December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Where is the key cracking farming software?
by shamrock＠netcom.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- With all the talk about cracking SSL, where is the cracking software? Sombody just offered me a six Pentium workstation, if I agree to give it a "real workout". I'd like to be able to say: "Sure, will do." - -- - -- Lucky Green <mailto:shamrock@netcom.com> PGP encrypted mail preferred. - --- [This message has been signed by an auto-signing service. A valid signature means only that it has been received at the address corresponding to the signature and forwarded.] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 Comment: Gratis auto-signing service iQBFAwUBMDQu2yoZzwIn1bdtAQF+iAF/WrvfsHBTRhh8fYfWENS0oxOUagl1GrBo PMeo+yJOa7/CN5/pl0xQTFUdusijXqxO =DiNO -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: Export policy change
by David K. Merriman 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>Ok, let's escrow our keys with Julf :-) > >Seriously, there might be a market for somebody to become a professional >escrow agent.... > >(tongue partially in cheek) > I will cheerfully escrow keys for 1$ ecash/key. Please be advised, however, that key storage will be on an old 40M RLL drive on an 8088 machine, so retrieval may be a bit slow and unreliable....... Yes, I'm really serious about the fee and storage medium. Dave Merriman This is a test (3 UUE lines) of the unconstitutional ITAR - 1/713th of the PGP executable. See below for getting YOUR chunk! ------------------ PGP.ZIP Part [015/713] ------------------- M=$<(&L`#*IPP",(G6(,,S,`P](<2RWU96XCW86/JBYV8A\D8@X'HB_9H#&\X MX'PCUB.,13B"X8`R?^J-:UB.M_`U\>[#)BS&5$0C,Y#^1CS>1`\T1QTXX6!3 M8H,),S$8G>&.WP(8IRA`-M['+`Q%&_C"">5-F%LX@<_Q$;*P'',Q$Z/AA[8M ------------------------------------------------------------- for next chunk to export --> http://dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/export/ <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> My web page: http://www.geopages.com/CapitolHill/1148

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Re: Basically F-C-ed
by Alex de Joode 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Anonymous sez: : FBI Probing Planted Explosive : Orlando, Fla., August 20 (AP) -- Two explosives were : planted in a professor's suitcase to test airport : security measures in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and were : discovered when he arrived in Orlando, officials said : Saturday. [..] : Kensel said such security measures were normal for : Europe. : "Particularly in Europe, there are grave concerns about : security issues," he said. "As a result, they do conduct : various security programs regularly. This was part of a : routine check of their own security systems. : "The bag got away from them basically," he said. Airport police was very quick to point out that such practices were legal, now when they do that ...... -- Alex de Joode Fear Uncertainty Confusion and Kaos, Inc.

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Re: NSA into antigravity?
by Andrew.Spring＠ping.be 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

: >> >>On July 19, Gerald Ollman and Robert Wayne, two researchers from the >>University of Maryland geophysics department were detained in Fort Meade, >>Maryland, apparently by agents of the National Security Agency, whilst >>taking measurements of the Earth's gravitational field. After 18 hours of >>questioning, they were released after being instructed not to discuss the >>incident. Their equipment and results were not returned. >> >>Neither the University nor the NSA has commented on the incident. However, >>it is believed that Ollman and Wayne were investigating a slight anomaly >>in the Earth's gravitational field centered around Fort Meade. No reason has >>been given for their detention. Missile targeting software depends on good models of the earth's gravity for accuracy, both for design and for simulation purposes. Since Ft. Meade was doubtless the target of many nukes during the cold war (and probably still is), that may account for them having a bug up their asses on the subject. 'Course you know the NSA; the world's largest employer of mathematicians, the largest purchaser of computer hardware, and the largest consumer of Thorazine. -- Thank you VERY much! You'll be getting a Handsome Simulfax Copy of your OWN words in the mail soon (and My Reply). <Andrew.Spring(a)ping.be> PGP Print: 0529 C9AF 613E 9E49 378E 54CD E232 DF96 Thank you for question, exit left to Funway.

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Re: Certificates/Anonymity/Policy/True Names
by monty.harder＠famend.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

TC> This happens all the time, though "I am not a lawyer," in disputes about TC> whether a contract was signed properly, about whether the signer had the TC> right authority, etc. And it is apparently not necessary to have the TC> "state" establish itself, for example, as the keeper of signatures. But the state does establish Notaries Public, and courts put special credence in the validity of signatures witnessed by them. Which is to be expected, of course, having the King's X being good in the King's courts. I don't see this as an either/or binary at all. To me, the natural thing to do is for a person who is already a Notary under the laws of a state to offer digital notary services. I would expect the State of California or Commonwealth of Massachussets to have the Secretary of State's office (or whoever is in charge of Notary Credentials there) to digitally sign the public keys of any Notaries commissioned thereby. In fact, I would like to see provision made for a digital signature to have an expiration date included, so that the SoS office could have its signature on a key set to expire along with the Notary's commission. Thus the existing state framework for verification of identity and consent on contracts is extended into the electronic sphere seamlessly. None of which prevents you or I from doing business without the services of the Royal Notary. * ZenCrafters - Total Enlightenment in about an hour --- * Monster(a)FAmend.Com *

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Re: (Fwd) 1995 Nanotechnology Conference
by James A. Donald 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 11:45 AM 8/19/95 -0400, John Young wrote: > >Fourth Foresight Conference on Molecular Nanotechnology And what does this have to do with cryptography? --------------------------------------------------------------------- | We have the right to defend ourselves | http://www.jim.com/jamesd/ and our property, because of the kind | of animals that we are. True law | James A. Donald derives from this right, not from the | arbitrary power of the state. | jamesd(a)echeque.com

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Re: A glance at the future of missing child identification
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

September Wired has an "Updata" on this by Simson Garfinkel, "A Chip for Every Child?" A note says the original story was in Wired 1.6. Excuse the W-word.

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Re: (Fwd) 1995 Nanotechnology Conference
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Responding to msg by jamesd(a)echeque.com ("James A. Donald") on Sun, 20 Aug 8:17 PM >And what does this have to do with cryptography? The topic has come up here several times in connection with development of molecular computers. It has been suggested that there is a link to Len Adelman's work. But maybe that was just a transparent cover story. Perhaps it's actually a molecular part of the Waco Vince Foster Tom Clancy Pat Robertson Nuclear Weapons Material divulgation. Thanks for provoking. What do you think? Your lively disputations have been missed.

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Re: Basically F-C-ed
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Responding to msg by usura(a)replay.com (Alex de Joode) on Mon, 21 Aug 4:28 AM >Airport police was very quick to point out that such >practices were legal, now when they do that ...... What, Alex, FC stands for F*cking Counterterrorists, making work for themselves? Oh my, are those bitter out of work XX-cold warriors heeding X-feebie Liddy, prolonging the 60's blame-the-radicals payoffs.

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Re: Secure, reliable (Re: Distributed computing)
by tcmay＠got.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 11:59 PM 8/20/95, Nathan Loofbourrow wrote: >A couple of months back, someone (Adam Back, perhaps?) made mention of >work on secure, reliable distributed computing on untrusted networks >of untrusted machines. I seem to remember mention of sending out bogus >computations in order to obscure the actual computation being >performed. > >I was never able to follow the reference, since all the info available >was the name of a Japanese professor, with no mention of the >university or of any publications I could look up. > >Does this work ring a bell with anyone else? Joan Feigenbaum, then of Stanford and now of Bell Labs, has worked for many years on what she calls "computing with encrypted instances." The canonical example is one where one wishes to send a problem, e.g., a routing problems a la the Travelling Salesman Problem, to a service for solving. But one doesn't wish to reveal the cities being considered, perhaps for business reasons. (The extension of this concern to crypto should be clear.) So, one transforms the data set, sends it to the compute services, gets back and answer, and reverses the transformation. I've always thought of her work as a kissing cousing to zero knowledge interactive proof systems, but it evolved along a different path. A check of her published papers should reveal several summaries. I know some of her stuff got published in "Crypto Proceedings." --Tim May ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay(a)got.net (Got net?) | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero 408-728-0152 | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Corralitos, CA | black markets, collapse of governments. Higher Power: 2^756839 | Public Key: PGP and MailSafe available. "National borders are just speed bumps on the information superhighway."

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