September 2005 - cypherpunks-legacy

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Tor Webhosting?
by Tyler Durden 16 Sep '05

16 Sep '05

A few more Tor questions.. Are there yet commercial Tor web hosters? How much would this cost vs hosting one's own node? Since I assume the website actually resides on a single node, there is the slight problem of the node owner knowing, at least, that he had been paid to host X sites, on such-and-such dates...not optimal of course but not everyone in the world is going to want to run a Tor node just to put a site up (like me). Also, there -is- a one-to-one mapping between Tor nodes and Tor-hosted sites, no? It's not like a site is cryptographically split into quasi-redundant pieces, placed on random servers, and then assembled on the fly when there's a request, right? Can Tor support such a thing in the future? (eg, Website file A is split into N partially redudant pieces and sent to N servers...the website can still be retrieved from any M pieces, where N<=M.) -TD

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Fwd: Re: MIT talk: Special-Purpose Hardware for Integer Factoring
by Bill Stewart 16 Sep '05

16 Sep '05

Eran Tromer of Weizmann Institute gave a talk at MIT on special-purpose factoring machines, and Intrepid Reporter Bob Hettinga summarized to Perry's List. >Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 21:12:30 -0400 >To: cryptography(a)metzdowd.com >From: "R.A. Hettinga" <rah(a)shipwright.com> >Subject: Re: MIT talk: Special-Purpose Hardware for Integer Factoring > >At 12:29 PM -0400 9/14/05, Steven M. Bellovin wrote: > > >TODAY * TODAY * TODAY * WEDNESDAY, Sept. 14 2005 > >So, I saw this here at Farquhar Street at 14:55EST, jumped in the shower, >thus missing the train 13:20 train at Rozzy Square :-), instead took the >bus, and then the T, and got to MIT's New Funny-Looking Building about >16:40 or so, and saw the last few slides, asking the first, and only, >question, because the grad-students shot out of there at relativistic >velocity, probably so they wouldn't miss their dinner, or something... > >The upshot, to me, was that 1024-bit RSA keys are, for Nobody Special >Anywhere, probably as DED as DES, for certain keys but probably not all >without way too much money, but that things start to go sideways for this >box somewhere south of 2kbit keysize, and so this is not TEOTWAWKI, >key-wise. > >"Unless someone comes up with in algorithmic improvement." Of course. :-). > >Cheers, >RAH >Who went, obviously, to poke him about Micromint and hash-collisions, for >fun, and who *did* have fun, as a result, in a dead-horse-beating kind of >way... > > >-- >----------------- >R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah(a)ibuc.com> >The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> >44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA >"... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, >[predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to >experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- ------- Forwarded Message Forwarded by Steve Bellovin - Open to the Public DATE: TODAY * TODAY * TODAY * WEDNESDAY, Sept. 14 2005 TIME: 4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. PLACE: 32-G575, Stata Center, 32 Vassar Street TITLE: Special-Purpose Hardware for Integer Factoring SPEAKER: Eran Tromer, Weizmann Institute Factoring of large integers is of considerable interest in cryptography and algorithmic number theory. In the quest for factorization of larger integers, the present bottleneck lies in the sieving and matrix steps of the Number Field Sieve algorithm. In a series of works, several special-purpose hardware architectures for these steps were proposed and evaluated. The use of custom hardware, as opposed to the traditional RAM model, offers major benefits (beyond plain reduction of overheads): the possibility of vast fine-grained parallelism, and the chance to identify and exploit technological tradeoffs at the algorithmic level. Taken together, these works have reduced the cost of factoring by many orders of magnitude, making it feasible, for example, to factor 1024-bit integers within one year at the cost of about US$1M (as opposed to the trillions of US$ forecasted previously). This talk will survey these results, emphasizing the underlying general ideas. Joint works with Adi Shamir, Arjen Lenstra, Willi Geiselmann, Rainer Steinwandt, Hubert K?pfer, Jim Tomlinson, Wil Kortsmit, Bruce Dodson, James Hughes and Paul Leyland. ------- End of Forwarded Message

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Mass. Gov. Romney suggests Wiretapping Mosques, Domestic Spying
by Bill Stewart 16 Sep '05

16 Sep '05

Of course, had he suggested wiretapping Catholic churches in Boston because there might be people raising funds for terrorist groups like the IRA, he'd have been run out of town on a rail. Of course this month it's Protestants who are doing the terrorism in Northern Ireland, and the IRA's gone fairly quiet, but in the past it might have been effective. Here in San Francisco nobody'd suggest tapping churches except to find peace groups or immigrant support groups; the bars on Geary street are where the IRA fundraisers go. http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2005/09/15/wiretap_mosques_romney… WASHINGTON -- Governor Mitt Romney raised the prospect of wiretapping mosques and conducting surveillance of foreign students in Massachusetts, as he issued a broad call yesterday for the federal government to devote far more money and attention to domestic intelligence gathering. In remarks that caused alarm among civil libertarians and advocates for immigrants rights, Romney said in a speech to the Heritage Foundation that the United States needs to radically rethink how it guards itself against terrorism. ... As he ponders a potential run for president in 2008, Romney has positioned himself as a homeland security expert: ....

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16 Sep '05

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15 Sep '05

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RE: /. [Keyboard Sound Aids Password Cracking]
by Trei, Peter 14 Sep '05

14 Sep '05

Eugen Leitl wrote > > Link: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/09/13/1644259 > Posted by: CmdrTaco, on 2005-09-13 17:04:00 > > from the but-i-love-clicky-keyboards dept. > [1]stinerman writes "Three students at UC-Berkley used a 10 minute > [2]recording of a keyboard to recover 96% of the characters typed > during the session. The article details that their methods did not > require a 'training text' in order to calibrate the conversion > algorithm as has been used previously. The [3]research paper [PDF] > notes that '90% of 5-character random passwords using only > letters can > be generated in fewer than 20 attempts by an adversary; 80% of > 10-character passwords can be generated in fewer than 75 > attempts.'" This technique is decades old. I read an account of the British Secret Service (MI5? 6?) installing a bugged phone next to a cable machine in the London Soviet Embassy in the late 70's, but the events described took place earlier - perhaps in the 60s. Peter Trei

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