December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: pgpmoose on q.net working; sorry; new issues. [moderation admin issue]
by Bradley Ward Allen 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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ANother Timmy May clone
by dlv＠bwalk.dm.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Timmy-May-style pseudo-crypto: >From: Edgar Stahley <EStahley(a)tricryption.com> >Newsgroups: comp.security.misc >Subject: Finally, an easy Encryption System >Message-ID: <3269375D.469A(a)tricryption.com> >Date: Sat, 19 Oct 1996 16:17:33 -0400 >Organization: Tricryption >Lines: 14 >NNTP-Posting-Host: u029.comcat.com >Mime-Version: 1.0 >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > >What if an encryption program was really easy to use? > >What if you could send important documents securely over the >internet without having to enter any keys at all? > >What if this was possible because you and your group of >recipients could be the only ones in the world having access to >your very own customized encryption system? > >What if there was a $2000 contest to check it out? > > * (R) Edgar Stahley ES(a)tricryption.com >* TRICRYPTION - IBM file encryption. Fax/Phone: (215) 453-1452 > * Web site: http://www.tricryption.com

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Re: Comments on binding cryptography (1)
by Bert-Jaap Koops 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

For the last time I react on these (political) issues, and then I will gladly return to business. Our views should be clear by now. > So Bert, let's just call a spade a spade, eh? Since you readily agree > that organized criminals probably won't use binding crypto, I agree. > and that > TRP's will probably leak our info to spy "agencies" and so on, I don't agree. > it's public knowledge that the Justice Dept. does this sort of thing > here, so knowing that, are you still suggesting we trust them, simply > because you trust your government? I am not suggesting anything of the kind. I suggested we had a difference of opinion, and I can very well live with that. It's a matter for you to decide in the States, and for us to decide in the Netherlands/Europe. My only concern is that measures we take are compatible with foreign measures (mark compatible, not the same), and that the US is not pushing foreign states into measures they don't really want to take. I suggest you try and read what people write first, instead of skimming through a message and jumping to conclusions. Bert-Jaap

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Re: [SERDAR ARGIC] Ray Arachelian's role in massacare of 2,500,000 Moslems
by Alan Olsen 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 09:08 PM 10/21/96 -0700, Sandy Sandfort wrote: >On Mon, 21 Oct 1996, Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM wrote: > >> You have to beg. You have to grovel. You have to prove yourselves >> worthy of the honor. > >So it IS intellectual dishonesty and cowardice. I thought so. >Is there anyone on the list who thinks Dimitri is a man? Emotionally: no Biologically: maybe (There is that unexplained trip to Sweden.) I think that he should look into Trepanning, Phrenology, or both opon his trip to the Bay area. (When and if he ever goes...) Actually Vulis has proved his colors over and over opon the net. That is why he gets so little respect here and elsewhere. Maybe he thinks that you are all planning some sort of welcome out of "Deliverance" or something... ("We're gonna make you squeal like a modem, boy!") Explains the request for banjo players on some of the other lists, however... --- | "Remember: You can't have BSDM without BSD." - alan(a)ctrl-alt-del.com | |"The moral PGP Diffie taught Zimmermann 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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Re: Prof Shamir arrested
by Jim Byrd 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 02:56 PM 10/21/96 +0100, Tom Womack <thomas.womack(a)merton.oxford.ac.uk> wrote: > >A few column inches in the British Independent had Prof Avi Shamir (who I >guess is the S in RSA) arrested in Israel, on (I believe) suspicion of >involvement in a substantial fraud. The S in RSA is Adi Shamir. Do you know if this is the same person? Do you have any more details?

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Reno at FCBA
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Communications Daily, October 19, 1996 U.S. Attorney Gen. Janet Reno offered to "set the record straight" at FCBA lunch Thurs... U.S. Attorney Gen. Janet Reno offered to "set the record straight" at FCBA lunch Thurs. on why controversial issues of encryption and digital wiretapping "deserve support" of communications industry. She said law enforcement community agrees that encryption is "critical" to citizens who want to protect sensitive data but "our ability to protect life and property is threatened" if people use encryption that can't be accessed by law enforcement officials: "The only solution is encryption that allows data recovery." She said it's "important to understand" that digital wiretapping "doesn't expand the government's ability to conduct electronic surveillance." ----- If any citizen has access to a full transcript of the AG's talk, please post here or send it to us by fax to 212-799-4003.

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Re: Prof Shamir arrested
by jim bell 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 04:28 PM 10/22/96 -0500, Douglas B. Renner wrote: >On Tue, 22 Oct 1996, Bert-Jaap Koops wrote: >> Excuse me if I don't react on this in detail. We have already >> explained it, and there it stands: fraud means playing a game without >> abiding by its rules. It's perfectly legitimate to establish a game >> and to introduse rules of the game with it. If you want to play the > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >BIG Problem here. > >> game, play by its rules, otherwise don't play it. If you play it >> while cheating, though, you must bear the consequences ("go directly >> to jail" ;-). >> Bert-Jaap >I sincerely wish the world were THAT simple - there would be fewer problems. [much good stuff deleted] >In short, I disagree very strongly that it is as simple as playing by the >rules. The first rule is that you cannot know all the rules. Further, any >rule you _do_ know may be subject to change. You have to become an >expert on what is likely to be static for your own purposes, and act >within the limits of your own knowledge. Self-knowledge being perhaps our >greatest challenge, there are _bound_ to be problems on all sides. > >Perhaps the widespread dissemination of strong crypto will ultimately >have a scale-tilting effect on matters of taxation. >-Doug Thanks for helping to demolish Koops' argument, what little there is of it. It's particularly inappropriate that he would try to use a "game" analogy to defend his idea, because games are generally considered voluntary and it's obvious that his invention would not be used in a purely voluntary basis. Even if the only interference is the taxation of people who don't "play" and the subsidy of people who do, that can't be consider a voluntary arrangement. I look at it this way: Koops is building only one piece in a jigsaw puzzle of tyranny. He doesn't want to talk about the complete picture, but it's there and it's not pretty. Jim Bell jimbell(a)pacifier.com

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Re: Prof Shamir arrested
by Alex de Joode 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Bert-Jaap Koops (E.J.Koops(a)kub.nl) wrote: : Jim Bell wrote: : [many things on "fraud"] : Excuse me if I don't react on this in detail. We have already : explained it, and there it stands: fraud means playing a game without : abiding by its rules. It's perfectly legitimate to establish a game : and to introduse rules of the game with it. If you want to play the : game, play by its rules, otherwise don't play it. If you play it : while cheating, though, you must bear the consequences ("go directly : to jail" ;-). : Bert-Jaap What Mr. Bell probably means is that 'if the powers that be' decide to unilateraly change the rules, you are lost in limbo. The notion that 'the powers that be' can be relied opun is seriously flawed, for example take in account some of the dealings of our own guvment, the abolishing of the WIR -overnight-, the proposals of Vermeent that totally neglected art. 1 WvSr. Basicly 'fraud' is a definition that benefits 'the powers that be', one that seriously harms our rights and liberties. You also state "If you want to play the game, play by its rules, otherwise don't play it." Well sometimes people have no other option then to play, and dropping out if gouvernment changes the rules unilateraly can be to costly an option .. bEST Regards, -- Alex de Joode http://www.replay.com/people/adejoode I have a linux emulator for Win95: it's called "loadlin" ... *g*

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Re: Prof Shamir arrested
by Alan Olsen 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 01:00 PM 10/22/96 +0300, Jüri Kaljundi wrote: > Mon, 21 Oct 1996, Rabid Wombat wrote: > >> Or is this the Avi Shamir who broke FEAL-8? > >Can you tell more of this? There is an Windows disk encryption utility >called Teamware Crypto that uses FEAL-8. This program is quite popular in >Europe, distributed and made by ICL Data. The attacks on FEAL are pretty lengthy. _Applied Cryptography_ 2nd edition by Bruce Schneier has a list of attacks on page 311. The Shamir attack is not the one to worry about. Matsui and Yamagishi have an attack that breaks it in 2^15 known plaintexts. If you do not have a copy, I can dig up the references on it. (It is too late/early for me to do it clearly at this point...) Hope that helps. --- | "Remember: You can't have BSDM without BSD." - alan(a)ctrl-alt-del.com | |"The moral PGP Diffie taught Zimmermann 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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TMN, Q3 and security
by kszczypi＠tele.pw.edu.pl 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hi c'punks, simple question: Does anybody know of an URL with any paper about security in Q3 interface? ''~`` ( o o ) +---------------------------oooO--(_)--Oooo----------------------------+ | Krzysztof Szczypiorski ooo0 http://www.tele.pw.edu.pl/~kszczypi | | kszczypi(a)tele.pw.edu.pl ( ) Oooo. gagarin(a)irc.pl | +-----------------------------\ (----( )-----------------------------+ \_) ) / (_/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3i Charset: noconv Comment: Use PGP version 2.6 or later iQCVAwUBMmzQggiNWoFBOXE9AQFz+gQAgeCRTBuLY2jXz6H8m5AkMVOHu1ZYJ/J2 gcBCl5jnQAKIQRgyghfCy7MVkQc8NkB+R9kyHTG0eg+pCQusKVnJzr3cjPX2vQOI a7dNezo7O53C0GmrWH6iV2EW89R/APi5WZ4gG8spsmcigqyelF1y/dtuvHXTccIN fxNxuvWd0A4= =OfuH -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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