December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

RC
by A. Padgett Peterson P.E. Information Security 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

And might I point out that "RC" has been the registered trademark of the Royal Crown Bottling Company since long before Mr. R... P.fla

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[South SF Bay Area] PLAY ANNOUNCEMENT: "Breaking the Code" (fwd)
by Rich Graves 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

FYI. Might be amusing. I'll probably go, if I can find a free moment. -rich The Dream Team ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: 25 Feb 1996 20:55:33 -0500 From: Michael Deleon <deleon(a)rahul.net> Newgroups: ba.announce, ba.motss, rec.arts.theatre.plays Subject: PLAY ANNOUNCEMENT: "Breaking the Code" Menlo Players Guild Presents BREAKING THE CODE by Hugh Whitemore Based on the Book: Alan Turing: The Enigma by Andrew Hodges The private life of an extraordinary and brilliant man becomes the means of his destruction in this dramatic story, which won acclaim on Broadway. At its center is Alan Turing, the mathematician and British war hero who broke the famous German Enigma Code, giving the Allies the key to winning World War II, and yet was persecuted by his government for his sexual orientation. This portrait of a complex, visionary man torn by society's conflicting rules is chillingly powerful. February 23 - March 16 Thurs-Sat, 8pm Sunday March 10 at 2:30 Burgess Theatre, 601 Laurel Street, Menlo Park Tickets and info call (415) 322-3261 Visit our web page at http://www.best.com/~carjack

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Re: Remember, RC4 is now PC1 (fwd)
by Alan Olsen 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 09:08 PM 2/26/96 -0500, you wrote: >The latest version of ssh has something named "arcfour, which is a >cipher based on a usenet posting in Spring-1995. It is widely >believed and has been tested to be equivalent with RC4. (RC4 is a >trademark of RSA Data Security." Then they will get sued by SeaWare saying it conflicts with their trademark for .arc format compression. Maybe someone should go into the business of "Trademark Collision Insurance(tm)". It seems that no matter what you do, everything(tm) is trademarked nowadays. (TCMAY(tm) and "Cypherpunks(tm)" are a trademark of "Tentacles R Us(tm)", a division of "Evil Incarnate International(tm)".) | Remember: Life is not always champagne. Sometimes it is REAL pain. | |"The moral PGP Diffie taught Zimmermann unites all| Disclaimer: | | mankind free in one-key-steganography-privacy!" | Ignore the man | |`finger -l alano(a)teleport.com` for PGP 2.6.2 key | behind the keyboard.| | http://www.teleport.com/~alano/ | alano(a)teleport.com |

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Re: Ass. Politics
by tbyfield＠panix.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 7:02 PM 2/26/96, jim bell wrote: >>Salman Rushdie, in a speech I heard several years ago, said that it was <...> >A few people who basically seem to oppose my idea ("Assassination Politics") >try to use the Rushdie example as being some sort of "evidence" why it Has anyone considered using jim bell as a source of randomness?

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SSH for Windows update?
by Ed Carp 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The SSH Windows client stopped working on Feb. 9. Anyone either have another version that works now or another SSH client for Windows? Anyone know if Tatu's client is ready yet? Thanks in advance. :) -- Ed Carp, N7EKG Ed.Carp(a)linux.org, ecarp(a)netcom.com 214/993-3935 voicemail/digital pager 800/558-3408 SkyPager Finger ecarp(a)netcom.com for PGP 2.5 public key an88744(a)anon.penet.fi "Past the wounds of childhood, past the fallen dreams and the broken families, through the hurt and the loss and the agony only the night ever hears, is a waiting soul. Patient, permanent, abundant, it opens its infinite heart and asks only one thing of you ... 'Remember who it is you really are.'" -- "Losing Your Mind", Karen Alexander and Rick Boyes The mark of a good conspiracy theory is its untestability. -- Andrew Spring

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Perl T-shirt makes the big time
by anon-remailer＠utopia.hacktic.nl 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Spotted in an NSA contractor's office: a column from InfoWeek or some such rag about the RSA-Perl T-shirt. Said column hijacked May's idea that shirting was trivial and turned it on ear-- ITAR is routinely being violated and no one cares. NSA-heads said they got article by fax from the Death Star in Ft. Meade. Wonder how many black-clad Perl-toters there are on the reservation.

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PHO_ton
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

New Scientist, 24 February 1996: "Trick of the light fools forgers." Researchers at U-Conn Storrs are developing security systems that use a new kind of invisible code -- the phase of light. A transparent phase mask over a photo on a credit card would make it very difficult to forge. The authenticity of the card is checked by a reader composed of a laser light source and a device called an optical correlator. Bahram Javidi, leading Storrs researcher, will publish the latest findings in SPIE proceedings, called "Optical Security and Counterfeit Deterrent Techniques" (v 2659). "Good connections, quantum style." For quantum computers of the future, any "noise" in the connection between sender and receiver could prove disastrous. The problem is that the data in such computers will be held in the form of individual photons and, since quantum theory states that they cannot be checked because the mere act of measuring them will transform them, every error that creeps in will go uncorrected. Now IBM researchers have come up with a way to make the connection crystal clear (PRL, v 76, p 722). [Cf. recent thread "IBM's Breakthrough."] PHO_ton

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Re: Numbers don't lie...
by jamesd＠echeque.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 11:18 AM 2/18/96 -0500, A. Padgett Peterson P.E. Information Security wrote: >The second point is that their scalability seems to be based on costs per >chip alone, cost for which the engineering cost has been recovered and for >which the yeild is significant, hardly givens when you are talking pushing >the state of the art, given this 200 Mhz Pentiums would be U$10.00 also >(well, maybe U$25.00). Doubtless that is why they assume chips that are very far from state of the art: Since interprocess communication is trivial for key cracking, you are better off using large numbers of cheap chips, than smaller numbers of good chips. >Finally, no cost is allocated to the sustem required to program/evaluate >the ponderings of these 100's of ASICs. As anyone who has ever programmed >a massively parallel computer (which is what they are talking about in their >brute force machine, it is the boundary communications that kill you. Again: Interprocess communication is trivial. A brute force key cracking machine is *not* a general purpose massively parallel computer. Suppose you have a million chips. Each chip tries keys. A few bytes of the plaintext, headers and stuff are known. Assume eight bytes known. Then we could handle the interprocess communication with a single desktop computer. --------------------------------------------------------------------- | We have the right to defend ourselves | http://www.jim.com/jamesd/ and our property, because of the kind | of animals that we are. True law | James A. Donald derives from this right, not from the | arbitrary power of the state. | jamesd(a)echeque.com

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CDA Strikes.
by Ludwig von Drakenberg III 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Read this in http://www.zippo.com/editor.htm. > So what's the plan....man ? > > So the CDA has come to pass and we need to move on. People will test the > constitutionality of bits and pieces of the Telecom Law, a conservative > supreme court will find the law valid, or refuse to review it. Things will never > be the same. For those who think they will be, or the for the" Don't worry, > President Clinton won't enforce the law" crowd, Friday marked the first arrest > under the new law. They picked an unsympathetic figure, twice before > convicted child pornographer, and got him for illegal data transmission over > the Internet. > Next time it won't be such an unsympathetic figure. It will be some ISP, > minding their own business, not knowing they have a user that didn't read the > rules. They'll spend a year in federal court, defending their postion based on > not knowing they comitted a crime. In the end, they will win, but they'll be > broke, and out of the business. Won't happen to large providers, too political, > and they have the resources to do all of the CDA compliance window decorating. -- Ludwig von Drakenberg III God *is* the dice of the universe. drake(a)servidor.unam.mx My goddess gave birth to your god. Facultad de Ciencias, UNAM Fuck the CDA -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Version: 2.6 mQCNAzExbCgAAAEEAONJqT5AeaOg29oT2WXzpgkMQ/BxZXCiduJsOAWRRIPlkOQc 7RN2ooQKJmvHamhoaXktoIbmpK3fkPoEt4OONDtncmOKQKKKl9BgifUW9lO1msRp W0WIGZ9wTlX/1j6RTcdAEEWqWlBi4xz8A7a3MJdoIANPOV1Zs6HEQwyN9No5AAUR tCpFZHVhcmRvIEVzY2FsYW50ZSA8ZHJha2VAc2Vydmlkb3IudW5hbS5teD4= =nmxM -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----

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Re: "Physical Reality"
by Duncan Frissell 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 08:41 AM 2/28/96 +1100, Mark wrote: >I dislike having to follow up something so unrelated, but the bad boys are the >criminals, the song is about what will you do when the cops come for you. >The cops are not the "bad boys" in the song. Trust me. > >Mark > Actually, the song is deliberately ambiguous. Because the phrase "Bad Boys" is repeated at both ends of the verse, you can't tell whether it refers to the cops or perps or both. I don't know the origin of the song but I recall in life or in fiction a special (Las Vegas?) police unit that called itself the Bad Boys. Certainly the Bad=Good reversal is well established in popular culture. DCF

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