December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: Singapore & Freedom
by Secret Squirrel 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Harish Pillay <harish(a)brokat.com.sh> wrote: >Interesting that you hide behind an anomymous name and you claim to >be outside Singapore. I for one, will stand by my name and say that >things I should say about this country of mine (warts and all) and >not have to hide behind anonymity (not that I would not use anonymity >ever :-)). Typical.

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reno, encryption, rsa, etc. (softwar)
by Vladimir Z. Nuri 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

------- Forwarded Message Date: Thu, 04 Dec 1997 16:05:55 -0800 From: "J. Orlin Grabbe" <kalliste(a)aci.net> To: snetnews(a)world.std.com Subject: SNET: [Fwd: FREEH SPEECH] - -> SearchNet's SNETNEWS Mailing List From: softwar(a)us.net (SOFTWAR) Subject: FREEH SPEECH Date: Thu, 04 Dec 1997 17:09:51 GMT General Reno has declined to appoint an Independent Counsel to investigate campaign abuses by the Clinton White House. Several Congressional leaders have sputtered they are concerned about Ms. Reno's conflict of interest in the matter. Of course, the Republican specifics of her "conflict" never go past the fact that she was appointed by Clinton. However, the connections between Ms. Reno and the Clinton scandals are well known to at least one person inside the Beltway. One example of Reno's conflict is the Clinton China Crypto Scam. It was Reno's Justice Anti-Trust Division that authorized the merger of a major company backed by a big donor to the DNC. The companies, RSA and Security Dynamics, sought the merger in 1996 just after RSA Chairman James Bidzos signed a memo of understanding to perform "encryption research" with China. The donor, Sanford Robertson, paid $100,000 to the DNC just prior to the merger. Furthermore, Mr. Robertson was on the list of those called by Al Gore from the White House and the MONEY arrived just after Gore's call. In fact, $20,000 of Robertson's donation was split into a HARD money account by the DNC. Of course, Mr. Robertson's investment firm made a cool two million dollars on the merger deal, spurred in part by the lucrative RSA contract with the PRC. Yet, Ms. Reno was also directed officially by President Clinton to oversee the "encryption problem" and enforce policy. For example, according to recently declassified documents from the Clinton National Security Council, Ms. Reno was tasked by President Clinton in 1993 to oversee the Clipper project. Ms. Reno was directed by Clinton to purchase 9,000 Clipper phones for the FBI. In addition, Clinton directed Ms. Reno to prepare Clipper for export. Finally, Reno was tasked to convince the US communications and computer industry to voluntarily implement the Clipper "key escrow" back door into all US made products. Simply put, Ms. Reno was, and is still, in charge of bugging America's telephones. Yet, how far can Ms. Reno go? According to the Presidential Directive, "Should (US) industry fail to fully assist the government in meeting its requirements within a reasonable period of time, the Attorney General will recommend legislation which would compel manufacturers to meet government requirements." Thus, if we do not voluntarily give up our rights to privacy, Ms. Reno is tasked by President Clinton with drawing up the laws for "mandatory" government phone bugs. Yet, there is overwhelming evidence that Ms. Reno quietly turned her head as a major DNC backer managed a deal involving the Communist Chinese and advanced encryption technology. Other than approving the lucrative RSA merger/export, Ms Reno and the Justice Department are also major players in export policy. They are part of an Inter-Agency Working group specifically tasked to cover crypto and exports. As proof, Reno's Justice Department has written most of the Clinton encryption policy papers. In fact, some of the secret documents written by Reno's Justice Department on crypto policy were compromised by former DNC fund-raiser Ira Sockowitz. Sockowitz walked out of the Commerce Department with over 2,000 pages of secrets in 1996. Ironically, included in the Sockowitz papers are secret documents covering the 1996 RSA/China deal. Curiously, Ms. Reno has chosen NOT to look into the matter. The connections between Ms. Reno and the Clinton scandals are also well known to at least one person inside the Beltway. FBI Director Louie Freeh knows. He is aware of that advanced technology was being shipped to China while draconian laws banning the same technology were considered here. Director Freeh also knows that his boss, Ms. Reno, is deeply involved in criminal obstruction involving high tech exports, DNC donors, and her own Justice Department. He knows she is covering for crimes that she and her Department were charged to prevent. The question now is... Does Freeh have the guts to tell America? 1 if by land, 2 if by sea. Paul Revere - encryption 1775 Charles R. Smith SOFTWAR http://www.us.net/softwar Pcyphered SIGNATURE: 3B766150F4B90D30688C657BB44EE7016793781A184F584E7C129D2A8A03F3F5 0B833ABFCE759CC129AF6A33B104406F19EB68AF61050087B65A66C94EA8B0B9 1D70D66883BCA304 - -> Send "subscribe snetnews " to majordomo(a)world.std.com - -> Posted by: "J. Orlin Grabbe" <kalliste(a)aci.net> ------- End of Forwarded Message

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by fasc＠expno.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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17 Dec '03

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PRZ/PGP loses it
by Vladimir Z. Nuri 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

------- Forwarded Message Date: Thu, 4 Dec 1997 15:02:44 -0500 From: bxs29(a)cas.org (Barry Skaggs-D26) To: cas(a)majordomo.pobox.com, ignition-point(a)majordomo.pobox.com Subject: IP: (OT) Cloud Over Future of PGP Seems like the days of peer-reviewed encryption software may be numbered. Just trust Us. Regards, Barry Skaggs Cloud Over Future of Pretty Good Privacy The Price of Key Recovery Following Monday's US$35 million cash acquisition of PGP by Network Associates, the man who once testified before the Senate that key recovery could "strengthen the hand of a police state" now works for a company that actively promotes it. Reaction from e-privacy activists was swift and harsh. "The users of PGP can no longer rely on the credibility of Phil Zimmermann to ensure that the product is everything that they've been promised it's been previously," said Dave Banisar, attorney for the Electronic Privacy Information Center and co-author of The Electronic Privacy Papers Network Associates, formerly known as the Key Recovery Alliance, an organization that lobbies Congress for key recovery that would grant law enforcement agencies back-door access to private encrypted communications. Network Associates and other companies support key recovery because it would allow them to export strong crypto software without bothering to make a separate nonrecoverable version for the domestic market. The Commerce Department forbids export of the strongest available encryption without elaborate promises from manufacturers to develop key recovery features. Thus many companies are forced to develop both export and domestic versions of their software, each with differing crypto strengths. But Zimmermann, a pioneer of strong encryption, has spent years crusading against key recovery, calling it an invasion of privacy. And the most recent release of PGP's encryption software allows users to disable key recovery. "People should give their consent to use [recovery]," Zimmermann said. When asked whether future versions of the package will retain that option, Zimmermann replied, "Certainly, as long as I have anything to say about it." Zimmermann's new title at Network Associates is "fellow," but he declined to comment on exactly what authority and responsibility that confers. Meanwhile, Phil Dunkelberger, PGP's former president and CEO, was named general manager of Network Associates' Total Network Security Division. "It's going to take some time to figure things out," said Zimmermann. EPIC's Banisar was less diplomatic and postulated that Zimmermann's new title reflected a clash of values between him and Network Associates on key recovery. "We have a number of fellows here, and they are usually unpaid volunteers," Banisar said. "It will require a fundamental examination by human rights groups and others about whether any newer versions of PGP are truly trustworthy," said Banisar. Network Associates could not be reached for comment. Wired, Dec. 3, 1997 ********************************************** 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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Quick Response Team in sg?
by bureau42 Anonymous Remailer 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

From: Mail Administrator<Postmaster(a)vang.pacific.net.sg> Send reply to: Mail Administrator<Postmaster(a)vang.pacific.net.sg> Subject: Mail System Error - Returned Mail > This Message was undeliverable due to the following reason: > > The following destination addresses were unknown (please > check the addresses and re-mail the message): > > SMTP <harish(a)brokat.com.sg> > > Please reply to Postmaster(a)vang.pacific.net.sg > if you feel this message to be in error. Hmmmmm.

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Please Decrypt Me
by Jonathan Wienke 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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17 Dec '03

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Riutual processing???
by Paul Bradley 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

For all pentium haters, I advise a visit to this page: > http://www.top.net/chia/pentiumgram/ -- Paul Bradley paul(a)fatmans.demon.co.uk "Why should anyone want to live on rails?" - Stephen Fry

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ECCp-79 challenge cracked
by Trei, Peter 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I'm enclosing two messages from sci.crypt: Peter Trei ------------------------------------------------------------------------ First message On sci.crypt Volker Mueller <vmueller(a)cdc.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de> wrote: >[...] Maybe the problem is not so easy. The biggest DL computation for an >elliptic curve was a 19 digit prime order computation (up to my >knowledge). The first Certicom "exercise" has 79 bits or 24 decimal >digits. > >Cheers, Volker You're right, the so-called "exercise" was not so easy! However a few Alphas and some optimised code got through it eventually. I just posted the following to Certicom... -- Rob. PS: Any volunteers willing to dedicate Alpha CPU time for cracking the next challenge? With a bunch of machines it would be a piece of cake! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------ This message is copyright Robert J. Harley, 1997. If you wish to quote more than one sentence, please quote the whole thing. To: certicom-ecc-challenge(a)certicom.com Robert J. Harley, Se`vres, France, 6th of December, 1997. Dear Anonymous, Certicom's professed aim in setting its ECC challenge is to encourage research into secure cryptosystems based on elliptic curve discrete logarithms. Yet Certicom is a member of the Key Recovery Alliance, a lobby group whose purpose is to promote the use of back-doors allowing supposedly secure communications to be intercepted. How are these contradictory positions reconciled? The solution to your ECCp-79 problem is the residue class of 92221507219705345685350 modulo 466597814831947642887217. It was found by Wayne Baisley and myself using several Digital Alpha workstations running Linux and Digital Unix at the Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et Automatique (INRIA), at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and at the California Institute of Technology C.S. Department. The method used was a "birthday paradox" algorithm iterating from a random initial point (one per machine) with a random function (the same on all machines) until a collision was detected at 17:58 today at INRIA, Rocquencourt, France by a 500MHz Linux machine. This machine did 25 billion elliptic curve operations per day. The peak rate of all machines was approximately 6 six times as much. A total of about 1400 billion iterations were performed. If this is the first correct submission, please send the prize (a copy of "Handbook of Applied Cryptography" and Maple software) to the following address: Robert Harley, c/o Sylvie Loubressac, Projet CRISTAL, INRIA, Domaine de Voluceau - Rocquencourt, 78153 Le Chesnay, France. Thank you, Rob. .-. Robert.Harley(a)inria.fr .-. / \ .-. .-. / \ / \ / \ .-. _ .-. / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / `-' `-' \ / \ / \ \ / `-' `-' \ / `-' Linux + 500MHz Alpha + 256MB SDRAM = heaven `-' ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---------------------------------------------- Second message: From: Dimitris Tsapakidis <dimitris(a)alien.bt.co.uk> Date: 1997/12/08 Message-ID: <348BDD10.B5B2E641(a)alien.bt.co.uk> Newsgroups: sci.crypt [More Headers] Hello Robert, Congratulations on your effort. We would like to post some information on our attempt at BT Labs. We found the private key after you at 19:58 GMT on Sunday the 7th. We only completed 481 billion ECC operations at a peak rate of 84 billion per day using 170 to 210 machines. A couple of months ago we contributed 180-250 machines to the distributed.net/Bovine group attack on RC5-56, peaking at 60 million keys/sec. Dimitris

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