December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

PRZ Announcement
by Phillip R. Zimmermann 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 In light of the great amount of discussion currently taking place in regard to the benefits and disadvantages of my latest bid for money, power, fame and the respect of the corporate computer industry, I would like to reassure the cynics that my committment to privacy has never been stronger. However, I have reassessed my views of who truly has a right to control access to privacy and have come to the conclusion that privacy is too important an issue to be left in the hands of the individual, with the obvious potential for misuse. After a review of the astounding success of the PGP Public Key Server's use, in conjunction with our PGP Privy Products, in ensuring proper key management and control of forgery, spoofing and misuse of Public/Private Key technology, it has become clear that individual privacy can best be ensured under the watchful eye of those with the resources to provide proper surveillance of those who have earned the right to privacy, in order to prevent abuse of that right. I would like to thank my other brother, Phil (Hallam-Baker), for helping me to see that unsupervised use of the right to privacy could result in individuals misusing that right to publish extremely embarassing pictures of me in compromising positions which could affect my credibility. As a matter of fact, it was PH-B who suggested my new signature line. PRZ ~~~ "I don't put them in the PGPtray...I just turn on the GAK." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP for Personal Privacy 5.0 Charset: noconv iQA/AwUBNE/sV17MfpC8gEO7EQKaCQCePKAo033KBg/O/T9Nz5IrGLIcCZcAn0L4 JDtdMovT9RZKA4PXwJTNdvpr =Xvzl - -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP for Personal Privacy 5.0 Charset: noconv iQA/AwUBNE/svUlfPVhsMJvfEQI2zgCg8aQ15PEU4eNItEprsLQHd2259fIAn2a1 wwKyecnoEQuCElB3ZtJBZQBz =53jb -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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wombat
by apache＠bear.apana.org.au 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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David Kahn on National Encryption Policy
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

This was published in the October 22 Congressional Record as part of a statement by Senator Moynihan on the retirement of NSA Deputy Director William Crowell: [From Newsday, Oct. 6, 1997] National Security Official Retires--Helped Refocus Agency's Aims (By David Kahn) The National Security Agency has said goodbye to its retiring deputy director, who largely brought the super- secret spy organization into its public, post-Cold War posture. William P. Crowell was the force behind the establishment of the National Cryptologic Museum, which exhibits what had been some of the nation's deepest secrets; the revelation of the VENONA project, which broke Soviet spy codes early in the Cold War; and the National Encryption Policy, which seeks to balance personal privacy with national security. Succeeding Crowell will be Barbara McNamara, who, like Crowell, is a career employee of the agency, which breaks foreign codes and makes American Codes for the United States government. McNamara is the second female deputy director of the agency. The first, Ann Z. Caracristi, who served from 1980 to 1982, is the sister of the late Newsday photographer Jimmy Caracristi. More than 500 present and past members of the agency attended Crowell's recent retirement ceremony at its glossy, triple-fenced headquarters at Fort Meade, Md. They applauded as he was presented with awards for his intelligence and executive services and with a folded American flag that had flow over the agency. They laughed as a picture, claimed to be his retirement portrait, was unveiled: It was a photograph of Crowell, notorious for his love of motorcycles, astride his fancy bike. During his acceptance speech, Crowell choked up when he thanked his wife, Judy, a former agency employee and fellow motorcyclist, for her help. The agency director, Air Force Lt. Gen. Kenneth Minihan, recited some of the administrative landmarks of Crowell's career. Crowell, 58, a native of Louisiana, began in New York City in 1962 as an agency recruiter. In 1969, when he sought an assignment to operations, he became instead an executive assistant to the then-director. He eventually got to operations, where he rose to be chief of W group, whose function remains secret, and then chief of A group, which focused on the then-Soviet Union. After a year in private industry, he rose through other posts to the deputy directorship on Feb. 2, 1994. Among his organizational accomplishments were conceiving a crisis action center and linking the agency with other producers of intelligence to improve information exchange. His more public initiatives included the museum and the VENONA disclosures, which sought to maintain public support for the agency after the disappearance of the Soviet Union. The National Encryption Policy seeks to enable the agency to read the messages of terrorists and international criminals who use computer-based, unbreakable ciphers while enabling individuals to use good cryptosecurity to preserve such rights as security on the Internet. ---------- See Moynihan's statement: http://jya.com/nsa-crowell.htm

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Important
by fp7e＠fp7e30.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Senator Lott on Encryption
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Excerpt below of statement on encryption policy by Senate Majority Leader Lott published in the October 21 Congressional Record. Full statement at: http://jya.com/lott-crypto.htm (12K) ---------- Senator Lott: During the past month, the FBI has attempted to change the debate by proposing a series of new mandatory controls on the domestic sale and use of encryption products. Let me be clear. There are currently no restrictions on the rights of Americans to use encryption to protect their personal financial or medical records or their private e-mail messages. There have never been domestic limitations, and similarly, American businesses have always been free to buy and use the strongest possible encryption to protect sensitive information from being stolen or changed. But now, the FBI proposes to change all that. The FBI wants to require that any company that produces or offers encryption security products or services guarantee immediate access to plain text information without the knowledge of the user. Their proposal would subject software companies and telecommunications providers to prison sentences for failure to guarantee immediate access to all information on the desktop computers of all Americans. That would move us into an entirely new world of surveillance, a very intrusive surveillance, where every communication by every individual can be accessed by the FBI. Where is probable cause? Why has the FBI assumed that all Americans are going to be involved in criminal activities? Where is the Constitution? And how would this proposal possibly help the FBI? According to a forthcoming book by the M.I.T. Press, of the tens of thousands of cases handled annually by the FBI, only a handful have involved encryption of any type, and even fewer involved encryption of computer data. Let's face it--despite the movies, the FBI solves its cases with good old- fashioned police work, questioning potential witnesses, gathering material evidence, and using electronic bugging or putting microphones on informants. Restricting encryption technology in the U.S. would not be very helpful to the FBI. The FBI proposal won't work. I have talked with experts in the world of software and cryptography, who have explained that the technology which would provide compliance with the FBI standard simply does not exist. The FBI proposal would force a large unfunded mandate on our high technology firms, at a time when there is no practical way to accomplish that mandate. Rather than solve problems in our export policy, this FBI proposal would create a whole new body of law and regulations restricting our domestic market. This and similar proposals would also have a serious impact on our foreign market. Overseas businesses and governments believe that the U.S. might use its keys to computer encryption systems to spy on their businesses and politicians. Most U.S. software and hardware manufacturers believe this is bad for business and that nobody will trust the security of U.S. encryption products if this current policy continues. In fact, this proposal appears to violate the European Union's data-privacy laws, and the European Commission is expected to reject it this week. So, the FBI proposal would: Invade our privacy; be of minimal use to the FBI; would require nonexistent technology; would create new administrative burdens; and would seriously damage our foreign markets. This is quite a list. Mr. President, the FBI proposal is simply wrong. I have learned that even the administration does not support this new FBI proposal. So why does the FBI believe it must now subject all Americans to more and more surveillance? This independent action by the FBI has created confusion and mixed signals which are troublesome for the Senate as it works on this legislation. Perhaps the FBI and the Justice Department need to focus immediately on a coordinated encryption position. Mr. President, I congratulate the members of the House Commerce Committee for rejecting this FBI approach by a vote margin of more than 2 to 1. -----

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Re: US Senator Lott Criticizes FBI Crypto Plans (fwd)
by John Smith 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Senator Lott says: >Where is probable cause? Why has the FBI assumed that all Americans are >going to be involved in criminal activities? Where is the Constitution? Bravo, Senator Lott! It is a pleasure to hear a Senator speak out against the FBI's plans. Plus he is basing it on the Constitution as well as practical problems. So many Senators become mouthpieces for the FBI. What a pleasant difference. Senator Lott's words deserve to be widely heard. Let us remember that not everyone in the government is in Louis Freeh's pocket. With people like Senator Lott we can still be confident that Louis Freeh's Big Brother plans can be stopped. "John ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

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Elliptic Curve Cryptography
by Nobuki Nakatuji 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Is Elliptic Curve Cryptography a better encryption system than RSA ? ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

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Re: ADMIN: lost messages (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > From: Jeff Barber <jeffb(a)issl.atl.hp.com> > Subject: Re: ADMIN: lost messages (fwd) > Date: Thu, 23 Oct 1997 13:21:27 -0400 (EDT) > I understand this rationale. It isn't a rationale, its reality. This view is not moderated by political or ideological beliefs but the harsh reality that things don't work the right way all the time. > But that doesn't explain what's > happening to the missing messages. Your implied base assumption is that the reason is always the same. I seriously doubt it. > Is there a flaw in the > distributor/reflector duplicate-filtering algorithms? The process is so simple it ain't funny. I believe, but won't guarantee it, that we are all using a procmail script to remove duplicate messages, and that is all the 'distributor/reflector duplicate-filter algorithms' there is. Unless one of the other repeaters is doing something more complicated they haven't said. In short, you are under the misconception that this is something special, it ain't. SSZ receives traffic from the other remailers at cpunks(a)ssz.com, just a normal user account, which has the procmail script filtering duplicates. It then forwards to cypherpunks(a)ssz.com, which is the majordomo managed list. cpunks(a)ssz.com as well as the rest of the subscribers get their traffic from here. If the procmail breaks then I get a mail loop at SSZ and my box fills up and lets me know pretty quickly something is broke because majordomo recognizes this through the X-loop: and kills them in that case as well as sending postmaster (me) all kinds of nifty hints. The other sites in this case still filter duplicates so things still don't run away. >From my end to add another node is to put it in the procmail script for outbound and have them add cpunks to their outbound list. > Or is this > a problem of certain messages being introduced into a node whose > product does not get propagated to all subscribers of all the other > nodes? Sounds good to me...<shrug> > Or are you saying that if ssz (say) goes down for a few > minutes it forgets about any mail it has queued up for its > counterparts at cyberpass and algebra (et al.)? No, SSZ has full inbound and outbound traffic queing for up to 4 days or the hard drive fills up here and at my ISP. ____________________________________________________________________ | | | The financial policy of the welfare state requires that there | | be no way for the owners of wealth to protect themselves. | | | | -Alan Greenspan- | | | | _____ The Armadillo Group | | ,::////;::-. Austin, Tx. USA | | /:'///// ``::>/|/ http://www.ssz.com/ | | .', |||| `/( e\ | | -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- Jim Choate | | ravage(a)ssz.com | | 512-451-7087 | |____________________________________________________________________| ps The ISDN was apparently moved to a new pair. It seems rock solid at this point...time will tell.

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CDR Operators & interaction...
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Hi, I have received a couple of pieces of mail that concern me. The content seems to indicate that people have one or both of two basic misconceptions about the CDR: - The operators do not communicate between ourselves unless one of us begins to recieve duplicates or other indications of problems at another site. Outside of that we simply don't communicate. - I am NOT in any way the moderator, central clearing house, or in any other manner concerned with the operation of the 'network' of remailers. I operarate SSZ as a home-based business and the CDR is motivated by my personal interest in the various issues as well as the fact that it costs nothing extra for me to carry. The remailer network was initialy instituted by Igor and myself in order to keep the Cypherpunks mailing list alive after the toad.com announcement that the mailing list was going away due to the various issue related to the moderation experiment. The entire point was to create a system such that it was simple and could not be compromised by any single operator. Furthermore, if you or anyone you know is interested in joining the CDR as a remailer node, archive site, mail-news gateway, etc. then send a message to the list requesting the various operators for feeds. SSZ has a standing invitation to anyone who desires to have a full-time participant. ____________________________________________________________________ | | | The financial policy of the welfare state requires that there | | be no way for the owners of wealth to protect themselves. | | | | -Alan Greenspan- | | | | _____ The Armadillo Group | | ,::////;::-. Austin, Tx. USA | | /:'///// ``::>/|/ http://www.ssz.com/ | | .', |||| `/( e\ | | -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- Jim Choate | | ravage(a)ssz.com | | 512-451-7087 | |____________________________________________________________________|

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Did you taken part in a key crack?
by Trei Family 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I'm giving a presentation at the RSA Data Security Conference in January, 1998. The title is "Key Cracking for fun and Profit: The Year in Review". The main topic will be the activity spawned by the RSA Secret Key Challenges, though I'll include other brute-force and factoring efforts, in 1997 or before. If you have taken part in a key search, and/or have any thoughts on the topic you'd like to share, I hope you'll send them to me at trei(a)ziplink.net. I'm particularly interested in finding out about some of the less-known efforts - for example, the DES effort rumored to have taken place at SGI, and the early, abortive RC5/56 effort at a New York site. Stories, anecdotes, and issues raised by the efforts are all welcomed. Responses will be kept confidential if desired. Thanks, Peter Trei trei(a)ziplink.net DISCLAIMER: The above are my own views, should not be misconstrued to represent those of my employer.

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