December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: Newt's phone calls
by ca3sal＠isis.sunderland.ac.uk 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Greg Taylor wrote >After following this thread for some time, I have to question whether >Americans realise how far behind the rest of the world they are in >cellphone technology. With the attention the US media give of the UK's royal family and the fomer Princess of Wales I'm suprised the nobody did anything in the US after the "squigy tapes" a couple of years back. Ste

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Spam Hater URL :)
by harka＠nycmetro.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Alex Kelly Strikes Again
by Duncan Frissell 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Alex Kelly, our favorite Greenwich Connecticut high school jock, accused rapist, ex-fugitive who returned to the US to face trial after 8 years on the run in Europe has done it again. He filed the paperwork to gain recognition of Irish citizenship from the Irish Consulate and his claim has been recognized. He is now free to apply for an Irish Passport. The DA is trying to yank his $1,000,000 bail. The wire services incorrectly report that he has been "granted" Irish citizenship. Actually, like anyone who has at least one grandparent born in Ireland, he *is* an Irish citizen under that nation's permissive nationality law and merely had to register his (overseas) birth with the Consulate. DCF -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 4.5 iQCVAgUBMt+/eYVO4r4sgSPhAQHSbwP+NODK3r+64dMhpiOkDqSEUyD9OyHXJr58 rw9VFVN2y6JG2AIR5thogC+soMAMvUGuMKQiiXJkzSrTaHeanaFp/TG7FcDAi60d DlHQbYmc8iIAXgI3yUvl4oFqqdI44FAkwTfhFe0Qcf0Ha41OHEODP/S0DFNhp6/d +aQl7ECWsKo= =/GGg -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: Newt's phone calls
by Sean Roach 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 10:45 PM 1/15/97 -0500, Rabid Wombat wrote: > > >On Mon, 13 Jan 1997, Declan McCullagh wrote: > >> Don't be too sure that crypto is that far beneath the radar. I spent >> Thursday through Saturday at an annual privacy conference for activists >> from around the country, and they understood the principles. Their >> voicemails were filling up with calls from reporters last Friday about the >> Gingrich incident, and I know they were talking crypto. > ... > >"Call Privacy and Security" are listed in bold, with "Say goodbye to >eavesdropping" right below. Don't sell the public short; even me mum >knows her cordless phone is insecure. ;) > I had to tell my sister not to use the cordless phone to use the automated banking services that our bank has available on grounds that transfers are also available through the same service. Our father is a math teacher, computer hobbyists since 1979. Both of my parents have college educations. My sister pegged the scales on the state distributed proficiency tests. Yet she knows practically nothing outside of her field. I will probably have to show her the values of cryptography before she actually has any patient records to deal with, (she's a pharmacy major.)

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(Fwd) Black Liberation Radio
by Ross Wright 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 12:36:31 -0700 From: "Clover Hale" <clover(a)iaj.xo.com> Subject: Black Liberation Radio To: iaj-futuremedia(a)igc.org BLACK LIBERATION RADIO BUSTED! This morning, the FCC raided Black Liberation Radio in Decatur, Illinois and seized all the equipment. BLR, an unlicensed radio station operated by Napolean and Mildred Williams, has been a growing thorn in the side of the local power structure. BLR has brought together the predominantly white workers who have undergone bitter strikes in the 90s (Caterpillar, etc.) with unemployed blacks and whites. It has given them all a voice, not just locally but to a degree nationally (Napolean was the keynote speaker at the recent Micro Broadcasters Convention in Oakland). This pioneering station must go back on the air. Napoleon requests donations to help them fight this. Please send what you can to: Napoleon Williams, 637 E Center St., Decatur IL 63526. In the face of a growing police state, Napoleon and Mildred are fighting back. They need your help. *PLEASE* call to issue protests: State Attorney General Jim Ryan 217-782-1090 Macon County States Attorney Lawrence "Larry" Fichter 217-424-1400 101 South Main, Decatur,Il 62523. ------------ Makani Themba mthemba(a)igc.apc.org 3780 Webster Street, Oakland, CA 94609 (510) 655-3112 (voice) (510) 658-5122 (fax) "Whoever controls the flow of information dictates our perceptions and perspectives; whoever controls the news shapes our destiny." - George Clinton Stop the execution of Mumia Abu Jamal! =-=-=-=-=-=- Ross Wright King Media: Bulk Sales of Software Media and Duplication Services http://www.slip.net/~cdr/kingmedia Voice: 415-206-9906

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DES Key Recovery Project, Progress Report #6.
by Peter Trei 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

DES Key Recovery Project, Progress Report #6. Well, RSA now has put up the official rules, and some test data, for the DES Key Recovery Project. See http://www.rsa.com/rsalabs/97challenge/ if you haven't already. The actual challenge will be posted 28 Jan, and the prize will be $10,000. I've had some nibbles of interest from the FPGA community, but not too much yet. If you know anyone with FPGA or ASIC hardware handy, tell them about the project, and point them at Wiener's paper (it can be found at http://www.aist-nara.ac.jp/Security/doc/ among locations. My software is complete, except for one thing: I have not incorporated Svend Olaf Mikkelsen's new Pentium code (see http://inet.uni-c.dk/~svolaf/des.htm) This is about 25% faster than mine, and well worth the extra effort. The conversion turns out to be non-trivial; it uses a different initial and final perm, the key schedules look different, and the rounds seem to carry a lot of context from one round to the next in the registers. All but the final problem is not too important - the data are all different by simple permutations, and the conversion is not too hard. The final problem is more interesting, since I do the first DES round only part of the time. This means that I'll have to do more context setup for those times when I'm starting at the second round (most of the time), and preserve that extra context after the times I *do* run the first round. The other problem is that the 'half-matches' and penultimate round half-matches will be different for the two systems. This complicates results checking. Anyway, come Monday, I want to email to a few people the generic 'C' code, along with my assembler version. If you're interested in doing a serious critique and/or porting of the code, and are a US/Canadian citizen living in the US/Canada, then email me with a statement to that effect. I'm only sending out a few copies - this is a slow beta, after all. If I don't get the Mikkelsen code in there by Monday, it should follow soon thereafter. After the DES Challenge is underway, I may try looking at the RC5 Challenges. Who else will be attending Verisign Partner Days or the RSA Data Security Conference at the end of the month? I'd like to meet some of the other participants on this list. Peter Trei trei(a)process.com

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Re: Key Revokation Scheme
by Bill Stewart 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 11:32 PM 1/14/97 -0500, harka(a)nycmetro.com wrote: >I started thinking about the issue, how to set up a system to have >somebody else revoke your key for you, if you don't have the means >to do so yourself. >The possible case I had in mind was, what if you're maybe a >dissident, you get arrested and your apartment (incl. disks/keys) >gets raided. You don't have any means to revoke the key yourself, >don't even have e-mail in general, and with the "one phone call", [.... method deleted .... lawyer, alice, bob, ... ] Too complex for what you're really doing. Give your lawyer a floppy with the key revocation certificate and a yellow sticky about how to call Alice or Bob for help if your lawyer's not computer-literate enough to follow the README file. If you're paranoid about the cops getting your unindicted co-conspirators' names, use PGP Inc. or some computer consultant instead of Alice and Bob and have your lawyer pay their per-hour rate. On your One Phone Call, tell him to get the floppy out of the sealed envelope in his safe and use it. Key revocation certificates don't leak your private keys, so the only risk if the Bad Guys get a copy is denial of service, including the pain of rebuilding all your connections, etc.; it doesn't leak your communications or allow them to forge mail. # Thanks; Bill # Bill Stewart, +1-415-442-2215 stewarts(a)ix.netcom.com # You can get PGP outside the US at ftp.ox.ac.uk/pub/crypto/pgp # (If this is a mailing list, please Cc: me on replies. Thanks.)

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Re: Newt's phone calls
by azur＠netcom.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>On Thu, 16 Jan 1997, Phillip M. Hallam-Baker wrote: >> >> It was a conference call but over a cellular phone. Martin had hacked his >> Radio Shack Scanner using a well known technique. He had a radio ham >> license. >> >Phill > Actually I'd love to see this go to court & have the law itself >tossed out. How many years have the airwaves been free? Now it is >illegal to listen on the cellular frequencies. > >Sarah. > >============================================================================== >Sarah L. Green Hey, I never claimed to be >>osprey<< >Madison, AL (USA) a genius nor a typist greens(a)hiwaay.net >============================================================================== The concept that a corporation or individual transmitting information meant for receiption at 'significant' distances should be accorded the presumption of privacy is analogous that a person shouting out their window to a person on the street and assuming that insisting neighbors be required to turn a bind ear. However, since the government has pressed the point, couldn't one use this same logic to claim that since face-to-face conversations are assumed to be private that wire taps are illegal. I seem to recall that Chief Justice Brandice made this argument in the late '20s. Look where we are today. --Steve

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Forget DES, crack CAVE; was: Newt may be more receptive to encryption now
by azur＠netcom.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>I think what's important to stress is that technical fixes work, laws >don't. > >Net-advocates in DC are already planning to suggest to Republicans that >they use crypto as a hammer to nail Gore (the chief White House supporter >of the current policy) and draw votes and cash from Silicon Valley. > >-Declan > > >On Thu, 16 Jan 1997 Scottauge(a)aol.com wrote: > >> >> Given his troubles with this "hay seed" scanner recording democrats, ol' Newt >> may be more receptive to encryption. >> >> Our privacy certainly is getting trashed by this presidency and I am hoping >> an impeachment is coming down the line. >> >> Since the congress is who makes the laws, maybe we all can focus some snail >> mail to these guys. >> >> Perhaps EFF could even draft some laws for our protection (what a joke - just >> to keep busy body beaurocrats outta our business). >> >> What does it matter anyhow, these guys dont read their own 300 - 5000 page >> laws anyhow.... >> >> Hopeless.... >> >> Why don't we threaten to monitor and post RealAudio of all the politico's juciest cellular intrigues, or design and distribute CAVE cracking software to allow simple monitoring of digital cellular communications. IMHO, this would be a better demonstration that the DES crack being contemplated. -- Steve

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Re: encryption program
by ed.falk＠Eng.Sun.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> > I ran a quick Kappa test on it. ... I had a blast with this one. I was up until 4:30 last night working on Pierre van Rooyen's "Here follows a example..." cryptogram. It's like doing a jigsaw puzzle; there's a hump you cross over near the end where everything just falls into place. Jim Gillogly broke it in only a few hours, whereas I must have put in a whole day cumulatively (half of that writing software), but it was my first real cryptogram. It was a hell of a learning experience. They say that you can't design a crypto system until you've broken someone else's first, and this really drove it home.

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