December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: Beware of Roman Catholic Corruption
by nobody＠shell.portal.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Ralph.Stokes(a)f1611.n375.z1.fidonet.org (Ralph Stokes) Spammed thusly: > Beware of the Satanic conspiracy of the WHORISH Roman Catholic Church. The > Pope and his puppets have attempted to infiltrate and subvert the > Protestant Christian church using corrupt modern translations of the Bible. > These are nothing more than religious filth that have spewed forth from the ^^^^^^ > deceitful pens of Satan-inspired men in league with the Vatican. Intersting word, "spewed". It's a synonym for "vomited". If you'd get your head out of your ass and out of the 17th century, you'd realize that the slang expression "to Ralph" also refers to vomiting. And that's exactly what you've done all over the Internet, RALPH! --- piss-ass stuff deleted --- > Don't let them lure you into following them into Hell. ^^^^ Like any fire, it would require STOKing, would it not? Gee, you were sort of appropriately named, weren't you? When somebody asks what your job is in Hell, it can be said Ralph stokes. --- more ass dung nuked --- > For further information regarding this damnable Satanic conspiracy, contact > me: > > Ralph Stokes, sysop King James Bible BBS, Millbrook, AL > Internet address: ralph.stokes(a)f1611.n375.z1.fidonet.org > Fidonet address: Ralph Stokes (1:375/1611) > BBS #: (205) 285-5948 Those who have endured your incessant blathering over in Fido land tell me that you've said a few quotable things, such as "G-d is a Devil", "El Shaddai is Satan", and "all the words in the King James Bible are God's pure words, including 'pisseth', 'ass', 'bastard', and 'dung'". Therefore, I've tried to avoid "profanity" in my response and use only the words that you consider "pure". Thus' let me say, "Pisseth upon thy ass, thou bastard who eateth dung". May your wife (if you can even attract/keep one) "Bobbitize" you. Can I recommend a good doctor? Kevorkian! Go thou and fornicate thyself. Thou shalt not "Spam" the Internet/Usenet! Go back and play in the Fidonet sandbox until you learn how to play nicely with the big kids...

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No Subject
by Jef Poskanzer 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>1.C How about if we take the hiss that you find between stations on an >FM receiver, and digitize them through a PC soundcard? Hmm. And if an attacker discovers you're using this method, and decides to send out a signal on the same frequency? You might find your "random" numbers are suddenly all zeros... --- Jef

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Re: Having your own computer means never having....
by wcs＠anchor.ho.att.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> >Beyond that, unrestrained encryption is dangerous to corporations, because > >what's to stop a ticked off employee from encrypting everything in the office > > What to stop him/her from shredding everything in the office? This is a > personnel/legal problem; there's nothing special about the use of > cryptography (except that it might be reversable). Reversability is the main difference - the disgruntled fired ex-sysadmin can encrypt everything and promise to restore it for big bucks plus amnesty. On the other hand, hiding the backup tapes and shredding everything is relatively reversable as well, and has the advantage that you can threaten to sell it to the competitors, so it's not much different. When I was an undergrad, an ex-sysadmin left the University, and a week or so after he was gone, the database system announced that it would self-destruct in a week. They had to keep the system shut down for a couple of weeks and change the system clock while they hunted for the time-bomb, and the same sort of thing could be done in many modern systems without crypto, though crypto makes it easier.

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something I've always wondered
by jim＠bilbo.suite.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Does DES (or name your favorite encryption algorithm) produce as output all possible cyphertexts of length L, given all possible conbinations of keys and plaintexts of length L? Since there are more combinations of key and plaintext than there are possible cyphertexts outputs of length L, you know there must be some combinations of key and plaintext that produce the same cyphertext. Just curious, Jim_Miller(a)suite.com

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OJ's cellphone again (Bay Area Article)
by jamiel＠sybase.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The San Francisco Chronicle has an article on the front page about cellphone tapping/snooping as a tie in to the O J Simpson case. No time for comment or retyping, just providing a pointer. -j

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DE-crypting (trivial case)
by dwomack＠runner.utsa.edu 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Fellow C'punks: I was wondering if anyone knew of software that does decryption of weakly encrypted messages, i.e., similar to ROT13, but perhaps ROT(x) where 0<x<26? Or maybe a bit more sophisticated, but not even at the single DES level? Also...anyone know of any histogram software? i.e., I input a file, it counts how many letters of each type, and outputs it in a table and/or a graph? If not, I'll have to (horrors!) write code! Kindest regards, Dave

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Re: (None)
by lefty＠apple.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>> I was on a trip out of town a while back... as soon as I crossed >> into another cellular network boundary, I got a call from the >> provider's sales droid, telling me how to use their service. They >> _are_ tracking individual phone movement, IMHO. > Not just IMHO... They are tracking individual phone movement. I know >this for fact. What happens is this: When you are out driving, your phone >is constantly checking the local zone for strength. When the strength goes >down, or signal quality is too low, it scans for a new zone. Then it "logs >in" to the new zone while "logging out" of the old zone. > > Big cities, like LA, have ALOT of zones, none of which are all that >big. By knowing which zone one is in, one is leaving, and one is entering, >it is very easy to determine where someone is, especially if that zone >tracks along a major highway. Then, it's just a matter of time until he's >found. Forgive my ignorance, since I've always viewed cellular phones as being overpriced toys, but if the cellular network _didn't_ track the location of a given phone how could it route incoming calls to it? Some friends who were visiting from New Mexico this weekend told me they had to inform their service provider of where they were going to be so they could receive calls on their cellular phone. We've played with wireless mobile networking around here, and routers need to keep track of individual nodes as they move around. Are cellular phones different? Am I missing something here? -- Lefty (lefty(a)apple.com) C:.M:.C:., D:.O:.D:.

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Re: Another Cellular Vict
by Duncan Frissell 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

To: cypherpunks(a)toad.com C.>No doubt this will eventually be marketed as a feature you can pay C.>extra for... intended so people can track their spouses' movements C.>so they know when they're getting home, if they're stuck in a traffic C.>jam, etc. Bell Atlantic already announced a joint venture with one of the electronic navigation companies to supply drivers with position info using cellular triangulation. DCF --- WinQwk 2.0b#1165

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OJ`S CELL PHONE
by bmorris＠netcom.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

To: cypherpunks(a)toad.com >From the L.A. Times Sunday 6/19 Fugitive Relied On And Was Undone By Cellular Phone ... Law enforcement officials subpoenaed the company ( AirTouch Cellular ) for assistance in tracking down O J Simpson. Technicians began monitoring calls made to and from the white Bronco. ... Even if an eyewitness had not spotted the vehicle, such monitoring would have made Simpson's capture inevitable. ... Technicians in the tracking station can, if necessary, track a particular call back to the cell site from which it originates. But the monitoring can not be done unless the phone is in use. [ Is that true? ] * RM 1.4 B0037 *

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Re: Chained Remailing Strategy and Tactics
by fnerd＠smds.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

anonymous says- > In order to preserve anonymity and thwart traffic analysis in > chained remailings, it would seem useful to include a very BUSY > remailer in the chain, and try to ensure that the message arrives > at the busiest time of the day for that remailer, from a traffic > standpoint. Hitting a remailer at a slack time when, let's say, > only one message arrives over a period of several hours would > seem most unwise. The problem for someone trying to trace a message is, which of some set of outgoing messages matches this incoming message? (Or vice-versa.) The size of the set of possibilities determines how much uncertainty is introduced. If the remailer works by delaying messages a random amount of time up to a maximum, then the number of possibilities varies with the traffic. But if the remailer works in terms of sequence instead of time, it can hold the size of the set of possibilities constant (which makes the maximum delay time vary as a side effect). So, sequence, not clock time, is what matters (or ought to), all other things being equal, and there's no reason a remailer should be any less effective in low traffic periods. -fnerd - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - the liquidy snack that drinks like a beverage! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.3a aKxB8nktcBAeQHabQP/d7yhWgpGZBIoIqII8cY9nG55HYHgvt3niQCVAgUBLMs3K ui6XaCZmKH68fOWYYySKAzPkXyfYKnOlzsIjp2tPEot1Q5A3/n54PBKrUDN9tHVz 3Ch466q9EKUuDulTU6OLsilzmRvQJn0EJhzd4pht6hSnC1R3seYNhUYhoJViCcCG sRjLQs4iVVM= =9wqs -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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