December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Bitslice DES S-boxes
by mkwan＠preston.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

After 6 weeks of number crunching, I've finally produced a new set of bitslice DES S-boxes using non-standard logic gates. Numbers are as follows - S1 S2 S3 S4 S5 S6 S7 S8 Avg 56 50 53 39 56 53 51 50 51 Details at http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/~mkwan/bitslice There won't be any more improvements in the foreseeable future, since I've run out of ideas. Feel free to use this code in the RSA DES II challenge, but remember to give credit where it's due. mkwan

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Chaffing and winnowing
by Mark Rosen 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I have just been notified that chaffing and winnowing does, indeed, violate the export regulations. You can read them for yourself at http://www.bxa.doc.gov/Encryption/encreg.htm, but here are a few parts a. Designed or modified to use ``cryptography'' employing digital techniques to ensure ``information security''; b. Designed or modified to perform cryptanalytic functions; c. Designed or modified to use ``cryptography'' employing analog techniques to ensure ``information security''; ... Note: 5A002 does not control the following: b. Equipment containing ``fixed'' data compression or coding techniques; ... g. Data authentication equipment that calculates a Message Authentication Code (MAC) or similar result to ensure no alteration of text has taken place, or to authenticate users, but does not allow for encryption of data, text or other media other than that needed for the authentication; So it seems 5A002.a and 5A002.g cover such encryption technologies as chaffing and winnowing. Interestingly enough, 5A002.b allows such functions as the package transform (keyless coding), even though it uses encryption algorithms. - Mark Rosen http://www.mach5.com/

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Re: Gary Lee Burnore is a Convicted Sex Offender in Raleigh, NC
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

wmcclatc(a)primenet.com (William J. McClatchie) > X-Comment: Aw, are you offended? > X-no-archive: yes > [anonymous makes illegal usage of information, as defined by the state he > got the info from, and then whines] And your legal basis for calling the posting of public information from a public website to usenet "illegal usage" is ??? Presumably if the state had wanted to keep the info secret, they wouldn't have made it public available. The only whining I've seen has been by Gary Burnore who complained that the state of North Carolina failed to keep his conviction as a sex offender a secret, and by various DataBasix sock puppets and groupies. Burnore did the crime, he was convicted, he registered as a sex offender with the state of NC, the information was made publicly available by the state, and people found out as they were intended to. Deal with it! Maybe you ought to learn a little about remailers before you make such ridiculous claims, McClatchie. If I'm the person you say "whined", then I'm *NOT* the same person who posted the information that Gary whined about. Sorry to burst Gary's bubble that all posts which poor little Gary Burnore doesn't like originate from his one mythical "Anon Asshole <tm>". In fact, the information is just as likely to have been posted anonymously by YOU as by me. > >It's people like you and Gary Burnore who threaten and harass people who > >say things you don't like that make anonymous remailers necessary. > > >And it is assholes like you who ABUSE remailers that make them go away. Let me get this straight... Someone threatens a remailer user with physical violence, I comment on it, and now I'm "abusing a remailer" just because you don't like what I have to say? Don't you think that's for the remailer operator to decide? Do you operate a remailer, McClatchie?

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[rivest@theory.lcs.mit.edu: Chaffing question]
by Jim Thompson 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

With all of the discussion of C&W, and potential expansion, along with a sideband discussion of same, I decided to ask 'the man' himself. The '10K email file' used in the example came from the sideband discussion. Forwarded for your edification. ------- Start of forwarded message ------- Date: Tue, 12 May 1998 18:24:46 -0400 From: Ron Rivest <rivest(a)theory.lcs.mit.edu> Subject: Chaffing question Suppose you can start with a 10KB email file. Running a package (all-or-nothing) transform on it adds only a small amount to the length---say 128 bits total, or less (basically the length of a key in your favorite algorithm). You can break the result into 128 one-bit blocks and one 10KB block. MAC each block. Add 128 bits of chaff, intermingled with the first 128 blocks from above. The final result has 128+128+1 packets, and total length 10KB (the original email) + 257*64 bits (for the 257 64-bit MAC values) plus 128 bits (the chaff bits), and assuming that the sequence numbers are implicit rather than explicit, you get a total of around 12.3 KB. Cheers, Ron ------- End of forwarded message ------- -- Jim Thompson / Smallworks, Inc. / jim(a)smallworks.com 512 338 0619 phone / 512 338 0625 fax Real, cheap Hardware RNG: http://www.fringeware.com/nscd/

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Abusive crossposting by anonymous remailer user (Was: Gary L. Burnore blah blah blah)
by eridani＠databasix.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

In article <199805130137.DAA03874(a)basement.replay.com>, nobody(a)REPLAY.COM (Anonymous) wrote: [who cares what he wrote] Where's the idiot who was ranting about kooks who crosspost threads everywhere and called -me- a Usenet abuser? Take a look at the references in this one: References: <199805101850.LAA00114(a)sirius.infonex.com> <3555FA78.7795(a)pageplanet.com> <199805121307.PAA21528(a)basement.replay.com> <6ja344$i2h(a)nntp02.primenet.com> <199805101850.LAA00114(a)sirius.infonex.com> posted to triangle.general only <3555FA78.7795(a)pageplanet.com> posted to triangle.general only <199805121307.PAA21528(a)basement.replay.com> posted to: alt.fan.gburnore,triangle.general,alt.vigilantes, alt.netcom.emeritus,alt.cypherpunks,news.admin.censorship, alt.privacy,alt.privacy.anon-server,misc.kids And there we have it, folks. The anonymous stalker who's spent the past year following Gary Burnore around Usenet found a post in triangle.general that mentioned him, added a propaganda-filled follow up to it, and posted it to 9 newsgroups--many of whom have repeatedly requested that this crap be kept out of said groups. Oh and lookee what else: it was mailed to cypherpunks(a)toad.com, presumably for archival on the cypherpunks mailing list, where it will be picked up by WWW search engines. Since those folks don't seem to mind having their archives used in personal grudge matches, I'll just start cc'ing my responses there as well. I'm sure, as champions of free speech, they can understand the necessity of making sure both sides of the story get equal time. -- Belinda

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Re: Abusive crossposting by anonymous remailer user (Was: Gary Lee Burnore is a Convicted Sex Offender in Raleigh, NC)
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

eridani(a)databasix.com (Belinda Bryan) wrote: > And there we have it, folks. The anonymous stalker who's spent the past > year following Gary Burnore around Usenet found a post in > triangle.general that mentioned him, added a propaganda-filled follow up > to it, and posted it to 9 newsgroups--many of whom have repeatedly > requested that this crap be kept out of said groups. "Anonymous stalker"? For merely posting a reply to a public post on Usenet? What state or country has a statute against that, and what makes you think the poster falls under its jurisdiction if it does exist? As for whether a certain post is "propaganda", that is for the reader to decide, especially when of the content is independently verifiable. The "propaganda" you refer to was apparently intended to refute the fallacious assertion that since Gary Lee Burnore's entry in the North Carolina official database of registered sex offenders had apparently been removed, then the underlying crime for which he was convicted and required to register somehow automagically never happened. To make such an assertion is to invite rebuttal. The thread you're whining about involved Steve Crisp <crisp(a)pageplanet.com> threatening an anonymous poster with "beating the living fuck out of you" if his/her identity could be determined, a second anonymous poster challenging the propriety of such a threat, and yet another DataBasix groupie, William McClatchie <wmcclatc(a)primenet.com>, calling the second anonymous poster a "remailer abuser" for daring to make such a challenge. So rather than denouncing the threat itself, you choose to call the person challenging it an "anonymous stalker"? If you feel no need to "hide" anything, please feel free to post your street address and home phone number. But I imagine that many people with small children would not want their names, from which their street address can be derived by someone with the resources available to you and Gary Burnore, to fall into the hands of a convicted child molester with a history of abusive retaliation. Being threatened with physical violence for making an unpopular post is one of the best arguments available as to why anonymity is necessary when people like Steve Crisp and convicted child molester Gary Lee Burnore are running around loose making those threats. > Oh and lookee what else: it was mailed to cypherpunks(a)toad.com, > presumably for archival on the cypherpunks mailing list, where it will > be picked up by WWW search engines. Since those folks don't seem to > mind having their archives used in personal grudge matches, I'll just > start cc'ing my responses there as well. I'm sure, as champions of free > speech, they can understand the necessity of making sure both sides of > the story get equal time. This, of course, comes from the same Belinda Bryan who impersonated a lawyer for DataBasix to demand the disclosure of (fortunately non-existant) user logs from the Huge Cajones remailer in a failed Scientology-esque attempt to embarass its users. And that attack, BTW, started because Gary Burnore was pissed that an anonymous whistle blower used a remailer to tip of his victim's mother to the molestation. As is typical of his style, Burnore denounced that legitimate use of anonymity as "harassment" and "abuse". It was also Burnore who chose to make PUBLIC what had previously been a private e-mail, thus inviting his critics to factually evaluate the claims. One of them apparently did so and discovered Gary Burnore's name and mug shot were published on an official PUBLIC website of registered sex offenders maintained by the state of North Carolina where Burnore moved after leaving San Francisco. Perhaps he should have learned a lesson from Gary Hart and not have taunted the wrong people to find evidence of his wrongdoing. Will the continual harangue against privacy and anonymity by Gary Lee Burnore, Belinda Bryan, Billy McClatchie, and other staffers and sock puppets of the DataBasix wrecking crew never end? BTW, Belinda, cross-posting your whining drivel in the fashion you're threatening negates your lame attempts to achieve deniability by using the infamous X-No-Archive header that has become the trademark of DataBasix' denizens. IOW, you won't be able to retroactively claim that an embarassing post from you was "forged" because it's not archived at an unbiased, third party site. Can you say "oops"?

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Hidden US government
by bill payne 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Guys There is a segment in the US government who do whatever they want. Like stinging Iran. The segment thinks that they are unaccountable. We want to change this. And get our money too! Wednesday 5/13/98 7:40 AM Lawyers and netizens Morales and my last Friday filing seen at http://www.jya.com/whp050898.htm is causing comments at http://www.jya.com/mf050998.htm and elsewhere. One of my neighbors, Bill Moe, is a retired AF officer and now an APD cop. Moe commented that no lawyer would ever write a document like the one we FILED. Morales is ready to go to the Supreme Court on this case for the reasons of Campos dismissing DIR NSA Minihan. Morales feels that this decision make no one in a federal agency accountable.. We will also probably have to appeal the dismissal of Morales too. Bad precedent. Now that we have copies of the docket sheets seen at http://www.jya.com/whp-10usca.htm we must study them. We will do this at noon today. Then we will begin the process of filing criminal complaint affidavits on Tenth circuit judges and judge Joseph Weis, of the Third circuit. Dolores K. Sloviter Chief Judge, Third Circuit 18614 U.S. Courthouse Philadelphia, PA 19106 215-597-1588 also EARNED a criminal complaint affidavit along with clerks Bradford Baldus and Toby Slawsky. Slawsky earned another for sending US Marshals Lester and Lopez to investigate me, with no letter of authorization, for inappropriate communications. The matter of Campos in camera ex parte meeting with NSA is also causing CONCERN. http://www.jya.com/whp043098.htm NM judge John Conway had an ex parte in camera meeting with Sandia/NSA high tech terrorist James Gosler in 1992 in my ADEA lawsuit. Conway then sealed all of my lawsuit court records and halted discovery. Then there was the matter in both my and Morales lawsuits of material showing up in the final district decisions which was not in pleadings. A district federal court spy gave us information that Sandia wrote the decision for, in Morales case, judge Galvan and my case, John Conway. These actions by judges and court clerks largely prompted Morales and my genocide and crypto incompetence lawsuit. We know that the federal courts and the legal system are LARGELY controlled by the US federal government. This is becoming more obvious to all by those who read http://www.jya.com/whp043098.htm. The US Hidden government is in reality a fascist government. FASCISM - a political and economic movement, strongly nationalistic, magnifying the rights of the state as opposed to those of the individual, in which industry, though remaining largely under private ownership, and all administrative political units, are controlled by a strong central government. Since Morales and I have both lost money as a result of actions of a fascist government, we struck at the heart of the US Hidden government [aka The Great Satan] with our genocide and crypto incompetence lawsuit. Representative Cynthia McKinney [CYMCK(a)mail.house.gov ] and Senator Grassley [chuck_grassley(a)grassley.senate.gov] are in possession of the Swiss Radio International audio tape telling the saga of Hans Buehlers arrest in Teheran in 1992 for espionage. Hopefully those who are concerned can share their concerns about possible consequences of NOT releasing our requested documents on Internet. And, too, encourage settlement of this NSA-caused American tragedy. http://caq.com/cryptogate http://www.aci.net/kalliste/speccoll.htm Morales and I continue to feel that we should settled this unfortunate matter before it gets WORSE. Later bill

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Question reports on Y2K report
by vpuser＠u041.oh.vp.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Hello, Has anyone read "The McAlvany Intelligence Advisor" of Febuary 1998? Title: The millenium Bug: Global cyber-meltdown in the year 2000 PART 1 Mr McAlvany has a very domesday perspective. Does his report have alot of Truth or alot of Hype? Please don't flame me to hard for my ignorance, I'm just attempting to seperate the CHAF from the WHEAT. Thank you for any guidance Brian --

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El Nino !!!
by goodnews4u＠mailexcite.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Encryption trends and legal issues
by whitelaw＠ndirect.co.uk 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I am looking for information on the legal and export issues on encryption around the world and the current use of different encryption algorithms today. If anyone can send me some information or point me to the appropriate sites I would be most grateful. Thanks, Gavin.

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