December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: [MORE] Re: A Pretty Good Story
by Declan McCullagh 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 07:41 -0500 12/9/97, Lynne L. Harrison wrote: >Citing unintended political consequences, Network Associates - the new >owner of PGP - has withdrawn from the Key Recovery Alliance. Um, yes. This is exactly what I wrote in my article yesterday. ("The McAfee-PGP combo, called Network Associates, has dropped out of the alliance") Zimmermann didn't even know McAfee was in it until late last week. -Declan

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A little proffessional advice required
by Jyri Poldre 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Hello everyone. Some time (Actually some years) ago there was a discussion about Cryptographic device being devoloped in Estonia. Well now we have some real results to share. I will include a short description with some questions. Hope to hear from you all soon. As a result of scientific research project a team in Tallinn Technical University has developed a cryptographic processor. The first phase of the project has been a success. It ended with a prototype and presentation at NORCHIP'97 conference. Now the team is specifying the tasks for second phase of the project. If you have some time to answer to few questions, we would be extremely pleased. The data could help us to create a real circuit for solving real problems not just one for satisfying academic curiosity :) The circuit is a programmable modular arithmetic calculator and IDEA block cipher. ALU is 96 bits wide and is shared between IDEA and modular calculations. The circuit contains RAM for storing key exchange data, total of 16 registers. Two of them are used for Internal ALU calculations, 2 for storing expanded IDEA keys and one for several small 32 bit variables (cycle counter, upper parts of expanded IDEA keys, raw IDEA keys, & so on). Currently modular calculations length is 768 Bits. We have produced a test circuit and got the following results: Technology: Atmel ES2 1.0um 2 Metal CMOS, standard cell, 50 Kgates Speed: 20 MHz Modular exponent time: 0.1 Sec ( currently 768 Bits ) IDEA speed 20 Mbit/Sec All these results are also at: www.pld.ttu.ee/~prj/norchip.html Now we are designing a new circuit, what should provide some real interest to encrypting devices users. The obvious things to do with the previous circuit are: Add Second ALU, RAM, redesign datapath and use faster technology for Longer modular calculations ( 2*768 bits ) Faster exponent using 2 ALUS in parallel and CRT 100 Mbit/sec IDEA speed In pursuit of perfection we must keep in mind the penalty of silicon area, lower yields, longer devolopment time and thus higher price. Question 1: How much speed would be reasonable enough for both IDEA and modular exponent? Question 2: The second question concerns external interface. What protocol if any should we include into the circuit? The RS232 strikes as a first possible solution for smart card applications. Could there be some other common interfaces that we should consider including into the circuit? Sincerely, Tallinn Technical University, Design and Test laboratory, IDEXP circuit design team.

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Re: Remailer Trivia / Re: Singapore & Freedom (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > From: Adam Shostack <adam(a)homeport.org> > Subject: Re: Remailer Trivia / Re: Singapore & Freedom (fwd) > Date: Tue, 9 Dec 1997 10:55:26 -0500 (EST) > With both Nynex and Bell Atlantic, I've gotten phone service under a > nym. No SSN, no credit references, no problem. > > Just don't call yourself Bill Clinton. That isn't the same as having it listed under the nym 'anonymous', when you can get a phone company to start service, accept payment under that 'name' and keep it that way in their records let me know. Further, with the cross to the service address your anonymity isn't. ____________________________________________________________________ | | | | | We built your fort. We will not have it used against us. | | | | John Wayne - Allegheny Uprising | | | | | | _____ 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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Senator to review "voluntary" privacy guidelines
by Declan McCullagh 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

[So much for the privacy code being "voluntary." It's precisely as voluntary and ill-advised as the Vchip or PICS. All illustrate one point: if corporations don't self-regulate, the government will do it for them. --Declan] ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 08 Dec 1997 18:11:38 -0500 From: Aaron Pressman <aaron.pressman(a)reuters.com> US lawmaker to review info industry's privacy code WASHINGTON, Dec 8 (Reuters) - U.S. Senate Commerce Committee chairman John McCain said Monday he planned to review voluntary industry efforts to protect the privacy of people using the Internet. The Arizona Republican made the statement in a letter to the head of the Information Technology Industry Council, a group of computer manufacturers that unveiled on Monday a code of conduct for respecting privacy on their sites on the Internet's World Wide Web. "I look forward to reviewing these standards at the Commerce Committee," McCain said. McCain called the group's eight privacy principles "a good first step," adding that he was "pleased the industry took it upon itself to attempt to deal with this important issue." Council officials said the voluntary guidelines were, in part, intended to address the concerns of lawmakers and President Bill Clinton, who in July challenged the industry to come up with practices to protect privacy. The council included major personal computer makers such as Dell Computer Corp <DELL.O> and Compaq Computer Corp <CPQ.N>, chipmakers like Intel Corp <INTC.O> and Motorola Inc <MOT.N> and manufacturers of related gear like AMP Inc <AMP.N> and Lexmark International Group Inc <LXK.N>. The guidelines recommend that a company notify consumers of what personal data are being collected on a Web site and allow them some degree of choice over how the data are used. Technological solutions should be employed "enabling individual data providers to exercise choice and control over their personal data," the guidelines said. Companies should also limit the collection of data to what is needed for valid business reasons and to ensure the data's accuracy and security. One aspect of the guidelines that could draw fire from the White House and Capitol Hill concerns the protection of children's privacy. In July, Clinton said protecting children, who might be unable to make "informed choices" about revealing personal information, could justify some legislation. The new guidelines recommend only that parents teach their children appropriate behavior. "Individuals should use their powers of choice in the marketplace to safeguard their personal data and that of the children," the guidelines said in the only explicit reference to youngsters.

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Encrypted InterNet DEATH THREAT!!! / ATTN: Ninth District Court Judges / PASSWORD: sog
by TruthMailer 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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[Censored] Quote of the Day
by bureau42 Anonymous Remailer 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

From: Fyodor <fygrave(a)freenet.bishkek.su> Reply-To: fygrave(a)usa.net ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 9 Dec 1997 03:50:03 -0700 From: Quote of the day <qotd-request(a)ensu.ucalgary.ca> "Free Speech, Democracy" - complete text of a sign put up on a roadside fence in Vancouver by university law student Craig Jones. Jones was arrested for doing so by Royal Canadian Mounted Police, who were protecting dictators attending the APEC (Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation) meeting in Vancouver, November 1997 from dissent. He was released without being charged after 14 hours in custody. Submitted by: Terry Labach Dec. 1, 1997 -------------------------------------------------------------- Send quotation submissions to qotd(a)ensu.ucalgary.ca Send list changes or requests to qotd-request(a)ensu.ucalgary.ca

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Re: Cato forum tomorrow: should money laundering be a crime?
by Mix 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Lucky Green wrote: >If the feds can *kill* you for any reason or no reason at all, they >certainly can throw you into the slammer for whatever you may choose to >utter. >From Thoreau's "Civil Disobedience": "Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison." [...] "If the injustice is part of the necessary friction of the machine of government, let it go, let it go: perchance it will wear smooth, -certainly the machine will wear out. If the injustice has a spring, or a pulley, or a rope, or a crank, exclusively for itself, then perhaps you may consider whether the remedy will not be worse than the evil; but if it is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law. Let your life be a counter friction to stop the machine. What I have to do is to see, at any rate, that I do not lend myself to the wrong which I condemn."

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Re: Encrypted InterNet DEATH THREAT!!! / ATTN: Ninth District Court Judges / PASSWORD: sog
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

John <spit> Gilmore <fart> wrote: >The problem: Criminals with a simple >encryption program can scramble their data >beyond even the government's ability to read it. >http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/content/zdnn/1208/261695.html > Fuck the lame LEA pricks who whine about not being able to >stop someone bringing in a planeload of drugs without being >able to invade the privacy of every person on the face of >the earth. > Am I supposed to believe that I have knowledge of when and >where major drug shipments are taking place, simply by virtue >of hanging out as a musician, yet the LEA's are incapable of >finding out the same information by being competent in their >profession? Barf City... If memory serves me correctly then the above was written by the John Gilmore cleverly disguised as TruthMonger who railed mightily against the LEAs for claiming lack of resources and manpower for battling the 4 Horsemen despite the fact that LEAs always seem to have all the time and energy needed to attempt to imprison the grandmothers of our great nation who dare to plug a stranger's parking meter for him or her. I am always amazed that the LEA pleas for increased funding are generally based upon their own lack of effectiveness. i.e. "We are so lame that even with the current mountain of money and resources at our fingertips we cannot catch criminals who are much smarter than us." Perhaps the solution to crime is to fire the current LEAs and hire the criminals to replace them. Not that I am a troublemonger... !TroubleMonger

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Re: Remailer Trivia / Re: Singapore & Freedom (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > From: Jeff Barber <jeffb(a)issl.atl.hp.com> > Subject: Re: Remailer Trivia / Re: Singapore & Freedom (fwd) > Date: Tue, 9 Dec 1997 08:40:46 -0500 (EST) > Jim Choate writes: > > > To the best of my knowledge no phone company anywhere > > will allow a customer to purchase service without identifying themselves to > > the phone company. Please let me know if there is such a beast somewhere. > > Go to your nearest convenience store. It's got something called a > pay phone. Just cough up a quarter, no ID required. Really? I don't think so. ____________________________________________________________________ | | | | | We built your fort. We will not have it used against us. | | | | John Wayne - Allegheny Uprising | | | | | | _____ 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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bernstein case hits appeals court
by Vladimir Z. Nuri 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

------- Forwarded Message Date: Tue, 09 Dec 1997 12:59:41 To: believer(a)telepath.com From: believer(a)telepath.com Subject: IP: Encryption case hits U.S. appeals court Encryption case hits U.S. appeals court Copyright © 1997 Reuters SAN FRANCISCO (December 8, 1997 9:47 p.m. EST http://www.nando.net) - Lawyers for a software developer argued Monday in federal appeals court that government controls on distribution of computer encryption code constitute an unlawful prior restraint of free speech. In the closely watched case pitting national security interests against the right to free speech, a government attorney countered that the software in question was a sensitive product and that its distribution should be limited by the government. At issue is whether a code developed by Daniel Bernstein, now a professor at the University of Illinois, constitutes a form of speech and should therefore be protected under the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Encryption software allows computer data to be scrambled in order to ensure the confidentiality of information. Current federal law prohibits the export of strong encryption software because of concerns over national security, even though powerful encryption codes are already available overseas or on the Internet from foreign manufacturers. Monday's hearing before a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals was prompted after U.S. District Judge Marilyn Hall Patel ruled in August that the Constitution prevented the government from placing export restrictions on the code. The government appealed. Scott McIntosh, an attorney representing the Department of Commerce, told the judges the code should be viewed not as a form of speech but as a product that in the wrong hands could jeopardize national security. The three justices grilled McIntosh during his allotted 20 minutes, often preventing him from finishing his sentences. "They asked probing questions and beyond that I don't want to characterize," McIntosh told reporters after the hearing. Bernstein sued several government agencies in 1995 after he was told that he would need to be licensed as an arms dealer to post his software encryption code, called Snuffle 5.0, on the Internet. Cindy Cohn, who headed Bernstein's legal team, argued that Snuffle was an expression of free speech and should be protected from the kind of scheme that the government uses to regulate code. "The basic flaw with the government's position is that they use a pre-publication licensing scheme," Cohn said. "That's exactly the point -- when the government sets up a bureaucrat to decide who gets to speak and who does not, that's a form of prior restraint." Compared with the harried questioning of McIntosh, the justices questioned Cohn fewer times, allowing her to finish her sentences more often. Cohn later told reporters she was pleased with the hearing, although she declined to comment on the outcome. A decision by the court could come at any time over the next few weeks. By GREG FROST, Reuters Copyright © 1997 Nando.net ********************************************** To subscribe or unsubscribe, email: majordomo(a)majordomo.pobox.com with the message: subscribe ignition-point email@address or unsubscribe ignition-point email@address ********************************************** http://www.telepath.com/believer ********************************************** ------- End of Forwarded Message

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