December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

jeopardize law enforcement and national security objectives
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

SKIPJACK Review Interim Report The SKIPJACK Algorithm Ernest F. Brickell, Sandia National Laboratories Dorothy E. Denning, Georgetown University Stephen T. Kent, BBN Communications Corporation David P. Maher, AT&T Walter Tuchman, Amperif Corporation July 28, 1993 (Copyright © 1993) _________________________________________________________________ Executive Summary The objective of the SKIPJACK review was to provide a mechanism whereby persons outside the government could evaluate the strength of the classified encryption algorithm used in the escrowed encryption devices and publicly report their findings. Because SKIPJACK is but one component of a large, complex system, and because the security of communications encrypted with SKIPJACK depends on the security of the system as a whole, the review was extended to encompass other components of the system. The purpose of this Interim Report is to report on our evaluation of the SKIPJACK algorithm. A later Final Report will address the broader system issues. [...] We examined the internal structure of SKIPJACK to determine its susceptibility to differential cryptanalysis. We concluded it was not possible to perform an attack based on differential cryptanalysis in less time than with exhaustive search. [...] SKIPJACK algorithm is classified SECRET NOT RELEASABLE TO FOREIGN NATIONALS. This classification reflects the high quality of the algorithm, i.e., it incorporates design techniques that are representative of algorithms used to protect classified information. Disclosure of the algorithm would permit analysis that could result in discovery of these classified design techniques, and this would be detrimental to national security. However, while full exposure of the internal details of SKIPJACK would jeopardize law enforcement and national security objectives, it would not jeopardize the security of encrypted communications. This is because a shortcut attack is not feasible even with full knowledge of the algorithm. Indeed, our analysis of the susceptibility of SKIPJACK to a brute force or shortcut attack was based on the assumption that the algorithm was known. Conclusion 3: While the internal structure of SKIPJACK must be classified in order to protect law enforcement and national security objectives, the strength of SKIPJACK against a cryptanalytic attack does not depend on the secrecy of the algorithm.

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Beginning of process of decrypting net-nanny files (fwd)
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Article 425292 of alt.religion.scientology: Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology Subject: Beginning of process of decrypting net-nanny files Date: Thu, 02 Jul 1998 00:28:03 -0700 Lines: 100 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit There are three files with the netnanny, called d32l.dll, n32l.dll, and p32l.dll. These are not really dlls, but are almost certainly the database of words and phrases that the netnanny is interested in. If you look at these files, there is a total of 1037 lines, each of which has from 10 or so to 60 or so characters. It turns out (see below) that two characters in the data file almost certainly map to 1 character of the plaintext, so the phrases are 5 to 30 characters long. 1037 phrases of 5 to 30 characters seems about right. If you look closely at the text, you'll see that they letters alternate between the ranges of 32-63 and 96-127 (decimal). That is, a line begins "1{7}.f#f". The 1, 7, ., and # are all in the range 32-63, and the {, }, f, and f are in the range 96-127. Each of these letters, then, can take one of 32 values, or five bits. If you combine these, you find that there are only 512 combinations used of the pairs of letters, instead of the expected 1024 (=2^10). It turns out that if you construct a 10 bit word with the first 5 bits from the first character and the second 5 from the second character, then you find that the middle two bits are always either both 0 or both 1. So, there are 512 possibilities. These 512 numbers are fairly uniformly distributed, so this is not a simple substitution cipher. Interestingly, though, again, using the above construction of a 10 bit number from the two five bit pairs, you find that the high order bits change very slowly if at all from character to character. This is the beginning of d32l.dll (fair use quotation of two lines from the file) 1101110001 1100110100 1100110011 0011001110 0011110000 0001110101 0010000000 0010000001 0010001111 0011001010 0001000100 0001001101 0000001110 0010000101 0000001000 0111110101 0110110111 0110001111 0111111110 0110000101 0110111110 0110110010 0101110110 0101000010 0101111000 0110001110 0100001110 0100111011 1011000001 1011111000 1011111000 1001110010 1010000111 1010110111 1010001000 1000111000 1011001111 1011111101 1010001011 1010111001 1101000111 1101110101 1100000011 1100110001 1100111111 1111001101 1111111011 1110001001 Note that the middle two bits are always the same, and the high order bits seem to be changing slowly, but slowly upwards. My guess is that some value is being added to the plaintext character, and this value is incremented every plaintext character. Further, perhaps, there is a exclusive or being performed. In any case, I hope that this gets other people moving in the right direction. Suggested words to look for, that seem to have tweaked the nanny, are xenu hemet zinjifar helena kobrin mark ingber grady ward mirele rnewman wollersheim andreas heldal-lund operation clambake "gilman hot springs" motherfucker cocksucker

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Re: #cypherpunks is happening
by hippyman 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 12:02 AM 7/3/98 , you wrote: >On efnet. Nope, it's usually pretty boring. Been there many times when I'm on irc, nothing happening. BUT, if you show up - I can make it interesting!! Logins and passes to play with! Catch me in there. hippyman ICQ: 11517383 PGP Fingerprint: E3C3 35C8 0FD9 6F36 2ADD 0541 B58C F6BD D347 BD0A

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Data Fellows Secures the World's Largest Computer Demo Event
by Mia Westerholm 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

For immediate release 3 July 1998 Data Fellows Secures the World's Largest Computer Demo Event Assembly '98 Sponsored by F-Secure Data Security Products Data Fellows, one of the worlds leading data security development companies, is proud to support Assembly '98, the world's largest computer demo event. Data Fellows will also maintain data security during the happening. Assembly is an annual computer multimedia event, celebrated in Helsinki, Finland. It gathers amateurs and professionals from all over the world to meet other demo experts and compete in the art of demo making. A demo binds thrilling graphics and animations with massive sound effects to form a multimedia presentation of computer programming. Assembly '98 will be held during 7th - 9th of August 1998 and is expecting 3000 visitors. Prizes worth more than $25,000 USD will be awarded. The F-Secure Anti-Virus product will be used to protect the main file servers of Assembly '98 against viruses. Copies of the product will also be distributed to all participants. The F-Secure Network Encryption products will be used to protect the network traffic of the ad-hoc Assembly network - which is hooked live to the Internet. "Protecting a happening like Assembly is certainly a challenge", comments Data Fellows' Manager of Anti-Virus Research, Mr. Mikko Hyppönen. "However, we've been co-operating with Assembly organizers all along since 1993, and I'm sure of yet another success." "We do realise that the stereotype of a demo coder and the stereotype of a virus writer are pretty close to each other - both are often male teenagers who are experts with low-level programming." Continues Hyppönen. "That's why we want to promote a happening like Assembly, which shows these young people a way to use their programming talents in a safe and productive way." More information about Assembly '98 at http://www.assembly.org About Data Fellows Data Fellows is the world's leading data security development company with offices in San Jose, California, and Espoo, Finland. Its innovative, award winning F-Secure product range consists of a unique combination of strong encryption and revolutionary anti-virus software. Data Fellows has a support, training and distribution network covering over 80 countries around the world. Data Fellows is privately held. The annual growth in net sales has been close to 100% since the company was founded in 1988. Data Fellows belongs to an elite group of companies that have a triple-A credit rating from Dun&Bradstreet. For further information, please contact USA: Data Fellows Inc. Tel. (408) 938 6700 Fax. (408) 938 6701 Europe: Data Fellows Ltd. Tel. +358 9 859 900 Fax. +358 9 8599 0599 Also, visit the Data Fellows web site at http://www.DataFellows.com/ €€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€ Mia.Westerholm(a)DataFellows.com http://www.DataFellows.com Data Fellows Ltd. PL 24 FIN-02231 ESPOO, FINLAND Tel. +358 9 859 900 Fax. +358 9 8599 0599

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Lotus Notes signature / encryption
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Hi list members: Could someone kindly tell me about the drawbacks of the Lotus Notes signature / encryption system (export version)? Cheers.

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Linda Reed--PCC West Campus CSC <lreed@west.cscwc.pima.edu>: Re: Army of Dog - SPACE ALIENS HIDE MY DRUGS!!!
by one4evil＠juno.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I was asked to forward this message to the Cypherpunks list by Linda Reed...Who sent it to me as a responce to one of my e-mails...I know that by doing so, I risk being kicked, stomped, beated siverly amongst the neck and shoulders, and even flamed...But I think so many of us are not looking at the true messages involved in these 'spams'. Reed is makeing several REALLY good points...Given, Reed does rant a bit...And some of what is writen is just so much bullshit...But all of it, taken in context, is Truth (TM)... Let me make a suggestion to Reed and all others involved...There is a time and place for everything...The time for rEvolution, as Reed puts it, is _NOW!_ However, Cypherpunks is not the place...So does anyone know of any good e-lists that would love to get the ALIANS posts? Maybe your five minute's of thought on a way to help Reed will make everyone happy, Vs the hours some of us are spending complaining about the damn thing. D ___________________________________________________________________ ---Begin Forward Message--- The Geezinslaw Brothers, from Austin, TX, had a song called, "If You Think I'm Crazy Now, You Should Have Seen Me When I Was A Kid." I envy today's youngsters, who have the opportunity to participate in a Virtual Revolution that is every bit as serious, and will have consequences just as great as, any so-called World War that has ever been fought in the history of human evolutionary development. I envy them because they have, if they seize the opportunity, a chance to engage in rEvolutionary acts of Virtual anarchy, derring-do, war & violence which will not threaten the lives of those whose only crime is to be in the wrong place at the wrong time, physically, but will threaten only those whose crime is to be in their own mindspace, at the right time for them to be there, but refusing to allow others the same right. I do not pass judgement on Timothy McVeigh, any more than I pass judgement on Che Guerva, Louis Riel, Leonard Pelltier, or Ho Chi Min. They did what they had to do, and they used what they thought was the best judgment and tools of their day. Anyone who claims to judge a moral differnce between them and those they opposed is a fucking BeanCounter, and should be in line behind the lawyers when the firing squads line up. I wish that Timothy McVeigh could have done what he did within the confines of Digital Reality, on the InterNet, perhaps blowing a hole in the ElectroMagnetic Curtain that would allow the children to survive, but also allow them to glimpse what was on the other side of the wall, so that it could not be denied once the hole was closed. That was not to be... [KFor all of the sincere intent underlying my TruthSPAMing and RealityBlathering, I find myself at a loss to truly describe what I see as the importance of those entering the Digital/Global/Interactive Age that is being born to realize that *they* will be the ones who either allow the dinosaurs of the past to usurp the current rEvolution of human development, or to act as the Founding Fathers ojf a Global/Digital Democracy, recognizing that the dinosaurs are wearing red, marching in straight lines, and cussing out the shit-disturbers as cowards for hiding behind Digital Trees known as Remailers. The Great Myth is that there isn't enough to go around. Enough *what*? Money? - There's as much as we agree there is... Time? - I spent a good part of the day sitting on my ass... Love? - I love Janet Reno and Louis Free. They're great targets... Cadillacs? - Any President who proposed to block communism in southeast Asia would have been laughed out of office. It turns out that it would have saved us money and invigorated the auto industry. Cadillacs? - Any President who proposed to block communism in southeast Asia by buying everyone a Cadillac would have been laughed out of office. It turns out that it would have saved the US money and invigorated the auto industry. Freedom & Privacy? - Like Cadillacs, there is as much as we are willing to pay for. We are not going to be able to have it, however, until we are ready to make the giant leap of faith it takes to trust that $30,000 is better spent in promoting Freedom & Privacy, than buying another toilet seat for the Censorship CCoommiittee executive restroom. If there is enough BullShit to go around, then, according to the Eternal Laws of the Tao, there is enough Reality to go around, as well. Those who recognize the Reality that I profess as the TruthMonger might get the impression that I am attempting to hoard the Truth, because their isn't enough to go around. Nothing could be further from the Truth (TM)... I'm willing to share... As a matter of fact, I could use some of yours, since I'm starting to run a bit low, as a result of begining to believe my own press when others indicate that I am something special, because they agree with me, and thus I run the risk of becoming a Spokesperson For Consensus, franchising the TruthMonger persona, and speaking the EasyTruths in order to capture the mass-market when, in reality, I could retire quite comfortably from the income I receive from having Truth (TM) trademarked, since everyone who speaks the Truth (TM) currently has to send me a nickle, or I'll sue their sorry ass... One more beer, and I'll be losing it...so NoMoreMrNiceGuy... The Cold Hard Truth: Truth, Freedom, Privacy, Love, ad infinitum...all have a Cost! The LIE: That which we have an inherent Right to, should be Free! The Reality: Virtual/Conceptual/Idealistic Reality have a physical cost, but they also have spiritual earning power. Humans are both physical and spiritual beings... It 'costs' you $1.00 not to knock someone over the head with a rock when they are standing beside you at a bus stop with a dollar in your hand. Your soul appreciates $1.00 if you refrain from doing so... The choice is yours, and yours, alone. (Although my personal *opinion* as to the ethics/morality of your decision might vary depending on whether or not *I* am the person standing next to you at the bus stop.) I don't know how many soul-credits it cost Tim McVeigh to bomb the Murrah Federal Building, and I don't know how many soul-credits he earned for waking up government employees to the fact that their actions have consequences, as well. That is between Tim McVeigh and his Accountant. There is a Cost to telling the truth, to taking a stand, to refusing to be be oppressed/repressed in Virtual Reality. I have had my possessions confiscated and criminal charges filed against me as a result of speaking what I consider to be the truth, within the confines of CyberSpace. Freely speaking my mind has led to physical retribution against me. I can vouch for the fact that Freedom of Speech has a Cost. I am willing to pay that Cost... I am more than happy to pay whatever price it requires to be the TruthMonger, because that what is important to me. I'm not doing anyone any favors...I am doing what I feel it is my role to do. My definition of a Hero, is a person who does what they can, who fulfills the role that they have the capacity to fulfill. A man who charges a hill, and dies in the process, is a Hero if he does it because he looks around him and sees that it is his role, his time, his destiny. A man who charges a hill, and lives in the process, because of the expectations of others, is a fool. I have seen Heroes who charged the hill because they looked around them and saw Warriors who had families waiting for them, while they had none. I have seen Heroes who charged the hill when they knew it would likely result in their families waiting in vain for their return, because they knew that their actions would result in a dozen families not having to grieve the loss of a loved one. I don't expect todays CyberWarriors to get their asses shot off for thumbing their noses at authority--that is foolish. However, if you're sitting at your desk at the HeadQuarters of the Great Oppressor, and HeOrShe walks in, hands you the latest model of DeathRay, asking your opinio, and you decide to do something very, very foolish...I'll understand. All I'm saying is that Values, Concepts, Ideals, Ethics, all have a cost. Whatever you can contribute in the physical realm to help cover that cost is 100% deductible in the esoteric realm. Andy Warhol prophecied that everyone would receive their fifteen-minutes of Fame, in *his* future. TruthMonger's Prophecy is that, in HisOrHer future, everyone will get a shot at the Great Oppressor. Use it, or lose it... Love, Toto *********************** p.s. - I am currently writing on an early Sperry computer which has 128K of RAM, and can barely run WordPerfect 4.1, and then having to transfer it to Windows 3.0, to clean it up, before sending it to a hacked Unix account and transferring it via a VAX system to its destination. Thus I cannot cc: this without fucking it up, and I would appreciate it if you could send it to cypherpunks(a)toad.com so that I could download it tomorrow. p.p.s. - I have had a long, hard life, in which I have done some stupid things, some evil things, and some mindless things, but I've also done some things that are beyond fucking belief. Overall, life has been incredible, but I look upon the coming generation with envy, because there is a transition coming that--LOVEorHate/WARorPEACE/WINorLOSE--will give each and every particpant in the experience a chance to exit this mortal plane with a smile, and the words, "It's been Real (TM)." --------- End forwarded message ---------- _____________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com Or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866]

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FBI Tesla Files
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Jim, Maybe you know that the FBI offers about 256 pages of docouments related to Nikola Tesla on its FOIA Web site: HTTP://www.fbi.gov/foipa/hisfigs.htm#tesla They are in two large PDF files of 4.8MB and 5.8MB. In case you've not seen them here's a brief: None of the papers are by Tesla himself, and most relate to various inquiries about Tesla's "missing papers," based on O'Neil's book claim that the FBI confiscated Tesla's papers and effects shortly after his death. The FBI claims that it was the Alien Property Office which had Tesla's effects and that the FBI had not been involved. Several focus on Tesla's famous "Death Ray" of the 1940s, with requests for access to the scientific papers on it, or warn of its possible use by foreign enemies. To most the FBI sends a standard disavowal. However, one is of interest: a Feb 1981 inquiry by the Defense Department which stated in a then-classified paragraph: "(C) We believe that certain of Tesla's papers may contain basic principles which would be of considerable value to ongoing research within the DoD." The FBI answers that it never had Tesla's papers but reports that a review of those at the Alien Property Office by an MIT scientific team found that none of the papers contained significant scientific information of national security interest. Yet, the FBI goes on, the Alien Property Office told the FBI in the 1950s that in the only recorded visit to the Tesla archive in January 1943 (shortly after Tesla's death) an unidentified "Federal authority" microfilmed numerous papers, film whose whereabouts the FBI knows nothing. There's a bit more about electronic research at Wright Paterson AFB. And a DoD thank you letter on behalf of Dr. S. L. Zeiburg, Deputy Undersecretary (Strategic and Space Systems). A once-secret 1983 series investigated a claim that Margaret Cheney's biography of Tesla, "Tesla: Man Out of Time," points to national security threats based on allegations of Soviet development of his experiments using papers possibly obtained through his nephew, Sava Kosanovic, a high Yugoslav official. Many pages of Cheney's book marked at threatening passages on the "missing papers" are in the file.

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Daily News Thu Jul 2 '98
by STUFFED/EUREKA! 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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DOT and SSN's
by Lynne L. Harrison 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The Government Has Our Numbers by Lori Patel 4:00am 3.Jul.98.PDT Your banker has it. Your employer has it. Your insurer, the IRS, and, frankly, you can't remember who else has it. So what difference does it make if the US Department of Transportation joins the crowd asking to see your Social Security number? Recently, the department published its intention to require all states to verify Social Security numbers before issuing or renewing drivers' licenses. Depending on who one asks, the significance of this decision can swell or shrink like a top-notch special effect. "Fear of crime and terrorism has caused us to let down our guard against excessive intrusion into the lives of the law abiding. The ease of minor borrowing and the transformation of shopping into recreation has addicted us to credit cards," wrote New York Times columnist William Safire. "Taken together, the fear and the ease make a map of our lives available to cops, crazies, and con men alike." . . . http://www.wired.com/news/news/email/other/politics/story/13441.html

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

17 Dec '03

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