December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

geodesic -- FPGAs
by decius＠ninja.techwood.org 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I've been reading the Geodesic systems thread with much interest... I've been playing around with FPGAs recently, Field Programmable Gate Arrays, which list members should be familiar with due to discussions concerning cheap hardware crypto. Why not replace your entire architecture with reconfigurable hardware? This is sort of like Java turned upside down. Instead of having generalized code running on a specialized "virtual machine." (Which is inefficient as hell) Why not ship the architecture your program runs on along with the program. Liquid architecture. If the FPGA's are standardized (not likely, but..) you could run whatever kind of software you wanted and the architecture would automatically reconfigure to run the code and would be optimized for your application. There are some challenges with muti-tasking but I think you could manage the gate-space like you do memory. Web searches on FGPAs will bring you to research being done on this sort of thing... -- */^\* Tom Cross AKA Decius 615 AKA The White Ninja */^\* Decius(a)ninja.techwood.org "If the economic, social and political conditions... do not offer a basis for the realization of individuality, while at the same time people have lost those ties which gave them security... powerful tendencies arise to escape from freedom into submission." -- Erich Fromm

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Re: HISTORY - pre-CDA, "compromise", untrue civil-liberties groups
by Declan McCullagh 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 18 Jul 1997 19:18:56 -0700 (PDT) From: Declan McCullagh <declan(a)well.com> To: Danny Yee <danny(a)staff.cs.usyd.edu.au> Cc: fight-censorship(a)vorlon.mit.edu Subject: Re: HISTORY - pre-CDA, "compromise", untrue civil-liberties groups I believe the ACLU gets most of its money from individual contributions. (I may be remembering this from a conversation with some ACLUers.) But Jonah has a point below. What's important is not just which corporations fund a group, but whether the group sets policies based on its funders' desires. I know the Cato Institute, for instance, lost money from corporate funders during the Gulf War because of Cato's principled pacifist stance. I suspect EPIC has remained at its modest (but effective) size because of its principled uncompromising stance. This goes back to the original debate: pragmatism vs. principle. How do you stand on principle and remain an effective advocate in Washington? If you navigate the route of pragmatism and compromise, what does that mean for civil liberties? Can you avoid compromising them away? I'm reminded of a scene in Lord of the Rings. Frodo offers the Ring to Galadriel. She hesitates, then declines. She says she would have been tempted by its power -- but transformed by it. "I will diminish, and remain Galadriel." (This is from memory. It's been more than a couple years.) -Declan On Sat, 19 Jul 1997, Danny Yee wrote: > > From: Jonah Seiger <jseiger(a)cdt.org> > > What critics on this list seem to fail to understand is that CDT, EFF, > > EPIC, ACLU, etc. get financial support based on our positions and goals, > > not the other way around. > > Amnesty International does not accept funding from any state. It seems > to me that there's a very good reason for that. > > I'd be interested to see a list of financial supporters of the ACLU > and EFF. > > Danny Yee.

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custom and privacy
by Zooko Journeyman 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

A million monkeys operating under the pseudonym "T.C. May" typed: > I of course remember _lots_ of things about people, I share those memories > on occasion (without requesting permission), I mention names, and I > certainly don't recall every giving one of the subjects of my memories a > cut of the action. > > In a free society, it is not possible or acceptable to control what others > remember or gossip about. Or even sell commercially. The infinitive "to control" here confuses force with contract, coercion with civil pressure, and law with custom. I believe Bill Frantz's original article made the distinction, and I believe it stated that his thoughts were in the context of the latter. Unfortunately cypherpunks sometimes seem unable to preserve such contexts in follow-up articles. In a free society, such as the one that I enjoy with my colleagues, friends, compatriots, acquaintances, enemies and perfect strangers on the Net, it is indeed possible and acceptable to exert individual and collective social pressure to influence the use and dissemination of information. I could, but won't, give many examples of people requesting that maintain certain privacy bits attached to information they gave me, and people graciously respecting the privacy bits that I transmitted along with my information. Sometimes these people were friends or acquaintances of mine, other times they were perfect strangers who acted out of professional self- interest, reputation-preservation, casual generosity, and/or-- as per Bill Frantz's article-- familiarity with and respect for custom. I applaud Bill Frantz's effort to direct the minds of cypherpunks towards a topic which is valuable and relevant, but which is not reducible to the convenient mental shortcut of "government BAD, not-government GOOD". Zooko, Journeyman

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A For-Real Offer
by Jeff＠makemoney.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Revisionist History of the US....:(
by Jim choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Hi all, I am not going to name names but I would like to address the comment that several folks have made (or agreed with) that the US has gone 200 years w/o a major upheaval. Maybe I am taking a alternate History than you folks but I believe the Civil War can be considered a major internal upheaval and it occured 4 score and 7 years (87 years) after the birth of our country. Since then we have also had the civil rights upheaval (if you don't want to consider deaths of folks like MLK major that is your business) in the late 50's and early 60's as well. Especially when you consider the political and social turmoil that occured because of the Vietnam War. What I find most interesting about this chronology is that the upheavals occur approximately every hundred years since our founding. The fact that the present problems we are having w/ the administration recognizing and the general populace demaning their civil liberties/rights is apparently early by approximately 70 years. Perhaps the present administration is really as progressive as they claim...:) Take care.

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(Fwd) Re: Problems with anonymous escrow 2--response
by blancw＠pylon.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Responding to msg by solman(a)MIT.EDU The skills of an entity without any reputation capital are absolutely worthless. But usually an anonymous entity will come around brandishing all sorts of certifications (reputation capital). .......................................................... Well, I was thinking that certifications & reputations wouldn't mean all that much to me, nor either knowing or being unfamiliar with someone's identity (or pseudonymousness). I would be more convinced with a demo. Something which could demostrate facility or ability would be more valuable to me than a second-hand proof. I realize some professions cannot provide such demonstrations, but I myself would rather have a way of making decisions based on the excercise of first-hand judgement whenever possible. This anonymity/identity and certification/reputation business appears something like trying to have one's cake and eat it, too, as the expression goes. A featureless landscape with remote associations to actual substance so as to both please the aloof-ers & appease the uncertain. It's a bit paradoxical that for every method which is found by which to hide, another method is found by which to reveal what was heretofore undetectable in Nature. While scientists push back the envelope & reveal what was previously 'invisible' to our eyes, others work to effect stealth techniques against the tools of Consciousness. Kind of strange, though interesting. Blanc

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Odds and Ends (Books) (fwd) Re: Books: wanted to buy
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

In article p00122(a)psilink.com, "BSW Gateway" <p00122(a)psilink.com> () writes: >I am searching for two out-of-print books. I would like to purchase one >copy each in reasonably good condition. If you have either and are willing >to part with it, please contact me by email. Thanks. > >Tutorial: The Security of Data in Networks >by Davies >IEEE Computer Society Press, 1981 > >Kahn on Codes >by Kahn >Macmillan, 1983 > >Note: the second book is NOT "The Codebreakers" but a later book by Kahn. I tried e-mail but the message is bouncing around like a kangaroo on certain controlled substances. The following is a list of bookstores dealing, more or less specifically with espionage and intelligence and include some coverage of crypto. My recommendation for the first title would be to try Elm. If you contact C&D, ELM, or NIBC, mentioning my name _might_ help. Alec Chambers Cloak and Dagger Books, 9 Eastman Avenue Bedford, NH 03110-6701 Phone: (603) 668-1629 (evenings) Proprietor: Dan Halpin Jr. Dealer in out of print and rare books relating to nonfiction espionage, crypto, terrorism and partisan and guerilla warfare. Stocks more than 10,000 books and will do searches. Dan is extraordinarily amiable and helpful, but does ask that you send $2.50 for a catalog. I have dealt happily with him for some time. Elm Spy Books, P.O.Box 9753 Arnold, MD 21012 Phone: (301) 544-9014. Proprietor: Emil Levine Has a coverage similar to Cloak and Dagger, but is interested in specializing in crypto (he's not too far from Ft. George mmmmmmmfff...). Another helpful individual with whom I have dealt. Catalog costs $2.00. Military Bookman, 29 East 93rd Street New York, NY 10128. Mail Order (212) 348-1280 Large collection of military titles, including military intelligence. Catalogs available National Intelligence Book Center, 1700 K Street NW, Suite 607 Washington DC Phone: (202) 785-4334 FAX: (202) 331-7456 e-mail: 70346.1166(a)COMPUSERVE.COM Publishes an annotated, bimonthly publication, Surveillant: Acquisitions for the Intelligence and Security Professional, listing new books, paperback editions, foreign language titles, US government documents on intelligence, video, and audio tapes, forthcoming books and works in progress, and news and events. Annual subscription is $96 in the U.S. The Book Center will also compile bibliographies on _specific_ intelligence on request. All sales are now conducted through Olsson's Books, 1200 F Street, NW, Washington DC 20004 (202) 337-8084. Q.M.Dabney&Co., 11910-P Parklawn Drive, Rockville, MD 20852 Phone (301) 881-1470 Very large military collection with some intelligence titles. Carries only out-of-print books. Not a browsing bookstores, phone orders only, catalogs available. I have dealt happily with them for years although they are SLOW on actually sending the stuff out. Ruth Koffsky Books, 5515 Greystone Street, Chevy Chase, MD 20815 Phone: (301) 656-5587 Specializes in ex-library and reader's copies of works on intelligence, politics, and world affairs. Open by appointment only or by mail. Upon request will send a list of titles on a very specific topic. Sidney Kramer Books, 1825 I Street, NW Washington, DC 20006. Mail order: (202) 293-2685 Fax: (202) 835-9756 Large collection of intelligence-related titles in sections on "intelligence," "military affairs," and "regional studies." Offers catalogs and will special order. Sky Books, 48 E. 50th Street, Second Floor, New York, NY 10022 Mail Order: (212) 688-5086. Large selection of titles on military intelligence and espionage. Offers book club with selection of intelligence titles.

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Random Numbers
by Mike Ingle 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

an31185(a)anon.penet.fi writes: >So, it sounds like what we *really* need is a little box with a shot-noise >generator that attaches to a serial port and generates truly random >numbers to use for the key. Anyone out there feel like designing one >for us? That sounds doable. Tune a radio to a spot where there is static, plug it into the audio in port of a SoundBlaster card, sample a few Kbytes, and MD5 it to get your key. Nobody is going to reconstruct that. < MikeIngle(a)delphi.com > P.S. Has anyone called Mykotronx lately? I called a while ago and asked for any databooks and appnotes on Clipper. They said the databooks weren't ready yet, and offered to put me on a mailing list for appnotes when they were ready. I got the impression Mykotronx isn't too happy about the status of the Clipper/Spooktap project. :-)

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Re: caching scripts
by George A. Gleason 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

filler messages.... Little Jack Horner sat in the corner decrypting a long email letter. The letter was dull but the humorous "null" that it ended with made him feel better! -gg

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Digital noise
by I am not a number. I am an unbound variable. 16-Sep-1993 0950 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Timothy Newsham writes: >Last time I was fingering through an analog parts catalog under the >telephony section I noticed a bunch of parts that generate audio-noise. >Maybe some of these would be suitable (if they dont use an internal >digital state machine to generate the noise). Unfortunately, last time I checked, they used a fairly short internal PRNG to generate the "noise" (which means it's not noise at all, it's completely correllated and repeating, it just _sounds_ like noise to a human ear. To get real random noise, try using a transistor "backwards", as a zener diode. Then look at the voltage- it's quite "noisy", esp. if you use a decent-sized series resistor (try 100Kohms). -Bill (done this before)...

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