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[ANNOUNCE] OpenSSL 0.9.7 released
by Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker 31 Dec '02

31 Dec '02

OpenSSL version 0.9.7 released =============================== OpenSSL - The Open Source toolkit for SSL/TLS http://www.openssl.org/ The OpenSSL project team is pleased to announce the release of version 0.9.7 of our open source toolkit for SSL/TLS. This new OpenSSL version is a major release and incorporates at least 262 changes and bugfixes to the toolkit (for a complete list see http://www.openssl.org/source/exp/CHANGES. The most significant changes are: o New library section OCSP. o Complete rewrite of ASN1 code. o CRL checking in verify code and openssl utility. o Extension copying in 'ca' utility. o Flexible display options in 'ca' utility. o Provisional support for international characters with UTF8. o Support for external crypto devices ('engine') is no longer a separate distribution. o New elliptic curve library section. o New AES (Rijndael) library section. o Support for new platforms: Windows CE, Tandem OSS, A/UX, AIX 64-bit, Linux x86_64, Linux 64-bit on Sparc v9 o Extended support for some platforms: VxWorks o Enhanced support for shared libraries. o Now only builds PIC code when shared library support is requested. o Support for pkg-config. o Lots of new manuals. o Makes symbolic links to or copies of manuals to cover all described functions. o Change DES API to clean up the namespace (some applications link also against libdes providing similar functions having the same name). Provide macros for backward compatibility (will be removed in the future). o Unify handling of cryptographic algorithms (software and engine) to be available via EVP routines for asymmetric and symmetric ciphers. o NCONF: new configuration handling routines. o Change API to use more 'const' modifiers to improve error checking and help optimizers. o Finally remove references to RSAref. o Reworked parts of the BIGNUM code. o Support for new engines: Broadcom ubsec, Accelerated Encryption Processing, IBM 4758. o A few new engines added in the demos area. o Extended and corrected OID (object identifier) table. o PRNG: query at more locations for a random device, automatic query for EGD style random sources at several locations. o SSL/TLS: allow optional cipher choice according to server's preference. o SSL/TLS: allow server to explicitly set new session ids. o SSL/TLS: support Kerberos cipher suites (RFC2712). Only supports MIT Kerberos for now. o SSL/TLS: allow more precise control of renegotiations and sessions. o SSL/TLS: add callback to retrieve SSL/TLS messages. o SSL/TLS: support AES cipher suites (RFC3268). We consider OpenSSL 0.9.7 to be the best version of OpenSSL available and we strongly recommend that users of older versions upgrade as soon as possible. OpenSSL 0.9.7 is available for download via HTTP and FTP from the following master locations (you can find the various FTP mirrors under http://www.openssl.org/source/mirror.html) o http://www.openssl.org/source/ o ftp://ftp.openssl.org/source/ OpenSSL 0.9.6 (all patch levels) came in the form of two distributions, a "normal" one and an "engine" variant that included support for external crypto devices. In 0.9.7, the "engine" framework is part of the "normal" distribution, so there are no variants of 0.9.7. The distribution file name is: o openssl-0.9.7.tar.gz [normal] MD5 checksum: ef376d14205afcfb831cd3720f705d79 The checksum was calculated using the following command: openssl md5 < openssl-0.9.7.tar.gz Yours, The OpenSSL Project Team... Mark J. Cox Ben Laurie Andy Polyakov Ralf S. Engelschall Richard Levitte Geoff Thorpe Dr. Stephen Henson Bodo Möller Lutz Jänicke Ulf Möller --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to majordomo(a)wasabisystems.com

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Many Worlds Version of Fermi Paradox
by Tim May 30 Dec '02

30 Dec '02

On Monday, December 30, 2002, at 01:18 PM, Jesse Mazer wrote: > Hal Finney wrote: > >> One correction, there are no known problems which take exponential >> time >> but which can be checked in polynomial time. If such a problem could >> be >> found it would prove that P != NP, one of the greatest unsolved >> problems >> in computability theory. > > Whoops, I've heard of the P=NP problem but I guess I was confused > about what it meant. But there are some problems where candidate > solutions can be checked much faster than new solutions can be > generated, no? If you want to know whether a number can be factorized > it's easy to check candidate factors, for example, although if the > answer is that it cannot be factorized because the number is prime I > guess there'd be no fast way to check if that answer is correct. Factoring is not known to be in NP (the so-called "NP-complete" class of problems...solve on in P time and you've solved them all!). The example I favor is the Hamiltonian cycle/circuit problem: find a path through a set of linked nodes (cities) which passes through each node once and only once. All of the known solutions to an arbitrary Hamiltonian cycle problem are exponential in time (in number of nodes). For example, for 5 cities there are at most 120 possible paths, so this is an easy one. But for 50 cities there are as many as 49!/2 possible paths (how many, exactly, depends on the links between the cities, with not every city having all possible links to other cities). For a mere 100 cities, the number of routes to consider is larger than the number of particles we believe to be in the universe. However, saying "known solutions" is not the same thing as "we have proved that it takes exponential time." For all we know, now, in 2002, there are solutions not requiring exponential time (in # of cities). > This is also somewhat relevant to "theories of everything" since we > might want to ask if somewhere in the set of "all possible universes" > there exists one where time travel is possible and computing power > increases without bound. If the answer is yes, that might suggest that > any TOE based on "all possible computations" is too small to > accomodate a really general notion of all possible universes. And this general line of reasoning leads to a Many Worlds Version of the Fermi Paradox: Why aren't they here? The reason I lean toward the "shut up and calculate" or "for all practical purposes" interpretation of quantum mechanics is embodied in the above argument. IF the MWI universe branchings are at all communicatable-with, that is, at least _some_ of those universes would have very, very large amounts of power, computer power, numbers of people, etc. And some of them, if it were possible, would have communicated with us, colonized us, visited us, etc. This is a variant of the Fermi Paradox raised to a very high power. My conclusion is that the worlds of the MWI are not much different from Lewis' "worlds with unicorns"--possibly extant, but unreachable, and hence, operationally, no different from a single universe model. (I don't believe, necessarily, in certain forms of the Copenhagen Interpretation, especially anything about signals propagating instantaneously, just the "quantum mechanics is about measurables" ground truth of what we see, what has never failed us, what the mathematics tells us and what is experimentally verified. Whether there "really are" (in the modal realism sense of Lewis) other worlds is neither here nor there. Naturally, I would be thrilled to see evidence, or to conclude myself from deeper principles, that other worlds have more than linguistic existence.) --Tim May (.sig for Everything list background) Corralitos, CA. Born in 1951. Retired from Intel in 1986. Current main interest: category and topos theory, math, quantum reality, cosmology. Background: physics, Intel, crypto, Cypherpunks

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Brinwear
by R. A. Hettinga 30 Dec '02

30 Dec '02

http://wearcam.org/domewear/ -- ----------------- 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'

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Manhattan Bldgs (RE: The Geodesic Economy:)
by Major Variola (ret) 30 Dec '02

30 Dec '02

At 01:33 PM 12/29/02 -0500, Trei, Peter wrote: I don't much like the Richard Meier >(tictactoe) design. Its not a tictactoe or "hollywood squares" design ---those are gleaming white prison bars. A motif for the 21st century. -- "Intended only for lawful uses." -HP Computer Advert

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Finns To Use Cell Phones To Monitor Traffic Jams
by Eugen Leitl 30 Dec '02

30 Dec '02

http://slashdot.org/articles/02/12/30/1243247.shtml?tid=126 Posted by Hemos on Monday December 30, @07:59AM from the interesting-adaptation dept. Okko writes "The Finnish Road Administration announced it is going to use cellphone location data to find out about traffic jams. They say they are using the location data available from the GSM base stations to determine the locations and speeds of vehicles carrying mobile phones. The information will be used to inform people about traffic jams and peaks in traffic trough public FM radio stations. Until now, the information about traffic has been gathered using car sensors embedded in the roads. The spokesperson of FRA, interviewed in the evening news of MTV3 Finland, seemed very pleased they can monitor cell phones even when no calls are made, it is enough the phone has power on. They said they are about to use the information anonymously and thought people approve it as long as it is done in an anonymous and "everyone-wins" way. It was told they do not currently tell the police about the data they discover as the current law forbids this. So, it is not, at least yet, possible to fine people carrying mobile phones in their cars too fast on public roads (exceeding the speed limit of the road). Unfortunately, probably because of vacations, FRA has not updated their website accordingly yet. There does exist an annoucement about testing the technology from the summer. "

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Ecstasy Air: U.S. Airforce members in Europe smuggle drugs
by Bo Elkjaer 30 Dec '02

30 Dec '02

List At least the U.S. Airforce active duty members show some ingenuity when smuggling drugs in and out of the European Union. http://www.dps.state.mn.us/MCAN/CASystem/uploadedfiles/Hydroxycut.pdf (May be gone. Google has a copy) Yours -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- LAW ENFORCEMENT SENSITIVE DO NOT DISSEMINATE OUTSIDE OFFICIAL CHANNELS DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE AIR FORCE OFFICE OF SPECIAL INVESTIGATIONS ANDREWS AFB, MD 20762-7002 NARCOTICS BRIEF 02-03 FROM:HQ AFOSI/XOGP DATE OF REPORT:23 May 02 SUBJECT:Hydroxycut(r) Capsules Used to Store Ecstasy TO:All Regions, Squadrons, Detachments, and Operating Locations (CAT III) SOURCE: SA Earl Lesniak, AFOSI Detachment 531, Aviano Air Base, Italy SUMMARY:Recent interviews disclosed Active Duty Air Force members stationed at Aviano Air Base, Italy, emptied Hydroxycut(r) capsules and replaced the contents with crushed ecstasy pills to avoid detection when crossing the Slovenia/Italy and Slovenia/Croatia borders. Hydroxycut(r) is a popular dietary supplement used for weight loss. Hydroxycut(r) is made by MusleTech Research and Development -- EOT

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County votes for land use anarchy
by Steve Schear 29 Dec '02

29 Dec '02

Georgia County Fed Up with Too Many Rules and Regulations Excerpt: Fed up with the complexity of zoning ordinances and various other land use restrictions already in existence, and a new raft of rules handed down by the state government, elected officials in Habersham County, Georgia, took a radical and unprecedented step. They voted to eliminate all land use regulations for the county, as well as the planning commission and building inspectors. http://www.heartland.org/Article.cfm?artId=11369 If you can't join 'em, beat 'em. -- W's global policy of hegenomy

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The Two Towers....
by lcs Mixmaster Remailer 29 Dec '02

29 Dec '02

Blah blah blah wrote... "My hunch is that the new towers will never be filled and will turn out to be a business catastrophe" Who gives a crap? Despite the fact that the original towers were as ugly as hell, they were a giant "Fuck You" to the rest of the world and we New Yorkers loved 'em. (I still say to NJ-based relatives that "All of you" conspired to knock down the towers...I refuse to distinguish between bin Laden, gov Florio (or whoever), and George Bush. All I know is that it was you non-New-Yorkers who did it 'cause you hate us and all our cool food, culture, filth and crime.) And until I stop paying taxes entirely, I might as well SEE something my tax $$$ may have been used to build, as opposed to stealth buildings and giant storage "schools". (I always used the same argument to support the superconducting supercollider....) "oops, I said "business," when in fact it is the Port Authority, a weird melange of jurisdictions which is probably constitutionally invalid)." The PA is certainly one of the more lecherous groups in these parts, including the mob. They were supposed to dissappear after the tolls paid for roads and bridges to be built. But using that ole' loophole (something to do with refinancing), they've maintained their incpometant and corrupt stranglehold on most of our major thoroughfares for lo these many years (increasing the pollution like crazy, too). "I wasn't sorry to see those Bauhaus boxes go." Bauhaus? I guess. More like that 70s warmed over post-Bauhaus fascist crapola. Nobody in NYC really thought they were beautiful, but we do miss 'em (see above!). And Peter Trei wrote... "One thing I liked in particular was that most of the designs weren't afraid to go high into the sky this time around. Building high is an expression of confidence." This I more or less agree with. And it's not a government thing, not a business thing, just a New York thing. We need replacement towers for sure, and that design by David Rockwell & Co (with those odd empty tower-structures) might be good. They have the additional advantage of not casting such a dark shadow over downtown and Brooklyn Heights. PT wrote... "The WTC was a landmark for a huge part of the city; you could see it easily from most of midtown and downtown." but Blah Blah Blah wrote... "Hideous boxes." Again, you miss the point. We New Yorkers navigated by them, and when traveling out in th'sticks (ie, New Jersey and west of the hudson) those ugly boxes would come popping up over the horizon welcoming you home, just like your ugly ole' Mom. Somebody wrote, and I really don't remember or care who. Hell, let's say Tim May wrote it just to piss him off... "My own initiial idea was to rebuild the towers as they were, but in goldtone instead of silver. Now, I'd like to be a little more respectful of the pre-WTC street grid (If you weren't actually going to the WTC, it was a huge obstacle to get around, either driving or on foot). But I still want towers which rise far above the skyline." That original twisty-towers design brought forward in response to how shitty the original official designs were by that Amalgamated Architects was the best design, but for some reason it didn't make it into the official final round. "One hopes not a single fucking dime of taxpayer money will go into rebuilding anything on that site. (Oh, I won't scream if $25,000 is allocated to hire that Chinese architect to replicate her Vietcong wall with the names of the dead so that the weepy ones can do their tracings and all. But nothing more should be spent out of the taxpayer's pocket.)" Like I said, you can either SEE your tax dollars build something (even if its useless), or else they'll just dissappear up some buereucrats (I can never spell that word) nose. Unless you pay zero taxes of course. "(Ayn Rand loved the Twin Towers, ironically, and typically, and disgustingly. But, then, she thought cigarette smoking was a symbolic affirmation of Man's control of fire and his striving to reify A or Not-A through purity of essence!" A read through a couple Ayn Rand books and none of this should be suprising. As far as I'm concerned she wasn't exactly von Neumann. Tyler Durden

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Rde: The Two Towers....
by Anonymous 29 Dec '02

29 Dec '02

Oh that our saviour Osama would come soon and turn all New York into a radioactive pile of rubble.

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Re: The Geodesic Economy: "World Peace Through Free Trade"
by Tim May 29 Dec '02

29 Dec '02

(All of these Hettinga lists elided from the distribution: "'R. A. Hettinga'" <rah(a)shipwright.com>, Digital Bearer Settlement List <dbs(a)philodox.com>, dcsb(a)ai.mit.edu, e$(a)vmeng.com, mac_crypto(a)vmeng.com, fork(a)xent.com, nettime-l(a)bbs.think.net, irregulars(a)tb.tf.....) On Sunday, December 29, 2002, at 10:33 AM, Trei, Peter wrote: > What do I think? I think they're one hell of a lot better than the > first batch, which came out last summer. They lowered the > square footage mandated, and told the companies to be a lot > more imaginative. "Square footage mandated"? "Told the companies"? It sure would be great if things were just left this way: "It is up to the owner of the property to decide what to do with the property. He can ask for opinions, hire consultants, of course, as he wishes. But the herd has no say on what he does, so long as uniform building standards and zoning regulations are met." (Issues of zoning, safety, and traffic are easily dealt with, and have nothing to do with the various pronouncements about "more square footage must be provided" and "The Mayor prefers at least two towers.") Regrettably, many levels of government and "the public" are involved. I realize that things got very confusing when a quasi-government agency (Port Authority) bought and paid for the original towers--though it then leased the site and towers to another owner, a private individual. If they wanted to own their building, they should not have then leased it to another, then back to themselves, while diverting the monies in the usual government way. So now we have what should be a private land development deal mixed up with government...again. My hunch is that the new towers will never be filled and will turn out to be a business catastrophe (oops, I said "business," when in fact it is the Port Authority, a weird melange of jurisdictions which is probably constitutionally invalid). Many of the occupants have found other office spaces, and many of them have said they are perfectly happy uptown or midtown. Or out in Jersey or Long Island or the other burrows (ObMisspellingDeliberate). Or decentralized out to where people are cheaper to hire. This is what networks are for. Centralizing people into antheap buildings...ugh. I wasn't sorry to see those Bauhaus boxes go. > One thing I liked in particular was that most of the designs > weren't afraid to go high into the sky this time around. Building > high is an expression of confidence. Or, to many of us, of stupidity. > The WTC was a landmark > for a huge part of the city; you could see it easily from most > of midtown and downtown. Hideous boxes. > I worry about designs which require a huge amount of maintenance > (Libeskind's sky forests), which I can't see being maintained more > than a decade or so, or which devote so much to memorial that > 40 years from now they will seem over the top (Foster has a huge > area which is supposed to be restricted to victim's family members). > > My own initiial idea was to rebuild the towers as they were, but in > goldtone instead of silver. Now, I'd like to be a little more > respectful > of the pre-WTC street grid (If you weren't actually going to the WTC, > it was a huge obstacle to get around, either driving or on foot). But I > still want towers which rise far above the skyline. One hopes not a single fucking dime of taxpayer money will go into rebuilding anything on that site. (Oh, I won't scream if $25,000 is allocated to hire that Chinese architect to replicate her Vietcong wall with the names of the dead so that the weepy ones can do their tracings and all. But nothing more should be spent out of the taxpayer's pocket.) (And to the extent the Port Authority is really a shakedown operation, a gatekeeper, extracting revenues from those who cross into its regime, the use of Port Authority money should be watched carefully. The insurance should cover the rebuilding. If it doesn't, scale back the plans accordingly.) I like the new skyline better. (ObHettinga: Meet the new skyline, same as the old, old one.) But all this yawp coming out of NYC about which of the plans will be selected, how the City wants the towers to be reconstructed, blah blah, is all just an indication of statism. (Ayn Rand loved the Twin Towers, ironically, and typically, and disgustingly. But, then, she thought cigarette smoking was a symbolic affirmation of Man's control of fire and his striving to reify A or Not-A through purity of essence! But, then, she was aynal about a lot of things, such as her support for NASA even though it consumed 50,000 slave-lives to put an American flag on a ball of worthless rock. Hilarious that she died of cancer.) --Tim May "That the said Constitution shall never be construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press or the rights of conscience; or to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms." --Samuel Adams

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