December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

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17 Dec '03

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Censorship on Cypherpunks
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17 Dec '03

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Re: Handbook of Applied Cryptography
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Here's the publisher's URL for Handbook of Applied Cryptography, which amplifies Patrick's summary, and gives ordering info. http://www.crcpress.com/PRODS/8523.HTM Just reading the mouthwatering summaries and the extensive, detailed list of topics is a good primer on crypto.

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Re: Reuters article: "Unstoppable Internet will defy controls"
by nobody＠replay.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>More broadly, modern governments rely on their ability to control >information and money to maintain control over their citizens. >But does the Net mean we no longer need government in its present form? The German law professor Alexander Rossnagel has published an article titled "Globale Datennetze: Ohnmacht des Staates - Selbstschutz der Buerger" (global networks: state's impotence, citizens' self-protection) in Zeitschrift fuer Rechtspolitik 1997, p. 26 ff. He describes that decentral networks are difficult to control, and anonymizers, encryption and steganography can be used to defy surveillance. "[The state] can neither enforce matters of public interest, nor offer protection to its citizens", including protection of privacy and legally protected secrets. The state cannot effectively face law violations: "If it somewhere suppresses information, it will be 'mirrored' by many other servers world-wide. If it blocks communication lines, the message will find a way around. Sattelite transmission also renders the question of location almost irrelevant. Theresa Orlowski was denied a license for her porn channel here. Now she is broadcasting from Britain. In cyberspace, functions of social relevance, such as protection of minors, can no longer be fulfilled by the state. They are transferred to the parents exclusively." "The state can only interevene where the immaterial world of the network touches the physical world: It can arrest criminals, seize devices and data storage, when these physically are in its control. It can enforce adherance to its laws where it physically can exersize its power. But in the incorporeal world of the network, to a large extend it is powerless. All these examples indicate a new fact: The networks constitute a new incorporeal social space. Increasingly more social contacts, economic and legal exchanges are being transferred to it. In it, conditions are different from in the social relationships of the physical world. In this new world, the state has no means of coercion, no monopoly of power, and no sovereignty." "Law to be enforced requires power. The democratic constitutional state depends on sovereignty and obediency to laws. Only with these it can universally enforce democratic decisions and protect the citizens' basic rights from violations by third parties. To guarantee this is the fundamental reason for the modern state to exist. Its protective mission continues to apply. However, it has expanded with the civilisatoric development. With Hobbes, the focus was on the procetion of life and limb, with Locke the protection of freedom and property were added, and in this century, facing new threats, the protection of privacy. [... The states'] sovereignty is based on the authority to exclusively exercise physical power in [their territory]. This sovereignty has limits in the immaterial space of global networks. But when the citizen no longer receives the state's protection in the special sphere of the networks and the state can no more enforce matters of public interest there, then its basic legitimation in so far is in danger. According to Thomas Hobbes, 'the citizen's obligation to the sovereign can ... only last as long as he is capable of protecting the citizens'." But that would also endanger democracy and the constitional state. Stating that the normative strategy at large is obsolete, the author proposes new solotions: "When the democratic constitutional state can no longer reliably protect its citizens in the new social space of the networks, in compensation it must enable them to protect themselves." Information and communications technology offers various means of protection: * encryption and steganography * digital signatures * untraceable pseudonyms * certified electronic mail * ecash * software agents * connectivity management programs [whatever that is...] * cellular phones without location data * PICS * secure portable user-controlled devices that support these measures "Some of these measures - for example the encryption program PGP - can be used without any advance concession. The state only has to abstain from impeding regulations. Others - such as digital signatures - depend on an infrastructure that allows the individual to use these protective measures. The citizen of information society still depends on infrastructural prerequsites. But there is a fundamental difference in whether the individual can decide about using self-controlled protective measures himself, or the state or an other large organization offers protection that he cannot influence." "In order to protect and preserve the /old/ goals of freedom and self-determination in the /new/ social space of the networks, law must permit and support /new/ technologies." The article ends with the author's vision of a 'civil information society' as a free democratic society where basic rights are guaranteed by technology. "In this information society, the state has a limited, but fundamental role. [...] it creates a framework for the citizens to protect themselves. Thus they are enabled to freely inform themselves, solve conflicts in free self-organization, and negotiate and practice mutual security without depending on a big brother."

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[STEGO] PGP 3
by nobody＠huge.cajones.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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[ANNOUNCE] overview.htm
by nobody＠huge.cajones.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Re: X.500
by nobody＠huge.cajones.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Cellular location
by nobody＠huge.cajones.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Re: OTP security
by paul＠fatmans.demon.co.uk 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> I was thinking about the thread we had a week or so ago about OTPs. Say > I'm going to burn a CD of what I think are cryptographically random bits, > but somehow I end up with part of my stream being predictable (say every > 16th bit). What does this do to the security of my CD? Depends on how that 16th bit is related to the other bits and whether these predictable bits give any information about the other bits on the disk. If we assume all the other bits are true random and that the 16th bits are predictable only in that they can be predicted left and right but do not depend upon the other bits not in positions 16, 32, 48, 16n etc... we can just discard them and use the rest obtaining perfect security. We can even use all the bits and all we lose is one bit every two bytes and therefore if we are calling the bytes ASCII and say adding mod 13 we only have "imperfect" security on every 2nd character where there are 2^7 eg. 128 possible characters. Suprisingly this yields perfect security as there are still a number of possible pads which lead to reasonable and plausible decryptions. Datacomms Technologies web authoring and data security Paul Bradley, Paul(a)fatmans.demon.co.uk Paul(a)crypto.uk.eu.org, Paul(a)cryptography.uk.eu.org Http://www.cryptography.home.ml.org/ Email for PGP public key, ID: 5BBFAEB1 "Don`t forget to mount a scratch monkey"

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Re: Handbook of Applied Cryptography
by bs-org＠c2.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Can anybody inform me where to get this book in Europa or can anybody buy it in USA and send it to me. I wil post the money immediately plus shipping At 17:10 1997-01-27 -0500, Mullen, Patrick wrote: >(My apologies if someone else has posted this information and I missed >it.) > >_Handbook_of_Applied_Cryptography_, Menezes, Oorschot, Vanstone, > CRC Press, Boca Raton, 1997 > >With a foreword by R.L. Rivest > >Contents in Brief: >Table of Contents v >List of Tables xv >List of Figures xix >Foreword xxi >Preface xxiii > >1 Overview of Cryptography 1 >2 Mathematical Background 49 >3 Number-Theoretic Reverence > Problems 87 >4 Pulic-Key Parameters 133 >5 Pseudorandom Bits and > Sequences 169 >6 Stream Ciphers 191 >7 Block Ciphers 223 >8 Public-Key Encryption 283 >9 Hash Functions and Data > Integrity 321 >10 Identification and Entity > Authentication 385 >11 Digital Signatures 425 >12 Key Establishment > Protocols 489 >13 Key Management Techniques 543 >14 Efficient Implementation 591 >15 Patents and Standards 635 >A Bibliography of Papers from > Selected Cryptographic > Forums 663 > >References 703 >Index 775 > >>From the back cover: > ><< BEGIN QUOTE >> >Cryptography, in particular public-key cryptography, has emerged in the >las 20 years as an important discipline that is not only the subject of >an >enormous amount of research, but provides the foundation for information >security in many applications. Standards are emerging to meet the >demands >for cryptographic protection in most areas of data communications. >Public- >key cryptographic techniques are now in widespread use in industry, >especially in the financial services industry, in the public sector, and >by >individuals for their personal privacy, such as in electronic mail. >This >Handbook will serve as a valuable reference for the novice as well as >for >the expert who needs a wider scope of coverage within the aread of >cryptography. It is a necessary and timely guide for professionals who >practice the art of cryptography. > >The _Handbook_of_Applied_Cryptography_ provides a treatment that >is multifunctional: > >* It serves as an introduction to the more practical aspects of > both conventional and public-key cryptography > >* It is a valuable source of the latest techniques and algorithms > for the serious practitioner > >* It provides an integrated treatment of the field, whil still > presenting each major topic as a self-contained unit > >* It provides a mathematical treatment to accompany > practical discussions > >* It contains enough abstractoin to be a valuable reference for > theoreticians while containing enough detail to actually allow > implementation of the algorithms discussed > >This is the definitive cryptography reference that novice as well as >experienced >developers, designers, researchers, engineers, computer scientists, and >mathematicials alike will find indispensable. ><< END QUOTE >> > >~~ Patrick > >

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