December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

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by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Re: NYT on Netscape Crack
by David_A Wagner 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

In article <9509201034.AA10521(a)prakinf.tu-ilmenau.de> you write: > Is it a good idea to use different (unrelated!) seeded PRNG's for the > challenge data (which can be seen by sniffing) and the masterkey (which > should never leave out of client's memory? No. If the master key PRNG is poorly seeded, this is still exploitable: for instance, there is a lot of redundancy in most plaintext, and this can be used to check each candidate key value. Just use a cryptographically secure PRNG seeded with enough entropy.

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RE: BIZDOS CITIZENSHIP?
by andrew.spring＠ping.be 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Date: Sun, 10 Sep 1995 22:11:28 +0100 To: cypherpunks(a)toad.com From: Andrew.Spring(a)ping.be (Andrew Spring) Subject: Re: Bizdos citizenship? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >In correspondence with someone outside the US regarding ITAR regulations, the remark was made that Jim Bizdos was Greek and not a U.S. citizen. Is this statement in the same class as an Elvis sighting? Or if it is true, what impact would ITAR have on foreign nationals working for a US company involved with export restricted crypto? > >Please don't get carried away and turn this into a Net rumor. I'm just curious if anyone on the list can confirm or deny the citizenship comment. Jim Bidzos is a US Permanent Resident Alien and Greek citizen. He has a Green Card. It doesn't have any ITAR impact, since the ITAR term 'Foreign Person' doesn't include Green Carded Resident Aliens. It probably wouldn't have any impact anyway, since he's a business weenie, and not a software weenie. Now, if he had a _programmer_ that wasn't a US Citizen, that would be a-whole-nother kettle of fish. He's previously stated that he would become a US Citizen, if it were not for the fact that Greece would require him to give up his Greek (and hence his EC) citizenship. See Simson Garfinkle's book on PGP for more details. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBMFMZFI4k1+54BopBAQGK7gP+Oq+FjqjCeQziC16Ryq64i1tXMAhV/jaX 86TBumss/GPpaVfLGtDS3FZARK9eTo4gVPTfABtvIa/u6QzZGL9zCT5z5nWT5QJ4 Koj5jnGsnNpXx3YGa1bJfZOI4ctkRovPWpyPa4jWOEooJz5UbvCCwGW/YoYMlvCs sQ//Qs7uDPs= =ARLj -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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EMP & Cars (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > Date: Fri, 5 Sep 1997 11:48:08 -0400 (EDT) > From: Ray Arachelian <sunder(a)brainlink.com> > Subject: EMP & Cars (fwd) > There has been quite an interest in EMP. > pulses to a near miss lightning strike. As far as vehicle disabling, There > are claims that auto manufactures have built in a shut down frequency into > the computers in certain vehicles. We wound a large coil on a carpet paper > tube and put an oscillator on it and it would flood a vehicles electrical > system to shut it down, but it was huge. Mind being a little more specific?... - What was the dimension of the coil you used? - What was the frequency and amplitude of your signal? - What model of car and it's computer did you test? - What was the orientation and position of the coil when it worked and when it didn't? > The easiest way to learn about > EMP is to find the International TESLA society web site and interpret the > information there. Some of the best sources are ECM & EECM texts/sites. While it is a good source of technical info it does take a bull-shit detector set to full to sift through all the other detritis the ITS wallows in. Space aliens, hollow earth, over-unity power, etc. ____________________________________________________________________ | | | The financial policy of the welfare state requires that there | | be no way for the owners of wealth to protect themselves. | | | | -Alan Greenspan- | | | | _____ The Armadillo Group | | ,::////;::-. Austin, Tx. USA | | /:'///// ``::>/|/ http:// www.ssz.com/ | | .', |||| `/( e\ | | -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- Jim Choate | | ravage(a)ssz.com | | 512-451-7087 | |____________________________________________________________________|

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Clipper: the definitive meme
by jim＠rand.org 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Date: Mon, 11 Sep 95 08:26:42 PDT From: Jim Gillogly <jim(a)rand.org> T-shirt!! T-shirt!! Jim Gillogly Trewesday, 20 Halimath S.R. 1995, 15:26 ------- Forwarded Message From: wtshaw(a)aol.com (WTShaw) Newsgroups: talk.politics.crypto Subject: Re: Impressions of the NIST meeting Date: 11 Sep 1995 04:50:27 -0400 In the world of Jet-Age crypto, the government offers up a biplane, and seek to reserve the second seat for themselves. ------- End of Forwarded Message

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Re: www.commentary.unabomber
by carolann＠censored.org 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Go FrogFarm Go! From: Damaged Justice <frogfarm(a)yakko.cs.wmich.edu> Subject: Re: www.commentary.unabomber To: carolann(a)censored.org Date: Wed, 20 Sep 1995 20:03:45 -0400 (EDT) X-Angst-Level: Fair to Middlin' X-Authentication-Vegetable: Aardvark X-NSA-Food: narcotics anarchy bosnia encryption assassinate X-Thrash-Confirmation: Ahh! Hippy on a stick! Organization: Somewhere just far enough outside of your jurisdiction Reply-To: frogfarm(a)yakko.cs.wmich.edu Yes, it's a complete version. I've also started a rudimentary rebuttal/ commentary page at http://yakko.cs.wmich.edu/~frogfarm/unabuttal.html - -- frogfarm(a)yakko.cs.wmich.edu (Damaged Justice) is officially declared Unmutual s..O).... The smurf wields a hypodermic! -- More -- I like women who @.../.".. You destroy the smurf! -- More -- are *strong*, in .$*...].. You feel self-righteous! <B>every</B> sense of the word. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBMGCvXIrpjEWs1wBlAQFHWAP9Fnf7patTds/KSr6EssfDgZvZKSQiTSqT ddK52W1cbAI+oJT46v0rX2Z7gQeibjHu64jCpQLj7df62p11RD7ElseD9EOJLjUX wUOy5+ap9+dbdr1FViWgwG+B6qExmrduZTsJ3jHz8Fq6cxd8e5iRW+R61wT4Ph1W wZtDiMrUpIE= =UQy3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Member Internet Society - Certified BETSI Programmer - Webmistress *********************************************************************** Carol Anne Braddock (cab8) carolann(a)censored.org 206.42.112.96 My Homepage The Cyberdoc *********************************************************************** ------------------ PGP.ZIP Part [017/713] ------------------- M8H,),S$8G>&.WP(8IRA`-M['+`Q%&_C"">5-F%LX@<_Q$;*P'',Q$Z/AA[8M MF=O0H+*%(-S%&>S%+FS&<LS%3(Q&#W1"<]2%`H^;,]^1C$'HBN8PX$4SYAU^ MPGD<Q0ZLA0D+,`MCT!LA**4M[-JPAK9F?40!AJ,CW"'%DR#:'9?Q)3[%<DQ` ------------------------------------------------------------- for next chunk to export --> http://dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/export/

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Re: Infoworld and Denning's study
by pgut001＠cs.auckland.ac.nz 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>Infoworld NZ has just published an awful article (written by US reporter Sari >Kalin and titled "Criminals Eyeing Encryption"), which emphasises repeatedly >that encryption is a major problem just waiting to happen, using Dorothy >Dennings report as a basis. This represents a rather ugly way to interpret >the report (and, presumably, an attempt by the USG to recover something from >a report which was supposed to come down firmly in favour of crypto >restrictions but didn't). Due to the late hour I got that wrong, it's Computerworld NZ, not Infoworld (slight difference in naming). Even later last night I wrote a letter to the editor which, I gather, will appear in the next issue. I've included it below in case anyone finds it useful, it's written for a general audience who probably aren't aware of the deeper issues apart from the fact that the USG has a peculiar attitude towards crypto, due to length constraints I couldn't go into too much detail. If you feel the need to circulate this, please don't do so until after next Monday when it's officially published. Peter. -- Snip -- The article "Crims eyeing encryption" in the September 9 Computerworld presents an extremely peculiar view of the study "Encryption and Evolving Technologies in Organised Crime and Terrorism". The final conclusion of the study was that there is no real "encryption problem" which justifies placing limitations on the use of encryption, and yet the article, by more or less ignoring the conclusion and concentrating instead on a number of scaremongering quotes, manages to create exactly the opposite impression. To understand what's involved here, it might be useful to know a bit about the background of the study. For a number of years the US government has held that it needs to strongly restrict peoples access to encryption. They can't actually provide you with any supporting facts for this because they're all classified, but if they were allowed to tell you, they're certain you'd agree with them. Now over the years they came to the realisation that people weren't really buying this argument, and so they decided to create a study which would provide proof, once and for all, that they were right. The two people who worked on this study were Dorothy Denning, virtually the only supporter of the US governments policy apart from the US government itself, and a vice-president of SAIC, a large defence contractor. They toiled away for quite some time, and finally announced their results a month or two back. Unfortunately the findings put them in a rather awkward position: Although the study was supposed to provide proof that there was some sort of "encryption problem" which needed to be countered, it instead showed that there wasn't really a problem at all. Sure, it showed that criminals occasionally use encryption, just like criminals also drive cars, eat pizza, drink Coke, and (quite probably) read Computerworld. The important point - which was almost completely ignored in the article in favour of running scaremongering quotes from a variety of US government officials - was that the "encryption problem", the whole reason for the governments' claimed need to restrict encryption, by and large didn't exist. It got even worse for the government though. So convincing was the evidence in the study that Denning - for years a very outspoken supporter of their policies - did an about-face and declared that she was no longer prepared to back government plans for restricting encryption until someone proved to her that there was a very good reason for it (this was reported in a number of US papers and publications which cover computer issues, so it was reasonably well known, eg "Denning unable to confirm FBI Assertions; alters her position" in the Mercury News, the largest silicon valley paper). Although the governments star technical witness was unable to find any evidence that their position was valid, the Computerworld article, by resorting to selective quoting and innuendo, paints a very different, and quite inaccurate, picture. (As a side-note, I find it amusing to read that the government policy relies on people handing over their encryption keys to them. Quite apart from the question of why anyone would trust the US government with their keys, there's also the small problem that no criminal will ever do this - that's why they're criminals after all. The only ones who'll ever get caught by this cunning plan are you and I). -- Snip -- (I'm assuming most readers will get the Baldrick/Blackadder reference in the last sentence :-).

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RE: NETSCAPE TO PATCH SHAREWARE VERSION
by anon-remailer＠utopia.hacktic.nl 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Date: Tue, 12 Sep 1995 23:00:18 +0200 To: cypherpunks(a)toad.com Subject: Re: Netscape to patch shareware version From: anon-remailer(a)utopia.hacktic.nl (Anonymous) Organization: Hack-Tic International, Inc. >| Netscape said it received word last week that the State Department had >| cleared that version for release on the Net, but only within the U.S., >| owing to current export laws banning the export of encryption schemes >| stronger than 40 bits. THe company could provide no details by press >| time on how it would ensure that the 128-bit version wouldn't leak beyond >| U.S. borders. > >Ok, any bet on how long it will take? It's already been exported. Evidently, one of those who bought the commercial I note the site removed it, however, probably because Netscape Comm. Inc. reque

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(NOISE) X-FILES ANARCHIST
by dsc＠swcp.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Date: Sat, 16 Sep 1995 09:56:59 -0600 To: cypherpunks(a)toad.com From: dsc(a)swcp.com (Dar Scott) Subject: (Noise) X-Files anarchist I hardly watch TV ...blah, blah..., but I saw X-files last night. A very minor character was a cryptohacker who--to his surprise--brute-forced a military key for some files. He was described as an anarchist. To _my_ surprise, this anarchist was not associated with violence or lunatic ravings. He was shown as reading a book entitled something like Survey of Modern Conspiracy Theories. I see this as an improvement in the stereotype of computer-associated anarchists. And this I see as a good thing, since I think there is a lot that could be learned from anarchists. I think the character was killed, but I may have missed something. Dar =========================================================== Dar Scott Home phone: +1 505 299 9497 Dar Scott Consulting Voice: +1 505 299 5790 8637 Horacio Place NE Email: darscott(a)aol.com Albuquerque, NM 87111 dsc(a)swcp.com Fax: +1 505 898 6525 http://www.swcp.com/~correspo/DSC/DarScott.html ===========================================================

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Re: FUCK! how do i unregister from toad.com or the 2 other server ?%
by Allan Thompson 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

are you tired ? >I am tired, i am registered to 3 cypherpunks server and tired or receiving >40-50 new message each day! > >Please someone reply! > >Martin >mgmicro(a)usa.net > > > ************************************************** "The World is full of shipping clerks who read the Harvard Classics." --Bukowski ***************************************************

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