December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Ultra computer
by Nobuki Nakatuji 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Ultra computer which NEC had the calculation speed of the world maximum of about 1000 times of the super computer to was decided to be developed. Ultra computer will be completed in 2001. It has the performance that the calculation which takes 10000 years with the personal computer is made of 3, 4 days. ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

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Misty???
by William H. Geiger III 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Well on another mailing list I have been chastised for calling Misty "snake-oil". Has anyone actually examined this algorithm? Seems there is an IETF Draft on it (draft-ohta-misty1desc-00.txt). Any opinions on it?? My only exposure has be through the pidgon-english posts of Nobuki Nakatuji (if it looks like a duck, it smells like a duck, it quacks like a duck ....). - -- - --------------------------------------------------------------- William H. Geiger III http://users.invweb.net/~whgiii Geiger Consulting Cooking With Warp 4.0 Author of E-Secure - PGP Front End for MR/2 Ice PGP & MR/2 the only way for secure e-mail. OS/2 PGP 2.6.3a at: http://users.invweb.net/~whgiii/pgpmr2.html - --------------------------------------------------------------- Tag-O-Matic: I use OS/2 2.0 and I don't care who knows! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3a-sha1 Charset: cp850 Comment: Registered_User_E-Secure_v1.1b1_ES000000 iQCVAwUBNMbWgY9Co1n+aLhhAQFjoQQAgRac4gm3MM1mbZUfb0jH21b7gQt1IRYR wWFilIA2am/6x+bmF3RKG64A9/iwp00rD45g2yybw91Gg3/87nEMjPBpo+DCchtb psYRKyDOTxOAr7GljOa2k4HJAfNDqjxQ56sI/4whk2PEADnpHilzln98tEJobZA7 oxZw9FeGlig= =M0fT -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: RC1 and RC3 ??
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>At 09:28 PM 1/19/98 PST, Nobuki Nakatuji wrote: >> >>Why doesn't it have RC1 and RC3 though there are RC2, >>RC4 and RC5 of RSADSI RC series ? > >If we told you we would have to kill you. Cool! Let's tell him, then, so we won't have to listen to him anymore! :)

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tell me what you think of this RC2 C++ source code
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

tell me what you think of this RC2 C++ source code #include <string.h> #include <assert.h> void RC2Keyschedule::schedule( unsigned short K[64], const unsigned char L[128], unsigned T8, unsigned TM ) { unsigned char x; unsigned i; static const unsigned char PITABLE[256] = { 217,120,249,196, 25,221,181,237, 40,233,253,121, 74,160,216,157, 198,126, 55,131, 43,118, 83,142, 98, 76,100,136, 68,139,251,162, 23,154, 89,245,135,179, 79, 19, 97, 69,109,141, 9,129,125, 50, 189,143, 64,235,134,183,123, 11,240,149, 33, 34, 92,107, 78,130, 84,214,101,147,206, 96,178, 28,115, 86,192, 20,167,140,241,220, 18,117,202, 31, 59,190,228,209, 66, 61,212, 48,163, 60,182, 38, 111,191, 14,218, 70,105, 7, 87, 39,242, 29,155,188,148, 67, 3, 248, 17,199,246,144,239, 62,231, 6,195,213, 47,200,102, 30,215, 8,232,234,222,128, 82,238,247,132,170,114,172, 53, 77,106, 42, 150, 26,210,113, 90, 21, 73,116, 75,159,208, 94, 4, 24,164,236, 194,224, 65,110, 15, 81,203,204, 36,145,175, 80,161,244,112, 57, 153,124, 58,133, 35,184,180,122,252, 2, 54, 91, 37, 85,151, 49, 45, 93,250,152,227,138,146,174, 5,223, 41, 16,103,108,186,201, 211, 0,230,207,225,158,168, 44, 99, 22, 1, 63, 88,226,137,169, 13, 56, 52, 27,171, 51,255,176,187, 72, 12, 95,185,177,205, 46, 197,243,219, 71,229,165,156,119, 10,166, 32,104,254,127,193,173 }; assert(len > 0 && len <= 128); assert(bits <= 1024); if (!bits) bits = 1024; memcpy(xkey, key, len); for (i = 0; i < 128; i++) { L[i] = PITABLE[L[i-1] + L[i-T]]; } T8 = (T1+7) >> 3; TM = 255 MOD 2^(8 + T1 - 8*T8); L[128-T8] = PITABLE[L[128-T8] & TM]; for (i = 0; i < 127-T8; i++) { L[i] = PITABLE[L[i+1] XOR L[i+T8]]; }; i = 63; K[i] = L[2*i] + 256*L[2*i+1]; }; void RC2Encryption::ProcessBlock( const unsigned short K[64], ) { unsigned R3, R2, R1, R0, i; for (i = 0; i < 16; i++) { R0 += (R1 & ~R3) + (R2 & R3) + K[4*i+0]; R0 = R0 << 1; R1 += (R2 & ~R0) + (R3 & R0) + K[4*i+1]; R1 = R1 << 2; R2 += (R3 & ~R1) + (R0 & R1) + K[4*i+2]; R2 = R2 << 3; R3 += (R0 & ~R2) + (R1 & R2) + K[4*i+3]; R3 = R3 << 5; if (i == 4 || i == 10) { R0 += K[R3 & 63]; R1 += K[R0 & 63]; R2 += K[R1 & 63]; R3 += K[R2 & 63]; } } void RC2Decryption::ProcessBlock( const unsigned short K[64], ) { unsigned R3, R2, R1, R0, i; for (i = 0; i < 16; i++) { R3 = R3 << 5; R3 += (R0 & ~R2) + (R1 & R2) + K[4*i-3]; R2 = R2 << 3; R2 += (R3 & ~R1) + (R0 & R1) + K[4*i-2]; R1 = R1 << 2; R1 += (R2 & ~R0) + (R3 & R0) + K[4*i-1]; R0 = R0 << 1; R0 += (R1 & ~R3) + (R2 & R3) + K[4*i-0]; if (i == 4 || i == 10) { R3 -= K[R2 & 63]; R2 -= KR1 & 63]; R1 -= K[R0 & 63]; R0 -= K[R3 & 63]; } }

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Re: Latest smartcard software
by Secret Squirrel 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>They'll say hey, you've already surrendered your biometric number >during fingerprinting for driver's licenses. > >It will be too late. > >The high-tech American Leviathan will be in place. Sounds like Microsoft. No, really. I'm dead serious. Like it or not, people have to use Mickeysoft crap sooner or later. Want to read that document? Read that email? Run that program? Purchase things (software which runs)? It's garbage. I know it's garbage. Many of us here know it's garbage. But we have to use it anyway. Compare this to the smartcard as proposed like this: I know it's garbage. Many of us here know it's garbage. But we have to use it anyway. Want to read that document? Read that email? Access that computer system? Drive your car? Get in your house? Get through a toll booth? Enter or leave the country? Better make sure your papers are in order. The high-tech American Leviathan is already in place. The problem is that it'll just get worse because the sheeple are, by definition, naked, stupid, and blind.

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Re: SC rules 1st doesn't cover lies [CNN] (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Re: Misty??? (fwd)
by Adam Shostack 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Anonymous wrote: |Adam Back wrote: Well, for the record, that was me, not Mr. Back, but who can tell the difference? |> Tim May wrote: |> | I wouldn't call Misty "snake oil." But it's also been thoroughly taken |> | apart and shown to be weak. Importantly, it was submitted by Mitsubishi for |> | peer review. |> |> Could you provide a pointer to the analysis paper? | |Adam, you should know better than to ask. Everyone knows you can't |trust a bigot to do cryptography. Tim "Chop Chop" May's opinions about |Misty are based not on the strength of the cipher, but on the ethnicity |of the creator. Its clear to me that Nobuki baits Tim, and Tim baits Nobuki. Its not as entertaining as the Detwieler days (where we would have gotten the claimn that Tim and Nobuki were the same), but hey.. I'm perfectly happy to let bigots do my cryptanalysis for me. As long as they get positive results, hey, I'm more secure. Not believing that the Americans could break German engineering was one of the failures of the Enigma team. Adam -- "It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once." -Hume

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by Bill Stewart 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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