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Mitsubishi MISTY LSI
by jya＠pipeline.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Nikkei English News, 24 September 1996. Mitsubishi unveils Japan's fastest encryption chip Mitsubishi Electric Corp. said it has developed an LSI that can encrypt data at a speed of 450 megabits per second, which is four times faster than any other encryption chip developed in Japan and brings domestic technology in line with DES, the U.S.-developed encryption system that has become the standard in the U.S. and Europe. Because the chip performs the same as DES, Mitsubishi will promote it as a domestic product for encryption needs in Japan, with an eye on the growing market for corporate intranets and high-speed data communications. It said it will prepare for volume production during this year. The company fabricated the chip as a gate array using a 0.5 micron CMOS process and its own proprietary encryption algorithm MISTY. Operating at a maximum input/output speed of 40 megahertz, the chip can handle 32 bits per clock cycle. [End]

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No Subject
by Bovine Remailer 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The arrival of warm weather is heralded by the pig shit (or whatever kind of shit Intel swines have for brains) getting soft in Timothy C[rook] May's mini-cranium and the resulting green slime seeping through key cocaine- and syphilis- damaged nose and onto his keyboard.

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Re: Uses of Computational Chaos
by E. Allen Smith 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

From: IN%"adamsc(a)io-online.com" "Chris Adams" 17-SEP-1996 15:12:13.73 >Supposing, too, that you know these weaknesses, would using separate algorithms >for different portions of the number work well? That would seem to be a possibility; admittedly, the local copy of AC has been checked out for the past year, so I haven't been able to take a look at it. I'd tend to think that if you _know_ the flaw, one could come up with a better way to deal with it than the generalized method I discussed. For instance, if the MSB of bytes coming out of a scribble window is too low in entropy, only use it XORed or whatever with a more-random bit. -Allen

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Re: your mail
by John Norseen 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

robert, good to hear from you again...what else is new and exciting on your front...norseen

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Re: ISPs' information on users
by tcmay＠got.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 2:43 PM 9/25/96, Phil Fraering wrote: >On Tue, 24 Sep 1996, Timothy C. May wrote: > >> (There's a certain new ISP with tight links to a quasi-religious group much >> in the news lately, and some have speculated that this ISP may be >> monitoring certain users....) >> >> --Tim May > >Which ISP and religious group is this? Just why do you think I was elliptical in my comments? To type three lines instead of just typing the name? Think about it. With Webcrawlers looking for names of organizations--and the Cypherpunks archives show up on such searches--and with some organizations being very quick to sue for perceived defamation.... --Tim May We got computers, we're tapping phone lines, I know that that ain't allowed. ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay(a)got.net 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Higher Power: 2^1,257,787-1 | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."

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Re: Where to write crypto?
by tcmay＠got.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 2:05 PM 9/25/96, s1113645(a)tesla.cc.uottawa.ca wrote: >Why go so far, when you can export crypto from Anguila or Canada. The ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >first is right next to Florida and is a tax haven, the second has a large >talent pool and the same qulity telecom as the States. The main problem is >concealing the fact that there may be any Americans involved. Both save >you the trouble of learning Chinese. Are you _sure_ about what you say about Canada? After all, in nearly all defense- and crypto-related matters, they are essentially the 51st State. In fact, Canada is one of the places crypto may be exported _to_ from the U.S. without any license. So, export strong crypto into Canada and then invoke the "you can export crypto from...Canada" clause? I don't think so. As to Anguilla, I fear it's too small an island and too tightly controlled by the Ruling Families, who will take action if the boat gets rocked enough. The recent experiences with Vince essentially repudiating certain policies he had publically announced have left his experiment with not a lot of "backbone" (no pun intended). As Vince said, paraphrasing his comments, the government of Anguilla will take steps to stop things which cast the island in a bad light. Not much of a haven, eh? --Tim May We got computers, we're tapping phone lines, I know that that ain't allowed. ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay(a)got.net 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Higher Power: 2^1,257,787-1 | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."

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FW: Now we have it all
by Butler, Scott 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> Abaddon wrote: >>susbscribe Surely we have seen it all now. I find it hard to believe that a word like suscribe....subsribe....subcribes.. SUBSCRIBE..is so difficult to spell correctly. :-) ScOtT

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Edited Edupage, 19 Sept 1996
by E. Allen Smith 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

From: IN%"educom(a)educom.unc.edu" 20-SEP-1996 01:52:41.56 >***************************************************************** >Edupage, 19 September 1996. Edupage, a summary of news about information >technology, is provided three times a week as a service by Educom, >a Washington, D.C.-based consortium of leading colleges and universities >seeking to transform education through the use of information technology. >***************************************************************** >LUCENT'S NET SOFTWARE MAKES INTERNET PHONE CALLS EASY >New software developed by Lucent Technologies is designed to give Internet >callers quicker access to one another and allows them to converse via their >computers as if they were on a regular speaker-phone. Previous software has >been half-duplex -- one party must stop speaking before the other can >"capture" the line. Lucent plans to market the software to AT&T, the Bell >companies and Internet service providers for distribution to their >customers. By the end of the year, Lucent plans to enhance the software so >that users can videoconference over the Internet. (Wall Street Journal 18 >Sep 96 B8) I'd wonder if a patch can be built to encrypt each packet as it goes out? I'm guessing that what they've done is improve the voice compression, so there will be a relatively small amount of data to encrypt. >PROGRAMMABLE COMPUTER CHIPS >Next month, Metalithic Systems Inc. will release a $1500 sound board called >Digital Wings that uses field-programmable gate array computer chips that >can be personalized, allowing the user to create and edit up to 128 >soundtracks. When used in combination with Windows 95, Digital Wings will >give users access to audio synthesis and editing tools comparable to those >of a professional sound studio. (Business Week 23 Sep 96 p86) I wonder exactly how reprogrammable this system is... >Edupage is written by John Gehl <gehl(a)educom.edu> & Suzanne Douglas ><douglas(a)educom.edu>. Voice: 404-371-1853, Fax: 404-371-8057. >Technical support is provided by Information Technology Services at the >University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. >*************************************************************** >Edupage ... is what you've just finished reading. To subscribe to Edupage: >send mail to: listproc(a)educom.unc.edu with the message: subscribe edupage >Alfred Adler (if your name is Alfred Adler; otherwise, substitute your own >name). ... To cancel, send a message to: listproc(a)educom.unc.edu with the >message: unsubscribe edupage. (If you have subscription problems, send >mail to manager(a)educom.unc.edu.)

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Insider Trading - What constitutes "Disclosure" ?
by Black Unicorn 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

This is not legal advice. You got it for free. Often the choice faced by the investor who has material non-public information is characterized as "disclose or abstain," meaning that the investor may either trade after disclosing or abstain from trading on the information. A few people have asked me what constitutes disclosure. I've not researched the latest cases, but the generally accepted "best description" can be found in SEC v. Texas Gulf Sulpher Co., 401 F.2d 833 (2d Cir.1968), cert. denied. As to the defense's claim that their purchases of stock were not proscribed because the news had effectively been disclosed, the court offered: (errors mine) Crawford (defendant) telephoned his orders to his Chicago broker about midnight on April 15 and again at 8:30 in the morning of the 16th, with instructions to buy at the opening of the Midwest Stock Exchange. The trial court's finding that "he sought to, and did, 'beat the news,' 258 F.Supp. at 287, is well documented by the record.. The rumors of a major ore strike which had been circulated in Canada and , to a lesser extent, in New York, had been disclaimed by the TGS press release of April 12, which significantly promised the public an official detailed announcement when possibilities had ripened into actualities. The abbreviated announcement to the Canadian press at 9:40 A.M. on the 16th by the Ontario Minister of Mines and the report carried by the Northern Miner, parts of which had sporadically reached New York on the morning of the 16th through reports from Canadian affiliates to a few New York investment firms, are assuredly not the equivalent of the official 10-15 minute announcement which was not released to teh American financial press until after 10:00 AM. Crawford's orders had been placed before that. **Before insiders may act upon material information, such information must have been effectively disclosed in a manner sufficient to insure its availability to the investing public.** Particularly here, whre a formal announcement to the entire financial news media had been promised in a prior official release known to the media, all insider activity must await dissemination of the promised official announcement. Coates was absolved by the court below because his telephone order was placed shortly before 10:20 AM on April 16, which was after the announcement had been made public even though the news could not be considered already a matter of public information. 258 F.Supp at 288. This result seems to have been predicated upon a misinterpretation of dicta in Cady, Roberts, where the SEC instructed insiders to "keep out of the market until the estlablished procedures for public release of the information are carried out instead of hastening to execute transactions in advance of, and in frustration of, the objectives of the release," 40 S.E.C. at 915. The reading of a news release, which promoted Coates into action, is merely the first step in the process of dissemination required for compliance with the regulatory objective of providing all investors with an equal opportuinity to make informed investment judgements. Assuming that the contents of the official release could have been instantaneously be acted upon, at the minimum Coates should have waited until the news could reasonably have been expcted to appear over the media of widest circulation, the Dow Jones broad tape, rather than hastening to insure an advantage to himself and his broker son-in-law. -- I hate lightning - finger for public key - Vote Monarchist unicorn(a)schloss.li

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PGP plugin for Netscape?
by Adam Shostack 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I could swear I read something about a PGP plugin called livepgp, and Altavista can't find it, and I can't glimpse it in my archives of the list. Anyone got a pointer? Please post to the list; making it more likely that a search engine will find this in the future, and we won't get a rash of 'me toos.' Thanks, Adam -- "It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once." -Hume

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