December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

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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

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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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Re: First "Crypto Refugee"?
by tony＠secapl.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> the shakespeare analysis seems like a good idea to > me. I am not aware of literate papers that try to > analyze it with frequency analysis instead of > just vague assertions by the authors. there is > a huge set of literature that tries to link of > the writings of shakespeare to someone else, but > as far as I know not much of it is computer analysis. This was what brought William Freidman to Riverside, where he both created monographs on cryptanalysis and met his wife. (described in detail in Kahn.)

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Re: IP: Cell phone tapping stirs debate
by Duncan Frissell 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Cellphones are not going to make great tracking devices in the future. I was just visiting the UK and checking out how the cellphone industry has been developing there. "Pay as you call" phones are the fastest-growing segment of the industry. You can buy a phone for as little as 49 GBP ($83). Cellnet sells one for 69 GBP ($117) that works on the Continent as well. You can buy the cards to "feed" these phones from hundreds of UK vendors. Throw away phones are becoming popular in the US as well. As prices decline towards the $20 level, it will be increasingly difficult for the authorities to track the huge number of anonymously purchased disposable phones. DCF "Did you hear the one about the Chinese contractor who promised Burlington Coat Factory jackets trimmed with cainus latrans but substituted canis familiaris instead?"

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

17 Dec '03

At 07:09 AM 12/16/98 +0100, Anonymous wrote: >> > disapproval published to appropriate orgs c) _short_ >> > loosely organized burst of DoS against select online >> > targets from widely distributed sources. >> A DoS (Denial of Service) action is a really, really, >> really bad idea. ["clarification", or something, elided] >Example: A public web page is setup with information on the next "sit in" or >"log writing campaign" containing the agenda behind the protest, contact >persons for more information, target site with explanation of choice, start >time and stop time. Let's further that the cause is able to get a couple >hundred or couple thousand supporters to, for example, repeatedly telnet to >port 80 on the remote server during a specific 5 minute window and type in: > >GET I do not support your sites views on such and such see >www.stop_this_now.org for details. > >Given the right level of logging on the server you'd quickly fill up the >target's logs with a record of the number of people (or actually computers) >that don't agree with the target's agenda. [...] You clearly don't run a website. Logs are very valuable. Any admin who doesn't have space for at least several days of normal traffic available on their logging device is simply not doing a good job. A network admin running a website doesn't lose logs - careers live and die on them (if this seems an overstatement to you, go look at http://www.abcinteractiveaudits.com/ and report your findings. -10 points for declaring it stupid.). If you didn't mean "fill up the target's logs" (which I took to mean overflow available disk space), but rather "pepper the logs with many instances of some sort of odd political commentary", that could have an effect. It could throw off reporting and make a new conversation topic for editors, which might, if you managed to organize enough people, earn you a CNET story. "CyberActivists Make An Obtuse Statement - Click Here For Soundbyte". Great job. Truth is, on any major site, you'd need hundreds of robots making your bogus requests to show up - manually telneting to port 80 is line noise these days to any serious site, unless you're poking at potential security problems. If you really want to try this, at least take the bother to make valid HTTP requests that most servers will recognize. Your example above should be something like: GET /I/dont/support/your/sites/views/on/such/and/such/see/www.stop.this.now.org/ for/details HTTP/1.0 (note the two newlines at the end of the request) A sysadmins reality check, T. Pynchon

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NZ government to legalise black bag jobs
by pgut001＠cs.auckland.ac.nz 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

15 December 1998 GOVERNMENT TO INTRODUCE AMENDMENT TO NZSIS LEGISLATION The Government will introduce an amendment to legislation this week covering the operations of the New Zealand Security Intelligence Service, and will also seek to appeal part of the Choudry decision of the Court of Appeal, Prime Minister Jenny Shipley said today. "In Mr Choudry's case, the Court of Appeal pointed out the need for Parliament to provide express authority for the NZSIS to enter private premises, without permission, to intercept communications." "It is vital that the NZSIS is able to carry out its functions properly in gathering intelligence on security threats to New Zealand. In some rare instances, this may require covert entry to private property, which the amendment to the legislation will allow. The existing law had been presumed to allow this to occur. The Court has said if this is the intention, it should be made explicit as is the case in Canada, the United Kingdom and Australia." [...] Mrs Shipley said the Government would also seek leave to appeal against one aspect of the Court of Appeal's decision in Mr Choudry's case. The issue concerns the procedure the Court should follow when the Government asserts it is necessary, in the course of litigation against the Crown, to withhold from the Court, and other parties, access to information, in order to protect national security interests. Commentary: Choudry was a protestor against the 1994 APEC meeting held in Auckland (a bunch of foreign politicians turned up to talk for a week, shutting down the city centre in a way that wasn't equalled until Mercury Energy earlier this year). At the time the SIS's mandate had been widened to include "economic security", bringing the APEC meeting into its sphere of interest. As part of the APEC brouhaha, they carried out a black bag job on Choudry and got caught, causing the government some embarassment. The current bill, rushed through under urgency just before parliament shuts down (which means it gets rubberstamped with no scrutiny or debate), would legalise these things in the future, just in time for the next big politicians powwow next year (which has already lead to the army invading the university as part of some training exercise which involved a simulated search for dissidents). The second part is more worrying, what it'll do is remove any provision for judicial review of dubious actions by the government by allowing them to claim national security concerns as a blanket excuse for whatever they do. Certainly in the Choudry case the real concern was job security, not national security. Peter.

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Fwd: Anne McLellan's voters reject gun registration...
by Jean-Francois Avon 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

==================BEGIN FORWARDED MESSAGE================== >Received: from bernie.compusmart.ab.ca (bernie.compusmart.ab.ca [199.185.131.34]) > by cti13.citenet.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id NAA22703 > for <jf_avon(a)citenet.net>; Tue, 15 Dec 1998 13:02:25 -0500 (EST) >Received: from remote322.compusmart.ab.ca ([206.75.84.147]:1035 "EHLO compusmart.ab.ca") by mail.compusmart.ab.ca with ESMTP id <409327-12752>; Tue, 15 Dec 1998 10:52:54 -0700 >Message-ID: <3676A210.9C6687B8(a)compusmart.ab.ca> >Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 10:53:20 -0700 >From: Peter Kearns <kearns(a)compusmart.ab.ca> >Organization: KEARNS & McMURCHY >X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (Win95; I) >MIME-Version: 1.0 >To: Canadian Firearms Digest <cdn-firearms-digest(a)sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca>, > "Anne Mclellan (Parliament)" <McLellan.A(a)parl.gc.ca>, > Bernard Johnston <johnston(a)pacific.net.sg>, > Bob Burgess <dq2(a)monarch.net>, Bob Lickacz <firearms(a)planet.eon.net>, > Brad Browne <coffee(a)ns.sympatico.ca>, > Dale Blue <bluedl(a)telusplanet.net>, > David Tomlinson <nfadat(a)telusplanet.net>, > Don Davies <nstn2906(a)fox.nstn.ca>, > Donna Ferollie <donnaferolie(a)sympatico.ca>, > Frank Szojka <dszojka(a)compusmart.ab.ca>, > Frank Williamson <afss(a)connect.ab.ca>, > Garry Breitkreutz <BreitG0(a)parl.gc.ca>, > Gordon Hitchen <acardin(a)v-wave.com>, > Jean-Francois Avon <jf_avon(a)citenet.net>, > Jim Hinter <jhinter(a)shopnfa.com>, > "John St. Amour" <marstar(a)hawk.igs.net>, > LE QUEBECOIS LIBRE <libre(a)colba.net>, > Manuel De La Paz <simonjes(a)hotmail.com>, > Mark Hughes <mkhughe(a)north.nsis.com>, > Pierre Bourque <pierre(a)achilles.net>, > Lorne Gunter <lgunter(a)thejournal.southam.ca>, > Shafer Parker <shaferp(a)sprynet.com>, > Pat & Mike Ryan <theryans(a)sympatico.ca>, > Paul Bennett <paul.bennett1(a)sympatico.ca>, > Paul Rogan <firearms(a)hypertech.yk.ca>, Peekay <peter(a)firearms.ab.ca>, > Peter Cronhelm <cronhelm(a)nucleus.com>, > Peter Figol <pjfigol(a)canada.com>, Ken Epp <Epp.K(a)parl.gc.ca>, > Preston Manning <Manning.P(a)parl.gc.ca>, > Jack Ramsay <Ramsay.J(a)parl.gc.ca>, Deb Grey <Grey.D(a)parl.gc.ca>, > Monty Solberg <Solberg.M(a)parl.gc.ca>, > Raheem Jaffer <Jaffer.R(a)parl.gc.ca>, > "Robin Leech \"SPIDERMAN\"" <robinl(a)connect.ab.ca>, > Tony Bernardo <teebee(a)sprint.ca> >Subject: Anne McLellan's voters reject gun registration... >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >X-UIDL: ddaaa1595eab8ceea7515c82b013fcca > "The Edmonton Examiner" a local community newspaper, ran an editorial entitled "Gun lobby has a point." In it they accused the "pro-gun" faction of posturing and paranoia, but then went on to say the so called "lobby" is correct in it's assessment of the registry. The paper said, "the government has failed to show how gun registration will reduce crime, which is the sole reason for registration." The newspaper also asked how would knowing that people own rifles deter crimes, while "the new law does nothing to deter the easy access to guns smuggled in from the U.S." Another statement follows, "and of course the criminal element has no interest in registering guns." The editor makes one last telling remark, "So exactly what is the point? Essentially, it is to gather information. All governments love information, the more the better. But there is no proof at all that registering guns deters criminal activity." Sounds like an editor sounding off..... Right? What follows indicates the writer likes to do a little investigative journalism.... The editor then conducted a telephone poll asking the question "ARE YOU IN FAVOUR OF THE GOVERNMENTS GUN REGISTRY PROGRAM? (Remember folks, the constituents of "Idle Annie" had their say in this poll.) The results were 76% AGAINST the registration program with 24% in favour..... Oh dear, Annie..... You'd better hope they change their minds come election time...... Comments from those opposed to the registry, "I have never owned a gun, but I resent this program which smacks of a police state." Another said, "I have yet to undertstand how having the gun registered that killed those students in Montreal registered would have prevented that terrible deed." The last and most telling, "It is simply a way to enable the confiscation of firearms in order to prevent any insurrection or revolt against a government that may be imposing oppressive measures." The usual comments equating registering cars and guns, and the "only one life" bleat came from the 24% who actually liked the registry. One even said "Gun owners have to wait hours to get their guns, instead of minutes. Get over it you big whiny crybabies." (Kinda makes you question the maturity of that one!) The polls are turning in our favour, and they are doing so because we are educating the public. The more they know about the registration process and the costs, the less they like the idea. We have accomplished this without breaking any laws, and without the need to indulge in civil disobedience. If we break (even unjust) laws and engage in publicised acts of civil disobedience then we will lose. The newsmedia will then (rightly) portray us as a bunch of right wing fanatics, and elements of the lunatic fringe. The NFA has proved we can be heard, and that the public is seeing things our way without the need to engage in silly demonstrations. Let's see how far we can go within the law, during the next four years. regards, Peter Kearns NFA Communications Simon says: "Well what about it Annie? What do your spin doctors have to say about a poll that included the people who voted in the last election in Edmonton West? (Weren't you elected to represent the views of the people who voted for you?)........... ===================END FORWARDED MESSAGE===================

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