December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: Q E D_j a k
by stewarts＠ix.netcom.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> The American intelligence establishment today unveiled > one of its oldest secrets: how a small team of > codebreakers found the first clues that the Soviet Union > sought to steal the blueprints for the atomic bomb in Wow! They must really be looking for some good publicity these days. I wonder how much of their motivation is to get PR support for the black budget, and how much is to support continued crypto export laws? After all, if the Evil Foreigners had good crypto, the NSA wouldn't have been able to crack their codes, so therefore it's _vital_ to _national_security_ that we continue these great laws that are keeping good crypto securely locked up inside the US borders! (Yes, I know one-time-pads are provably good crypto, but they also depend on the security of key distribution and one-time use, which apparently broke down here. And the CIA's pretty good at chasing the guy with briefcases of code material handcuffed to their arms.) Watch for more pressure from the Administration.... # Thanks; Bill # Bill Stewart, Freelance Information Architect, stewarts(a)ix.netcom.com

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Re: Don't trust the net too much
by johnl＠radix.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> A transistor radio puts out such a minute amount of RF (at 455 KHz and/or > 10.7 MHz, the IF freqs of the radio) that most insturments designed to > pick up RF can't detect this stuff from more than a few feet away. The problem is caused by local oscillator radiation interfering with the ILS receiver. Tune a FM broadcast band receiver to the right frequency and you get local oscillator radiation at (f + 10.7 MHz), right in the middle of the aviation band. //---------------------------------------------------------------------------- // John A. Limpert // johnl(a)radix.net

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Re: QED_jak
by hardin＠cyberspace.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Perry Metzger writes: > > > John Young writes: > > "U.S. Tells How It Found Soviets Sought A-Bomb: Discloses > > Clues That Led to Code-Breaking." > > [snip] > The reports claimed the spys were using one time pads in some flawed > manner, but did not explain very well what the problem was. Does > anyone out there know? > > .pm > > > A real good book with a fair amount of details is Peter Wright's great book "Spycatcher". The clueless media concentrated on Wright's allegation that Sir Roger Hollis, head of MI5 was a Soviet mole or the "5th Man" of the Philby, Burgess, Maclean & Blunt spyring. Now Wright may have been in Jesus Angleton's psychotic "wilderness of mirrors" too long, but he did a lot of bugging & stuff w/ GCHQ & he spends a great deal of his book talking about precisely the Venona decrypts. Briefly there was some reuse of "one time pads". He gives a fair amount of detail, & I suspect this is why HRM Govt. was so displeased, the supposed "embarrassment" of the allegations against long dead Sir Roger being just a cover story & much easier for the tabloids & general public to understand. tjh This is 1/713 of PGP262i DOS Executable Zipfile UUE'd Violate the Un-Constitutional ITAR Today! Get YOUR chunk @ web site below. ------------------ PGP.ZIP Part [005/713] ------------------- M@UIXP9EW\".^Q0XL1SO8"^*_O:U-=H(P&2,1A6YHB?KP@@H2/)$+P@-<PX_( MPTGLPBHDHSW<(,<O,D$XB'2TA`HQ4D'H@R#<)[Z3*D$P80%N*8D1:Q6"T`\J M/*/<G_$-/L9&%#L)P@HD82`ZHPG4$%#L*`A7D8M#F(/>"($GRAT$8246(Q:3 ------------------------------------------------------------- for next chunk to export --> http://dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/export/

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RSA129 Project
by rross＠sci.dixie.edu 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Could someone point me to information about the RSA129 factoring project? I would like the see the programs involved, and learn a little about the coordinating efforts. ----------------------------------------------------------- Russell Ross email: rross(a)sci.dixie.edu 1260 N 1280 W voice: (801)628-8146 St. George, UT 84770-4953

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Anti-Electronic Racketeering Act of 1995 (fwd)
by Brad Dolan 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 12 Jul 1995 15:28:25 -0400 Subject: Anti-Electronic Racketeering Act of 1995 On June 27, Sen. Grassley introduced extensive criminal amendments to the federal racketeering act. S. 974, the "Anti-Electronic Racketeering Act of 1995," would amend U.S. Code sections 18 USC 1961 (criminal RICO statute), 18 USC 1030A (new section on computer crime), 18 USC 2515, 2516 (wiretapping), and 42 USC 2000aa (Privacy Protection Act). This proposed legislation is Very Bad. It would make all encryption software posted to computer networks that are accessible to foreigners illegal *regardless of whether the NSA has classified the software as a munition!!!* Here's the language: "Sec. 1030A. Racketeering-related crimes involving computers "(a) It shall be unlawful-- . . . "(2) to distribute computer software that encodes or encrypts electronic or digital communications to computer networks that the person distributing knows, or reasonably should know, is accessible to foreign nationals and foreign governments, regardless of whether such software has been designated nonexportable."

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Re: [rah@shipwright.com: Re: digital monies]
by rah＠shipwright.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Steve, I'm forwarding this to cypherpunks, where this posting originated. Always ready to set the record straight. By the way, could I have an email copy of your original posting/publicity material for this, I'm curious about where it was announced to the net. Tighten up my links to the straight dope, etc. Thanks! Bob Hettinga >Bob, > >Carl Ellison at TIS brought this to my attention. We'll provide you with a >lengthier response in a bit, but let me comment briefly that the following >contains a number of inaccuracies. Two of particular note: Citibank is not >a principal in CyberCash, and the vaporware footnote is peculiar because >our system has been operational since early April and the client software, >which runs as a "viewer" with a number of browsers, is available from our >web site for downloading around the world. > >Steve > > >>CyberCash >>The last I heard from these guys, a "consortium" of various heavies like RSA >> and I believe Citibank even, was an article plastered all over the >>Marketing section of the Wall Street Journal last fall. To my knowlege they >>haven't come up for air. My memory of 'consortia' like this one, and >>Citicorp in particular (who was trying to reverse engineer Chaum's Digicash >>patent last time I looked), leads me to believe this dog won't hunt, or at >>least not until the coon's already been treed, anyway. Cf: Citi's Quotron >>boondoggle. > >-------------------- >Steve Crocker >CyberCash, Inc., Suite 430 Work: +1 703 620 4200 >2100 Reston Parkway Fax: +1 703 620 4215 >Reston, VA 22091 crocker(a)cybercash.com ----------------- Robert Hettinga (rah(a)shipwright.com) Shipwright Development Corporation, 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA (617) 323-7923 "Reality is not optional." --Thomas Sowell >>>>Phree Phil: Email: zldf(a)clark.net http://www.netresponse.com/zldf <<<<<

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Re: NSA, Random Number Generation, Soviet Codes, Prohibition of Crypto
by Carl Ellison 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

If I remember correctly from "Spycatcher", the Soviets misused the one time pad allowing the Verona breaks, by using it twice, not by making slightly weak rannos. Of course, in this business, anything you read/hear could be a cover story. - Carl +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Carl M. Ellison cme(a)acm.org http://www.clark.net/pub/cme/home.html | |PGP: E0414C79B5AF36750217BC1A57386478 & 61E2DE7FCB9D7984E9C8048BA63221A2 | | ``Officer, officer, arrest that man! He's whistling a dirty song.'' | +----------------------------------------------------------- Jean Ellison -+

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Re: Capt. Midnight decoder badges
by Carl Ellison 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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the sound of another shoe dropping...
by Matt Blaze 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

------- Forwarded Message Forwarded message: >From farber(a)eff.org Wed Jul 12 16:41:13 1995 Posted-Date: Wed, 12 Jul 1995 15:28:18 -0400 X-Sender: farber(a)linc.cis.upenn.edu Message-Id: <v02110184ac29d2a1b404(a)[130.91.88.102]> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Priority: 1 (Highest) Date: Wed, 12 Jul 1995 15:28:25 -0400 From: farber(a)central.cis.upenn.edu (David Farber) Subject: Anti-Electronic Racketeering Act of 1995 Precedence: list To: interesting-people(a)eff.org (interesting-people mailing list) X-Proccessed-By: mail2list Date: Wed, 12 Jul 1995 14:00:23 -0400 From: ssteele(a)eff.org (Shari Steele) Heavy sigh. On June 27, Sen. Grassley introduced extensive criminal amendments to the federal racketeering act. S. 974, the "Anti-Electronic Racketeering Act of 1995," would amend U.S. Code sections 18 USC 1961 (criminal RICO statute), 18 USC 1030A (new section on computer crime), 18 USC 2515, 2516 (wiretapping), and 42 USC 2000aa (Privacy Protection Act). This proposed legislation is Very Bad. It would make all encryption software posted to computer networks that are accessible to foreigners illegal *regardless of whether the NSA has classified the software as a munition!!!* Here's the language: "Sec. 1030A. Racketeering-related crimes involving computers "(a) It shall be unlawful-- . . . "(2) to distribute computer software that encodes or encrypts electronic or digital communications to computer networks that the person distributing knows, or reasonably should know, is accessible to foreign nationals and foreign governments, regardless of whether such software has been designated nonexportable." I'm up to my ears in analyses that need to be written, but I'll send around something more complete when I'm able to pull it together. Shari ------- End of Forwarded Message

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Re: Is there a moderator in your future?
by roger＠coelacanth.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

In article <9507102137.AA26662(a)spirit.aud.alcatel.com> droelke(a)spirit.aud.alcatel.com (Daniel R. Oelke) writes: > Why is Dyson of EFF enthusiastic about the concept? Because as moderators add value to the vast amount of stuff out there. Why do some people pay to get a restricted subset of the cypherpunks? Because they don't want the massive flow of wide open communications and they *trust* the person giving them the subset. Moderators provide a great service, and it is finially being recognized as such in a monetary way. I think that this is a great thing! I agree that moderated groups are useful at keeping the SNR high, and are a great choice for those who can't or haven't time to set up their own filters. However, they can't solve the problems that the Internet is popularly supposed to have (e.g. no provisions for eliminating parental responsibility). Even supposing that US ISPs are *prohibited by law* from carrying unmoderated Usenet groups, how does this address all of the other services (current and future) that can be carried by the Internet? Sorry, the horse is out of the stable, and the only 99% control option open to the government now is cutting the phone lines at the border. If an individual (e.g. a parent) wants to limit net access for certain services to emasculated resources, perhaps Microsoft Restrict (TM) and Prodigy can provide a desired service. Otherwise, the solution to the problem has to lie closer to home. -- Roger Williams -- Coelacanth Engineering -- Middleborough, Mass #!/usr/local/bin/perl -s-- -export-a-crypto-system-sig -RSA-in-3-lines-PERL ($k,$n)=(a)ARGV;$m=unpack(H.$w,$m."\0"x$w),$_=`echo "16do$w 2+4Oi0$d*-^1[d2% Sa2/d0<X+d*La1=z\U$n%0]SX$k"[$m*]\EszlXx++p|dc`,s/^.|\W//g,print pack('H*' ,$_)while read(STDIN,$m,($w=2*$d-1+length($n||die"$0 [-d] k n\n")&~1)/2)

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