December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

US Senate bans laptops
by Lucky Green 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

According to an article in Saturday's San Francisco Chronicle, the US Senate's Rules Committee denied a junior Senate member's request to bring his laptop to the floor. Aparently, the Rules Committee believes that laptop use is incompatible with the hallowed nature of Senate debates. Diane Feinstein is cited as saying that she strongly opposes laptops in the Senate. She warned that if laptops were permitted, as many as 30-40 of the 100 members of the chamber might start using laptops (while making vital decisions about the future of this nation). The article also stated that mechanical pencils and wrist watches have however been permitted since the early 1900's. These people banning laptops amongst their peers are the same people who will decide on the future use of crypto by the masses. Give it up. Any dollar spent lobbying these Luddites is a dollar wasted. --Lucky Green <shamrock(a)netcom.com> PGP encrypted mail preferred. DES is dead! Please join in breaking RC5-56. http://rc5.distributed.net/

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Re: US Senate bans laptops
by travel23＠juno.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On Sun, 21 Sep 1997, Lucky Green wrote: > >According to an article in Saturday's San Francisco Chronicle, the US >Senate's Rules Committee denied a junior Senate member's request to bring >his laptop to the floor. Aparently, the Rules Committee believes that >laptop use is incompatible with the hallowed nature of Senate debates. >These people banning laptops amongst their peers are the same people who >will decide on the future use of crypto by the masses. >Give it up. Any dollar spent lobbying these Luddites is a dollar wasted. Yeah, but if they did allow it, our tax money would go to buying a laptop for each and everyone of them - and, of course, they would opt for the most expensive laptops available..... The Traveler +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ "Sometimes you're the bug, sometimes you're the windshield." +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

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17 Dec '03

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Re: US Senate bans laptops
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Lucky Green wrote about banning lapdancing on the Senate floor: Banning laptops continues a long tradition of congressional resistance to technology, the Senate moreso than the House. The Architect of the Capitol, an office as well as a person, has to deal with a heritage of Luddites who have resisted, as examples, removal of cuspidors; installing women's facilities of all sorts: putting in air-conditioning (mechanical ventilation as well as cooling), electric lights, subterranean trams, elevators, smoke alarms, telephones!, telegraphs, electro-mechanical quorum and roll calls (bells, lights and pagers!), wheelchairs (just recently), and more -- virtually every invention has been delayed in the Capitol, along with compliance with the laws imposed on the country but not on hallowed halls. Ex-AoCs sometimes leak the stupifying arguments the solons make for maintaining their supposedly superior lifestyles free of demanding gadgetry and popular fad: their preference is for human servants over devices in order to maintian deniability, for while flesh and blood is what the beasts know best how to cajole, seduce and terrorize it is also the reason they remain ever ready for betrayal and opportunistic one-night-stand switching of lifetime fidelity. Blinking, recording, error-archiving, machines scare the shit out of the the fork-tongue power-aphrodisiacal nymphomaniacs, not to say that the rest of us would act so differently given a seat in inner circles of jerks getting lapdanced on a magic carpet -- who wants that in the National Archives of Perfidy? Often the reason folks oppose new technology is that it threatens their network of operations based on old technology, as the case with encryption. Still, it's worth considering what leaked Senate plaintext (gov, pol, illicit) would induce the secrecy-obsessed senators to support strong crypto for their own privacy of stashed wealth and squelched Paulas? Often new technology is resisted because that it threatens networks of successful operations of barely legal scams based on old technology, as the case with encryption, tv, radio, telephone, telegraph, printing, highways, roads, trails, stars, evil eyes, body stench, intuition, fear, mother's milk, amniotic warmth, egg and dart, downhole non-existence. To be sure, there are disclosures of red-faced liaisons, the sort recorded in hallowed halls and red-flocked boudoirs, that the TLAs (mirroring the KGB) may be threatening Congress with, in the eye-opening publications of Kalliste. See: http://www.aci.net/kalliste/

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Fwd: Re: Quor's cypher
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

This is a really nifty encryption program. It runs about half the speed of rc4, but seems much more secure. --- Forwarded Message: From: quor(a)nym.alias.net Subject: Re: tell me what you think of this... [snip] --- /* Stream ciphers are often used because of their speed and simplicity of implementation despite their inherent weakness against known-plaintext, ciphertext-modification, and key-reuse attacks. The algorithm described below provides a more secure alternative for encrypting data eight bits at a time, which, while maintaining a simple self-inverting architecture, provides resistance to the aforementioned attacks, and features a large keyspace, small code size, back traffic protection, and resistance to timing attacks and differential cryptanalysis. */ /* Qcypher.c */ #include <stdio.h> unsigned char a,b,c,state[256]; unsigned char q(unsigned char i) { static unsigned char a0,a1,b0,b1,c1,c2,c3,c4,o,d1,d2,d3,d4; a0=state[a]; a1=state[a0]; b0=state[b]; b1=state[b0]; c1=i^(0xAA&state[(i&0x55)^a]); c2=c1^(0x55&state[(c1&0xAA)^b]); c3=c2^(a+b)^(a0+b0); c4=c3^(0x55&state[(c3&0xAA)^b]); o=c4^(0xAA&state[(c4&0x55)^a]); d1=i&o; d2=i^o; d3=c2&c3; d4=c2^c3; state[c&=255]^=a^d4; state[c^0x80]^=b^d4; a+=d1+b1+1; b^=d2^d3^a1; c++; return(o); } void setkey(unsigned char *key, int len) { int x; a=b=c=0; for(x=256;x--;state[x]=0); for(x=0;x<len;x++) state[x&255]^=key[x]; for(;len--;*(key++)=0) q(*key); for(x=0;x<256;q(x++)); } void main(int ac,unsigned char **av) { unsigned char byte; setkey(av[1],strlen(av[1])); while(fread(&byte,1,1,stdin)>0) putchar(q(byte)); }

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Revised Agenda for Digital Money Conference
by Robert Hettinga 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

--- begin forwarded text Subject: Revised Agenda for Digital Money Conference Date: Mon, 22 Sep 97 10:17:02 +0000 x-sender: daveb(a)mail.hyperion.co.uk From: "David G.W. Birch" <daveb(a)hyperion.co.uk> To: "Bob Hettinga" <rah(a)shipwright.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Bob, Here is the revised agenda for the forthcoming London conference on Digital Money. Can you repost to all the usual interesting places. Many thanks, Dave Birch. ******************************************** Digital Money: New Era or Business as Usual? London, England, 7th-8th October 1997 ************************************* Hyperion are co-sponsors of a two day seminar bringing together leaders in the field. The seminar is organised by Unicom <http://www.unicom.co.uk> in association with Lotus, NCR, Computer Associates, Attachmate, IMIS, Automatic ID News, British Computer Society and the Institute of Management Consultants. The seminar costs UKP 845 plus VAT where applicable and places should be booked through Lisa Murray at Unicom <mailto:lisa@unicom.co.uk> directly. ***************************************************** Opening Address: Digital Money Directions David G.W. Birch, Director, Hyperion. Dave will sketch out 8 key questions about the future direction of digital money schemes and relate them to the current state of digital money deployment in Europe. Keynote Address: Monetary Innovation in Historical Perspective Glyn Davies, Professor Emeritus and economic advisor to Julian Hodge Bank Ltd. A copy of Glyn's excellent book "A History of Money from Ancient Times to the Present Day" will be presented free to all delegates with the compliments of Hyperion. Digital Money and Laissez-Faire Banking David Cronin, formerly with Bank of Ireland. Digital Money Liability Nick Lockett, Field Fisher Waterhouse. Why is the Electronic Economy Different? John Browning (edited Wired UK). Programmable Currenies Howard Smith, CSC Trading in the Internet Financial System Ian Grigg, Systemics The Electronic Purse in Context Peter Hirsch, Retail Banking Research Mondex, A Status Report Steve Maier, Mondex International E-Cash, GSM and the Net Julian Wilson, AT&T Unisource Electronic Purse: the lessons so far Steve Johnson, Verifone Getting from Real Money to Electronic Money Robert Zipplies, DigiCash Micropayments Speaker from IBM The Cybercash Solution Set Steve Crispinelli, Cybercash The Millicent Scheme Henry Gouraud, Digital UK. ------------------------------------------------------------------ David G.W. Birch, Director. Hyperion, 8 Frederick Sanger Road http://www.hyperion.co.uk/ Guildford, Surrey GU2 5YD, UK mailto:daveb@hyperion.co.uk Tel:+44(0)1483 301793 Finger for my PGP public key Fax:+44(0)1483 561657 Where people, networks and money come together....consult Hyperion --- end forwarded text ----------------- Robert Hettinga (rah(a)shipwright.com) Philodox e$, 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' The e$ Home Page: http://www.shipwright.com/

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PBS Newshour?
by Steve Schear 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

It seems without exposure of our views to a wider, educated, audience there's little chance of being heard above the clamor raised by LE. Although PBS is partly gov't funded it does seem to have tacked some relatively sensitive political topics in a balanced manner. Why don't we write and call to suggest they plan a segment on this issue next week? Declan, got any juice? --Steve

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by 14017139＠02744.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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RJ Op-Ed piece
by Steve Schear 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Using substantial portions of Bill Frantz's "Key Recovery is Bad for US Security" letter to Sen. Swienstein and with his encouragement, I've had a piece, "Cryptography ban would cost jobs, freedom," published in this Sunday's Las Vegas Review-Journal : http://www.lvrj.com/lvrj_home/1997/Sep-21-Sun-1997/opinion/6067100.html This item is in response to Vin Suprynowicz's Sept 12 editorial, posted as "Column, Sept. 12," to this list, also in the RJ. --Steve

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EAR question
by Steve Schear 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

If crypto source code is published in printed form and distributed under a non-disclousre agreement does it meet the uncontrolled export criteria under the new EAR regs? My question seems to hinge on the definition of "general distribution," in Sec. 734.7. The key passages seem to be: Sec. 734.3 Items subject to the EAR. * * * * * (b) * * * (3) Publicly available technology and software, except software controlled for EI reasons under ECCN 5D002 on the Commerce Control List, that: (i) Are already published or will be published as described in Sec. 734.7 of this part; (ii) Arise during, or result from, fundamental research, as described in Sec. 734.8 of this part; (iii) Are educational, as described in Sec. 734.9 of this part; (iv) Are included in certain patent applications, as described in Sec. 734.10 of this part. Note to paragraphs (b)(2) and (b)(3) of this section: A printed book or other printed material setting forth encryption source code is not itself subject to the EAR (see Sec. 734.3(b)(2)). However, notwithstanding Sec. 734.3(b)(2), encryption source code in electronic form or media (e.g., computer diskette or CD ROM) remains subject to the EAR (see Sec. 734.3(b)(3)). Sec. 734.7 Published information and software. * * * * * (b) Software and information is published when it is available for general distribution either for free or at a price that does not exceed the cost of reproduction and distribution. See Supplement No. 1 to this part, Questions G(1) through G(3).

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