December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

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17 Dec '03

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17 Dec '03

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17 Dec '03

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Re: "Export" controls
by Michael Motyka 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> 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? > Offering the real stuff for sale in US requires some investment. > Really? > We are not talking here about free stuff. We are talking about > products that can be deployed by non-programmers, businesses etc., > that will be supported professionally > Every product I ever worked on started off as a big ugly prototype sprawled across a table top hooked to all sorts of life support systems. And not all products are taken to market by those who did the initial design work. License. For something like we're discussing here I think the *big* cash outlay comes post-prototype with mask, fab, plastics, production lines and marketing. Upfront it's mostly neurons. I expect it would be easier to convince a manufacturer to participate with a working prototype than it would with only an idea. > 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. > How much would you pay for transparent hardware/software solution that > encrypts all traffic between peer users > We all know the magic price points. But is that particular product all that interesting? Even if peer traffic is encrypted the system can be infected and can transmit anything ( disk, RAM eg ) to other adresses. I'm afraid I don't know enough about the networking stuff to feel that a system can be secured while it is on-line. 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. You might say that it should be done on the host as SW or on another PC but we're back to the Wintel HW again. No thanks. I wonder what could be done with a palm pilot. Are full schematics and BIOS and driver code available? You *might* throw out everything but and build it there. You'd want to do some EMI testing. I still like my SCSI/IDE gizmo for off-line PC's. > The main problem with hard crypto is that it is so equalizing. Any > pauper can cheaply encrypt and make it hard for any government to > break. > Yes, and it needs to be priced accordingly. Although corporations do tend to spend nicely at times. The key, as with any business, identify your customers and make a product for them. Not easy, I admit. > This is not the case with guns, where more resources almost linearly > buy more power. > Gun talk is amusing. I agree that what is going on with gun law is disturbing but as far as disagreement with the Reptilians is concerned power is political. As soon as it becomes violent you've lost. Except in the event of a full-blown revolution. Then we all lose. > On the wild side, suppose that all crypto restrictions are terminated. > Some would say that now "they" can break all available stuff. In any > case the value of crypto products in the eyes of buyers would fall. If > it is legal it is no good. Most of the research would lose the best > people. > Don't you think that this sort of a poker bluff would be a little too much even for the boldest thinkers in gov't? The stuff they fear most would be commoditized and I think, in spite of your point, far more of it would exist than does now. Marketeers would reduce it to bullet items on packages but many engineers would deliver reasonable products within the cost constraints. > Cypherpunks would cease to exist. > Is that why CP exist? Because cryptography has some legal gray areas? I don't think so. Enough This is a painfully slow conversation.

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Suggested Reading
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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No Subject
by Xena - Warrior Princess 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

U.S. claims success in curbing encryption trade WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Clinton administration officials Thursday said they had persuaded other leading countries to impose strict new export controls on computer data-scrambling products under the guise of arms control. At a meeting Thursday in Vienna, the 33 nations that have signed the Wassenaar Arrangement limiting arms exports -- including Japan, Germany and Britain -- agreed to impose controls on the most powerful data-scrambling technologies, including for the first time mass-market software, U.S. special envoy for cryptography David Aaron told Reuters. The United States, which restricts exports of a wide range of data-scrambling products and software -- also known as encryption -- has long sought without success to persuade other countries to impose similar restrictions. ``We think this is very important in terms of bringing a level playing field for our exporters,'' Aaron said. Leading U.S. high-technology companies, including Microsoft Corp. and Intel Corp., have complained that the lack of restrictions in other countries hampered their ability to compete abroad. The industry has sought to have U.S. restrictions relaxed or repealed, but has not asked for tighter controls in other countries. Privacy advocates have also staunchly opposed U.S. export controls on encryption, arguing that data-scrambling technologies provided a crucial means of protecting privacy in the digital age. ``It's ironic, but the U.S. government is leading the charge internationally to restrict personal privacy and individual liberty around the world,'' said Alan Davidson, staff counsel at the Center for Democracy and Technology, a Washington-based advocacy group. Special envoy Aaron said the Wassenaar countries agreed to continue export controls on powerful encryption products in general but decided to end an exemption for widely available software containing such capabilities. ``They plugged a loophole,'' Aaron said. The new policy also reduced reporting and paperwork requirements and specifically excluded from export controls products that used encryption to protect intellectual property -- such as movies or recordings sent over the Internet -- from illegal copying, Aaron said. Encryption uses mathematical formulas to scramble information and render it unreadable without a password or software ``key.'' One important measure of the strength of the encryption is the length of the software key, measured in bits, the ones and zeros that make up the smallest unit of computer data. With the increasing speed and falling prices of computers, data encrypted with a key 40 bits long that was considered highly secure several years ago can now be cracked in a few hours. Cutting-edge electronic commerce and communications programs typically use 128-bit or longer keys. Under Thursday's agreement, Wassenaar countries would restrict exports of general encryption products using more than 56-bit keys and mass-market products with keys more than 64 bits long, Aaron said. Each country must now draft its own rules to implement the agreement.

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Twofish/AES News
by Bruce Schneier 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

There are some new papers on the Twofish webpage. We have improved our performance numbers. On Pentium-class machines, key setup is faster. We also have large-RAM implementations, that speed key setup at the expense of 256K of RAM. We aso have a variety of performance options on smart cards, trading RAM off for speed. And finally, we have a new hardware implementation that reduces the total gate count. Details are in Twofish Technical Report #3: http://www.counterpane.com/twofish-speed.html Dave Barton has implemented Twofish in Delphi: http://www.hertreg.ac.uk/ss/d_crypto.html And finally, we have compared the performance of all AES submissions on 32-bit processors, smart cards, and hardware. Our results are in. http://www.counterpane.com/AES-performance.html As always, thanks for your support. Bruce ********************************************************************** Bruce Schneier, President, Counterpane Systems Phone: 612-823-1098 101 E Minnehaha Parkway, Minneapolis, MN 55419 Fax: 612-823-1590 Free crypto newsletter. See: http://www.counterpane.com

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by phormiga＠bigfoot.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Mixmaster client 4 the Mac OS?
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I heard sometime last summer that the mixmaster client was being ported to the Mac. Does anyone know the status of this project?

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by info＠chemweb.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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