December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Esnoop Corrections
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

RH helpfully noted errors in a few URLs in the "Electronic Surveillance" doc which have been corrected: http://jya.com/esnoop.htm

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Esnoop Corrections
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

RH helpfully noted errors in a few URLs in the "Electronic Surveillance" doc which have been corrected: http://jya.com/esnoop.htm

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17 Dec '03

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Re: Moderation and the Polymorphic Virus
by serw30＠laf.cioe.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> To: cypherpunks(a)toad.com > serw30(a)laf.cioe.com writes: > > Yes, lets create polymorphic viruses and CPU cycle stealing Java > > applets. Maybe even a new and improved Internet worm... > Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM writes: > "Cypher punks" can't write any code - be it mail filters, viruses, or crypto. > Aw, surely "Cypher punks" can write some sort of code. Batch files, Macros for Word, programs for Logo or Turtle graphics, tell me it isn't so! Eric

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RE: New Release: Universal Data Cryptography Module V2.0
by Mullen Patrick 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

_______________________________________________________________________________ From: Black Unicorn on Thu, Jan 9, 1997 6:10 >On Wed, 8 Jan 1997 DataETRsch(a)aol.com wrote: > >> Integrated Mathematical Data Manipulation and Positioning. Extensive research >> shows that IMDMP is more advanced than DES, RSA, IDEA, and PGP. > >What research? >What is "extensive?" >What is "more advanced?" Paraphrasing a glossary of Comp-Sci terms I received in email, and using it to translate the second sentence above "Extensive research . . . PGP.": After trying unsuccessfully to get the damned thing to work for a very long time, we finally got it to work. Now it's so patched up we can't figure out what it's doing. PM

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17 Dec '03

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Re: [IDEA] Cypherpunks Super Computer (was Re: The Upcoming DES Challenge)
by Hal Finney 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

From: "Frank O'Dwyer" <fod(a)brd.ie> > However, what if there was a safe scripting language with bignum > arithmetic and other cryptographic primitives, and what if > lots of people ran a service that would accept scripts in > that language and respond with the answer? Say, a Safe-TCL > interface to Peter Gutmann's cryptlib, running at idle > priority? Sort of like a distributed batch queue, and also > a bit like the way jobs are (were?) submitted to Crays. The > Cypherpunks Super Computer. It need not be significantly slower > than raw code if the primitives are high level enough. A few years ago I coded up a TCL interface to Pr0duct Cypher's PGPTOOLS library. It did bignum arithmetic from the command line, and also let you use MD5 and IDEA on files and buffers. Unfortunately I had a major disk crash and was never able to recover my last version, and I never got back to it. Safe-TCL has never gotten the scrutiny of Java, but IMO if it ever does it will be found to suffer from its own flaws. At this point I think Java is farther along the path to safety. I do like the idea of a widely available, installed, crypto-capable scripting language. This would be an ideal basis for trying out new crypto protocols and algorithms, without having to write a whole program from scratch. We have been talking about setting up DC nets for years, for example. The concept is so simple as to be almost trivial. But the infrastructure is the hard part - dealing with the I/O issues, the multiple architectures, all the configuration issues. I suspect that Java, when it gets its security API, may be a good candidate for this kind of system. It's already got high level socket I/O, and with a bignum package and some basic crypto primitives like one way functions, you could do a lot with it. You still have the problem of trading off safety for utility, though. Hal

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IBM Opens Bin
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

IBM announced today that it will make available free to the public its vast bin of 2 million US patents formerly accessible only to its own engineers and attorneys: http://patent.womplex.ibm.com/ Welcome to the IBM Patent Server. With this World Wide Web server, IBM lets you access over 26 years of U.S. Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) patent descriptions as well as the last ten years of images. The first entries date back to January 5, 1971. You can search, retrieve and study over two million patents. NYT has a report about it: www.nytimes.com

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Crypto Punch
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Punch in "cryptography" at the IBM patent site and ogle: you won't believe your oozing orbs. http://patent.womplex.ibm.com/ Then try other bell-ringers of this punch-drunk ring.

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IMPORTANT: Additional information about UDCM.
by DataETRsch＠aol.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

{Please read this *entire* e-mail message.} Hi, A detailed description of the IMDMP encryption algorithm will be posted to this mailing list within a few days. An end-user application will be released within a few weeks. I would appreciate it if all you cypherpunks out there review the description and the software, and tell me what you think of IMDMP. Also: The AOL web site address my company has may not always work out when the server is having problems or user overloads. Please try again later. Again, the web site address for UDCM, Universal Data Cryptography Module, is: http://members.aol.com/DataETRsch/udcm.html. IN RESPONSE TO THE FLAME MAIL DATA RESEARCH HAS BEEN RECEIVING: Note: The 18 "sub-algorithms" of IMDMP are basically algorithm "modes", and, yes, many algorithms do *not* have multiple encryption layers, although, obviously, the more advanced ones do. Also, 256 bytes is equal to 2048 bits. I realize that most of you out there know that, but some of you don't. "Bits" are referenced more often than "bytes". And, the "industry standard" that IMDMP is obviously well above is DES, etc. Also, DES 128, PGP 1024, RSA 128, IDEA 128, and IMDMP 2048 were applied at their maximum settings on a file full of about 64 *million* repeating "A" ASCII character bytes. The mutation levels the algorithms rendered on their individual trash test files were compared. Subtle patterns where searched for. Binary character tallys where taken. IMDMP did *not* leave *any* repeating patterns in the test file that was used. In IMDMP, each of the 256 possible binary character combinations had an approximate count of 0.390625% of all of the 64 million bytes. 0.390625% is the best possible percentage. Are all of you out there satisfied? Jeremy K. Yu-Ramos President DataET Research Data Engineering Technologies

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