August 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

SCO to argue General Public Licence invalid (fwd)
by Jim Choate 14 Aug '03

14 Aug '03

I like the ed's comments at the end. http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=11031 -- ____________________________________________________________________ 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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Inferno: Fwd: [nycwireless] Wifi-Hog - Info / Talk (fwd)
by Jim Choate 14 Aug '03

14 Aug '03

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 09:50:41 -0500 Subject: Inferno: Fwd: [nycwireless] Wifi-Hog - Info / Talk Interesting... ----- Forwarded message from Jonah Brucker-Cohen <jonah(a)coin-operated.com> -----

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Fw: Re: Secure IDE?
by Bojan 14 Aug '03

14 Aug '03

----- cut here ----- From: "Ralf-P. Weinmann" <rpw(a)uni.de> On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 04:20:37PM -0400, Trei, Peter wrote: > ABIT has come out with a new motherboard, the > "IC7-MAX3" featuring something called 'Secure > IDE', which seems to involve HW crypto in the > onboard IDE controller: > > >From the marketing fluff at > http://www.abit.com.tw/abitweb/webjsp/english/news1.jsp?pDOCNO=en_0307251 > > "For MAX3, the ABIT Engineers listened > to users who were asking for information > security. SecureIDE connects to your IDE > hard disk and has a special decoder; > without a special key, your hard disk cannot > be opened by anyone. Thus hackers and > would be information thieves cannot access > your hard disk, even if they remove it from your > PC. Protect your privacy and keep anyone > from snooping into your information. Lock > down your hard disk, not with a password, > but with encryption. A password can be > cracked by software in a few hours. ABIT's > SecureIDE will keep government > supercomputers busy for weeks and will > keep the RIAA away from your Kazaa files." > > No, I have no idea what this actually means either. > I'm trying to find out. > > Peter Trei Yeah, that announcement just ran over the slashdot ticker. Someone posted the following insightful link subsequently: ftp://ftp.abit.com.tw/pub/download/fae/secureide_eng_v100.pdf Looks like that sucker only does key-truncated version of DES called DES-40. Right... did they say weeks? I'd say minutes, unless ABIT means [insert some impoverished 3rd world country] government supercomputers. It's snakeoil, move on, nothing to see here. Cheers, Ralf -- Ralf-P. Weinmann <rpw(a)uni.de> PGP fingerprint: 2048/46C772078ACB58DEF6EBF8030CBF1724 ----- cut here ----- | | ( | ) c'ya . o ( | ) \|/ Sharkey \___/ \|/ `-^-' `-^-' | | bomb cia nsa cocaine terrorist drug kill president nuclear -- Hi Echelon! :) PGP 2.6.3i 7CAD47C9: AF D0 62 B3 94 6C 2791 9C CD 87 1D 21 B0 5B 59 -- Arachne V1.70;rev.3, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/

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Re: ATMs moving to triple DES.
by Major Variola (ret) 13 Aug '03

13 Aug '03

At 12:56 PM 8/13/03 -0400, Trei, Peter wrote: >http://www.icbnd.com/data/newsletter/community%20banker%20feb%2003%20.pdf > >Finally, five full years after DES was definitively proved >to be vulnerable to brute force attack, the major ATM >networks are moving to 3DES. And you can still use 2-key 3DES...

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ATMs moving to triple DES.
by Trei, Peter 13 Aug '03

13 Aug '03

http://www.icbnd.com/data/newsletter/community%20banker%20feb%2003%20.pdf Finally, five full years after DES was definitively proved to be vulnerable to brute force attack, the major ATM networks are moving to 3DES. Peter Trei

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Re: Controlled nymity
by Major Variola (ret) 13 Aug '03

13 Aug '03

At 09:12 AM 8/12/03 -0700, James A. Donald wrote: > -- >What we want of a payment system, is that Alice can prove she >paid Bob, even if Bob wants to deny it, but no one else can >prove that Alice paid Bob unless Alice takes special action to >make it provable. >One solution is for the bank to maintain an email linked >account for Bob, into which Alice pays. This sounds ominous, >for the next step might be to link the account to true names, >can anyone see any other problems with it. Does it help if: Alice generates a secret key for each payment Alice *anonymously* deposits an *encrypted* message containing payment details into Bob's acct Only Alice can reveal the key for a particular transaction in Bob's account, thereby stripping anonymity but also revealing payment. For only that transaction.

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Finding collision resistant hash functions
by Sarad AV 12 Aug '03

12 Aug '03

hi, Is there a polynomial time algorithm that will find collision hash functions or how are we supposed to find collision free hash functions?What exactly is the difficulty in finding collision free hash functions? Regards Sarath. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com

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Re: The real ordeals of U.S. soldiers in Iraq
by Steve Furlong 12 Aug '03

12 Aug '03

On Tuesday 12 August 2003 13:07, Steve Schear wrote: > Through email and chat rooms a picture is emerging of day-to-day > gripes, coupled with ferocious criticism of the way the war has been > handled. They paint a vivid picture of US army life that is a world > away from the sanitized official version. Just bear in mind that it's the grunt's time-honored right to gripe. Gripe about the food, about the weather, about the sergeants, about the officers, about the weapons, about the mission, about anything under the sun. Doesn't mean anything of itself. That said, they have more reason than usual to gripe. Not the overseas posting in a beastly climate, nor even the mission. It's the jerking around. "You'll be coming home next month." "Make that the month after." "Probably be a year, all told." If the pols and the brass had said up front that the troops would be there a year, there'd have been plenty of bitching by both soldiers and civilians but the overall effect would have been less than what's happening now. Army manning a year or two hence ought to be interesting. -- Steve Furlong Computer Condottiere Have GNU, Will Travel "If someone is so fearful that, that they're going to start using their weapons to protect their rights, makes me very nervous that these people have these weapons at all!" -- Rep. Henry Waxman

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[Lucrative-L] updated lucrative source now in CVS
by R. A. Hettinga 12 Aug '03

12 Aug '03

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Controlled nymity
by James A. Donald 12 Aug '03

12 Aug '03

-- What we want of a payment system, is that Alice can prove she paid Bob, even if Bob wants to deny it, but no one else can prove that Alice paid Bob unless Alice takes special action to make it provable. (This provides permits recipient anonymity in that Bob can be an alternate identity of Dave, and no one can prove that money paid to Bob actually winds up with Dave. They can, however prove they paid Bob.) If Alice pays Bob in unblinded tokens, this does not help, for Bob can pass the unblinded tokens to yet another identity of his, Fred. One solution is for the bank to maintain an email linked account for Bob, into which Alice pays. This sounds ominous, for the next step might be to link the account to true names, can anyone see any other problems with it. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG a4EU+fvvOcH0Sv52K2EKbF8yLcgewuumffss+deq 4NXChKCIzq02Njnl6SIFC224NDGKfgySzihcR3gfI

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