December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: EU plans decryption ban
by Dave Emery 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On Mon, Mar 09, 1998 at 11:26:15PM +0000, Markus Kuhn wrote: > After government attempts to ban unrestricted encryption, we are > now facing a decryption ban > > Industry lobbyist groups have managed to persuade the European > Commission to introduce rather radical new legislation for protecting > pay-TV broadcasters against unauthorized reception by consumers. Not > only the commercial advertising and sale of pirate devices is to be > prohibited (this has already been the case in a number of member > countries and is perfectly acceptable), but also the private possession or > use of clone decoders as well as any private exchange of information about > the security properties of pay-TV encryption systems will become illegal > and punishable under the planned EU conditional access directive. > In the US there is not yet a ban on exchange of information because of the potential first amendment issues, but there are (and have been since the late 1980s) felony level bans with $500,000 fines for each incident on the manufacture, assembly, modification, import, export, sale and distribution of any device or equipment primarily of assistance in the unauthorized decryption of satellite cable programming or direct to home satellite. And unauthorized interception of radio signals including satellite video transmissions that are scrambled or encrypted can be prosecuted under current law as a felony. -- Dave Emery N1PRE, die(a)die.com DIE Consulting, Weston, Mass. PGP fingerprint = 2047/4D7B08D1 DE 6E E1 CC 1F 1D 96 E2 5D 27 BD B0 24 88 C3 18

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REASONABLENESS
by bill payne 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Guys The great ANGLO ARMADA is sailing near Iran. And the Armada needs to expend its 'intelligent' weapons for business reasons. Be on the BEST OF BEHAVIOR. best regards bill Monday 3/9/98 6:17 PM merata(a)pearl.sums.ac.ir lawya(a)lucs-01.novell.leeds.ac.uk sjmz(a)hplb.hpl.hp.com Guys I just read a printed copy I made of Crypto AG: The NSA's Trojan Whore? http://caq.com/CAQ/caq63/caq63madsen.html starting at http://www.aci.net/kalliste/ fairly carefully. I seized upon Madsen's statements, 1 the random encryption key could be automatically and clandestinely transmitted with the enciphered message. 2 they may also have been tipped off by Stasi files of the ex-East German regime that found their way to Iran Try MfS agents who went to work for Iran after the Cold War. Then there was the postcard from Tel Aviv I received at Sandia labs which followed-up a yellow piece of paper sent by snail mail asking numbered detailed questions about work I was doing at Sandia. I responded back to the postcard, by postcard of course, "Know any sayanim?" No response. It doesn't take at rocket scientist to figure that one out. Let's all hope for settlement of this unfortunate matter so that we can all move on to more constructive projects. Best bill

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Wu-Tang Clan cypherpunk reference
by andrew fabbro 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

"Watch for the wooden soldiers, C-cypher punks couldn't hold us" -- "Triumph," Wu-Tang Clan, -Wu-Tang Forever- This is listed on the Wu-Tang Clan's home page (www.wu-tang.com) so presumably the lyric is accurate. Anyone know what the reference is? -- Andrew Fabbro [afabbro(a)umich.edu] [andrewf(a)jesuswept.com] http://www-personal.umich.edu/~afabbro/ 313.647.2713 "We make money the old fashion way. We print it." - DigiCrime

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DCSB: Adam Shostack; No Silver Bullet -- Digital Commerce and Payment Security
by Robert Hettinga 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

--- begin forwarded text X-Sender: rah(a)pop.sneaker.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:37:24 -0500 To: dcsb(a)ai.mit.edu, dcsb-announce(a)ai.mit.edu From: Robert Hettinga <rah(a)shipwright.com> Subject: DCSB: Adam Shostack; No Silver Bullet -- Digital Commerce and Payment Security Cc: Adam Shostack <adam(a)homeport.org>, Jeremey Barrett <jeremey(a)bluemoney.com>, "Michael S. Baum" <michael(a)verisign.com> Sender: bounce-dcsb(a)ai.mit.edu Precedence: bulk Reply-To: Robert Hettinga <rah(a)shipwright.com> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- The Digital Commerce Society of Boston Presents Adam Shostack Netect, Inc. "No Silver Bullet" Digital Commerce and Payment Security Tuesday, April 7, 1997 12 - 2 PM The Downtown Harvard Club of Boston One Federal Street, Boston, MA The traditional threats that apply to digital commerce systems are the same as the threats against all other commerce systems. But the communications networks that are available to the bad guys make possible and effective attacks that could never work before. Adam Shostack will examine some of these new threats to electronic commerce, some of the potential solutions, and share his vision of the future tools to protect commerce. New attacks against commerce include the automation of knowledge. The pickpocket of old needed to practice for years to learn how to be effective. Today's 14 year olds can download a package with a win95 interface to exploit security holes. The nature of the internet allows them to engage in these attacks anonymously. The anonymous nature of the net also means that people can engage in attacks that have a very small payoff, or a small chance of a large payoff. They also engage in attacks for the thrill of it, costing companies trust and confidence, as well as down time and its associated lost revenue. New methods of dealing with the threats and problems posed by the automation of new attacks will be required. Where 'traditional' security measures, such as firewalls, have failed to deal with the new attacks, there is need to try new approaches. This talk will cover the new breeds of attack, and the new methods of building secure foundations to help busy companies cope. Mr. Shostack is Director of Technology for Netect, Inc, a startup making innovative applications to help cope with the new breed of security problems. He has extensive background in designing, implementing and testing secure systems for clients in the medical, computer, and financial industries. His recent public work includes 'Apparent Weaknesses in the Security Dynamics Client Server Protocol,' 'Source Code Review Guidelines,' and comparisons of freely available cryptographic libraries. Adam was also one of the instructors, along with John Kelsey of Counterpane, and Gary Howland of SecureAccounts, in Ian Goldberg's FC98 Financial Cryptography Workshop, which was held in Anguilla in early March this year. This meeting of the Digital Commerce Society of Boston will be held on Tuesday, April 7, 1997, from 12pm - 2pm at the Downtown Branch of the Harvard Club of Boston, on One Federal Street. The price for lunch is $32.50. This price includes lunch, room rental, various A/V hardware, and the speaker's lunch. ;-). The Harvard Club *does* have dress code: jackets and ties for men (and no sneakers or jeans), and "appropriate business attire" (whatever that means), for women. Fair warning: since we purchase these luncheons in advance, we will be unable to refund the price of your lunch if the Club finds you in violation of the dress code. We will attempt to record this meeting for sale on CD/R, and to put it on the web in RealAudio format, at some future date. We need to receive a company check, or money order, (or, if we *really* know you, a personal check) payable to "The Harvard Club of Boston", by Saturday, April 4th, or you won't be on the list for lunch. Checks payable to anyone else but The Harvard Club of Boston will have to be sent back. Checks should be sent to Robert Hettinga, 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, Massachusetts, 02131. Again, they *must* be made payable to "The Harvard Club of Boston", in the amount of $32.50. Please include your e-mail address, so that we can send you a confirmation If anyone has questions, or has a problem with these arrangements (We've had to work with glacial A/P departments more than once, for instance), please let us know via e-mail, and we'll see if we can work something out. Upcoming speakers for DCSB are: May Jeremey Barrett Digital Bearer Certificate Protocols June Michael Baum PKI and the Commercial CA We are actively searching for future speakers. If you are in Boston on the first Tuesday of the month, and you would like to make a presentation to the Society, please send e-mail to the DCSB Program Commmittee, care of Robert Hettinga, <mailto: rah(a)shipwright.com>. For more information about the Digital Commerce Society of Boston, send "info dcsb" in the body of a message to <mailto: majordomo(a)ai.mit.edu> . If you want to subscribe to the DCSB e-mail list, send "subscribe dcsb" in the body of a message to <mailto: majordomo(a)ai.mit.edu> . We look forward to seeing you there! 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Re: BATFC -- Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Cryptography
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Tim's and Michael's exchanges (with others) are most welcome, and constructively return us again to the most compelling aspect of the encryption debate, the contest between law and technology, one that has impact far beyond cryptography. There are examples of the application of law to control of technology in the President's most recent update of "The National Emergency Caused by the Lapse of the Export Administration Act of 1979": http://jya.com/hd105-191.htm It recounts the activities of the Commerce Department -- mainly BXA -- for the latest 6-month reporting period, and lists as well the cases of penalties imposed for export violations. Some of these have been imposed for alleged violations over 6 years past. They exemplify what Tim and Michael are discussing of the various ways the regulations and laws are imposed according to policy shifts and wind direction of politicians. The report describes the beef up of BXA enforcement programs, and increasing coordination with and training of other countries for export enforcement. All justified by a "national emergency" for which the underlying law to control technology long ago lapsed. The lapse appears to be a deliberate way to avoid having to define ahead of time what technology is to be controlled in order that ad hoc policy and regulations can be devised to fit, deal by deal. This parallels the increase in indecipherable grand jury proceedings, plea bargainings and parole conditions, determined by protected government employees. These, to be sure, appear to be close cousins of the bloated features of legacy technologies, civilian and military. It worth noting that Microsoft and the Justice Department are perfect twins of technology and law monopolies, using brute force and contracts to get their way, both clothed in self-righteousness and both led by charming weirdos, both totally obsessed with each their own mad view of law and technology in the "public interest." Still, there's some public benefit that these disputes are white collar and not homicidal/suicidal battles of NBC warfare, at least not yet here at home.

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by filaman＠blrg.tds.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Information From The Microsoft Personal Information Center
by mscompia＠microsoft.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Here is your password you requested from the Microsoft Personal Information Center at http://register.microsoft.com/regwiz/personalinfo.asp. Password: cypherpunks If you continue to have access problems or want to report other issues, please contact us through the Write Us button at the top of any Microsoft page.

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Sun vs. FUD: Elvis is waiting; Sun puts high-strength encryption software aside
by David Honig 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

http://dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/technology/wired/story.html?s=n/reuters /980310/wired/stories/sun_4.html Tuesday March 10 9:58 AM EST Sun puts high-strength encryption software aside SAN FRANCISCO (Wired) - Sun Microsystems, which had hoped to market high-strength encryption software developed by a Russian firm, has put the plans on hold due to ongoing scrutiny by the US Commerce Department, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday. The software, partially based on a Sun security protocol, was developed by a Moscow company called Elvis+, a firm started by former Soviet space scientists in which Sun now owns a 10 percent stake. The deal attracted widespread attention because it appeared to give Sun a way around the Clinton administration's regulation of strong-crypto exports. Sun contended the Elvis+ products fall outside the purview of US government policy. The administration has been reviewing the deal for nine months now. Sun executives, who had hoped to put the encryption software on the market last August, have shelved the plans for the moment, but they remain hopeful, the Journal reported. ------------------------------------------------------------ David Honig Orbit Technology honig(a)otc.net Intaanetto Jigyoubu "I do believe that where there is a choice only between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence." Mahatma Gandhi

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Congressbastards getting a clue
by David Honig 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

http://allpolitics.com/1998/03/10/ap/mcdermott.lawsuit/ Summary: History: Florida couple taped some Congressmen (including Gingrich) talking on their cellphones. Gives the tape to another Congressman A, who passes it on to the press. Florida couple has been convicted. News: Now one of the taped Congressmen is suing the Congressman who leaked the tape. When will they learn? Mathematics >> law ------------------------------------------------------------ David Honig Orbit Technology honig(a)otc.net Intaanetto Jigyoubu "I do believe that where there is a choice only between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence." Mahatma Gandhi

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GoldMoney
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

http://www.goldmoney.com/home.html Essays on the future of money, electronic, digital and "GoldMoney," based on US Patent No. 5,671,364 One or so cypherpunks referenced.

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