December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: CIA & FBI, a marriage made in ___?
by Blanc Weber 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

From: Black Unicorn Uni: "The hinge question is what I, or you, mean by "concepts of law." What I understand by concepts of law is "methods of coercion & constraint". Uni: ". . . In my framework, I feel it is consistent to embrace the constitution and its doctrine while still resisting regulation." In my earlier statement, that "I'm not seeing the consistency in embracing the concepts of the law, while questioning the regulation of crypto through law enforcement", I was contrasting endorsing the use of coercion while at the same time resisting its use. In the framework of a lot of legislators, they would appear to embrace the doctrine of the Constitution while yet substituting mindless coercion for intelligent understanding of the intent of the Constitution. I don't think that it was the intent of this document to establish a more perfect government by those means. What is regulation, but the threat of the use of coercion & constraint? What is a domestic policy which does not involve regulation? That which is being regulated must appear to require this from having a potential for crime, in which case isn't this why it would be classified as a "crime problem" needing "political attention through law enforcement" (from their perspective)? Blanc

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Re: CIA & FBI, a marriage made in ___?
by Black Unicorn 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-> The constitutional requirement and the need for some coherent policy to be attached to grants explains why the Clipper and Digitel projects are hefted under the umbrella of the crime crisis. It allows huge federal grants (bigger now that the crime bill is law) to be "stringed" and these projects (Clipper etc.) to be "voluntarily encouraged" by the threat of withdrawal of government largess. (In this instance the crime bill grants). <- I should mention that the crime bill is still in joint commitee and not yet "law." At least I think that's the case. It's to early to check.

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Re: Random #'s via serial port dongle?
by smb＠research.att.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>This has probably been discussed before, but has anyone built a littl e >device that amplifies the white noise from a transistor junction, and >converts it into serial data? As Tim mentions, lots of people have talked about doing this, but few actually have. Nevertheless, the device is still needed and no one has done it. I estimate you could sell 500 at $50 each within four months if there were PGP support for it. And I'll give you advertising space on the archive site. Real random numbers should be a standard part of every computer. Absolutely. Given a choice between a hardware encryptor -- even a public key hardware encryptor -- and a true random number generator, I'd unhesitatingly choose the latter.

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spooks on cypherpunks
by Spooks-R-Us＠sersol.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>Don't worry about it your rep will be judged by contributions not trivial >accusations. > >Vaccinia(a)uncvx1.oit.unc.edu Thanks - I'll keep that in mind ;-)

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Re: Rings of Saturn (fwd)
by Spooks-R-Us＠sersol.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>The NSA among its other projects is trying to wangle a device that will >allow the access to the brain of PRZ to help them put a back door inside >PGP and the aliens want a sacrifice of 2^10 virgins for this. > ><sigh> > >We're all doomed..... > >Ben. Don't give up yet - after all, where are they going to find 2^10 virgins? (We in the islands gave up volcano sacrifices for the same reasons some time ago) -Jim

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Crypto books
by Karl Lui Barrus 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Next to it was anoher book on Cryptography, for $97.95 by "Rhee", I > didn't have pen/paper to get the details down, but it was hardback and > seemed to be a good compliement to "Applied Cryptography" as it delt > (almost purely from a quick browse) with the theroies and mathematics > of it, rather than giving C source code for bits and pieces. I have this book - "Cryptography and Secure Communications" by Man Young Rhee. It covers basic cryptography (number theory, DES, block ciphers, stream ciphers, public key systems) and also communications (BCH codes, Reed-Solomon Codes, Error control for cryptosystems). Late chapters cover more crypto protocols (authentication, digital signatures, ZKIP, smart cards, key management). The book is pretty good, but Schneier's book covers far more cryptographic protocols. This one seems to be a fusion of cryptography and error control coding. But then, the author's previous book was "Error Control Coding Theory." ;-) Karl Barrus klbarrus(a)owlnet.rice.edu -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.3a iQCVAgUBLcJ7o4OA7OpLWtYzAQHuDgP9FjafBBP6cXfTT7qqgSjVVc94zxGzGOVv 5IR79KxwE1VthSgJxY0L3RWJa77GjdM0CxN60nBPpQ5tt4MUpO+TSG9pWLz6lC85 tW7SDsJ6uiErdT2eCZ49mMi98QXlNyjp4aaVaSYpfIpoD4pTAvtnxmer0OAf8kKK XBl1Irt0/Ck= =oD1y -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Detweiler
by Paul Elliott 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>If Detweiler is a big nut. Why was he involved in the implementation of MacPGP >along with people like Atkins and Finney? >Reuben Halper >Montclair High Hey, I liked his FAQ on anonymity on the internet. But I understand that he has since gone off the deep end. Does any one have the details? What went wrong? I have a copy of the Jargon File and Tentacle is not listed. Surely cypherpunk words like tentacle and cypherpunk could be added. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Paul Elliott Telephone: 1-713-781-4543 Paul.Elliott(a)hrnowl.lonestar.org Address: 3987 South Gessner #224 Houston Texas 77063

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Re: Applied Cryptography
by snyderra＠dunx1.ocs.drexel.edu 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 2:31 PM 4/29/94 -0700, Christian D. Odhner wrote: >Applied Cryptography could easily be renamed 'the cypherpunk's bible' in >my opinion. It cost me about US$50, and it was definatly worth it. What >makes it valuable is that it's focus is on the implimentation of crypto, >not just the big math. It deals extensively with the different protocalls >as well as all the major algorithims. I recomend it highly. I ordered my copy about a week ago from the local Borders; it should be in fairly soon. From the discussion here (and the export controls WWW page) I understand a disk can be purchased with the code on it. Where do you order this from? I tried emailing Bruce Schneier, but he's out of the country for the next few months, so..... Bob -- Bob Snyder N2KGO MIME, RIPEM mail accepted snyderra(a)dunx1.ocs.drexel.edu finger for RIPEM public key When cryptography is outlawed, bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl.

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Re: Constitution and Contract [Was: CIA & FBI]
by Black Unicorn 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-> actually, it is just a piece of paper. Burn the paper it's all gone. 4!/4! +-0 Bye all <- It's too bad despondancy has sunk to this, your, level.

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Secure Drive is now obsolete
by Mike Ingle 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Secure Drive, the disk encryption system written by me and improved by Edgar Swank, has been completely rewritten by two programmers in the Netherlands, Max Loewenthal and Arthur Helwig. I was not aware of this until I saw the program yesterday. They changed it to Secure Device. It still uses the IDEA algorithm, but you no longer have to create a partition! Secure Device uses a file as a phantom partition, like Stacker or inDiskreet. It has a .SYS driver of about 6K. There is a login program, or you can use another TSR which does a pop-up login prompt. There is also keyboard logout and time-delay logout. Another advantage of Secure Device is ease of backup. You just backup the container file onto your tape, and the data stays encrypted. Secure Device includes source code and is copylefted. FTP wuarchive.wustl.edu, /pub/MSDOS_UPLOADS/cryptography/secdev11.arj. --- Mike

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