December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

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17 Dec '03

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DCSB: Applying PGP To Digital Commerce
by Robert Hettinga 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- The Digital Commerce Society of Boston Presents Rodney Thayer Sable Technology Corporation "Applying PGP To Digital Commerce" Tuesday, January 7, 1997 12 - 2 PM The Downtown Harvard Club of Boston One Federal Street, Boston, MA Rodney Thayer has 20 years experience in the software development business. For the past 10 years he has been designing, implementing, deploying, and troubleshooting networking software. He currently is the Principal of a consulting firm based in Newton, Massachusetts where he is involved in the implementation of communications products for a variety of customers, including software vendors, major end-user organizations, and several governmental organizations both foreign and domestic. He also writes and lectures on the deployment, troubleshooting, and implementation of data communications networks. Mr. Thayer will talk about how PGP can be used in the business world today, for exchange of information, digitally identifying documents, and other commerce applications. In this presentation, we will discuss the application of PGP, including mechanics, the cryptographic and legal issues, and the infrastructure requirements for it's use. The state of the art in digital message encryption is now at the point where it has become practical to use encrypted and digitally signed email for digital commerce. Recently, one scheme, PGP, has emerged from the realm of the cyberpunk as a legitimate tool for business. Commercial products are now available that support PGP encryption in electronic mail and for documents and digital storage. PGP is no longer a cult tool for computer junkies and cyberpunks. It is a legitimate, sound cryptographic technology that can be used, today, for digital commerce. As an increasingly crypto-aware business community searches for solutions, the question of how to use message encryption tools such as PGP becomes germaine to the business community. This meeting of the Digital Commerce Society of Boston will be held on Tuesday, January 7, 1997 from 12pm - 2pm at the Downtown Branch of the Harvard Club of Boston, One Federal Street. The price for lunch is $27.50. This price includes lunch, room rental, and the speaker's lunch. ;-). The Harvard Club *does* have dress code: jackets and ties for men, and "appropriate business attire" for women. We will attempt to record this meeting and put it on the web in RealAudio format at some future date We need to receive a company check, or money order, (or, if we *really* know you, a personal check) payable to "The Harvard Club of Boston", by Saturday, January 4, or you won't be on the list for lunch. Checks payable to anyone else but The Harvard Club of Boston will have to be sent back. Checks should be sent to Robert Hettinga, 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, Massachusetts, 02131. Again, they *must* be made payable to "The Harvard Club of Boston". If anyone has questions, or has a problem with these arrangements (We've had to work with glacial A/P departments more than once, for instance), please let us know via e-mail, and we'll see if we can work something out. Planned speakers for DCSB are: February David Kaufman 1996 in Review / Predictions for 1997 March TBA April Stewart Baker Encryption Policy and Digital Commerce We are actively searching for future speakers. If you are in Boston on the first Tuesday of the month, and you would like to make a presentation to the Society, please send e-mail to the DCSB Program Commmittee, care of Robert Hettinga, rah(a)shipwright.com . For more information about the Digital Commerce Society of Boston, send "info dcsb" in the body of a message to majordomo(a)ai.mit.edu . If you want to subscribe to the DCSB e-mail list, send "subscribe dcsb" in the body of a message to majordomo(a)ai.mit.edu . Looking forward to seeing you there! Cheers, Robert Hettinga Moderator, The Digital Commerce Society of Boston -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: SafeMail 1.0b6 e32 iQCVAwUBMsb+IvgyLN8bw6ZVAQEhRgP/b5Q5u83gIUAqJYPHp6J/BxKUrFjy/fYH J4EqvEvjKrdWE0jcwE34ISf+qUmBS+rZZRYVMsQ8jiVa/uF8TwNNTEEe5kMUPpne UtKvuJOEosFURwGfR4OLoYu1NsqPNuzAD40dwfQDQGVcmTqNlivhikZByE4MTNVz bUlII450N/8= =IS1x -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ----------------- Robert Hettinga (rah(a)shipwright.com) Philodox, e$, 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "The cost of anything is the foregone alternative" -- Walter Johnson The e$ Home Page: http://www.vmeng.com/rah/

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Re: New crypto regs outlaw financing non-US development
by azur＠netcom.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> Lucky Green writes: [snip] >Finally, to the big one: >>Sec. 736.2 General prohibitions and determination of applicability. >> >>* * * * * >> (7) General Prohibition Seven--Support of Certain Activities by >>U.S. persons--(i) Support of Proliferation Activities (U.S. Person >>Proliferation Activity). If you are a U.S. Person as that term is >>defined in Sec. 744.6(c) of the EAR, you may not engage in any >>activities prohibited by Sec. 744.6 (a) or (b) of the EAR which >>prohibits the performance, without a license from BXA, of certain >>financing, contracting, service, support, transportation, freight >>forwarding, or employment that you know will assist in certain >>proliferation activities described further in part 744 of the EAR. >>There are no License Exceptions to this General Prohibition Seven in >>part 740 of the EAR unless specifically authorized in that part. > >IMHO, this closes the door on the foreign contracting loophole used by C2 >and others. It is now illegal for US persons to finance or contract out >overseas crypto development, since doing so will obviously assist in >proliferation. While not unexpected (I offered a bet on Cypherpunks that >this would happen. Nobody took the bet.), this provision sets a dangerous >precedence. The technical assistance prohibitions of the past have been >transformed into general prohibitions against "financing, contracting, >service, support, transportation, freight forwarding, or employment". > >Again, IANAL. > If they have not already done so, those currently doing work for/with C2 can form an off-shore company to manage and develop the crypto work. This off-shore company can then sell shares (private/public) to citizens and companies (both foreign and domestic) and use the proceeds to develop the software. Some of the investors (e.g., C2) could be offered the opportunity to become distributors and support the products in their respective countries. I doubt the Executive order can be interpreted to mean U.S. citizens cannot purchase stocks of foreign companies engaged in crypto. There are many companies (e.g., NEC, Siemans, Philips, ect.) which engage in development of crypto equipment which would not be exportable if they were produced in the U.S. Can the gov't deny us the right to invest in these and other offshore companies? Since those working for C2 are already doing so offshore (e.g., Australia and England, I believe) these parties would only need to separately incorporate an entity to conduct that portion of their current business now under contract to C2. --Steve

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New crypto regulations
by gt＠kdn0.attnet.or.jp 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Concerning the new crypto regulations: " Note to paragraphs (b)(2) and (b)(3) of this section: A printed book or other printed material setting forth encryption source code is not itself subject to the EAR (see Sec. 734.3(b)(2)). However, notwithstanding Sec. 734.3(b)(2), encryption source code in electronic form or media (e.g., computer diskette or CD ROM) remains subject to the EAR (see Sec. 734.3(b)(3))." This is a big question for me. How does the fact that the same exact information, when stored on magnetic media, cause it to lose its freedom of press protection? Has magnetic media never been tested in court for freedom of press applicability? What are the laws that outline the differences between magnetic media and printed media? Specifically, the one(s) that permit the non-protection of magnetic media? Does this mean that if a journal published an article on some strong non-key escrow encryption algorithm that included source code, it could not later offer that same article on a CD-ROM collection? or provide that same source code online?

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Cryptanalysis Trainer
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

We've transcribed from PDF to ASCII the cryptanalysis program in Appendix F of the US Army's Field Manual FM 34-40-2, Basic Cryptanalysis, September, 1990. http://jya.com/appf.htm Manual quote: "This program gives the capability to encipher and decipher messages in monoalphabetic and polyalphabetic substitution systems, produce a variety of statistical data about the encrypted messages, and print the results or save them to disk. Because of its limited purpose, the program does not support on-screen analysis. The printed results can be used off-line to aid in analysis, however. The program should be particularly useful in preparing examples and exercises for training cryptanalytic techniques."

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Re: Internal Passports
by drose＠AZStarNet.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Bob Hettinga wrote: >At 6:20 pm -0500 12/29/96, Timothy C. May wrote: >>What I think this means is a move toward a national ID card, replacing the >>confusing (to airlines, to government agents, etc.) mishmash of state >>driver's licenses, student ID cards, etc. > >"I've found that they issue a national ID card, it's time to leave..." > Lazarus Long, "Time Enough For Love", by Robert A. Heinlein "After Austria and Germany, Switzerland is my favourite country. I have spent the past 40 winters and 10 summers there. I love the place because it's clean, beautiful, very conservative and its people mind their own business." Taki, in today's _Sunday Times_(London).

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lambda 2.13 - Parental control abuses and Crypto leaks
by jt＠freenix.fr 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

lambda 2.13 contents ... * Parental control abuses * Crypto Soap Opera : new leaked documents in France and at the OECD * Short-circuits : - U2's hacked: Big Lie in Cyberspace - Serbia's fight for democracy reach digital age - Radikal censorship (sorry for langage mistakes, the text has not been reviewed by an English third party) * * * * * Peacefire vs Cybersitter Parental control abuses * * * * * An insider quarrel between blocking-software CyberSitter and one of the Web site blocked has emerged recently. A US youth association against Net censorship, Peacefire (wwww.peacefire.org) claimed on December 7 : "Sometime today or yesterday, CYBERsitter put www.Peacefire.org on its list of blocked sites. Next time users of the program update their "filter file", they will see our web page blocked along with Playboy.com, Penthouse.com etc. (not to mention NOW.org, Members.GNN.com, and C2.org) Apparently, the company president read our page about CYBERsitter at: http://www.peacefire.org/censorware/CYBERsitter.html and didn't like it." Solid Oak Software (www.solidoak.com) owner of the blocking program, claims Peacefire put online some advices or tips to abort CyberSitter efficiency for teenagers; claimed one time of "copyright infringements"; and decided to urge Peacefire's IAP to block its account. Remember that these softwares were designed to allow parents to control their child's access to the Internet. "Parental control", as it is called, was suppose to give ways for parents to self-censor Internet content. But when people trust the technology and give too much faith to black-listed sites maintained by other individuals' moral standards, parents don't really keep on their "parental control" anymore. They even fail to tackle their own responsability towards their childs. On December 27 the CPSR (www.cpsr.org) wrote a protest letter to Solid Oak. Abstracts: "Your own description of your product provides a fairly concise description of CYBERSitter's restrictions: "any site that focuses on topics such as adult or issues, illegal activities, bigotry, racism, drugs or pornography". Using this list", the CPSR went on, "any determined individuals with web browsers might easily build a profile of sites that are blocked by CYBERSitter. Several members of our group dowloaded your demo, and quickly verified that your software completely or partially blocks access to sites such as the National Organization of Women (http://www.now.org) and the Yahoo search engine (http://www.yahoo.com) Since CYBERSitter's behavior can be easily categorized, Peacefire's publishing of a list of blocked sites does not justify blocking Peacefire's site, or any similar unsavory activities. ... By blocking sites that focus on topics such as [sex] and drug use, SolidOak may filter potentially educational materials regarding AIDS and drug abuse prevention." As Haselton wrote later, "Most letters to the president, Brian Milburn, at bmilburn(a)solidoak.com, or to their support staff at support(a)solidoak.com, are now being bounced with the message, "this account has been configured to reject all messages on this topic..." i would guess that their mail software at those accounts is rejecting all messages with the word "Peacefire" in the subject line, so remember to leave it out if you decide to write to them about this. (And thanks for your support if you do!)" P.S.- The European Commission has submitted draft guidelines to member States concerning the Internet's content regulations. They were quite reserved about the real efficacy of content control specifications like PICS, but nonetheless approved it: http://www.echo.lu/best_use/best_use.html * * * * * French Crypto Sop Opera : other leaked documents * * * * * If you're an encryption addict and fluent in French, jump to the document published by Planete Internet magazine : http://www.planete-internet.com/crypto/decret It is a draft decree prepared by the SCSSI, the security agency, which draws a preliminary picture of future French "trusted third party" agencies (TTPs), or "key recovery agents". A brief summary of what the French electronic notary will look like: The government - The SCSSI * Will say which encryption product will be concerned; all crypto systems will be OK if a key recovery scheme is scheduled; (PGP and the like are not on the list of "approved" products); * Will decide which firm is OK to become a TTP; but no justification will be needed for negative requests; The TTP, "le notaire" * All commercial firms or entities (SA, SARL, consortiums...) will be concerned; * But all its members, CEOs or associates must be "French": like the majority of its finantial assets; * Will be submitted to "professionnal secret" and obliged to keep third party encryption keys away from illegal wiretapping activities; The (commercial) user * Will be obliged to use authorised encryption products; * Will engage itself to fully cooperate with the TTP; The (basic) user * Even if the sheme will not be mandatory, using encryption without the backing of a TTP will be considered illegal; * Huge finantial and logistical procedures will discourage NGO's, small companies and the citizen to protect legally its electronic communications. The new and fully complete policy is scheduled in France in the comming weeks. * * * * * PS - Leaked document from the OECD's crypto hearings Australians cryptographers at http://www.ozemail.com.au/~firstpr/crypto/oecd_dr2.htm published the draft paper that were on the agenda of the Dec. 16-20 closed-door meeting in Paris, revealing the broad and detailed policy toward an international cooperation for "lawfull access" to encrypted communications. * * * Short-circuits * * * U2 hacked? Big Lie in Cyberspace --------------- You surely read numerous stories about the U2 rock band that were "robbed" in Cyberspace by hackers that traveled through cables of a digital camera that broadcasted on the Internet views of their Dublin studio. Hackers put 2 new songs online from a site in Hungary, the story went on. Strange hacking, hey??! The story, which broke in the London's Sunday Times on November 17 (follomed by a naive Le Monde in Paris) was just dope -- a fake, phoney and bull story. Read, for example, what a fan from the Nederland says -> www.universal.nl/users/mirrorbal/u2.htm Number 1 : he told the real story to the Times which didn't even publish a word of it. What's the story? A videotape with 45 sec abstracts from both songs were released by Island Records-Hungary in November (it was the scheduled date for U2's upcomming album, but now scheduled in March!). And a guy simply put a microphone besides his TV and put the digital stuff online. Where's the hack? The Hungarian explains also the story, but didn't erase the songs from his server: w3.datanet.hu/~karpati/ Serbia's fight for democracy reach digital age --------------- Read David S. Bennahum's last MEME bulletin about Serbia's democratric fight: http://www.reach.com/matrix/. Bennahum spent one week in Belgrade and met democrats willign to create cyber-rights organisations like the EPIC or the CDT. Follow their fight daily on the Internet : http://eurasianews.com/erc/serbopp1.htm Radikal censorship --------------- A magazine banned in Germany, the leftist Radikal, available online in the Nederlands, was the target of German policemen on Dec. 11. After failing to urge Nederlands authorities to block the Web site last September, German police decided to act as usually, with the help of their Dutch counterpart and raided a house in Vaals. It turns out that they acted to block Radikal at the source : its paper version. Read the news on: http://www.xs4all.nl/~tank/radikal http://www.xs4all.nl/~felipe/germany.html * * * * lambda 2.13 - www.freenix.fr/netizen * * * * Jerome Thorel =-= Journaliste / Reporter =-= Paris, France lambda bulletin =-= Planete Internet Editor

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17 Dec '03

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USAF Hack mirror
by skeeve＠skeeve.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Another hack mirror up.... http://www.skeeve.net/usaf/ so far I have: Central Intelligence Agency - http://www.skeeve.net/cia/ US Department of Justice - http://www.skeeve.net/doj/ Kreigman Furs - http://www.skeeve.net/kriegsman/ US Air Force - http://www.skeeve.net/usaf/ we these people never learn... put your webserver on CDrom today ;) anyone else know of any other mirrors... i heard www.nasa.gov recently got done.. anyone have a mirror i can add to the collection? --------------------------------------------------------------------- | Skeeve Stevens - MyInternet personal.url: http://www.skeeve.net/ | | email://skeeve@skeeve.net/ work.url: http://www.myinternet.net/ | | phone://612.9869.3334/ mobile://0414.SKEEVE/ [753-383] | ---------------------------------------------------------------------

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Re: Cryptanalysis Trainer
by Alan Olsen 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 08:05 PM 12/29/96 -0500, John Young wrote: >We've transcribed from PDF to ASCII the cryptanalysis >program in Appendix F of the US Army's Field Manual >FM 34-40-2, Basic Cryptanalysis, September, 1990. > > http://jya.com/appf.htm Why does it not surprise me that the code is in BASIC... BTW, the link to the PDF does not work. Seems the CGI they use to feed the pdf files is broken. (Or someone paniced and pulled it in a manner that broke the CGI. Would not be the first time...) --- | If you're not part of the solution, You're part of the precipitate. | |"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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