December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: PGP timeline FAQ... comments requested
by wlkngowl＠unix.asb.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On Fri, 22 Dec 95 13:37:35 GMT, you wrote: [..] Great job. A couple of suggestions... Version histories, with differences in each version. Also good to debunk the "PGP before version x isn't safe to use" myth. Might also want to throw in info about PGP hacks (mainly outside US), development of other software like SecureDrive, SFS, HPack (an archiver that uses PGP keys for digital signatures of files or encryption), development of anonymous remailers that use PGP, and even something about planned future developments (PGP 3.0, PGPPhone, etc...) >Long live the Pretty Good revolution, >Adam Back <aba(a)dcs.ex.ac.uk> Merry solstice, --Mutant Rob

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bashing (fwd)
by fc＠all.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: >From fc Sun Dec 24 19:04:04 1995 Subject: bashing To: cp(a)proust.suba.com (Alex Strasheim) Date: Sun, 24 Dec 1995 19:04:04 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <199512242356.RAA03010(a)proust.suba.com> from "Alex Strasheim" at Dec 24, 95 05:56:44 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL22] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1253 > > 1 - You must top slandering people. > > 2 - You must stop using anonymity as a way to avoid being responsible. > > No. > > You must learn how to decide whether or not you want to believe something > by looking it's plausibility and where it came form, and when you do learn > that you need to realize that other people know how to do it as well. I'm all for believing or not believing based on your understandings, but this is not the same as slander or irresponsible behavior hidden behind false identity. I'm also in favor of anonymity, but not for the purpose of slander. There are a lot of good and valid reasons for anonymity, and I believe that it is a basic requirement of freedom, but we will lose the ability to be anonymous if enough of us abuse the freedom. > Don't blame anonymity for your own or others' inability to think critically. I don't and didn't blam anonymity for this. I blame people who hide behind anonymity as a way to be irresponsible without apparent recourse. Evaluating statements and giving your opinion is not the same as making insluting, untrue, and crude remarks about individuals. -> See: Info-Sec Heaven at URL http://all.net/ Management Analytics - 216-686-0090 - PO Box 1480, Hudson, OH 44236 -> See: Info-Sec Heaven at URL http://all.net/ Management Analytics - 216-686-0090 - PO Box 1480, Hudson, OH 44236

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Fred Cohen: Re: CFS and Linux
by Perry E. Metzger 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I thought people would love to see this. Note especially "Dr." Fred's threat to have toad.com confiscated as part of a conspiracy against his reputation. Perry ------- Forwarded Message From: fc(a)all.net (Fred Cohen) Message-Id: <9512231757.AA22460(a)all.net> Subject: Re: CFS and Linux To: perry(a)piermont.com Date: Sat, 23 Dec 1995 12:57:40 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <199512231733.MAA07103(a)jekyll.piermont.com> from "Perry E. Metzger" at Dec 23, 95 12:33:15 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL22] Content-Type: text X-UIDL: 819742624.003 > Fred Cohen writes to me in private: > > > Alice B. Cohen writes: > > > > If you mean to imply that I am Alice, that constitutes slander, and I > > will sue. > > I'd love to see you try. Please, sue me immediately. > > Since you agree in public with Alice practically all the time, the > damages would be fascinating to assess. "Your honor, my client, who > has no reputation in the group we are discussing to speak of, feels > that by being publically conflated with this anonymous personage who's > opinions he univerasally agrees with that his reputation has been > damaged, since, well, er, we aren't sure why, but it has. I mean, > people might ascribe opinions to him that he claims to hold! Obviously > that must be damaging!" To the contrary, I have a very good global reputation, and you are knowingly and maliciously attempting to slander me by claiming that I use a false identity to support my positions. > What would the monetary damages be, Fred? I mean, there are some > people here who would gain a bit of added respect for you since being > Alice would imply that you knew how to use anonymous remailers, so > there would be some evidence that you could do *something*, which many > people here had in doubt up until now. I suspect you actually gain > reputation that way, so perhaps I should sue you for unjust > enrichment. (*) Let's see. I guess I would start by having the police confiscate the toad.com computers becfause thay are part of a criminal conspiracy to daamage my reputation. Criminal because of the recent changes in the law that prohibit you from sending me information I don't want to get. The dollar value would be $1 plus a public apology plus all costs of the suit plus my time to right the wrong (at my usual fee of course). Of course the fact that you have decided to make this posting in public justifies my extensive efforts to clear my reputation which, unless you apologize immediately will be surprisingly enjoyable for me. - -> See: Info-Sec Heaven at URL http://all.net/ Management Analytics - 216-686-0090 - PO Box 1480, Hudson, OH 44236 ------- End of Forwarded Message

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[Rant] Flame threads
by Alan Olsen 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Well, this is getting real unpleasant... So far we have at least three distinct flame threads going on and all of them are being pretty fucking pointless. I am gpoing to address a few issues concerning this just to get them off my chest and then I am going to drop the issue. Alice and the Net Scrooge thread: I agree that Netscape owes a bit more to people who help them out, but some of your statements come from so far into left field that they are suffering from lack of oxygen. Where does AT&T come into the break of SSL and Netscape? AT&T may licence Netscape, but they do not own it. As a licence, I cannot see how they would bear any financial responsibility for fixes, breaks or other security breaches. The only reason I can see for the anger directed against them is because they are a big company. Still, your arguments do not follow. As for Netscape... They have been trying pretty damn hard to clean up their act. They are actually FIXING bugs that are being reported and not just forwarding them to Dave Null. This is an incredible improvement over past versions. I think the IPO has had a positive effect becuase now they have to act like a real company and have real quality control. This is a good thing! Hopefully they will keep up the good work on bug fixes. (We will see if they have yet fixed the HP4 print header bug in 2.0b4 though...) The Anti-Jeff/Matt/AT&T/Netscape thread: People are not a wholly owned subsidiary of their company. I judge people by their actions and not who they work for. Jeff Weinstien has worked pretty hard to get things done right within Netscape. That is not an easy feat. (I know this from experience.) He may sound defensive at times, but who would not after some of the shit he has to take from idiots who have no clue as to what it takes to get things done in a corporate environment. So far he seems to be doing a pretty damn good job for Netscape and the crypto community at large. As for Matt Blaze. He has done more for the crypto community as a whole that most anyone I can name. His accomplisments are pretty impresive. Anyone who can break Clipper and describe the break in just eight pages deseves a bit more credit than the anon-twits give him credit for. (Plus CFS and the various other crypto code he maintains and distributes.) So far the attacks on Jeff and Matt as being somehow corrupt seem more to weaken any efforts this list has and not to help them. Fred Cohen: You have no respect for the freedom or opinions of others. You expect the net to operate under your terms and under your rules. You want people to be "responsible". From what I have read here that seems to mean "punishable". I do not like some of flames I have seen, but I do not threated legal action against them. You have. I have meet the keeper of the list. He is a very nice guy and i would not want to see him go through hardship because of some whacko with a faschist control complex. Fred -- Go somewhere else. I suggest you get together with Dan Gannon and his ilk. I think you will find him more to your liking. (Or maybe the $cientologists. They are into sueing anyone who disagrees with them. I am sure they will help you start a list with your control fetishes in mind. Maybe you can borrow a few of their lawyers.) BTW, Fred has been killfiled on my mailreader. I am sick of listening to the twit. To understand what an honor this is... He is the only person I have killfiled on this or any mailinglist. Sorry to inject this much noise to the list. I am pretty damn hot over the amount of shit I have waded through in the last few days. The legal threats from Fred were the final straw. If toad.com ever needs financial support fighting legal battles from twits such as Fred, they will have my support! I know Perry will find all of this off topic. It probibly is... It just needed to be said due to my own peace of mind. Back to the regular scheduled flamethrowing... -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQEVAwUBMN4ToeQCP3v30CeZAQFQHQf/U7xnRgq+J50EbEE2qXyPTDjKxq3O1Px1 kY2TtVfSCa5202PL8n7PrMDq9OSvz+IlK1/jmGR8vwncbUerWbZCht23rzK5Kxfn FnCMPZg0/dCSg/2wsh4O71VU759Gs7lv7cPW2PX2Cjv2RhQ5dqixjui1Tai6DHvG MSUREvyZf113DJEpWp9GzIARaZVoUK74YgKHnQxjZjYtTI7AqMs+45bf9DyBwYkc HugoHdsJJ4YuAoozSfuejIkPqlxLY9FDc+4jZBpf6VUr7NpAhYEhrg4VdeENe293 Vd5rJZb0295rDeqIz16hOkoTlQ7vSIglttXufzFNjQVcqaV8YJPSQw== =QObR -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- | Remember: Life is not always champagne. Sometimes it is REAL pain. | |"The moral PGP Diffie taught Zimmerman unites all| Disclaimer: | | mankind free in one-key-steganography-privacy!" | Ignore the man | |`finger -l alano(a)teleport.com` for PGP 2.6.2 key | behind the keyboard.| | http://www.teleport.com/~alano/ | alano(a)teleport.com |

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ROS_pig
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

12-25-95. NYPaper: "Fear Of Freedom: The urge to censor persists." Anthony Lewis column. The very essence of the on-line world is freedom. The effect of the "indecent" prohibition of the telecom bill will be to reduce all users of cyberspace to the level of children. That is exactly what Justice Felix Frankfurter found unconstitutional writing for the Supreme Court in 1957, about a Michigan law that banned sales to anyone of material unsuitable for children. "Surely," he wrote, "this is to burn the house to roast the pig." "Coming Soon to Computers Everywhere, a World's Fair." John Markoff. In an era when the Internet has become synonymous with commercialism and instant fortunes, Carl Malamud's commitment to public service has set him apart. Mr. Malamud maintains that there are still two ways to build the Internet. One is the high-stakes high-visibility route of initial public offerings in the stock market, the money-raising approach being pursued by people like Netscape Communication's founders, Jim Clark and Mark Andreeson. The other route, Mr. Malamud maintains, is by soliciting funds and building viable public works projects that benefit the common good. 2 in 1: ROS_pig (13k)

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List of reliable remailers
by Raph Levien 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I operate a remailer pinging service which collects detailed information about remailer features and reliability. To use it, just finger remailer-list(a)kiwi.cs.berkeley.edu There is also a Web version of the same information, plus lots of interesting links to remailer-related resources, at: http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~raph/remailer-list.html This information is used by premail, a remailer chaining and PGP encrypting client for outgoing mail, which is available at: ftp://ftp.csua.berkeley.edu/pub/cypherpunks/premail/premail-0.33a.tar.gz For the PGP public keys of the remailers, finger pgpkeys(a)kiwi.cs.berkeley.edu This is the current info: REMAILER LIST This is an automatically generated listing of remailers. The first part of the listing shows the remailers along with configuration options and special features for each of the remailers. The second part shows the 12-day history, and average latency and uptime for each remailer. You can also get this list by fingering remailer-list(a)kiwi.cs.berkeley.edu. $remailer{"extropia"} = "<remail(a)extropia.wimsey.com> cpunk pgp special"; $remailer{"portal"} = "<hfinney(a)shell.portal.com> cpunk pgp hash"; $remailer{"alumni"} = "<hal(a)alumni.caltech.edu> cpunk pgp hash"; $remailer{"bsu-cs"} = "<nowhere(a)bsu-cs.bsu.edu> cpunk hash ksub"; $remailer{"c2"} = "<remail(a)c2.org> eric pgp hash reord"; $remailer{"penet"} = "<anon(a)anon.penet.fi> penet post"; $remailer{"ideath"} = "<remailer(a)ideath.goldenbear.com> cpunk hash ksub reord"; $remailer{"hacktic"} = "<remailer(a)utopia.hacktic.nl> cpunk mix pgp hash latent cut post ek"; $remailer{"flame"} = "<remailer(a)flame.alias.net> cpunk mix pgp. hash latent cut post reord"; $remailer{"rahul"} = "<homer(a)rahul.net> cpunk pgp hash filter"; $remailer{"mix"} = "<mixmaster(a)remail.obscura.com> cpunk mix pgp hash latent cut ek ksub reord ?"; $remailer{"ford"} = "<remailer(a)bi-node.zerberus.de> cpunk pgp hash ksub ek"; $remailer{"hroller"} = "<hroller(a)c2.org> cpunk pgp hash latent ek"; $remailer{"vishnu"} = "<mixmaster(a)vishnu.alias.net> cpunk mix pgp. hash latent cut ek ksub reord"; $remailer{"robo"} = "<robo(a)c2.org> cpunk hash mix"; $remailer{"replay"} = "<remailer(a)replay.com> cpunk mix pgp hash latent cut post ek"; $remailer{"spook"} = "<remailer(a)valhalla.phoenix.net> cpunk mix pgp hash latent cut ek reord"; $remailer{"rmadillo"} = "<remailer(a)armadillo.com> mix cpunk pgp hash latent cut ek"; $remailer{"ecafe"} = "<cpunk(a)remail.ecafe.org> cpunk mix"; $remailer{"wmono"} = "<wmono(a)valhalla.phoenix.net> cpunk mix pgp. hash latent cut"; $remailer{"shinobi"} = "<remailer(a)shinobi.alias.net> cpunk mix hash latent cut ek reord"; $remailer{"amnesia"} = "<amnesia(a)chardos.connix.com> cpunk mix pgp hash latent cut ek ksub"; $remailer{"gondolin"} = "<mix(a)remail.gondolin.org> cpunk mix pgp hash latent cut ek reord"; $remailer{"tjava"} = "<remailer(a)tjava.com> cpunk mix pgp hash latent cut"; $remailer{'alpha'} = '<alias(a)alpha.c2.org> alpha pgp'; $remailer{'gondonym'} = '<alias(a)nym.gondolin.org> alpha pgp'; catalyst(a)netcom.com is _not_ a remailer. lmccarth(a)ducie.cs.umass.edu is _not_ a remailer. usura(a)replay.com is _not_ a remailer. Groups of remailers sharing a machine or operator: (c2 robo hroller alpha) (gondolin gondonym) (flame hacktic replay) (alumni portal) (vishnu spook wmono) Use "premail -getkeys pgpkeys(a)kiwi.cs.berkeley.edu" to get PGP keys for the remailers. Fingering this address works too. Note: all of the "ek" tags have been verified correct. Apologies to those who were inconvenienced by incorrect "ek" tags in the past. Last update: Mon 25 Dec 95 6:45:54 PST remailer email address history latency uptime ----------------------------------------------------------------------- hacktic remailer(a)utopia.hacktic.nl ***+*+****** 7:48 99.98% c2 remail(a)c2.org -+++++++.-++ 1:29:45 99.96% replay remailer(a)replay.com ******+***** 9:47 99.95% portal hfinney(a)shell.portal.com .#**+####### 11:36 99.94% bsu-cs nowhere(a)bsu-cs.bsu.edu #*#-####*#+# 12:47 99.91% rmadillo remailer(a)armadillo.com ++ +++++++++ 39:31 99.89% shinobi remailer(a)shinobi.alias.net ++--_.--++++ 4:25:47 99.88% alumni hal(a)alumni.caltech.edu -+*++##+###* 15:14 99.86% ford remailer(a)bi-node.zerberus.de .-+++++-+-++ 4:08:57 99.85% flame remailer(a)flame.alias.net ***+**++.-- 5:58:46 99.75% hroller hroller(a)c2.org -##+####.-## 47:58 99.75% spook remailer(a)valhalla.phoenix.net * *+* **.--+ 3:44:23 99.69% vishnu mixmaster(a)vishnu.alias.net #*++*** --- 1:19:08 99.68% tjava remailer(a)tjava.com # :23 99.48% mix mixmaster(a)remail.obscura.com +-+++____.- 20:55:03 99.27% extropia remail(a)extropia.wimsey.com -.-.-----. 14:54:08 99.16% wmono wmono(a)valhalla.phoenix.net * *+* * ** 13:17 98.94% amnesia amnesia(a)chardos.connix.com ----- --++- 3:09:50 98.65% penet anon(a)anon.penet.fi _....-.--- * 13:40:31 98.35% gondolin mix(a)remail.gondolin.org --____.-*+ 18:46:33 96.41% rahul homer(a)rahul.net *#++***-+##* 21:00 99.97% ecafe cpunk(a)remail.ecafe.org -####**-# 27:03 65.05% History key * # response in less than 5 minutes. * * response in less than 1 hour. * + response in less than 4 hours. * - response in less than 24 hours. * . response in more than 1 day. * _ response came back too late (more than 2 days). cpunk A major class of remailers. Supports Request-Remailing-To: field. eric A variant of the cpunk style. Uses Anon-Send-To: instead. penet The third class of remailers (at least for right now). Uses X-Anon-To: in the header. pgp Remailer supports encryption with PGP. A period after the keyword means that the short name, rather than the full email address, should be used as the encryption key ID. hash Supports ## pasting, so anything can be put into the headers of outgoing messages. ksub Remailer always kills subject header, even in non-pgp mode. nsub Remailer always preserves subject header, even in pgp mode. latent Supports Matt Ghio's Latent-Time: option. cut Supports Matt Ghio's Cutmarks: option. post Post to Usenet using Post-To: or Anon-Post-To: header. ek Encrypt responses in reply blocks using Encrypt-Key: header. special Accepts only pgp encrypted messages. mix Can accept messages in Mixmaster format. reord Attempts to foil traffic analysis by reordering messages. Note: I'm relying on the word of the remailer operator here, and haven't verified the reord info myself. mon Remailer has been known to monitor contents of private email. filter Remailer has been known to filter messages based on content. If not listed in conjunction with mon, then only messages destined for public forums are subject to filtering. Raph Levien

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New release (v1.3.2) of CFS encrypting file system available
by Matt Blaze 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

[Perhaps this isn't the best time for me to post this here; apologies in advance if this sparks another flame fest. -matt] Source code for the latest version (release 1.3.2) of CFS, the Cryptographic File System, is now available upon request for research and experimental use in the US and Canada. CFS pushes encryption services into the Unix(tm) file system. It supports secure storage at the system level through a standard Unix file system interface to encrypted files. Users associate a cryptographic key with the directories they wish to protect. Files in these directories (as well as their pathname components) are transparently encrypted and decrypted with the specified key without further user intervention; cleartext is never stored on a disk or sent to a remote file server. CFS employs a novel combination of DES stream and codebook cipher modes to provide high security with good performance on a modern workstation. CFS can use any available file system for its underlying storage without modification, including remote file servers such as NFS. System management functions, such as file backup, work in a normal manner and without knowledge of the key. CFS runs under SunOS and several other BSD-derived systems with NFS. It is implemented entirely at user level, as a local NFS server running on the client machine's "loopback" interface. It consists of about 5000 lines of code and supporting documentation. You must have "root" access to install CFS. CFS was first mentioned at the work-in-progress session at the Winter '93 USENIX Conference and was more fully detailed in: Matt Blaze. "A Cryptographic File System for Unix", Proc. 1st ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, Fairfax, VA, November 1993. (PostScript available by anonymous ftp from research.att.com in the file dist/mab/cfs.ps.) and in Matt Blaze. "Key Management in an Encrypting File System", Proc. Summer '94 USENIX Tech. Conference, Boston, MA, June 1994. (PostScript available by anonymous ftp from research.att.com in the file dist/mab/cfskey.ps.) Version 1.3 of CFS also includes ESM, the Encrypting Session Manager. ESM provides shell-to-shell encrypted sessions across insecure links and requires no OS or network support. It is useful for typing cfs passphrases when logged in over the network. ESM needs RSAREF 2.0 to compile and is tested only on SunOS and BSDI. ESM is the first released part of a suite of session encryption tools that are described in Matt Blaze and Steve Bellovin. "Session-layer Encryption." Proc. 1995 USENIX Security Workshop, Salt Lake City, June 1995. (PostScript is available from ftp://research.att.com/dist/mab/sesscrypt.ps) The new version of CFS differs from the version described in the papers in a few ways: * The DES-based encryption scheme has been strengthened, and now provides greater security but with the online latency of only single-DES. * Support for the smartcard-based key management system is not included and a few of the tools are not included. * An impoved key management scheme now allows chaning the passphrase associated with a directory. * The performance has been improved. * The security of the system against certain non-cryptanalytic attacks has been improved somewhat. * User-contributed ports to a number of additional platforms. * Hooks for adding new ciphers. * 3-DES, MacGuffin, and SAFER-SK128 encryption options. * Timeout options allow automatic detach of encrypted directories after a set time or period of inactivity. CFS is distributed as a research prototype; it is COMPLETELY UNSUPPORTED software. No warranty of any kind is provided. We will not be responsible if the system deletes all your files and emails the cleartext directly to the NSA or your mother. Also, we do not have the resources to port the software to other platforms, although you are welcome to do this yourself. The software was developed under SunOS and BSDI, and there are also unsupported user-contributed ports available for AIX, HP/UX, Irix, Linux, Solaris and Ultrix. We really can't promise to provide any technical support at all, beyond the source code itself. We also maintain a mailing list for CFS users and developers; subscription information is included with the source code. Because of export restrictions on cryptographic software, we are only able to make the software available within the US and Canada to US and Canadian citizens and permanent residents. Unfortunately, we cannot make it available for general anonymous ftp or other uncontrolled access, nor can we allow others to do so. Sorry. Legal stuff from the README file: * Copyright (c) 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995 by AT&T. * Permission to use, copy, and modify this software without fee * is hereby granted, provided that this entire notice is included in * all copies of any software which is or includes a copy or * modification of this software and in all copies of the supporting * documentation for such software. * * This software is subject to United States export controls. * * THIS SOFTWARE IS BEING PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED * WARRANTY. IN PARTICULAR, NEITHER THE AUTHORS NOR AT&T MAKE ANY * REPRESENTATION OR WARRANTY OF ANY KIND CONCERNING THE MERCHANTABILITY * OF THIS SOFTWARE OR ITS FITNESS FOR ANY PARTICULAR PURPOSE. If you would like a copy of the CFS source code, please read to the end of this message and then send email to: cfs(a)research.att.com DO NOT REPLY DIRECTLY TO THIS MESSAGE. You must include a statement that you are in the US or Canada, are a citizen or legal permanent resident of the US or Canada, and have read and understand the license conditions stated above. Be sure to include an email address in a US- or Canada-registered domain. The code will be sent to you via email in a "shar" shell archive (a little over 300K bytes long).

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Re:
by stevenw＠best.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>On Fri, 22 Dec 1995 andr0id(a)midwest.net (Jason Rentz) wrote: >> >>The problem with the Interceptor is that I think it can only receive one >>freqency at a time, and it is adjustable by a thumb wheel, not digitally. >>This would tend to make changing frequencies at high rates VERY hard. :) >>Also it has no frequancy readout, so this means that if you know what freq. >>you should be at it is hard to tune in that freq. without searching a >>little. >> Dr0id > >The demo of the Interceptor I saw seemed to show it jumping from 150 MHz >to 450 >MHz without any external adjustments, it locked on the strongest signal. >Granted, it can only receive one frequency at a time, but there shouldn't >be any >significant delays when the phone hops a frequency. The Interceptor's >frequency readout is a bargraph style LED. The Scout, from what I can >see in Optoelectronics' ad doesn't have any frequency controls on it, it does >have a digital frequency readout. As far as timing is concerned, the Scout >might be less useful because I think it feeds the frequency into the >scanner for >reception. Most scanners take a significant amount of time to change >frequencies. I used to work for a company that made frequency-hopping military radios. It's a catch-me-if-you-can game, a bit like the amusement arcade toy where stuffed rats pop up through holes and you try to whack them with rubber hammers. You can sure *see* where the next one is, but you can't get there fast enough to make contact. If you knew the pseudo-random pattern, you could anticipate and be there every time. Thus in a frequency-hopping radio you can push the retuning (read RF phase-locked loop) technology to its limit and build transmitters and receivers around them. These typically hop in the order of 100 times a second. The adversary has to find the uncorrelated signal very quickly indeed *and* have PLL technology at least as good as yours to recover anything from it. Finding the signal generally means listening to all frequencies at once, requiring huge amounts of hardware parallelism and/or realtime computing power. Once you throw ten or so radios onto the same band, it's no longer any use looking for the strongest signal, making that approach useless. The primary reason for FH is not to hide information, however. Encryption can be used for that. It's to prevent the enemy from hiding the information from the intended recipient through jamming. Radio jammers work by simply drowning out all other traffic so that the receivers either clip and distort everything or have to attentuate the input signal so far that the interesting stuff is undetectable. Like trying to have an intellectual conversation at a bad rock concert. By employing FH you require the enemy to have enormous and impractical jamming capacity. There are FH radars too. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Steven Weller | "The Internet, of course, is more | than just a place to find pictures | of people having sex with dogs." stevenw(a)best.com | -- Time Magazine, 3 July 1995

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Re: Bidzos on C-Span 2
by rah＠shipwright.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 5:41 PM 12/25/95, John Young wrote: >If you care, Jim is smoothly hawking a beautiful world of >easy-going crypto on C-Span 2, at least in NYC at 5:35 PM. Actually, he did a pretty good job of towing the er, party line. Lots of good opportunities for analogical heavy lifting in arguments with statists. "Suppose you had a very strong door which protected your whole house and made it inviolate. Suppose then the government then wanted to have copy of your door keys on the off-chance you turn into a crack dealer someday...", etc. Except for the fact that he wants Uncle to protect his patents, that is... ;-). This was done on December 8 at the Commonwealth Club in SFO. Were there c'punks there? The questions sounded like it... He also said something about some kind of magic badge with biometric/PK software which would allow you to work anywhere there was a network connection. Reminiscent of our discussions about Xerox PARC's ubiquitous computing stuff, Gerry O'Neil's 2081, etc. I feel a rant coming on about this "information toaster" stuff, Metcalfe's fight with Alsop in Infoworld, etc. Guess I'll start it tomorrow. Take cover everybody... Merry Christmas! Cheers, Bob ----------------- Robert Hettinga (rah(a)shipwright.com) e$, 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA (617) 958-3971 "Reality is not optional." --Thomas Sowell The NEW(!) e$ Home Page: http://thumper.vmeng.com/pub/rah/ >>>>Phree Phil: Email: zldf(a)clark.net http://www.netresponse.com/zldf <<<<<

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Re: bashing (fwd)
by Daniel Miskell 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Allan, shut the hell up. This thread is truely unnecessary, can we just let it die? Munster --- _________________________________ *!Cheese Doctrine:!* Though cultured over time, and aged to perfection, one must not yield to produce mold. One must also not belittle themselves by conforming to the "whiz", but melt over the unprocessed ideas of Ghuda. _________________________________

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