December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: Microsoft Explorer security hole (fwd) MSoft's reply...
by bf578＠scn.org 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Date: Thu, 22 Aug 1996 15:49:33 -0700 From: Thomas Reardon <thomasre(a)MICROSOFT.com> Subject: Re: Internet Explorer security problem (Felten, RISKS-18.36) >We have discovered a security flaw in the current version (3.0) of >Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser running under Windows 95. An >attacker could exploit the flaw to run any DOS command on the machine >of an Explorer user who visits the attacker's page. We now post the virus warning dialog on local files (file: urls). We have always posted it on remote files (http: urls). Note that the root of the problem is not Java or the browser, but in macro-enabled applications. IE3 has a mechanism to warn users about safety of documents when used with common macro-enabled applications. We are have updated Microsoft Word such that by default it will not run macros embedded in documents. -Thomas > > > >---------- Forwarded message ---------- >Date: Mon, 26 Aug 1996 01:35:07 GMT >Subject: Microsoft Explorer security hole (fwd) > >On Sun, 25 Aug 1996 13:55:30 -0600 (MDT), Carl Nation ><carl(a)iserver.com> wrote: > >To our Resellers/Customers, > >Our sysadmin received this security alert, and we thought we should >pass it along... > >------- Forwarded Message > >Date: Wed, 21 Aug 1996 13:12:59 -0400 >From: felten(a)CS.Princeton.EDU (Ed Felten) >Subject: Internet Explorer Security Problem > >We have discovered a security flaw in the current version (3.0) of >Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser running under Windows 95. An >attacker could exploit the flaw to run any DOS command on the machine of >an Explorer user who visits the attacker's page. For example, the >attacker could read, modify, or delete the victim's files, or insert a >virus or backdoor entrance into the victim's machine. We have verified >our discovery by creating a Web page that deletes a file on the machine of >any Explorer user who visits the page. > >The core of the attack is a technique for delivering a document to the >victim's browser while bypassing the security checks that would >normally be applied to the document. If the document is, for example, a >Microsoft Word template, it could contain a macro that executes any DOS >command. > >Normally, before Explorer downloads a dangerous file like a Word >document, it displays a dialog box warning that the file might contain a >virus or other dangerous content, and asking the user whether to abort the >download or to proceed with the download anyway. This gives the user a >chance to avoid the risk of a malicious document. However, our technique >allows an attacker to deliver a document without triggering the dialog >box. > >Microsoft has been notified and they are working on fixing the >problem. Until a remedy is widely available, we will not disclose further >details about the flaw. > >For more information, contact Ed Felten at felten(a)cs.princeton.edu or >609-258-5906. > >Dirk Balfanz and Ed Felten >Dept. of Computer Science, Princeton University >http://www.cs.princeton.edu/sip/ > >------- End of Forwarded Message > > > > > -- ------------------------------------------ There are no facts, only interpretations. I always wanted to be somebody,

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LACC: Metacomputing : got it from EurekAlert
by Charles Choi 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Metacomputing: Sharing Hardware Could Put Cash in Your Pocket While you're asleep, your home computer signs onto the Internet and looks for work. By morning, it's done complex calculations for a scientist in London, designed an ad for an Arizona business--and fattened up your bank account. This scenario--called metacomputing--could become a reality in the very near future, says Baruch Awerbuch, a professor of computer science at The Johns Hopkins University. He is studying the economics of sharing computer power over the Internet, including pricing and marketing issues. There is money to be earned, Awerbuch says, by tapping the enormous power that lies dormant while computer owners are asleep, at lunch or merely away from their terminals. At such times, these computers could earn extra cash by doing remote work for researchers or business owners in other locations. People who need extra computing horsepower or special equipment for a one-time project will line up to lease time on these idle machines, Awerbuch believes, because renting someone else's computer costs far less than buying a new one. "It makes huge economic sense," Awerbuch says. "For example, if once in a lifetime you want to use a fancy program that only runs on a particular piece of hardware, why do you need to buy this piece of hardware? Instead, you could lease a cycle on that machine in exchange for some economic favor. The opportunities are endless." Most of the technology to share hardware over telephone lines or some other network already exists. What's needed, the researcher says, is a system for buying and selling cycles of time on idle machines, along with safeguards to make sure "renters" can't pry into an owner's files. It will also require a change in the close attachment most people feel toward their computers. "People are accustomed to using only the machines that they've purchased," Awerbuch says. "They're not used to using machines that are not their own. Yet it seems silly to invest lots of money to buy more computing power when all you have to do is utilize what's already out there. Think of it this way: 90 percent of the computing power in the world is inaccessible to people, simply because we haven't set up the right mechanism to help one another." Here's how that mechanism might work, Awerbuch says: An accountant owns a PC. It crunches numbers perfectly but can't handle the elaborate graphic design work needed to create a splashy business brochure. The accountant posts a note on the Internet, offering 50 cents a minute any time that week for remote use of a Macintosh computer with graphics software. If the brochure is needed within the next hour or two, the accountant might offer $5 a minute for immediate access. A Macintosh owner, or an unattended machine that searches the Internet for work whenever it is idle, responds. The accountant takes temporary control over the Mac terminal, which might be located anywhere in the world. When the project is completed, the accountant issues an electronic payment for the time. This same system could allow a hospital to lease time on powerful computers elsewhere for demanding jobs such a medical imaging. Other companies could break complex tasks into small pieces, then farm them to small outside computers. Hardware owners could also post notices on the Internet, describing their machines, hours of availability, memory capacity and software. People who are reluctant to loan their lawn mower to a neighbor may be even less inclined to let perfect strangers use their computers by remote control. But Awerbuch believes these transactions can be sound and profitable. "This sharing should not be viewed as an altruistic thing, nor as some kind of a Communist idea, where you don't own anything personally and you must share with other people," he says. "To the contrary, this is purely an entrepreneurial arrangement, where you trade what you own in exchange for cash or some other economic benefit. The policies and approaches will be totally up to the individuals or companies or whoever is doing it. It could be quite interesting to see this electronic marketplace in action." This research, by Awerbuch and co-principal investigator Yair Amir, assistant professor of computer science at Hopkins, is funded entirely by a $1 million three-year federal grant from the Advanced Research Project Agency, Technology Management Office. Johns Hopkins University news releases can be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/ In addition, Johns Hopkins University science and medical news releases can be accessed on-line through the following services: CompuServe in the SciNews-MedNews library of the Journalism Forum under file extensions ".JHM" or ".JHU"; also in NASW Online in the same forum. Quadnet: send email to: scitech(a)quadnet.vyne.com. In the body of the message type "info Quadnet." EurekAlert! at http://www.eurekalert.org Sincerely. Quentin Holte. ( aka Charles Choi. ) You are all the Buddha. - Last words of Buddha. If you see the Buddha, kill him. - Zen proverb.

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Re: [noise]Re: The grey lady puts on some boots and rides a horseman or two...
by Bill Stewart 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Another interesting connection is that John Aristotle Phillips is the former Princeton student who designed an atom bomb as his junior physics project. (He wasn't a brilliant physicist - he was trying to save his grade point average by doing a good paper :-) Senator Feinstein, of course, is a leader in the "Bomb Info Off Lists" movement.... At 07:45 AM 8/22/96 -0700, Declan wrote: ... >I met Polly's father at the "Kids off Lists" press conference in front of >the Capitol in June. He's an irascable fellow, and there's more to the >story than you might think at first. ... >http://www.muckraker.com/muckraker/96/24/index3a.html .... >The report drove Representative Bob Franks (R-New Jersey) and Senator >Dianne Feinstein (D-California) to introduce the "Children's Privacy >Protection and Parental Empowerment Act." The idea is to keep kids' >names off direct marketing lists. It's a good concept, but it's short >on focus and long on fear - the fear that gathering such information >can lead to child abuse or worse. ...... >But there's a subplot here. The actual driving force and financial >backer of KOL is John Phillips, who runs Aristotle Publishing, a >political software company in Washington, DC. Phillips, as it turns >out, has been in a kind of run-and-shoot legal battle with Donnelley >for the past five years, according to an article in the Washington City >Paper, an alternative weekly published in DC. # Thanks; Bill # Bill Stewart, +1-415-442-2215 stewarts(a)ix.netcom.com # <A HREF="http://idiom.com/~wcs"> Reassign Authority!

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Net Censorship in the Uk
by Sean Gabb 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

You may have seen this already. If so apologies. However, it is a blatant example of police oppression and stupidity. If nothing else, just imagine how much of the taxpayers' money it cost to decide whether alt.binaries.erotica.fetish.feet contravenes the Obscene Publications Act 1959. Sean Gabb Editor Free Life ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 26 Aug 96 15:44:45 BST From: Sean Gabb <cea01sig(a)gold.ac.uk> To: cea01sig(a)gold.ac.uk Subject: theMet.html LETTER FROM THE METROPOLITAN POLICE _________________________________________________________________ METROPOLITAN POLICE SERVICE Clubs and Vice Unit Charing Cross Police Station Agar Street London WC2N 4JP Telephone: 0171 321 7752 Facsimile: 0171 321 7762 To: All Internet Service Providers Dear Sir / Madam Pornographic Material on the Internet Further to the seminar held at New Scotland Yard on 2nd August I enclose, as promised by Superintendent Mike Hoskins, a list of those Newsgroups which we believe contain pornographic material. We have attempted to confirm that the Newsgroups listed currently contain this offensive material but as you will be only too aware the content is continually changing and you will need to satisfy yourself about the nature and content before taking any action. Furthermore, this list is not exhaustive and we are looking to you to monitor your Newsgroups identifying and taking necessary action against those others found to contain such material. As you will be aware the publication of obscene articles is an offence. This list is only the starting point and we hope, with the co-operation and assistance of the industry and your trade organisations, to be moving quickly towards the eradication of this type of Newsgroup from the Internet. At the seminar we debated the means of maintaining an up to date list and you will recall that ISPA volunteered to pool information and assist in this initiative. However, we are very anxious that all service providers should be taking positive action now, whether or not they are members of a trade association. We trust that with your co-operation and self regulation it will not be necessary for us to move to an enforcement policy. 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Re: NSA's Venona Intercepts
by pjb＠ny.ubs.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

it is my understanding that the Venona traffic used a code book with super- encyption using a otp. the break was possible because the Soviet's got sloppy with the otp keys and in fact used some of them more than once. even then, it tooks years of work to make the breaks. everything you ever heard about using true random keys, and only once is true. difficult as it may be to accomplish, it is possible to break a otp if the pad isn't really 'one time'. -paul > From cypherpunks-errors(a)toad.com Mon Aug 26 18:14:44 1996 > X-Sender: smith(a)mailhost.sctc.com > Mime-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type> : > text/plain> ; > charset="us-ascii"> > Date: Mon, 26 Aug 1996 10:49:39 -0600 > To: cypherpunks(a)toad.com > From: smith(a)sctc.com (Rick Smith) > Subject: NSA's Venona Intercepts > Sender: owner-cypherpunks(a)toad.com > Content-Length: 1510 > > The bulk of the material available from NSA's web site is associated with a > long time project called Venona to decrypt Soviet message traffic from the > 1940s. It's an interesting exhibition of the practical output of > cryptanalysis that, incidentally, contains alleged reference to famous > Commie spies of that era (Hiss, the Rosenbergs, etc). > > One question that I haven't found answered in my perusals of the site is a > definitive statement of the cryptographic technology used by the Soviets. I > was re-reading Kahn's 1967 chapter on Soviet crypto and he claimed that > they relied primarily on one time pads. In fact, he was pretty specific > about them using OTPs for exactly the type of traffic appearing in the > Venona archive. But when I look at the partial decrypts in the Venona > archive I don't understand how you'd get such partial decrypts from OTPs. > > The intercepts seem to indicate the use of ciphers with some codewords > weakly layerd on top. Some intercepts show translations based on the > phonetic properties of the extracted Russian plaintext. So I don't think > the "unrecovered codegroups" are caused by a classic code that substitutes > tokens for word meanings. But you're not going to crack only part of a OTP > ciphertext -- presumably you'd need a compromised key tape, and that would > either decrypt everything or nothing. > > So they were either really using rotor machines or they were using > something else. Any other ideas? Other references? > > Rick. > smith(a)sctc.com secure computing corporation > > >

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Australian Interbet Betting System Gets US Interest 08/26/96
by Joseph M. Reagle Jr. 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>ALICE SPRINGS, AUSTRALIA, 1996 AUG 26 (NB) -- An American from Washington >DC has placed the first "Interbet" on the Australian Football League (AFL), >$250 for a win on North Melbourne to beat Geelong, with Alice Springs >bookmaker CentreBet which switched on its net-based computer betting >service last week. > >CentreBet has taken more than 70 bets on the Internet since launching the >worldwide service, approved by the Northern Territory Racing and Gaming >Authority. Alice Springs, colloquially known as "The Alice," is a small >community close to Ayers Rock in the central outback of Australia where >people are few and betting is a way of life. > >CentreBet's Gerard Daffy told the Australian Associated Press news service >he expects keen Interbet interest from Asians who are big fans of English >soccer and also from Americans whom he expects to bet on a variety of major >sporting events, starting with this week's US Open tennis and the upcoming >NFL season. > >However the AFL bet from America came right out of left field (AFL, or >Australian Rules football, a descendant of Ireland's Gaelic football, is >played seriously only in several Australian States, but is shown regularly >on some US cable-TV services). "The guy who put the bet on North Melbourne >is part of an Australian Rules fan club in the US," said Daffy. "There's >another American in Michigan who has opened an Interbet account to bet on >the AFL as well." > >For the record: the fan who bet on North Melbourne can forget his $250. >Geelong downed North Melbourne at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on Saturday >by 109 points to 96. > >CentreBet can be reached at http://www.taunet.com.au/centrebet > >(19960826) > > > _______________________ Regards, Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them. -Paul Valery Joseph Reagle http://rpcp.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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Re: NSA's Venona Intercepts
by smith＠sctc.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 12:26 AM 8/27/96, Black Unicorn wrote: >I seem to recall an exhibit on Verona including a proported Soviet OTP at >the National Cryptologic Museum in MD. Kahn's "Codebreakers" also has photos of OTPs captured from undercover Soviet spies. The fact that illegals were using OTPs to talk to their controllers didn't necessarily imply that messages from Soviet embassies and other offices needed to be using OTPs themselves. The could have used a good rotor machine (well, good for the era). But now I'm convinced they didn't. The whole thing makes sense if we're looking at cryptanalysis based on reused OTPs. I can see why the NSA doesn't mind letting the world know that they could crack reused OTPs as opposed to some other identifiable cipher technique. The degree of NSA's success doesn't help an adversary optimize their crypto technology. The decryption success is in direct proportion to how sloppy the Soviets were in using their OTPs. I'll bet some official got shot when this was all figured out. Partial decrypts occur when parts of the keystream are recovered and other parts are not. I wonder if one could compare the "holes" in the various messages and thereby infer which OTPs were used for which messages based on patterns of keystream recovery. Venona also presents an object lesson on why not to use OTPs: the security does not degrade gracefully if they are misused. Reusing one even once could easily compromise both messages sent with it. I doubt security degrades nearly as quickly if you overuse or reuse keys in more modern techniques. Thus, OTP keying requires a reliably pessimistic prediction of traffic flow, and your security is toast if you underestimate your transmission needs. Besides, given that nobody can crack a truly randomized OTP, I can see why NSA would want to publicize a failed use of OTPs. Might as well focus interest on more theoretically tractable techniques. Rick.

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FYI: GOP's Stolen Laptop...
by Steve O 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

FYI: Front page of the New Jersey Star Ladger: "GOP's Stolen Laptop had credit card Details" NJ Republicans' convention info and card card numbers and info was on the laptop insecurely, a letter went oput to the NJ Republican committee informing them of the 'inconveince'. Several key Rebulican Reps' cards were among those stolen including: Dick ZImmer and Christopher Smith as well as the State Committee's credit card. etc... "True Utopia can only be reached by an uncensored and secure Internet, True Chaos can only be reached by the government, True love can only be reached in the movies." S.O. "Bang your head, Metal Health will drive you mad!" Quiet Riot "Welcome my friend, Welcome to The Machine" Pink Floyd -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Version: 2.6.2 mQCNAzHF2iIAAAEEAKw9QZ8yNG0X1YOGvaYeLaOQphDSEFYxelYED8a4YKoxnHuX Wd7CPKXBS6Bhx9uGFpNa/7Km33TfhzJhuolHPb60upBIsNTdrkzVlSYyiE0aWuFt EORVWEG6Rmy9w2yZ8obQAIx9aAy7h1wDi2mdSrDH+rPBw0pXelhDCiQ5KnJpAAUR tCBTdGV2ZSBPIDxwcml2c29mdEBpeC5uZXRjb20uY29tPg== =J4Tk -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----

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Re:Edited Edupage, 18 Aug 1996 [SATELLITES]
by jim bell 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 11:24 PM 8/26/96 -0700, Bill Stewart wrote: >At 12:35 AM 8/21/96 -0800, mccoy(a)communities.com (Jim McCoy) wrote: >>You want to avoid moving parts like the plague in orbit. They eventually >>wear out or fail and once that happens you have a very expensive piece of >>junk in orbit. Solid-state storage is the _only_ way to go if you want to >>avoid things like neding to pressurize the drive (eliminating any cost >>advantage over solid-state.) > >Why do you need to pressurize the drive? Most hard disk drives >for the last N years have been airtight sealed containers, >haven't they? (Removables are different, of course.) While I haven't looked at the more recent ones closely, most hard drives have an ultra-fine (<0.1 um particles?) filter element separating "inside" from "outside." It allows air to pass to equalize pressure and humidity, while keeping out the dust. (it is probably made of the same kind of material that is used, internally, as a filter for the airflow within the drive.) Even if they didn't, there is a big difference between an enclosure that's good enough to hold a hard disk on earth, and one which can spend N-years in a high vacuum yet maintain enough air to run a hard drive. > >I'd worry far more about the stresses of launch bothering >the drives. That's not a problem at all. Most modern drives are rated for 10's of G's, non-operating. Satellite launches are probably a breeze compared to this. Jim Bell jimbell(a)pacifier.com

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Cato Institute conference on Net-regulation, 9/20/96
by Declan McCullagh 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

This should be a good half-day conference, with some interesting speakers. I'll probably show up for Charles Platt's keynote. Naturally, it's being held in the building's Hayek Auditorium. Hayek has some relevance to cypherpunks, I think -- he warned early on that the loss of economic freedom inevitably leads to the loss of civil liberties as well. He also described the phenomenon of spontaneous order (admittedly in the context of markets), which speaks to the way the Net has ordered itself. -Declan // declan(a)eff.org // I do not represent the EFF // declan(a)well.com // ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 27 Aug 1996 12:05:44 -0400 From: Solveig Bernstein <sberns(a)cato.org> To: fight-censorship(a)vorlon.mit.edu Please redistribute this conference announcement freely: ********************************************************* Regulation or Private Ordering? The Future of the Internet The Cato Institute cordially invites you to a morning conference and luncheon Regulation or Private Ordering? The Future of the Internet Friday, September 20, 1996 8:30 a.m. 1:30 p.m. The Cato Institute's F.A. Hayek Auditorium 1000 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W. Washington, DC The Internet promises users unprecedented individual control over information. It is at once a tool for universal communication, a new form of media, and a new way of doing business. But it is also a challenge to lawmakers and regulators. Existing laws cannot easily be applied to the Internet and appear doomed to failure. Do we need a new set of laws or will voluntary private action ensure order on the information superhighway? Cato's Regulation or Private Ordering? The Future of the Internet conference will bring together leading authorities on law, regulation, and technology to discuss the problems of adapting existing law to the Internet and to explore private alternatives to regulation. Can private ordering consistent with individual freedom forestall a government backlash against perceived Internet chaos? The cost of this conference is $25.00. Registration Wintergarden 8:30 8:35 a.m. Lawrence Gasman Welcoming Remarks Director, Telecommunications and Technology Studies, Cato Institute 8:35 9:20 a.m. JURISDICTIONAL BOUNDARIES David Post;Collective Action in Cyberspace" Georgetown University Law Center Dan Burk Federalism without Borders; Seton Hall University School of Law 9:20 10:30 a.m. FEDERAL REGULATORY ISSUES Robert Crandall; Rate Regulation and Arbitrage; Internet Telephony; Brookings Institution Trotter Hardy;Congress and Digital Copyright: Avoiding a Balancing Act;William & Mary College of Law Lori Fena;Security of Personal and Corporate Information Online: Moving toward Industry Self Regulation; Electronic Frontier Foundation 10:30 10:45 a.m. Break 10:45 11:55 a.m. FREE SPEECH IN CYBERSPACE Danny Weitzner; The Empowered User: Internet Technology Tools for Limiting Access to Unwanted Material; Protecting Privacy; Center for Democracy and Technology Eugene Volokh;Private Online Speech Controls: Censorship, Constitutionally Protected Editing, or Both? University of California at Los Angeles School of Law David Sobel;Prospects of the CDA in the Supreme Court; Electronic Privacy Information Center 12:30 p.m. Keynote Address - Charles Platt; Net Futures: Scary and Sublime; Author, Free Zone, The Silicone Man, Contributing Writer, Wired Magazine 12:30 p.m. Luncheon News media please call Robin Hulsey at (202) 789 5293. To Register, please e-mail Scott Wallis at swallis(a)cato.org, or vist our web site at //www:cato.org. ********************************************************************** Solveig Bernstein, Esq. (202) 789-5274 (202) 842-3490 (fax) Assistant Director of Telecommunications & Technology Studies Cato Institute 1000 Mass. Ave. NW Washington, DC 20001

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