December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

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by Anonymous 18 Dec '03

18 Dec '03

Perhaps of interest to locals... EE380 Computer Systems Colloquium Fall Quarter 1998-1999 Lecture #10 Date: Wednesday, Dec 2, 1998 Time: 4:15-5:30 pm Location: NEC Auditorium (B03) Gates Computer Science Building Internet: Live on the Net! See instructions on the Web page http://www-leland.stanford.edu/class/ee380 ********************************************************************** Title: Cracking the Data Encryption Standard: Technology, Design, and Politics Speaker: John Gilmore The Electronic Frontier Foundation About the talk: Sometimes it takes good engineering to straighten out twisted politics. In 1997, working in conjunction with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, John Gilmore decided to demonstrate this by building a custom computer that would be able to solve the Data Encryption Standard, an encoding scheme the United States Government had been promoting for "secure" business and financial communications since the 1970s. It had long been suspected the Government was pressing citizens to use this standard because its intelligence agencies were secretly able to decode DES-encrypted messages. It appears this theory was right. DES *was* crackable -- easily and affordably -- which Mr. Gilmore demonstrated in July, 1998 by using his "DES Cracker" system to solve in less than three days a coded message that had been produced as part of a DES-decryption contest. In this presentation Mr. Gilmore will discuss the design of the DES Cracker system and explain some of the politics surrounding the DES controversy. Note: A full description of the DES Cracker system, including complete hardware and software design details, appears in the book, "Cracking DES: Secrets of Encryption Research, Wiretap Politics, & Chip Design," published by O'Reilly. Further details can also be found at: http://www.eff.org/descracker/ About the speaker: John Gilmore is an entrepreneur and civil libertarian. He was an early employee of Sun Microsystems, and co-founded Cygnus Solutions, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), the Cypherpunks, and the Internet's "alt" newsgroups. He has twenty-five years of experience in the computer industry, including programming, hardware and software design, management, and investment, and is a significant contributor to the worldwide open source (free software) development effort. Mr. Gilmore's advocacy efforts on encryption policy aim to improve public understanding of this fundamental technology for privacy and accountability in open societies. He led the team that built, in conjunction with the EFF, the world's first published DES Cracker. He is a board member of the Internet Society and the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Further background information may be found at: http://www.cygnus.com/~gnu/ Contact information: John Gilmore gnu(a)toad.com

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RE: "Export" controls
by Trei, Peter 18 Dec '03

18 Dec '03

"Anonymous" wrote: > >Can you give me an example of a commercial vendor who has suffered > >because someone bought a "dangerous" product ( Windows, for example ) at > >retail and carried it out of the country in a suitcase? My guess would > > I cannot give such example because hard crypto products are not available > to > the general public. > > I am unaware that microshit OS has hard crypto built-in. The only hard > crypto > package I have ever seen for sale at mail-order (and thus not anonymous) > is > NAI's PGP (and I have never seen any hard crypto available in a store for > cash > - but that can only mean that there is no perceived demand). > [Trei, Peter] Huh? I got my copy of NAI PGP 5.0 off of the shelf at CompUSA, a major retail chain (I did pay with plastic, but am 99.999...% certain that cash would have been accepted). The box *is* marked 'Not for export', but I don't recall seeing any other restrictions. Either 'anonymous' hasn't looked hard enough, or he/she/it's in another country. Peter Trei ptrei(a)securitydynamics.com [I apologize for the lousy formatting. I'm using a Microsoft product to sent this message.]

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Sternlight on Cypherpunks
by Eric Cordian 18 Dec '03

18 Dec '03

Sternlight has denied us! David Sternlight <david(a)sternlight.com> writes: > I am not on the Cypherpunks list. Given the tone of some posters I > don't' see that as a useful list. > I never participated in that list. It was suggested to me by a very > senior member of the list that all the wrangling typical of that list > meant it wasn't worth the time, and I took his advice. I never had sex with that woman. -Bill Clinton I never participated in that list. -David Sternlight Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't David join the list some time ago, and depart with a giant PLONK when someone called him a "statist"? -- Eric Michael Cordian 0+ O:.T:.O:. Mathematical Munitions Division "Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be The Whole Of The Law"

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somebody clue this person in please!
by HyperReal-Anon 18 Dec '03

18 Dec '03

Ken Williams <jkwilli2(a)unity.ncsu.edu> wrote: >i'm laughing too damned hard to do it myself. >In a message dated 11/30/98 10:15:50 AM EST, jkwilli2(a)unity.ncsu.edu writes: > >> Get Your Private, Free, Encrypted Email at http://www.nsa.gov > >I looked around there site and couldnt find anything about geting a e-mail >could you please be more specific. Why do you find this such a surprise? This is typical behavior for AOLholes. We've all tried for years to clue such lamers in, and all we've ever gotten in return are more "solicited" spam, and more unsolicited spam, and it's worse because they're no longer concentrated at one site.

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New Brady Bill Implications
by Carol Anne Cypherpunk 18 Dec '03

18 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I'm watching Headline News, and they are reporting that "now", under new provisions in the Brady Bill, and 'instant' background check is being made. This even is for simple rifles and shotguns. Just think, soon there might be 'instant' background checks, even just to use simple 56 bit DES. Or somewhere lurking around in your browser code, a teeny tiny program that sends a cookie to the NSA, FBI, etc every time you use crypto. Who knows, it's probably there already. Or a realtime NCIS check to buy a copy of PGP! Wild! cab8 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Personal Privacy 6.0 Comment: PGP 6.0 is the "The Living End". iQA/AwUBNmOomDiM2656VXArEQLQRQCgg3l0PO8DOzkj/7McAUI8gQSC03cAnRhk AybC39FkOKoV7ZQUvJcuFTT8 =9sxR -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- Member Internet Society - Certified Mining Co. Guide - Webmistress *********************************************************************** Carol Anne Braddock (cab8) carolann(a)censored.org 206.165.50.96 http://www.primenet.com/~carolab http://www.ozones.com/~drozone - The Cyberdoc *********************************************************************** Will lobby Congress for Food & Expenses!!!

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Jim Bell Update
by John Young 18 Dec '03

18 Dec '03

Forward No. 1 (11/30/98): Jim has been back in the Seattle/Tacoma jail for about a week & 1/2, after a stop-over in Oklahoma City. Not doing much, but is glad to be back because he likes the food better and he has things to do, unlike in Springfield. He doesn't know what the schedule is for his stay at this point, except that there is an attempt to impose more time to his sentence, which he says by the time they accomplish anything in court he will have fulfilled anyway. He requests once again that anyone who would like to help him research the names/addresses of people he thinks are involved in the surveillance efforts against him, to please contact him. His address again is: James Bell #26906086 Federal Detention Center P.O. Box 68976 Seattle WA 98168 ---------- Forward No. 2 (11/30/98): After spending several weeks in Oklahoma, then several more in Springfield, MO, a shrink interviewed Jim for a total of six hours, and said he could find nothing wrong that they could help with. After several more weeks in Springfield, it was back to Oklahoma, for a couple more weeks, and now he is finally back at Sea-Tac. He reports that the prosecutor is asking for 9 months for violation of parole, which would mean Jim might be released in 3 months. He is on Prozac and seems in pretty good spirits. Opinions seem unchanged. ----------

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CJ Update
by John Young 18 Dec '03

18 Dec '03

Forward (11/26/98): They moved CJ from Springfield on the 18th. He is in Oklahoma City awaiting movement supposedly next week. I talked with him and he sounded okay. He would like to receive copies of what has been written and posted about him. He doen't know where he is going. His lawyer should find out next week.

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Process Serving Court Filing Searches
by Bill 18 Dec '03

18 Dec '03

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Build Your Own Cable TV Descrambler for less than $9.99.
by cabgirly333＠hotmail.com 18 Dec '03

18 Dec '03

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NZ or LA in Y2K
by Anonymous 18 Dec '03

18 Dec '03

At 07:54 PM 11/30/98 -3000, Igor Chudov @ home wrote: > >But objectively, there is a large category of people who are bored >with their current lifestyle and gleefully expect a "total breakdown" >of the society so that they could shoot live man sized targets instead >of boring paper targets. > >They are likely to be disappointed by Y2K, or so I expect. (again, >my expectation that social breakdown is not likely to happen does >not preclude me from reasonable preparations) When the power goes out, the rioting and looting starts in the cities. (This isn't New Zealand, baby, this is LA) When the rioters get bored, they'll get into cars. When they run out of gas, they'll stay where they are stranded as the gas pumps don't work. Some fine huntin' then, bubba. Mr. Moisin-Nagant

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