May 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Publishing Pork Data Decriminalized
by Eric Cordian 24 May '03

24 May '03

Regarding the ongoing "Justicefiles.org" brou-ha-ha. http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/123525_info24.html ----- Saturday, May 24, 2003 Judge: State silenced dissent He strikes down law banning publication of personal info on police By CANDACE HECKMAN SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTER A federal judge has struck down a new state law that banned the publication of such personal information about police, corrections and court officers as their home addresses and Social Security numbers without their permission. ... -- 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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8-bit modular exponentiation code?
by Major Variola (ret.) 24 May '03

24 May '03

Anyone know of any open-source modexp code for 8-bit cpus? TIA

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Re: Followup -- encrypted hard drive enclosure for $139
by pgut001＠cs.auckland.ac.nz 24 May '03

24 May '03

Declan McCullagh <declan(a)well.com> writes: >The TDES engine offers the same throughput as that of DES engine as we have >engineered the pipeline design such that performance isn't degraded on TDES. >The only difference is the start up latency. The start up latency for X-Wall >SE-64A is 90 nano second and for X-Wall SE-128A is 270 nano second. The suspicion when this was discussed after the RSA conference was that, based on performance figures, they were doing something like using 3 DES engines and pushing 3 different blocks through them at once (or a single DES engine with per-round pipelining), this restricting them to the insecure ECB mode. Using one of the parallelisable modes would have been a better move. The fact that they were using ECB lead to the inevitable suspicions that there'd be other security problems present as well - I think Lucky's condemnation may have been a bit strong (it's not totally insecure), but the use of ECB mode doesn't exactly inspire confidence in the design of the rest of the system, even if it was done for pragmatic reasons. Peter.

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Re: Copyright Death Penalty
by Major Variola (ret) 24 May '03

24 May '03

At 09:05 PM 5/23/03 -0400, Duncan Frissell wrote: > Re: Copyright Death Penalty >Sort of..... >Unarmed man killed by New York police during counterfeiting raid Maybe he didn't hold up his wallet fast enough, like that Somali confronted with plainclothes... Maybe he didn't bend over for the plunger.. Maybe the gunshot saved him from a flashbang heart attack.. Maybe this is why we will smile at the next Al Q double-tap on the NYPD. First boom brings 'em in, second cleans 'em up. Infinite justice, baby. --- "Go for the head shot" --G Gordon Liddy

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Inferno: EFFector 16.14: Supreme Court to Hear California DVD Case on May 29, 2003 (fwd)
by Jim Choate 23 May '03

23 May '03

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 21 May 2003 23:21:20 -0400 Subject: Inferno: EFFector 16.14: Supreme Court to Hear California DVD Case on May 29, 2003 (fwd) Good Stuff <tm> all around :-P Read all the links to see the forest for the trees. ------------ Forwarded Message ------------ Date: Wednesday, May 21, 2003 6:11 PM -0700 From: Effector List <alerts(a)action.eff.org> Subject: EFFector 16.14: Supreme Court to Hear California DVD Case on May 29, 2003 http://www.tndf.net/ ---------- End Forwarded Message ---------- -- ____________________________________________________________________ We are all interested in the future for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. Criswell, "Plan 9 from Outer Space" ravage(a)ssz.com jchoate(a)open-forge.org www.ssz.com www.open-forge.org --------------------------------------------------------------------

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Copyright Death Penalty
by Duncan Frissell 23 May '03

23 May '03

Sort of..... http://www.kron4.com/global/story.asp?s=1292923&ClientType=Printable Unarmed man killed by New York police during counterfeiting raid New York-AP -- In New York, police are looking into the shooting of an unarmed African immigrant by a plainclothes police officer. The immigrant, Ousmane Zango (ooz-mahn ZHAHN'-goh), was shot four times after a winding chase through the hallways of a storage unit in Chelsea. The plainclothes police officer had been guarding counterfeit merchandise down the hall from Zango's unit. Police Commissioner Ray Kelly says two storage rooms had recently been raided by Staten Island officers investigating a compact disc counterfeiting operation. But Zango had no connection to that operation and no criminal record.

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Slashdot | RFID Tags in Euro Banknotes (fwd)
by Jim Choate 23 May '03

23 May '03

http://slashdot.org/articles/03/05/23/1347204.shtml?tid=126&tid=98&tid=99 -- ____________________________________________________________________ We are all interested in the future for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. Criswell, "Plan 9 from Outer Space" ravage(a)ssz.com jchoate(a)open-forge.org www.ssz.com www.open-forge.org --------------------------------------------------------------------

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The Register - EC moots trackable cyber euro (fwd)
by Jim Choate 23 May '03

23 May '03

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/7/30850.html -- ____________________________________________________________________ We are all interested in the future for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. Criswell, "Plan 9 from Outer Space" ravage(a)ssz.com jchoate(a)open-forge.org www.ssz.com www.open-forge.org --------------------------------------------------------------------

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Recorder Identification Code - tracking back CD writers?
by Thomas Shaddack 23 May '03

23 May '03

Seems there is a danger hidden in distributing officially unsanctioned data on CDs. There is a technical measure that allow tracking the CDs back to the writer they were created with. We should be aware about this for any scheme that relies on distribution of physical CD-R/RW media. According to Orange Book Part2 Ver 3.1, the CD recorders are supposed to write RID (Recorder IDentification Code), a 97-bit number identifying brand, type, and serial number of the recorder, every 100 frames in the Q-channel to all CD-R and CD-RW disks. There was something principially similar discussed here in 1999, related to Xerox using steganography for embedding serial number of the copier in color copies. Never trust a device whose firmware you can't audit... See: http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/Glossary/Details.asp?RelatedID=630 http://www.disctronics.co.uk/technology/glossary/glossary_qr.htm http://www.feurio.com/English/faq/faq_writer_snr.shtml http://www.licensing.philips.com/information/sid/

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Suggested Sites
by Jim Choate 23 May '03

23 May '03

Technical sites: http://www.c4i.org http://citeseer.nj.nec.com -- ____________________________________________________________________ We are all interested in the future for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. Criswell, "Plan 9 from Outer Space" ravage(a)ssz.com jchoate(a)open-forge.org www.ssz.com www.open-forge.org --------------------------------------------------------------------

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