December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: Forced DNA Collection
by pgut001＠cs.auckland.ac.nz 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Eric Cordian <emc(a)wire.insync.net> writes: >Top Story on AP... > >NEW YORK (AP) -- Despite objections from civil libertarians, the city's >police commissioner proposed Monday to take a DNA sample along with the >fingerprints of everyone arrested. > >Commissioner Howard Safir said the test would solve crimes and help curb >repeat offenders. ``The innocents have nothing to fear ... only if you are >guilty should you worry about DNA testing,'' he said. The Commissioner messed up the quote, it's actually: "I am returning to punish the guilty; the innocent have nothing to fear" - Lucius Cornelius Sulla, 90BC, just before he massacred the innocent en masse. Peter.

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No Subject
by DOOM Anonymous Untraceable User 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

"No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by the force of arms forever. There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom. Against that power governments, and tyrants, and armies can not stand. The Centauri learned this lesson once. We will teach it to them again. Though it take a thousand years, we will be free." -- G'Kar in Babylon 5: "The Long, Twilight Struggle" #!/usr/local/bin/perl -0777-- -export-a-crypto-system-sig -RC4-3-lines-PERL @k=unpack('C*',pack('H*',shift));for(@t=@s=0..255){$y=($k[$_%@k]+$s[$x=$_ ]+$y)%256;&S}$x=$y=0;for(unpack('C*',<>)){$x++;$y=($s[$x%=256]+$y)%256; &S;print pack(C,$_^=$s[($s[$x]+$s[$y])%256])}sub S{@s[$x,$y]=@s[$y,$x]}

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Re: Global Strike to protest Wassenaar
by Mixmaster 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Richard.Bragg(a)ssa.co.uk wrote: >The idea would be to exchange nothing while make it appear to be exchanging >information of real importance. OK so this will be just like any managment >memo but you must get my drift. There used to be a web site called "Throwing Sand into the All-Seeing Eye" which listed a long list of possible NSA-snooper keywords, such as military classifications and code words that could be sent for fun across the Internet for sole purpose of being flagged by the NSA.

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Re: The grandest jury nullification? - Irrelevant (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1998 21:13:22 +0000 > From: Ian Briggs <ian(a)deepwell.com> > Subject: Re: The grandest jury nullification? - Irrelevant > >Has it occurred to anyone that if Congress really does end up voting for a > >censure instead of a full impeachment we will have the largest jury > >nullification in history, if it's based upon the consensus of the people per > >the various samples. > > Has it occured to anyone that if Congress votes for censure, we will have > the fastest rulling by the Supreme Court that censure is unconstitutional > in the history of the U.S.? How's it going to get there? The ex_president certainly won't appeal (and face removal from office) and since Congress passed it they likely won't appeal. Besides the Constitution says that Congress must stop at removal from office and barring from future offices. It is clearly within their power to simply slap his hand or write him a bad report card. ____________________________________________________________________ What raises the standard of living may well diminish the quality of life. The Club of Rome The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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DARPA's Active Network page
by Robert Hettinga 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I saw an article on this in InfoWorld. NAI/TIS and DARPA talking about putting self-switching packets into the network. I don't see this as too far off from packets purchasing their passage across the network with micromoney of some kind. All spookiness of the current research principals aside, of course... Cheers, Robert Hettinga --- begin forwarded text Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 17:12:39 -0500 To: Digital Bearer Settlement List <dbs(a)philodox.com> From: Robert Hettinga <rah(a)shipwright.com> Subject: Darpa's Active Network page Sender: <dbs(a)philodox.com> List-Subscribe: <mailto:requests@philodox.com?subject=subscribe%20dbs> Here's ARPA's Active Network Page: <http://www.darpa.mil/ito/research/anets/> Cheers, RAH ----------------- Robert A. Hettinga <mailto: rah(a)philodox.com> Philodox Financial Technology Evangelism <http://www.philodox.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' --- end forwarded text ----------------- Robert A. Hettinga <mailto: rah(a)philodox.com> Philodox Financial Technology Evangelism <http://www.philodox.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'

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by list＠listme.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Re: IP: Cell phone tapping stirs debate
by Secret Squirrel 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>From <http://www.ksfy.com/topstory.htm>: Last updated: 11:00 P.M. Thursday, December 10th, 1998. HIGH SPEED CHASE AND SUSPECT ARREST Cpl. Kevin Grebin/S.D. Highway Patrol: "It was the scanner traffic from his cell phone that the officers picked up that enabled us to capture him." A high speed chase and a cell phone conversation ends with one man in jail... Law enforcement officials from both Iowa and South Dakota chased the man at speeds in excess of 100 miles an hour. He was wanted on a Federal warrant for drug charges. K-S-F-Y's Judeka Drogt and Chief Photographer Lonnie Nichols were there and have the exclusive report. Natural Sound Of Arrest Being Made As It Happened. 32-Year old Tracy Fanning was quietly led out of a farm field 6 miles North of Lennox. Natural Sound Of Officers Going Through Suspect's Pockets And Finding Drugs. Officers found methamphetamine and two knives on him. This was the successful ending to a very long night for these officers. It all began in Iowa... That's where Fanning was spotted by the Iowa State Patrol. The chase began after they learned he was named in a Federal drug warrant. He crossed into South Dakota around 11:30 p.m. Fanning dumped his car at a rural home and ran... As Police followed him they had no idea what they were facing. Cpl. Kevin Grebin/S.D. Highway Patrol: "There was some ammo there that we could not find a weapon to so we weren't sure if he had the weapon on him when he took off." For the next 3 and a half hours Police used dogs and spotlights to search for him. That's not all. Fanning was using a cell phone to call a contact... He was hoping to be picked up... Instead it was the Police that were "picking up" his conversation... And his location. Fanning's last phone call led officers to his hiding place. Fanning was taken to the Minnehaha County Jail at 3:30 Thursday morning. LENNOX CHASE FOLLOW-UP Drug crimes, high speed police chases and manhunts are something many folks think happen only in big cities. But as we've shown you exclusively, that's not the case. K-S-F-Y's Brian DeRoy takes us to the site of this morning's manhunt. Betty Vanderwerf/Rural Lennox Resident: "You just don't want to go out in those trees in the daytime at least until somebody else could be caught." Betty Vanderwerf is still shaken about all the police cars near her rural Lennox home. Betty Vanderwerf/Rural Lennox Resident: "It makes you feel like you don't even want to take the dog out for a walk after dark, and you just want to keep your doors locked." Back where police finally caught up with Tracy Fanning...it was only after quite a long search... The suspect was running for a long time including back over in an area near Betty Vanderwerf's house. They located Fanning just behind some trees is where Betty Vanderwerf lives. Betty Vanderwerf/Rural Lennox Resident: "Hopefully you don't think he's a killer out on the run, he's just getting away from authorities for his problem." Things are quiet in downtown Lennox. But the talk in the grocery store is how close the armed suspect was to town. Verg Musch had his doors unlocked Wednesday night. Verg Musch/Lennox Resident: "Grew up in the country and from there into a small town like this, I would imagine most of the people don't." Well, maybe not. Brian DeRoy/Dakota First News: "How many of you lock your doors at night, raise your hands...most of you." Lennox Resident #1: "We just always do, I don't know, always have." Lennox Resident #2: "I'm on the highway and I'm just afraid if I'm alone at night." Back outside town, Betty won't be taking country living for granted anymore. Betty Vanderwerf/Rural Lennox Resident: "It just kind of goes to show when you go to bed at night, lock your doors." A reality no matter what your address. Lennox is still a pretty sleepy place. The town has only three full-time Police officers. So was it really intercepted cell phone traffic on a police scanner, or did they get his location from the cell phone company? #!/usr/local/bin/perl -0777-- -export-a-crypto-system-sig -RC4-3-lines-PERL @k=unpack('C*',pack('H*',shift));for(@t=@s=0..255){$y=($k[$_%@k]+$s[$x=$_ ]+$y)%256;&S}$x=$y=0;for(unpack('C*',<>)){$x++;$y=($s[$x%=256]+$y)%256; &S;print pack(C,$_^=$s[($s[$x]+$s[$y])%256])}sub S{@s[$x,$y]=@s[$y,$x]} > >From: believer(a)telepath.com >Subject: IP: Cell phone tapping stirs debate >Date: Sun, 25 Oct 1998 08:49:06 -0600 >To: believer(a)telepath.com > >Source: USA Today >http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/ctd698.htm > >10/22/98- Updated 12:08 PM ET > The Nation's Homepage > > Cell phone tapping stirs debate > > WASHINGTON -- Law enforcement officials say they need to > know where a suspected criminal is when he makes a cellular > telephone call. Federal regulators are proposing to give them the > capability to find out. > ...

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DoS considered harmful [WAS: RE: Anyone striking?]
by Trei, Peter 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Someone using the name Carlos Gomes [GomesC(a)netsolve.net] wrote: > [...] > There were several ideas floating around: a) detach > from the net and from work b) create a signed letter of > disapproval published to appropriate orgs c) _short_ > loosely organized burst of DoS against select online > targets from widely distributed sources. > All valid forms of protests (when properly organized > and executed) all with varying forms of impact and > visibility. For the record, I think option c) could be > a valid and effective form of active protest. It is a > form which has not been used in support of the cpunks' > agenda (or many agenda's for that matter) to date and > one that merits a review. > [...] > regards, > C.G. A DoS (Denial of Service) action is a really, really, really bad idea. It's both illegal and counterproductive. It's the sort of thing I would expect to hear from an 'agent provocateur' bent on discrediting critics of government policy, by casting them as malicous hackers. We went through this once before. Back when I was getting the DES challenges going, some one proposed that the target should be a live bank transaction (I think in Germany). I argued strenuously against such a move, and in favor of a specifically created target This goal was fullfilled when I got RSA to set up and sponsor the Symmetric Key Challenges. If a group of people coordinated in any way to mount a DoS attack, the effects would include: 1. Lump anyone taking an anti-Wassenaar position together with a gang of destructive hackers. This would be a tremendous setback for the Good Guys, and play straight into the hands of the those who would remove freedom. 2. Anyone engaging in such an attack would face real-world LEA investigation for computer hacking. 3. Anyone who discusses such an attack with anyone who actually goes out and does it (other than to argue against it, as I am doing) could be charged with conspiracy. [So, if any of you are idiotic enough to do this, do the rest of us a favor, and keep your discussion to private channels and *off* the mailing lists. I *don't* want to know.] 4. Most importantly, It Would Be Wrong. As long as legal channels exist to right the errors of government policy, they should be used. That governments stoop to dishonest, deceitful, and unconstitutional activities (or activities 'legal' only in the Clintonian sense) does not justify others abandoning the moral high ground. I don't think a strike is going to fly, either. What might work is a Web page blackout, similar to that done for the original CDA nonsense. Peter Trei ptrei(a)securitydynamics.com [Disclaimer: In this message, I speak for myself only.]

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Reminder: key changes at notatla
by Antonomasia 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 New mix keys at notatla already in use. Old ones expire 21Dec1998. mccain mccain(a)notatla.demon.co.uk 49894e1cc7629bbb54a3b5f98ba6f6d6 2.0.4b41 MC - -----Begin Mix Key----- 49894e1cc7629bbb54a3b5f98ba6f6d6 258 AASe8KR46cRA75Jk4YMcE32gpS1uqAveFpRxPVg7 qATY4aPIyVM40QHa/OrHdVc8twmKMNemcdZNCpdb EDCtaVXLalJ7njbiLs8NMAEVP7WxMQP+1swjvHpR qP1ikuvy89iNpTbDtl9uf11PNeXiWclrCyFkvS6m 4cXFPskXoa4xWQAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAQAB - -----End Mix Key----- teatwo teatwo(a)notatla.demon.co.uk 4568791f20d5e004225c78e04625bca4 2.0.4b41 MC - -----Begin Mix Key----- 4568791f20d5e004225c78e04625bca4 258 AATVHyCqv2SGgaEbY0HVnBONNsSQwElFCdvSyxhq cGL4FZ5A1LGBAGNN+aHnfw0X8hvNsFB7EcmBsZ1v fUt64xRG5gy2+A3rMlad36iZfqrNBKncGh+Y/uEx nb+hTyANZNlHsUdAfo+lozx0xoB070e6K3rkgxDG GytOW9VjDTVR3QAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAQAB - -----End Mix Key----- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 5.0i Charset: noconv iQA/AwUBNmrcCTROc55Xv6voEQIs4ACeOat7f/0Kn5gLPazrp6rd+gGgsdEAn0nJ 4jhmxQQTvZWFg7d+BxM7WHHR =pz5z -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- ############################################################## # Antonomasia ant(a)notatla.demon.co.uk # # See http://www.notatla.demon.co.uk/ # ##############################################################

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WEAK3-EX -- A Layman's 56-bit Data Encryption Algorithm
by Mok-Kong Shen 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

In the previous products of my WEAK series of data encryption algorithms I have very strongly exploited the possibility of using arbitrarily long keys. Since this conflicts with the recent requirement of using 56-bit keys, a new program, WEAK3-EX, has been designed specifically for users that can only use 56-bit encryption keys. The design draws upon various techniques that have been accumulated in the course of the development of the previous WEAK3-E. Besides employing constant length 56-bit keys, a new feature that is introduced in WEAK3-EX is a user choosable scaling factor for the initialization time of the algorithm. Normally the initialization time of crypto algorithms are small and is for obvious reasons to be reduced as far as technically possible. In fact, the initialization time of almost all known encryption algorithms is negligible compared to the proper record processing time. Our algorithm, which contains author's compound PRNG, is however an exception to the rule. For, depending on the number of the constituent generators of the compound PRNG used, this can under circumstances indeed attain a non-trivial value. This is till present a necessary evil of our WEAK3-E which now fortunately in the special case of key length restriction (with the obvious accompanying unfavourable strength reduction effect) can be turned into a virtue of our new WEAK3-EX. In fact, if the (variable) parameters to be chosen by the user (in particular the number of rounds) of our algorithm are adequate, brute force would be the only feasible method of attack. Now the average time for brute force is equal to the time of running a single encryption/decryption process multiplied by one half of the size of the key space. If the initialization time of the algorithm is increased, the time for brute forcing correspondingly increases so that through suitable choice of the said scaling factor it can reach practically infeasible value for analysis without however on the other hand rendering the total processing time of the user (which of course also augments) to amounts entirely inacceptable for him. (The multiplying factor of one half of the key space is the leverage we exploit here.) Technically, the scaling factor determines the number of pseudo-random numbers retrieved from the shuffling buffer (of Bays and Duncan) that are to be combined into one pseudo-random number through the addition mod 1 operation (device of Wichmann and Hill) for subsequent utilization in building up the constituent generators of author's compound PRNG. The larger the scaling factor, the longer it will take to build up the compound PRNG. The multiple-seed standard PRNG employed in WEAK3-E is abandoned in WEAK3-EX in order to comply with the 56-bit key restriction. In its place is a standard PRNG that consists of two internal (single-seed) PRNGs which are activated alternatingly and which each accepts a seed of 28 bits, totalling 56 bits. An implementation in Fortran 90 is given in http://www.stud.uni-muenchen.de/~mok-kong.shen/#paper13 Both source and a binary executable file for PC can be downloaded via my main Web page. I wish to thank CWL and ZFS for suggesting the use of the scaling factor. Constructive critiques, comments and suggestions for improvements are sincerely solicited. M. K. Shen P.S. For space and obvious reasons, I plan to remove the code and binaries of WEAK1, WEAK2, WEAK3 and WEAK3-E from my Web page this Friday, leaving in future WEAK3-EX the single encryption software accessible.

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