December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

NSA Report on Crypto Risks
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Federal Computer Week <www.fcw.com> of April 6 lists an article by Heather Harreld, "An NSA report details the risks of encryption technology," which is not available online. So far Ms. Harreld has not responded to a request for a copy, so if someone has a hardcopy we'd be grateful for a fax: Fax: 212-799-4003.

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Wristwatch PC
by nobody＠nsm.htp.org 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Another article for Decoder-Ring-punks http://dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/technology/story.html?s=z/reuters/9804… www.seiko.com Cool pictures at www.ruputer.com Seiko Instruments Says To Sell First Wristwatch PC TOKYO (Reuters) - Seiko Instruments said today it would begin selling wristwatch personal computers (PCs) in Japan on June 10. It said the new product would be the world's first wearable PC. A company statement said the watch, called the Ruputer, can download data that includes text and pictures from other personal computers. The wristwatch PCs will be sold with three software applications that run on Microsoft Windows 95 operating system, it said. Watches come equipped with a 16-bit central processing unit and 128 kilobytes of main memory, it said. Games can be played on the products and they can exchange data with each other via infrared signals, it said. The company will launch two Ruputer models with retail prices of 38,000 yen and 48,000 yen, the statement said. A company spokeswoman said it aimed to sell 100,000 of the watches in the first year. Seiko Instruments is a group firm of watch wholesaler Seiko. ------------------------- Seiko Instruments announced that it would begin selling Ruputer wristwatch personal computers in Japan on June 10th. No announcement was made about North American distribution. Although I have not received the release Ruputer specifications I believe the LCD screen is 102 by 62 (#1), an IR port (#2) or cable interface (#3) is available. The tiny Ruputer has 128 k of RAM, 512 k of ROM and up to 2 MB of storage! The Ruputer Web site is in Kanji (Japanese) with a little English with many illustrations, an English site has been requested.

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by credit＠credit.credit 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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ethernet encryption
by Stuart Johnson 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

hello all, i'm currently looking for a box or chipset that will encryption ethernet traffic at or near wire speed. does anyone know of such a thing? anyhelp will be greatly appreciated. i'm not currently subscribed to cypherpunks so send any replies to me at the email address below. thanks, ___________________________________________________ Stuart Johnson stuartj(a)packetengines.com Asic Design Engineer Phone : (509) 777-7208 Packet Engines Inc. leading the Gigabit Ethernet revolution ___________________________________________________ Key ID : B65F9B8D Key Fingerprint : F97D84A61C732CBAA1DA50A8D41963 A BIG PRIME : 2^3,021,377-1 ___________________________________________________

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Secure Cell Phones for State
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

U.S. State Dept Press Briefing today: Briefer: James Rubin Now, I have a piece of show-and-tell for you, which I do rarely around here. But I thought this was interesting enough, even for you cynical and jaded journalists. This is a secure cell phone. Lieutenant General Kenneth Minihan, Director of the National Security Agency, presented Secretary Albright with a bank of Motorola Cipher-Tac 2000 security modules to provide secure cellular communications. This state of the art secure voice cellular technology will offer the highest level of security wherever and whenever the Secretary and her top advisors need to protect their communications. So when you see us carrying this beast around, rather than the slim-line phones we usually like to use, you'll know that's because we're trying to have a secure call. That is not only for the obvious good reason that we want to make sure nobody is interfering, but we also want to make sure that nobody is making transcripts and passing them around for a variety of perfidious reasons. So this here is the original, first secure cell phone to be delivered to Secretary Albright, and we thought you guys might get a kick out of that. ----- Would anyone know the security technology of this unit and its support system? And how it compares to those of competitors in the US and outside?

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Guilty by definition...
by TruthMonger 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

A poor fool who didn't realize that he had sealed his own fate by responding to someone who had already ratted him out for a shot of Scotch with a beer chaser wrote: >For God's sake, another key; I'm gonna need a separate >floppy to track just you keys. >But it's worth it; we bros. Official Law Enforcement Dictionary bro - 1. Co-conspirator 2. Accessory 3. Poor bastard who just fell in with the wrong company, and will probably spend the rest of his life in prison as a result of innocently replying to a UCE email titled, "How To Make Big $$$ At Home, Licking Your Own Nuts."

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by lei＠xaq.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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17 Dec '03

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17 Dec '03

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Dudley DoRightMonger Driven From Home By Armed Thugs?
by TruthMonger 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Poor Dudley seems to have been evicted from his spiritual home at http://www3.sk.sympatico.ca/carljohn/rcmphate/rcmphate.html . As a matter of fact, the whole http://www3.sk.sympatico.ca/carljohn website seems to have mysteriously disappeared into thin air, for no apparent reason. Since the nice people at Sympatico have never shown any propensity for fascist oppression of their users, as far as I know, I fear that perhaps they have fallen victim to the Dangerous Armed Thugs who have stolen my computer and my cute little nephew's computer. (Of course, I don't have any firsthand knowledge that the Armed Thugs are truly responsible for theft of my nephew's computer, since whoever the thief was who stole it, like most criminals, failed to leave any sign of his/her presence except for the obvious violation of my privacy. Thus I am assuming that perhaps the devious, criminal ordinary citizens who informed me of the intrusion of the Dangerous Armed Thugs into my home were not just lying through their teeth, as Judges always rule they do when their testimony and broken bones are in conflict with the Official Version Of The Truth (TM) told by the Dangerous Armed Thugs.) I certainly hope that the nice Sympatico people weren't threatened by the Dangerous Armed Thug who robbed me at gunpoint, on behalf of a drug-dealing car thief and violent armed robber. I fear that this may be the case, however, since they have never contacted me to express any concerns about the webpages where I store works I have authored, and portions of works in progress. I suppose that the Dangerous Armed Thugs backed up their veiled threats of violence with outrageously blatant Lies such as those that poured forth in huge torrents from the Evil Lying Mouths of the Costumes Offals at the Regway, SK, meatspace border crossing when they stole my laptop and other possessions without being able to offer any explaination as to why they were doing so, other than the unspoken and obvious fact that they are Dangerous Armed Thugs and I am just a Piece Of Shit Citizen who is expected to fucking well take whatever they choose to dish out to me, without resistance. I suppose that the best thing I can do with Dudley DoRightMonger is to help him to flee to the Soviet Union, where the Armed Thugs are less dangerous because they are freelancers, and can be bought by both the government *and* the citizens. (True Free Enterprise!) Thank Dog that there are still places like Russia, where free speech is still possible, and where the creative juices of the muse can still flow freely, out of the reach of the Violent Dangerous Armed Thugs in Canada who stand ready and willing to oppress and murder anyone who looks or acts differently than themselves. I guess if I was a Wagon-Burner, I would already be dead... TruthMonger

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