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by Angie Elder 17 Dec '03

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encrypted FM radio hiss
by David Honig 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On the subject of RNGs. Thinking about conditioning. Suppose you have a "poor" random number stream, e.g., FM hiss digitized at say 8 Ksamples/sec. Can you get a crypto-secure random-number stream by "whitening" the stream with a good block cipher? This scheme uses the RNG to "kick" the cipher out of the deterministic cycle its in, which is determined by the cipher key and initialialization vector. Poor RNG ----> XOR ----> BlockCipher ----> improved RNG? ^ | |____________________| The output of a good block cipher in feedback mode will pass Diehard tests, though it is not crypto-secure. >From an information theoretic perspective, in the above scheme, you are slowly adding entropy to the output stream, at a rate determined by the actual number of bits/iteration and the bits/symbol of your poor random numbers. If you fed 64 bits of pure random values into a 64 bit cipher you would have a true RNG, filtered by the xor/ciphering, but still crypto-secure. With fewer true bits, you have a 'smooth' way to introduce variable amounts of true entropy. If your RNG is 'stuck at' a constant value you are back to a deterministic PRNG. How do you cryptanalze the mix of a keyed PRNG and a true entropy source here? Is there any mathematical literature on this? Thanks honig(a)alum.mit.edu "Speech is not protected simply because it is written in a language" Federal Misjudge Gwin on the Bernstein Case

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MItSchill Millhouse Holler'in
by Linda Reed--PCC West Campus CSC 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Mitch Halloran, unwitting schill of the TrilateralCPU, digitized: > I neglected to take into consideration that this attempt at > revisionist history of the greatest President of the US in the > 20th Century, perhaps in US history...this raving and ranting > to take the name of FDR in vain...this dribble to take all of > humanity's name in vain...this project to develop the Mother > of All Conspiracy Theories, including figuring out a way to > show the Big Bang is/was, all of it, every last bit, a > conspiracy... > ...well, it could be ciphertext for which I have not received > the key for making into plaintext. Someone please forward the > key to me. Working in a Drug Lab, I would imagine that the key required to make sense of SPACE ALIENS HIDE MY DRUGS!!! is easily within reach...check the 500 ml beaker to your immediate left... To tell the truth, most of my ranting and raving in regard to the InfernalTruths EreuIndicted in SAHMD is done out of kindness towards those who are the target of both my BarbLess Wit and my WitLess Barbs, since merely revealing the NakedTruth about many of these individuals might result in the Reader having an eye put out, although HeOrShe would still have one good eye left to see that the person who was giving rise to the BluntNosed Sword of Truth was not the individual's wife. ReVisionIst, to me, indicates someone who takes another look at what was previously seen with the aid of colour-glossy photos and pie-charts provided by the people who threatened to imprison your parents if they failed to send you to government-sponsered IndoctrinationCamps justified under the ruse of FreeEducation, which sometimes seem mostly geared for reinforcing in our minds how lucky we are to live in a country where the government is kind enough to provide us with FreeIncomeTaxReturnForms. Son of Mother Of All Chapters, as presented to the CypherPunks list, quite simply provides a plethora of Official Versions of the events surrounding the murder of one of Franklin Roosevelt's political enemies, Anton Cermak. Those perusing the material may come to the conclusion that if a wide variety of official news sources and official law enforcement agencies don't seem to have a fucking clue as to the time, date or sequence of events surrounding the murder, the death of Cermak, the trial or the execution, then perhaps one would be remiss in too hasty in accepting the same people's conclusions that Roosevelt, and not Cermak, was the target, it would be hard to fault their logic. As far as Roosevelt, or anyone else, being "the greatest President" of any era, it would be more accurate to describe their being the GreatestBullShitter of the era, or of having the GreatestAdvertising/SpinDoctor/PoliticalThugs of the era. It is a matter of speculation to what extent Roosevelt's actions were responsible for the recovery of the American economy after the collapse of the banking sector, but it is a matter of *fact*, supported by the testimony of even those who were part of FDR's political entourage, that Roosevelt took steps to ensure the *complete* collapse of America's financial institutions while Hoover was still President, in order to put himself in a position to extort as much money and power as possible out of Congress. Perhaps the massive suffering and financial losses that he caused in his power-grab might be justified as being 'for the greater good,' except that, had he used his position as President-elect to help restore confidence in the economy, instead of destroying it, America would not have required nearly as much 'saving' as it subsequently needed. It is a shame that I had not been born in an age when I could have run for President against Roosevelt, and won. Had I done so, then I, like FDR, would have granted myself a license to print money, and I also would have spent three times as much of the taxpayer's money as the previous 31 Presidents, combined, but *I* would have spent it all on beer and scotch, thus resurrecting the American economy without creating a HugeGovernmentMonster filled with political patronage appointees and employees who I had bought and owned with imaginary money that taxpayers would be responsible for repaying. Also, being drunk all of the time, there would have been little chance of me turning America into a PlannedSociety via a New Deal in which all of the cards being dealt were Red. > By the way, I'm really one of you guys. I am just working a > cover among the people who call themselves sane until you guys > who really know the truth can get into a position reveal these > eternal truths to the unbelievers. he-he! We appreciate your efforts. Due to the limited space in the HomeForTheCriminallyInsane, it is important for us to have half-witting schills secretly infiltrating organizations which are too ignorant of Truth&Reality (TM) to realize that the NewCrayolaColours are part of the WorldWide Plot, even when spelled without the 'u.' ~ ICould'aBeenAContend'aMonger ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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Spam Help
by Your Yashy 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I was wondering if I could get some help setting up a filter. I'd liketo create a folder called "SPAM". Then all email that are in the spam folder, I would like forwarded to abuse@ <domain> that it was sent from. I'm using Pegasus Email 3.01b thnx in advance. "I, of course, deny I called judge Santiago Campos a FASCIST PIG" -bill payne June 19, 1998 HTTP://www.comnet.ca/~yashy 100 YashDollars to first person to try every link. (including links derived from links) p.s. SPAM PROOF Email address. Remove the "*" to reply.

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Re: FDR
by attila 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On Mon, 27 Jul 1998, S. M. Halloran wrote: >Actually, attila, or Linda, or whoever you are...you are right. > >I neglected to take into consideration that this attempt at revisionist >history of the greatest President of the US in the 20th Century, perhaps >in US history... > are you really calling this cretinous, brain dead sorry excuse for a human being who was not worth being spat upon by the crippled camel of a third-world pepophilic dictator with poor table manners, the greatest President in our history? man, you're one sick puppy. are we talking about the same President? really? FDR? the man who sold our country into perpetual slavery on 08 Mar 33? 4 days after he was inaugerated in a speech where he "warned" he was asking for emergency powers, even stronger than war time powers? who managed to coerce a Congress, not even given a chance to read what they were signing, into a declaration of national emergency so this so called American could suspend the constitution, amend the WWI "trading with the enemy" act so the citizens of what was once the USA were also included among the enemy...? who pledged -us- and all our property into the servitude of the Federal Reserve and its private owners, of which more than 50% is foreign? the same man who forfeited our good faith and credit to the bankers in bamkruptcy so the U.S. is now subject to Admiralty law and flies the gold fringed flag of martial law in all its courtrooms? the same man who inaugerated the Executive Order provision which gives the President and Secretary of the Treasury the power to rule without Congress? and to enshrine the executive order into part of the US Code (USC 963, I believe)? who contracted with the international bankers to print paper money as Federal Reserve notes for which he owed the bankers the cash he had just printed plus interest while they used the cash to buy the T-bills (the instrument of indebtedness)? --and confiscated private gold at $20 an Oz --later setting the standard at $34/Oz so the insiders made a killing? the same man who tried to pack the Supreme Court? the same man who ran for a third term on an isolationist platform romising every mother that her sons would not fight a foreign war then diplomatically left Japan no option but to go to war? the same man who left Pearl Harbor out of loop with no code books for the Red or Purple code so the defining act to start America in the war wasted the Pacific Fleet with its ammo in the warehouses to be blown up, 2,000+ dead, and battleships lying on the bottom? the same man who violated the law and defied Congress with the Lend-Lease program, gave away half of Europe to Russia, handed Russia Berlin? the same man whose two closest advisers were communists? I always wanted to believe Alger Hiss was innocent as his son Tony was in my class at Harvard --he wasnt innocent, nor were the Rosenbergs as the CIA had cracked the code but would not show it in court --they even knew who handed over the trigger mechanism (never punished and he left the U.S. after the Manhattan project and taught for many years at Oxford). yep, good Ol' Uncle Joe Stalin's best friend, along with bankers like Schiff who financed the Russians. it's no conspiracy that Prescott Bush was complicite, but left holding the bag. when the U.S. in '42 confiscated Union Bank which was started by George's grandfather Herbert Walker -that's why George ran away from home, joined the air corps and became a war hero at 18. why was the bank grabbed --Union was a front for A.G. Farber and for Hitler --Walker and his friends had been funding Hitler since the early twenties --why? greed and power. it's no conspiracy; it's history, in black and white Universal news reels. FDR, the incestuous son of bitch (Eleanor was is cousin) should have been shot for treason --along with Eleanor. McCarthy, a scum-bag if there ever was one, was far closer to the truth than he ever knew. wake up and smell the roses! they've been fertilized by the shit of Eleanor Roosevelt for many years --she's still crapping in the White House garden for the first bitch to read the tea rose leaves. there are no conspiracies, just men behaving like they always do; the vulture capitalists is that they only back off when their fear exceeds their greed. politicians arent smart enough to back off their greed and their thirst for power as they blasphemously take take the oath of office. >this raving and ranting to take the name of FDR in >vain...this dribble to take all of humanity's name in vain...this project >to develop the Mother of All Conspiracy Theories, including figuring out a >way to show the Big Bang is/was, all of it, every last bit, a conspiracy... > there are no conspiracies; it's nothing more than man fouling his own nest; the normal progression of history which no-one learns so they repeat the same mistakes --the well-fed populace is too lazy to take an interest in their own government until it is too late. there is no left and right; there is no moral government; it's all about power and staying in power. ever notice how reformers only stay reformers until they need to run for reelection and the money goes to those who play ball? >...well, it could be ciphertext for which I have not received the key for >making into plaintext. Someone please forward the key to me. > what key? there is no key... except "mene, mene, tikel, upharrison" (or whatever it was on the wall). just open your eyes and view the sewer around you. the fertilizer in the fields is now distributing "radioactive" waste --effluent courtesy of your politicians. the U.S. is already an oligarchy, next comes the plutocracy, followed by the triumvirate, and then the emporer (maybe with clothes) -then there will be a winnowing and anarchy followed by tribal states. welcome to history, but few will live to see it run its course --America, the universally hated, will be the first to be plowed under when she can no longer bully or buy the -pax americanus-. and the men in power know that a hungry disorganized populace can be subjugated by a well fed army. >By the way, I'm really one of you guys. I am just working a cover among >the people who call themselves sane until you guys who really know the >truth can get into a position reveal these eternal truths to the >unbelievers. he-he! > >Really. > >[if you think you see a crazy person, consider the very real possibility >that what you are seeing is really a crazy person] > sorry, I really am crazy, but it's better to be crazy than insane. > >Mitch Halloran >Research (Bio)chemist >Duzen Laboratories Group another Brit/American selling his ass to the world.... >Ankara TURKEY >mitch(a)duzen.com.tr > >An ass with a golden saddle is still an ass. --Turkish proverb > yeah, but he's a rich ass... __________________________________________________________________________ go not unto usenet for advice, for the inhabitants thereof will say: yes, and no, and maybe, and I don't know, and fuck-off. _________________________________________________________________ attila__ To be a ruler of men, you need at least 12 inches.... There is no safety this side of the grave. Never was; never will be.

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No Subject
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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17 Dec '03

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Republicans
by JBrown4330＠aol.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Hey: Who made up the term "Politically Correct"? Not Christians and not Republicans. Your side did. How does wanting a smaller government, less taxes, the freedom to CHOOSE to pray in schools, the rights of the un-born( of course you probably think they have no rights- just as slave owners thought about their slaves), and who acts like the thought police?????? CHOKE ON IT YOU HYPOCRITE

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ACM CCCS '98: Anonymity on the Internet
by ulf＠fitug.de 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The ACM CCCS'98 conference (November 1998) has recently been announced on cryptography(a)c2.net. There will be a panel on "Anonymity on the Internet", moderated by Paul Syverson. There's also a paper discussing the attacks nym.alias.net has had to face: David Mazières and M. Frans Kaashoek. The design, implementation and operation of an email pseudonym server. In Proceedings of the 5th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, 1998. ftp://cag.lcs.mit.edu/pub/dm/papers/mazieres:pnym.ps.gz

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Announcement: RPK Encryptonite Software Toolkit Version 3.0
by Jack Oswald / CEO / RPK Security Inc 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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