December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

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17 Dec '03

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Re: Is Open Source safe? [Linux Weekly News]
by Jim Gillogly 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Frank O'Dwyer writes: > Here we're talking about > deliberately inserted back doors. Those can get extremely nasty, and may > be unpatchable. Examples include "data kidnap" (encrypting the target's > information in situ and demanding a ransom for the decryption key), and > "data cancer" (slow corruption of the target's information, ensuring > that the backups are also corrupted). ... I haven't heard of any real > examples of such attacks, but that's not especially comforting. The "data kidnap" scenario was tried with the "PC CYBORG (AIDS) virus" (actually a Trojan) scare of 1989, where a disk with a database application was sent to a number of recipients. I think it scrambled the FAT. It gave a post office box in Panama for the ransom payments. -- Jim Gillogly Highday, 3 Foreyule S.R. 1998, 20:23 12.19.5.12.16, 8 Cib 9 Ceh, Fourth Lord of Night

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RealSystem G2 Ships
by radinfo＠real.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Re: Goldbach's Conjecture - the various definitions (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1998 06:03:43 +0100 > From: "Albert P. Franco, II" <apf2(a)apf2.com> > Subject: Re: Goldbach's Conjecture - the various definitions > Math works because in most (we would like to say all...) cases it is WELL > DEFINED. Subtle differences in the definition of a problem can drastically > alter the solution. Absolutely. > Goldbach's Conjecture states that any EVEN OR ODD > number can be expressed by a sum of three primes. No, Goldbach's says specificaly EVEN numbers. > lose sight of the domains of the two statements. He never stated that ODD > numbers could be expressed as sums of TWO primes. Nobody said he did. > It is very important to get all of the information assembled before running Absolutely. ____________________________________________________________________ Technology cannot make us other than what we are. James P. Hogan The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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building a better zyklon-B (Re: KRA on ADK vs KR, NAI membership)
by Adam Back 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Writing about PGP's key recovery mechanism (CMR (Commercial Message Recovery) or ADK (Additional Decryption Key)), Dave Del Torto quotes from a letter he sent to info(a)kra.org: > I'm not aware of the KRA's public position on the recovery of > plaintext using cryptographically sound and ethically responsible > alternatives to the escrowing of keys in organizational situations, > e.g. PGP's Additional Decryption Key (ADK) mechanism. I don't see that ethics has any bearing on the difference between Key Escrow, and PGP's CMR "message recovery" design. They are both just yet another protocol to allow third parties to decrypt encrypted traffic. Ethics enter into the discussion when one one starts to argue about which third parties will be able to eavesdrop on the traffic. This issue is largely orthogonal to the general technique used. Parties which people are most concerned about having access to data are the spooks and governments via organisations such as NSA, GCHQ, ECHELON etc. In a commercial setting there is also some political debate about whether the employee has any expectation of privacy. One might also argue about whether it is ethical to design software which helps or makes it easy for third parties to gain access to the plaintext in general. > What is the KRA's public position on PGP's ADK? So one has to be clear of one's aims in asking KRA if they think PGP's CMR or ADK is a nice technology for adding NSA backdoors to crypto. Say, for example that they decided that CMR is neater than their CKRB mechanism. Now what? NSA/KRA lobby companies to include a modified CMR with the NSA's public key as a mandatory additional recipient? And NAI gets `asked' by the NSA to burn an NSA public key into PGP 7. Adam

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Re: Securing data in memory (was "Locking physical memory (RAM) under Windows")
by Jim Adler 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

SCNSM 1.0 Beta, a non-swappable memory allocator for Windows 3.x/95/98, is available and can be downloaded from http://soundcode.com/content/download/products/scnsm/default.htm (docs) http://soundcode.com/content/download/products/scnsm/scnsm10b.zip (source) The SCNSM driver supports allocation of non-swappable memory on Windows 3.x/95/98. The principal design goal of SCNSM is to provide memory that will not be swapped to disk, under any circumstances. Typically, security applications require such memory to store private keys, passwords, and sensitive intermediate results of cryptographic calculations. SCNSM uses the same technique as allocating DMA buffers for hardware device transfers. The idea being that Windows doesn't swap DMA buffers and therefore won't swap this buffer either. The SCNSM source-code is copyrighted freeware. The intent here is to end the perennial nuisance of having sensitive security data swapped to disk which undermines the public's confidence in commercial security products. Please send any questions or bugs to me or support(a)soundcode.com. Jim ================ Jim Adler Soundcode, Inc. www.soundcode.com

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Re: Securing data in memory (was "Locking physical memory (RAM) under Windows") (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > From: "Jim Adler" <jadler(a)soundcode.com> > Subject: Re: Securing data in memory (was "Locking physical memory (RAM) under Windows") > Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1998 22:47:48 -0800 > SCNSM 1.0 Beta, a non-swappable memory allocator for Windows 3.x/95/98, is > available and can be downloaded from [text deleted] > The SCNSM driver supports allocation of non-swappable memory on Windows > 3.x/95/98. The principal design goal of SCNSM is to provide memory that will > not be swapped to disk, under any circumstances. Typically, security > applications require such memory to store private keys, passwords, and > sensitive intermediate results of cryptographic calculations. [text deleted] Sounds cool, but I have a couple of questions: 1. Is it OpenSource? 2. I assume since it never swaps to disk the memory requirements for the computer are large. What is the minimum suggested if one runs say 5 apps that each require 16M each, 5*16M & OS overhead? And what is the suggested OS overhead with no swap to disk? (OK, that last one might be a 3rd question) ____________________________________________________________________ Technology cannot make us other than what we are. James P. Hogan The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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Goldbach & Sum's of two primes to odd numbers
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Somebody explain how to odd numbers added together make a third odd number. ____________________________________________________________________ Technology cannot make us other than what we are. James P. Hogan The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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by 4details＠bitsmart.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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