one or more coherent themes in the names chosen indicates that their agenda was probably coherent. The fact that management took no action when informed of this indicates a complicity. In essence, I believe that we are all entitled to a workplace free of hate, and full of respect for our professional abilities. For sheer economic reasons, I think that the management of any responsible firm will act to ensure that (respect is worth quite a few $$ in compensation). I acknowledge that you're welcome to use whatever variable names you want in code you write in private. BUt if you want to sell that code, it should be held to a standard of professionalism.

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RE: Programmer faces grand jury for posting encryption
by Brown, R Ken 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Mok-Kong Shen wrote: > It would be interesting to know how the grand jury > determines the 'three' in 'three times stronger'. Obviously the key was 1.5 bits longer :-) Ken

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No Subject
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

http://www.itd.nrl.navy.mil/ITD/5540/ieee/cipher/news-items/980713.LISTWATCH .html My online review of this list and others. Mary Ellen Zurko "We will be obliged to take action ourselves" -Gore on privacy

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Re: Programmer faces grand jury for posting encryption
by Mok-Kong Shen 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Martin Minow wrote: > > <http://www.sjmercury.com/breaking/headline2/072738.htm> > > Posted at 12:26 a.m. PDT Wednesday, August 26, 1998 > > Programmer on hot seat for posting encryption software > BY K. OANH HAMercury News Staff > > ''Writer A Sunnyvale software programmer who posted strong encryption > software on the Internet faces a grand jury hearing today to determine > whether he should stand trial for violating federal export laws.Charles > Booher, 39, said he's within his constitutional rights to ``express > himself'' by posting the data-scrambling software, which is three times > stronger than a current government standard. If indicted, Booher's case > would represent the fourth legal challenge in seven years to the federal > government's curb on exporting encryption technology. The case is It would be interesting to know how the grand jury determines the 'three' in 'three times stronger'. M. K. Shen

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RE: LACC: Re: Is hate code speech?
by Francis, Catherine 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I worry that, in the process of laying all this flame-bait, y'all are hoping that naive people might think that a job where there's racial and sexual hate-speech isn't a hostile work environment. Putting this sort of language in code does not shelter it from co-workers. It doesn't matter that the offensive names weren't directed at her. It's much worse that they were directed towards an entire group. Or maybe you just admire ethnic slander in terms of cost-efficiency, a sort of more-bang-for-the-buck maximization of intolerance where it's a question of offending the greatest number with the least amount of effort, and simply admire the mechanism by which it's been accomplished? This isn't an issue of free speech. Well, maybe. The coder is free to name her/his/its variables what they like, all ethical issues aside, and equally free to live with the consequences of those actions, which should have been the company not using something so vastly unprofessional and guaranteed to eventually open them up to a suit like this. There are standards of behavior in a workplace that are slightly more restrictive than standing on a soapbox on the quad. A software company's code is an internal company document. The code that you write at home is your document. You may find this distinction instructive. I'm sorry to digress, since this isn't why the article was originally posted, but I was forced to succumb to the troll. Free speech is essential in an open society. Freedom from discrimination is essential in a democracy. Carry on. > ---------- > From: William H. Geiger III[SMTP:whgiii@openpgp.net] > Reply To: lacc(a)suburbia.net > Sent: Tuesday, August 25, 1998 6:24 PM > To: lacc(a)suburbia.net > Cc: proff(a)suburbia.net; aucrypto(a)suburbia.net; cypherpunks(a)toad.com > Subject: LACC: Re: Is hate code speech? > > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > In <Pine.SUN.3.91.980825155854.3483A-100000@baker>, on 08/25/98 > at 04:19 PM, Xcott Craver <caj(a)math.niu.edu> said: > > >On Tue, 25 Aug 1998, William H. Geiger III wrote: > > >> <sigh> Now we have to worry about PC variable and function names. What > a > >> crock. > > > Oh, yeah, you really have to worry about *accidentally* > > calling your variables getwatermelons and somefriedchicken. > > Reminds me of this one guy in our neighborhood who was just > > jogging by our house, bent down to tie a shoelace, lost > > his balance and accidentally planted a huge burning cross > > in our front lawn. Woops! Those damn PC-mongers are > > making it a crime to jog! > > Yes and if I want to name my variables getwatermelons and somefiredchicken > who are you to tell me I can't? > > > One note: I don't see why this lawsuit would be hard to win > > on the grounds that source code isn't necessarily "speech." > > If co-workers left a big wooden swastika on her desk it > > wouldn't be speech either, but I'd call that actionable. > > But they didn't. There is no proof that any of theses variable names were > written to be directed at her and the majority of them were written > *before* she ever started working there!! > > - -- > - --------------------------------------------------------------- > William H. Geiger III http://www.openpgp.net > Geiger Consulting Cooking With Warp 4.0 > > Author of E-Secure - PGP Front End for MR/2 Ice > PGP & MR/2 the only way for secure e-mail. > OS/2 PGP 5.0 at: http://www.openpgp.net/pgp.html > - --------------------------------------------------------------- > > Tag-O-Matic: OS/2: Not just another pretty program loader! > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: 2.6.3a-sha1 > Charset: cp850 > Comment: Registered_User_E-Secure_v1.1b1_ES000000 > > iQCVAwUBNeM6Qo9Co1n+aLhhAQEHMAP+OdR38utDHJd4s8r3/fTVedI+xH9A+lNX > CU/yeqOx2Y9P8K/ol1wdLf4U3Dzv3VZ+CvRUmVB4juRdFBTnor7wrS3CQiQ1krut > K3nLi7HtUqb92VD55eCM4W61c67lqLTD7TTXW2p6sHm8ti3NgK1fGfRPTSk5Ay9S > j2tEl6HI5P8= > =jRNy > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >

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RE:
by Brown, R Ken 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> Ray Arachelian[SMTP:sunder@brainlink.com] wrote: > > Anonymous wrote: > >> > >> > http://www.itd.nrl.navy.mil/ITD/5540/ieee/cipher/news-items/980713.LIS > TWATCH > >> .html > [...snip...] >Sorry Anon, but that url 404's... Perhaps you could try again? It works if you put the ".html" on the next line in the URL New nifty way to foil the hackers - put line-breaks in your code! They'll never suss it! Actually I didn't notice at first either - I just sropped the last directory name of the URL and looked at the level above - it's been a sort of reflex action of mine on the web for years. Nice to see a navy site allowing us to browse their directories though :-) The "listwatch" is a very short summary of some of the less wibblish threads in cypherpunks, risks et.c - it is about 6 weeks out of date, nothing new there since it was last mentioned here. So I don't know why it was brought up again. Ken

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17 Dec '03

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dow jones
by bill payne 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Friday 8/28/98 10:07 AM J Orlin Grabbe You may have gotten it TOO RIGHT http://www.aci.net/kalliste/apocalyp.htm Morales and I met. We got a response from a deputy clerk to our attached letter. No form for 54(b) certification and no examples. We have a plan of what to include in our response to http://www.jya.com/chrysler98.htm AND 54(b) certification. We see that we can respond by e-mail. e-mail: vhardy(a)detroit.bozell.com But we'll use certified snail mail too. Reporter Spohn of the ABQ Trib 1990 Lawrence Spohn, Albuquerque Tribune http://www.aaas.org/AAAS/awards.html http://www.atiin.com/atiin/tribune.htm http://www.abqtrib.com told me he is going to make FOIA requests for the invoices NSA spent or wasted funding public key cryptography chips TOO. Morales and I also discussed our up-coming NSA fee waiver lawsuit. NSA deputy director Barbara McNamara's wrote me a letter dated 19 August 1998. http://www.nsa.gov:8080/mission.html McNamara wrote, The key issue I considered in my review is whether disclosure of the information is likely to contribute to the public understanding of the operations or activities of the government. ... This response may be construed as a denial of your appeal. Accordingly, you are hereby advised to your right to seek judicial review of my decision pursuant to 5 U.S.C. § 552(a)(4) (B) in the United States District Court in the district in which you reside, in which you have your principal place of business, in which the Agency's records are situated (U.S. District Court of Maryland), or in the District of Columbia. We've learned a lot with our current NSA lawsuit. So the NEXT lawsuit should be more devastating for the government. But let's hope we get this UNFORTUNATE matter settled so that we can move on to other projects. I miss the economic articles you post from throughout the world. http://www.aci.net/kalliste/ Whats happening is not your fault. You are merely a message-deliverer. Later bill Tuesday 8/18/98 7:33 AM Certified Return receipt requested Robert M. March, Clerk United States District Court Office of the Clerk POB 2384 US Courthouse Santa Fe, NM 87504-2384 Dear clerk March: Purposes of this letter are to 1 request a copy of a UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF NEW MEXICO Rule 54(b) certification form if such form exists 2 request an example of a Rule 54(b) certification if such certification is submitted in non-standard form 3 ask for you to provide us with DISTRICT OF NEW MEXICO case citations for others required by the Tenth circuit to seek Rule 54(b) certification. We could not find form referenced in 1 in LOCAL CIVIL RULES, UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF NEW MEXICO or at http://www.nmcourt.fed.us/dcdocs/ specifically http://www.nmcourt.fed.us/dcdocs/files/lcvrules.txt We ask that you respond to this letter by September 1, 1998. Nonresponse must be interpreted as 4 there is no Rule 54(b)form 5 there is no example of a Rule 54(b) non-standard form certification 6 there are no examples of Rule 54(b) certifications in the UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF NEW MEXICO. Sincerely William H. Payne Arthur R. Morales 13015 Calle de Sandias NE 1024 Los Arboles NW Albuquerque, NM 87111 Albuquerque, NM 87107 Friday February 27, 1998 11:18 AM By e-mail and US mail Lieutenant General Kenneth A Minihan, USAF Director, National Security Agency National Security Agency 9800 Savage Road Fort George G. Meade, MD 20755-6000 Dear General Minihan: Purposes of the letter are to 1 request information under the Freedom of Information Act 2 explore settlement possibilities of our current lawsuit. In about 1986 Sandia National Laboratories assigned me the task of design and construction of a Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty seismic data authenticator. In the initial stages of the project, Sandia cryptographer Gustavus Simmons attempted to convince both Sandia management and NSA employees Tom White, Mark Unkenholtz, and Ed Georgio that a form of public key authentication should replace NSA employee Ronald Benincasa's National Seismic Station/Unmaned Seismic Observatory 11-bit data authentication algorithm. My Sandia supervisor John Holovka and project leader H B [Jim] Durham ordered me to write a paper explaining public key cryptography. This paper, RSA ENCRYPTION, along with my SAND report describing my implementation of Benincasa's algorithm and filings in our lawsuit, now appear on Internet at http://www.jya.com/index.htm, click CRYPTOME, then OpEd, then http://www.jya.com/whprsa.htm. Sandia explored the merits of switching from Benincasa's algorithm to a public key-based authentication method suggested by Simmons. For Sandia's evaluation of the merits of public key, electronic tagging, and Bureau of Engraving and Printing projects , I bought for Sandia samples both the Cylink CY1024 and AT&T A & B two chip sets for modulo m arithmetic computations. NSA employee Tom White sent me a copy of the SECRET classified NSA report on IBM's hardware public key chip FIREFLY. I wrote in my tutorial paper RSA hardware computations The slow speed of software RSA computations plus the potential wide use prompted several companies to build chips which compute modular arithmetic to at least several hundred bits. Most of these chips "cascade" to compute with a larger number of bits. Corporations involved in building these chips are 1 IBM Firefly 2 AT&T 3 Motorola (apparently a three chip set) 4 Cylink Pittway-First alert 5 Sandia Labs (Algorithm M and predecessor chip) Details of the IBM chip is classified. AT&T as of July 1987 has not released details of their chip. Little information is available on the Motorola chip set. The Cylink chip is commercially available. Its price dropped from $1,500 to $600 each in June 1987. Data is transferred to and from the chip with serial shift register communication. The early Sandia chip was limited in speed. The replacement chip is cascadeable, communicates with 8 or 16 bits parallel, matches the speed of the Cylink chip, but is not out of fabrication. Rumors circulate that there is about an order of magnitude performance difference between some of these chips. These hardware chips improve exponentiation speed about 3 orders of magnitude over software implementation benchmarked on an Intel 8086 family microcomputer. Whitfield Diffie writes about both the Cylink and Sandia chips. And is quoted at http://www.aci.net/kalliste/nukearse.htm. Sandia had terrible luck with its public key chips. I reported SOME of the troubles to Electronic Engineering Times editor Loring Wirbel [http://techweb.cmp.com/eet/823/] on March 23, 1994. Dr. John Wisniewski was a supervisor at Sandia's Center for Radiation-hardened Microelectronics. Wisniewski was a graduate student at Washington State University in about 1975. I was a professor at WSU. Wisniewski knows all about the failing Sandia chips in the nuclear arsenal. I took notes on February 13, 1993. Wisniewski reviewed the problems again for me. 1 No quality initiative. Each chip lot had a different process. 2 Overall yield - 40-50%. Down to 10% after packaging. 3 Metalization problems. No planarization. No flow of glass. Couldn't use high temperature. Step coverage problems. Layed down over tension. 100% field returns over several years. 4 Sandia would store lots of parts for replacements. Sandia management made the decision to place low yield parts in the nuclear arsenal. Sandia must meet DOD schedules management reasoned. Hundreds of millions spent on CRM. Sandia must show productivity. Wisniewski told me that low yield chip test survivors are those which the tests failed to detect failures. Wisniewski will talk. 503-625- 6408. Wisniewski now works for Intel in Oregon. Have Wisniewski tell you about the fire in the CRM clean room! Sandia supervisor Jerry Allen later told me it cost $300,000 each to remove Sandia's failing chips at Pantex from a nuclear bomb. NSA apparently is biased toward hardware implementations of cryptographic and authentication algorithms. As opposed to software implementation. NSA representatives and Sandia management decided not to use a public key authentication scheme for its CTBT seismic data authenticator because of all of the problems with implementing public key algorithms. But NSA surely has spent MUCH MONEY on public key chip implementations. NSA is promoting its Clipper crypto chips as described at http://cpsr.org/dox/clipper.html. And we get some information about technical specifications of NSA's Clipper chip at http://www.us.net/softwar/http://www.us.net/softwar/clip.html Clipper Chip Information MYK-78 CLIPPER CHIP ENCRYPTION/DECRYPTION ON A CHIP 1 micron double level metal CMOS technology 0.35 watts power 28 pin plastic leaded chip carrier (PLCC) package Transistor to transistor logic (TTL) interface Chip ID, family key and device unique key are installed at programming. Chip ID, family key and device unique key are installed at programming facility and are completely transparent to the user. Therefore, Under the provision of the Freedom of Information Act, 5 USC 552, I am requesting access to: 1 Copies of all invoices from A AT&T B Motorola C IBM D Sandia National Laboratories to NSA for payments for developing ANY public key-related chips between January 1, 1980 and February 27, 1998. 2 Copies of all invoices to NSA from ANY corporation involved in development of ANY Clipper chip-related hardware between January 1, 1980 and February 27, 1998. The public has a right to know how much NSA spent on TRYING monoploize the crypto business. If there are any fees for searching for, or copying, the records I have requested, please inform me before you fill the request. As you know, the Act permits you to reduce or waive the fees when the release of the information is considered as "primarily benefiting the public." I believe that this requests fits that category and I therefore ask that you waive any fees. If all or any part of this request is denied, please cite the specific exemption(s) which you think justifies your refusal to release the information and inform me of your agency's administrative appeal procedures available to me under the law. I would appreciate your handling this request as quickly as possible, and I look forward to hearing from you within 20 working days, as the law stipulates. With respect to our current FOIA lawsuit, I feel that we should settle this unfortunate matter. I see from your biography at http://www.nsa.gov:8080/ and http://www.nsa.gov:8080/dirnsa/dirnsa.html that you are 1979 Distinguished Graduate Master of Arts degree in National Security Affairs Naval Postgraduate School Monterey, California One of my former M.S. and Ph.D students in Computer Science, Ted Lewis, is currently the chairman of Computer Science at Naval Postgraduate School [http://www.friction-free-economy.com/] Small world. But I think that this emphasizes that WE SHOULD all be on the same side. Not engaged in a conflict in US federal court. Or on Internet. NSA attempts to withhold requested information are possibly unwise. In our wired world the aggrieved know what happened to them. http://www.wpiran.org/,http://www.netlink.co.uk/users/impact/namir/namirm.h… And moderates in Iran, http://persia.org/khatami/biography.html, appear want settlement too. My family and I have been damaged by these crypto wars. I ask you that consider fair settlement of damages caused by the National Security Agency. I cannot find your e-mail address on Internet. Therefore I will forward the e-mail copy of this FOIA/settlement letter to Ray Kammer of NIST [http://www.nist.gov/] who along with the FBI [http://www.fbi.gov/, http://www.fbi.gov/fo/nyfo/nytwa.htmand] and NSA are trying to control the crypto business so that Kammer can possibly forward an e-mail copy of the FOIA/Settlement letter to you. Sincerely, bill William Payne 13015 Calle de Sandias Albuquerque, NM 87111 505-292-7037 [I am not reading e-mail] http://www.cylink.com/ http://www.jya.com/tis-p-bckrs.htm Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 13:53:33 -0500 From: nospam(a)synernet.com (Ed Stone) Subject: Re: Another Network Associates U-Turn on Key Recovery To: jy(a)jya.com PGP Inc's new owner, Network Associates, has announced it is acquiring Trusted Informations Systems, Inc. On the TIS web site, the following project is detailed, in which Dr. Dorothy Denning was a subcontractor, and in which policy-based crypto key release systems were explored, in collaboration with the NSA, FBI, etc.: Source: http://www.tis.com/research/crypto/crypt_krp_projsum.html Policy-Based Cryptographic Key Release Systems Cryptographic Key Release Language Design and Specification View the quad chart graphic for the Policy-Based Cryptographic Key Release System Project Summary ARPA Order Number: 8685 Contractor: Trusted Information Systems, Inc. 3060 Washington Road Glenwood, Maryland 21738 Phone: (301) 854-6889 FAX: (301) 854-5363 Subcontractors: Dr. Dorothy Denning Dr. Burton Kaliski Dr. Warwick Ford Russel Housley http://www.nsa.gov:8080/ http://www.nsa.gov:8080/dirnsa/dirnsa.html 1979 Distinguished Graduate Master of Arts degree in National Security Affairs Naval Postgraduate School Monterey, California http://www.friction-free-economy.com/ http://www.nist.gov/ CPSR Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility http://cpsr.org/dox/home.html Clipper Clipper Chip Information http://cpsr.org/dox/clipper.html MYK-78 CLIPPER CHIP ENCRYPTION/DECRYPTION ON A CHIP http://www.us.net/softwar/http://www.us.net/softwar/clip.html 1 micron double level metal CMOS technology 0.35 watts power 28 pin plastic leaded chip carrier (PLCC) package Transistor to transistor logic (TTL) interface Chip ID, family key and device unique key are installed at programming. Chip ID, family key and device unique key are installed at programming facility and are completely transparent to the user. Dear General Minihan: Sincerely, William H. Payne 13015 Calle de Sandias NE Albuquerque, NM 87111 Books 1.Bamford, James. The Puzzle Palace: A Report on America's Most Secret Agency. 2.Hafner, Katie and John Markoff. Cyberpunk: Outlaws and Hackers on the Computer Frontier 3.Lapidus, Edith. Eavesdropping on Trial.. 4.Schneier, Bruce. Applied Cryptography 5.Sterling, Bruce. The Hacker Crackdown. General Periodicals 6.Slatalla, Michelle and Joshua Quittner. "Gangwars in Cyberspace. " Wired. 7.Baker, Stewart A. "Don't Worry, Be Happy." Wired. 8.Denning, Dorothy. "The Clipper Chip Will Block Crime." Newsday. 9.Dewitt, Philip Elmer. "Who Should Keep the Keys?" Time. 10.Lewis, Peter. "Now Congress gets to weigh in on Clinton's high-tech plan for wiretapping." New York Times. 11.Markoff, John. "Big Brother and the Computer Age." New York Times. 12.Markoff, John. 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"Telecommunications Network Security." 23.Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968. 24.U.S. Bureau of the Census. "Statistical Abstract of the United States: 1993". 25.White House Press Secretary. "Clipper Press Release." Institutional Sources 26.Association for Computing Machinery, U.S. Public Policy Committee. "Computer Policy Committee Calls for Complete Withdrawl of Clipper." 27.Computer and Business Equipment Manufacturers Association. "CBEMA Recommendations on Encryption Policy." 28.Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility. "Clipper Fact Sheet." 29.Hanson, Robin. "Can Wiretaps Remain Cost-Effective?"Communications of the ACM 30.Hoffman, Lance, et al. "Cryptography Policy." Communications of the ACM. 31.Hoffman, Lance. "Clipping Clipper." Communications of the ACM. 32.Landau, Susan, et al. "Crypto Policy Perspecitves." Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery. 33.Privacy Rights Clearinghouse. "Wiretapping and Eavesdropping: Is There Cause for Concern?" Interviews 34.Lo, Virginia. Personal interview. 35.Schuman, David. Personal interview. 36.McClandish, Stanton. E-mail interview. Exclusive Internet Soucres 37.Rivest, Ron. "Re: Newsday Editorial." 38.Meeks, Brock. "Jacking in from the 'Sooner or Later' Port." CyberWire Dispatch 39.Gore, Al. "Letter to Representative Cantwell" Other 40.Delaney, Donald, et al. "Wiretap Laws and Procedures: What Happens When the U.S. Government Taps a Line." Purposes of this http://www.ihrwg.org/CP/ai82.htm During 1981 Amnesty' International received hundreds of allegations of torture of political prisoners, in particular in Evin Prison in Tehran. Some were supported by photographs and medical reports. The methods of torture described in these reports included beating, kicking, whipping with cables, banging heads against walls, burning with cigarettes, burning with an iron and mock executions. One report described a special room at Evin Prison called autog-e autoo (ironing room) in which prisoners were tied to a bed and their backs, buttocks and the soles of their feet were burned with an iron. In another place in Evin Prison called zire zamin-e haqiqat (basement of truth) it was alleged that prisoners were burned with cigarettes during interrogation.

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