December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: Difference in terms
by Tim May 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 10:43 PM -0800 5/14/97, Bill Stewart wrote: >>Lutz Donnerhacke <lutz(a)as-node.jena.thur.de>writes: >>> key recovery is if I can get my key >>> key escrow is if you can get my key > >"Key Escrow" was "We want your keys". >"Software Key Escrow" was "OK, Clipper was a loser, but we want your keys" >"Public Key Infrastructure" was "Here, have some keys" >"Trusted Third Party" was "Hey, trust us, we want your keys" >"Key Recovery" is "OK, that didn't work, but we still want your keys" > SAFE is "All Americans deserve strong security and unlimited strength crypto, but we still want your keys." "Pro-CODE is about the right to have and export military-grade crypto, but we still want your keys." Or as Congressman J. Getalong put it, "SAFE is a step toward a future of security and prosperity. The legitimate needs of law enforcement are being met by this bill. We are good listeners of the NSA, and the NSA is a good listener to all of us. And I do mean all of us. All Americans will prosper from this new working relationship with Big Brother. War is Peace and SAFEty is liberty," --Emmanuel Goldstein There's something wrong when I'm a felon under an increasing number of laws. Only one response to the key grabbers is warranted: "Death to Tyrants!" ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay(a)got.net 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Higher Power: 2^1398269 | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."

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Re: OTP: Yeah, you know me: Vulis
by lucifer＠dhp.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Demento Vulis 's reheated, refurbished, and regurgitated auto-spam is completely inappropriate for the mailing lists into which it is auto-spammed by his inbred evil spam-bots. Demento couldn't write a single lick of cryptographic code if his NSA masters and his KGB brothers paid him for it. But truth be known, he sells his spamming software to Cyberpromo and their ilk, and gets paid in anal sex performed on him by large testicled bulls - often without applying vaseline in his cavernous anus. He has killed many bulls in this manner. \|/ /~~~~~~~\ | O O | -ooo-----U-----ooo- Demento Vulis

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Re: The Inducement of Rapid Oxidation of Certain Materials....
by Graham C. Hughes 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Content-Type: text/plain > Oh, this is just charming. People are still dying, and now you're > going to sit on the sidelines writing email messages to people about > what they're discussing on some mailing list. Better than being the one to bring it up in the first place. Really, is a crypto list an appropriate place for that sort of tripe, any more than it is for this? > > You can't count up human lives and say ``this entity is more evil than > > this entity.'' It doesn't work that way. People are people, > > regardless, and usually don't deserve that kind of premature > > termination. > > Your use of the word "usually" betrays your hypocrisy. If some people > "don't deserve that kind of premature termination," it follows that > some do: presumably those that are more evil than the rest. I do believe that there are varying degrees of evil, yes. I do not believe they can be differentiated by counting bodies. I remarked `usually', because of a practical bend; the Rhwandans certainly don't deserve their lot, but there are others who well deserve premature termination in one form or another; Dahmer comes to mind. From time to time, I thought that things would be better off if I were to simply die. Put another way, the situation in Rhwanda distorts the usual life-and-death cycle, by killing indiscriminately people who should live much longer. Dahmer, a man who lived in death, could hardly come to a more appropriate end. As I look back on that paragraph, I do acknoledge it was poorly worded, and I apologize for the difficulties. No one, not even Dahmer deserves the hardships Rhwandans (to pick a convenient example) are going through. > So you're saying that fewer people would die in Rwanda if we discussed > something else? What exactly is it that you think the members of the > Cypherpunks list should do about it (assuming for the sake of argument > that "we" wanted to do anything)? I just don't think it's appropriate to center a long flame about. Does it not cause you, too, anguish to see such a situation fought over like a dog bone? - -- Graham Hughes http://A-abe.resnet.ucsb.edu/~graham/ MIME & PGP mail OK. (define pgp-fingerprint "E9 B7 5F A0 F8 88 9E 1E 7C 62 D9 88 E1 03 29 5B") (require 'stddisclaim) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3 Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBM3tIqyqNPSINiVE5AQFYPgP+MdJRFnhYL6UktZkVKbZhduRvVD56YfMk RG3KzSr5H5Jr7hE8kcURgXcfpeHTeNjmj5QRSsLBI4L9ldLFeVHWkIzhk4L/ajhV 3hQdJWvJSixZbDLn+k6yFaFOm/VAXlE7pI7VRTY/iggw8RrtlT4yd/dUHwOV+xDj Dn47e3bKc0w= =L0Wl -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[CRYPTO] Blowfish
by lucifer＠dhp.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Here, Tim C. May descends into total inanity. He should have a cold shower and/or a Turkish coffee. ___\ <o \__o Tim C. May X\ X> _/_\____<_\_

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[Fwd: ITAR / S 1726 / Civil Disobedience]
by Toto 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-- Toto "The Xenix Chainsaw Massacre" http://bureau42.base.org/public/xenix/ "WebWorld & the Mythical Circle of Eunuchs" http://bureau42.base.org/public/webworld "The Final Frontier" http://www3.sk.sympatico.ca/carljohn/ To: president(a)whitehouse.gov, toto(a)sk.sympatico.ca Subject: ITAR / S 1726 / Civil Disobedience From: "C.J. Parker" <toto(a)sk.sympatico.ca> Date: Fri May 16 5:42:13 1997 Dear Mr. President, I am writing to express my disapproval of the Clinton Administration's position on the ITAR restrictions for encryption software. This is an important issue to me. 1) Software is writing, so it is protected by the first amendment, so the ITAR is unconstitutional. The idea that only paper books are first amendment protected, and electronic books are not, is just plain wrong. 2) The ITAR does not help National Security, but in fact greatly reduces our nations security because the Internet, and the computers and information connected to it, are kept from using good Encryption. 3) I feel that encryption is very important for doing commerce on the Internet, and that commerce on the Internet is important for our economy (Internet is the fastest growing sizable segment). You say you like the "Information Super Highway" and you are "going to focus on the economy like a laser". You should be removing the ITAR restrictions on American businesses. Otherwise the business for commerce software will go to companies in other countries. 4) The Clinton Clipper III proposal to have government key escrow is not acceptable. Also, it will never work, since people will always be able to buy and use software from the rest of the world. This proposal is just slowing down Internet progress. Please cancel Clipper III. 5) Please support Senator Burns Pro-CODE bill S 1726 that would end this foolishness. Or better yet, just take software off the list of "munitions". The current law, (see http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/22/2778.html) says that "The President shall periodically review the items on the United States Munitions List to determine what items, if any, no longer warrant export controls under this section. The results of such reviews shall be reported to the Speaker of the House [...] at least 30 days before any item is removed from the Munitions List [...]." 5) As an act of civil disobedience I have personally exported an encryption program (it is 3 lines of writing) using the web page at http://online.offshore.com.ai/arms-trafficker/ Yours sincerely, C.J. Parker toto(a)sk.sympatico.ca Sent from host lohner20.sk.sympatico.ca with IP 142.165.98.20

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Re: Wine Politics Again!
by Jim Ray 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- At 06:53 PM 5/13/97 -0700, Bill Stewart wrote: >At 09:26 PM 5/9/97 -0800, Tim May wrote: >>I am shipping a few bottles of California's finest merlot (much nicer than >>the trendy cabernets) to my sister and her husband in Hollywood, FL. > >You're a bit late - merlots have been getting more trendy :-) >But Chiles hasn't signed the Florida law quite yet, so you're also early. And he may not. Taxin' Lawton is, if nothing else, a wind-direction indicator, and this law isn't too popular among the rabble. >Do they even _grow_ wine in Florida? Barely, and it's not as good as Tim's merlot. The orange wine for tourists is truly horrible. >You'd think it would be the >cocaine industry trying to get their product regulated to keep prices high. [Comment about credulous media reprints of San Jose Merc/CIA denials of contra cokesmuggling reluctantly suppressed. Tongue bleeding.] >>There's something wrong when I'm a felon under an increasing number of laws. > >It's especially ridiculous that shipping wine should be a *felony*. >Mike Froomkin points out that the Constitutional Amendment ending >Prohibition lets states make their own stupid decisions like this, >and it probably overrides Commerce Clause controls. Yeah, and for stupidity, Tallahassee is hard to beat. >You'd expect that a law that's made primarily to protect business >interests would have business-oriented penalties - like fines for >conducting wine-shipping without a wine-shipping license, >or triple fines for not filling out paperwork in triplicate. I've met some of these guys -- hell I've run against one of them. We aren't talking Einstein-level here, or even Forest Gump. >Does anyone know if either state's laws also penalize the >recipient of the Demon Grape, or only the sender? ... I don't know, but I'm willing to risk getting some Merlot and finding out as a public service to the cypherpunks list. Y'all could even try to mail me a bottle anonymously. ;-) JMR -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQEPAwUBM3t9LzUhsGSn1j2pAQHavAfONFdPqiU76q17liQMYGA+AwEcwnZaipBu AvRqxq7FpeLLM1lR2POCJRBo2rRIXjajwmKacaBG7x08dqsMHug1hul4v2Kge7QV MtSzwTOokPqwP73O2SU2udB+6d3b5S9rgVjbIDps60iKxVSyEfzVM6B33t6gFBNB CXYNQoIEx4bOI2puNM6aFX+zsUvDjoSZ5EbWbjRE6tabMKIMPZgVH+QQ4i+En+8I ug9OaUeFiptHWUzqciqDm70fhhJxsGqH83aj1EDAFj1WCgdo9mBKJjDo2F8fsLCr Mrs+TWYd+lq+T//lpVvc65ENTwMh1pjDCyRoXJIUsTW+Qw== =lheO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- Regards, Jim Ray <jmr(a)shopmiami.com> DNRC Minister of Encryption Advocacy One of the "legitimate concerns of law enforcement" seems to be that I was born innocent until proven guilty and not the other way around. -- me http://shopmiami.com/prs/jimray/ PGP id.A7D63DA9 98 1F 39 BA 93 86 B4 F5 57 52 64 0E DA BA 2C 71

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NEW!! CONFERENCE AGENDA IR AND SECURITY
by Robert Hettinga 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Reporting threshold for NY money transfers lowered
by daw＠cs.berkeley.edu 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I thought this might be of interest to cypherpunks: The threshold for reporting New York money transfers was apparently quietly lowered to $750 last month. Looks like all it took was one order signed by one Treasury official -- eek. Can they lower the $10k cash threshold just as easily? * NYT Sunday April 13, 1997 * * U.S. Seizes $5.6 Million Hidden in a Truck on Way to Mexico * By Sam Dillon * * Mexico City, April 12 - United States officials said today that * $5.6 million discovered this week in a truck about to cross into * Mexico from El Paso was the largest cash seizure in memory along * the southwest border. * [snip] * * ...probably the proceeds of street drug sales... * [snip] * * Officials have seen a big increase in cash seizures lately... * [snip] * * In [another] case the authorities believe the traffickers * chose to move the cash south out of New York in bulk by * car because of an order signed by Mr. Kelly [Treasury * Under Secretary Raymond W. Kelly] which required New York * businesses transmitting cash to report all transactions * over $750. * * Although the order was not announced, word spread quickly * among traffickers, and a dramatic drop in money wires to * Colombia followed, along with a sharp increase in seizures * of cash along the eastern seaboard. Thanks to <guy(a)panix.com> for forwarding.

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Re: NSA _likes_ strong crypto?
by Peter Trei 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 15:07:35 -0400 > To: cypherpunks(a)cyberpass.net > From: Thomas Porter <txporter(a)mindspring.com> > Subject: Re: NSA _likes_ strong crypto? > Reply-to: Thomas Porter <txporter(a)mindspring.com> > At 09:32 AM 5/15/97 -0700, Bill Frantz thoughtfully expounded thus: > > > > >During a hall discussion at CFP, I heard that people at NSA are changing > >their opinions about the use of strong crypto in the general community. > >The reason is the threat of InfoWar and the need for strong crypto in > >general use to secure the US information infrastructure. > > > I realize I may catch it for my numerical ignorance here, but a more > paranoid type might think that any acquiescence on the part of NSA might be > due to more relative ease of breaking important traffic than they might > have possessed in the past. > > Does any one on the list have any ideas on what the Intel mega-pentium > parallel processor (touted for nuclear explosion and weather simulations a > few months back, and noticeably missing any mention of NSA application) > does to the time estimates for cracking "strong" crypto keys? I am being > purposefully vague in my definitions of strong crypto, but I would present > as my test cases PGP ascii-armor traffic of 2048 key length or plain files > encrypted with pgp -c option; ie. typical crypto-criminal/narco-terrorist > fodder. > > How does this strength of encryption compare to whatever might be used to > "secure the nation's info infrastructure" [Netscape 40 bit!!??] regarding > cracking time? Clearly less, but how much less on this type of specialized > parallel processor? To put it another way, any swags on how long it would > take this pentium parallel processor to crack the current DES56 challenge? > > Inquiring (and ignorant) minds want to know, > > Tom Porter txporter(a)mindspring.com 1. You must assume that any well-heeled opponent will have built a Wiener engine, so the time to brute a DES key can be measured in hours, rather than days. A ciphertext-only attack is only a little harder than a known-plaintext attack. But that doesn't stop us from doing the calculation anyway. The fastest DES cracker I'm aware of (Bryddes) currently claims 615,000 keys/sec on a Pentium 120. The sandia machine is acheiving 1.06 Tflops with 7264 processors. The processors are 200 MHz Pentium Pros. (The Mflop rate is lower than the MHz rate). They plan to have 9200 of them when it's finished. 615k * 200/120 = 1.025Mkps (it'll actually be a bit higher on a Pro) 1.025M * 9200 = 9.430Gkps (2^56 = 7.2E16)/9.43E9 = 7.6 Msec = 88.44 days Thats a conservative, upper limit, not a SWAG. Speeds would be much higher on a 64 bit machine. I'm very curious to see how bitslice DES would run on an MMX Pentium, which has some 64 bit registers. 40 bit encryption is a bad joke = it would take about 2 min on this machine for 40 bit DES Peter Trei trei(a)Process.com Peter Trei Senior Software Engineer Purveyor Development Team Process Software Corporation http://www.process.com trei(a)process.com

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A wee bit of Civil Disobedience
by nobody＠huge.cajones.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Want to add a bit of mass civil disobedience to the Crypto movement? Get alt.binaries.crypto created as a usenet news group. Why has this not happened already? This will make an even bigger mockery of the ITARs, the EARs, and the other silly regs throughout the world. [BTW, for those of you who oppose "Careerpunks", consider this... How can you throw your crypto-sabots if you cannot get close to the machinary of industry?] Jarvis Pym Mad Chemist of Kaos

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