May 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

No expectation of DNA privacy
by Major Variola (ret.) 23 May '03

23 May '03

If you think obtaining DNA samples from crime suspects by getting them to lick envelopes or postage stamps is illegal trickery by police, it isn't. On Tuesday, Seattle police arrested a suspect in the 20-year-old killing of a 13-year-old Magnolia girl on the basis of DNA evidence obtained from an envelope the suspect had licked and sent to Seattle. Such methods, police and others say, are simply a newer version of a time-tested practice deceiving suspects into unwittingly giving up information or evidence. Police and prosecutors would not elaborate on the ruse used to collar the man, John Nicholas Athan, except to say that Athan, who now lives in New Jersey, was led to believe he would receive money or the like if he responded to the letter mailed him months ago from the city of Seattle. Saliva left on the envelope provided enough material for investigators here to get a DNA profile and match that with DNA found at the crime scene. <snip> http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/134790968_dna22m.html

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Re: What's happening today.Crypto-anarchy?
by Jim Choate 23 May '03

23 May '03

Anyone with a whit of common sense should hope that CACL dies a quick and painless death. On Fri, 23 May 2003, Professor Rat. wrote: > "...What's happening today. The technologies and concepts generating buzz > at industry gatherings like PC Forum, O'Reilly's Emerging Technology > Conference, and Supernova include social software, the semantic Web, Web > logs, rich Internet applications, Web services, unlicensed wireless, grid > computing, digital identity, broadband media. The more one looks at these > developments, the more hidden connections appear. They are pieces of a > larger whole, which we don't yet have words to describe..." Try "Schismatrix", tribe, and zaibatsu. > FROM... > http://news.com.com/2010-1071_3-1008628.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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Still more on encrypted hard drive enclosure for $139
by Declan McCullagh 23 May '03

23 May '03

>Reply-To: "Robert Wann" <rwann(a)enovatech.com> >From: "Robert Wann" <rwann(a)enovatech.com> >To: <shamrock(a)cypherpunks.to> >Cc: <declan(a)well.com>, "Andy Newman" <anewman(a)enovatech.com> >Subject: RE: Encrypted hard drive enclosure for $139 >Date: Fri, 23 May 2003 02:14:54 -0700 >Organization: Enovatech, Inc. > >Hi Lucky, > >Sorry about the intrusion. My name is Robert and I am representing Enova >Technology, the original X-Wall real-time encryption chip maker. I read >your message to Declan with interests and would like to take this >opportunity to respond to your comment. > >Declan wrote: > > http://fwdepot.com/thestore/product_info.php?products_id=331 > > http://www.del > > trontech.com/Enclosure/E3S/E3S.htm > > > > Interesting, but I'm confused about the "Real-time 64-bit/ > > 40-bit DES (Data > > Encryption Standard) Encryption/ Decryption with throughput > > of 712Mbit/ sec" > > > > Does anyone know about a stronger version of a similar device? > >This looks very similar to the dLock device. >http://www.enovatek.com.tw/realtime-hd.htm > >Perhaps they are using the same ASIC? If so, the product is pure crap. >Based on conversations that I had with the booth staff at the last RSA >conference, the dLock employs DES and 3DES in ECB mode. Meaning the >ciphertext on disk can be broken with the most trivial of cryptanalysis. > >--Lucky > >** Enova's Response ** >I obviously disagree with your assessment of "the product is pure crap." >ECB mode of 3DES may appear a bit weaker than the CBC or others two, it's >definitely strong enough to sustain brute-force attack. I am not >personally aware the ECB with 3DES has been broken before and would like >to request you please shed some lights on the subject. > >Look forward to your comments. If you are interested in the ASIC, please >refer to our web site <http://www.enovatech.com>http://www.enovatech.com. > >Thanks, >Robert

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Followup -- encrypted hard drive enclosure for $139
by Declan McCullagh 23 May '03

23 May '03

>Reply-To: "Robert Wann" <rwann(a)enovatech.com> >From: "Robert Wann" <rwann(a)enovatech.com> >To: <bill.stewart(a)pobox.com> >Cc: <declan(a)well.com>, <shields(a)msrl.com>, > "Andy Newman" <anewman(a)enovatech.com> >Subject: Re: Encrypted hard drive enclosure for $139 >Date: Fri, 23 May 2003 02:02:59 -0700 >Organization: Enovatech, Inc. > >Hi Bill, > >Sorry about the intrusion. This is Rober with Enova Technology, the >original designer of the X-Wall real-time hard disk encryption chipsets. I >read your comments with interests and would like to exchange couples >thoughts with you regarding the technology/product we have implemented. I >appreciate your further comments. My comment follows your message. > > >At 06:14 PM 02/01/2003 -0500, Declan McCullagh wrote: > ><http://fwdepot.com/thestore/product_info.php?products_id=331>http://fwdepot.com/thestore/product_info.php?products_id=331 > >http://www.deltrontech.com/Enclosure/E3S/E3S.htm > > >Interesting, but I'm confused about the > >"Real-time 64-bit/ 40-bit DES (Data Encryption Standard) > >Encryption/ Decryption with throughput of 712Mbit/ sec" > >Yeah. And the web page claims it's "military-grade" security. >It's like, if you know enough to build such a thing, >why don't you know enough to use real encryption? >Somebody on Slashdot recommended this for Schneier's doghouse list. > >Now, 712 Mbit/sec is about 90 MByte/sec, which means if it >were doing 3DES, it'd probably be about 30 MByte/sec, >which is no longer fast enough to be entertaining. > >**Enova's response**The 712Mbit/sec is our first generation disk >encryption chipset X-Wall SE-40NB and SE-64NB which offers DES 40bit and >64-bit strength respectively. The second generation X-Wall SE A version >offers 1.1Gbit/sec on both DES and TDES level. 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. > >Please refer to our website ><http://www.enovatech.com>http://www.enovatech.com for more information. > >Thanks, >Robert

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Slashdot | Canadian University to Begin Training Hackers (fwd)
by Jim Choate 23 May '03

23 May '03

http://slashdot.org/articles/03/05/22/234212.shtml?tid=126&tid=146&tid=172&… -- ____________________________________________________________________ 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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Slashdot | Use a Honeypot, Go to Prison? (fwd)
by Jim Choate 23 May '03

23 May '03

http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/03/05/22/198235.shtml?tid=126&tid=172 -- ____________________________________________________________________ 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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Oregon says unlawful labelling of an MP3 is 'terrorism' (fwd)
by Jim Choate 23 May '03

23 May '03

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=9568 -- ____________________________________________________________________ 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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TIA: Terrorist Information Awareness
by stuart 22 May '03

22 May '03

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/21/international/worldspecial/21PRIV.html?tn… The Total Information Awareness Program has been dressed in drag, now it is the Terrorist Information Awareness Program. Best line: "Saying they are worried about Americans' privacy, Pentagon officials announced in a report today that they were changing the name of a projected system to mine databases for information to help catch terrorists to Terrorist Information Awareness from Total Information Awareness." They're worried about Americans' privacy, so they change the name? How thoughtful of them, I feel better already. -- stuart Anyone who tells you they want a utopia wants to put chains on the souls of your children. They want to deny history and strangle any unforeseen possibility. They should be resisted to the last breath. -Bruce Sterling-

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Re: Washington State Restricts Anti-Cop Videogames
by Major Variola (ret) 22 May '03

22 May '03

At 10:06 AM 5/22/03 -0700, barabbus(a)hushmail.com wrote: >At 06:27 2003-05-21 -0700, Major Variola (ret) wrote: >>However Washington is a government, and the 14th has something to say: >>No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the... > >Too bad the 14th was unconstitutionally ratified and therefore null and >void. In that case you have no guns/speech/due process/etc if the locals so chose, etc. [Lets not start flaming about BoR erosion...I realize there's plenty, and not enough rope or tall trees to treat the cause]

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RE: Oregon's proposed new class of terrorists
by Anonymous 22 May '03

22 May '03

> May[SMTP:timcmay@got.net] wrote: > > The Oregon law makes a very broad class of forms of civil > disobedience--including unscheduled gatherings which disrupt traffic, > sit-ins in colleges, marches, etc.--the same as blowing up buildings or > crashing airliners, and carries a mandatory, no parole, minimum of 25 > years incarceration. After 25 years, the possibility of being a slave > laborer (in effect) picking up trash and cutting brush for the state of > Oregon. What a hypocrite! You have repeatedly stated that you would kill people who committed far less serious offenses. What if protestors performed a sit-in or march on your property? You have threatened many times to kill trespassers in such situations. How can someone who threatens death for the most minor offenses claim to be shocked at a sentence of 25 years? Your violent rhetoric has destroyed whatever credibility you once had as a defender of rights.

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