December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

EPIC World Crypto Survey
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The New York Times, February 9, 1998, p. D10: U.S. Losing Battle on Control of Data Encryption, Study Says By Jeri Clausing Washington -- The Clinton Administration is losing its battle to increase international controls over how reliably computer data can be scrambled to insure privacy, according to a report to be released Monday by an independent research group. ... The Electronic Privacy Information Center <http://www.epic.org> says that its survey of 243 governments showed that the United States is virtually the only democratic, industrialized nation seeling domestic regulation of strong encryption. That finding directly contradicts the Clinton Administration's assertions in Congressional hearings that it has the support of most nations on this issue. ... William Reinsch, the Under Secretary for export administration in the United States Commerce Department, denied that the study contradicted the Administration's assertions. "All the Administration has ever said is that there are more countries that go farther than we do," Mr. Reinsch said. "The study confirms that."

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fingerprinting
by D'jinnie 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Immigration & Naturalization Department has been fingerprinting ppl for years. Does anyone have any ideas what agencies that information is shared with and what they need it for anyway? And what's with that new thumbprint thing in banks? I haven't had occasion to refuse it yet but I wonder if they'd open an account without it... --- Reality leaves a lot to the imagination. jinn(a)inetnebr.com

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Re: Laptop TEMPEST (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > Subject: Re: Laptop TEMPEST > Date: Mon, 09 Feb 1998 17:07:23 +0000 > From: Markus Kuhn <Markus.Kuhn(a)cl.cam.ac.uk> > Jim Choate wrote on 1998-02-09 06:57 UTC: > > Doesn't the FCC have to test the RF emissions of all laptops as well as > > monitors for sale as Class A and Class B in the US? Shouldn't that material > > be available? I searched the main site, www.fcc.gov, but didn't find > > anything regarding this. > > I suspect that FCC material is not helpful with regard to Tempest. As to calculating a realistic estimate of range to intercept, I disagree strongly. > Results of such EMI tests only measure the general power spectrum > emitted by a device. Of interest for Tempest purposes however is > not the power spectrum, but the spectrum of the cross-correlation I am aware of how to do Tempest in practice as well as in theory. The process goes something like this. The first target is the vertical retrace. This signal is usualy the strongest because the voltage required (and hence the dv/dt) is the largest to sling that e-beam from the lower right to the upper left. It usualy resides in the 50-70Hz range. The next target is the horizontal retrace. It slews the beam from the right edge of the display to the left in order to start another trace. You can use this signal to syn both the vertical retrace steps (in order to move the beam down verticaly to start another trace) as well as the ramp that is required to slew the beam across the screen to write the pixes. Once these 4 signals are aquired and fed to the appropriate control terminals of a CRT you are ready to begin decoding the actual trace data for each line of the display. This is the hardest since the actual modulation of the e-beam is done via a screen grid (who said tube theory was out of date?) and that signal is quite small and generaly has a cardoid emission pattern aligned axialy along the central axis of the CRT tube. So if given a choise you want your antenna to be behind the viewer in line with the display. It is of some import to note that larger displays are easier to aquire usable signals from since the distances the e-beam is slewed and as a result the control voltages are much larger. ____________________________________________________________________ | | | The most powerful passion in life is not love or hate, | | but the desire to edit somebody elses words. | | | | Sign in Ed Barsis' office | | | | _____ 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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time to learn chinese?
by Adam Back 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Listened to an analyst on the radio expressing view that towards 2010 China will be leading world economic power. Anyway interesting was that the analyst expressed that in her view China was keen to avoid the mistakes of the socialist welfare state as market liberalization and prosperity grew. She considered the burden of a welfare state to be a large burden which would mean that China would outstrip growth in the west. Also she stated that she thought democracy was in decline. When interviewed asked about human rights, she opined that these would improve as the market became freer. She stated that China hopes to bypass democracy going straight to free market. China may be interesting in a few more decades... Adam

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by nobody＠nowhere.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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E-CDA
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Congressional Record: February 5, 1998 (House) ELECTRONIC CAMPAIGN DISCLOSURE ACT (Mr. WHITE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute.) Mr. WHITE. Madam Speaker, in March we are going to vote on campaign finance reform in this House. It is a very important issue but also a very difficult issue, and it is made particularly difficult because most of the bills before us are big bills that deal with the whole comprehensive issue that we have to talk about. I have got one of those bills, and I hope that we can pass one. But just in case we cannot, today I am introducing what we might call a small bill that will deal at least with some of the problems. This bill is called the Electronic Campaign Disclosure Act, and what it does is tell the Federal Elections Commission to get into the 21st century. It directs the FEC to establish a database on-line to search over the Internet for all the information needed about campaign finances in our country. Every campaign would have to file within 10 days a report of every contribution that it receives and contributors, and PACs would also have to file. Madam Speaker, sometimes we cannot do it all in one step. The longest journey begins with a single step, and I think if we cannot pass a big bill a small bill like the one I am introducing today would be a step in the right direction. ____________________

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Re: Washington on the verge of being nuked?
by dlv＠bwalk.dm.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

David Honig <honig(a)otc.net> writes: > > > LA has a combination of closed pipes and open aqueducts, often > in remote areas. Simple disruption, not poisoning, would > be easier. The resivoirs don't hold enough for more > than a few days. One can "disrupt" the water supply by just making a credible assertion that it's been poisoned - but it won't kill nearly as many people as actual poison (or virus/bacteria). --- Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM Brighton Beach Boardwalk BBS, Forest Hills, N.Y.: +1-718-261-2013, 14.4Kbps

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Re: the best justice money can buy --Lessig (fwd)
by mark＠unicorn.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Jim Choate (ravage(a)ssz.com) wrote: >So do I, and I bet both our incomes combined doesn't add up to 15 minutes of >Bill G's and it won't. Of course not, because Bill has jackbooted copyright enforcers to subsidise his corporation. Without them his income would be dramatically reduced. >From a market perspective we're flies on the back of >great elephant. Please be so kind as to describe how and why this marketing >mechanism (copyleft) will succed? Uh, I said copyright should be abolished, you said noone would write software, I said that Linux disproved that claim. How is this relevant to that discussion? Of course it's not going to take over when companies can get billions of dollars of subsidies in the form of copyright enforcement, but it clearly shows that without copyright people will produce better software than Microsfot has ever written. >I've been using and supporting Linux since >1993 (SSZ is listed as a source site in the back of 'Running Linux' since >day one) in this manner neither I or anyone else has gotten rich. Exactly. So tell us how Bill would have become a billionaire without copyright? >It's copyrighted in the important sense in that it uses the copyright to >enforce its conditions. That is just as important as the marketing decisions >made by it. All it enforces is source-code distribution (and I've yet to hear of a single case where it's ever been used). That's important to the developers, but not to the average user. The situation would be little changed in a world with no copyright, because if anyone did try to keep their source secret anyone who got a copy could freely distribute it. I'm truly amazed to find all these pro-copyright views on the list, when cypherpunks have been at the forefront of creating technologies to make it unenforceable and obsolete. Mark

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Re: Laptop TEMPEST (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > Subject: Re: Laptop TEMPEST > From: Ryan Lackey <rdl(a)mit.edu> > Date: 09 Feb 1998 02:34:15 -0500 > FCC RF/EMC testing is well nigh useless for TEMPEST protection. I disagree, it would give you a gross baseline on the total emissions between monitors and laptops. That field strenght measurement would at least allow you to calculate radiuses of equal strength to calculate approximately how far the emissions are from each class of device for equal probabilities of detection. One of the specific goals is to measure how effective the device is at effecting other co-located devices (such as seeing ghost images on other monitors or causing static in paging equipment). I suspect one could do it with a spectrum analyzer or a grid dip meter. > I imagine there may be some other "dual use" technologies through for > testing TEMPEST equipment. Perhaps some medical equipment has stringent > stray emanation specs? We're not trying to bring the individual vertical retraces out of the chaff...we're trying to calculate the total comparitive emission strengths. If that isn't high enough then trying to get individual componants of that field will be useless. ____________________________________________________________________ | | | The most powerful passion in life is not love or hate, | | but the desire to edit somebody elses words. | | | | Sign in Ed Barsis' office | | | | _____ 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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Re: Laptop TEMPEST (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > Date: Mon, 09 Feb 1998 16:36:16 -0800 > From: Bill Stewart <bill.stewart(a)pobox.com> > Subject: Re: Laptop TEMPEST (fwd) > At 08:30 AM 2/9/98 -0600, Jim Choate wrote: > >> FCC RF/EMC testing is well nigh useless for TEMPEST protection. > > > >I disagree, it would give you a gross baseline on the total emissions > FCC specs aren't real tight. ____________________________________________________________________ | | | The most powerful passion in life is not love or hate, | | but the desire to edit somebody elses words. | | | | Sign in Ed Barsis' office | | | | _____ 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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