December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Pretty Lousy Privacy PasSword--'cyherpunks' / Norman encryption
by The Arthur 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Yarnell does it again...
by yarnellsnewmlm＠bigfoot.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Please Help!
by C.J. Parker 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Poor little C.J. Parker will go to bed 'legal' tonight, unless some kind soul has spare Canadian WebSpace that they can bum him, in order to violate portions of the Canada Criminal Code by indulging in a pathetic, whining diatribe of self-hate and victimization. Surely there is some kind multiple-felon who is willing to give up a small portion of their own future court time in order to help a less fortunate individual with only a meager supply of pending criminal charges to sleep soundly tonight, knowing that he will not have to face the pain and humiliation that comes from being a decent, law- abiding Canadian CypherPunk. THE OFFICIAL C.J. PARKER HATE PAGE ------------------------------------------------ "His bad self-image and low self-esteem, and the knowledge that he had come by them honestly..." ~Excert from 'Space Aliens Hide My Drugs' KUDOS OF THE WEEK go to Revenue Canada Customs and Excise Thug, Bill Mitschill, who legally stole the tools of freedom used by C.J. Parker to Author chapters of a manuscript designed to kick down the doors of perception and lead to the violent overthrow of Perceived MeatSpace Reality (TM). Parker, unknown as the Author of socially deviant UCE/SPAMs such as "How To Make BIG $$$ Sitting At Home, Licking Your Own Dick!," was given a stiff dose of reality by Offal Sir MitSchill and his partner, who put on a blatant show of government disregard for the Legal and Charter Rights of its PawnIzens by not even bothering to tell Good Lies (TM) while widening Parker's asshole in preparation for the beginning of the RCMP Special Greco-Olympic Games. Congrats, Bill. A hundred points for stealing Parker's computer, and five hundred points for gathering photocopied evidence linking Parker to the biological warfare terrorists who rebelled against the King's Revenue agents by dumping terroroist tea into Boston Harbor, and then assaulted and murdered members of the King's LEAs during the lawful performance of their duties, while following proper Royalist procedure. This is a good time to remind Parker Haters (TM) across North America that, despite our long history of applying strong negative labels to him for deviating from the Norm (TM) (and even stronger electroshocks to his brain), that current social and legal trends give us plenty of leeway to ignore his Legal and Charter Rights when sticking a cold, hard one up his butt to hammer him into line with the other NailIzens. The RCMP officers of the Wild, Wild Nor'West continue to lead the way in keeping social deviants constantly on the run, no matter how far from MeatSpace they run to try to escape. You will undoubtedly remember last year's article about members of the Yorkton RCMP who planted drugs in a sting operation designed to set a transient felon visiting C.J. Parker, and then decided that Parker's unconventional lifestyle made him a perfect dupe for prosecution, when it turned out that duuhhh Mountie's ignorance of the laws they are paid to enforce precluded prosecuting the original target of their illegal sting operation. Well, Parker Haters (TM) can rest assured that C.J. Parker (aka - Toto, TruthMonger #0, #1, #709) is currently having his ass kicked back, from his mind's hiding space deep within the bowels of InterNet Free Terra, to the boundaries of MeatSpace, within which his imprisoned ass and mind can only gaze wistfully at those still living freely on the far side of the ElectroMagnetic Curtain which was slammed down around his Illegal Mind (TM) by the confiscation of his computer and the Digital Murder of his Sympatico WebSite. The Regina (can I *say* that on the InterNet?) RCMP are to be applauded for their arrogant, oppressive reminder to Parker that their willingness to lie on the witness stand, threated defense witnesses and run them out of town, as well as pile mountains of bogus charges on his head, mean that Parker's sorry ass is grass, unless he defers to the wishes of the Mounties defending the home of the AssMan, and sits his mind down in society's chair, straightens up his mind, and quits mentally fidgetting. Today's Humor: "First He came for Adam and Eve, but there were not yet any other humans on the earth, so there was nobody to speak up. "Then They came for Jane and Joe Sheeple, but they were too busy focusing on the meager piles of hay used to lure them into the feeding pen to notice the SlaughterHaus next door, so nobody bleated. "Then They came for the TruthMongers, and I was a TruthMonger, so I began eating an *enormous* amount of beans..." ~Constable TruthMonger (BigLoser Inside) (c) 1998, C.J. PARKER ("Hating myself since 1949")

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Amusing takeoff of Zimmermann Telegram
by Philip Zimmermann 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I thought this was a pretty funny takeoff of the famous Zimmermann Telegram. Apparently this was already sent to the cypherpunks list, but I just thought that since it made me laugh out loud, maybe I could laugh out loud on the list. :-D --prz >Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1998 15:03:22 -0600 >From: The Arthur <ta(a)dev.null> >Reply-To: ta(a)dev.null >MIME-Version: 1.0 >To: cypherpunks(a)toad.com >CC: Alexander Szek <as(a)dev.null>, Nigel de Gray <ndg(a)dev.null>, > Reverend William Mongomery <rwm(a)dev.null> >Subject: Pretty Lousy Privacy PasSword--'cyherpunks' / Norman encryption > >*** >*** PGP Signature Status: not verified (signing key missing) >*** Signer: 0x53F2F291 >*** Signed: N/A at N/A >*** Verified: 4/13/98 at 21:20 >*** > >Bienfait to Toad: > > Most private for PRZ's personal information and to be handed to the > > Eternal Iminister in (?) England with...by a pretty private route. > > > > We propose to begin on the 19 April an unrestricted subliminal > > InfoWar fair. > > We shall endeavour, in spite of this, to keep MeatSpace neutral. > > In the event of this not succeeding we shall make Austin a proposal > > of alliance on the following basis; make InfoWar together, smoke the > > peace piple together, generous bandwidth support, and an understanding > > that Austin is to reconquer their lost territory in Freedom, Liberty > > and Privacy. The settlement in detail is left to you. > > > > You will inform the Webmaster, that is Webmaster Choate of Austin, > > of the above most privately as soon as the outbreak of war with > > MeatSpace is certain, and add the suggestion that he should on his > > own initiative invite 2600 to immediate adherence and at the same > > time mediate between 2600 and ourselves. > > Please call the WebMaster's attention to the fact that the ruthless > > employment of our sublimarines offers the prospect of compelling > > BeaverSpace to peace. > > > > Acknowledge receipt with two-word reply... > > > > The Arthur > > >

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$ THIS REALLY WORKS !!! -AFOI
by john.sabiz1＠JEDI.juno.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Netcenter News - April Special Edition
by netcenter-news＠netscape.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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WOW-COM News Update
by owner-wow-com-news-update＠nmpinc.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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NYT on GSM Hack
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The New York Times, April 14, 1998, pp. D1, D5. Researchers Crack Code In Cell Phones Weakened Encryption Raises Security Concern By John Markoff San Francisco, April 13 -- In successfully cracking a widely used encryption method designed to prevent the cloning of digital cellular phones, a group of University of California computer researchers believe they have stumbled across evidence that the system was deliberately weakened to permit Government surveillance. The method that was cracked is known as G.S.M., for the Groupe Speciale Mobile standard. The world's most widely used encryption system for cellular phones, G.S.M. is employed in about 80 million of the devices worldwide and by as many as two million phones in the United States. Most of the 58 million American analog and digital cell phones are based on a variety of other methods, but 20 American cellular phone companies, including Pacific Bell, a unit of SBC Communications Inc., and the Omnipoint Corporation, use the G.S.M. standard. Two researchers at the University of California at Berkeley announced today that they had successfully broken the G.S.M. method by using a computer to determine a secret identity number stored in the Subscriber Identity Module, or S.I.M., a credit card-like device inside the phone. If criminals were to crack the method, they could "clone" phones protected by G.S.M. encryption -- that is, detect a phone's number and use it in another phone to fraudulently bill calls. However, both the researchers and cellular telephone company officials said today that the cloning threat was extremely remote compared with the vulnerability of analog cellular phones. For one thing, they said, cracking G.S.M. had required almost 10 hours of electronic probing and high-powered computing. What was even more intriguing than the security threat, however, was that cracking the code yielded a tantalizing hint that a digital key used by G.S.M. may have been intentionally weakened during the design process to permit Government agencies to eavesdrop on cellular telephone conversations. Although the key, known as A5, is a 64-bit encryption system -- generally an extremely difficult code to crack -- the researchers determined that the last 10 digits were actually zeros. That means that with the powerful computers available to national intelligence agencies, it would be possible to decode a voice conversation relatively quickly, said Marc Briceno, director of the Smartcard Developers Association, a small programmers organization. "It appears the key was intentionally weakened," he said. "I can't think of any other reason for what they did." For years, the computer industry has been rife with rumors about encryption designers having been persuaded or forced by Government spy agencies to mathematically weaken communications security systems or to install secret backdoors. Some of the rumors even have the National Security Agency or the Central Intelligence Agency posing as cryptographers, designing the encryption programs themselves and then releasing them -- all to insure that they could decode data or phone conversations. Such rumors are fed, in part, by the hazy origins of the G.S.M. system. Industry cryptographic experts said that the underlying mathematical formulas, or algorithms, in G.S.M.'s encryption design were thought to have originated in either Germany or France as part of the creation of the standard in 1986 and 1987. But other than today's hint of an intentionally weakened system, little evidence has ever emerged to support speculation, and the researchers' suspicions were not universally endorsed. "It's possible there are other reasons for doing this," Stewart Baker, a Washington lawyer who was formerly a lawyer for the National Security Agency, said. The N.S.A. is one of the agencies most often suspected of such schemes because a major part of its mission is to intercept telephone calls. "Speculation is easy, and it never dies," Mr. Baker said. Even so, most industry experts could think of no good reason why an encryption algorithm key would be intentionally shortened, other than to facilitate surveillance. "This was deliberately weakened," said Phil Karn, an engineer at Qualcomm Inc., a cellular telephone manufacturer that has developed an alternative standard to G.S.M. "Who do you think would be interested in doing something like this?" The weakened key was discovered by two researchers, Ian Goldberg and David Wagner, both members of the University of California at Berkeley's Internet Security Applications, Authentication and Cryptography Group, with the aid of Mr. Briceno. They stressed that they had easily detected the security flaw that could make digital cellular phones vulnerable to cloning. Cloning has been a costly fraud problem for.many years. But digital phones are widely believed to be immune from cloning. In San Francisco, Pacific Bell's billboard advertisements depict a sheep and a cell phone and boast that of the two only the cell phone cannot be cloned. Cellular telephone industry executives acknowledged the flaw in G.S.M. but said it actually reinforced their claims about the security of digital telephones. "My hat goes off to these guys they did some great work," said George Schmitt, president of Omnipoint. "I'll give them credit, but we're not at any risk of fraud." The researchers and the Smartcard Developers Association said that the successful attack was new evidence of the shortcomings of a widespread industry practice of keeping security techniques hidden from public review. Real security, they argue, requires publication of the algorithms so that independent experts can verify the strength of the systems. "This shows yet again a failure of a closed design process," Mr. Briceno said. "These companies pride themselves on their security, but now the chickens are coming home to roost." [End]

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by maildirect＠mailcity.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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17 Dec '03

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