December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Brickell and Sandia
by bill payne 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Wednesday 3/4/98 6:59 PM Orlin While trying to recover from the stomach flu, I am going over your stuff summarized at http://www.aci.net/kalliste/dcguide.htm You wrote at [Brickell-Gemmell-Kravitz.] http://www.aci.net/kalliste/sandia.htm Sandia National Laboratories have created the digital cash equivalent of the Clipper chip: an "anonymous" digital cash system that would give participants privacy from all viewers, except for the government agencies that would control the secret keys required for backdoor access. and Why is Sandia interested in digital cash systems? Well, Sandia is responsible for all non-nuclear components of nuclear weapons. The security of nuclear weapons depends partly on cryptology. The code- breaking National Security Agency (NSA), for example, is responsible for the communication security of the Minuteman missile, as well as the codes by which the President must identify himself to authorize a nuclear strike. Brickell and Simmons were in the COMPUTATIONAL/COMPUTER SCIENCES & MATH CENTER, directorate 1400, at Sandia. I worked in the ELECTRONIC SUBSYSTEMS CENTER, directorate 2300, division 2311, when I was project leader of the Missile Secure Cryptographic Unit, the small missile, [between about 1982-86]. All of the nuclear bomb crypto implmentation work was done in 2300, not 1400. The MAIN difference is that the 2300 people were a bunch of PRACTICAL engineers and REAL-PRACTICAL software types. NOT theoreticians. Gus Simmon once tried to get into the implentation business. Simmons bought an Intel 320 [?] development system. The Intel 320 was a piece of junk and nothing happened with Simmons implementation work. Simmons try, naturally, caught the attention of 2300 management, for business reasons, of course. I LOVE reading all of this stuff from a Sandia historical standpoint. The REAL WORLD of Sandia crypto stuff in pockmarked by some REAL SCREW-UPS. Which all of us implementers shared so as not to commit the same mistakes again. I asked my department manager, Kent Parsons, how the screw-ups affected him. He responded that it made him sleepy. These were MULTI- if not HUNDREDS- million dollar screw-ups. Later bill

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Re: AnyWho puts a reverse phone book on the Net
by Rabid Wombat 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I tried one of these when tracking down some dial-in system abuse being perpetrated by an ex-employee. It occurred to me that with the right hardware, a simple perl script could launch a cruise-missle strike in response to a dial-in to a phone number ... ;) (for a good time, call 1-555-2nukeme) food for thought for the paranoids and/or x-files fans. On Wed, 25 Feb 1998, Ross Wright wrote: > From: > > T a s t y B i t s f r o m t h e T e c h n o l o g y F r o n t > This issue: < http://www.tbtf.com/archive/02-23-98.html > > ________________________________________________________________________ > > ..AnyWho puts a reverse phone book on the Net > > And personal privacy slips a bit more > > If you live in the US and your phone number is listed, visit this > site [25] and type in your number. AT&T's AnyWho will return your > name and address. Is your street name linked? If so, click to see > names and numbers for all of your neighbors. Want a map to your > house? It's one click away. (Like most such maps, however, the > correspondence of street address with map location can be wildly > wrong.) The street proximity search will not show unlisted numbers, > 800- or 888- numbers, or "distinctive ring" alternate numbers. > > AnyWho is not the first reverse phone book on the Net -- 555-1212 > has that distinction [26] -- but it is the most feature-rich. It > has a "sounds like" match for last name lookups. It lets you edit > or delete your entry, and requires confirmation by a telephone call > from the phone number in question. And it combines white and yellow > pages -- 90M and 10M listings respectively -- though their output > remains separate. When you ask for a street proximity listing for a > business listing, you see only other businesses. > > [25] http://www.anywho.com:81/telq.html > [26] http://www.555-1212.com/whte_us.htm > > =-=-=-=-=-=- > Ross Wright > King Media: Bulk Sales of Software Media and Duplication Services > http://ross.adnetsol.com > Voice: (408) 259-2795 > >

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by Fabio Rosetti 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Returned mail: User unknown
by Mail Delivery Subsystem 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The original message was received at Mon, 2 Mar 1998 14:07:36 -0500 (EST) from ts35-10.homenet.ohio-state.edu [140.254.114.193] ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors ----- <54689590(a)hotmail.com> ----- Transcript of session follows ----- ... while talking to mail.hotmail.com.: >>> RCPT To:<54689590(a)hotmail.com> <<< 550 Unknown user <54689590> 550 <54689590(a)hotmail.com>... User unknown Reporting-MTA: dns; mail4.uts.ohio-state.edu Received-From-MTA: DNS; ts35-10.homenet.ohio-state.edu Arrival-Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 14:07:36 -0500 (EST) Final-Recipient: RFC822; 54689590(a)hotmail.com Action: failed Status: 5.1.1 Remote-MTA: DNS; mail.hotmail.com Diagnostic-Code: SMTP; 550 Unknown user <54689590> Last-Attempt-Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 14:07:44 -0500 (EST) To: 54689590(a)hotmail.com Subject: REMOVE From: cypherpunks(a)toad.com Date: Wed, 02 Jan 1980 01:41:00 -0500 Reply-To: cypherpunks(a)toad.com

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FW: Business Week on encryption controls
by Mixmaster 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----Original Message----- From: Anonymous <nobody(a)replay.com> To: cypherpunks(a)cyberpass.net <cypherpunks(a)cyberpass.net> Date: Monday, March 02, 1998 10:47 Subject: Business Week on encryption controls >From > >http://www.businessweek.com/premium/10/b3568070.htm > >THE GREAT ENCRYPTION DEBATE > >>Is all this firepower necessary? Many veterans of the decade-long >>encryption battle believe Freeh's plan is too extreme to even take >>seriously. ''Proposals like this are a tremendous stalking horse, but >>are dead on arrival,'' says Kawika Daguio, encryption-policy expert at >>the American Bankers Assn. > >Many cypherpunks seem to believe it is only a matter of time before >crypto is made illegal in the U.S. But sophisticated observers think >otherwise. > >Frankly, the resolution is obvious: crypto-in-a-crime will be controlled. >If you use crypto in planning a crime, and you're convicted of the >crime (or conspiracy), then some years will be added to the sentencing >guidelines. Some cypherpunks will proclaim this the end of individual >freedom in our time. > >>Also, a compromise may be at hand. Senators John McCain (R-Ariz.) and >>J. Robert Kerrey (D-Neb.) are currently working on a bill, sources say, >>that would release exports from controls when similar encryption products >>are already available overseas. They could also add a ban on domestic >>controls. ''It appears McCain and Kerrey are searching for some way >>out of what appears to be legislative gridlock,'' says Commerce Under >>Secretary William A. Reinsch, who oversees the Administration's policy. > >Again, the results are clear to those with vision. Export controls >will be lifted, no domestic controls will be imposed on general use of >encryption. The only new limits will be in the sentencing guidelines, >which already consider dozens of factors in a complex formula. >Whether crypto was used will be a small change there, and won't effect >anyone's life. > >Remember, you read it here first. > This guy is living his elitist life looking through rose colored glasses, with blinders on, in a vacuum, with his head buried in sand, with his neck snugly supported by his sphincter muscles. "vision"?.... "sophisticated"?.... what is this? If people disagree or are more cynical about what the government may or may not do concerning cryptography we are less sophisticated and/or lack vision? What an idiot!! Wake up and smell the bullshit you and others like you are shoveling. McCain is a serious control freak (former AZ resident who has seen him in action) and will never, regardless of his vomitous, pendulous rhetoric, support a domestic "free encryption" standard without government controls, there will always be a catch. The glass is not even half empty, it's shattered.

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Accept Checks By Phone
by way＠utz.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Re: Win95 Dialer?
by Support 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

If you're asking if our internet connection service is available in the Win '95 version, the answer is yes. Otherwise, I suggest you call our help desk at 1-888-229-4733 (option #1) for a more complete answer. If you want the Win '95 software, they can send it to you. cypherpunks(a)toad.com wrote: > Can you use Windows95 Dialup Networking with Access Atlanta? > > -Jim

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Cryptobook: '98 update
by andrew fabbro 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Joel McNamara (author Private Idaho) has updated his Cryptobook page, which now has information on newer software. The configuration works much better under Windows 95 now. Check out: http://www.eskimo.com/~joelm/cryptbk.html I have a text file full of notes comparing different hard drive encryption software, if anyone would like a copy. I settled on Best Crypt, which uses BLOWFISH (or GOST, or DES if you're insane). So far it works well...except I haven't found a way to have Windows' swap file encrypted. Have fun... -- Andrew Fabbro [afabbro(a)umich.edu] [andrewf(a)jesuswept.com] http://www-personal.umich.edu/~afabbro/ 313.647.2713

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Warning: could not send message for past 4 hours
by Mail Delivery Subsystem 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

********************************************** ** THIS IS A WARNING MESSAGE ONLY ** ** YOU DO NOT NEED TO RESEND YOUR MESSAGE ** ********************************************** The original message was received at Mon, 2 Mar 1998 14:14:28 -0500 (EST) from ts35-10.homenet.ohio-state.edu [140.254.114.193] ----- The following addresses had transient non-fatal errors ----- <Remove(a)rmjent.com> ----- Transcript of session follows ----- 451 <Remove(a)rmjent.com>... rmjent.com: Name server timeout Warning: message still undelivered after 4 hours Will keep trying until message is 5 days old Reporting-MTA: dns; chemistry.mps.ohio-state.edu Arrival-Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 14:14:28 -0500 (EST) Final-Recipient: RFC822; Remove(a)rmjent.com Action: delayed Status: 4.4.3 Last-Attempt-Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 19:02:17 -0500 (EST) Will-Retry-Until: Sat, 7 Mar 1998 14:14:28 -0500 (EST) To: Remove(a)rmjent.com From: cypherpunks(a)toad.com Date: Wed, 02 Jan 1980 01:47:53 -0500 Reply-To: cypherpunks(a)toad.com

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17 Dec '03

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