March 2009 - cypherpunks-legacy

Fwd: [IP] Re: The emerging science of DNA cryptography
by R.A. Hettinga 20 Mar '09

20 Mar '09

Begin forwarded message: > From: David Farber <dave(a)farber.net> > Date: March 20, 2009 9:27:32 AM GMT-04:00 > To: "ip" <ip(a)v2.listbox.com> > Subject: [IP] Re: The emerging science of DNA cryptography > > > > Begin forwarded message: > > From: Ted Nelson <tandm(a)xanadu.net> > Date: March 20, 2009 4:52:31 AM EDT > To: dave(a)farber.net > Cc: Ted Nelson <tandm(a)xanadu.net> > Subject: Re: [IP] Re: The emerging science of DNA cryptography > Reply-To: tandm(a)xanadu.net > > Better be well-contained. There's no knowing > what infectious agents might be generated > accidentally. Get a few drops of this in your > bloodstream and one of the coded messages > might be a new plague, which you pass on to > others before it kills you. (Even if the message > > > > Ted > > > > On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 8:47 PM, David Farber <dave(a)farber.net> wrote: > > > Begin forwarded message: > > From: dewayne(a)warpspeed.com (Dewayne Hendricks) > Date: March 18, 2009 11:19:49 AM EDT > To: Dewayne-Net Technology List <xyzzy(a)warpspeed.com> > Subject: [Dewayne-Net] The emerging science of DNA cryptography > > The emerging science of DNA cryptography > If DNA computing can be used to break codes, then the machinery of > life can be exploited to encrypt data too > Wednesday, March 18, 2009 > <http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/23167/> > Molecular biologists have long thought of DNA as an information > storage device. The body processes this information with an > impressive array of computing machinery which, since the 1990s, > we've exploited to carry out a few of our own calculations. > > DNA computing may not be fast but it is massively parallel. With the > right kind of setup, it has the potential to solve huge mathematical > problems. It's hardly surprising then, that DNA computing represents > a serious threat to various powerful encryption schemes such as the > Data Encryption Standard (DES). > > But if DNA can be used to break codes then it can also be exploited > to encrypt data. Various groups have suggested using the sequence of > nucleotides in DNA (A for 00, C for 01, G for 10, T for 11) for just > this purpose. One idea is to not even bother encrypting the > information but simply burying it in the DNA so it is well hidden, a > technique called DNA steganography. > > [snip] > RSS Feed: <http://www.warpspeed.com/wordpress> > > > > > ------------------------------------------- > Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now > RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/ > Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com > > > > -- > Recent piece on me by N.Y.Times-- > http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/11/business/11stream.html?_r=1 > > MY NEW BOOK, 'GEEKS BEARING GIFTS'-- see > http://stores.lulu.com/store.php?fAcctID=132719 > > Theodor Holm Nelson > Founder, Project Xanadu > Visiting Fellow, Oxford Internet Institute > Visiting Professor, University of Southampton > > > Archives

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http://www.zdnet.co.uk/misc/print/0,1000000169,39629479-39001093c,00.htm Gov't may track all UK Facebook traffic 18 Mar 2009 13:41 Home Office minister Vernon Coaker has said the government is considering recording the traffic data of all UK citizens on social-networking sites, including Facebook, MySpace and Bebo The UK government is considering the mass surveillance and retention of all user communications on social-networking sites including Facebook, MySpace, and Bebo. Home Office security minister Vernon Coaker said on Monday that the EU Data Retention Directive, under which ISPs must store communications data for 12 months, does not go far enough. Communications such as those on social networking sites and instant messaging could also be monitored, he said. "Social-networking sites, such as MySpace or Bebo, are not covered by the directive," said Coaker, speaking at a meeting of the House of Commons Fourth Delegated Legislation Committee. "That is one reason why the government are looking at what we should do about the Intercept Modernisation Programme, because there are certain aspects of communications which are not covered by the directive." Under the EU Data Retention Directive, from the 15 March, 2009, all UK internet service providers (ISPs) are required to store customer traffic data for a year. The Intercept Modernisation Programme (IMP) is a government proposal, introduced last year, for legislation to use mass monitoring of traffic data as an anti-terrorism tool. The IMP has two strands: that the government use deep packet inspection to monitor the web communications of all UK citizens; and that all of the traffic data relating to those communications are stored in a centralised government database. The UK government has previously said that communications interception was "vital", and has hinted that social-networking sites may be put under surveillance. However, responding to a question from Liberal Democrat MP Tom Brake, Coaker said that all traffic data on social-networking sites and through instant messaging may be harvested and stored. "The honourable member for Carshalton and Wallington will also know the controversy that currently surrounds the Intercept Modernisation Programme," said Coaker. "I look forward to his support when we present Intercept Modernisation Programme proposals, which may include requiring the retention of data on Facebook, Bebo, MySpace and all other similar sites." Deep packet inspection, the second strand of the IMP, involves intercepting and examining the contents of all data packets that flow over a network. In Monday's meeting, Coaker said the government still intends to have a consultation on whether to inspect and then store all internet traffic data in a centralised government database. "What is the point of having a consultation if, as the honourable gentleman implies, the government have already made up their mind to have a central database?" said Coaker. "We have not made up our mind. We have said we will consult on a variety of options." Opposition to the government's IMP proposal has been fierce. Cambridge University computer security expert Richard Clayton told ZDNet UK on Wednesday that the government proposal to monitor social-networking traffic was "extremely intrusive". "The question is whether it's necessary or proportionate, and the short answer is no, it doesn't look that way," said Clayton. "If the government wants to make us safer, having a few more police on the electronic beat would be a good idea." Clayton said that the problem for the government is that the Data Retention Directive only applies to data held by internet service providers, but that a large number of people don't use ISPs' systems to communicate, instead using online services including webmail and social-networking sites. Servers may be located in different jurisdictions, said Clayton, and data-retention times may be short. "The government wants to collect all of this data on everybody, just in case," said Clayton. "Suppose you use hotmail.pk, and you blow up the Houses of Parliament. The government would have to persuade the Pakistani authorities to turn over the logs, which may then turn out only to have been retained for three days." However, Clayton believes that the cost of harvesting this information, which would involve all UK internet infrastructure providers and ISPs having 'black boxes' to monitor data, would be prohibitively expensive. Clayton said that taxpayers' money would be better spent on the police, who could target investigations to those they suspect of criminal activity, rather than on performing blanket surveillance of everybody. "To deploy deep packet inspection equipment isn't cheap b the word 'billion' is appropriate," said Clayton. "It took the Home Office the best part of a year to find B#3m for the Police e-Crime Unit. That's what is wrong with this picture." Web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee also opposes the use of deep packet inspection to inspect people's data. Berners-Lee told ZDNet UK last week that the internet should not be "snooped" upon. "If [third parties] are using the data for political ends or commercial interest, there we have to draw the line," Berners-Lee said. "There's a gap between running a successful internet service and looking inside data packets."

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