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Microsoft Metaphors
by Declan McCullagh 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

What are the best metaphors to use when talking about a browser and an operating system? Is the combination like a car and an engine, or a car and a roofrack? A pair of gloves? Or is it even useful to talk about a browser/OS metaphor in the case of Microsoft, since IE has been glued into the operating system in the form of .DLLs? Might that be more like the wheels of a car? -Declan

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No Subject
by Xena - Warrior Princess 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

U.S. claims success in curbing encryption trade WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Clinton administration officials Thursday said they had persuaded other leading countries to impose strict new export controls on computer data-scrambling products under the guise of arms control. At a meeting Thursday in Vienna, the 33 nations that have signed the Wassenaar Arrangement limiting arms exports -- including Japan, Germany and Britain -- agreed to impose controls on the most powerful data-scrambling technologies, including for the first time mass-market software, U.S. special envoy for cryptography David Aaron told Reuters. The United States, which restricts exports of a wide range of data-scrambling products and software -- also known as encryption -- has long sought without success to persuade other countries to impose similar restrictions. ``We think this is very important in terms of bringing a level playing field for our exporters,'' Aaron said. Leading U.S. high-technology companies, including Microsoft Corp. and Intel Corp., have complained that the lack of restrictions in other countries hampered their ability to compete abroad. The industry has sought to have U.S. restrictions relaxed or repealed, but has not asked for tighter controls in other countries. Privacy advocates have also staunchly opposed U.S. export controls on encryption, arguing that data-scrambling technologies provided a crucial means of protecting privacy in the digital age. ``It's ironic, but the U.S. government is leading the charge internationally to restrict personal privacy and individual liberty around the world,'' said Alan Davidson, staff counsel at the Center for Democracy and Technology, a Washington-based advocacy group. Special envoy Aaron said the Wassenaar countries agreed to continue export controls on powerful encryption products in general but decided to end an exemption for widely available software containing such capabilities. ``They plugged a loophole,'' Aaron said. The new policy also reduced reporting and paperwork requirements and specifically excluded from export controls products that used encryption to protect intellectual property -- such as movies or recordings sent over the Internet -- from illegal copying, Aaron said. Encryption uses mathematical formulas to scramble information and render it unreadable without a password or software ``key.'' One important measure of the strength of the encryption is the length of the software key, measured in bits, the ones and zeros that make up the smallest unit of computer data. With the increasing speed and falling prices of computers, data encrypted with a key 40 bits long that was considered highly secure several years ago can now be cracked in a few hours. Cutting-edge electronic commerce and communications programs typically use 128-bit or longer keys. Under Thursday's agreement, Wassenaar countries would restrict exports of general encryption products using more than 56-bit keys and mass-market products with keys more than 64 bits long, Aaron said. Each country must now draft its own rules to implement the agreement.

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17 Dec '03

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Re: Forwarding remailer-ops posts
by Toto 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

XXXX wrote: > > > Those who have never operated a remailer fail to realize that > > the main goal of a remailer-operator should not be to provide > > a non-discriminatory forwarding service for anonymous users, but > > to ensure continued operation by not ruffling the feathers of > > upstream providers, and to provide a spam/UCE filtering service > > If the xxxx remailer was to allow non-PGP message and to stop > processing block requests, would you be willing to underwrite any legal > costs incurred? Nope. I have always found that those who attempt to cause me legal problems find themselves suddenly beset by problems of a much greater magnitude than those presented by my presence and actions, and quickly turn their attention to dealing with the greater problems in their life. > You yourself know how repressive the Canadian government is, look at the > RCMP takeover in Moncton, look at the RCMP attacking (law-abiding) > protestors at APEC, it is all around us. We are trying to preserve feedoms > in Canada, but I don't see any results from your cynical crap. All you > seem to do is whin, poke fun, and annoy. At the end of the day how much > have you done? I am growing tried of your holier than thou speech from the > throne. Actually, it is difficult to maintain a 'holier than thou' attitude when you're a cynical, whining, annoying asshole (but Lord knows, I try). As to how much I *do* by the end of the day, it is really nobody's business but my own, since the repressive forces you mention above make it advisable for many forms of active resistance to oppression to be done quietly, or from the shadows. Even when poking fun at fellow remailer-operators who sometimes appear to have forgotten that their original objective was to drain the swamp, I assume that the activities reflected in their public communications are not necessarily representative of their total contribution to providing tools and services supporting the basic human rights and freedoms which have become increasingly dangerous to exercise. The public remailers being maintained are an important training ground and showcase for the communications and privacy/anonymity tools being developed and used in their operation, but their very availability itself results in their exposure to the haphazard vagarities of social pressures and targeted oppression by those forces which feel threatened by tools which allow others to avoid being monitored and controlled. Current threads on the CypherPunks list regarding Eternity servers, mirrors, BlackNet, covert and/or private backroads on the 'Super- Highway', etc., are being disseminated to--and studied with great interest by--a wide variety of individuals who are fast becoming increasingly aware that the next few years will be turbulent times wherein those who fail to take steps to cover their own ass will find themselves being 'protected' by the government and corporate wolves offering us technologies based only on the "Trust Us" system. Revolutions rarely begin with grand pronouncements and massive public displays of resistance in the street. They usually begin in basements and secret rooms where increasing numbers of citizens begin preparing to protect and defend their own freedom and rights. When the shit hits the fan, many are surprised to find how many of their friends and neighbors have already been doing the same. The Revolution is *always* NOW!

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Re: (eternity) God's Own Backup Medium
by Ryan Lackey 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Dan Fabulich: > I must be insane, because this seems simple to me. Don't listen. It's simple conceptually, just some of the technical details are multi-axis tradeoffs which need to be made explicit. > > Presume that the goal is a secure anonymous storage/retrieval system, paid > for with e$. Armed with a persistent naming system for each document, we > set up e$ protocols to pay for storage of a (possibly encrypted) document > OR to pay for retrieval of a particular named document. I broadcast that I > want up to ten people to store my XMB document and that I'm prepared to pay > $Y/mo. to each participant. My document is then secure for as long as I'm > prepared to pay for it. It is anonymous to the extent that information can > be transferred anonymously between me and the other willing participants; > it is therefore a remailer problem, not an Eternity problem. It's an Eternity problem if you want your eternity system to have better performance than the remailers have. What you really need is a multi-level security infrastructure, where someone (the owner of the data, the individual intermediate server operators, etc.) can choose the level of security they will provide to meet certain Quality of Service levels. Yes, for a lot of the data you're handling, remailers are a good model. However, steganographically-protected streams hidden inside other streams work better for certain things. Perhaps quantum channels work better for other things. Perhaps hand-carried optical tapes are best for others. The system should have a way of handling these formats in a suitably abstract way. > Alternately, if a document is in high demand, someone might offer money to > anyone who can provide a particular document given by name. Any willing > sellers could then exchange information/e$ via e-mail. (One might even > imagine data-traders who would seek out valuable information at a bargain > and sell them to others at market value.) Again, the mechanism is only > anonymous to the extent that e-mail is secure. Which helps both security and performance. A very good mechanism. > > Note that the system is profitable to all of its participants no matter > WHAT the broadcast mechanism is. The more automation, the more profitable. > The more participants, the more profitable. The more information online, > the more profitable. Yes. That's why I'm including market-based techniques in Eternity DDS -- I think market-based arguments are as powerful as statistical ones -- perhaps not as powerful as mathematical/cryptographic proof, but close. > The missing link here, of course, is anonymous e$. Despite the success of > the remailers, I've never been convinced that they're not vulnerable to > traffic analysis. (Possibly this is why no one has ever bothered to shut > them down?) > And even if we COULD set up automated daemons to monitor the broadcasts and > negotiate trades, there's still no good way to distribute money over the net. I know with high confidence there will be a deployed quality anonymous e$ system in 1998. > > At any rate, keeping the system independent of its broadcast medium (which > can be done pretty easily by just making sure that the program communicates > in [encrypted] plaintext,) should make the system autocatalytic... At that > point, just let it run, get as many people running it as possible and let > the market take over. Yes. Both Eternity-USENET and Eternity DDS are only secure once they grow to a certain size. Market pressure is (I think) the best way of getting a system to scale to that size. (Eternity-USENET is vulnerable to technical Denial of Service attacks with the current small number of indexing servers, even if it is protected from legal issues. I think illegal or extralegal attacks are as dangerous as the legal ones) -- Ryan Lackey rdl(a)mit.edu http://mit.edu/rdl/

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(eternity) Mailing List Archives
by Ryan Lackey 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- I've put the archives of the Eternity Mailing List (eternity(a)internexus.net) up on http://sof.mit.edu/eternity/mail-archive/ The mailing list is host to discussion of the theoretical issues behind Eternity service, Blacknet, Adam Back's Eternity USENET implementation, and my forthcoming Eternity DDS implementation. (7 articles got lost from the archive while I was setting it up. I sent them to itself as "missing articles 86-92". I'll restore their original headers at some point.) - -- Ryan Lackey rdl(a)mit.edu http://mit.edu/rdl/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQEVAwUBNL5mBqwefxtEUY69AQFZrAgAhJA1xWUTf4nPKvT17U9tBnrPt2EwP9Hv dx3QruMmZqodAES7ot6h0YQN6Wi/Chw8RosjCqRXZq+zkayUBVX376gTF4i0+Vpf MocwfB8plXTmjfBahcfjb+WxeEuGEefw3BGCGKpYM/y5uZ925GJsq/+R6MeA2FjQ t+RWcqeMbSRAz4T3s8ThPQtr9dIi3dJgh4gEq9aAD+0cH4lOZFAsc3NA8YMWHptR M++ZvHYCLvwm5mb01bNJ9w8BGzU7dVFzxmJfxhZqb+0DJvK++8uQeflSUmILP9uf yXc+O+pYjuW2ho9ozzSlcbbSEPWdyAO03Qaty8bLdxy0DeaFmTWyoQ== =US5o -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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E (the java extension, not MDMA)
by Ryan Lackey 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- After someone mentioned "E", Electric Communities (http://www.communities.com/) enhancement to the Java security model/language/etc., I checked it out It looks useful for a distributed agents based system (which is what I'm shooting for...the long-awaited goals mailing will either get sent today or tomorrow, depending on if I fall asleep immediately after sending this). I don't think anyone will argue that it's inherently bad. However, I'm interested in knowing what people think about using a vaguely proprietary product (albeit from a company with lots of cool people) in a piece of software like a reference Eternity implementation. I personally would prefer to stick to something as standard as possible, but E has a lot of features I'd want to use, and would end up re-implementing on my own. (I think if you had a JVM interface to eternity such that an object, its currency, where it should send its results, etc. in a standard form (the standard eternity agent encapsulation) were encapsulated, you could build a lot of Eternity out of interacting agents inside another Eternity implemention, inside ... up to inside a traditional network. (more on this idea later)) So, this is very rambling -- I mostly wonder how people feel about using a fairly non-standard language extension in something like Eternity. Ryan [ObDentistry: Wisdom teeth *really* suck. I want drugs.] - -- Ryan Lackey rdl(a)mit.edu http://mit.edu/rdl/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQEVAwUBNL6JcKwefxtEUY69AQGs0Qf/TubvdreDInDvT89R8UGHd1TohudBCwYE KWq66zhULQh0YAdn2ZoL4rT9lhxWJ/QE0el8sLxmp9CgjwnMi8l7uA8eKB3RSi0s l6zgx96PJYLvAtI+S7gYcLAKf9RvHH5TzyWpT/WoiePb4Wd8YI0Z3DthdEdd4xMs gKqmyOO6JpX+SPXF89shN33j1LXfFmvq10XWlCW15XLyyA72WwoWbKQHu40uliAd rsM+CRacNN7K3Gc9OV4IWORnmIciZbJ1EZbO8kyZU3YlYvOB+QyZpnaYvFuzyLtS Iyud5WaVVRM7mGn9FS9WwSaxqxMrRRv25FutM9muHmAIufaxnMVeQA== =GQr/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Presidential advisor on the "problem of encryption"
by Declan McCullagh 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Presidential advisor Jim Steinberg spoke across the street from my office this afternoon at the Mayflower Hotel, addressing the European Institute. He said: ...we will pay a price if the United States and the EU cannot work together effectively to address the problem of encryption in a way that allows our cutting-edge industries to thrive, our citizens to have security in their communications, while at the same time protecting common public security interests. Translation: the government gets a backdoor to your encrypted files. Read on for more. (BTW, Steinberg is deputy assistant to the president for national security affairs. Also Deputy National Security Council Advisor and formerly the director of the State Department Policy Planning Staff.) Background: http://cgi.pathfinder.com/netly/afternoon/0,1012,1626,00.html http://cgi.pathfinder.com/netly/opinion/0,1042,1385,00.html -Declan "We also need to find better ways to harness our efforts to counter the kinds of new crimes looming ahead in the next century. We have made considerable progress through the Summit of the Eight, taking new steps to increase airline security, to protect our infrastructures, to fight cyber-crime and, most important, to promote nuclear safety. We are encouraged that Prime Minister Blair has identified cooperative law enforcement as a major topic for the Birmingham Summit this May. We have been somewhat disappointed that Europe has not strengthened its cooperation with us on the vital third pillar. I am particularly concerned about the lack of enthusiastic support for the U.S.-sponsored international Law Academy in Budapest. Full integration in the Euro-Atlantic community means that all of our police forces must have the confidence to work together against transnational threats. It is vital that the emerging democracies enjoy the rule of law during their transition period, and we will pay a price if the United States and the EU cannot work together effectively to address the problem of encryption in a way that allows our cutting-edge industries to thrive, our citizens to have security in their communications, while at the same time protecting common public security interests. "But the gravest and most immediate challenge before us is to find more common ground between the United States and Europe in dealing with states that threaten our common interests. We have started to fall into a troubling pattern of good cop/bad cop. This pattern, whereby Europe provides the carrot, and the United States is left holding the stick, is unhealthy for both sides, and only benefits our common adversaries. While we all believe that dialogue and engagement are the preferred course, dialogue should not be an excuse for inaction when countries like Iraq fail to live up to Security Council resolutions, and other nations import weapons of mass destruction and export terror. This divergence compromises the effectiveness of our shared efforts." -------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- the moderated mailing list of politics and technology To subscribe: send a message to majordomo(a)vorlon.mit.edu with this text: subscribe politech More information is at http://www.well.com/~declan/politech/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------

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17 Dec '03

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