December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

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by liberty＠gate.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- [This has nothing to do with cryptography, but it is related to other posts seen here recently.] Miami Herald reports today on page 3A that the National Transportation Safety Bureaucrats are "investigating an American Airlines pilot's report that a missile zoomed by his 757 on Aug. 29 as it flew near NASA and Navy facilities in Virginia on its way to Boston." An NTSB spokesman has confirmed an investigation (termed a 'preliminary probe') is ongoing. Not to be outdone, the FAA is investigating as well. All this is according to the Herald, and I offer no opinions about veracity or trustworthiness of this particular media organ or what caused the crash of flight 800. JMR Regards, Jim Ray -- DNRC Minister of Encryption Advocacy Thursday, September 5 is the day when, in 1698, Russian Czar Peter the Great imposed a tax on...beards. Please, don't tell Congress. [Source: The Advocates for Self-Government.] "As govt.s grow arithmetically, corruption grows exponentially." -- Ray's Law of official corruption. Defeat the Duopoly! Stop the Browne out. Harry Browne for President. Jo Jorgensen for Vice-president. http://www.HarryBrowne96.org/ http://www.twr.com/stbo ___________________________________________________________________ PGP id.E9BD6D35 51 5D A2 C3 92 2C 56 BE 53 2D 9C A1 B3 50 C9 C8 <mailto:liberty@gate.net> http://www.shopmiami.com/prs/jimray ___________________________________________________________________ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBMjLU4m1lp8bpvW01AQHB3AP/ROTTRCtg4LBrDwVSml2isdcm2GmFd01I 63dQg3o+ixBFldjXC3oHkQDUWSTyrpj/QXvUy43EGIdJMQ8MRI1+NCIu2R1ikF63 LasufEIvbCIzTcX1s+/n6vxciU6CYj2e5akbw4qBIK+eOr2roOoFADAKyQQbDdxx JvOvUzMVj/M= =WQHz -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS - 1998 USENIX Security Conference
by Aviel Rubin 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

************************************************************************* ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS 7th USENIX Security Symposium January 26-29, 1998 Marriott Hotel-- San Antonio, Texas Sponsored by the USENIX Association, the UNIX and Advanced Computing Systems Professional and Technical Association In cooperation with: The CERT Coordination Center. Important Dates for Refereed Papers Papers due: September 9, 1997 Author notification: October 8, 1997 Camera-ready final papers due: December 9, 1997 Registration Materials Available: End October, 1997 (Authors, see "How to Submit a Refereed Paper" below.) Program Chair Avi Rubin, Bellcore Program Committee Carlisle Adams, Nortel Dave Balenson, Trusted Information Systems Steve Bellovin, AT&T Research Dan Boneh, Princeton University Diane Coe, Mitre Ed Felten, Princeton University Li Gong, JavaSoft Peter Honeyman, CITI, University of Michigan Hugo Krawczyk, IBM Watson Labs Jack Lacy, AT&T Research Hilarie Orman, DARPA/ITO Mike Reiter, AT&T Research David Wagner, University of California, Berkeley Readers Katherine T. Fithen, CERT Trent Jaeger, IBM Watson Labs Invited talks coordinator: Greg Rose, Qualcomm Conference home page: <http://www.usenix.org/sec/sec98.html> OVERVIEW The goal of this symposium is to bring together researchers, practitioners, system programmers, and others interested in the latest advances in security and applications of cryptography. This will be a four day symposium with two days of tutorials, followed by two days of refereed paper presentations, invited talks, works-in-progress presentations, and panel discussions. TUTORIALS Monday and Tuesday, January 26-27 Tutorials for both technical staff and managers will provide immediately useful, practical information on topics such as local and network security precautions, what cryptography can and cannot do, security mechanisms and policies, firewalls and monitoring systems. If you are interested in proposing a tutorial, contact the tutorial coordinator, Dan Klein: phone (412)421-2332 email <dvk(a)usenix.org>. TECHNICAL SESSIONS Wednesday and Thursday, January 28-29 In addition to the keynote presentation, the technical program includes refereed papers, invited talks, a work in progress session, and panel sessions. There will be Birds-of-a-Feather sessions the last two evenings. You are invited to make suggestions to the program committee via email to <security(a)usenix.org>. Papers that have been formally reviewed and accepted will be presented during the symposium and published in the symposium proceedings, published by USENIX and provided free to technical session attendees. Additional copies will be available for purchase from USENIX. SYMPOSIUM TOPICS Refereed paper submissions are being solicited in areas including but not limited to: * Adaptive security and system management * Analysis of malicious code * Applications of cryptographic techniques * Attacks against networks/machines * Computer misuse and anomaly detection * Copyright protection (technical solutions) * Cryptographic & other security tools * File and file system security * Network security * New firewall technologies * Security in heterogeneous environments * Security incident investigation and response * Security of Mobile Code * User/system authentication * World Wide Web security Note that this symposium is not about new codes, ciphers, nor cryptanalysis for its own sake. Papers must represent novel scientific contributions in computer security with direct relevance to the engineering of secure systems for the commercial sector. HOW TO SUBMIT A REFEREED PAPER (Please read carefully.) The guidelines for submission are a bit different from previous years. Authors must submit a mature paper in postscript format. Any incomplete sections (there shouldn't be many) should be outlined in enough detail to make it clear that they could be finished easily. Full papers are encouraged, and should be about 8 to 15 typeset pages. Submissions must be received by September 9, 1997. Along with your paper, please submit a separate email message containing the title, all authors, and their complete contact information (phone, fax, postal address, email), including an indication of which author is the contact author. Authors will be notified of acceptance on October 8, 1997. All submissions will be judged on originality, relevance, and correctness. Each accepted submission may be assigned a member of the program committee to act as its shepherd through the preparation of the final paper. The assigned member will act as a conduit for feedback from the committee to the authors. Camera-ready final papers are due on December 9, 1997. If you would like to receive detailed guidelines for submission and examples of extended abstracts, you may send email to: <securityauthors(a)usenix.org> or telephone the USENIX Association office at (510) 528-8649. The Security Symposium, like most conferences and journals, requires that papers not be submitted simultaneously to another conference or publication and that submitted papers not be previously or subsequently published elsewhere. Papers accompanied by non-disclosure agreement forms are not acceptable and will be returned to the author(s) unread. All submissions are held in the highest confidentiality prior to publication in the Proceedings, both as a matter of policy and in accord with the U.S. Copyright Act of 1976. There will be one or two prizes awarded for best paper(s). WHERE TO SUBMIT For reliability, please send one copy of your paper to the program committee via each of two of the following methods. All submissions will be acknowledged. o Preferred Method: email (Postscript) to: <securitypapers(a)usenix.org> o Alternate Method: postal delivery to Security Symposium USENIX 2560 Ninth St., Ste. #215 Berkeley CA 94710 U.S.A. Phone: (510) 528-8649 o Fax: (510) 548-5738 Vendor Exhibits Demonstrate your security product to our technically astute attendees responsible for security at their sites. We invite you to take part in the Vendor Display. The informal, table-top display allows you to meet with attendees informally and demonstrate in detail your security solutions. Contact CynthiaDeno Email: cynthia(a)usenix.org Phone: 408.335.9445 Fax 408.335.5327 Works-in-Progress Session (WIPs) The last session of the symposium will be a Works-in-Progress session consisting of five minute presentations. Speakers should provide a one or two paragraph abstract to the program chair by 6:00 pm on January 28, 1998 at the conference. These should be provided in person, not via email. The chair will post the schedule of presentations by noon on the 29th. Experience at other conferences has shown that usually, all of them are accepted. The five minute time limit will be strictly enforced. INVITED TALKS There will be several invited talks at the conference in parallel with the refereed papers. If you have suggestions for possible speakers, please send them to <security(a)usenix.org>. REGISTRATION MATERIALS Materials containing all details of the technical and tutorial programs, registration fees and forms, and hotel information will be available at the end of October 1997. To receive the registration materials, please contact: USENIX Conference Office 22672 Lambert Street, Suite 613 Lake Forest, CA USA 92630 Phone: (714) 588-8649 Fax: (714) 588-9706 Email: <conference(a)usenix.org> Information can also be found under the Conference home page: <http://www.usenix.org/sec/sec98.html>.

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Church of Scientology
by Dale Thorn 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Scuttlebut is, CoS rolled over on some pesky ultra-right-wingers as a favor to Morris Dees and various scumbag associates. For this, CoS got their long-awaited (40-plus years!) federal tax-free status. This status is big cash, so naturally, interested parties wanted to know under what rules did CoS get their tax-free gift, since long-standing high court decisions laid out the profit-making business plan of CoS in no uncertain terms, explicit and detailed. Problem is, nobody was able to get the details of the policy change - did CoS change their business plan, or did the fed change their rules?

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FW: Re: talker
by Blake Wehlage 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>Return-Path: <doom13(a)juno.com> >To: jwilk(a)iglou.com >Subject: Re: talker >References: <m0uzcEf-000bPKC(a)relay.iglou.com> >X-Juno-Line-Breaks: 1-5 >From: doom13(a)juno.com (Floyd W Odom) >Date: Sun, 08 Sep 1996 10:56:43 EDT Check this out guys & gals > >Hey Blake cyphering sucks. You want to live on the like us? I went to >jail for jackin the westroads. And I still got away wit some shit. > > > >Doom13 > > ========================================== Blake Wehlage <jwilk(a)iglou.com> ±» RëVðLû¡ØÑ Bø+ ©ÖmP@ñ¥ «± Goto: http://members.iglou.com/jwilk

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Re: talker
by Adamsc＠io-online.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On Sat, 07 Sep 1996 21:52:25 EDT, Floyd W Odom wrote: > I am doom13. If there is anyone out there who is a hacker or >would like to be one you can talk to me and find out stuff like cracking. >Just drop a message at doom13(a)juno.com. Hmmmm... Want to bet our other friend at juno.com sent him? I might just end up killfiling juno.com... Obviously a low-IQ area of the net. - "'Anonymity is bad,' says a source who wishes to remain anonymous." - Nuff' said. * Home: Chris Adams <adamsc(a)io-online.com> | http://www.io-online.com/adamsc/adamsc.htp * Autoresponder: send email w/subject of "send resume" or "send PGPKEY" * Work: cadams(a)acucobol.com | V.M. (619)515-4894 | (619)689-6579 * Member in good standing of the GNU whirled hors d'oeuvre

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Re: TWA 800 - Friendly Fire?
by Stephen Cobb 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> >-Millie >sfuze(a)tiac.net > >"What we have here is a FAILURE to COMMUNICATE" (some song) > Actually some movie, Cool Hand Luke, Paul Newman. The WAV file is around here somewhere. s.

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Re: What the NSA is patenting
by paul＠fatmans.demon.co.uk 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>The NSA STM method is related to reading _very subtle_ variations in >magnetic domain modifications. Jitter in read-write head positions can be >thought of as a noise (N) added to some signal (S)l. > Extraction of signals >in low S/N ration environments is a well-developed science. As anyone who has ever subscribed to alt.sex will know ;-) Datacomms Technologies web authoring and data security Paul Bradley, Paul(a)fatmans.demon.co.uk Http://www.fatmans.demon.co.uk/crypt/ "Don`t forget to mount a scratch monkey" -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Version: 2.6 mQCNAjH9j+cAAAEEAMBvREiQR0ot9dFCO0TiSCSunAYLv2g1Bc6I3bz8FzKXNH53 6mieJf/W4rD+CxJpT0q9RQaaoRtkHJLwbjfK2il3D7mEahMAyqvF/xRJNqkXfhM3 sRJM0Jh43l+W0M5vwokbEbk25/bxWWGspTsLD3YHbzKnG6pOcL5OPIRbv66xAAUR tCdQYXVsIEJyYWRsZXkgPHBhdWxAZmF0bWFucy5kZW1vbi5jby51az4= =riHc -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----

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Re: Church of Scientology
by Jim Byrd 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 07:44 AM 9/8/96 -0700, Dale Thorn <dthorn(a)gte.net> wrote: >Scuttlebut is, CoS rolled over on some pesky ultra-right-wingers as a >favor to Morris Dees and various scumbag associates. For this, CoS got >their long-awaited (40-plus years!) federal tax-free status. > >This status is big cash, so naturally, interested parties wanted to know >under what rules did CoS get their tax-free gift, since long-standing >high court decisions laid out the profit-making business plan of CoS in >no uncertain terms, explicit and detailed. > >Problem is, nobody was able to get the details of the policy change - >did CoS change their business plan, or did the fed change their rules? This is exactly the subject of a lawsuit by Tax Analysts, Inc. against the IRS. This is still in progress. The cult is not a party to this suit, so they can't bring their lawyers into this one.

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Thank you
by Askbill Questions 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Thank you for your email. I appreciate you taking the time to write to me. As you can probably imagine, I receive hundreds of messages from outside of Microsoft each day. While I love to read people's views and share ideas about technology, unfortunately, I am not able to answer each and every inquiry. Instead, I'll be responding to some of your questions in my column. The second column each month will be dedicated to answering questions from readers like you, so keep reading and I'll do my best to address the topics that are of interest to readers worldwide. I also invite you to check out the Microsoft website at http://www.microsoft.com/corpinfo where you can find all of the columns, as well as lots of additional fun and useful information. Thank you for your continued support of Microsoft and our products and best of luck with all your endeavors, Bill Gates

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Re: What the NSA is patenting
by pgut001＠cs.auckland.ac.nz 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>>>United States Patent Patent Number: 5264794 >>> Date of Patent: 23 Nov 1993 >>> >>>Method of measuring magnetic fields on magnetically recorded media using a >>>scanning tunneling microscope and magnetic probe >>techology isn't much different from what's publicly available), in this case >>all they were doing was protecting their investment (just like the various PKC >>patents originally assigned to universities). >I'm sure there's going to be a REALLY marketable device out of this to get >royalties off of. No, the market for the more mainstream MFM's is small (a few K devices), for MFSTM's it's even smaller (a few dozen?). MFSTM's are usually built by universities for research purposes, which means the patent won't affect them. As I said before, it's purely a "we paid for the research, we want some paper to wave around to justify the cost" thing. >Question: if we pay taxes, then we pay for the research. if we pay for the >research, we should be able to see the results, just like shareholders in a >company. You can see the results, just read the Journal of Applied Physics or IEEE Transactions on Magnetics. I know people like to come up with conspiracy theories about the NSA, but this patent won't work as the basis for one. Peter.

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