December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Telstra Australia admits it lied about net
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

http://www.australian.aust.com/computer/fulltext/c1014b.htm Telstra: We were wrong about Net By GEOFF LONG October 14: A Telstra official has admitted that the carrier overestimated the congestion problems associated with the Internet, one of the prime reasons given when it wanted to introduce timed local calls. Speaking at the launch of Telstra's Big Pond Business services, Big Pond general manager John Rolland said congestion caused by Internet users connecting for long periods was not as big an issue as they first thought. He added that the about-face was in line with similar findings from North American carriers and switch manufacturers Alcatel and Ericsson. Mr Rolland said that the main problem areas are where ISPs are situated, but that these were manageable: "What is clear is that in the medium term we will have hot spots, especially around ISPs." However, these could be addressed by working with the ISPs and managing connectivity better. The remarks came in response to Telstra promoting permanent modem connections as part of its Big Pond Business offering.

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Re: Security flaw in PGPverify of INN (fwd)
by Ray Arachelian 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

=====================================Kaos=Keraunos=Kybernetos============== .+.^.+.| Ray Arachelian |Prying open my 3rd eye. So good to see |./|\. ..\|/..|sunder(a)sundernet.com|you once again. I thought you were |/\|/\ <--*-->| ------------------ |hiding, and you thought that I had run |\/|\/ ../|\..| "A toast to Odin, |away chasing the tail of dogma. I opened|.\|/. .+.v.+.|God of screwdrivers"|my eye and there we were.... |..... ======================= http://www.sundernet.com ========================== ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 14 Oct 1997 17:34:11 +0200 From: Peter Simons <simons(a)RHEIN.DE> To: BUGTRAQ(a)NETSPACE.ORG Subject: Re: Security flaw in PGPverify of INN -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- I am replying to the "security problem" report in pgpverify written by Lutz Donnerhacke, which has been delivered via several mailing lists, including BUGTRAQ and Best-Of-Security. Normally I'd simply ignore this article, but this is so breath-takingly ridiculous that I have to set a few facts straight. Lutz Donnerhacke <lutz(a)IKS-JENA.DE> wrote: > I was urged to send you the following information. I noticed CERT and tale > itself. But tale claims that the problem is not a problem of pgpverify, it's > a problem of some krauts trying to send checkgroups monthly using a bot. > > The checkgroups mentioned were send since a year. They do not include Date: > and Message-ID: because these values were not predictable by the human > signer and the bot does not know the passphrase to work with. > > In consequence there are checkgroups out there which can be resend at any > time causing a lot of trouble, because the signature is still valid even if > a new Message-ID: and Date: line are used. > > The obvious fix is to modify pgpverify to block such control messages. > ftp://ftp.iks-jena.de/pub/mitarb/lutz/ contains the necessary fixes. This is plain bullshit. pgpverify is working just fine and there's no security leak or malfunction in the script. The real story behind this 'report' is as follows: Lutz is the moderator for the german language de.* USENET hierarchy. One of his duties is to send out regular checkgroups and other control messages. What he did is that he didn't include the Message-Id and Date header into the signature of the control messages that he posted. He only signed headers like From and Subject. So he posted control messages with incomplete signatures for maybe a year, until this was first noticed and publicly addressed by Ralph Babel. The problem with these control messages is that anybody is able to re-post them with a new Message-Id and Date. Due to the correct PGP signature, most INNs will simply execute them, thus deleting all changes in the hierarchy since the checkgroups was posted originally. While this is not a major problem, it certainly is a problem, as all groups that have been created past a certain date can easily be removed, etc... When his mistake became public, he didn't stand up for it and created a new key to start posting correct control messages, rendering the old ones useless, he put the blame on Tale and his script instead. So please don't believe this "security flaw". pgpverify is working just fine and if the responsible person will use PGP correctly, there is no problem at all. -peter -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3i Charset: latin1 iQCVAwUBNEORSw9HL1s0103BAQEgugP9FWJMNivNBqmJElzoQ6pXnwvS6QsbLjQG YrwHzvcYY3CAR7R446gr/WeuxW1JI1t9+yql8TNSvHeEXAX+qgz/ZMCjcjgjg0Pe j0BuVLBBfKuBoxGZDQybRybu3d5Xflqk07W9HjPP0tDtdkUcjndHr2J1Ea/J4zTd QgGNNUoZDFM= =brmw -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Magic money
by Eric Wilhem 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Is the guy still around who wrote " Magic Money" and if so where can I communicate with him? Apparently his name is "Product Cypher". Thanks, Eric Wilhem

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info
by Stefan D. Wolf 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Re: Encyrption Program
by semprini＠theschool.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

This is in response to the several posts regarding the assumed weakness in the program I wrote: While it is true that PRNG's are not very good, because of the inherent lattice structure, I believe I found a way around that problem. To work around the lattice problem, I used a systm of cubic arrays. The program first creates sixteen cubic arrays, and fills them one space at a time with random characters. When the stream of characters to be XORed with the plaintext is generated, it picks a random cube and a random location with that cube. The resulting "random" character is then XORed with the appropriate character of the plaintext. If someone can prove to me that this method is stupid or easily breakable, I would actually be happy. So, those of you bent on proving that I'm wrong, I heartily encourage you to do so. As I mentioned before, you can download both the compiled version *and* the source at "http://www.brigadoon.com/~semprini/3dmx". If you are having trouble reaching that site, e-mail me and I will send you a copy via e-mail. Thank you for your interest and criticisms. They have been helpful. --Dylan

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CDL is here!! (fwd)
by Japhy Ryder 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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by Japhy Ryder 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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by Japhy Ryder 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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17 Dec '03

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Re: PGP CAKware & IETF controlled Open-PGP standard
by Omegaman 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Adam Back writes: > Jonathan Seybold <jseybold(a)pgp.com> writes: > > Adam, one aspect of your suggestion puzzles me: > > One thing which concerns me most is KNOWING when a message I send > > (or receive) could be read by someone else. The PGP CMR scheme makes this > > very clear: if there is an extra CMR key, the message may be read by > > whomever controls that key, if not, only the recipient may decrypt the > > message. > > If, however, the message is secretly re-encrypted to a corporate > > storage key AFTER it is received, I will never know that. > > You will if you mark the key with this information. This is a straw man anyway. You don't know this now. Someone you are communicating with could already be forwarding plaintext to a third party unbeknownst to the sender. This is a "do you trust the recipient" issue. > What I _am_ arguing is that in designing systems to provide companies > with data recovery mechanisms that you should a) not weaken security > more than necessary, and b) that it would be nice if you used a method > which doesn't introduce GAK compliancy for communications keys. > > I presented I think in plenty of detail an alternate mechanism which > is both non-GAK compliant, and more secure. So what is the problem? > Is there a technical flaw in my solution? No. But there is in their's(PGP Inc.) as I think you and others have amply demonstrated. The technical issues alone are enough to reject usage of PGP5.5's CMR features. It intrigues me that there has been virtual silence from PGP employees on the technical issues. Only Hal Finney via the IETF-Open-PGP has come anywhere near commenting upon this. I haven't seen anyone from PGP Inc. comment on your data-recovery implementation ideas. In my optimistic moments, I take this as a sign that internally, PGP inc. is giving consideration to producting more sensible and effective solutions. (Maybe even as outlined here) > > This means, I believe, that they should NEVER INVOLVE HIDDEN BACK > > DOORS THAT USERS ARE NOT AWARE OF. > > Agreed. You can flag backdoors with either solution. See above. The prescence of flags does not prevent this. By definition I might add ;). Trust issues, etc. are involved. > It works well enough, but it could be made much more secure, by > separating storage key functionality from transient message key > functionality. This would also give you the chance to resolve the > articificially created need for GAK compliancy, which arises because > you are being forced by this lack of distinction between key > functionalities to use one key for both long term storage and what > should be transient communications key usage. Hal Finney's description of key sttributes indicate that implementing separate storage keys would not be hard for PGP Inc to implement in the next release. > Decentralised control is good, of course, but the pgp5.5 and SMTP > policy enforcer is a ready to roll GAK system. Of course, other companies could have (and will) implement similar systems. That PGP, with it's reputation and stated policies, would is surprising. Hopefully, PGP will live up to their reputation by realizing this misstep and correcting it with a more secure, less GAK-compliant implementation. > The PGP bashing PGP observes is an attempt by the pro-privacy crypto > community to influence PGP to re-think the GAK compliancy, and to > point out the more secure way to implement corporate recovery of > stored email messages without GAK compliancy. > > I reserve the right to bash any company which attempts to field GAK > compliant software. The "bashing" in this notoriously harsh forum has been rather tender in my view. Perhaps the perception of "bashing" is based on recognition (and guilt) that the CMR mechanism is flawed and goes against "the spirit of PGP." Methinks, y'all doth protest too much. -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Omegaman <mailto:omegam@cmq.com>|"When they kick out your front door, PGP Key fingerprint = | How are you gonna come? 6D 31 C3 00 77 8C D1 C2 | With your hands upon your head, 59 0A 01 E3 AF 81 94 63 | Or on the trigger of your gun?" Send email with "get key" as the| -- The Clash, "Guns of Brixton" "Subject:"to get my public key | _London_Calling_ , 1980 ---------------------------------------------------------------------

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