December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Cyptography in the Information Age
by steve.benjamin＠juno.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

X-Posted: sci.crypt, cypherpunks mailing list For my Advanced Computer Science course in school I'm required to do a research paper each quarter. I have decided to do this quarter's paper on Cyptography in the Information Age. My paper will contain a 6-line (perl) implemenation of RSA. Is my report subject to current Encryption Laws? If so, which ones? I plan on making a big deal out of how a 15 page research paper can't be exported from the U.S.A. Also, How can I generate RSA keys in perl? I found a C program to do it, but I don't have C installed. Thanks for any help you can give me! and please reply through e-mail! ---------------------------------------------------------- Stephen Benjamin E-mail address: Stephen {DOT} Benjamin {AT} juno {DOT} com ----------------------------------------------------------

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CJ Indicted
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Court docket shows that CJ has been indicted for: 18:115A.F Threaten to Murder certain Federal Law Enforcement Officers and Judges This is in addition to the original complaint: For Violation of 18:115(a)(1)(B): Threatening to assassin IRA officers Yes, it says "assassin IRA." The other humor is that upon indictment for criminal charges on September 30 a bench warrant was issued for CJ's arrest. The arrest warrant was "returned unexecuted" on October 9, due to "warrant issued in error" by the same magistrate who issued the first arrest warrant on August 5, apparently forgetting or not knowing that CypherAssassin2 was mental evaluing with CypherAssassin1 in MO. See the docket: http://jya.com/cej101498.htm BTW, on why Jim Bell and CJ stopped over in OKC on the way to Springfield, we've learned that the Federal Transportation Center is in OKC. It so happens that the Bureau of Prisons issued a wad of rules and regs today just to handle the growing crowd of alleged IRA-Nobelists and international Chuckies: http://jya.com/bop101698.htm

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Disk (block device) encryption for Linux and *BSD?
by HyperReal-Anon 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>Apologies for the interruption, > >I'm looking for disk / partition encryption for Unix-alikes, especially >Linux, OpenBSD and/or NetBSD. Good luck. We're in the same boat. I'm using Andrew Mileski's patches, but they're outdated, only implement CAST-128 and IDEA, and the user interface leaves a lot to be desired. Writing a new user interface is on my project list, but of course I can't export the thing. >My websearch has been less than satisfactory - I found outdated Linux >kernel patches for encryption loopback, and I distinctly remember reading >about a serious bug in the use (or lack thereof) of key material in this >code. Andrew Mileski <aem(a)netcom.ca> has patches available via FTP from fractal.mta.ca, but they're very outdated. I think they're against 2.1.64, but they'll run with kernels up to the 90s. Kernels after about 2.1.105 are hopelessly broken with regard to Andrew's patches, so I wouldn't advise even trying it. If you use his patches, use kernel 2.1.105 or below. I think those are in /pub/aem/crypto. >Do patches for a current Linux kernel exist, and have all the known >bugs been fixed? There are several different versions floating around. There was some set of patches on ftp.csua.berkeley.edu but they're outdated too. There was a hole in some DES code somebody was distributing. >Also, there seems to be no version of Marutukku about that I can actually >get to work on *BSD. Is Marutukku still being developed? Again, good luck. >Generally, is there a good page that tracks disk encryption for Unix? > >I'm currently using cfs here and there, and I have a specific question >about that package, too: > >Does the cypherpunks list trust the patches that add Blowfish support >to cfs? Every time I've used CFS it has locked up into some kind of recursive loop where it eats more and more CPU time until it finally takes all it can get. Other people have had the same problem on both Linux and BSD. Other people never have any problems. No clue why.

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PGP utils?
by mgraffam＠idsi.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Is there a utility for Unix (or source available?) that reads a PGP encrypted message and displays some information on it, like what key ID the message was encrypted with, and what ciphers were used? Michael J. Graffam (mgraffam(a)idsi.net) http://www.mhv.net/~mgraffam -- Philosophy, Religion, Computers, Crypto, etc They (who) seek to establish systems of government based on the regimentation of all human beings by a handful of individual rulers.. call this a new order. It is not new, and it is not order." - Franklin Delano Roosevelt

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Off-Topic
by Marcel Popescu 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Sorry for the off-topic, but does anybody know of a list related to militias, gun-control and the like? Thanks, Mark

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by root＠sf-dnpqi-012.compuserve.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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More on Postel
by Bill Stewart 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Subject: IP: Remembrance/postel From: Dave Farber [farber(a)cis.upenn.edu] I, and others I fear, have spent a sleepless night after hearing of the death of Jon Postel last night. This morning there was a note in my mail box from Vint Cerf that said many of the things I feel at this time. I asked him for permission to send on which he granted. I also remember Jon. I was his primary thesis advisor along with Jerry Estrin and I remember with fond memories the months spent closely working with Jon while his eager mind developed the ideas in back of what was a pioneering thesis that founded the area of protocol verification. Since I was at UC Irvine and Jon at UCLA we used to meet in the morning prior to my ride to UCI at a Pancake House in Santa Monica for breakfast and the hard work of developing a thesis. I gained a great respect for Jon then and 10 pounds of weight. I will miss him greatly. Jon was my second Ph.D. student. The first, Philip Merlin, also died way before his time. Dave ________________________________________________________________________ October 17, 1998 I REMEMBER IANA Vint Cerf A long time ago, in a network, far far away, a great adventure took place Out of the chaos of new ideas for communication, the experiments, the tentative designs, and crucible of testing, there emerged a cornucopia of networks. Beginning with the ARPANET, an endless stream of networks evolved, and ultimately were interlinked to become the Internet. Someone had to keep track of all the protocols, the identifiers, networks and addresses and ultimately the names of all the things in the networked universe. And someone had to keep track of all the information that erupted with volcanic force from the intensity of the debates and discussions and endless invention that has continued unabated for 30 years. That someone was Jonathan B. Postel, our Internet Assigned Numbers Authority, friend, engineer, confidant, leader, icon, and now, first of the giants to depart from our midst. Jon, our beloved IANA, is gone. Even as I write these words I cannot quite grasp this stark fact. We had almost lost him once before in 1991. Surely we knew he was at risk as are we all. But he had been our rock, the foundation on which our every web search and email was built, always there to mediate the random dispute, to remind us when our documentation did not do justice to its subject, to make difficult decisions with apparent ease, and to consult when careful consideration was needed. We will survive our loss and we will remember. He has left a monumental legacy for all Internauts to contemplate. Steadfast service for decades, moving when others seemed paralyzed, always finding the right course in a complex minefield of technical and sometimes political obstacles. Jon and I went to the same high school, Van Nuys High, in the San Fernando Valley north of Los Angeles. But we were in different classes and I really didnt know him then. Our real meeting came at UCLA when we became a part of a group of graduate students working for Prof. Leonard Kleinrock on the ARPANET project. Steve Crocker was another of the Van Nuys crowd who was part of the team and led the development of the first host-host protocols for the ARPANET. When Steve invented the idea of the Request for Comments series, Jon became the instant editor. When we needed to keep track of all the hosts and protocol identifiers, Jon volunteered to be the Numbers Czar and later the IANA once the Internet was in place. Jon was a founding member of the Internet Architecture Board and served continuously from its founding to the present. He was the FIRST individual member of the Internet Society I know, because he and Steve Wolff raced to see who could fill out the application forms and make payment first and Jon won. He served as a trustee of the Internet Society. He was the custodian of the .US domain, a founder of the Los Nettos Internet service, and, by the way, managed the networking research division of USC Information Sciences Institute. Jon loved the outdoors. I know he used to enjoy backpacking in the high Sierras around Yosemite. Bearded and sandaled, Jon was our resident hippie-patriarch at UCLA. He was a private person but fully capable of engaging photon torpedoes and going to battle stations in a good engineering argument. And he could be stubborn beyond all expectation. He could have outwaited the Sphinx in a staring contest, I think. Jon inspired loyalty and steadfast devotion among his friends and his colleagues. For me, he personified the words selfless service. For nearly 30 years, Jon has served us all, taken little in return, indeed sometimes receiving abuse when he should have received our deepest appreciation. It was particularly gratifying at the last Internet Society meeting in Geneva to see Jon receive the Silver Medal of the International Telecommunications Union. It is an award generally reserved for Heads of State but I can think of no one more deserving of global recognition for his contributions. While it seems almost impossible to avoid feeling an enormous sense of loss, as if a yawning gap in our networked universe had opened up and swallowed our friend, I must tell you that I am comforted as I contemplate what Jon has wrought. He leaves a legacy of edited documents that tell our collective Internet story, including not only the technical but also the poetic and whimsical as well. He completed the incorporation of a successor to his service as IANA and leaves a lasting legacy of service to the community in that role. His memory is rich and vibrant and will not fade from our collective consciousness. What would Jon have done? we will think, as we wrestle in the days ahead with the problems Jon kept so well tamed for so many years. There will almost surely be many memorials to Jons monumental service to the Internet Community. As current chairman of the Internet Society, I pledge to establish an award in Jons name to recognize long-standing service to the community, the Jonathan B. Postel Service Award, which is awarded to Jon posthumously as its first recipient. If Jon were here, I am sure he would urge us not to mourn his passing but to celebrate his life and his contributions. He would remind us that there is still much work to be done and that we now have the responsibility and the opportunity to do our part. I doubt that anyone could possibly duplicate his record, but it stands as a measure of one mans astonishing contribution to a community he knew and loved.

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Fwd: AUCRYPTO: for distrib. (fwd)
by Jean-Francois Avon 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

==================BEGIN FORWARDED MESSAGE================== >From: Darren Reed <darrenr(a)reed.wattle.id.au> >Message-Id: <199810160852.SAA04406(a)avalon.reed.wattle.id.au> >Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 18:52:47 +1000 (EST) >Reply-To: aucrypto(a)suburbia.net >To: aucrypto(a)suburbia.net >X-Mailing-List: <aucrypto(a)suburbia.net> >Subject: AUCRYPTO: for distrib. (fwd) I read this today and thought it might be of general interest. Darren > The public key > > The perception of people losing their privacy has hit the mainstream. ABC > News began a series on October 5th entitled Privacy Lost. > > Operation Echelon, if you haven't heard of it yet you will once mainstream > media gets a hold of it. We began reading about this and the more > information we found the more we began to think George Orwell worked for the > NSA [USA National Security Agency ]. When all the details surface we > may find that big brother really does > exist and has for some time. The NSA reportedly worked closely with other > security agencies to build an interception network. This network is so vast > that it can supposedly intercept every electronic communication on the > planet. The ramifications of this network existing we think will be far > reaching and go a long way to forming online privacy policy in the future. > > The NSA was also nice enough to provide us with our next topic as well. It > appears that up until a few years ago the NSA had a clandestine agreement > with a Swiss cryptography company, Crypto AG. Crypto AG also at one time > provided most of the encryption equipment used at the diplomatic level > around the world. What's special about this is, the agreement allowed the > NSA to embed key-recovery devices inside products sold to other countries. > The NSA could read the information transmitted with these products as easily > as reading the newspaper. This was an ongoing process until March 1992, > when Iranian counterintelligence agents arrested a marketing representative > from Crypto AG on suspicion of spying. The battle for privacy continues. ===================END FORWARDED MESSAGE=================== Jean-Francois Avon, B.Sc. Physics, Montreal, Canada DePompadour, Société d'Importation Ltée Limoges fine porcelain and french crystal JFA Technologies, R&D physicists & engineers Instrumentation & control, LabView programming PGP keys: http://bs.mit.edu:8001/pks-toplev.html PGP ID:C58ADD0D:529645E8205A8A5E F87CC86FAEFEF891 PGP ID:5B51964D:152ACCBCD4A481B0 254011193237822C

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Jon Postel
by Robert Hettinga 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

--- begin forwarded text Date: Sat, 17 Oct 1998 11:32:10 -0400 Reply-To: wb8foz(a)nrk.com Originator: com-priv(a)lists.psi.com Sender: com-priv(a)lists.psi.com Precedence: bulk From: David Lesher <wb8foz(a)nrk.com> To: Multiple recipients of list <com-priv(a)lists.psi.com> Subject: Jon Postel X-Comment: Commercialization and Privatization of the Internet died last night.... You might want to read Vin Cerf's thoughts on David Farber's Interesting people list...... -- A host is a host from coast to coast.................wb8foz(a)nrk.com & no one will talk to a host that's close........[v].(301) 56-LINUX Unless the host (that isn't close).........................pob 1433 is busy, hung or dead....................................20915-1433 --- 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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Jon Postel (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > Date: Sat, 17 Oct 1998 12:39:35 -0400 > From: Robert Hettinga <rah(a)shipwright.com> > Subject: Jon Postel > You might want to read Vin Cerf's thoughts on David Farber's > Interesting people list...... Pray tell how?... ____________________________________________________________________ To know what is right and not to do it is the worst cowardice. Confucius The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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