December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

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by Mike Howell 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Does anybody know where I can get good scanning program. Thanks a lot, 451 degree :-)

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Re: Weird "Suppression" messages
by Alan Olsen 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 10:36 PM 8/23/96 -0700, Z.B. wrote: >On Fri, 23 Aug 1996, Alan Olsen wrote: > >> At 10:54 PM 8/20/96 -0700, Rich Graves wrote: >> > ----- Message body suppressed ----- >> > >> >--SAA08114.840765294/tera.mcom.com-- >> >> This is bizzare. I have gotten three messages with this message. >> >> Is someone at Netscape canceling messages? (mcom.com is the old domain name >> of Netscape.) >> >> Anyone have any ideas on this? > >I don't have a clue what it is, but it's sure pissing me off. I've >gotten about 15 or so of these messages in the past two hours. If it's >an honest error, then someone better fix it real fast; if some loser is >jerking us around, ...... Some list redirector of somesort has gone wonky at Netscape. (Take a look at the headers if you do not believe me. They are originating off of some internal lists at mcom.com, the original Netscape domain.) Cypherpunks is not the only list effected by this. I am getting these weird messages on wwwsecurity as well. Since it is Friday, I expect that this will be with us until someone gets in the office on Monday. --- | "Remember: You can't have BSDM without BSD. - alan(a)ctrl-alt-del.com "| |"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: "----- Message body suppressed -----"
by Lou Zirko 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- To: alano(a)teleport.com, cypherpunks(a)toad.com Date: Fri Aug 23 22:43:00 1996 I just got 17 more in the last 30 minutes. They appear to match messages delivered already as per sender, subject and time. The only common issue I see it toad. I have copied a set below. - ------------ FULL Message Return-Path: cypherpunks-errors(a)toad.com Received: from toad.com (toad.com [140.174.2.1]) by infinity.c2.org (8.7.4/8.6.9) with ESMTP Received: (from majordom@localhost) by toad.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id GAA15937 for cypherpunks-outgoing; Thu, 22 Aug 1996 06:57:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from big.aa.net (root(a)big.aa.net [204.157.220.2]) by toad.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id GAA15932 for <cypherpunks(a)toad.com>; Thu, 22 Aug 1996 06:57:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fozzy.aa.net (moon-c24.aa.net [204.157.220.124]) by big.aa.net (8.7/8.7.5) with SMTP id GAA06741 for <cypherpunks(a)toad.com>; Thu, 22 Aug 1996 06:57:16 -0700 X-UIDL: 840751255.041 X-Intended-For: <cypherpunks(a)toad.com> From: blane(a)aa.net (Brian C. Lane) To: cypherpunks(a)toad.com Subject: SpamBot Date: Thu, 22 Aug 1996 13:56:22 GMT Organization: Nexus Computing Reply-To: blane(a)aa.net Message-ID: <321c65db.721494(a)mail.aa.net> X-Mailer: Forte Agent .99e/16.227 Sender: owner-cypherpunks(a)toad.com Precedence: bulk Well, with all the other noise in the list lately, I'll add a little of my own. I woke up today to find my mailbox filled with 20 messages from a 'careernetonline.com' offering to spread my resume across the net for $60. It was one of those terrorist spams where they apologize for wasting your time and tell you that you can stop getting spammed by replying to the message. Well, I really hate giving in to terrorists, no matter what form they take. And I'm sick and tired of spam. So, I'm starting a project called SpamBot. You feed it a message and a list of addresses and the bot send the message to those addresses until they reply with an appropriate message indicating that they are at least looking into the problem. Some people may say that this is sinking to their level. So it is, but I think its time that system administrators realized that there are people who don't appreciate being the target for shotgun marketing schemes (none of which have been of any use to me). Watch my webpage for more info on this helpful little bot. Brian - ------- <blane(a)aa.net> -------------------- <http://www.aa.net/~blane> - ------- "Extremism in the defense of Liberty is no vice" - B. Goldwater ============== 11 99 3D DB 63 4D 0B 22 15 DC 5A 12 71 DE EE 36 ============ - --------- SUPPRESED Message Return-Path: cypherpunks-errors(a)toad.com Received: from toad.com (toad.com [140.174.2.1]) by infinity.c2.org (8.7.4/8.6.9) with ESMTP Received: (from majordom@localhost) by toad.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id TAA20706 for cypherpunks-outgoing; Fri, 23 Aug 1996 19:20:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from littlewing.mcom.com (h-205-217-255-33.netscape.com [205.217.255.33]) by toad.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id TAA20700 for <cypherpunks(a)toad.com>; Fri, 23 Aug 1996 19:20:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from root@localhost) by littlewing.mcom.com (8.7.3/8.7.3) id TAA08776; Fri, 23 Aug 1996 19:23:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from maleman.mcom.com (maleman.mcom.com [198.93.92.3]) by tera.mcom.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with ESMTP id GAA13912 for <mcom.list.cypherpunks(a)tera.mcom.com>; Fri, 23 Aug 1996 06:51:48 -0700 Received: from ns.netscape.com (ns.netscape.com.mcom.com [198.95.251.10]) by maleman.mcom.com (8.6.9/8.6.9) with ESMTP id HAA11324; Thu, 22 Aug 1996 07:24:22 -0700 Received: from toad.com (toad.com [140.174.2.1]) by ns.netscape.com (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id HAA08688; Thu, 22 Aug 1996 07:23:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by toad.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id GAA15937 for cypherpunks-outgoing; Thu, 22 Aug 1996 06:57:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from big.aa.net (root(a)big.aa.net [204.157.220.2]) by toad.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id GAA15932 for <cypherpunks(a)toad.com>; Thu, 22 Aug 1996 06:57:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fozzy.aa.net (moon-c24.aa.net [204.157.220.124]) by big.aa.net (8.7/8.7.5) with SMTP id GAA06741 for <cypherpunks(a)toad.com>; Thu, 22 Aug 1996 06:57:16 -0700 X-UIDL: 840854011.002 X-Intended-For: <cypherpunks(a)toad.com> From: blane(a)aa.net (Brian C. Lane) To: cypherpunks(a)toad.com Subject: SpamBot Date: Thu, 22 Aug 1996 13:56:22 GMT Organization: Nexus Computing Reply-To: blane(a)aa.net Message-ID: <321c65db.721494(a)mail.aa.net> X-Mailer: Forte Agent .99e/16.227 Sender: owner-cypherpunks(a)toad.com Precedence: bulk ----- Message body suppressed ----- - --GAA13919.840808533/tera.mcom.com-- > At 06:25 PM 8/23/96 -0700, Timothy C. May wrote: > >At 1:10 AM 8/21/96, Skip wrote: > >> ----- Message body suppressed ----- > >> > > > > > >Sounds good to me. Keep it up. > > It looks like an internal mailing list version of Cypherpunks at > Netscape is > feeding back into the regular list with weird results. > > --- > | "Remember: You can't have BSDM without BSD. - alan(a)ctrl-alt-del.com > "| > |"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 > | > > > Lou Zirko (502)383-2175 Zystems lzirko(a)c2.org "We're all bozos on this bus" - Nick Danger, Third Eye -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3i Charset: latin1 iQEVAwUBMh56UctPRTNbb5z9AQFi4Qf9HKkx+OBM4CdgkIsZvWRsiJ8PDR/TCzai 5vjLUFuDG2462VRHV5onGQ4KZo7XwnyGsjdAgUrx3XzXcXAbKyA3luDOkM5C/8Vk YRBO3pLnCCBUB+54QVt65QgjMZ6JtuCuUZO3ntwwUL9Wde/Y1v0nmHXmuZZE++v3 tyrWrfDRh1aEuwGNjNcEEFQ9ZUEsM/y5RCvVlD/4VyvWSUvDejGItMnIbMWICs2j jt48NNiMK3uU4A5bLDbonzgn4f6n21wF62AJwkAf3UB0DMwJ9DLz2isfOUe50B3h FPw1FZqPvdOz5BV61bKcx2ABU5GZDEe+ZBZ5zdFZ7Xl7JaQbg46CYg== =uBW8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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NSA's Venona Intercepts
by smith＠sctc.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The bulk of the material available from NSA's web site is associated with a long time project called Venona to decrypt Soviet message traffic from the 1940s. It's an interesting exhibition of the practical output of cryptanalysis that, incidentally, contains alleged reference to famous Commie spies of that era (Hiss, the Rosenbergs, etc). One question that I haven't found answered in my perusals of the site is a definitive statement of the cryptographic technology used by the Soviets. I was re-reading Kahn's 1967 chapter on Soviet crypto and he claimed that they relied primarily on one time pads. In fact, he was pretty specific about them using OTPs for exactly the type of traffic appearing in the Venona archive. But when I look at the partial decrypts in the Venona archive I don't understand how you'd get such partial decrypts from OTPs. The intercepts seem to indicate the use of ciphers with some codewords weakly layerd on top. Some intercepts show translations based on the phonetic properties of the extracted Russian plaintext. So I don't think the "unrecovered codegroups" are caused by a classic code that substitutes tokens for word meanings. But you're not going to crack only part of a OTP ciphertext -- presumably you'd need a compromised key tape, and that would either decrypt everything or nothing. So they were either really using rotor machines or they were using something else. Any other ideas? Other references? Rick. smith(a)sctc.com secure computing corporation

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Who Is Littlewing? or Supressed Message.
by Ross Wright 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Message header: Received: from toad.com (toad.com [140.174.2.1]) by adnetsol.adnetsol.com (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id MAA19273; Sat, 24 Aug 1996 12:59:47 -0700 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by toad.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id VAA22074 for cypherpunks-outgoing; Fri, 23 Aug 1996 21:17:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from littlewing.mcom.com (h-205-217-255-33.netscape.com [205.217.255.33]) by toad.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA21979 for <cypherpunks(a)toad.com>; Fri, 23 Aug 1996 21:13:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from root@localhost) by littlewing.mcom.com (8.7.3/8.7.3) id TAA09395; Fri, 23 Aug 1996 19:27:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from maleman.mcom.com (maleman.mcom.com [198.93.92.3]) by tera.mcom.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with ESMTP id GAA14308 for <mcom.list.cypherpunks(a)tera.mcom.com>; Fri, 23 Aug 1996 06:54:09 -0700 Received: from ns.netscape.com (ns.netscape.com.mcom.com [198.95.251.10]) by maleman.mcom.com (8.6.9/8.6.9) with ESMTP id FAA06409; Thu, 22 Aug 1996 05:08:50 -0700 Received: from toad.com (toad.com [140.174.2.1]) by ns.netscape.com (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id FAA01875; Thu, 22 Aug 1996 05:07:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by toad.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id EAA13213 for cypherpunks-outgoing; Thu, 22 Aug 1996 04:49:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from aeat.co.uk (gw.aeat.co.uk [151.182.136.1]) by toad.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id EAA13206 for <cypherpunks(a)toad.com>; Thu, 22 Aug 1996 04:48:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from clare.risley.aeat.co.uk by aeat.co.uk (8.7.1/AEAT-GW-1.3) id MAA20980; Thu, 22 Aug 1996 12:48:47 +0100 (BST) Received: by clare.risley.aeat.co.uk (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA13676; Thu, 22 Aug 96 12:49:06 BST Date: Thu, 22 Aug 96 12:49:06 BST From: peter.allan(a)aeat.co.uk (Peter M Allan) Message-Id: <9608221149.AA13676(a)clare.risley.aeat.co.uk> To: cypherpunks(a)toad.com Subject: Re: cryptoanalysis 002 Sender: owner-cypherpunks(a)toad.com Precedence: bulk X-PMFLAGS: 33554560 0 ----- Message body suppressed ----- --GAA14322.840808677/tera.mcom.com-- =========== Ross Wright King Media: Bulk Sales of Software Media and Duplication Services http://www.slip.net/~cdr/kingmedia Voice: 415-206-9906

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The POUCH
by JOHN E. HOLT 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The Pouch uses a 64 x 64 block product cipher, a 1024 bit random initialization vector and the CBC technique. Most experts agree that such an implementation is highly resistant to all forms of cryptographic attack. Hellman and Dilfie rely on knowing the algorithm for their known plain text attacks An unpublished algorithm forces them into reverse engineering the computer programs to learn the algorithm. The POUCH has many roadblocks built in to prevent this. I refer to Cummings, Cryptography and Data Security pages 150 and 98 in this regard. John Holt

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EVIL GUVMINT suppresses our mailing list. message bodies are truncated. we can circumvent the looming censorship if we compose our messages such that all the text goes into the Subject: lines. Please use only subjects to transmit your views. Thank you.
by maintains 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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please help
by Manuel Benedicto Procas 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Please...you know a macintosh program in order to war dialing TCP IP numbers and Unix or VMS localice Login/password cobinations. MANUEL

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Code Review Guidelines (draft)
by Adam Shostack 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

A few weeks back, I posted a request for source code review guidelines. I got about 50 me-toos, but no guidelines. So I wrote some I think are decent. They're still in draft format. I'd appreciate feedback & commentary on them. http://www.homeport.org/~adam/review.html Adam PS: Someone did pay me to do this, but doesn't want their name associated with it, because there are shoulds and musts in it. I have their permission to post the anonymized document. -- "It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once." -Hume

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Re: Husband/Wife jailed for saying Clinton SucksHusband/Wife jailedfor say
by nathan poznick 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On Thu, 22 Aug 1996, nathan poznick wrote: > ----- Message body suppressed ----- > > --CAA28506.840792176/tera.mcom.com-- what is the deal with this??? i never sent anything relating to this thread? nate. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^ Nathan Poznick ^ ^ <npoznick(a)harding.edu> ^ ^ http://www.harding.edu/~npoznick ^ ^ ^ ^ "640k should be enough for anybody." ^ ^ ^ ^ --Bill Gates, 1981-- ^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

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