December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Your login/password for SafePassage beta
by SafePassage Downloader 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

You can now download SafePassage. You'll need the following login/password: Login: cypherpunks(a)toad.com Password: 2xLBsxut Go to http://stronghold.ukweb.com/safepassage/ and select "Download" -- you'll be prompted for your login/password, after which you'll be able to download the software. Make sure you keep your login/password private. Revealing your login/password to anyone is a violation of the license agreement.

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by jaltarri＠lix.intercom.es 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Sound card as a random number source ??
by Pavel Korensky 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Hello, when I read about hardware random number generators in this mailing list, I got one idea. Maybe it sounds crazy, but is it possible to use soundcard (SoundBlaster for example) as a source for really random numbers ? What if I connect the input line of the soundcard with some external source of noise, like FM receiver or Dolby Surround decoder (with built-in white noise generator) or tape recorder with blank (erased) tape. It is possible to sample the sound (noise) and use the sampled values as a random numbers ? And how much random is this source ? I tried to find some mentions about this method with altavista, but I didn't found anything. Bye PavelK -- **************************************************************************** * Pavel Korensky (pavelk(a)dator3.anet.cz) * * DATOR3 Ltd., Modranska 1895/17, 143 00 Prague 4, Czech Republic * * PGP key fingerprint: 00 65 5A B3 70 20 F1 54 D3 B3 E4 3E F8 A3 5E 7C * ****************************************************************************

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Re: TIA Invites
by droelke＠rdxsunhost.aud.alcatel.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> From: John Young <jya(a)pipeline.com> > > A rep of the Telecommunications Industry Association > telephoned to say that TIA has invited authority to > investigate disclosure of TIA's TR45.3 to the unworthy. > > Did I miss something... What is this disclosure of TR45.3 about? ------------------------------------------------------------------ Dan Oelke Alcatel Network Systems droelke(a)aud.alcatel.com Richardson, TX

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Re: Dorthy Denning is a boot-licking fasicist!!!
by nobody＠huge.cajones.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

"William H. Geiger III" <whgiii(a)amaranth.com> writes: >I don't know if anyone watched the House Subcomitty on Computers & >Technology today on C-Span. No, we watched 'Dorothy does Georgetown" on C-Spam. >Phil Zimmerman, Dorthy Denning, William Reinsch & others were disscussing >computer security. > >Dorthy Denning gave the most pro-government speech I have ever heard. Is >this clueless bitch on the government payroll?!! Yes. >William Reinsch is a lying bastard. Fucking politions!! Fucking >goverment!! They all deserve a long rope!! Start with Socks the queer cat. >Phil Zimmerman was quite good at attacking the government policies. > ><sigh> We are truly a country of fools to have put these jackbooted >facisit bastards back into office. "Dorothy Denning" is a man in drag. "She" has a bigger dick that "her" boyfriend John Gilmore, the cocksucker faggot from EFF. >----------------------------------------------------------- >"William H. Geiger III" <whgiii(a)amaranth.com> >----------------------------------------------------------- Just say GAK to chicks with dicks! diGriz

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Re: Today's hearing (Re: Dorthy Denning is a boot-licking fasicist!!!)
by snow 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> at 06:34 AM, snow <snow(a)smoke.suba.com> said: > > Well, it's been said before, you are know by the company you keep. > <sigh> well after my survivalist training & military training in the '80's > I thought I was well prepaired for those dam Ruskies. Seems the way things > are going I am going to need them for those dam Americans. Who Knew Some people kinda suspected it would happen. I mean, when I was in the military, and I looked at the goons I was serving with, I realized what the enemy was. Petro, Christopher C. petro(a)suba.com <prefered for any non-list stuff> snow(a)smoke.suba.com

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DSP's & crypto
by Tim Scanlon 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

About a year or 2 ago I read some stuff in sci.crypt about some people doing encryption stuff, I belive with DES, using DSP chips, I am interested in finding the folks who were working on it, or related code. If anyone out there has that sort of info I would appreciate some pointers in their direction. Thanks, Tim Scanlon

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NIST seeks DES replacement.
by Peter Trei 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

See: http://www.fcw.com/pubs/fcw/1111/des.htm Federal Computer Week, Nov 11, 1996. "DES set for overhaul." by HEATHER HARRELD The content is kind of thin, but it amounts to a statement that NIST is preparing a Federal Register request for a successor to DES. Most the article concerns the termendous hassle replacing DES will be for government agencies (FCW is a trade rag for people working with computers in the Federal and State sectors - I used to get it when I was at MITRE.) There's a truely clueless comment at the end, where Mike Schwartz of "Prime Factors Inc., an Oregon-based security firm" is quoted as saying "...DES shows no signs of weakening." ----------------------------- While 3DES-EDE is the obvious replacement, it would be far from an easy switch, since there are a huge number of fielded devices for handling the 64 bit single DES keys. I wonder how good a drop-in replacement could be made if the goal was to NOT have to replace the key handling infrastructure - just replace a single software module or chip. If we use the bits currently devoted to parity in DES keys for actual key data, we gain 8 bits, or a factor of x256 in the keyspace. If we further complicate the key schedule setup, so it's much slower than DES in both hardware and software (lots of rotates, multiplies, state, etc), we can make life a lot more difficult for brute force attacks. Maybe some version of Blowfish, using the same key twice - I have not studied Blowfish, so I don't know if this introduces an obvious weakness. Happy Thanksgiving! Peter Trei trei(a)process.com Peter Trei Senior Software Engineer Purveyor Development Team Process Software Corporation http://www.process.com trei(a)process.com

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Re: Star Trek: First Contact
by drose＠AZStarNet.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On Wed, 27 Nov 1996, The Deviant <deviant(a)pooh-corner.com> wrote: > >On Wed, 27 Nov 1996, Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM wrote: > >> Mark Allyn 206-860-9454 <allyn(a)allyn.com> writes: >> >> > Are any of the characters in the new Star Trek gay? >> >> The bold guy who plays Captain Picard is very gay in real life. >> (He probably hated all those love episodes with women :-) >> > >Patrick Stewart is married, isn't he? So was Rock Hudson. Let's not forget that in the '50s, Liberace sued (successfully! - and collected significant monetary damages!) "Confidential" magazine for implying that he was homosexual. Not that it makes any difference at all.

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PBS Re-runs...
by Alan Olsen 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

PBS locally was rerunning an episode of "Life on the Internet" last night. It was the one about PGP and Phil Zimerman. It was pretty old (by net standards). Phil had just gotten his case dropped. (And they mentioned the FBI's "Search for the Unibomber" page. What I found frightening about the whole thing was Jim Kalstrom's comments during the whole thing. He brought up the Four Horsemen, as well as their brothers, cousins, sisters, and the contents of a large family horseman reunion. He kept mentioning as to how we had to be able to tap CRIMINALS. What he never mentioned is who those suspected criminals are. ("We have met the enemy and they is us!") Personally I found the argument on the government side pretty weak. (My wife's comment was that they got lazy using all these newfangled toys and did not want to have to get back to doing real police work and real investigations.) Kalstrom made it pretty clear by his own words that he wanted to "catch the bad guys" and he did not care what rights he trod on doing it. Phil came off real well on the program. The one thing that failed to mention is the amount of foreign development that has gone into PGP. (As well as the availability of it at sites around the world.) --- | "Remember: You can't have BSDM without BSD." | |"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.ctrl-alt-del.com/~alan/ |alan(a)ctrl-alt-del.com|

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