December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Fast Modular Factorial?
by mpd＠netcom.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

A small question about large integer math... We are all familar with the fact that x^(2^n) mod p may be evaluated with only n modmults which accumulate geometrically increasing powers of x. Does a similar fast algorithm exist for computing (2^n)! mod p? The only difference here is that one is accumulating a huge product of consecutive integers instead of the same integer multiplied many times. I am interested in values of n around several hundred. I have played with this quite a bit and am unable to see any easy exploitable symmetry which would lead to an efficient algorithm. Any ideas? -- Mike Duvos $ PGP 2.6 Public Key available $ mpd(a)netcom.com $ via Finger. $

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H.E.A.T. BEAT
by Sandy Sandfort 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ SANDY SANDFORT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . H.E.A.T. seekers, Please note my new title for these reviews in the subject line. Consider it a filtering aid--pro or con. CODE NAME: FRAME-UP The Team is in Culebra ("snake"), Panama to capture a gunrunner, Salazar, who's supplying terrorists. They pretend to be hanging out on the beach (bikini alert) and the grab him as he is making a "private" cellular call to the terrorists. During the snatch, they find that he is carrying cocaine, so that's what he gets busted for. He will being going before Judge Diaz, who is not corrupt, so he's toast unless his brother can rig something. "Something" comes in the form of Celia Alvarez, a Salazar gun moll who bears a striking resemblance to our own Romana Machado. She comes to our hero, Mike, and tells him she wants to make a break from Salazar's gang. She gets Mike to her room to talk about it, and gives him a Mickey Finn. When Mike comes to, he's in bed with his gun in his hand and a dead guy (shot with Mike's gun) on the floor. They dead guy is judge Diaz. The cops burst in, Celia says, "he did it" and away goes Mike. After this point, the plot self-destructs and makes no sense at all. No matter; that's not why we're here. Before all this happen, however, there is a gratuitous montage of babes in bikinis, intercut with scenes of our heroes basking on the beach, practicing martial arts, frolicking in the water, playing with puppies, etc. (For those of you who are more interested in good-looking guys than gals, there were plenty of shots of shirtless male Team members, posing and flexing their muscles.) The upshot of the weird plot twists is that the Team loses its official backing and has to go in on its own to save Mike. To do this, they first break into the DEA's computer. The purpose of the intrusion is to put information *into* the database. They create files that say that Marcos and Cat are big-time drug dealers. With this, they are able to infiltrate Salazar's operation and ... well I'm not sure what the idea was, but it gives Marcos a chance to slick back his hair (all bad guys on Acapulco H.E.A.T. have slicked back hair), and dress in a cheesy pimp outfit. Cat gets to put on too much makeup and tart it up in a short, tight, red dress. Besides the computer break-in, there is only one other "hi-tech" plot device. Outside Salazar's villa, the Team uses a "long range mike" to pick up Mike's voice inside. The microphone was an incredibly cheap-looking hand-held parabolic mike. It was only about a foot in diameter, and they were using it *through the windshield* of their car. There was also a briefcase with a flash bomb inside, but that's not particularly hi-tech. Of course, there is a climactic shoot-em-up, but the only thing that gets blown up is the aforementioned flash Grenada briefcase. There was, however, some deliciously irresponsible firearms role modeling. When Ashley finds Mike, he's handcuffed. They have one of their typical romantic banters that ends with her saying, "Maybe I should just shoot you and blame it on Salazar." Mike responds with a smart-ass comment, at which point Ashley points her pistol at Mike, causing him to cringe away with his hands over his head. She than pulls the trigger and shots through the links connecting the two wrist sections of Mike's handcuffs. Ya' gotta love a woman like that. (Or else!) S a n d y ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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I-D ACTION:draft-atkinson-ipng-auth-00.txt
by Eric Blossom 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories. Title : IPv6 Authentication Header Author(s) : R. Atkinson Filename : draft-atkinson-ipng-auth-00.txt Pages : 10 Date : 11/16/1994 The Internet community is working on a transition from version 4 of the Internet Protocol (IPv4) to version 6 of the Internet Protocol (IPv6). This memo describes the IPv6 Authentication Header. This optional header provides strong integrity and authentication for IPv6 datagrams. Non-repudiation might be provided by an authentication algorithm used with the Authentication Header, but it is not provided with all authentication algorithms that might be used. Confidentiality, and protection from traffic analysis are not provided by the Authentication Header. Users desiring confidentiality should consider using the IPv6 Encapsulating Security Protocol (ESP) either in lieu of or in conjunction with the Authentication Header. [NB: All references to "IPv6 Encapsulating Security Protocol" will be replaced with references to the "IPv6 Security Protocol (IPSP)" if/when such a document appears as an online Internet Draft]. This document assumes the reader has previously read and understood the related "IPv6 Security Overview" document which defines the overall security architecture for IPv6 and provides important background information for this specification. Internet-Drafts are available by anonymous FTP. Login with the username "anonymous" and a password of your e-mail address. After logging in, type "cd internet-drafts" and then "get draft-atkinson-ipng-auth-00.txt". A URL for the Internet-Draft is: ftp://ds.internic.net/internet-drafts/draft-atkinson-ipng-auth-00.txt Internet-Drafts directories are located at: o Africa Address: ftp.is.co.za (196.4.160.2) o Europe Address: nic.nordu.net (192.36.148.17) o Pacific Rim Address: munnari.oz.au (128.250.1.21) o US East Coast Address: ds.internic.net (198.49.45.10) o US West Coast Address: ftp.isi.edu (128.9.0.32) Internet-Drafts are also available by mail. Send a message to: mailserv(a)ds.internic.net. In the body type: "FILE /internet-drafts/draft-atkinson-ipng-auth-00.txt". NOTE: The mail server at ds.internic.net can return the document in MIME-encoded form by using the "mpack" utility. To use this feature, insert the command "ENCODING mime" before the "FILE" command. To decode the response(s), you will need "munpack" or a MIME-compliant mail reader. Different MIME-compliant mail readers exhibit different behavior, especially when dealing with "multipart" MIME messages (i.e., documents which have been split up into multiple messages), so check your local documentation on how to manipulate these messages. For questions, please mail to Internet-Drafts(a)cnri.reston.va.us. Below is the data which will enable a MIME compliant mail reader implementation to automatically retrieve the ASCII version of the Internet-Draft.

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Call for Italians
by marcoc＠nsifc.ifc.pi.cnr.it 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hello world, Is there any Italian people interested to have geographical & legal Italian related discussion ? Please tell me also if such group already exist. Have a good day. Marco Calamari +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Marco A. Calamari - "Bandwidth is a natural resource; use carefully." | +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | ELEA S.p.A., via S. Domenico 70, 50133 Firenze, Italy | | Phone : +39-55-5000465 Fax: +39-55-579337 | | E-mail: Internet primary marcoc(a)nsifc.ifc.pi.cnr.it | | Internet backup marcoc(a)guest1.atc.olivetti.com | | Applelink ita0820 (from Inet: ita0820(a)applelink.apple.com) | | PGP 2.6.1 public key: use key server, check by finger or direct request | +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.1 iQCVAwUBLpJZBolqHjrHnYhBAQGXDwP/edst1vJkRAny3wbBR/4wQPBJuEsXmVze tN3mSkpA/kW8r6y44GT3cRPUkMyBXGTbDbVvusdk8g9TYb+ze+IU3V3NnE9/sAkH VMSo2OmsVL2R7j5TsqSkXWR5twh7J7BUT8CMOqPWm61wsiN+Ms4Gg2r8p455MGFL 7sAM0ATx3lk= =I+kH -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: He's dead Jim (Chomsky)
by nobody＠jpunix.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

James A. McDonald wrote: >There is ample Chomsky material outside this quote supporting socialism, >and as well as socialism, those measures that socialism makes necessary, >namely silencing of dissent, mass murder, and rule by terror. Ah, so now we see why Mr. McDonald feels forced to interpret everything Chomsky writes as meaning the exact opposite of what it says - why Mr. McDonald thinks that Chomsky *must* be trying to promote totalitarian repression, even though Chomsky nowhere advocates repression of any kind. >There is ample Chomsky material outside this quote supporting socialism, correct. >and as well as socialism, those measures that socialism makes necessary, >namely silencing of dissent, mass murder, and rule by terror. Mr. McDonald infers this because, although Chomsky, if taken at face value, does not _appear_ to be advocating "mass murder, and rule by terror", McDonald __knows__ that: 1. a society without capitalism must be based on rule by terror. and 2. anybody as intelligent as Chomsky knows (1). thus anybody who advocates socialism is really advocating rule by terror and so Chomsky clearly means the opposite of what he says. Mr. McDonald's reasoning is perfect except that (1) is false. If the "unwashed masses", the unruly mob should forget their place in life (to be subservient to the elite, who are superior, because they claim they are) and abolish the state, the army and the police and if they in their foolishness should decide that they never liked capitalism and from now on everything should be free then they have no need to oppress people like Mr. McDonald if he wishes to try to accumulate capital by offering goods and/or services for a price. Since everything is free in this hypothetical society, nobody will have any reason to buy your goods and/or services Mr. McDonald, because they can get them somewhere else for free. Thus capitalism will never return (unless people who prefer a repressive society restore capitalism by force) without anybody doing anything to repress capitalism or other dissident ideas. I think this is the sort of society Mr. Chomsky is advocating. Of course, Mr. McDonald _knows_ that such a society is impossible because everybody is as selfish as he is so nobody will want to share anything or give anything away for free and they won't do so unless forced to. Again, you are mistaken. The unwashed masses, while far from perfect, are much more altruistic than right-wing cypherpunks such as yourself (I realise that many cypherpunks are not right-wing) and when given the chance they have shown that they prefer something that resembles Chomsky's society more than the usual state/army/police-enforced capitalism. Examples where the working class has had a brief taste of freedom are Paris, 1871, Ukraine ~1917, Spain, 1920s and Derry, Ireland ~1969. In every case capitalism (Soviet state capitalism in the case of the Ukraine) was restored by force within a few months or years. I don't think anyone thinks this mailing list is the right place to discuss your Chomsky conspiracy theories so if you haven't finished yet, take them to alt.conspiracy. Note: if Mr. McDonald pig-headedly insists on replying to this post on the mailing list, I will almost certainly ignore him, out of consideration for the rest of you. P.S. Lewis McCarthy wrote: "Quick, somebody mention Hitler". Okay. Mr. McDonald is as fascist as Hitler.

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test44
by Tsuyoshi Hayashi 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

| Tsuyoshi Hayashi (hayashi(a)scs.sony.co.jp) | Tech. div., Sony Computer Systems Inc. | | PGP public key NOT available now.

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Sorry, I made a mistake...
by Tsuyoshi Hayashi 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

All cypherpunks, Sorry. I made a mistake. At 05 Oct 94 21:30:19 +0900, I have sent a test mail (to checking my mailing environment) to cypherpunks(a)toad.com. |To: cypherpunks(a)toad.com |Cc: cpunk(a)scs.sony.co.jp |Subject: test44 |Date: Wed, 05 Oct 94 21:30:19 +0900 |From: Tsuyoshi Hayashi <hayashi(a)scs.sony.co.jp> Sorry. Please overlook my mistake for once, please. # But this is my first (second?) mail to cypherpunks... | Tsuyoshi Hayashi (hayashi(a)scs.sony.co.jp) | Tech. div., Sony Computer Systems Inc.

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Re: Impact of Free Strong Crypto (Essay of sorts)
by Carl Ellison 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>From: Black Unicorn <unicorn(a)access.digex.net> >Date: Sun, 2 Oct 1994 22:30:22 -0400 (EDT) >How will the complete inability of law enforcement (Federal or Local) to >conduct wiretaps impact collection? Those who think that law enforcement >will just have to go away might want to reconsider. Instead I think that >law enforcement will simply become much more intrusive as a response to the >unavailability of easy interception via wiretapping. The more I try to disseminate PGP and RIPEM (and get people to use them), the more I think that inability to conduct wiretaps and get intelligence from them will never occur. If it were to occur, we'd probably see laws passed immediately against civilian cryptography. If we merely threaten it, we give a weapon to the FBI to request such laws and a compliant Congress might actually go ahead and give in. However, the prediction I find I have to make is that ccivilian

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p.s.
by Carl Ellison 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The previous message was sent early by accident but was nearly complete. Don't bother checking your mailer. :-)

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NYT on TeleTheft
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Long article today on widespread international calling-card fraud -- stealing and selling numbers to and by computer hackers around the world -- and Secret Service and other LEAs current traps, investigations, arrests and indictments. Don't call if you want e-mail copy, they're about to bust you. This looks like one of "threats" the Wiretap Bill (and maybe the newly chastened CIA) hopes to squash. John

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