July 2018 - cypherpunks-legacy

[Openswan dev] [Announce] openswan-2.6.24 released
by Paul Wouters 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

Xelerance has released openswan 2.6.24. http://www.openswan.org/download/openswan-2.6.24.tar.gz http://www.openswan.org/download/openswan-2.6.24.tar.gz.asc This is a bugfix and enhancement release. As always, please use http://bugs.openswan.org/ to report bugs, or discuss issues on users(a)openswan.org or dev(a)openswan.org. Or linger at FreeNode's #openswan / #openswan-dev The changes: v2.6.24 * Give clear warning about missing defaultroute [Tuomo] * Fix to allow ";" in the ike/esp parameters as per man page. [Avesh] * Fix for DPD with NETKEY [Frank Eberle] * Make initscript LSB compliant [Avesh] * Fix for compiling with nss and broken nspr header [Elio Maldonado Batiz] * Do not set the IKEv2 Critical flag for payloads defined in RFC 4306 [Avesh] * Client side support for Cisco load balance directives in IKEv1 [Avesh] - new keyword: remote_peer_type=cisco * Update ipsec_setup man page to match setup changes [Tuomo] * Zeroize ISAKMP and IPsec SA's when in FIPS mode [Avesh] * Initial contact from Windows/l2tp would fail once before succeeding [David] * KLIPS compiles on all recent (upto 2.6.31) kernels [mcr] * KLIPS fixes for 2.6.32 [david/paul] * Fix for mixed IPv6 in IPv4 and vice versa tunnels [Heiko Hund] * Fix for NETKEY on kernels 2.6.26+ [Andreas Steffan] * NAT-OA fixes [David] * Fixup cryptoapi sg_set_page for older kernels [David] * Honour kernel build verbose setting via V=1 [mcr] * Change NAT-Traversal support log message (It's not a patch) [Tuomo] * Some programs were installed twice causing .old files [Avesh] - This is redhat bugzilla #546024 * lwdns.req.log moved from /var/tmp/ to /var/run/pluto/ [Avesh] - This is to avoid an SElinux AVC Denial * Fix compilation so it does not require xmlto [paul] * Fix NSS by removing extra sql: from NSS db directory name [Tuomo] (sql: syntax not supported on RHEL/CentOS nss version) * Move NSS debug logging to DBG_PARSING [Tuomo] * Bugtracker bugs fixed: # 428: KLIPS NULL encryption patch (through cryptoapi) #1004: L2TP broken with NAT'ed clients [dhr/Tuomo/Paul] #1053: typo in notification sending routine [Seong-hun Lim] #1055: init script hangs on startup with semi-broken shells [Michael Smith] (eg busybox and debian's new default /bin/dash shell) #1067: openswan fails on systems not supporting popen() [Jonathan Miller] #1072: Compiling with USE_VENDORID=false fails [paul] _______________________________________________ Announce mailing list Announce(a)openswan.org http://lists.openswan.org/mailman/listinfo/announce _______________________________________________ Dev mailing list Dev(a)openswan.org http://lists.openswan.org/mailman/listinfo/dev

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Here's what to do so you're not bothered by this
by "Rodger Dry - usnthem"＠ticopa.quik.com 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

>From: Maurice(a)southport88.fsnet.co.uk >Subject: My computer is asking for a .vxd file? (Issue #437) > >When opening my computor, I get the message that system >can't find the file arkdoshk.vxd and if I have uninstalled it,to >reinstall it? What is arkdoshk.vxd and what is a file vxd? Is it >detremental to the running of my computor by not having it? sounds like a Packard Bell. arkdoshk.vxd is a virtual device driver that can sometimes be overwritten by an update of DirectX. It's absence will not harm your system. Click "Start" and "Run" type "Sysedit" Erase this line from the SYSTEM.INI [386enh] section: DEVICE=ARKDOSHK.VXD Save and exit. You should no longer be bothered with this. Rodger ______________________________________________________ >>>>>> WEBSITE SHOWCASES <<<<<< Examine carefully - those with email addresses included WILL trade links with you, you are encouraged to contact them. And, there are many ways to build a successful business. 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Comments on Site #139: http://www.healthynewage.com healthychoice(a)earthlink.net ~~~~ This is a nice looking site, but I do have some recommendations just to make it a little easier. 1 - The look of the logo and first sentence "A Healthy New Age..." with a serif font just didn't seem to fit with the color and style of the rest of the site. 2 - As someone unfamiliar with new age stuff, I would have liked more of an introduction to describe what I would find at your site. 3 - There is a LOT of information and links on the home page. It might just be me, but I don't like so many decisions on what link to click on or where to go. By dividing this information up into main categories, then sub-categories, I wouldn't have felt overwhelmed. ~~~~ Cool background. I wish you hadn't covered it up with the white text box. But if you are using a text box / table, instead of centering all the information, I'd separate those links into side by side cells, eliminating a lot of white space and scrolling. ~~~~ This is a fast-loading site, with very extensive information on new age products and practices. I thought the 'alphabet soup challenge' was a neat idea, and you definitely have a lot of content. With the layout, try to stick to one background print, and one related background color for the other pages if you don't want to always use the print. While the topics all related to new age, the pages didn't seem to relate at all with the different borders and colors for every page. Having webmaster recommendations, I think you need to share information about yourself, I didn't find any contact information on the whole site. Great job with your meta tags, I would think you rate pretty high with search engines. ~~~~ Healthy new age was a unique site, with a fun layout and graphics that felt artsy, but with no photographs everything seemed to load quickly. I was glad to see the site index as there was almost too much on the home page, but thought the site index should have been closer to the top of the page. I clicked on some of the links, checking out the alphabet soup challenge, and some of the articles and mall stores. I was confused by the 'Enter the star gates' in the motivation central section, as I didn't know what the star gates were. A description or more information would be helpful by some of these links. ~~~~ Calm and relaxing site. Well planned and informative. Pages load quickly. Lots of time needed to visit everything, but heaps of interesting features. The white parts of the first page could be the same soft green as the rest (the white might be disguising a white square background behind the logo?) I just found the white a tad harsh with the soft green. This:MY CREATE ABUNDANCE CORNER Webmaster Resources Center The colour is out of sync. with the overall scheme. Does the site have music? (I don't have a sound card) I think adding music to it would be great. I've bookmarked lots of things from this site. 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Great job with your meta tags, I would think you rate pretty high with search engines. ~~~~ Healthy new age was a unique site, with a fun layout and graphics that felt artsy, but with no photographs everything seemed to load quickly.  I was glad to see the site index as there was almost too much on the home page, but thought the site index should have been closer to the top of the page. I clicked on some of the links, checking out the alphabet soup challenge, and some of the articles and mall stores. I was confused by the 'Enter the star gates' in the motivation central section, as I didn't know what the star gates were. A description or more information would be helpful by some of these links. ~~~~ Calm and relaxing site. Well planned and informative. Pages load quickly. Lots of time needed to visit everything, but heaps of interesting features. The white parts of the first page could be the same soft green as the rest (the white might be disguising a white square background behind the logo?) I just found the white a tad harsh with the soft green. This:MY CREATE ABUNDANCE CORNER Webmaster Resources Center The colour is out of sync. with the overall scheme. Does the site have music? 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by Sampo A Syreeni 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

> On a similar vein, just about every somehow understandable version of free > market theory is based on the assumption of a steady state market. The > theory does not include a temporal element. If you want to study those, > you're bound for such a quagmire of stochastic nonlinear differential > equations that you would not believe. Hence, the global stability of any > reasonably realistic model of markets is practically impossible to > guarantee with current mathematical tools. It is quite possible for such > systems to behave badly enough to kill most of the participants in the > market, for instance. Besides, the basic continuity assumptions behind > mathematical economics practically guarantee that the theory does not take > such possibilities seriously - I know of no models which take into account > the discrete, limited number of people participating in the market. All fine and dandy, except it's completely useless. I am an Austrian - the Austrians are dead set against "steady set markets", and dead set against equations in economics. You don't need fancy equations for anything in economics - look on www.mises.org Mark

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[technoliberation] Does Technoliberation have $24.95 to spend?
by Justice De Thezier 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

>From http://alternet.org/story/29899/ : The Best $24.95 MoveOn Ever Spent By Micah L. Sifry, Personal Democracy Forum. Posted December 24, 2005. MoveOn's popular Flickr photo-sharing account shows how political causes can engage people who are already socializing online. If you're a typical fan of Flickr, the community photo-sharing site that was recently bought by Yahoo, then you are undoubtedly already familiar with Flickr's tagging system, which allows anyone who uploads a photo to the site to add his or her own topical notations to each photo. One of the site's best features is its main tags page, where not only can you see some of the hottest tags in the last few days (snowday and lennon being two example), but you can also browse the site's most popular tags, which are arranged in a "tag cloud" that shows each word (beach, birthday, cameraphone, japan, me, vacation) and indicates its relative popularity by the word's type size. Click on any tag and you're taken to a stream of recent public photos with that tag. But if by some chance you stumble onto one Flickr member's home page, you'll discover a very odd-seeming list of tags in its cloud, led by antiroverally, approved, candlelight, cindysheehan, faceamerica, great, memberadded, mothers, photopetition, and vigil. Welcome to the public Flickr account of MoveOn.org. With little notice, the giant liberal advocacy group has dipped its toes into the social networking slipstream, and so far it's quite enthralled with the experiment. Says MoveOn CTO Patrick Michael Kane, of the firm We Also Walk Dogs, "Flickr has got to be the best $24.95 we've ever spent. We've been able to review, organize and make available over 11,000 photos to MoveOn (and Flickr!) members." In November alone, he says, the group uploaded over a gigabyte of photos, and it has been able to make photos from campaigns available in real time. As far as I know, this is the first major use of Flickr by a political campaign. Individuals have attempted to make use of the site's free service and simple tagging feature to express a collective point; for example the writer Rob Walker has spawned a haunting series of photos that are all tagged Mlkblvd to bring together photos of the many streets and boulevards across America that have been named for Martin Luther King Jr., quietly illustrating how far the country has to go before King's vision of equality is realized. People have also spontaneously tagged their photos of political events, there are plenty of provocative photos that people have tagged "politics," and Flickr does support the formation of groups around pictorial themes. But so far these efforts are very scattered. Sharing the work MoveOn came to Flickr in large degree because its own internal system for receiving members' photos of events, reviewing them and posting them wasn't very functional. MoveOn has long used photos to show its members that they are part of something much larger; after the group helped spawn thousands of grass-roots candlelight vigils across America just before the invasion of Iraq, its staff put together an amazing page of photos showing how the events went worldwide. But managing the flood of photos that come in around each MoveOn event, Kane says, was complicated. "Finding the best photos was difficult and the sheer number of photos meant that we often had to take photos offline to save disk space," he explains. "The system was also very campaign-oriented -- it provided ways to get at photos in the context of a certain campaign, but not a great way to look at all the photos that MoveOn members had taken over time." Meanwhile, Kane says, he had been using Flickr to manage his personal photos and loved it. "So in March and April of this year, we started talking to the guys over at Flickr about the idea of building a distributed photo approval and storage application around their API." An API -- application program interface -- is a bit of software that enables different programs to talk to each other. "The goal," he says, "was to allow users to upload and view photos from any MoveOn event, while making sure that inappropriate pictures got filtered out." The system they built has two main parts: an email based photo uploader and a distributed photo approval application. It works like this, according to Kane: We setup an email account for a campaign. Campaigners can associate any number of tags with that email account. Folks email photos in as attachments. A script looks at each email, finds the ones that have photos and uploads them to Flickr. On the MoveOn side, we keep some metadata about the photo: when it was uploaded, whether the person who sent them in was a MoveOn user or not etc. At this point, the photos are all private -- the public can't view them. So, MoveOn volunteers use the "photo booth" application to review uploaded photos. Each photo gets at least two votes. If it's approved, the photo is marked public and becomes part of the Flickr photostream. Volunteers can also flag photos as "great", so we can quickly cherry pick great photos to highlight to MoveOn members. By all indications, the system is working well. Since so many people are already familiar with emailing photos to friends or family, MoveOn's email-based uploading process is a snap. And the photo approval process has turned into a great way to involve MoveOn volunteers. Kane reports that when the group was testing the review application, it asked volunteers to review 7,000 photos from previous events. "The folks that responded to the ask went through all 7,000 photos in less than 50 minutes and were disappointed when we ran out of pics for them to look at. Great stuff!" Power to the edges? Apart from being able to save server space and involve volunteers, MoveOn's engagement with Flickr has had some unexpected benefits that come precisely from using a platform that is designed to push power to the users. Kane recalls, "One of our campaigners wanted a slideshow of photos from a recent action and was able to put it together himself, just by selecting the tags he was interested in and using the Flickr slideshow app." He adds, "It's also made finding pictures for the MoveOn homepage and other materials a snap - - MoveOn staff can easily browse photos by campaign or time period." And so can you. Kane says there have been more than a quarter million viewings of MoveOn's photos on Flickr, and that's without the group ever directly informing its members of the resource. MoveOn is also discovering lots of new contacts among Flickr users who have stumbled across its photos. Though MoveOn is making only limited use of the Flickr toolset on its own homepage, where members are pointed to a simple slideshow, in the future Kane expects "to point folks towards the 'most viewed' or 'most interesting' lists for a given campaign, just like we point people to the photos that our volunteer reviewers have flagged as 'great' now." He's also thinking of adding geographic information to their photo-set, since they already know which event every photo has come from, and combining that with the Google Maps API to create instant national, state and local maps. Where all this may lead is unclear. MoveOn members could start to use the group's Flickr pages to engage in some lateral communication with each other, for example, since Flickr encourages people to leave comments on photos and also enables group forums. But it's not likely that will happen without some instigation from the group's leadership. The larger lesson for other organizations is this: As social networking sites like Flickr, del.icio.us (also just bought by Yahoo!), and MySpace attract millions of users, it may make sense to go where the people already are and start playing with the same tools, not only because those tools may offer all kinds of benefits to the organization, but also to see what unexpected benefits may engage people. What MoveOn is doing with Flickr is just a beginning. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> AIDS in India: A "lurking bomb." Click and help stop AIDS now. http://us.click.yahoo.com/X6CDDD/lzNLAA/cUmLAA/KlSolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! 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Re: The Hidden Cost of Privacy
by dan＠geer.org 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

"R.A. Hettinga" writes: -+--------------------- | | Whit Diffie once said that only business, not government, can protect | itself from on-line attacks. | | Just as there are no collective rights, there is no such thing as | collective responsibility. | | And, more than anything else, privacy, like self defense, is an | individual responsibility. | Whit also said that, were it not for security, computing would be free by now. Speaking for myself, when a government can no longer protect its citizens, its last duty is to arm them. --dan

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Re: The Hidden Cost of Privacy
by dan＠geer.org 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

"R.A. Hettinga" writes: -+--------------------- | | Whit Diffie once said that only business, not government, can protect | itself from on-line attacks. | | Just as there are no collective rights, there is no such thing as | collective responsibility. | | And, more than anything else, privacy, like self defense, is an | individual responsibility. | Whit also said that, were it not for security, computing would be free by now. Speaking for myself, when a government can no longer protect its citizens, its last duty is to arm them. --dan

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Re: [p2p-hackers] .p2p domain
by Ray Dillinger 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

On Mon, 2010-12-06 at 14:23 -0800, David Barrett wrote: > But any real system needs some ability for *somebody* to revoke/change > the mapping (eg, if a trademark violation in the jurisdiction of the TLD > owner), so any real system is no better than the current one in terms of > defense against government seizure. Agreed, FWIW. It's not the place of DNS to try to defend against government seizure. What we need to be preventing is criminal authentication fraud -- that is, when someone follows a false DNS record and winds up at a site that pretends to be the registrant's site, but which is not in fact controlled by the registrant. At this point every spammer and malware author in the world has a CA root key or two; and the CA's themselves never check crap, they just collect the money and sign whatever for whoever. And DNS nodes often accept "updates" that originate with criminals rather than registrants, and cannot be traced - so the extant authentication mechanisms are deeply broken. It's hard to imagine a proper fix that will work for the people and institutions whose cooperation would be required to implement it. Bear _______________________________________________ p2p-hackers mailing list p2p-hackers(a)lists.zooko.com http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE

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Re: [p2p-hackers] .p2p domain
by Ray Dillinger 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

On Mon, 2010-12-06 at 14:23 -0800, David Barrett wrote: > But any real system needs some ability for *somebody* to revoke/change > the mapping (eg, if a trademark violation in the jurisdiction of the TLD > owner), so any real system is no better than the current one in terms of > defense against government seizure. Agreed, FWIW. It's not the place of DNS to try to defend against government seizure. What we need to be preventing is criminal authentication fraud -- that is, when someone follows a false DNS record and winds up at a site that pretends to be the registrant's site, but which is not in fact controlled by the registrant. At this point every spammer and malware author in the world has a CA root key or two; and the CA's themselves never check crap, they just collect the money and sign whatever for whoever. And DNS nodes often accept "updates" that originate with criminals rather than registrants, and cannot be traced - so the extant authentication mechanisms are deeply broken. It's hard to imagine a proper fix that will work for the people and institutions whose cooperation would be required to implement it. Bear _______________________________________________ p2p-hackers mailing list p2p-hackers(a)lists.zooko.com http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE

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[cryptography] crypto.cat
by Mario Contestabile 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

You guys have any cypherpunk opinions on https://crypto.cat/ ? It's a "secure" online communication tool, apparently used by Anonymous. It was developed by Nadim Kobeissi, (yet another Montrealer). Mario _______________________________________________ cryptography mailing list cryptography(a)randombit.net http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptography ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE

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Re: The Case for Banning Reduced Hop Count Implementations
by Paul Syverson 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

Thank you Lucky. I had been meaning to write something like your post. On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 02:43:47AM -0500, Gregory Maxwell wrote: > On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 12:29 AM, Lucky Green <shamrock(a)cypherpunks.to> wrote: > [snip] > > seeking higher anonymity. The end state, if lower than three hop > > implementations are permitted to use the Tor network, is that Tor's > > network performance will acceptable only to users of lower hop clients. > > I presume you can back this assertion up with simulation results, at a minimum? > > I look forward to reading your paper. Even if Lucky's basic points are eventually born out, you are right that more analysis of latency and incentives would be valuable. To get an idea about incentive issues in anonymous communication in general and Tor in particular you might want to look at "On the Economics of Anonymity". Also "Anonymity Loves Company: Usability and the Network Effect" both available from the Freehaven anonbib. Also, "Deploying Low-Latency Anonymity: Design Challenges and Social Factors" which is available from the onion-router.net publications page. > > [snip] > > origin. The protocols commonly used for such downloads can accept higher > > latency than the interactive protocols needed by the part of the user > > Which is why twiddling the hop count isn't attractive for them. > > It is attractive for IRC, for example, because with the current hop > counts it can be difficult to keep a TCP connection up for long. > Long lived connections don't benefit much from the longer paths in > any case because the provide ample opportunity to simply correlate > entry and exit traffic and ignore the interior path. This has nothing to do with how long the connections are. Onion routing going back even before Tor acknowledges that if the entry and exit nodes are controlled/observed then an adversary will quickly and trivially link them. The nutshell way we have said this is that onion routing [including Tor] guards against traffic analysis not traffic confirmation. This was acknowledged in the original Tor design paper and was later born out by analysis ("Passive Attack Analysis for Connection-Based Anonymity Systems") experiments on the live Tor network ("Locating Hidden Services") and in simulation on PlanetLab ("Low-Resource Routing Attacks Against Tor"). These confirmed that correlation was fast and easy. "Sampled Traffic Analysis by Internet-Exchange-Level Adversaries" showed that it could also be done sampling a tiny fraction of the traffic passing through an IX. This is also why onion routing's security is said to be roughly c^2/n^2, where c is the number of compromised nodes in the network and n is the total number of nodes. (Yes that is a little too quick, and you can raise questions. See "Towards an Analysis of Onion Routing Security", "A Model of Onion Routing with Provable Anonymity", and "Probabilistic Analysis of Onion Routing in a Black-box Model" for details.) The "Low-Resource" paper is especially telling wrt your point: the attacks were done during connection setup _before a single data cell was transmitted_ (and with vanishingly few false-positives). You just don't need to have a long-lived connection to fall victim to this. So why bother with multiple hops? One part of the answer is already given above: it reduces the threat quadratically. But why three hops instead of just two? This comes back to Lucky's other point that you skipped over. And this one is not subtle at all. Three hops is the minimum to guarantee that all an exit node knows is that a circuit came from someone using Tor. The exit cannot say even where in the Tor network the circuit started. Similarly, all an entry node knows is that the circuit is headed somewhere. (Yes, this too is actually more subtle; cf. "How Much Anonymity does Network Latency Leak?" But, a priori, given ordinary log information, it is correct. (Of course honest Tor nodes do not do any such logging.)) So, reducing the number of hops means that exit nodes have significantly more information about connection origins. Reducing hops to one means that they know everything about the origin of a connection (up to the IP address from which the connection entered the Tor network, which is all that Tor is designed to hide.) That makes their deniability of what they know about traffic exiting through them no longer plausible (because, well now it will be false). That any of the connections going through the network are single hop thus increases incentives to attack any exit node, also any entrance node---which basically means all the public nodes. Details would depend on likelyhood that a given circuit is one hop and on the incentives, legal considerations, resources, etc. of the adversary. But absent such details, it would be unwise to allow such a fundamental threat to the infrastructure itself. As Lucky observed, this is a threat to the public Tor network itself and should be treated as such. There are other drawbacks that could be noted, but that is the central one. HTH, Paul *********************************************************************** To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to majordomo(a)torproject.org with unsubscribe or-talk in the body. http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/ ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE

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