December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

ChemWeb.com
by Davina Heaven 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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ChemWeb password
by info＠chemweb.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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The Beeb speaks like a cypherpunk once removed...
by Robert Hettinga 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- There's some discussion on the BBC about that Chinese businessman who's now in the klink for "conspiring against the state using the internet" :-). The Beeb has an internet correspondent, and he's, right now, talking about strong crypto, anonymous remailers, and quoting Gilmore's censorship is damage line. All without using the words "strong cryptography", or "anonymous remailers", or "John Gilmore". :-). He was talking about how the Chinese website was hacked within hours and painted over with pro democracy stuff and links to Amnesty International, among other things. All of this was in a favorable, horse is out of the barn, this is good for freedom, light. Cheers, Robert Hettinga -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP for Personal Privacy 5.5.5 iQEVAwUBNmfw9cUCGwxmWcHhAQEDEwf9H9xqZ2LU935VawA9ZwpzFPF2CKrl1xam jzGJX2uTOhiYGtkQhZ2hFY7/ISoNGXvinwHACycXVi5AdxR6//2tzr1szjk4bgB5 NvKW+1gJJWP5bD0Kz3JwYui3t2fAetjSg94HCxcWbSQM4NJVP6IBXyg48ZtGmkVE UqvhwYc41NHVDgZt/ist5EQEAWcWh3/qApEbeS8xG7SP4FZeCeogCidVmQuMWC1u sAQbrd5fdFdTcUs0feuk9zBpEklTe3AljfnDbfSEUpyok29L+9R3cqAyh/5GM0yd 3uVQTmqOSMLK0o+L9tuejgkaTGnI7Co2NXaYbh/jPKGzm/OAYr7/fQ== =FU5E -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ----------------- Robert A. Hettinga <mailto: rah(a)philodox.com> Philodox Financial Technology Evangelism <http://www.philodox.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'

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Wassenaar Statement
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The Secretariat of The Wassenaar Arrangement has issued brief public docs on the recent meeting: http://jya.com/wa-state98.htm Only one brief mention of encryption: "8. The WA agreed control list amendments to take into account recent technological developments. The amendments to the lists included elimination of coverage of commonly available civil telecommunications equipment as well as the modernisation of encryption controls to keep pace with developing technology and electronic commerce, while also being mindful of security interests. Participating States also discussed the potential need for the WA and national export control authorities to respond quickly and effectively to the emergence of new technologies." Which appears to confirm that each state will implement and announce its encryption policy as it sees fit. The US has jumped to proclaim to its constituencies that it has won. Though it's the secret agreements that remain to be publicized. Note the gaps in the public docs and dissimulative assurances. We also offer a recent related message from Denmark on its fluid crypto policy: http://jya.com/dk-crypto98.htm

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TESTING... Seems like I don't get all my mail...
by Jan Dobrucki 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

TEST TEST TEST TEST JDO

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17 Dec '03

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joy of export, h/ware
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 10:06 AM 12/3/98 -0800, Michael Motyka wrote: >> Their architecture has real $$ value because it cracks 99% of >> "encrypted" traffic. >> >What type of attack was used in the famous test? Known plaintext? It >gets a bit tougher in the real world doesn't it? Not really. >> Offering the real stuff for sale in US requires some investment. >> >Really? Interesting question. Open a delaware corporation and sell munition-quality gate arrays in the back pages of Popular Electronics or EE Times... keep us posted... >I expect it would be easier to convince a manufacturer to participate >with a working prototype than it would with only an idea. Duh :-) >> Hardware is overkill for the single voice line. PGPfone works fine >> there. ^^^^^^^^ >> >No it is not. 500k gates may be too much but I maintain that you simply >cannot trust the Wintel HW, Windows or anything you cannot analyze in >detail and freeze. Besides, people like little palm-sized gadgets. * 10,000 gates cost less than a paper clip. 500K is high for a block cipher. * If we don't find something to do with them, at the rate we're producing them, the earth will be covered with silicon and its compounds soon. :-) * Its not like we'd ever put floating point routines, or blitting routines, out of business by integrating those functions in Si, is it? Naah, we'd never accelerate encryption with hardware, the CPU is bored and has nothing better to do, and its soooo expensive to print chips.. (That being said, I'll point out to myself how many asics have been replaced by dsps...but not without some inefficiency) * PGPfone on a very fast cpu plus fast link is still less pleasant than a noisy cordless (no pun intended). * We'd never take encryption hardware through the same path as modems, would we? First used between companies, then used for remote access, eventually you can't buy a bloody machine without one. Getting cheaper, faster, closer to the motherboard, taken for granted by applications. Ever seen a 300 baud, 40 lb modem, cost probably $3000 in 1970 dollars? The final level of deployment is when garage-door-openers, car remotes, and childrens' toys (e.g., radio controlled cars) use encryption chips... or chips with encryption, anyway. >Now an embedded system for secure e-mail that used a PC as a gateway >might be kind of cool. You drop encrypted attachments onto a driver that >sends them to the unit where you read them. Anything you enter and >encrypt at the unit is presented as a file at the host to be attached >and sent. USB would be plenty quick for that sort of stuff. Yes, the PC can be used as an untrusted router if the encryption is done outside it. The outside encrypting unit should also perform NAT, otherwise the PC (doing the tunnelling) can broadcast traffic ('trap and trace' in the pots world) info. The lower power used in PDAs really helps keep the boys in the White Van Across the Street busy. Email is so low-bandwidth that software suffices. Secure video conferencing on your Dick Tracy (tm) telewatch needs h/w support. --- Is 5% of YOUR communications encrypted or anonymous in '98 ?? ---

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Re: Wassenaar Statement
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

If these reports are correct, the United States could end up being one of the countries with the most LIBERAL export controls. In the United States, it is currently legal to export any cryptographic software you like - as long as it is in printed form. This is because of fears of violating the First Amendment. Not all countries have such strong conventions for protecting the printed word. PGP source code is being exported in printed form, scanned in overseas, and then distributed from there. If the Wassenaar Arrangement prevents it from being exported from its current overseas distribution site, a solution can be to ship it in printed form from the U.S. to a wide range of other countries. As long as those countries don't prohibit domestic distribution of crypto software, strong cryptography can still be made available almost everywhere. The PGP source code books begin with a section that is, in effect, a "how-to" for printing software in such a way that it can be reliably scanned. Each page and each line has a checksum. The books come with a Perl script short enough to enter by hand that does basic checksum verification. This is used to read a second, longer Perl script that can do error correction; and this is then used to bootstrap into the full script which will read the books, create all the files, organize the directories, and reconstruct the entire source code tree. It may be that in the future this will be the most effective way to communicate internationally about security software. It would be good for other groups to become familiar with this technology which has been pioneered by PGP.

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Send email list - go to jail for life in China [/.]
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > X-within-URL: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/asia-pacific/newsid_224000/224907.stm > Cyber dissident awaits trial in China > By China Analyst James Miles > > A man is awaiting trial in Shanghai prison charged with using the > Internet to try to subvert the government. > > Patrick Lin, 30, was arrested in March for sending 30,000 Chinese > e-mail addresses to an Internet magazine run by Chinese dissidents > abroad. [text deleted] ____________________________________________________________________ Technology cannot make us other than what we are. James P. Hogan The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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Ethical programming guild? [/.]
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > X-within-URL: http://slashdot.org/features/98/12/04/1158251.shtml > The following was written by Slashdot Reader James Moyer . > > In proposing this idea, I think that it would a little bit of > background would be appropriate. I am a student at Ohio State, and I > have a strong interest in civil liberties and privacy issues. In fact, > I am now in the process of organizing an on-campus student > organization to criticize Ohio State's overuse of the social security > number, biometric identification and other related issues to privacy > directly concerning the university. > > Here on Slashdot I use the nickname JimBobJoe posting from email > address vampire(a)innocent.com. > > I also consider myself a Libertarian, and from many of the postings on > Slashdot, it appears that there are quite a lot of Libertarians out > there too. There is no coincidence, in my mind, that some of the most > stringent privacy laws in the nation hail from a highly technical, > Libertarian state, being Washington state. In the same vein, it is > rather amusing to see countries such as Malaysia attempt to draw > computer professions into their country, where the severity of their > laws turn many away. [text deleted] ____________________________________________________________________ Technology cannot make us other than what we are. James P. Hogan The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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