December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

TIC_hip
by jya＠pipeline.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

5-29-96. FiTi: Chips Galore [Editorial] Texas Instruments' claim to have developed a technology capable of inscribing 125m transistors, or computing elements, on a thumbnail-sized slice of silicon is remarkable chiefly because the technique is commonplace. ... The consequences for society of this continued rise in complexity are perhaps not fully grasped even in an age in which computers are taken for granted. The latest technology promises ubiquitous, tiny packages of electronic intelligence. Today's model is the smart card and the tiny videocamera. Tomorrow, tiny processors will be embedded in jewellery, spectacles, buildings and furniture. ... Widely distributed computer power will confer substantial advantages on society; but it will create new ethical problems for society, such as the individual's right to privacy, which may be at least as difficult to master as the technology. ----- FiTi reported yesterday and today on TI's new chip: TIC_hip

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Re: [Fwd: --> CRISIS on USENET -- SIGN THE PROTEST STATEMENT VIA E-MAIL]
by Bill Stewart 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 11:21 PM 5/28/96 -0700, you wrote: >At 11:52 AM 5/28/96 +0000, you wrote: >>This is a post from Jon Noring (noring(a)netcom.com) about the recent >>spamming of alt.religion.scientology. I thought he summed the >>situation up very well. > >Why don't we get together an organized spamming of the CoC's servers? >Let's give them a taste of their medicine! >I bet that we can make their servers crash before they know what him them! Please take that to alt.religion.scientology or some other relevant list. [ I recently found a Dianetics Personality Test on my car. I haven't put it in the toaster yet :-) ] # Thanks; Bill # Bill Stewart, stewarts(a)ix.netcom.com, +1-415-442-2215 # goodtimes signature virus innoculation

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Re: RSA breaking
by Matts Kallioniemi 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 14:21 1996-05-29 +0200, [0m [5m Toth wrote: >But, cause there is a but, it can be broken by an hardware system. Gimme the money, i'll break it, a simple algorithm can be "hardwarly programmed" and with very high-tech components, the speed it can have is enough to break an RSA key. How much money do you want for breaking a 2048 bit RSA key? How soon can you deliver the broken private key? Matts

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Re: Internet traffic is monitored.
by jim bell 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 11:37 AM 5/29/96 +0200, Anonymous wrote: >Date: Tue, 28 May 1996 10:03:11 -0700 >X-Sender: bstout(a)osc.hidata.com >To: Firewalls(a)GreatCircle.COM, Return requested <firewalls(a)GreatCircle.COM> >From: Bill Stout <bill.stout(a)hidata.com> >Subject: Re: Encryption Technology >Sender: firewalls-owner(a)GreatCircle.COM > >Extrapolations of fact: > 1. Internet traffic is monitored. > 2. The ability to snoop for encrypted traffic is present > 3. The ability to identify encryption levels is present > (How else can they differentiate DES-1 from DES-3?) > 4. The ability to crack DES-1 in near real-time mode is present. > (See above). > 5. If above=true, then Feds dropping the Zimmerman PGP case probably > also points to it also being crackable in a similar manner. >Bill I think the Feds non-prosecution of Zimmermann had absolutely nothing to do with the crackability/non-crackability of PGP. They just had an extremely weak case: They probably had no way to demonstrate that any particular person exported PGP, which means that prosecuting Zimmermann would have looked like sour grapes. (or, in the alternative, if they had records to show that PGP was exported, they might not have wanted to reveal the extent of their Internet monitoring.) Jim Bell jimbell(a)pacifier.com

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Re: Tempest Info
by jim bell 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 09:27 AM 5/29/96 -0400, SINCLAIR DOUGLAS N wrote: >> Water pipes are often form the earth line. If only 60hz (US) can get through >> the power cables then only 60 hz can get into the water pipes (I'll ignore >> re-radiating, because water pipes are the least of your problems there). > >The high-frequency harmonics from your computers are probably above the >cutoff frequency of the water-pipes when considered as circular waveguides. >The water filling will act as a dielectric, bringing F0 down. So, it >is conceivable that extremely high frequency radiation (>3 Ghz) could >propagate well in a water pipe. No, you misunderstood. The RF wouldn't be transmitted on the inside of the pipes (how could it get inside, anyway?) but on the outside. Since most information-containing appliances are well-grounded, there is at least a strong possibility that a ground connection would carry enough interesting RF to be useful to tap. Jim Bell jimbell(a)pacifier.com

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Re: WSJ on "IRS-bashing"
by tcmay＠got.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 3:36 PM 5/29/96, geeman(a)best.com wrote: >According to WSJ, Leslie B. Samuels, "Treasury's top tax-policy official" >says that "IRS-bashing is 'counterproductive and harmful'" -- and that >"destructive rhetoric ... hurts the tax system and society" [elisions are >the WSJ's] > >What if a the CDA grew little by little by little until it covered >statements deemed "destructive rhetoric" .... hmmm. I mean after all, if >it harms society....! If the CDA is upheld by the Supreme Court, which would surprise me, then "free speech" as we know it is gone completely. By the way, it's _already_ the case that "hurtful speech" can be prosecuted as a civil rights violation of a class of persons. If I refer to women as "bitches and hoes" ("hoe" = "whore," in certain American dialects) I am, as I understand things, technically in violation of various laws which outlaw the repression, subjugation, marginalization, and encheferation of women and other colored people. (Oh, I can say these things in the privacy of my home without fear of reprisal by the State, or even in small groups. But if I say this in public, or in a company, or in many other fora, look out!) Liberty has been given away for several decades in this country. --Tim May Boycott "Big Brother Inside" software! We got computers, we're tapping phone lines, we know that that ain't allowed. ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay(a)got.net 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Licensed Ontologist | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."

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What is the strength of the MPJ/Diamond algorithm (Michael Paul Johnson 1989)
by Jean-Paul Kroepfli 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I have seen the Diamond2 algorithm in the dlock2 package, with its predecessors MPJ, MPJ2. This a thesis by Michael Paul Johnson for is Master of Science degree (1989), and a free softwar (date: 12/21/1995). Schneier's Applied Cryptography doesn't say anything about MPJ or Diamond. What is its strength? Jean-Paul Kroepfli ~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~- Jean-Paul et Micheline Kroepfli (our son: Nicolas and daughter: Celine) eMail: JeanPaul.Kroepfli(a)utopia.fnet.fr Also Compuserve and MSNetwork Phone: +33 81 55 52 59 (F) PostMail: F-25640 Breconchaux (France) or: +41 21 843 27 36 (CH) or: CP 138, CH-1337 Vallorbe Fax: +33 81 55 52 62 (Switzerland) Zephyr(r) : InterNet Communication and Commerce, Security and Cryptography consulting PGP Fingerprint : 19 FB 67 EA 20 70 53 89 AF B2 5C 7F 02 1F CA 8F "The InterNet is the most open standard since air for breathing"

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Re: [crypto] crypto-protocols for trading card games
by Joseph M. Reagle Jr. 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 12:15 AM 5/29/96 -0400, you wrote: >Design a set of crypto protocols to support the issuing, trading, and >playing of such card games in real time (100ms compute time per move) Well, not quite the same thing, but the cool stored-value cards in Japan (for things like phones and the like) are very collectible. Everyone wants a Armitage (anime) card! _______________________ Regards, If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would ever get done. Joseph Reagle http://farnsworth.mit.edu/~reagle/home.html reagle(a)mit.edu E0 D5 B2 05 B6 12 DA 65 BE 4D E3 C1 6A 66 25 4E

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Science on Schrodinger's Cat
by jya＠pipeline.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

We've filed at our Web site two May 24 Science articles on the NIST team's research on quantum superposition, reported by the NYT yesterday (keyed ONE_two): A Research News article on the research by Gary Taubes, "Schizophrenic Atom Doubles As Schrodinger's Cat -- or Kitten." And, the Research Article: "A 'Schrodinger's Cat' Superposition State of an Atom." C. Monroe, D. M. Meekhof, B. E. King, D. J. Wineland. Due to the heavy use of equations and figures, the material is imaged in JPEG (compressed) format -- 150 resolution and enlarged a bit for readability, so the files are fairly large: The news article: http://pwp.usa.pipeline.com/~jya/scat0.jpg (234 kb) The research article: http://pwp.usa.pipeline.com/~jya/scat1.jpg (153 kb) http://pwp.usa.pipeline.com/~jya/scat2.jpg (223 kb) http://pwp.usa.pipeline.com/~jya/scat3.jpg (224 kb) http://pwp.usa.pipeline.com/~jya/scat4.jpg (248 kb) http://pwp.usa.pipeline.com/~jya/scat5.jpg (200 kb) http://pwp.usa.pipeline.com/~jya/scat6.jpg (179 kb) http://pwp.usa.pipeline.com/~jya/scat7.jpg (210 kb) http://pwp.usa.pipeline.com/~jya/scat8.jpg (245 kb) http://pwp.usa.pipeline.com/~jya/scat9.jpg (35 kb)

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Scientology subpoenas operator of "freezone" anon remailer
by modemac＠netcom.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Path: netcom.com!ixnews1.ix.netcom.com!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!newsfeed.internetmci.com!cdc2.cdc.net!news.texas.net!nntp.primenet.com!news.cais.net!bofh.dot!news.his.com!news.lightlink.com!light.lightlink.com!homer From: "Homer W. Smith" <homer(a)light.lightlink.com> Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology,alt.religion.scientology.xenu,comp.org.eff.talk,misc.legal Subject: Body of Subpoena (fwd) Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 15:12:09 -0400 Organization: ART MATRIX - LIGHTLINK Lines: 28 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.960529151032.12441B-100000(a)light.lightlink.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: light.lightlink.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Multiple recipients of list IAP <IAP(a)VMA.CC.ND.EDU>, Remailer Operators List <Remailer-Operators(a)c2.org> Xref: netcom.com alt.religion.scientology:185032 comp.org.eff.talk:85083 misc.legal:174678 DOCUMENTS AND THINGS TO BE PRODUCED 1.) All documents relating to the posting, the header of which is attached hereto as Exhibit A, which was made through the anonymous remailer, freezone.remailer, including, without limitation, the identity of the person or persons who made the posting. 2.) All documents relating to logs or other records kept by the computer of any individuals who sent messages through freezone.remailer at the time the Exhibit A posting was made. 3.) All documents relating to how records are kept by the freezone.remailer computer of the source of postings made or messages send through the computer. Exhibit A is the header as received by netcom.com of Scamizdat #3, posted on April 1st 1995. Homer ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Homer Wilson Smith News, Web, Telnet Art Matrix - Lightlink (607) 277-0959 SunOS 4.1.4 Sparc 20 Internet Access, Ithaca NY homer(a)lightlink.com info(a)lightlink.com http://www.lightlink.com -- Reverend Modemac (modemac(a)netcom.com) First Online Church of "Bob" "There is no black and white." PGP Key Fingerprint: 47 90 41 70 B4 5B 06 90 7B 38 4E 11 8A ED 80 DF URL: http://www.tiac.net/users/modemac/ (FINGER modemac(a)netcom.com for a FREE SubGenius Pamphlet!)

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