December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: Subject: ANNOUNCE: 2nd SSL challenge - we need your compute!
by Duncan Frissell 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 03:16 PM 8/23/95 +0100, aba(a)atlas.ex.ac.uk wrote: >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > >[a copy of final announce, start time 18:00 GMT, tomorrow (Thu), as >posted to a list of USENET groups] Is that really 1800 GMT or 1800 BST? 1400 or 1300 hrs EDT? I'm ready to hurl my 7800 keys/sec 486/66 into the fray. I should be able to do about 24 segments over 12 hours tonight using brutessl.exe 1.02 for DOS. Maybe I should have been in line at Midnight to get WIN/95 so I could run it automatically. The 32-bit Windows version does *not* work with my old Windows 3.11 even with the latest Microsoft 32-bit add in. DCF "No Ossifer, I'm not smoking. I'm burning this tobacco in protest against the fascistic policies of the Food and Drug Administration."

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SSL CHALLENGE: 3 hours to go...
by aba＠dcs.exeter.ac.uk 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The start time for the kick off on the race to crack Hal's 2nd challenge is fast approaching... 18:00 GMT That's only a little over 3 hours away. Please start your brloop clients if you have not already. Chuck in any net connected unix boxes, never mind how old or slow, they'll still help. Be ready with the WWW interface at 18:00 GMT if you don't have direct IP. The client runs the brute forcer at nice -20, so it shouldn't interfere with users. All code, and step by step instructions for setup on: http://www.brute.cl.cam.ac.uk/brute/ or ftp://ftp.brute.cl.cam.ac.uk/pub/brute/ Binaries available for DOS, Windows 95/NT, generic C code for unix & others. Please run the socket code if you can, it'll provide best utilisation, and least work for you. May the race being... The c$ prize fund has reached c$ 342.30, and the more compute you personally contribute the greater chance you have of winning it :-) Adam

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Re: Netscape's RNG
by skapp＠cix.compulink.co.uk 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

In-Reply-To: <199508300512.BAA23185(a)calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca> > -----8<-----8<----- > struct RNG > { > unsigned char md5bytes[0x10]; > unsigned char randbytes[0x10]; > int size; > void *md5data; > }; > > RNG_GenerateRandomBytes(struct RNG *i0, char *i1, int i2) > { > char buf[0x20]; > int o1,o2; > > while (i2 > i0->size) > { > memcpy(i1, &(i0->randbytes)+0x10-i0->size, i0->size); > i1 += i0->size; > i2 -= io->size; > if (err = MD5_Begin(i0->md5data)) return err; > if (err = MD5_Update(i0->md5data, &(i0->md5bytes), 0x10)) return err; > if (err = MD5_End(i0->md5data, &(i0->randbytes), buf, 0x10)) return err; > i0->size = 0x10; > o2 = 0; > o1 = &(i0->md5bytes[0x0f]); > do > { > if ((*o1)++) break; > --o1; > } while (++o2 <= 0x0f); > } > > /* i2 <= i0->size */ > memcpy(i1, &(i0->randbytes)+0x10-i0->size, i2); > i0->size -= i2; > return 0; > } > -----8<-----8<----- > This looks very much like the RSAREF random number code, there are a few minor differences, but it still looks very similar. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- - E-mail: skapp(a)cix.compulink.co.uk, skapp(a)sourcery.demon.co.uk PGP fingerprint: 78 1C CD F4 A4 44 D2 CB DD A5 CF EF F1 DD D8 6A -------------------------------------------------------------------------- - RSAEURO: rsaeuro(a)sourcery.demon.co.uk

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"Leotards and the Law," morphed child porn lawsuit, from Netly
by Declan McCullagh 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 08:07:47 -0700 (PDT) From: Declan McCullagh <declan(a)well.com> To: fight-censorship(a)vorlon.mit.edu Subject: "Leotards and the Law," morphed child porn lawsuit, from Netly --- http://pathfinder.com/netly/opinion/0,1042,1287,00.html The Netly News Network (http://netlynews.com/) August 13, 1997 Leotards And The Law by Declan McCullagh (declan(a)well.com) Take an erotic photo of an adult and alter it in Photoshop to look as though he was a minor. Would you be breaking the law? A federal judge in San Francisco ruled yesterday you would be, rejecting a court challenge to a 1996 law banning computer-generated erotic images that "appear" to be of children. U.S. District Judge Samuel Conti ruled the adult film industry, which brought the suit and argued no simulated minors appear in movies, shouldn't feel threatened by the law. "Plaintiffs' products do not fall into these categories," he said in a 16-page decision that upheld the Child Pornography Prevention Act as constitutional. Plaintiffs challenged the law as vague and overbroad, saying it "criminalizes forms of expression in violation of the First and Fifth Amendments." But Conti skirted the more controversial question: What if someone did use Photoshop to synthesize images of half-naked children? Would that bit-twiddling violate the First Amendment's guarantees of freedom of speech? What about an anthropology professor's computer-generated movie of the sex play of South Pacific teens? "This ruling resolves nothing of consequence," says Eric Freedman, a constitutional law professor at Hofstra Law School. "The judge never reached the real problems of the statute. That'll have to wait for another lawsuit." [...]

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Netsurfer Focus on Cryptography
by Duncan Frissell 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Netsurfer publishes free HTML "periodicals" delivered by email -- filled with the links the short articles refer to. The latest one just hit my mailbox (with tags removed): ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 29 Aug 95 17:45:39 PDT From: editor-bounce(a)netsurf.com Subject: Netsurfer Focus: Vol. 01, #03 (HTML) Netsurfer Focus on Cryptography and Privacy Wednesday, August 21, 1995 - Volume 01, Issue 03 TABLE OF CONTENTS Intro to Cryptography Cracking the Code In ? We Trust</a> Key Certification Postcards from Cyberspace</a> E-mail Issues Digital Envelopes</a> Secure E-mail The Pen is Mightier than the Electron</a> Export Issues Hiding In Plain View</a> Steganography Money Makes the World Go Round</a> Cash and E-money No Names, Please</a> Anonymous Remailers Big Iron, Big Brother</a> Database Drilling and Surveillance It's B-a-a-ck!</a> Clipper and Digital Telephony 'Bots, Agents, and Wizards</a> Trusting Software Information at Your Fingertips</A> Additional Resources Inky Fingers</A> Print Resources ********************************** Netsurfer Focus is currently a periodic supplement to Netsurfer Digest and Netsurfer Tools. Netsurfer Focus Home Page: http://www.netsurf.com/nsf/index.html http://www.netsurf.com/nsf/index.html Back Issues: If you would like to obtain copies of back issues or resource files (in HTML format only) via e-mail, send mail to info-focus(a)netsurf.com with "send crypto-index" in the body of the message. To subscribe to Netsurfer Digest or Netsurfer Tools: By WWW form: <A href="http://www.netsurf.com/nsd/subscribe.html">http://www.netsurf.com/nsd/subscribe.html</A> By e-mail: nsdigest-request(a)netsurf.com Body: subscribe nsdigest-text subscribe nsdigest-html

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ANNOUNCE: mailing list for Eternity Service developers/users
by Adam Back 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Laszlo Vecsey <master(a)internexus.net> has setup a mailing list for users and developers of the eternity service. On topic will be development, design of improved protocols, also design of a general distributed file system (DFS or worldFS) which some are interested to implement based on Ross Anderson's paper `The Eternity Service', plus issuses surrounding being an eternity operator. The mailing list address is "eternity(a)internexus.net", to subscribe send a mail to "majordomo(a)internexus.net" with body: subscribe eternity To submit articles to the mailing list send them to "eternity(a)internexus.net". Adam

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Re: SSL trouble
by ab411＠detroit.freenet.org 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- I wrote: >"Daniel R. Oelke" <droelke(a)rdxsunhost.aud.alcatel.com> writes: >> >> date "+%S %M 60 * + %H 3600 * + %j 86400 * + %y 31536000 * + p" | dc > >date +"%S %M 60 * + %H 3600 * + %j 1 - 86400 * + %y 70 - 31536000 * + %y >69 - 4 / 86400 * + 3600 4 * + p" |dc which has a bit of cruft in it to get universal time, and >date +"%S %M 60 * + %H 3600 * + %j 1 - 86400 * + %y 70 - 31536000 * + %y >69 - 4 / 86400 * + p" |dc > >which returns local time, which is probably what you wanted anyway. Well, I overlooked the obvious: You can simply add -u to the above to get universal time i.e., date -u +... etc. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBMEOyexEcrOJethBVAQGtFwP9GG27cR3UvJX4/gsO8SK3L3pHGv5mjNp+ 0mkRwOg+bj+cf44xAxXZ7/iFU2xaT4sAUvqwIaqbv6AfQgwnqTjAZKIR11KtlKPN 1xDkPXArU4PWSjoFal60Qsuqzacauu99wwUfsILhr8S2xWMj406JdTZPMapgZJI0 N2agSYMj6pY= =LI+M -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- David R. Conrad, ab411(a)detroit.freenet.org, http://www.grfn.org/~conrad Finger conrad(a)grfn.org for PGP 2.6 public key; it's also on my home page Key fingerprint = 33 12 BC 77 48 81 99 A5 D8 9C 43 16 3C 37 0B 50 Jerry Garcia, August 1, 1942 - August 9, 1995. Requiescat in pace.

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Re: Sign up on YoungSluts click thru Program
by YoungGirl 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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More Disintermediation
by Duncan Frissell 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

According to Monday's USA Today, the Customs Service has come up with a plan to stop stopping international travelers arriving at US airports. Apparently they can't afford "personal" service any more. With 60 million arrivals, Customs has decided to mingle a bit in luggage claim, look for those meeting its profiles, and use drug- and food-sniffing dogs to catch smugglers. Note that international travel has doubled in the last few years. What is Customs (and La Migra) going to do when it doubles again. It is much easier for market phenomenons like this to double or triple than it is for government agencies to double or triple. Markets scale well. Governments don't. DCF "When foreigners steal 'our' jobs, our labor is freed for other tasks and total world product increases. Jobs can no more 'run out' than desire for things in general can 'run out'."

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17 Dec '03

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