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Re: [DIGRESSION] RE: the news from bush's speech...H-power
by Mike Rosing 29 Jan '03

29 Jan '03

On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, Major Variola (ret) wrote: > Oh come on. Its all economics. (With tech changing the params) > Fuel cells for cars are too expensive today. There is not enough > methanol > production/distrib infrastructure, which costs to create. [insert > Metcalfe's law (aka fax or network effect) blurb here] > And where do you get to strip-mine the coal for the methanol? Even H. Ford was figuring on using hemp for methanol. The problem is that you need a nuke plant to do the final distillation. That's politics, not economics. > The economics will make battery + capacitor + constant-rate Otto engine > (aka 'hybrid') keep petrol cheaper than alternative > energy carriers and sufficiently clean for a while. You'll see 42 volt > cars (soon) before you see fuel cells in cars. Yup, the ability to run the Otto at fixed speed maximizes it's efficiency. When the price of fuel for the 25% max efficiency runs into the 90%+ efficiency of more expensive motors, we'll see things start changing. Just gotta kill off a few more arabs to extend the time when that happens is all. Patience, persistence, truth, Dr. mike

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Re: the news from bush's speech
by Michael Cardenas 29 Jan '03

29 Jan '03

How about this news? Last night in the State of the Union address, Bush repeated the lie that Iraq is creating nuclear weapons, stating the evidence of the aluminum tubes purchased, which he claimed were used to enrich uranium. These remarks were made despite the fact, discussed here: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57632-2003Jan28.html that the International Atomic Energy Agency's report on Monday stated clearly that the tubes "cannot be used directly for [uranium] enrichment." So, Bush is either illiterate or just flat out lying, once again. On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 09:00:01PM -0500, Declan McCullagh wrote: > > And tonight, I am instructing the leaders of the FBI, Central > >Intelligence, Homeland Security, and the Department of Defense to develop > >a Terrorist Threat Integration Center, to merge and analyze all threat > >information in a single location. Our government must have the very best > >information possible, and we will use it to make sure the right people > >are in the right places to protect our citizens. -- michael cardenas | lead software engineer, lindows.com hyperpoem.net | GNU/Linux software developer people.debian.org/~mbc | encrypted email preferred Listening to: KPFA-FM - Berkeley, CA "Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow." - Oscar Wilde [demime 0.97c removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature]

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RE: the news from bush's speech...H-power
by Tyler Durden 29 Jan '03

29 Jan '03

And don't forget his promise that we'll all be able to buy Hydrogen-powered cars by 2020 or so. Guess that's how long he thinks this war on terrorism will last (and its probability for ending!). -TD _________________________________________________________________ Tired of spam? Get advanced junk mail protection with MSN 8. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail

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Re: the news from bush's speech
by Tim May 28 Jan '03

28 Jan '03

On Tuesday, January 28, 2003, at 06:00 PM, Declan McCullagh wrote: >> And tonight, I am instructing the leaders of the FBI, Central >> Intelligence, Homeland Security, and the Department of Defense to >> develop a Terrorist Threat Integration Center, to merge and analyze >> all threat information in a single location. Our government must have >> the very best information possible, and we will use it to make sure >> the right people are in the right places to protect our citizens. > > The _real_ news was, of course, that no one delivered the Sato Solution to that den of statists. Granted, delivering a fully-loaded 767 through the roof of the Capitol dome has become harder than it was when Clancy first proposed it (ironically, Clancy remained a vaunted consultant while those on newsgroups who speculated similarly reportedly got visits from the SS). But each year I keep hoping that my CNN coverage will suddenly go blank and Aaron Brown and Judy Woodruff will say "We seem to have lost communcation with the Capitol...Judy, what's that bright orange glow over towards the Capitol?" Of course, a true nest-cleaning detonation would probably take out most of Crystal City as well, so Aaron, Lou, Dan, Peter, and Oprah would probably be "having the vapors." There's always next year... --Tim May "To those who scare peace-loving people with phantoms of lost liberty, my message is this: Your tactics only aid terrorists." --John Ashcroft, U.S. Attorney General

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Re: the news from bush's speech
by Mike Rosing 28 Jan '03

28 Jan '03

On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, Declan McCullagh quoted Bush: > > And tonight, I am instructing the leaders of the FBI, Central > > Intelligence, Homeland Security, and the Department of Defense to develop > > a Terrorist Threat Integration Center, to merge and analyze all threat > > information in a single location. Our government must have the very best > > information possible, and we will use it to make sure the right people > > are in the right places to protect our citizens. Yeah, like Ames, Hanson and Pollard. Definitly the right people in the right places. A friend of mine had a sign in his office that said "I can't tell if the world is run by smart men bluffing or idiots who mean it." I think the latter is pretty obvious in this case. Patience, persistence, truth, Dr. mike

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Re: Palm Pilot Handshake
by Mike Rosing 28 Jan '03

28 Jan '03

On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, Tyler Durden wrote: > Yo! Anyone out there in codeville know if the following is possible? > > I'd like to be able digitally "shake hands" using a Palm Pilot. Is this > possible? Yes. > And now let's say there's some guy at a party claiming to be that very same > Tyler Durden, but you're not so sure (this real-life Tyler Durden is WAY too > much of an obvious chick-magnet to be the same guy that posts on the > Internet). BUT, you happen to have your Palm Pilot(TM), and so does he. So > you both both engage the little hand-shaking app on your PP (using Tyler > Durden's public key) and there's verification. Yep. Same dude. (You then > procede to prostrate yourself before this obvious godlet, stating "I'm not > worthy, Sire".) Or punch him in the nose :-) > Is this possible within the memory constraints of a Palm device? What about > with a booster pack of memory? If not, is some sort of "Public Key Masking" > possible so that a 'less secure' handshake is possible using a subset of the > public key? It's there. And you have lots of choices of algorithms too. Maybe too many choices... > And for extra credit, when might the chipsets be available for incorporating > this functionality into, say, a wristwatch so that the protocol runs > automatically (giving you a beep, for instance, only if there's a mismatch)? > (This I'm sure the feds must already have.) It's there. Check out "smart cards". One chip does the job quite nicely. Way too many choices there too. Do a web search for "secure cryptographic hardware". Have lots of time to read :-) Patience, persistence, truth, Dr. mike

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Re: EU Privacy Authorities Seek Changes in Microsoft 'Passport'
by Rich Salz 28 Jan '03

28 Jan '03

> The Liberty Alliance was stillborn to begin with. Not that it made any > practical difference, but the Liberty Alliance received an additional > bullet through the head the day that RSA Security, a key participant in > the Liberty Alliance, announced that they would also support Microsoft > Passport. {I'm not on DBS so they won't see this.} I wasn't discussing the politics, just the architecture. But anyway: if Liberty does manage to field something run by the CCard companies, then it will survive, and probably win. MSFT will have to acceede to what Visa and MC deploy. /r$ --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to majordomo(a)wasabisystems.com

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When you try to pronounce "NGSCB"...
by R. A. Hettinga 28 Jan '03

28 Jan '03

...it sounds like some place-name in Mordor: "Naagscab" I suppose it should name a sulfurous cave, or some other, um, foul hole... Thanks to Charles Evans for the pronunciation hint. > Microsoft has dropped the code name of its controversial > security technology, Palladium, in favor of this buzzword- > bloated tongue twister: "next-generation secure computing > base". Cheers, RAH Who liked "Palladiated", too... -- ----------------- 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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Re: Secure voice app: FEATURE REQUEST: RECORD IPs
by Major Variola (ret) 27 Jan '03

27 Jan '03

At 11:25 AM 1/27/03 -0600, Harmon Seaver wrote: >On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 08:23:15AM -0800, Major Variola (ret) wrote: >> The versions of all the secure phones I've evaluated needed this >> feature: >> a minimal answering machine. With just the ability to record IPs of > Pretty hard to do if people are using dialup. Or even dsl, unless they run a >linux box they don't ever reboot -- although I've found my dsl ip changing >sometimes on it's own, and with no rhyme or reason. Merely notifying me that someone called is useful. It wouldn't require rocket science to recognize an entire class C address as a friend. And remember this proposal is fully back compatible with earlier versions of a sec phone. If you wanted to mess with the protocol, you could obviously add an identifier exchange component. I am not familiar with SpeakFreely's protocol so I don't know if it can be extended without breaking compatability.

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Re: Secure voice app: FEATURE REQUEST: RECORD IPs
by Thomas Shaddack 27 Jan '03

27 Jan '03

> I used to run a crontabbed script that queried a cgi-bin giving back the > remote address I use a very similar system (in PHP), activated by a wget request from /etc/ppp/ip-up.local (Linux). Another tactics I use occassionally when having to improvise is a remote syslog and a crontab entry that each 5 minutes spits a heartbeat message into the log (so each 5 minutes I get an UDP packet telling me the address on which the machine currently is; brute force, reliable, small overhead, abuse-resistant). > built-in this is now much more painless (no need to hack ddclient to parse > your router's status page). More interesting, current wireless routers > seem to support VPN tunnelling (IPsec, specifically). Given the > capabilities, it would be a piece of cake to slip a VoIP package such as > Speak Freely into it. With a headset/USB connection and a web interface to > control the app it would certainly provide some added value and be immune > to firewalling woes. Works, proven experimentally. One fateful day my ISP cut off all UDP traffic above and including port 1024 (they reinstated it two days later, so I suppose it was a hasty defense against a DDoS attack). I had a VPN connection to my office LAN, so I opened the two UDP ports on the firewall and set up portforwarding in iptables, and after some wrestling caused by my relative inexperience I got it working. Was surprisingly reliable. By the way - thought a bit about the ringing and authentication. Why we have to unite the call request system with the rest of the IP phone application? Couldn't we use it as an entirely separate process, maybe something simple based on eg. SSL or HTTPS, employing client certificates? This way we reduce the modifications of the VoIP component itself to bare minimum or perhaps none at all. Maybe it could be as simple as a perl or PHP script on the listening side, and a script calling curl on the other side.

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