December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Defcon Social Engineering Contest
by Wardemon 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Can anyone who went to Defcon, let me know about the Social Engineering contest?... Was it elite or lame? Who won... and who did they Social Engineer???? <A href="mailto:Wardemon@erols.com">Wardemon(a)erols.com

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ADV: Una Mina de Oro -- Justo Bajo
by bizemail＠TheOffice.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Re: Internet is rickety
by Bill Stewart 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

This isn't coderpunks material; I'm copying to cypherpunks instead. (I've also removed letters(a)sjmercury.com from the Cc:.) At 08:01 AM 8/16/98 -0700, Alex Alten wrote: >Bruce, >You are making it sound worse than it is. The underlying network >routing infrastructure is designed to be extremely robust in the face >adverse conditions (originally it was nuclear attack). I'm only aware >of two incidents that actually ground large parts of the Internet to a >halt. The 1st involved a bug in the backbone rounters when the Internet >was young and had relatively few nodes. The 2nd was the Morris worm Physical damage is one thing; logical-level damage is another. Some newer vulnerabilities are the DNS system and routing protocols. There was a major DNS failure a year or so ago when NSI or one of the root servers published a garbled database; I don't remember details. That's annoying, but easily noticed, and easy to work around, and easier to prevent happening in the future. But it's also easy to trick the DNS root servers from outside (as Kashpureff did), or mess with them inside (I forgot why Postel did that recently.) A more serious problem occurred when some small ISP misconfigured their Border Gateway Protocol parameters, announcing to the whole world that their little T1 line was the best way to get almost anywhere from almost anywhere else. This was only mildly untrue until a few large providers updated their tables to reflect it, at which point their T1 started to melt, taking much of the Internet down with it. This kind of thing _can_ happen again; the interesting problem is what if somebody deliberately starts doing it a lot.... And much of the world's traffic goes through MAE-WEST and MAE-EAST, as a way of getting between ISPs, though bigger carriers have direct connections between their networks, and many small ISPs at least have direct connections to their continent-wide carriers. The MAEs and other NAPs get slow fairly often, and occasionally just get fried; a major outage could be a serious problem, so the fact that MAE-EAST lives in a parking garage in the DC area may or may not bother you. That's three ways that the whole Internet can have serious trouble; there are presumably a number of others, if you believe in Murphy or believe the L0pht's announcements. Then there are more subtle problems - what happens if Altavista dies? (Yes, there are other search engines, but probably 3-5 major ones.) And there are the increasing number of portal and free email services from Hotmail, Excite, Altavista, MyYahoo, Netscape, etc., which will take out large numbers of users' mail access if any of them dies. And then there's AOL, which is probably a pretty robust design, and which may or may not be missed by people on the _real_ Internet if it dies for a while, but could also cut off lots of users from the net. Also, much of the robustness derives from having _enough_ excess bandwidth in the network that if you lose a good chunk of it, you'll still have enough for the remaining users (the nuclear war scenario does reduce the user population as well as the network...) But you can get into localized problems, for example the cable cut that trashed uunet's access to Florida the other week, and the Internet doesn't have a widespread priority mechanism to identify "more important" traffic, though there are many mechanisms for prioritizing individual users' networks. It still works pretty well, but that doesn't mean it's not rickety. Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, bill.stewart(a)pobox.com PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639

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by nobody＠nsm.htp.org 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Are there PGP for WindowsCE? Thanks.

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17 Dec '03

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by STUFFED/EUREKA! 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Adobe Acrobat encryption details
by Fade 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Hi all, I was hoping someone might be able to point me to details on .PDF file encryption. I'm specifically interested in key-generation (which hash is used?) and if there is consistant known-plaintext in .PDF file headers. I've searched around, and all I can find is that Acrobat uses rc4, which isn't very helpful... Thanks! -=fade=-

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Re: European freedoms...
by Secret Squirrel 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>With the exception of some lifestyle options Europeans probably have >less freedoms than Americans. How come that the fraction of Americans in prison is ten times higher than the fraction of West Europeans?

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persones who are cool
by james pack 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

i know lets trade j_d@foxinternet

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CTIA Daily News from WOW-COM - August 17, 1998
by CTIA Daily News 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

========================================== Welcome to today's edition of the CTIA Daily News from WOW-COM. Please click on the icon / attachment for the most important news in wireless communications today. If you cannot open the icon/attachment, please visit http://www.wow-com.com/professional/ for the wireless daily news. Don't miss the major conference on implementing Phase 2 of the E-911 requirement--August 26-27 in San Francisco. For more information, click http://www.wow-com.com/pdf/locntech.pdf ===========================================

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