December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

emission test, Black and White Test of Cryptographic Algorithms, & settlement
by bill payne 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Monday 9/14/98 2:33 PM Don When I drove back from Pullman in about 9/96 I realized the valve seals were leaking in my VW Rabbit. Blue smoke coming out the exhaust pipe. Passing the low speed carbon monoxide test is the hardest. On 09/06/96 the emission test showed Standard Current Reading Result 1.20 2.88 FAIL You showed me your tool to change seals. But I needed to work on other projects. After spending about $400 to get the seals replaced, I got another test on 09/10/96 Standard Current Reading Result 1.20 1.31 FAIL In DESPERATION I used Berrymans B-12, changed oil, etc and REMOVED THE AIR FILTER for the test on 09/11/96 Standard Current Reading Result 1.20 1.19 PASS Talk about squeaking by! If your vehicle continues to FAIL emissions test, your life will be made extremely disrupted by the VEHICLE POLLUTION MANAGEMENT DIVISION. The Rabbit had its 1998 emission test due in September 1998. I was totally prepared for failure. I ordered about $500 in parts from JC Whitney in preparation for a DISRUPTIVE engine rebuild. And, of course, I ordered for the fun of it the NAFTA [Mexico] exhaust headers. I could not wait to see the effect of exhaust headers on performance, so I installed them immediately. WOW! I estimate about a 20-30% performance improvement. Rpms up the ying-yang. Patty kept putting the 1998 emissions notice on my dinner plate. On Saturday I took a FAST ride to Oro Guay peak and hiked. I took a FAST return trip. I drove into EXPRESS EMISSION operated by Dung Nguyen. I wanted to see how badly my grey rabbit, R2, would fail. R2 is how the grey rabbit is denoted in my repair log. I couldnt stand to personally watch R2 fail, so I went outside while it was tested. On my return the two operators were smiling both and had their thumbs pointed up! R2 PASSED!!!! Standard Current Reading Result 1.20 00.13 PASS !Viva NAFTA exhaust headers! ANOTHER disruption out of the way so that I can concentrate on completing the digital FX! My HUGE FEAR what that I would have to spend time getting R2 into shape to POSSIBLY PASS the emissions test. TRYING to get a car which failed the emissions test is a nightmare! Sandia colleague Ron Pate had to have a rebuilt engine installed in his bronco so that it would pass. Black and White Test of Cryptographic Algorithms, by William H. Payne advertised at http://www.aci.net/kalliste/ / and presented at http://zolatimes.com will hopefully AID in getting my other distraction settled. Then, too, of course, are the JUSTIFIABLY upset MUSLIMS who are reading my zolatimes article. Sandia president C. Paul Robinson observed at http://www.jya.com/its-us.htm wrote A quick walk around the globe: other emerging threat nations ... What is perhaps most frightening is the apparent increase in the flow of technology, hardware, and a "barter system" in dangerous materials. We must understand "What are their motives?" Simple, in one case. Settlement. WE WANT OUR MONEY! This is on Internet at http://www.jya.com/crypto.htm DoE: Pay Bill Payne Thought about you guys at the fun Metriguard Monday corporate lunch. The Acer scsi Scan Prisa I ordered just arrived by UPS. Now I can scan in my schematics. And bash the Great Satan EVEN HARDER. But let's all hope for settlement before matters get WORSE. Later bill

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Is nym.alas.net down?
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Is nym.alias.net down? I've sent a request twice using a different remailer chain each time yet it still doesn't reply. It's been about two days since I sent it in. I did however create a nym with dongco.hyperreal.art.pl. Is this service reliable? or will it disppear quickly?

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IP: A CLINTON DIRTY BOOK STORY
by Robert Hettinga 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

--- begin forwarded text Delivered-To: ignition-point(a)majordomo.pobox.com Subject: IP: A CLINTON DIRTY BOOK STORY Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1998 14:04:32 -0400 (EDT) From: softwar(a)us.net (CharlesSmith) To: ignition-point(a)majordomo.pobox.com Sender: owner-ignition-point(a)majordomo.pobox.com Precedence: list Reply-To: softwar(a)us.net (CharlesSmith) In late 1994 the U.S. State Department denied Phil Karn his request to export a PC disk. Mr. Karn already had sold the book, APPLIED CRYPTOGRAPHY written by Bruce Schneier, without restriction. Mr. Karn also included a disk of text source code (in human readable format) that was also printed in the book. The book and the disk were freely sold, with no checks, in retail American bookstores. According to the Clinton administration, Karn's disk was a threat to national security. Newly released documents from the State Department, written in November 1994, shows the White House National Security Council (NSC) directly approved the decision to deny Karn's request while allowing the export of military encryption to China. The document, a letter written by Wendy Sherman, State Department Assistant Secretary of Legislative Affairs, to then Congresswoman Maria Cantwell (D WA) was provided to Bill Clements of the NSC for White House approval. In addition, the document includes a fax on Karn's export problem titled "TO: Pres. Clinton". Ordie Kittrie, the State Department Attorney for Political-Military Affairs, wrote "Attached is draft response to Rep. Cantwell ie Karn encryption disk... Please provide me with any comments by noon Friday, November 18." "The decision that controls should continue was based on several consideration," wrote Ms. Sherman. "The administration will continue to restrict export of sophisticated encryption devices, both to preserve our own foreign intelligence gathering capability and because of the concerns of our allies who fear that strong encryption technology would inhibit their law enforcement capabilities. One result of the interagency review of Mr. Karn's disk was a determination that the source code on it is of such a strategic level as to warrant continued State Department licensing." Of course, any criminal or terrorist could simply purchase the book and key the code in. A slightly richer criminal could even use an Optical Scanner (OCR) and convert the pages directly into readable source code in less time. Even a secret Commerce briefing document from a 1996 meeting with Janet Reno openly admits the futile nature of trying to restrict PC diskette or software export. "Lost in the debate," states the secret 1996 Commerce Department document. "But not irrelevant, is the fact that it is virtually impossible to enforce export control's against them when they can be exported by phone and modem or/in someone's pocket." At first the Clinton encryption policy seems absurd or simply driven by bureaucratic red tape. Alas, nothing is further from the truth. The policy was used as a means to extort donations for the DNC or by Clinton insiders bent on making big bucks. The Chinese Army was not interested in PC programs or diskettes their agents could buy openly in a retail bookstore. The PLA under the Clinton administration has been in the business of acquiring commercial applications of "Defense" technology. For example, in November 1994 Motorola employee and former Clinton White House NSC member Richard Barth began his successful request to sell encrypted radios and cellular phones to the Chinese Police. Motorola's Barth wrote to Theodore McNamara Assistant Secretary of State on November 23, 1994. "This is to request that your office initiate action to obtain a waiver from requirement for individual export license notifications to Congress for wireless mobile communications systems containing encryption for China. Such a waiver was issued by the President in September of this year for civilian satellite systems and encrypted products for use by American firms operating in China." According to Barth, a high-tech trade war had erupted between the U.S. and Britain. "European firms," wrote Barth. "Including Nokia, Ericsson, Alcatel and Siemens, have for a number of months been able to market and sell GSM cellular systems with A5-2 encryption in China as a result of a decision taken by the UK intelligence agency, GCHQ." By July 1995, the CEO of Motorola, Gary Tooker, wrote a personal note to Ron Brown, expressing his gratitude for Clinton's signature approving encryption exports. "I am writing to thank you," wrote Tooker to Brown. "And some key members of the Commerce Department for your assistance in obtaining the Presidential waiver for encryption export sales to China." The Motorola saga of Barth is not the only example of Bill Clinton's two-faced policy on high-tech exports. In fact, President Clinton personally authorized the transfer of an encrypted air traffic control system to the Chinese Air Force. It is this particular export which illustrates the difference between military encryption and civilian, such as Karn's disk of PC programs. The Chinese Air Force runs the civilian air control in their country. The U.S. built air traffic system is not only run by PLAAF officers but it is also plugged directly into their air defense. According to the recent GAO testimony on Clinton waivers "Waivers were also granted to permit the export of encryption equipment controlled on the Munitions List. One case involved a $4.3-million communications export to China's Air Force." Not only are Chinese fighters and missiles more effective thanks to Bill Clinton but China has also exported a modified version of the U.S. system to Iraq. The Chinese version, called "Tiger Song", includes U.S. and French made parts. The Tiger Song system allows Iraq to track and target U.S. fighters using a high speed, secure, fiber optic command network. All radars in Iraq, civilian and military, are now linked together into Tiger Song. Iraqi missiles and military radars are also now playing a giant shell game with U.S. air forces, using pre-built camouflaged sites wired with hidden fiber optic cables, scattered all over the country. Another military example of Clinton crypto export controls is the sales of Hughes, Motorola, and Loral satellites to the Chinese military. The satellites were sold complete with on-board secure telemetry systems hardened to absorb the intense radiation of space - something that can be directly applied to nuclear weapons. The satellites exported to China in question were so classified that whole sections of Federal law, the U.S. Munitions List, were deleted or waived by Bill Clinton. The claims made by Bernard Schwartz and Loral that they did not knowingly export military technology to China contradicts the official briefing documents given to Ron Brown in 1994. One Loral document obtained from the files of Ron Brown, labeled "for Secy. Brown", has a page titled "Commercial Applications Of DoD Technology". This document lists "Intelsat", "Cellular - Globalstar" and "Direct Broadcast Satellite" technology along with a variety of other products developed from "DoD" projects. Thus, Loral knowingly exported systems they developed for the U.S. military to China. Did Mr. Clinton consult with U.S. allies prior to allowing top DNC donors export rights to military gear? According to Motorola, the staunchest U.S. ally, Great Britain, was an economic adversary. Clearly, the strategic concerns of South Korea, Japan and the Philippines were never considered. Under Bill Clinton our allies from the Cold War were competitors in a economic war for money. Furthermore, in September 1998 FBI Director Freeh testified before the Senate Committee on Terrorism. As predicted, Freeh pushed the "Bin Ladden" terrorism button while requesting a ban on domestic PC encryption programs. The use of encryption by so called terrorist organizations is balanced by the use of the same technology by law abiding citizens to protect themselves from criminals. The fact that Bin Ladden is armed with encryption comes as no surprise since he was, after all, trained by the CIA to fight the Soviets in Afghanistan. Once a freedom fighter and now a terrorist. One similar historic example to Bin Ladden is "VULA". In the 1980s the South African National Congress (ANC) used encryption in a project called "VULA" to defeat the apartheid government. Vula included illegal exports from europe, Soviet training and home built software. Vula was successful and the ANC ultimately won their long war. Once a terrorist now a freedom fighter. These facts are not unknown to the Clinton administration. In November 1993 TOP Secret document prepared for President Clinton openly admitted the futility of any government-imposed ban. According to "IMPACTS OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND ENCRYPTION TECHNOLOGY ON LAW ENFORCEMENT AND INTELLIGENCE COLLECTION: ASSESSMENT, OPTIONS, AND RECOMMENDATIONS" a ban would "either (1) discourage criminals from using encryption because they realized that most products did not provide protection from wiretaps, or (2) encourage criminals to acquire strong encryption technology, whether commercial or home made." Obviously, the administration will not start banning books so the "home made" option will always apply. The FBI Director seems to have forgotten common sense along with the law. He certainly has remained silent while the Chinese Army purchased military encryption systems from his boss. Freeh, however, has also remained adamant that crack-pot export restrictions on printed text must remain. Mr. Freeh also overlooked one final historical example of a so called revolutionary type group using encryption and the FBI Director can thank his job for it. In April 1775 Paul Revere read a coded light signal from a Church tower and rode into history. The King's men did not intercept nor decode that message. The battle of Concord took place and the first shots of our own revolution were fired. ================================================================ source documents - http://www.softwar.net/karn.html Clinton NSC/State Crypto Book Disk Export http://www.softwar.net/loral.html LORAL Commercial Applications of DOD Tech http://www.softwar.net/inpact.html TOP SECRET "Impacts of Encryption" http://www.softwar.net/vula.html ANC Operation VULA - Freedom Fighers Use Crypto http://www.softwar.net/moto4.html 1995 MOTOROLA Tooker To Warren Christopher For Crypto To China http://www.softwar.net/tooker1.html July 1995 MOTOROLA Thank You For Encryption Export To Ron Brown http://www.softwar.net/tooker2.html Feb. 1995 MOTOROLA To Ron Brown - Human Rights and Crypto http://www.softwar.net/barth95.html March 1995 MOTOROLA - Encrypted Radios/Iridium For China http://www.softwar.net/barth94.html Richard Barth 1994 Secret Letters Email http://www.softwar.net/barth93.html Richard Barth 1993 Secret White House Email http://www.softwar.net/gao176.html GAO REPORT - ARMS FOR CHINA - CRYPTO FOR CHINA ================================================================ 1 if by land, 2 if by sea. Paul Revere - encryption 1775 Charles R. Smith SOFTWAR http://www.softwar.net softwar(a)softwar.net Pcyphered SIGNATURE: 4CE66EF8168673DBB980C519E94FB51027FA5FF001D1BB63298A4E5E28906370 1B9713F09BEEF599003431629914FB78B8704B2BB0DDB22DCA21DB900065CA07 5E32CB3CE742D7C6 ================================================================ SOFTWAR EMAIL NEWSLETTER 09/07/1998 *** to unsubscribe reply with "unsubscribe" as subject *** ================================================================ **COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. 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FBI's valiant fight against Marxism
by awestrop＠dimensional.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- For comic relief, see http://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/news/arts/groucho-fbi-file.html and http://www.thenation.com/issue/980928/0928WIEN.HTM regarding Hoover's investigation of a famed Marxist comic. (BTW, Obergruppenfuehrer Freeh's characterization of Declan as a "radical" reminded me of the mathematical quip by that obscure Marxist comic, Karl: "To be radical is to go to the root of the equation!") Cigar jokes are left as an exercise for the reader. __ Alan Westrope PGP http://www.dim.com/~awestrop <awestrop(a)dim.com> public http://www.nyx.net/~awestrop <awestrop(a)nyx.net> key: also via keyservers & finger PGP RSA 0xB8359639: D6 89 74 03 77 C8 2D 43 7C CA 6D 57 29 25 69 23 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBNf3NP1RRFMq4NZY5AQGG3gP7BIr4/31xwhpX3Ye4je4z3J3ssQ4ekqJK Ac+dAs9Mg1okgCXEJvbxuZo32oyKpOlXkCFcnu/xeXUjDJUsVqjwPUHwcLxjHMt4 lvEiomwWfKRvn9ZGWIygDZmRroJ5ZyXQaXNQW5Ao7XUIePN44pT2Ny4nRE0PjsJi WlD2O5sYqWw= =ReUo -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: Larry Gilbert
by HyperReal-Anon 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On Mon, 14 Sep 1998, sixdegrees wrote: > > Just a quick update from sixdegrees(tm). Unfortunately Larry > Gilbert (irving(a)pobox.com) asked not to be listed as your > contact with sixdegrees. > > We also wanted to make sure you were aware that you currently > have no other confirmed contacts, so it will be hard for you to > have a productive sixdegrees experience. As you probably know, > without any confirmed contacts, you won't get any results from our > networking searches. > > So, we just wanted to recommend that you head over to > http://www.sixdegrees.com , log-in, and go to MY CONTACTS > to list additional relationships. > > > ==================================================================== > PLEASE NOTE: All replies to this address are processed by a computer. > If you have any problems, questions or requests send an e-mail to > issues(a)sixdegrees.com and someone will get back to you as soon as > possible. > ==================================================================== Since you seem so intent on continuing to spam the Cypherpunks list like some AOL luser-wannabe, I have a better idea. Follow this procedure exactly to reach enlightenment: 1) Open the cases for all your computers. 2) Drop your pants. 3) Whip it out. In the case of a woman, just squat. 4) Spray all your machines. 5) If any machines are still working, pour large amounts of concentrated nitric acid solution on them. Inhale the resulting vapors. 6) Close the door, activate the halon system, sit down, and inhale deeply. 7) You will pass out. Within a few minutes, you will see the Grand Poobah himself. 8) If you do not have a halon system, inhale heavy gasses such as freon. We're glad to be of service to clueless AOLholes and clueless AOLhole-wannabes everywhere. Have a nice day.

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Predictions: Crime and Criminal Justice in the 21st Century
by nnburk 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Predictions: Crime and Criminal Justice in the 21st Century 1. The United States will experience a significant economic recession/crisis very close to the turn of the Century. 2. As the large pool of young people born in the early 1990s become teenagers and young adults, there will be a dramatic increase in violent crime around the year 2005-2010. 3. America will experience sporadic civil disorders/riots in many of its urban areas during the next 10-15 years -- much of it related to racial/ethnic problems. 4. Terrorist acts by "fringe"/special issue groups will increase at a significant rate -- becoming a major law enforcement and security problem. 5. As faith in the criminal justice system declines, there will be a rise in vigilante-based incidents where citizens take the enforcement of crime problems into their own hands. 6. Much of middle- and upper-class America will take a "retreatist" attitude and move into private high-security communities located in suburban or rural areas. Because of technological advances, many companies and corporations will also move out of the urban environments as well. 7. Due to many of the predictions listed above, much of law enforcement and security in the 21st Century will become privatized and contractual. Traditional law enforcement agencies will primarily serve urban and rural communities. 8. Law enforcement will evolve into two major and divergent roles: traditional law enforcement and a more specialized military tactical role to deal with the growing urban violance and terrorist incidents. 9. Significant violence and unrest will plague our nation's prisons. Major prison riots will become a regular occurrence. 10. With the decrease of the possibility of major global warfare, the United States military will take on an increased domestic "peace-keeping" role with America's law enforcement agencies. John Young wrote: > > Tim asks: > > >Freeh and Company continue to mumble about "meeting > >the legitmate needs of law enforcement." What can they > >be speaking of? > ... > >Obviously his side is contemplating domestic crypto restrictions. > > Threat of terrorism will be the impetus for applying national security > restrictions domestically, for relaxing cold war limitations on spying > on Americans, for dissolving barriers between law enforcement > and military/intelligence agencies. > > Technical means for access to encrypted data will probably > come first in communications, then to stored material. There > will be an agreement for increased CALEA wiretap funding, which > is what the two cellular and wired suits against the FBI intend, > (paralleling what the hardware and software industries want from > federal buyers of security products). > > This will provide the infrastructural regime for the gov to monitor > and store domestic traffic as NSA does for the global, using the > same technology (NSA may provide service to domestic > LEA as it now does for other gov customers for intel). > > Other access will come through hardware and software for > computers, paralleling technology developed for telecomm tapping, > tracking and monitoring. > > Most probably through overt/covert features of microprocessors > and OS's, as reported recently of Wintel and others, but also > probably with special chips for DSP and software for modular > design -- why build from scratch when these handy kits are > available. > > As noted here, the features will appear first as optional, in response > to demand from commerce, from parents, from responsible > institutions, to meet public calls for protection, for privacy, for > combating threats to the American people. > > Like wiretap law, use of the features for preventative snooping will > initially require a court order, as provided in several of the crypto > legislative proposals. > > Like the wiretap orders, gradually there will be no secret court refusals > for requests to use the technology in the national interest. > > A publicity campain will proclaims that citizens with nothing to hide > will have nothing to fear. Assurance of safety will be transparent, > no clicks on the line. In a digital world, home-office devices will send > lifestyle data to the device manufacturers over the always monitoring > transparental Net. > > Personal privacy will evaporate almost unnoticeably, as with the tv > remote control, cp/defcon/bar brag, telephone, fax and forever-lovers > pillowtalk.

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The DES Analytic Crack Project
by Eric Cordian 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

As some of you may have noticed, a new attempt to crack the Data Encryption Standard has been started, with a descriptive FAQ located at the following URL http://www.cyberspace.org/~enoch/crakfaq.html A while back, after the first DES challenge was announced, a number of us made the observation that a known plaintext attack on DES, expressed as a system of a few thousand boolean variables with constraints in 3-conjunctive normal form, was not too far from the size and complexity of problems that could be directly solved by bleeding edge combinatorial algorithms, albeit with signficant CPU and memory consumption. We thought this would be an interesting result, and generated a number of problems of various numbers of DES rounds based on the DES Challenge data, and some not particularly optimized S-Box representations, and set about the task of solving them, smaller problems first. We wrote a lot of code, learned a lot about arbitrary systems of boolean variables, and after breaking 2-round and 4-round problems, the first almost instantly, and the second with very reasonable amounts of resources, set about the task of seeing if we could break the higher round problems, and immortalize ourselves by beating DESCHALL to the key. To our very great regret, we did not manage to do this, and once the $10k prize was claimed, we figured the game was over and returned to working on other things. We still thought DES was a problem of approximately the right size to demonstrate the existence of an analytical solution which would beat a well-tuned exhaustive search on a problem of practical interest. Since that time, DES has been broken twice more by exhaustive search, once by distributed.net, and again by a hardware DES cracking machine designed by Net legend John Gilmore and the EFF for a non-trivial amount of money. Remarkably, although most agree DES is dead for new applications, with Moore's Law and additional hardware crackers being possible today for much less than the cost of the prototype, it still seems to enjoy a reputation amongst the public as a cipher that takes 20,000 pentiums running for half a month or a hardware box with $100k of chips running for several days to break, neither of which seems to have thrown the Fear of God into its current users, most notably the Banking Industry. With other analytic attacks like differential and linear cryptanalysis being really practical only for reduced round DES, and all current high-profile cracks on production ciphers employing key trial, the press has latched onto keysize as a synonym for strength, and has made numerous statements which have reinforced this questionable paradigm in the minds of the public. We have therefore been taking another look at our idea of a combinatorial crack of DES, and decided that even with DES having been cracked three times by key trial, it is definitely a project worth doing. This time, rather than working frantically in an unsuccessful attempt to beat other teams on a public challenge, we wish to finish up our original efforts, and repeat the three cracks previously done, this time using our algorithms, and distribute working code continuously as the project progresses, to sponsors who have donated some money to defray our costs. This will offer people the opportunity to participate vicariously in a fun project which has the potential to be a genuine paradigm shift in the way the world thinks about codebreaking. Sometimes, promising areas of research are not followed because of knowlege of some well-known result which suggests that such exploration will be unfruitful. Years ago, for instance, suggestions that programs could be checked by software for proper behavior, and run without using protected memory regions, were usually met with snide comments about the "computer halting problem" and various adjunct results. Today, there are many variants of "safe execution" technology, from prove and carry schemes, to Java bytecode, with a sound theoretical basis behind them. None of these is a violation of the "computer halting problem" results, of course. Similarly, after a large burst of activity decades ago, which resulted in the notion of NP-Completeness, and various results in computational complexity theory, suggestions that an analytic solution exists for some large combinatorial problem of practical interest conjure up visions of exponential resource utilization, speaker cluenessless, and the lack of progress on NP=P. For this reason, we feel this project is definitely a Schnelling Point. If it works, even badly, people will begin to look at lots of problems in ways they would not have considered before, and much new code which improves upon what we have done will be created. This will be an irreversible change in the Order of Things. In the several days since we put up our FAQ, we have gotten quite a few comments, and some concerns. The comments have mostly been along the lines that it is an interesting, even intriguing project. The concerns are generally that we will experience an unexpected "combinatoric explosion" in the higher round problems, and that no one in their right mind would send money to a nym, because it might just vanish and be used by the nym to live in perpetual ecstasy in some place warm and tropical, without the possiblility of the nym being sued for fraud. While we hope the close coupling between the sponsors and the project members will eliminate this latter concern, with weekly progress reports and working code being distributed to permit the sponsors to reproduce our results as they occur. If three people are willing to sponsor and give us the go-ahead to begin, without wanting their money back if other sponsors do not join, we can probably get through the minimal S-Box representations and their proof-of-correctness as well as some cleaned up code for the 2-round problem. Hopefully we will then have a reputation with these people which will encourage others to join in the effort. Clearly, we're after speculative capital, rather than widow and orphan money, and hope a few of the wealthy older retired (and perhaps even crusty) engineer types might find this a productive thing to support. After all, if you've just blown $220,000 on a DES Cracker, making it $220,500 and getting your very own Schnelling Point in return is probably a reasonable amount of fun for your money. I'll stop ranting now. :) -- Sponsor the DES Analytic Crack Project http://www.cyberspace.org/~enoch/crakfaq.html

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Clinton still doesnt get it
by attila 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

25 years of Clinton's raging pscyhopathic, oversexed behavior: Hillary has been a willing partner. nothing but control freaques and obscene power trippers. there is only amorality in that house --and power by any means. New York Times September 13, 1998 IN AMERICA/By BOB HERBERT Still Doesn't Get It David Maraniss, in his biography of Bill Clinton, "First in His Class," writes about an "intense relationship" that Mr. Clinton had with a young woman who had volunteered to work in his first campaign for public office. Mr. Clinton was running for Congress and the woman was a student at the University of Arkansas. A campaign aide, quoted in the book, said, "The staff tried to ignore it as long as it didn't interfere with the campaign." But it did interfere, because Mr. Clinton was also intensely involved with Hillary Rodham. Mr. Maraniss writes: "The tension at campaign headquarters increased considerably when Rodham arrived as people there tried to deal with the situation. Both women seemed on edge. The Arkansas girlfriend would ask people about Hillary: what she was like, and whether Clinton was going to marry her. When she was at headquarters, someone would sneak her out the back door if Rodham was spotted pulling into the driveway." It was all there more than two decades ago at the very beginning of Bill Clinton's political journey: the thoughtlessness, the recklessness, the wanton use of friends and associates to cover up his ugly behavior, the willingness to jeopardize the hopes and dreams of people who were working for him and trusted him, the betrayal of those closest to him. There is nothing new in Kenneth Starr's report, just confirmation in extreme and at times lurid detail of the type of person Mr. Clinton has always been. In 1992, when he was running for President and people across the nation were investing their time, money and even their careers in him, he rewarded them with the Gennifer Flowers scandal. He carried his psychodrama onto national television when he went on "60 Minutes" and, with Mrs. Clinton at his side, called Ms. Flowers a liar. He told Steve Kroft and 30 million viewers: "It was only when money came up, when the tabloid went down there offering people money to say that they had been involved with me, that she changed her story. There's a recession on, times are tough, and I think you can expect more and more of these stories as long as they're down there handing out money." In other words, it was the economy, stupid. But even as he was denying that he had had a sexual relationship with Gennifer Flowers, Mr. Clinton was going out of his way on "60 Minutes" to convey to the public that he had learned a lesson, that he had matured and that his irresponsible behavior would not be a problem if he were elected President. "I have absolutely leveled with the American people," he said. In fact, his comments were about as level as the Himalayas. We now know that he was willing to risk everything, his family, his Presidency, the welfare of the nation, on a dangerous fling with a White House intern. For him, it must have been great fun. He got to play so many people for fools. He got to chat on the phone with Congressmen while engaging in sex. He got to play hide and seek with the Secret Service. Very mature behavior. Now the Clinton psychodrama has much of the Government paralyzed and the Democratic Party in a state of panic. But Mr. Clinton still doesn't get it. On Thursday he met with the members of his Cabinet, who had been duped and lied to like so many others. He went into his emotional routine and said he was oh-so-sorry, etc. He begged for forgiveness. But he got upset when the Secretary of Health and Human Services, Donna Shalala, said that she was appalled by his behavior. Ms. Shalala complained that the President seemed to believe that pursuing his policies and programs was more important than providing moral leadership. A story in The Washington Post said Mr. Clinton responded sharply to Ms. Shalala, rebuking her. My understanding is that his response was critical but not harsh. Either way, it's clear that Mr. Clinton has not learned the requisite lessons. He lied to Ms. Shalala months ago and sent her out to lie to the public, and now he's criticizing her. The President is not sorry. He's apologizing because there's a gun at his head. He's not changing what he now describes as his sinful ways. He's trying to manipulate public opinion so he can survive to sin again. The psychodrama remains as long as he remains. There are no surprises here. With Bill Clinton, it was ever thus.

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Re: Hi!
by HyperReal-Anon 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On Mon, 14 Sep 1998 harald.fragner(a)idg.se wrote: > > Do I know you? > > Harald > > ------------------ > Harald Fragner > IT-avdelningen, IDG > Tel: 08-453 60 10 > Fax: 08-453 60 05 > Email: harald.fragner(a)idg.se > > No, but we know you! You're a very evil man, Mr. Fragner, at least by the standards of the Hired Government Ninjas. Under our standards, everyone is evil...except government leaders. Expect black helicopters to be targetting your house in the next few days. Do not be surprised if unguided rockets are shot into it. If ninjas are coming through your windows at 2AM, just remember: We're from the government and we're here to help you. Just bend over and grip the towel rack. Your phone will be ringing off the hook in the middle of the night for the next two or three years. Oh, wait, maybe I'm looking into the future again. I really must stop doing that. That's the bad part about being involved with the Hired Government Ninjas. We mysteriously know how people will be harassed before it happens. Imagine that. Sincerely, Hired Government Ninjas, Inc. Remember, our motto is: "Do what we say, that's the way we kick it."

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a few facts on Presidential peccadillos (fwd)
by attila 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

power trippers attract willing victims. enjoy... __________________________________________________________________________ 1. Which president smoked marijuana with a nude playgirl while he joked about being too wasted to "push the button" in case of nuclear attack? 2. Which president allegedly had affairs with both a winner AND a finalist in the Miss America pageant? 3. Which president had sex with one of his secretaries stretched out atop a desk in the oval office? 4. Which president allegedly had an affair (as well as children) with a slave who was his wife's half sister? 5. Which president called his mistress "Pookie"? 6. Which president married a woman who hadn't yet divorced her first husband, and was branded an "adulterer" during his re-election campaign? 7. Which future president wrote love letters to his neighbor's wife while he was engaged to someone else? 8. Which president had a torrid affair with the first lady's personal secretary? 9. Which president had sex with a young woman in a White House coat closet - at one point, while a secret service agent prevented the hysterical first lady from attacking them? 10. Which president had sex in a closet while telling his partner about the *other* president who did the same in a closet? (The one from Question 9)? 11. Which vice president was ticked off because he felt that HIS record of sexual conquests was much more "impressive" (i.e. numerous) than the President's? 12. Which future president, while a college student, enjoyed showing off his penis (which he named Jumbo)? ANSWERS 1. John F. Kennedy 2. Bill Clinton 3. Lyndon B. Johnson 4. Thomas Jefferson 5. Bill Clinton 6. Andrew Jackson 7. Lyndon B. Johnson 8. Franklin D. Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy 9. Warren G. Harding 10. John F. Kennedy 11. Lyndon B. Johnson 12. Lyndon B. Johnson

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