December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Revenge of the AOLHoles
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On Thu, 10 Sep 1998 AIMSX(a)aol.com wrote: > > I truly hope you don't stereotype all AOL users for this idiot's insane > ramblings. > Unfortunately, some people are just morons, but you get them on every ISP > anyway, they just aren't so obvious on others, because unfortunately, AOL > makes it easier to communicate. AOL makes it easier to communicate. This has the intended side effect of attracting every moron with a home computer. Thus, AOL has a disproportionate number of morons. They get what they ask for. The problem is that most of the AOL users who publish to the net seem to be morons. They use some annoying Russo-Germanic quoting style, they can't use English, they're clueless, they post off-topic, or something else. Examples of AOL catering to morons: 1) "AOL is the Internet!" 2) Using the fact that their software *says* "You have mail!" as a selling point. 3) They use a platform-specific client package. Further, "AOL is the Internet," therefore AOL-specific conferences and newsgroups must be "on the Internet" or "on the net" *and are advertised that way*. Uhh... 4) They make no effort to educate their lamers...err, users. 5) They send out tons of "free trial" disks, trying to snare every idiot they can find. 6) They make their service as easy to use as possible, which is fine, except that it attracts people who don't have the mental capacity to use it when they venture outside of AOL. Witness the drek they pour onto the Cypherpunks list. I'm sure Mr. May could expand on this with a few dozen additional points, if not a few hundred. Now maybe this stuff is good marketting practice, but it's a lousy way to serve the community which gives them life. It's the equivelent of a swim coach bringing his students to a public pool and instructing them to release their bowels whenever they feel the urge. If you use a site which caters to morons, expect to get treated like one, especially if said site celebrates the fact that they're defecating in the pool. They've earned the stereotype that they have. While we're at it, maybe some of the statistics-types out there can analyze the archives for, say, the last month. Remove postings, if any, which are routed through an anonymous remailer at AOL. Then remove random or systematic spam (ex: the New York Times, that Javascript "child-molester" exploit). Then compare the number of clueless postings to Cypherpunks by AOL users to the number of useful and on-topic postings to Cypherpunks by AOL users, and compare that ratio against other ISPs. When determining clueless postings, include postings which use Russo-Germanic ("<< >>") quoting, or which are completely off-topic (ex: "how u do that"). Count postings which are clueless but were originally from another site and got forwarded here as originating from the original site. Maybe repeat for Juno and Hotmail. Exclude flames and subsequent discussions concerning these clueless postings (ex: don't include AIMSX's response or this response in either category). Then again, there probably isn't any need.

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Mercury-News article tries to link crypto export, Africa bombings
by Greg Broiles 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Standard four-horsemen stuff; see <http://www.mercurycenter.com/business/top/066595.htm>. I couldn't find any actual connection between the Africa bombings and crypto (or crypto export), but the FBI and their pet congresspeople are much too smart to get bogged down in a discussion of actual facts. -- Greg Broiles |History teaches that 'Trust us' gbroiles(a)netbox.com |is no guarantee of due process. |_Kasler v. Lundgren_, 98 CDOS 1581 |(March 4, 1998)

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One Nation tax policy on ABC
by Scott Balson 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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RE: radio net (fwd)
by Matthew James Gering 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

BTW, is all this talk about rules for specific frequencies dedicated to amateur radio? Why not use some of the frequency ranges that were recently opened up for unlicensed SS/RF use? Matt (who sends encrypted traffic over the airwaves with his Ricochet modem)

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Re: radio net (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 22:28:02 -0400 > From: Robert Hettinga <rah(a)shipwright.com> > Subject: Re: radio net > Someone here already said it, but nobody else got it, so I'll repeat it: > SSB, or Single Sideband. It's commercial ham radio, if you will, and all > the ships use it. I expect that you can shove anything down an SSB set that > you want, including encrypted traffic. > > Ham radio is a government nerd subsidy, and as such, doesn't do much but > make more government funded/sactioned/approved/whatever nerds. :-). > > SSB would do just fine. It's an international standard, after all, and > probably not under the control of any one government, even.e Single-sideband (SSB) isn't an international standard, it's a physical effect. See: The Art of Electronics Horowitz, Hill ISBN 0-521-37095-7 pp. 897 ____________________________________________________________________ The seeker is a finder. Ancient Persian Proverb The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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No Subject
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Found this: http://offshorehaven.nu/banking/index.html no idea whether a trap or a jewel.

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Re: Impossible Analysis Paper at Crypto98
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> There's talk of a paper given at Crypto98 on "Impossible > Differential Analysis" which got the NSA people scribbling > like mad taking notes as though this was something that > had never come up at the agency and they'd better get > right on it. > > Roughly, as I heard it (and I may be way off), the premise is > that instead of using differential analysis for finding weaknesses > in a cipher, to flip that to determine what could not possibly be > a weakness in a cipher and build one with just those attributes. > > Is this report correct, and is there a source for that paper? This was presented at the rump session and apparently there is no paper writeup yet. Biham's home page at http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~biham/ has a place you can register to be notified when new material comes out. With conventional differential cryptanalysis, you look for pairs of inputs which have differences (xors usually) such that after a certain number of rounds, the ciphertexts have certain differences with excess probability. With "impossible" differential cryptanalysis, you look for inputs with differences which lead to ciphertext differences that are "impossible", or at least have reduced probability. It's the same basic idea but you look for diminution rather than enhancement of the probability of later differences. Because of the reversal of the effect, the techniques for identifying differentials, exploiting them, and designing against them are rather different. As a result ciphers which were designed to resist differential cryptanalysis may be vulnerable to impossible differentials. This technique has apparently led to an improved attack on SkipJack, announced on Biham's web page above as "coming soon". There was also a moderate improvement in attacks on reduced-round IDEA (not effective against the full number of rounds though). At Crypto everyone was scurrying off to see if any of the AES candidates could be knocked out by the new technique.

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17 Dec '03

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Writing skills
by s9812127＠postino.up.ac.za 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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No Subject
by s9813117＠postino.up.ac.za 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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