December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: Errors-To: for cypherpunks
by John Gilmore 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> I am flooded by stupid "Mailbox is full" messages from Banyan and > CC-mail gateways. I suggest forwarding each and every one to the tech-support address at Banyan or at CCMail. If that doesn't work, send them to the president of each company, until they fix their products to adhere to Internet standards for where to send bounce messages. You have to keep pushing each problem back to its source; that's the only way they get fixed. I had good luck at this with Microsoft; I reported their bogus Win95 email software that would, by default, insert gibberish at the bottom of each message, to their tech support folks. When that got no useful response, I forwarded a copy of the bug report to <billg(a)microsoft.com>, with a suggestion that having numerous gibberish messages appearing daily in popular mailing list was making Microsoft look like unresponsive novices in the Internet market. Hmm, the problem went away... John Gilmore postmaster(a)toad.com

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RE: Desubscribe
by dlv＠bwalk.dm.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

"Ross Wright" <rwright(a)adnetsol.com> writes: > On Or About: 29 Aug 96, 16:57, Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM wrote: > > > jbugden(a)smtplink.alis.ca writes: > > > > can not unsubscribe since majo= rdomo notices > > > jbugden(a)smtplink.alis.ca in the header and treats the attempt to > > > unsubscribe as a forgery. > > > > If you don't have the brains to forge the From:, then you have no > > business being subscribed to any mailing list. > > > > What's worse? Losers who can't unsubscribe from a mailing list they > subscribed to OR spammers? ;-) Whoever uses the term "spam" in derogatory manner, opposes free speech and deserves to be caned. --- Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM Brighton Beach Boardwalk BBS, Forest Hills, N.Y.: +1-718-261-2013, 14.4Kbps

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Re: Elliptic Curve Y**2 = x**3 + a * x**2 + b
by Erle Greer 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 12:18 AM 8/30/96 -0400, you wrote: >On Thu, 29 Aug 1996, Erle Greer wrote: > >> This has what to do with CP? > >Elliptic curves have plenty to do with cryptography. A web search should >turn up some useful information. It's really quite fascinating if you can get >past some of the heavy math. A tad more relevant to cpunks than black >helicopters, conspiracy theories, and such. > >- -- Mark > Sorry, I guessed I jumped the gun. I hate off-topic subjects that make this list so huge. Some of the off-topics indeed are interesting, but aren't relevant. My apologies to you, Tom.

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Crypto CD will be produced
by Remo Pini 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- To: cypherpunks(a)toad.com Date: Fri Aug 30 09:52:35 1996 Enough requests for the CryptoCD have been made. It will definitely be produced (guys out there, send me those archives!!!). For details check: http://www.rpini.com/crypto/cryptocd.html Thanks to all who requested the CD. - ------< fate favors the prepared mind >------ Remo Pini rp(a)rpini.com PGP: http://www.rpini.com/crypto/crypto.html - ----< words are what reality is made of >---- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3i Charset: noconv iQEVAwUBMiadxhFhy5sz+bTpAQHYAggA0Yiz/pP3CAhHx6h5K+t92bXgoadjN+Wn nJrKwHWhEs2KOwjZqfSM+AXHw/YURqGl1+wN1SJiKpZqPpoo8cM2fPWOEYg97xSG yAs7a6o9iCqCeOrRxKIAO8fuByOUpgCbYQg2ITkRpoE2isfyex+O4LqpdHfWR08h TlqpAEnVU9aO9EXUYpNUzByEs/qZ3xhIL0+F8q1fcVIOn1XscgiJ5gZpkGQSnGAn 8FJAEgjHl35MEx8RDxTVa5XqF9/qI0IDQMQC7pgsvq3/hOSfdGlpvhVv5jLzP5le IZNe0mKC7eKS2LpgNpwvJFCZ34HnbQGEuFbThVuZI6fzfvl941p4jA== =ttLh -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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RE: Mimic Function Stego Programs?
by Andy Brown 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On 29 August 1996 21:34, Damien Lucifer[SMTP:root@HellSpawn] wrote: > A quick example: > > dictionary: 1=sofa 0=couch > input: The couch is very comfortable > output (0): The sofa is very comfortable. > output (1): The couch is very comfortable. This idea generalises well from human to computer assembly languages. You often have a choice of which instruction to use to achieve your goal, and a stego assembler could quite easily be constructed. - Andy

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Re: Elliptic Curve Y**2 = x**3 + a * x**2 + b
by tcmay＠got.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 2:38 AM 8/30/96, Erle Greer wrote: >> 1: How can I take the suqare root mod p ? > >This has what to do with CP? Quite a lot, actually. Elliptic curves closely describe the trajectories followed by Dark Helicopters (known as "D-H" in cryptographic circles^H^H^H^H^H^Hellipses). I observed Clinton's Dark Helicopter tracing an ellipse over my home just a few weeks ago. (And the connections between the White House and the Ellipse are too well known to comment upon.) Speaking darkly, the leading algorithm is RSA, named after the Republic of South Africa. Ellipses within ellipses form mandalas, so the connection with RSA is all too obvious, even to a Sovok Bilderberger. Ellipses also show up on the CP list in other ways...as when people elide material and mark the elided material with "..." For an alternate view of reality, look at Neal Koblitz's book "A Course in Number Theory and Cryptography." --Klaus

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Re: Singapore Global Action Alert (8/29/96)
by Jean-Francois Avon 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On 29 Aug 96 at 19:25, Declan McCullagh wrote: > Bill speaks sooth. Personally, I agree with Jean-Francois in that > the Singapore government *does* understand the Net, and is using > that knowledge to control it within their borders reasonably well. > Remember the next phase of restrictions goes into effect on > September 15. > > But I don't see a problem in being polite the first time. Dear Declan. This post is not personnally against you Declan. I like your posts. Only, I don't agree with you last post. And permit me to advance this: it is through an honnest error of yours that you have this opinion. So, here it is: I don't agree with you. The world is being stangulated and bloodsucked dry by peoples who are nothing but cheap shots. It is not a matter of being polite or not, it is a matter of saying things as they really are. It is a matter of acknowledging reality. It is a matter of integrity. The best way to blow up their cheap littles looting schemes is to simply *say* the truth. We live in an age where everybody is terrified of stating what everybody damn well know but tries as hard as they can to blank out. By giving a simulacre (english word?), a make believe of moral sanction, you permit them to commit their crimes against human mind and life. It is *us*, the producers, who grant them a recognition by being polite to them while they propose to eat us alive. You wouldn't let a hiway robber to mug you without trying everything you can to prevent it, yet, you permit thoses statists leeches to confiscate an enormous part of your life, to rule an enormous part of your life, to define an enormous part of your life rules. I grant much more respect to a bank robber than to a politician: the bank robber puts his own ass on the line, takes his own risks, and doesn't pretend he's doing it for you. He is a robber but he makes no bones about it and he accepts the risks of the "trade". Ask yourself if your friendly neighboorhood politician fits this definition. My famnily owned a land. The city expropriated us at around 1.85$/sq.ft. while they evaluated, "for taxation purposes", the land at 4.85$/sq.ft. They sold the land to a local "silicon-valley-style" project who went bankrupt so the city could repossess it. We fighted the provincial govt (and won partially) because they planned to have the capacity to re-sell the land for housing projects, therefore speculating on expropriated land. Hey, I'd rather have the 10$ it is worth that let them have them. We damn worked this land for 50 years. And all of this was done in the name of "for the good of science", technology and high-tech employement, all with the full moral sanction of our universities most famous universities, provincial, federal and municipal govt. Only, there is not a damn business that came to establish itself there. Finally, one big pharmaceutical did but there is probably a lot of corruption underneath. It stinks. The way they could perform that extortion was with the aid of hundreds of half baked semi truths and fallacies, all in the name of some "unknown but all desserving" fucking "public". If we would have simply stood up and named their fallacies in the first place, they would have had a much harder time doing what they did to us. but our modern lawyers and "counsellors" said that we should "play along". Since the land had 9 co-owners, FUD worked well and most owners were convinced to play the game, therefore granting them the moral sanction of acknowledging realism and legitimacy. It was *all* done in the name of "tolerance" and of being "open minded". But as I said, a little poison is still poison. In retrospect, by granting them the semblance of reason, *WE* forged reality for them, *WE* gave them a moral sanction. I am not one of the owner. My mom's family is. I watched the scene with rage but I couldn't do anything. Try to make theses peoples understand after being told for all their life that "being polite" and "being tolerant" is a must... There is no such thing as being tolerant to being killed. You don't just "die only a little". In the same way, you don't loose "only a little" taxed dollars or free speech. I am not a Randian, but I agree with many ideas of Ayn Rand. I don't recite half-memorized paragraph out of her books, I fought and still fight as I can the govt in their looting schemes. I was there, sitting with ministers and arguing with them. I saw the leeches in action. So, if you persist at advocating politeness in thoses situations, next time a mugger try to beat you, try to remain polite in the first time... Many friends of many politicians will get rich on it. Our layers will get rich on it. We worked the damn place for 50 years and *owned* it. Land, not that far from there was sold at around 16$. Land behind ours was sold 7$. We got 1.85$. If anybody wants to argue with me, first send a check for the difference between 10$ and 1.85$, times the sq.ft. surface of the land. (e-mail me by PGP to have the figures :) Then, we could *start* discussing the virtues of statism. Regards. JFA Who is John Galt? :) DePompadour, Societe d'Importation Ltee; Limoges porcelain, silverware and crystal JFA Technologies, R&D consultants: physicists, technologists and engineers. PGP keys at: http://w3.citenet.net/users/jf_avon ID# C58ADD0D : 529645E8205A8A5E F87CC86FAEFEF891

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Re: Exploring (RSA (001)
by frantz＠netcom.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 10:39 PM 8/29/96 -0400, Scottauge(a)aol.com wrote: >Exploring Rivest, Shamir, Adelman algorithm, but hoping someone out there is >interested in very large number manipulations. > >... > >Other than using Mathematica or Maple, I would like to use C or perferrably >C++. > >Just some basics such as multiplication, addition, subtraction, division, >mod, etc over the Z set. I have been collecting information about crypto libraries for the Mac Crypto conference next week. Here is what a quick AltaVista search came up with. Since you want C++, I would particularly look at Wei Dai's Crypto++ library. If anyone has other strongly recommended libraries, please let me know. Crypto Libraries http://www.clark.net/pub/cme/ has source for MD5 http://www.homeport.org/~adam/crypto/ for a comparison of crypto libraries http://www.enter.net/~chronos/cryptolog1.html has a collection of links to crypto resources http://www.openmarket.com/techinfo/applied.htm - Internet Locations for Materials on the Disks for Applied Cryptography Crypto++ in C++ by Wei Dai. - Has been tested under Codewarrior 2.0. ftp://ftp.csn.net/mpj/README - in the USA Cryptolib in C by Jack Lacy - No Mac version, C, Sparc, SGI, i486 assembler To obtain, send email to cryptolib(a)research.att.com with a statement of the following form: "I am a U.S. or Canadian citizen or a legal permanent resident of the U.S. and am aware that some parts of CryptoLib may be restricted under United States Export regulations. I have read and understand the CryptoLib license." Name: Location: E-mail: Are you licensed to use the RSA patent? If yes, give name of licensed organization: RSAref 2.0, by RSA Data Security Inc. - Tested with Mac ftp://ftp.rsa.com:/rsaref/README - In the USA http://www.consensus.com/RSAREF/rsaref_toc.html - in the USA SSLeay in C by Eric Young - C, gcc and system cc for Solaris 2.[34] (sparc and x86), SunOS 4.1.3, DGUX, OSF1 Alpha, HPUX 9, AIX 3.5, IRIX 5.[23], LINUX, NeXT (intel) ftp://ftp.psy.uq.oz.au/pub/Crypto/SSL/ The Systemics Cryptix Cryptography Library in Java or Perl by Gary Howland - Java on Win95, WinNT, Solaris, Linux, Irix. http://www.systemics.com/software/ The Cryptlib free Encryption Library in C by Peter Gutmann - Unix, DOS, windows (16 & 32 bit DLL available), Amiga http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/cryptlib.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bill Frantz | Cave ab homine unius libri | Periwinkle -- Consulting (408)356-8506 | [Beware the man of one | 16345 Englewood Ave. frantz(a)netcom.com | book] - Anonymous Latin | Los Gatos, CA 95032, USA

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Encryption
by Dale Thorn 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

It appears to me that PGP encryption et al is really 1940's technology, albeit fancied up by 1990's computers. Why use keys and cyphers when all you should have to do is maximize the randomization of bits in a script? Big computers should not be able to de-randomize such encoding, since the permutations/combinations would be astronomical after just a half-dozen or so random number initializations, as well as the fact that the bits are relatively undifferentiated (just ones and zeros) and are not maintained with their original bytes, words, paragraphs, or pages? DALE THORN ON CRYPTOGRAPHY: ABSTRACT 23 August 1996 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Algorithm: Select bit-groups of random length from the file until the file is completely processed. Shuffle the bits in each group randomly and save each group back to the file. Repeat if needed using different key-strings for each successive encryption, for increased security. "If a high-speed computer could perform 'a trillion processor ops per second', and it took just one millionth of a second to 'crack' my test file on such a machine (i.e., a million ops), it would still require 10^36 ops to 'crack' 6 consecutive encodings, which translates to 10^24 seconds, or 3 x 10^16 years." "Due to the nature of compounded bit-shuffling, no algorithm ever developed or proposed could 'crack' multi-pass encoding with a single decryption pass. In plain English, if a file were encoded six times (in six passes, with six different password phrases), you'd have to decode all six passes before you would know whether even the first decryption pass was successful or not." "Since each byte in the encrypted file may contain bits from other 'original' bytes, multi-pass encoding moves you rapidly in the direction of true-random distribution of the source bits (note the 'Intelligent User' comment below)." "My desktop computer (a 90 mhz Pentium) can encrypt a 12 kb file in less than one second (in a single pass) using 'C', and takes less than two seconds with the PDQ version of Basic I use, hence, the six passes that I normally perform on such a file require nine seconds or less total computer time." "One of the difficulties in breaking this type of encryption (other than the numerical time factors) is the fact that you might have to deal with several unknown random number generators from different compiled executable programs. Add to this another factor, the 'Intelligent User' who adds their own tweaks to the source code. The tweak is added, the program is compiled, the file(s) are encrypted, and then the modified source code is destroyed along with the executable file. This type of modification, together with the fact that the individual bits in the encrypted text file are scattered very effectively in normal encoding, yields the ultimate level of security for concerned persons." ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ A SIMPLIFIED EXAMPLE FOR ENCRYPTION/DECRYPTION ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ We're going to encrypt the following 25-character text string: when_it_rains_it's_a_bath The unencrypted string (in bit form, least significant bit at left) is: 11101110000101101010011001110110111110101001011000 10111011111010010011101000011010010110011101101100 11101111101010010110001011101110010011001110111110 10100001101111101001000110100001100010111000010110 We now generate 200 random numbers, and sort them in ascending order. The following list represents the original physical positions of the numbers, and we move the bits as shown above from these positions in the 25-byte text string to bit positions 0, 1, 2, etc. (move bit #4 to the first position, move bit #179 to the second position, etc.). 4 179 67 127 46 76 136 74 92 54 88 121 134 192 77 36 47 26 45 144 111 141 150 58 110 12 94 13 161 177 18 155 153 175 91 95 86 195 79 20 23 172 51 96 126 93 64 3 125 81 166 131 71 63 170 78 140 87 107 147 15 35 10 168 33 149 189 118 42 90 6 85 120 68 102 173 103 104 138 83 53 43 182 139 29 60 146 184 176 114 123 44 191 56 70 185 73 137 148 199 196 27 65 62 37 181 28 0 106 158 100 1 190 2 25 194 8 30 174 101 105 135 162 61 75 32 115 142 14 49 186 50 183 21 119 52 69 99 11 89 72 34 98 188 82 17 163 9 167 109 113 171 38 157 84 5 59 178 22 57 151 122 160 130 39 116 133 156 164 66 159 40 124 193 108 180 152 41 97 7 197 145 132 169 55 16 24 165 198 112 19 129 187 31 154 48 80 128 117 143 The text string (in bit form) following the first encryption is now: 10001010010000110111011110111010001011000001110010 10000110110100101101110111010111101110100001100110 01110101111111100111101001111011010110111101001000 00110110110111001010011010101011010100110100001110 At this point, it's obvious (with a sufficient length of text to analyze) that we could restore the original text using an algorithm equivalent to the pseudo- random number generator we used above. However, we're going to encrypt again: Generate another 200 random numbers and sort them in ascending order. The following list represents the original physical positions of the numbers, so move the bits the same way we moved them above (move bit #41 to the first position, move bit #9 to the second position, etc.). 41 9 38 86 67 108 8 99 157 69 91 6 15 150 28 192 56 98 54 72 145 19 48 64 183 147 102 7 138 177 167 29 164 176 97 82 83 168 181 95 185 22 21 30 93 182 109 39 197 14 96 40 84 137 155 143 16 126 58 33 149 144 140 159 88 189 4 190 153 90 68 114 129 45 53 112 119 125 127 124 20 141 142 77 188 115 175 105 60 194 106 80 31 49 51 116 1 113 151 94 2 199 161 146 71 101 62 66 154 166 3 128 5 118 10 61 110 165 43 122 42 47 184 46 133 85 74 173 36 44 111 171 89 35 163 136 162 198 17 23 78 152 121 37 12 186 55 169 103 24 34 26 178 87 81 123 132 195 65 11 174 191 193 172 18 25 196 107 120 187 27 100 180 134 59 135 179 57 148 0 63 13 158 130 70 131 117 139 32 104 92 170 50 76 73 79 75 160 52 156 The text string (in bit form) following the second encryption is now: 01011100010110101100011110101000011101101111101011 00101101100011111010010101111001011001000100000101 00111101010101011011000011101111001111110101001011 11101000001101101110101011000100111111000010111001 Now that we've doubly-encrypted the text string, try to describe an algorithm that will restore the original string in a single decryption step, i.e., move directly from the last-encoded text to the original text without the need for an intermediate decryption step. Text parsers and lexical analyzers won't do you any good in intermediate steps as described above, since all intermediate encodings will be garbage text (not only will the bits in each character be scrambled, but bits will be scrambled across characters, words, and paragraphs as well. Multi-step decryption could be facilitated where text can be analyzed a few characters or words at a time, assuming the analysis engine could determine from where to get the appropriate bits when processing a large text stream. In the above examples of bit-level encryption, the individual bits migrate to various places in the text string rather than remain within each set of eight bits which DOS arbitrarily designates as character bytes. Therefore, the ONLY tenable (but not necessarily viable) methods for decoding such text are: 1. Try rearranging the bits randomly. The disadvantages are: a. You could come up with "Mary had a little lamb...", etc., given that the bits are minimally differentiated (just ones and zeros). b. Decryption would require eons of time (an exponential factor of the number of bits processed, divided by the cycle time of the computer). 2. Decrypt the text one step at a time, in the reverse order of the encryption steps. The disadvantages are: a. You can't be sure you've decrypted any step correctly until decryption is completed (until all steps are performed and the text is readable). b. Passwords/phrases, algorithms, code routines, and even whole programs might change from step to step, thereby invalidating any 'single-pass' decryption scheme that's likely to be proposed.

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Re: Nuke Singapore Back into the Stone Age
by Charley Sparks 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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