December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

CypherPunks Theology (Required Reading)
by CypherPunks Chief SpokesPerson 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

[headers didn't exist yet] In the beginning, God created the bit. And the bit was a zero. On the first day, he toggled the 0 to 1, and the Universe was. (In those days, bootstrap loaders were simple, and "active low" signals didn't yet exist.) On the second day, God's boss wanted a demo, and tried to read the bit. This being volatile memory, the bit reverted to a 0. And the universe wasn't. God learned the importance of backups and memory refresh, and spent the rest of the day (and his first all-nighter) reinstalling the universe. On the third day, the bit cried "Oh, Lord! If you exist, give me a sign!" And God created rev 2.0 of the bit, even better than the original prototype. Those in Universe Marketing immediately realized that "new and improved" wouldn't do justice to such a grand and glorious creation. And so it was dubbed the Most Significant Bit. Many bits followed, but only one was so honored. On the fourth day, God created a simple ALU with 'add' and 'logical shift' instructions. And the original bit discove red that -- by performing a single shift instruction -- it could become the Most Significant Bit. And God realized the importance of computer security. On the fifth day, God created the first mid-life kicker, rev 2.0 of the ALU, with wonderful features, and said "Forget that add and shift stuff. Go forth and multiply." And God saw that it was good. On the sixth day, God got a bit overconfident, and invented pipelines, register hazards, optimizing compilers, crosstalk, restartable instructions, micro interrupts, race conditions, and propagation delays. Historians have used this to convincingly argue that the sixth day must have been a Monday. On the seventh day, an engineering change introduced Windows into the Universe, and it hasn't worked right since.

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Denning-Baugh on Crypto Crime
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

See Dorothy Denning and William Baugh's testimony on organized crime and terrorist use of crypto at Senator Kyl's September 3 hearing: http://guru.cosc.georgetown.edu/~denning/crypto/Denning-Baugh-Testimony.txt

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Removing Tyranny from Democracy (Part II), was Democracy is thetrue enemy...
by Steve Schear 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Many, beginning with de Toquivelle, have noted that democracy brings with it the unhappy possibility of a tyranny of the majority. The reasons for this shortcoming are closely tied to the decision of whom within the democracy receives the franchise and how in a representative democracy officeholders are elected. Our elections are corrupted by bribery - not the big money paid to candidates by corporate donors, but the taxpayers' money offered to voters by the candidates themselves. For some reason, campaign finance reform always centers on private money, as if it were perfectly OK to use public money to buy elections. Yet critics of democracy, including friendly critics, have always pointed out that the Achilles' heel of democracy is its tendency to turn the ballot box into an instrument of plunder, as voters learn to vote for those who promise them other people's money. One of the justifications for democracy is that everyone's interest should be represented in government. But there are interests and interests. The homeowner who locks his door is looking out for his own interest just as much as the burglar who picks the lock, but not exactly in the same way. The voter who wants to keep his own money isn't seeking the same thing as the voter who wants the state to give him someone else's money. The darkest warnings of democracy's critics are being furfilled, precisely because of entitlement programs that already exist, which are driving the federal government into an abyss of debt. Touching the big entitlement programs - the ones available to the middle class - is "political suicide." The president exploits this fact when he plays chicken with Republicans who want to reform those programs. All of which shows that we really know that democracy's critics were right. Too many voters are already bought - not by corporate campaign donors, but by the government itself. Worst of all, we accept this as normal, healthy politics even as it threatens to ruin us. Curbing private spending is a superficial reform that may even backfire eliminating the equalizing power of private money thereby increasing the advantages of incumbency. The only reform that could really help would be to curb the buying of votes with government money. That means following the counsel of the philosopher John Stuart Mill, and limiting the franchise to taxpayers who don't get income from the government. This means that if you receive money from the federal (or state, or local) government, you shouldn't be allowed to vote in the next federal (or state, or local) election. This is no more an insult to the voter than dismissal cause is an insult to a prospective juror. It's a precaution in the interest protecting the integrity of the electoral process - and a precaution we should have taken long ago, before fiscal responsibility became "political suicide."

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Re: Gao's Chaos Cryptosystem
by Nobuki Nakatuji 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>At 12:37 AM 9/6/97 PDT, Nobuki Nakatuji wrote: >>GCC(Gao's Chaos Cryptosystem) >>GCC uses the newest chaos logic and is conventional cryptosystem >>stream cipher encryption. It is high speed and allows variable-length keys, >>making it very reliable and suitable for use in multimedia. >>http://www.iisi.co.jp/reserch/GCC-over.htm >>[Products using it, user-friendliness, etc.] > >Good user interfaces and high speed are important, but not enough. >How strong is the cypher? Where is the academic research behind it? >What is the algorithm? Why should we trust it? Who else has tested it? >Other people have built cyphers based on chaotic systems, and found >they were weak when analyzed properly. Building good cryptosystems is >difficult. > >The web page doesn't give any details about the algorithm, >except saying that it uses chaos and strange attractors, >uses variable-length keys, and has a structure that uses >XOR of the stream cypher with the plaintext. >It does say the algorithm has a 0-1 balance of 0.5/0.5 >(which any good cryptosystems do) and has a medium-sized state space (2**96). > >It claims that because it's a one-way stream cypher, that makes it >safe against chosen plaintext attacks. That's not true. >Choose a plaintext of all zeros, and that gives you the >output of the chaotic system which you can analyze for patterns. >If you know the structure of the chaotic system, you can >analyze the mathematics to see how to find the state space, >and how to find the future output from the current output and >the state space - if the algorithm is strong, this is difficult, >but if the algorithm is weak, this is easy. If you don't publish >the algorithm, nobody can prove that it's strong, and in the >world of cryptosystems, that means nobody will trust it, >because we know how weak many other strong-looking algorithms are. > > > Please see http://arrirs02.uta.edu/ccc/upcoming.html. and,I have thesis of this algorithm write in Japanese language. ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

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Re: A helluva way to run a country, er, a world
by Syniker＠aol.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

whooooppssss I DO have to retract what I said about F-C-A... and better do it here... I get lot's of my first info from Declan on that list -- as in this weeks calif legislature vote and I DO appreciate it and would call it invaluable, for all of us, I'm sure... sorry dec.........larry.

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by Martin M 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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17 Dec '03

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InfoWar (2) / Part III of The True Story of the InterNet
by TruthMonger 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Re: Show Me the Warheads!
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Chief Cypherpunks Spokesperson Mixmaster wrote: > > Tim May espoused: > > I'm surprised this wasn't hushed up. The U.S. lying fucks > > intelligence community has known this for a long time, and reports > > to Ratfuck Congress have alluded to this. > > Why hush it up? Odd, isn't it, that this interview will air on TV > just as Lying Fuck Freeh is pushing for mandatory GAK to 'protect' us > from imaginary nuclear terrorists with suitcase bombs? I bet it's > just one of them coincidences... > > SynchronicityMonger Lying Nazi Ratfucker Freeh has known about these allegations for a long time, but it seems that it was not much of a threat until the release of the book by his co-conspirator schill, the Russian General. Isn't it amazing how long-standing threats to National Security only become _real_ threats when it is convenient for those in power? It was only a 'coincidence' that I happened to be standing in that bank that had been broken into, with a handful of cash. SynchronicityCriminal

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