December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

SSZ is back...
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Hi, SSZ has been down the last few hours because of a non-functioning ISDN line. Seems to be back up now. On with the show... ____________________________________________________________________ | | | The financial policy of the welfare state requires that there | | be no way for the owners of wealth to protect themselves. | | | | -Alan Greenspan- | | | | _____ The Armadillo Group | | ,::////;::-. Austin, Tx. USA | | /:'///// ``::>/|/ http:// www.ssz.com/ | | .', |||| `/( e\ | | -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- Jim Choate | | ravage(a)ssz.com | | 512-451-7087 | |____________________________________________________________________|

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Crypto++ 1.1
by Wei Dai 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I am still talking to RSADSI's lawyers, but it's taking a lot longer than I expected. So in the mean time I've decided to rerelease the Crypto++ library with RC4, RC5, RSA removed, and some calls to RSAREF disabled. RSADSI said it will not object to this rerelease. Version 1.1 also has some minor bug fixes. You can find it at ftp://ftp.csn.net/mpj/I_will_not_export/crypto_?????/libraries/crypto11.zip where ????? is in ftp://ftp.csn.net/mpj/README For the next version I hope to work out a deal with RSADSI to put some of those files back in. I'm also planning to add SAFER and perhaps some elliptic curve stuff. Other suggestions are welcome. I encourage people to use this library in commercial as well as shareware/freeware products. You don't have to pay me a cent, but don't forget about the patents. Wei Dai P.S. Does anyone know if elliptic curve key agreement protocols are patented?

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Re: 767 MHz Alpha, opinion_mode_enabled (fwd)
by Ray Arachelian 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I 'spose it's gettin' to be time that we ditched them 512 bit keys and them 40 bit keys. :) The very existance of a 2.6GHz CPU - yes freon cooled is more than enough... =====================================Kaos=Keraunos=Kybernetos============== .+.^.+.| Ray Arachelian |Prying open my 3rd eye. So good to see |./|\. ..\|/..|sunder(a)sundernet.com|you once again. I thought you were |/\|/\ <--*-->| ------------------ |hiding, and you thought that I had run |\/|\/ ../|\..| "A toast to Odin, |away chasing the tail of dogma. I opened|.\|/. .+.v.+.|God of screwdrivers"|my eye and there we were.... |..... ======================= http://www.sundernet.com ========================== ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 17 Sep 1997 11:08:40 -0500 From: "Kirk R. Erichsen" <KirkE(a)LOSNINOS.ORG> Reply-To: AlphaNT(a)beauty.mke.ra.rockwell.com To: AlphaNT(a)beauty.mke.ra.rockwell.com Subject: Re: 767 MHz Alpha, opinion_mode_enabled According to trade reports, the 21264 will be available at 800MHz by mid 98 but the die size (a .25 micron die) will need a signficant shrink to make the speed practical (heat and power consumption will be monsterous). It will need a die shrink to a .15 or .18 process in order for 800MHz + Alpha CPUs to be inexpensive enough to produce in volume. A smaller die size increases the number of chips that are "good" per waffer and decreases the finished chips power consumption and heat dissipation. Other methods for dealing with CPU speed (which don't address power or heat directly) include using CMOS alternatives like BiCMOS and Gallium Arsenide. Gallium Arsenide is very expensive, and the element Gallium is a rare earth element, so high production using it is not possible. As for the existing Digital freon "lab" chips, the 1.2GHz frequency has actually been surpassed twice already, with some reports saying that the last test with a non-production (beta 21364?) chip reached 2.6GHz. I don't know if at that frequency the processor was at sub-zero (in Celsius) temperatures, but it was at least a liquid nitrogen machine. One question no one seems to ask is "how fast were the external buses to memory and cache running on these testbeds?" Xray lithography has already produced (in very limited quantity) operable memory and processors with die sizes of below .000001 microns, a size that could accomodate about 1000 21264 processors in a package that would appear to be little more than a single "chip." The problem with implementing Xray lithography is that almost none of the existing process tools for producing chips can be used. The precise photo lithography masks (most of which are used with ultra-violet light) don't work anymore (Xray just goes right through) forcing you to use alloys of lead, bismuth and zirconium in the masks, a considerably more expensive and complex method. Ionizer units and other tools would have to be built for dealing with incredibly low tolerance. When Xray lithography is finally implmented, there will be a quantum lead in the frequency (multi GHz) while simulataneously reducing power consumption and heat dissipation. SMP and massively parallel machines will be portable boxes that will weigh only slightly more than the case and screen (if the TFT panel itself does not fall prey to light weight projection glasses) force it to be. The other option for new memory and processor devices is to "grow" them. Nanotechnologies that may be available in the next 10 years could allow microscopic machines in combination with biologic engineering could produce processors and memory of sizes at or below those of Xray lithography, with significant implications in other industries as well. One issue very rarely addressed in trade mags is the system bus speeds for the system bus (or any seperate cache, memory and I/O buses). Without a fast external bus speed, the system cannot necessarily provide more usable performance, particularly when memory becomes bottlenecked and saturated even at todays low frequencies. High internal CPU frequency does can not provide a linear increase in performance in and of itself. At about 400MHz, you have reached the maximum frequency an electrical bus can run. The next option for connecting the system bus to the processors is through optical buses. Optical buses don't suffer from the interference and noise that electrical buses do, and can operate at up to many thousands of GB without the error rates. Optical buses will connect all cache, memory and storage devices (directly without I/O adaption) in multiple segments with parallel access to all devices. The problems with doing this are the speed of the embedded switches which convert electrical signals into optical pulses are currently much too high in latency. A die shrink, the use of a high speed silicon or GA switch (or some new Selenium technology) could make the speed between electrical and optical buses practical. The other implication of more advanced methods for producing memory and processors is that the sluggish mechanical disk drive becomes totally obsolete. Massive non-volatile memory storage could be added to a system directly off the memory bus without the need for additional I/O buses. Hologramic optical storage devices (which store data as an image in 3D space) will replace most of the mechanical drive based multi-terrabyte installations with multi exabyte storage that will be 1000 smaller than existing storage devices. The entire world could place all its currently existing data and archives into a hologramic memory device the size of a lunch box. If it all sounds far fetched, its been proven possible already. Lets give it 10 years. At 10:41 AM 9/17/97 -0400, you wrote: >I talked with a tech from DEC here in Massachusetts and yes, I can >confirm that they did get 1.2 Gig but it was cooled with a liquid >nitrogen containing fan system, which cooled the chip considerably, but >not below freezing point. The FPU was very bad at this temp though Kirk R. Erichsen LAN Manager/Communications

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Summary of FBI talk @ MIT, Sept 10
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Date: 17 Sep 97 17:35:20 -0400 From: Request Admin <request-admin(a)phx.com> Subject: Summary of FBI talk September 10, 1997 To: BBLISA Announce <bblisa-announce(a)bblisa.org> ############################################################### Summary of FBI talk held September 10, 1997 7-9p.m. Room 395 MIT E-51 ---- HES [Heidi Schmidt] hschmidt(a)phx.com ############################################################### Note: I did not write down Steves' address but you can get it from the site. :) Concepts discussed regarding cybercrime.... T.O.E (Tool, Object, Evidence) Tool-- You are used to get to the target Object-- You are the target Evidence -- Evidence of the crime C.I.A ( all pertaining to data and your rights to have the following...) Confidentiality of data Integrity of data Availability of data The url for Subsection 1030. Fraud and related activity in connection with computers http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/1030_new.html This subsection protects three types of computers within institutions: 1) Financial based institutions using computers 2) Governmental based institutions using computers 3) Foreign commerce or Interstate commerce transaction based institutions using computers The url for Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section CCIPS http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/index.html Contact information for CSI http://www.gosci.com telephone: 415 905 2370 Since spam and other security issues cropped up as sub topics I am mentioning other urls that may prove helpful in the long run. Additional sites of interest regarding security and spam: Spam http://spam.abuse.net http://www.cauce.org Web security http://www.nmrc.org/faqs/www/ Sage resources (including security) http://www.usenix.org/sage/sysadmins/sysadmin_resource.html These are only but a drop on the planet, but they are a start. ############################################################### The next announcement will be regarding the development of the BBLISA web site currently beign hosted at http://jthome.jthome.com/~bblisa ############################################################### Heidi Schmidt hschmidt(a)phx.com UNIX Systems Administrator-Webmistress The Boston Phoenix Media Communications Group -- Send mail for the `bblisa' mailing list to `bblisa(a)bblisa.org'. Mail administrative requests to `majordomo(a)bblisa.org'.

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Re: FBI Wants to Wiretap One of Every 100 Phones in Urban Areas
by Bill Stewart 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 12:03 AM 11/3/95, clark.matthews(a)paranet.org wrote: >Thanks for this item! Two little excerpts jump out at me. They follow: >> Last year, federal and state courts authorized 1,154 wiretaps, of which 48 >> percent .... >> "People are starting to say that seems awfully high," Dempsey said, noting that >> the overall level of such surveillance activity is now a total of 20,000 >> to 25,000 intercepts nationwide over an entire year. >So what is it? 1,154 wiretaps? Or 20,000? Perhaps that's 1154 wiretap victims, with an average of 20 intercepts each? In a separate article, Clark posted estimates that ranged from 500K - 1.5M people could be wiretapped, depending on how many people are in the 1%/.5%/.25% zones. It's worse than that - if they're tapping the average victim for (say) 3 months, that's 4 times as many victims.... And just how many cops do they plan to hire to watch all these phones? Computers can help some, especially for data, but who's going to read it all, even after the fancy pattern recognition systems pick out the possible good stuff. >FBI Director Louis Freeh testified under oath to 1,157. The FBI was asked >for the data to support those numbers. The FBI refused to release them >until the year 2002. [....] >One last thing. >What's so special about the year 2002? Statute of limitations? :-) #--- # Thanks; Bill # Bill Stewart, Freelance Information Architect, stewarts(a)ix.netcom.com # Phone +1-510-247-0664 Pager/Voicemail 1-408-787-1281 #---

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SSZ Test [No Reply]
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Check Check Test No Reply

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Re: FBI seeks huge wiretapping system
by Bill Stewart 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 12:09 PM 11/2/95 -0500, Phill Hallam wrote: >On telephone tapping the statement was made that they do not allow >unauthorized taps and that technology was making wildcat taps by >local officials harder. Which makes sense. At least for the moment, wildcat taps have become much easier, since radio-tapping cellular phones is straightforward. >It is a fair point that just because technology has changed the >nature of the game it should not mean that wiretaps cease to be >possible. Back before telephones, you could steam open someone's mail if they sent it by the government post, but it was a lot harder if they sent it by private messengers, and they could always send it in some pre-arranged code. And you could always hang out under the eaves of their houses listening for conversations, but they could always check for themselves or talk while walking down the street. It's a fair point that just because technology has made it easier for eavesdroppers and mail-snoops today doesn't mean that private conversations should cease to be possible, or that we shouldn't be able to use technology to preserve the security of our papers and effects. >What is very odd however is the FBI request for $500 million. This is >a somewhat large quantity of money to say the least. The telephone >switches are programmable these days, it should be possible to >provide tapping at substantially less cost. $500 million is a drop in the bucket; they're talking about wedging themselves into multiple places in the telephone system, taking up to 1 percent of the capacity (without compensation as near as I can tell), and they want the ability to do all this without the inconvenience of going out to telephone wire offices where somebody might ask to see a warrant. >Mind you the Federal government is not known for tight cost control. Indeed :-) >The NSA reconned that a DES cracker would cost substantially more than >$1 million because the system costs would be much higher than the component costs. .... > Anyway the NSA price estimate was "two or more orders of magnitude more in cost" Wiener's design was about two orders of magnitude cheaper than Wayner's and the DEC guy's designs, which were in turn far cheaper than any previous. But it's a believable design, and could probably be done within a factor of two-three of his cost predictions; "system costs" need to include things like wiretapping equipment to steal and record the data to be cracked, and government employees to operate it, and bureaucrats and politicians to tell them what to do and who to target, and lots of real estate for them all. But to reach two or more orders of magnitude cost increase, I'd think you'd need a far bigger collection of cracking machines that Wiener's - perhaps to crack a few hundred keys per day. Interesting comments on banks' use of DES for authentication rather than privacy.... of course, if the government wants to tap banks' conversations, it can generally just demand that the banks tell them the information, at least for US-based and other cooperative banks. >If the NSA want a cheap DES cracker they have my number. I'll take 5% >ot the difference between the actual cost and $100 million (their >estimate of cost) as my fee. As Rodney Dangerfield said "Well to start with, you gotta throw in 10% for graft and corruption." #--- # Thanks; Bill # Bill Stewart, Freelance Information Architect, stewarts(a)ix.netcom.com # Phone +1-510-247-0664 Pager/Voicemail 1-408-787-1281 #---

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FBI Wants to Wiretap One of Every 100 Phones in Urban Areas
by Lee 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

FBI Wants to Wiretap One of Every 100 Phones in Urban Areas By MATT YANCEY Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - The FBI wants the capability to simultaneously tap one of every 100 phone and data transmission lines in major urban centers, but a top Justice Department official said there are no plans to expand the existing number of wiretaps. As part of its effort to deal with a new breed of computer-savvy criminals adept at using new telecommunications technologies, the FBI said it wants phone companies to initially set aside 0.5 percent, or one of every 200 lines, for law enforcement use in high-crime urban areas. But it added it also wants the ability to rapidly expand that capability to one of every 100 lines if the need arises. The disclosure was made in a little-noticed announcement in the Federal Register. Despite the notice, Deputy Attorney General Jamie Gorelick said today, "There is no intention to expand the number of wiretaps or the extent of wiretapping .. . I don't think the American people should be worried about that." Last year, federal and state courts authorized 1,154 wiretaps, of which 48 percent were sought by federal agents. Increases in recent years have mostly come in drug trafficking cases. Gorelick acknowledged: "As we've gotten more aggressive in the drug war, as organized gang activity has been an increased focus for us, we've seen a slight increase." The FBI proposal, unveiled on three pages of the thick daily compendium of federal regulations and other government activities for Oct. 16, had been long anticipated since the passage last year of the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act. "The entire purpose of the digital telephony legislation was to leave law enforcement in the same position it is now with respect to wiretaps: That is, to ensure that emerging digital technology would not defeat current lawful wiretaps," Gorelick said, noting that court approval would still be required for any wiretap. "There appears to be some misunderstanding or miscommunication as to the implications of what is contained in that notice." But experts familiar with the law did not expect the FBI's reach into the world new fiber optic cables, digital switches and high-speed modems for transmitting business transactions as well as voices to be so sweeping. "The level of capacity that the FBI is proposing here would come as a surprise to many who supported the legislation," said James X. Dempsey, deputy director of the Center for National Security Studies, a group that monitors government surveillance activities. While the federal notice does not specify which cities would be targeted, Dempsey said New York is likely to be one of them. Assuming there are 2 million separate phone and data transmission lines there, that means the FBI wants the ability to tap 20,000 of them simultaneously, he said. "People are starting to say that seems awfully high," Dempsey said, noting that the overall level of such surveillance activity is now a total of 20,000 to 25,000 intercepts nationwide over an entire year. The FBI said in its official notice that its capability needs were based on "an historical baseline of electronic surveillance activity" after surveying federal, state and local courts, prosecutors and police agencies. It did not offer a further explanation, but during hearings over the past four years leading to passage of the 1994 law, FBI and other officials cited the growing incidence of computer-based crimes. The law was intended to remove what law enforcement officials have considered a major impediment - the growing obsolescence of the copper phone wire - in probing drug trafficking, organized crime, terrorism, kidnaping and sophisticated new types of white-collar crime. "Without this bill ... we would have been completely prevented in a very short time from carrying out any court-approved wiretapping," FBI Director Louis Freeh said at the time. While law enforcement officers will still have to get court approval for any wiretaps they install, the technological measures authorized by the law would remove the objections of some judges. Copper telephone lines were relatively easy to tap because they carried only one conversation. But digital switches and fiber optics now in growing use often carry hundreds of conversations or data transmissions at the same time, making it difficult to isolate a single phone line. The law authorized $500 million for the government to pay the phone companies their cost in installing the necessary technology, but none of the money has been appropriated. And with increased criticism focused on the FBI for its role in the 1993 Branch Davidian siege in Waco, Texas, and the 1992 deadly standoff against white separatist Randy Weaver in Ruby Ridge, Idaho, there is no assurance Congress will be forthcoming with the money. Legislation sent by President Clinton to Congress seeking greater wiretap authority in the wake of the April bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City is languishing in congressional committees and is given little prospect of being passed this year. http://www.trib.com/NEWS/HEAD/FBI.html

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by dbhait＠juno.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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ICE Summary
by cmckie＠ccs.carleton.ca 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Summary of the the 2nd International Cryptogrpahy Experiment (ICE) Workshop, Shape Technical Centre, The Hague, Sept.18-19, 1995 http://www.tis.com/crypto/ice/summary.html

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