December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

CypherPunk Action Project #128
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Write a decent ISP monitoring tool and send it to all LEA's so that they don't FOOBAR my ISP and my account everytime they shit their cute little panties when I send out my !!!DEATH THREAT!!! emails to Congress (and a President to be named later). Or, in the alternative: Support GAK and VHM (Video Home Monitoring) on the condition that they let CypherPunks write the code so that we can at least keep the system functioning smoothly until they come for us. ('Old saying' of the future: "When Kent Crispin was Fuhrer, the email ran on time." )

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MD5 of CFS131, hacktic
by don＠cs.byu.edu 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >From: Andreas Bogk <andreas(a)artcom.de> >Please report any leakage of this software immediately to this list. >From: Mats Bergstrom <asgaard(a)sos.sll.se> >Try ftp://utopia.hacktic.nl/pub/replay/crypto/CRYPTOapps/cfs.1.3.tar.gz I diffed 1.3 that CFS that I got from att research. The package arrived to hacktic intact. I sent PGP-signed MD5 of 1.3.1 to utopia, but got this back: >From: Oliver Daudey <traveler(a)utopia.hacktic.nl> >Subject: Re: CFS 1.3.1 >Date: Mon, 30 Oct 1995 15:51:10 +0100 (MET) > >> I have done an md5 on the new cfs. (Everything after the cutmarks) >> Here it is. Hope you have it soon... >> >> 262b4c6fbec7c729e3e10292f5ea8afb cfs.1.3.1 >> >> Don > >Sorry, but I need something which is certified with the SSH distribution- >key (keyID DCB9AE01). Hmmmm ok. Well, I'll sign it again, for you Cpunks. If you get a different MD5 (this is everything AFTER the cutmarks) we can diff it. Don -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQB1AwUBMJhTJcLa+QKZS485AQHsIwL/fkh8d39uW8M7Fo/slO6Rbb42j7tneqz2 wcePuYqyjGFN93IfjPI0ew1jjNqnzI+je6C0dBhk4eTjN7xAFczTqe1U6+yAKZX5 DnX2waPV/i8Pva0NB0t5lzRfCaB1OM/r =8IC6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- <don(a)cs.byu.edu> fRee cRyPTo! jOin the hUnt or BE tHe PrEY PGP key - http://students.cs.byu.edu/~don or PubKey servers (0x994b8f39) June 7&14, 1995: 1st amendment repealed. Junk mail to root(a)127.0.0.1 * This user insured by the Smith, Wesson, & Zimmermann insurance company *

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RE: The great GAK crack (making GAK economically impossible) (fwd)
by Fisher Mark 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> I believe that any denial-of-service attack will simply drive up the costs >of licensing encryption programs and keys to the point that only >corporations will be able to afford to release encryption products and >purchase keys (in bulk). Remember, we have to pay them for the privelidge >(not right) of communicating "securely". If domestic GAK is mandated, my recommendation to my employer will be to not transmit anything via the Internet that we wouldn't want on the cover of The New York Times (or EE Times). As a U.S. subsidiary of a foreign corporation, I would not be surprised if our communications were decrypted and the contents passed along to our U.S. competitors if domestic GAK is mandated. (Can you say, "industrial espionage"? I knew you could.) ========================================================== Mark Leighton Fisher Thomson Consumer Electronics fisherm(a)indy.tce.com Indianapolis, IN "Their walls are built of cannon balls, their motto is 'Don't Tread on Me'"

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Re: Video as a source of randomness
by tcmay＠got.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 6:02 AM 11/2/95, Andrew D. Isaacson wrote: >A thought just occurred to me... > >How useful would it be to use a video stream as a source of random input >to something like /dev/random? I'm thinking along the lines of a >Connectix QuickCam (sp?) or the cool videocam that comes with the Indy. >It seems to me that the picture recieved by a camera sitting atop a >monitor would be quite unpredictable. (relatively) High bandwith, too. >Even if the entropy in a video signal is low, the high bandwidth would >seem to make up for it. > >Struggling to keep my head above the crypto tide, Digitized video input, especially from something like a noisy channel (t.v. channel, for example), is quite likely to produce a lot more entropy bits per second than nearly any of us ever need. (One's PGP key could be seeded in a fraction of a millisecond, for example.) The issue is that most people don't need this number of entropy bits per second, and that most people don't have video inputs. (And those that do may not have them hooked up and ready to go.) One of the basic ideas we have had, as Cypherpunks, is to encourage widespread methods. Any methods that need special hardware tend to not get widely used. Audio, video, disk timing, and all sorts of other sources of physical randomness are useful to have, but most people either won't have the right configuration or won't configure their systems so as to use their configuration. --Tim May, who has both audio and video digitizers built into his Power Macintosh 7100av, but notes that none of the crypto programs he uses has any provision for using them, and so he doesn't use them for crypto purposes. Views here are not the views of my Internet Service Provider or Government. ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay(a)got.net 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Higher Power: 2^756839 | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders are just speed bumps on the information superhighway."

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Was I censored before Cypherpunks?
by gjeffers＠socketis.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Was I censored by a sophisticated word parser/key word searcher?
by gjeffers＠socketis.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

My original plaintext post of Internet control by spooks has still not been posted. I have made 2 posts since that were posted quickly. Are things getting BAD!? Could I have fucked up? Do remailers now have a new use? Should remailers with encryption be used to spread the alarm to the rest of the Internet? My fellow Cypherpunks with bigger Internet mechanics brains should check this out. Can the original BLACKOUT post be reposted to other mailing lists or will it be censored? Check it out! - Beat State! - Gary Jeffers

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Re: Was I censored <etc.>
by tbyfield＠panix.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 3:15 AM 11/2/95, Gary Jeffers wrote: >My original plaintext post of Internet control by spooks has still not been >posted. I have made 2 posts since that were posted quickly. Are things >getting BAD!? Could I have fucked up? Do remailers now have a new use? <etc.> And at 4:45 am or so, having worked all bloody night--having received all the posts you mention--I'm responding: (1) Chill out, chum. (2) CP maybe isn't the best place to post internal dialogues. (3) There's a good chance that many people on this list have had one or another experience with automagically/mysteriously delayed mail: AFAICT, we're all still here. If you'd like, I'll confirm that I heard my echo from the listserv. and (4) If you live around the NY/NY area, give WFMU some money; and even if you don't, give them some money. If the spooks are ever stupid enough to "black out" the net, some fruit with very fine musical taste at FMU will let everyone know. But only with your support. Ted

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Re: From Bill Frezza: Electronic Warfare
by anon-remailer＠utopia.hacktic.nl 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On Tue, 31 Oct 1995, Bill Frezza <frezza(a)interramp.com> wrote: > Attached is a column that will appear on the op-ed page of tomorrow's > (10/30) Communications Week that was stimulated largely by a report filed > Cypherpunks mailing list (majordomo(a)toad.com) you can get some excellent list address is cypherpunks(a)toad.com list manager is majordomo(a)toad.com sending list mail to majordomo will not work > cyberspace. Heightened conflict is inevitable. Expect the rhetoric to get > a lot hotter as the government spinmeisters labor to keep us focused on > public enemies while frantically trying to keep its hand in every citizens > pocket and its eyes on every bankbook. the entire issue is not tied to money the gummint is not just looking for more money can't anyone from the media get it right better story than w$j can make though congratulations you're more clueful than the average media stooge

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Intel Committee Report on SAFE
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The House Select Committee on Intelligence has published its report on SAFE, including supporting and opposing views of its controversial amendment, estimated costs and analysis: http://jya.com/hr105-108-pt4.htm (195K)

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Happy Halloween!
by carolann＠censored.org 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

May you find happiness on the Yellow Brick Road of Cryptography. (costuming of the highest art) Love Always, Carol Anne -- Member Internet Society - Certified BETSI Programmer - Webmistress *********************************************************************** Carol Anne Braddock (cab8) carolann(a)censored.org 206.42.112.96 My Homepage The Cyberdoc *********************************************************************** ------------------ PGP.ZIP Part [017/713] ------------------- M8H,),S$8G>&.WP(8IRA`-M['+`Q%&_C"">5-F%LX@<_Q$;*P'',Q$Z/AA[8M MF=O0H+*%(-S%&>S%+FS&<LS%3(Q&#W1"<]2%`H^;,]^1C$'HBN8PX$4SYAU^ MPGD<Q0ZLA0D+,`MCT!LA**4M[-JPAK9F?40!AJ,CW"'%DR#:'9?Q)3[%<DQ` ------------------------------------------------------------- for next chunk to export --> http://dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/export/

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