December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: ASM vs portable code [WAS: Re: Java DES breaker?]
by John Poole 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Dale Thorn wrote: > I remember sitting down with some ASM programmers in the mid 1980's > (using x86 PCs), and at that time, looking at the Codeview tracings, > it occurred to me that ASM would nearly always run 2x faster than 'C', > something that is inherent in the processes. This discussion sounds similar to the "C vs. Assembler" thread that's been raging on comp.lang.c for the past couple of months. The general consensus seems to be that on an x86 processor, using C for most of your program and using assembler sparingly is the best way to go. Plus, most compilers will produce code that runs about 1.2 - 1.5 times slower than your average assembler code. You mileage, of course, will vary. ----------------------------------------------- John Poole, 2A AM/CS, University of Waterloo http://www.undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca/~jfpoole "I've gone too far, for too little."

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Van Eck articles
by Joel McNamara 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Looking for: "Electromagnetic Radiation from Video Display Units: An Eavesdropping Risk?" by Wim Van Eck, published in "Computers & Security," 1985, Vol 4 and "Protective Measures Against Compromising Electromagnetic Radiation Emitted by Video Display Terminals" by Professor Erhard Moller, Aachen University, 1990 (no source citation) Haven't found an electronic version of either of these yet, and will visit the good old "paper-based" library next week if no pointers show up. Thanks in advance... Joel

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No Subject
by Bovine Remailer 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>admit that HP (for example) is the best, reliability-wise, yet I have >purchased quite a few of their computers and major peripherals over the >past 20 years, and I have experienced an approximate 40% (!) defective >rate during the one-year warranty period, more than 30% falling within >the first three months. Dale, perhaps it's time for you to seek out a new career. Check that LA "Not a real paper" Times for things like "car wash assistant needed" and good luck.

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Re: sorry for the spam!
by msprague＠ridgecrest.ca.us 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

as of Sunday 23:00PST 12/15 he was using a mailto IP of 206.129.116.5 and http's to 192.41.31.20/thatguy/upyours.zip >Psionic Damage enscribed thusly: > >> I apologize 4 the spam, not my doing, Haven't figured out who waz >> responsible, but I will understand if I amd kicked off this list. >> Once again, I am sorry. > > The individual is a little shit operating a windows system on >IP address 206.129.116.108 as of Sunday evening. While the messages >where poping up on cypherpunks, one of the Received-By headers was >indicating his IP address. I was able to confirm his presence on the >network and determine it to be a windows system operating with the workstation >name of "MARLAEST" and a workgroup name of "ESTES ADVENTURE". He's not >operating a windows messaging pop-up or I would have sent him an appropriate >message of appreciation. Since it IS a windows system (and not running >sendmail) I think it is safe to assume that he IS the end point of this >bullshit. > > 206.129.116.108 is in a block assigned to Premier1 Internet, >Coordinator Michael Heuerman, mikheu(a)PREMIER1.NET (360-793-3658), who is also >getting a copy of this... > > This individual is still on line as of 22:43 EDT 12/15/96 > > Can someone kindly track this little asshole down and dump his sorry >ass in the nearest toxic waste dump? > >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> ---------------------- >> Zer0 Faith Inc. H/P/A/V/C UNDER-WORLD >> www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Heights/2608 >> >> MEMBERZ: >> >> GATEMASTER, VIRIZZ, KRASH, EVIL TWIN, PHONEHAZORD, PSIONIC DAMAGE, >> MANTIKORE, ERADIKATOR, PSYCHODROME, SONIK, kOBRA, & KRYPTIK! >> >> EMAIL:zerofaith@nlights.net (headquarterz) hakker1(a)hotmail.com (Delious's >> Haus!) hackerz(a)juno.com (The Gatemaster'z palace) zerofaith(a)geocities.com >> (delivery/help/requests/suggestions) > > Mike >-- > Michael H. Warfield | (770) 985-6132 | mhw(a)WittsEnd.com > (The Mad Wizard) | (770) 925-8248 | http://www.wittsend.com/mhw/ > NIC whois: MHW9 | An optimist believes we live in the best of all > PGP Key: 0xDF1DD471 | possible worlds. A pessimist is sure of it! > >

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Re: Van Eck articles
by azur＠netcom.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>Looking for: > >"Electromagnetic Radiation from Video Display Units: An Eavesdropping >Risk?" by Wim Van Eck, published in "Computers & Security," 1985, Vol 4 I OCR'd this and have it as either an 895K Word 5.1a (Mac) or 705K Acrobat document. I'll email a copy to anyone that's interested. > >and > >"Protective Measures Against Compromising Electromagnetic Radiation Emitted >by Video Display Terminals" by Professor Erhard Moller, Aachen University, >1990 (no source citation) I seem to have misplaced this document. However, I don't recall OCR'r it. -- Steve

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Carto international money-laundering/embezzlement case
by rcgraves＠ix.netcom.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Dale Thorn <dthorn(a)gte.net> wrote: > > Further (and at the risk of being identified with a particular > political slant, which I don't have), this "newspaper" is actively > collaborating with other international interests to put the nail in > Free Speech, via the Holocaust issue. Carto of Liberty Lobby fame Apologies for replying to a crank whom most people are already ignoring, but I've got lots of material relating to the case of Legion v. Carto, which Dale summarizes quite wrongly, at http://www-leland.stanford.edu/~llurch/potw2/legion/ Cypherpunk relevance: HUGE. Money laundering, reputation control, data and tax havens, libertarian and Nazi fantasies, criminal cults, and a dog named Fido. Judge Maino: | I believe that I could appoint a platoon of lawyers and accountants | to look into this case and I would still not be much closer to answering | the following questions than I am today. The reason the truth will never | be fully known is because the parties, all highly intelligent and | capable, seem to have spent their lives forming organizations and then | transferring money between these organizations to avoid problems with | their opponents or the government. A good example of this is Ms. Farrel. | She gives up U.S. Citizenship, takes Columbian citizenship, and resides | in Switzerland to avoid taxes. She keeps her assets in the U.S., England, | Switzerland, Germany, Singapore and Japan. She sets up a Liberian | corporation, Neca, to take charge of her assets for the Legion which is a | Texas corporation doing business in California. Far from Dale's preoccupation with "international joo interests," it's a case of two neo-Nazi groups suing each other over the mismanagement of an inheritance. Stir in a little CoS interest (they want to cover up Marcellus's involvement with Holocaust denial and to associate recent legal actions against the cult in Germany with the Holocaust), and it's a veritable cornucopia of fruitcakes bashing each other, all over money for which no clear accounting can be made because it was always kept at least partly underground. Would that we could all do so well. The judge's letter on how he saw the witnesses is *very* entertaining. It's legion-vs-carto-letter.html in the above directory, but by all means, read it all. If you have soft copies of anything The Spotlight or any other pro-Carto rag has to say for itself, I'd be delighted to archive them, too. - -rich -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQBVAwUBMrT+85NcNyVVy0jxAQHhewIArARpR1DeaX+dKeyB+nAbL0otSEbtfO+I kRrfJMG6rR9TrMXPcRpj/ViWXvqEPOMNJoUXjv3xGfT6MoXcsuPFhQ== =f60U -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: sorry for the spam!
by Dagmar the Surreal 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 10:49 PM 12/15/96 -0500, "Michael H. Warfield" <mhw(a)wittsend.com> wrote: >Psionic Damage enscribed thusly: > >> I apologize 4 the spam, not my doing, Haven't figured out who waz >> responsible, but I will understand if I amd kicked off this list. >> Once again, I am sorry. > > The individual is a little shit operating a windows system on >IP address 206.129.116.108 as of Sunday evening. While the messages >where poping up on cypherpunks, one of the Received-By headers was >indicating his IP address. I was able to confirm his presence on the >network and determine it to be a windows system operating with the workstation >name of "MARLAEST" and a workgroup name of "ESTES ADVENTURE". He's not >operating a windows messaging pop-up or I would have sent him an appropriate >message of appreciation. Since it IS a windows system (and not running >sendmail) I think it is safe to assume that he IS the end point of this >bullshit. > > 206.129.116.108 is in a block assigned to Premier1 Internet, >Coordinator Michael Heuerman, mikheu(a)PREMIER1.NET (360-793-3658), who is also >getting a copy of this... Aside from that, the traceroute of that IP address just happens to take it to nlights.net, which is apparently somehow affiliated with AOL, but in any case, the WWW pages the spam points to just HAPPEN to list down at the bottom an email address to contact the author which isn't a remailing service like geocities or hotmail. It's zerofaith(a)nlights.net. ^^^^^^^^^^^ Normally I don't like to call people liars in public, but I think that if Mr. Faith doesn't know who's responsible for the spam, then I'm the Queen of @#$%! England. ---------- Dagmar the Surreal, now with 50% less sodium! Coming in 1997--Surreal III, http://edge.edge.net/~dagmar (...now where did I leave that darn salt?)

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xxx
by IIR GmbH & Co 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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name.space. call for content
by mf＠MediaFilter.org 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Hello All, The black.hole in the net project is now online and functioning. Please add your project to the "switchboard" via the links generator accessable from the black.hole page: http://black.hole (or http://blackhole.autono.net) The page is beginning to get lots of hits, so now's the time to put up your stuff! Best wishes, Paul Garrin

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NYT: Faulty Crypto Policy
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The New York Times, December 16, 1996, p. A14. Another Faulty Encryption Policy [Editorial] The Clinton Administration has issued its third plan in as many years to keep powerful encryption programs for telephone and computer messages out of the hands of international terrorists and criminals. But this latest plan to control the export of encryption software, like the two before it, is unworkable and risks trampling on privacy rights and harming American software firms. Encryption in the hands of criminals unquestionably makes law enforcement hard. But the greatest use of encryption is by banks and other legal businesses that need to transmit confidential data without fear of interception. In legitimate hands, encryption helps to prevent crime. The Administration first sought to steer all Americans toward an encryption standard that Washington would design, thus preserving the Government's ability to tap phone calls. But after sharp criticism of Government snooping, the Administration retreated to a policy, still rejected by most privacy advocates and software firms, aimed at exports of encryption programs. The newly released regulations, which were supposed to implement the October policy, in fact make a flawed policy even worse. The one consistent thread through the Administration's plans is commitment to an encryption standard that uses mathematical "passwords" to scramble messages. The Government would then have the technical capacity to recover passwords, upon court order, and unscramble the phone or computer message. But the new policy will not succeed abroad. The Administration insists it needs not only to unscramble stored computer files but also to tap phone and computer messages, without the caller's knowledge, as they are transmitted. That would in effect require the foreign purchaser of American software to deposit its passwords with a reputable outside party -- a government agency, a bank or the computer firm from which it bought the software -- which would relinquish them upon court order and without notifying the user. What foreign company or individual will purchase software that is prey to undisclosed Government snooping when they can, buy equally powerful encryption from foreign firms that offer no such path for eavesdropping? The plan runs into other insolvable problems. It does not propose prohibiting powerful encryption software for domestic purchase, where such programs are constitutionally protected and already in wide use. Thus anyone could, with a few key strokes, send the domestically available programs over the Internet to Europe and beyond. The Administration also fears that software firms will write their programs so that the powerful domestic versions communicate readily with the easier-to-tap export products. If so, the technical result would be that criminals here and abroad could communicate out of reach of Government wiretaps. The Administration proposes to solve that problem by prohibiting software firms from providing easy communication between their domestic and export products. But that would make American export encryption programs unsellable abroad. A panel of the National Research Council recommended that Washington drop export restrictions on encryption software already available abroad, beef up the F.B.I.'s ability to crack private encryption codes and support private efforts to develop high quality encryption to stop illegal eavesdropping. Those steps will improve communications security and will not put Government law officers in corporate boardrooms, open E-mail to instant wiretaps or send foreign customers toward European and Asian software firms. [End]

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