July 2018 - cypherpunks-legacy

[drone-list] When swimming with SHARKs...
by Yosem Companys 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Gregory Foster <gfoster(a)entersection.org> To: drone-list(a)lists.stanford.edu Cc: gia-unmanned_systems(a)grassintel.com Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 13:42:51 -0600 Subject: When swimming with SHARKs... This is the first domestic incident I've seen of a privately launched surveillance UAV being shot down by disgruntled folks under observation. It won't be the last! The Times and Democrat (Feb 14) - "Animal rights group says drone shot down" http://thetandd.com/animal-rights-group-says-drone-shot-down/article_017a72… The comments over on Gizmodo's coverage are revealing of public sentiment, as a majority say they would have shot the drone down too, if it was hovering over their home ("then I'd run my mower over it"). http://gizmodo.com/5886013/hunters-shoot-animal-rights-drone-out-of-the-sky However, it sounds like the drone was actually not over private property at the time of the incident. A little digging starting (but not ending) at the "Air rights" article on Wikipedia <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_rights>indicates that National Airspace (NAS) starts at about 500 feet above the land or structures, and is effectively the property of the US Government. The FAA's Advisory Circular 91-57<http://www.faa.gov/regulations_policies/advisory_circulars/index.cfm/go/doc…>governs non-commercial hobbyist usage of UAVs, roughly interpreted as restricting flight below 400 feet while maintaining line-of-sight. So it seems that landowners have property rights to the airspace directly above their property and below the NAS. Hobbyist UAVs should watch those property lines! Reminds me a little of the Cold War "ravens" and "ferrets"<http://www.thespacereview.com/article/1360/1>tasked with probing Russian airspace to gather signals intelligence: *The aircraft themselves were called ferrets, a name that stemmed from their mission of burrowing for prey, like their furry namesake. Rarely did the aircraft actually penetrate Soviet airspace, and those that did occasionally got shot down. But their reason for being in the air was to record signals and they could not do this if the Soviets never turned their radars on, so it was common for them to fly provocatively. Sometimes they headed directly toward the Soviet border and turned away at the last minute; sometimes they operated with other aircraft, to scare their prey by implying that they were about to do something warlike. Nobody said that being a raven was a safe job. * The Straight Dope has a pretty funny article surveying the history of relevant case law<http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/1117/can-i-declare-a-no-flight-zon…> . gf -- Gregory Foster || gfoster(a)entersection.org @gregoryfoster <> http://entersection.com/ _______________________________________________ drone-list mailing list drone-list(a)lists.stanford.edu Should you need to change your subscription options, please go to: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/drone-list If you would like to receive a daily digest, click "yes" (once you click above) next to "would you like to receive list mail batched in a daily digest?" You will need the user name and password you receive from the list moderator in monthly reminders. Should you need immediate assistance, please contact the list moderator. ----- 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: [liberationtech] secure text collaboration platforms
by Moritz Bartl 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

Apart from the ones already mentioned, there is https://pad.riseup.net/ (Etherpad Lite) https://pads.ccc.de/ (Etherpad) Riseup Pads are also available as Tor hidden service: https://ttbmov2dezfs2fln.onion/ -- Moritz Bartl https://www.torservers.net/ -- Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password at: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech ----- 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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Lucrative update
by Patrick 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

Lucrative release 4 is out. I know many people are used to seeing releases numbered like "0.000001", "0.000002", "2.0.3.0.14.657" etc. but release numbering systems are essentially arbitrary in nature so don't get excited as Lucrative goes toward version 50+. This release is a fairly minor one, but included some changes such as the client name that I wanted to get out as soon as possible. There is also a new development weblog at http://lucrative.thirdhost.com/weblog/. I went through an install with someone over IRC last night and made a blog entry summarizing the install notes. I recommend reading the notes before attempting an install. I am glad to help with an install, drop me a note at patrick(a)lfcgate.com if you have trouble. Some documentation on the various entities in the Lucrative system is now available on the website, http://lucrative.thirdhost.com/documentation.php but more is needed and coming. If Lucrative is interesting to you, please consider helping in any way you can: Feedback Installation reports Suggestions Comments Criticism Feature requests Source code patches Donations Are all very much welcomed. And criticism is more useful to me than praise. My sincere thanks to everyone who has participated so far by installing, testing, providing feedback, spreading the word, and donating. And finally I just received word from SourceForge that the project registration for Lucrative has been approved. Regards, Patrick -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Version: PGPfreeware 6.5.3 for non-commercial use <http://www.pgp.com> mQGiBD5ECKcRBADUvjXHwLtxIyS4AyjBs/dFtN6rdeP18Fhzh1hD5fJwkFevqY9Z I1ASROTh6eXYF7pU5sEvbcPshHyTB41ZtTqZvQvpwWN0fUzOuutuI0mtC5UPp9Rz j47SdWLdEXNHjwnHDCYSyqtqZu8GujGRQybR0eP3NIh/NwbSDUKdgz7IjwCg//Jo UtjP3zUFobm/0UYA+CJ5krED/091x9Js0gwNwvjbzM8DqO+r8qNz0kXI13FkrPRk QNd37lxt6m2m8HZD1WYM2wKwtMzHSwJcWzaDZ/tNc+ppYjzpw0EQCh9FqjGs8Vau guF6PA1M8lJTCcLKaL4e7ynic+PAw5Xa/tdOYgFCG+eLMU5RLvzRCYoOLIjgMJLJ yG98BACAMlDmFVYgC/UKvzZmHfZ5CtCKd8sPfCXrYLu5NeFRE0LR6D6zjzmhi1xX okfreR5o3T/y78VBM98js+m2/+7Z0AElqydeW/RnV1zqwDGjDr9z2MgARf3yLAbs n3BU8Fz61RwvHy6cRkT+2dR2f69QQUSpkupvLwZIGX/iwm4uKLQdUGF0cmljayA8 cGF0cmlja0BsZmNnYXRlLmNvbT6JAE4EEBECAA4FAj5ECKcECwMCAQIZAQAKCRBb mvb9yuOVfaA2AKDAu5tDj9F2KI8cJMrKKkQRAcUyxACg6/bei7lUJH+E5igJqGRx SjKrRA65BA0EPkQIpxAQAPkYoH5aBmF6Q5CV3AVsh4bsYezNRR8O2OCjecbJ3HoL rOQ/40aUtjBKU9d8AhZIgLUV5SmZqZ8HdNP/46HFliBOmGW42A3uEF2rthccUdhQ yiJXQym+lehWKzh4XAvb+ExN1eOqRsz7zhfoKp0UYeOEqU/Rg4Soebbvj6dDRgjG zB13VyQ4SuLE8OiOE2eXTpITYfbb6yUOF/32mPfIfHmwch04dfv2wXPEgxEmK0Ng w+Po1gr9oSgmC66prrNlD6IAUwGgfNaroxIe+g8qzh90hE/K8xfzpEDp19J3tkIt AjbBJstoXp18mAkKjX4t7eRdefXUkk+bGI78KqdLfDL2Qle3CH8IF3KiutapQvMF 6PlTETlPtvFuuUs4INoBp1ajFOmPQFXz0AfGy0OplK33TGSGSfgMg71l6RfUodNQ +PVZX9x2Uk89PY3bzpnhV5JZzf24rnRPxfx2vIPFRzBhznzJZv8V+bv9kV7HAarT W56NoKVyOtQa8L9GAFgr5fSI/VhOSdvNILSd5JEHNmszbDgNRR0PfIizHHxbLY72 88kjwEPwpVsYjY67VYy4XTjTNP18F1dDox0YbN4zISy1Kv884bEpQBgRjXyEpwpy 1obEAxnIByl6ypUM2Zafq9AKUJsCRtMIPWakXUGfnHy9iUsiGSa6q6Jew1XrPdYX AAICD/wKwtF7Y4NKBe8PQ6jDbjWziiTv9Ac/EnRTJDQEoqgLa2LyE+6Ahw/VPGvp mfxkD2MKxC9E7kYVmasn6sHnSpvAv3e7O1Bqbo/qLzzCcJQ5VCurZ+elRM1GZ4Oc fM19FPKutb0/JFEv0nrqS4BGkF7WFBbu5dKYl/GIO7Co1mAerFIb719dOwMPVEIz OT08u8uB9jyR8gEElf+CVuNfOUkrUGg4HS4SbmTTrCSz3/8n5PkquSuAyjCB/dwM ZsZwA0/TTR8sDYlmlf9xPj5PGpGnV9OUwfig6eE0eWtRFeasmz0uiX+yp45ABtNh 6EXP/PFaBgXi9omXXjeeFYfpDvmfA6izvTIQfXTV6V9ZWrBfXarM+GQ+6guXWVbd 9fXvmCr982LkzuKQrK1OpRXBMUapXL+tOy/LYzz91InqKKhgPNGa12fvotZ4LzlM iqoM+Hpz5L9B5We1Ph0lD6RBVXDCqd+P8extnY/7AaDy7tC0UghaAaUuEZXJQPIc oQ3QGbpjM0nGe/VZN5EZhljau0NNENFaU56cOpvOhcO04gLGNNc2NS+rIpTMsaHh o1CG90c5zZZJuUbyx0mIHriNQXDgEwunSZPQorKK9KSppyyjeuOyi5F/mBBPXeyT weLhLqLvAr9se/+Z3aQvMADJi8zUZtGggLTw+N9R5XSwtSh2R4kARgQYEQIABgUC PkQIpwAKCRBbmvb9yuOVfWayAKC+mBhHdn1XZ5uH0RocAyJ32hx2kgCePyhB+IqM TjWLDLarQxcPYhbkFi4= =nx1M -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- --- end forwarded text -- ----------------- 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' --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to majordomo(a)wasabisystems.com

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Announce: amnesia Live system (initial release)
by intrigeri 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

Hello, amnesia [0] is a Live System similar to (and heavily inspired by) Incognito: * all outgoing connections to the Internet are forced to go through the Tor network * no trace is left on local storage devices unless explicitely asked. It has many other features [1]. amnesia is Free Software released under the GNU/GPL (version 3 or above). One can download [2] the source code needed to build her own amnesia Live System using the Debian Live tools as a tarball or using a Git repository. Pre-built images can also be downloaded [2] using BitTorrent. Disclaimer: this is the first public release of alpha software that can kill your kitten, etc. The aim of this announcement is to get feedback from Tor enthusiasts early in amnesia's development process. => any comments welcome! We have contacted the Incognito developers to discuss possible collaboration... as they recently publicly stated their intent to switch to another base distribution. To contact the amnesia developers, one can send email to amnesia(a)boum.org, preferably encrypted [3]. [0] https://amnesia.boum.org/ [1] https://amnesia.boum.org/features/ [2] https://amnesia.boum.org/download/ [3] https://amnesia.boum.org/amnesia.asc Bye, -- intrigeri <intrigeri(a)boum.org> | gnupg key @ https://gaffer.ptitcanardnoir.org/intrigeri/intrigeri.asc ----- 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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NSA Turns To Commercial Software For Encryption
by brian-slashdotnews＠hyperreal.org 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

Link: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/10/26/1550237 Posted by: simoniker, on 2003-10-26 16:32:00 Topic: encryption, 66 comments from the chinese-government-buys-certicom dept. [1]Roland Piquepaille writes "According to eWEEK, the National Security Agency (NSA) has [2]picked a commercial solution for its encryption technology needs, instead on relying on its own proprietary code. "The National Security Agency has purchased a license for [3]Certicom Corp.'s elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) system, and plans to make the technology a standard means of securing classified communications. In the case of the NSA deal, the agency wanted to use a 512-bit key for the ECC system. This is the equivalent of an RSA key of 15,360 bits." [4]This summary includes the NIST guidelines for public key sizes and contains more details and links about the ECC technology. Since [5]the announcement, Canadian Press reports that [6]Certicom's shares more than doubled in Toronto." [7]Click Here References 1. http://radio.weblogs.com/0105910/ 2. http://www.eweek.com/print_article/0,3048,a=110561,00.asp 3. http://www.certicom.com/ 4. http://radio.weblogs.com/0105910/2003/10/26.html 5. http://www.certicom.com/about/pr/03/031024_nsadeal.html 6. http://www.canada.com/news/business/story.asp?id=04C5E67A-D640-4372-9E9E-A9… EDDA8EBA 7. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=78&alloc_id=1118&site_id=1&request_id=1015416&op… lick&page=%2farticle%2epl ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07078, 11.61144 http://www.leitl.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE [demime 0.97c removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature]

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Announce: amnesia Live system (initial release)
by intrigeri 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

Hello, amnesia [0] is a Live System similar to (and heavily inspired by) Incognito: * all outgoing connections to the Internet are forced to go through the Tor network * no trace is left on local storage devices unless explicitely asked. It has many other features [1]. amnesia is Free Software released under the GNU/GPL (version 3 or above). One can download [2] the source code needed to build her own amnesia Live System using the Debian Live tools as a tarball or using a Git repository. Pre-built images can also be downloaded [2] using BitTorrent. Disclaimer: this is the first public release of alpha software that can kill your kitten, etc. The aim of this announcement is to get feedback from Tor enthusiasts early in amnesia's development process. => any comments welcome! We have contacted the Incognito developers to discuss possible collaboration... as they recently publicly stated their intent to switch to another base distribution. To contact the amnesia developers, one can send email to amnesia(a)boum.org, preferably encrypted [3]. [0] https://amnesia.boum.org/ [1] https://amnesia.boum.org/features/ [2] https://amnesia.boum.org/download/ [3] https://amnesia.boum.org/amnesia.asc Bye, -- intrigeri <intrigeri(a)boum.org> | gnupg key @ https://gaffer.ptitcanardnoir.org/intrigeri/intrigeri.asc ----- 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: [silk] Bitcoin
by Alaric Snell-Pym 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

On 05/17/11 17:01, Srini RamaKrishnan wrote: > On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 1:09 PM, Alaric Snell-Pym > <alaric(a)snell-pym.org.uk> wrote: >> Currently, the bitcoin network produces about 1.5 trillion hashes per >> second, total. So somebody managing a billion a second, in a mining >> pool, earns about a 1500th of the total "income" of new bitcoin - 50 >> every ten minutes... > > Wait, it doesn't work like this? > > http://xkcd.com/538/ > Alas no! The design of the system is all about global consensus - more than 50% of the hashing capacity needs to agree for stuff to happen. There's nobody to whack with a wrench - it'd cost more to go and whack each pimply nerd with a basement full of computers than to just buy more computers ;-) ABS -- Alaric Snell-Pym http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/alaric/ ----- 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: [silk] Bitcoin
by Alaric Snell-Pym 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

On 05/17/11 17:01, Srini RamaKrishnan wrote: > On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 1:09 PM, Alaric Snell-Pym > <alaric(a)snell-pym.org.uk> wrote: >> Currently, the bitcoin network produces about 1.5 trillion hashes per >> second, total. So somebody managing a billion a second, in a mining >> pool, earns about a 1500th of the total "income" of new bitcoin - 50 >> every ten minutes... > > Wait, it doesn't work like this? > > http://xkcd.com/538/ > Alas no! The design of the system is all about global consensus - more than 50% of the hashing capacity needs to agree for stuff to happen. There's nobody to whack with a wrench - it'd cost more to go and whack each pimply nerd with a basement full of computers than to just buy more computers ;-) ABS -- Alaric Snell-Pym http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/alaric/ ----- 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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Lucrative update
by Patrick 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

Lucrative release 4 is out. I know many people are used to seeing releases numbered like "0.000001", "0.000002", "2.0.3.0.14.657" etc. but release numbering systems are essentially arbitrary in nature so don't get excited as Lucrative goes toward version 50+. This release is a fairly minor one, but included some changes such as the client name that I wanted to get out as soon as possible. There is also a new development weblog at http://lucrative.thirdhost.com/weblog/. I went through an install with someone over IRC last night and made a blog entry summarizing the install notes. I recommend reading the notes before attempting an install. I am glad to help with an install, drop me a note at patrick(a)lfcgate.com if you have trouble. Some documentation on the various entities in the Lucrative system is now available on the website, http://lucrative.thirdhost.com/documentation.php but more is needed and coming. If Lucrative is interesting to you, please consider helping in any way you can: Feedback Installation reports Suggestions Comments Criticism Feature requests Source code patches Donations Are all very much welcomed. And criticism is more useful to me than praise. My sincere thanks to everyone who has participated so far by installing, testing, providing feedback, spreading the word, and donating. And finally I just received word from SourceForge that the project registration for Lucrative has been approved. Regards, Patrick -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Version: PGPfreeware 6.5.3 for non-commercial use <http://www.pgp.com> mQGiBD5ECKcRBADUvjXHwLtxIyS4AyjBs/dFtN6rdeP18Fhzh1hD5fJwkFevqY9Z I1ASROTh6eXYF7pU5sEvbcPshHyTB41ZtTqZvQvpwWN0fUzOuutuI0mtC5UPp9Rz j47SdWLdEXNHjwnHDCYSyqtqZu8GujGRQybR0eP3NIh/NwbSDUKdgz7IjwCg//Jo UtjP3zUFobm/0UYA+CJ5krED/091x9Js0gwNwvjbzM8DqO+r8qNz0kXI13FkrPRk QNd37lxt6m2m8HZD1WYM2wKwtMzHSwJcWzaDZ/tNc+ppYjzpw0EQCh9FqjGs8Vau guF6PA1M8lJTCcLKaL4e7ynic+PAw5Xa/tdOYgFCG+eLMU5RLvzRCYoOLIjgMJLJ yG98BACAMlDmFVYgC/UKvzZmHfZ5CtCKd8sPfCXrYLu5NeFRE0LR6D6zjzmhi1xX okfreR5o3T/y78VBM98js+m2/+7Z0AElqydeW/RnV1zqwDGjDr9z2MgARf3yLAbs n3BU8Fz61RwvHy6cRkT+2dR2f69QQUSpkupvLwZIGX/iwm4uKLQdUGF0cmljayA8 cGF0cmlja0BsZmNnYXRlLmNvbT6JAE4EEBECAA4FAj5ECKcECwMCAQIZAQAKCRBb mvb9yuOVfaA2AKDAu5tDj9F2KI8cJMrKKkQRAcUyxACg6/bei7lUJH+E5igJqGRx SjKrRA65BA0EPkQIpxAQAPkYoH5aBmF6Q5CV3AVsh4bsYezNRR8O2OCjecbJ3HoL rOQ/40aUtjBKU9d8AhZIgLUV5SmZqZ8HdNP/46HFliBOmGW42A3uEF2rthccUdhQ yiJXQym+lehWKzh4XAvb+ExN1eOqRsz7zhfoKp0UYeOEqU/Rg4Soebbvj6dDRgjG zB13VyQ4SuLE8OiOE2eXTpITYfbb6yUOF/32mPfIfHmwch04dfv2wXPEgxEmK0Ng w+Po1gr9oSgmC66prrNlD6IAUwGgfNaroxIe+g8qzh90hE/K8xfzpEDp19J3tkIt AjbBJstoXp18mAkKjX4t7eRdefXUkk+bGI78KqdLfDL2Qle3CH8IF3KiutapQvMF 6PlTETlPtvFuuUs4INoBp1ajFOmPQFXz0AfGy0OplK33TGSGSfgMg71l6RfUodNQ +PVZX9x2Uk89PY3bzpnhV5JZzf24rnRPxfx2vIPFRzBhznzJZv8V+bv9kV7HAarT W56NoKVyOtQa8L9GAFgr5fSI/VhOSdvNILSd5JEHNmszbDgNRR0PfIizHHxbLY72 88kjwEPwpVsYjY67VYy4XTjTNP18F1dDox0YbN4zISy1Kv884bEpQBgRjXyEpwpy 1obEAxnIByl6ypUM2Zafq9AKUJsCRtMIPWakXUGfnHy9iUsiGSa6q6Jew1XrPdYX AAICD/wKwtF7Y4NKBe8PQ6jDbjWziiTv9Ac/EnRTJDQEoqgLa2LyE+6Ahw/VPGvp mfxkD2MKxC9E7kYVmasn6sHnSpvAv3e7O1Bqbo/qLzzCcJQ5VCurZ+elRM1GZ4Oc fM19FPKutb0/JFEv0nrqS4BGkF7WFBbu5dKYl/GIO7Co1mAerFIb719dOwMPVEIz OT08u8uB9jyR8gEElf+CVuNfOUkrUGg4HS4SbmTTrCSz3/8n5PkquSuAyjCB/dwM ZsZwA0/TTR8sDYlmlf9xPj5PGpGnV9OUwfig6eE0eWtRFeasmz0uiX+yp45ABtNh 6EXP/PFaBgXi9omXXjeeFYfpDvmfA6izvTIQfXTV6V9ZWrBfXarM+GQ+6guXWVbd 9fXvmCr982LkzuKQrK1OpRXBMUapXL+tOy/LYzz91InqKKhgPNGa12fvotZ4LzlM iqoM+Hpz5L9B5We1Ph0lD6RBVXDCqd+P8extnY/7AaDy7tC0UghaAaUuEZXJQPIc oQ3QGbpjM0nGe/VZN5EZhljau0NNENFaU56cOpvOhcO04gLGNNc2NS+rIpTMsaHh o1CG90c5zZZJuUbyx0mIHriNQXDgEwunSZPQorKK9KSppyyjeuOyi5F/mBBPXeyT weLhLqLvAr9se/+Z3aQvMADJi8zUZtGggLTw+N9R5XSwtSh2R4kARgQYEQIABgUC PkQIpwAKCRBbmvb9yuOVfWayAKC+mBhHdn1XZ5uH0RocAyJ32hx2kgCePyhB+IqM TjWLDLarQxcPYhbkFi4= =nx1M -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- --- end forwarded text -- ----------------- 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' --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to majordomo(a)wasabisystems.com

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NSA Turns To Commercial Software For Encryption
by brian-slashdotnews＠hyperreal.org 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

Link: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/10/26/1550237 Posted by: simoniker, on 2003-10-26 16:32:00 Topic: encryption, 66 comments from the chinese-government-buys-certicom dept. [1]Roland Piquepaille writes "According to eWEEK, the National Security Agency (NSA) has [2]picked a commercial solution for its encryption technology needs, instead on relying on its own proprietary code. "The National Security Agency has purchased a license for [3]Certicom Corp.'s elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) system, and plans to make the technology a standard means of securing classified communications. In the case of the NSA deal, the agency wanted to use a 512-bit key for the ECC system. This is the equivalent of an RSA key of 15,360 bits." [4]This summary includes the NIST guidelines for public key sizes and contains more details and links about the ECC technology. Since [5]the announcement, Canadian Press reports that [6]Certicom's shares more than doubled in Toronto." [7]Click Here References 1. http://radio.weblogs.com/0105910/ 2. http://www.eweek.com/print_article/0,3048,a=110561,00.asp 3. http://www.certicom.com/ 4. http://radio.weblogs.com/0105910/2003/10/26.html 5. http://www.certicom.com/about/pr/03/031024_nsadeal.html 6. http://www.canada.com/news/business/story.asp?id=04C5E67A-D640-4372-9E9E-A9… EDDA8EBA 7. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=78&alloc_id=1118&site_id=1&request_id=1015416&op… lick&page=%2farticle%2epl ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07078, 11.61144 http://www.leitl.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE [demime 0.97c removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature]

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