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[IRR] Using the Fluhrer, Mantin, and Shamir Attack to Break WEP (fwd)
by Jim Choate 07 Aug '01

07 Aug '01

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2001 08:55:20 -0400 From: "R. A. Hettinga" <rah(a)shipwright.com> To: Digital Bearer Settlement List <dbs(a)philodox.com>, dcsb(a)ai.mit.edu, cryptography(a)wasabisystems.com Subject: [IRR] Using the Fluhrer, Mantin, and Shamir Attack to Break WEP --- begin forwarded text

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A Market for Secrets (was Re: First Monday August 2001) (fwd)
by Jim Choate 07 Aug '01

07 Aug '01

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2001 05:28:57 -0400 From: "R. A. Hettinga" <rah(a)shipwright.com> To: Digital Bearer Settlement List <dbs(a)philodox.com>, dcsb(a)ai.mit.edu, cryptography(a)wasabisystems.com, mac-crypto(a)vmeng.com Subject: A Market for Secrets (was Re: First Monday August 2001) At 7:46 PM -0500 8/6/01, Edward J. Valauskas wrote: > A Market for Secrets > by Eytan Adar and Bernardo A. Huberman > http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue6_8/adar/ > Abstract: We propose an electronic market system for private data that >guarantees levels of privacy, anonymity and control to individuals while >maintaining the ability of other entities to mine their information and >automatically pay individuals for their data. We also describe a novel >procedure that allows data miners to anonymously contact the creators of >the information in case their profiles are needed for future research. -- ----------------- 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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DMCA and circumvention discussion at Higher Ed. Chronicle (fwd)
by Jim Choate 07 Aug '01

07 Aug '01

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2001 17:14:43 -0400 (EDT) From: "P.J. Ponder" <ponder(a)freenet.tlh.fl.us> To: cryptography(a)wasabisystems.com Subject: DMCA and circumvention discussion at Higher Ed. Chronicle The August 10, 2001, Chronicle of Higher Education has an interesting article on the circumvention issue of the DMCA: http://chronicle.com/free/v47/i48/48a04501.htm and also an online forum for discussing these issues: http://chronicle.com/colloquy/2001/dmca/dmca.htm --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to majordomo(a)wasabisystems.com

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IMPORTANT: Please update your Oracle account
by Oracle Corporation 07 Aug '01

07 Aug '01

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classified reply today
by hugo broad 07 Aug '01

07 Aug '01

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21st Century Commerce International EXPO 2001 - Phoenix, AZ - Sept 10-13, 2001
by David C. Dickson 07 Aug '01

07 Aug '01

TRAINING CONFERENCE: 21st Century Commerce International EXPO 2001 E-Business://Building Integrated Solutions September 10-13, 2001 Phoenix Civic Plaza Phoenix, Arizona IMPORTANT DATES TO REMEMBER!! Award Nominations Due August 8 Early Registration August 31 Hotel Reservations by August 17 IMPORTANT EVENTS TO REGISTER FOR: � Golf Tournament, Sunday, September 9 (form on website) Golf clubs available to rent, advanced reservation required � Tutorial Sessions, Monday, September 10 (register on-line) � GSA Training on LOGWORLD and MOBIS, Monday, September 10 � Executive Roundtable, Monday, September 10 (by invitation) � Conference and Exhibits- Register by August 30 and save! UPDATE: We are pleased to announce the Keynote address presenter: Mr. Joseph Cleveland, CIO and President, Enterprise Information Systems, Lockheed Martin AWARD NOMINATIONS: Due August 8th You are invited to submit nominations on-line at http://www.21cc.org/01awards.htm The annual AFEI Awards Program promises to be an exciting part of the activities at the 21st Century Commerce International EXPO 2001. Two Leadership Awards will be presented to individuals - one from private industry and one from government - who have made outstanding contributions to the advancement of the vision and goals of Enterprise Integration and Electronic Business. Check the website for criteria for these awards and then use the online form to submit nominations for outstanding individuals. Technical Excellence Awards will be made to an industry organization and to a government organization demonstrating advanced technical excellence in implementing solutions in the areas of enterprise integration and electronic business. Detailed criteria and an online form may be found on the awards website: http://www.21cc.org/01awards.htm Hotel Reservations: Reserve by August 17 and save! Hyatt Regency Phoenix Phone: 602-252-1234 Reference Code: 21st Century Commerce Intl EXPO Government rooms available under EXPO room block. REGISTRATION: Three ways to register: On-line at www.21cc.org By fax at 703-522-3192 By mail: AFEI, 2111 Wilson Boulevard, Suite 400, Arlington, VA 22201 Register prior to August 31 for Early Bird rates! AFEI Members: $750 Government Employees: $825 Non-Member: $900 Tutorials: $100 (September 10) GSA (MOBIS/LOGWORLD Training): $75 (September 10) Contact: Michelle Beckner Bourke, EXPO Conference Manager, at (703) 247-9473, mbourke(a)afei.org If you would like your address to be removed from this mailing list, please repl REPLY to this email and place REMOVE in the SUBJECT line. Thank you. If you would like to receive future email notices about conferences and training for government and industry such as this conference/expo, please REPLY and place SUBSCRIBE in the SUBJECT line.

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morpheus' growth
by Subcommander Bob 07 Aug '01

07 Aug '01

Someone here suggested Morpheus as a rapidly growing replacement for the company formerly known as Napster. It currently (7 Aug 01 8PM EDT) lists over 610,000 folks online; sharing 712 Million files; totalling 338 terabytes. Since beginning observing Morpheus a few days ago, these figures have grown visibly.. How big is Gnutella? Do its clients have the excellent download-resumption ability that Morpheus (and others built on the same engine) does?

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Ashcroft calls for more restrictions on use, transport of cash
by Greg Broiles 07 Aug '01

07 Aug '01

According to the Wall Street Journal online - >Mr. Ashcroft said Congress should: >7 Make bulk cash smuggling a crime. Mr. Ashcroft said the only law >currently on the books to combat smuggling is a requirement that shipments >of more than $10,000 be accompanied by a report from the U.S. Customs >Service. The Supreme Court has ruled that failing to file reports isn't a >serious enough offense to warrant confiscating the cash, so at worst >couriers for organized crime serve a short jail sentences -- "a virtually >meaningless penalty for a drug-trafficking organization," Mr. Ashcroft said. >7 Make it a federal offense for people to transport more than >$10,000 in cash proceeds from a criminal offense over highways or on >airplanes. Mr. Ashcroft said a court threw out a case in which $10,000 in >cash was seized from the trunk of a car driven by men who had prior drug >convictions because it isn't a crime to transport drug money down the highway. >7 Expand money-laundering laws to include crimes other than drugs, >terrorism and bank fraud. Mr. Ashcroft said federal prosecutors often must >turn down money-laundering cases involving corrupt foreign public >officials and organized-crime groups because their crimes aren't covered >under U.S. money-laundering laws. >Mr. Ashcroft said the Justice Department also may ask Congress to outlaw >wire transfers of tainted money and the laundering of proceeds from >terrorism and to deny U.S. visas to suspected foreign money launderers and >their families. .. ugh. Guess who's likely to end up with the burden of proof following the seizure of cash pursuant to his proposals .. and guess how hard it's going to be if your evidence consists of oral testimony to the effect that the cash was saved $10 or $20 at a time over a number of years. Everybody knows that people with drug convictions don't save money, and they especially don't save it at home because they have trouble getting a bank account to save it the ordinary way. I guess the bright side of this is that the harder the feds clamp down on legitimate or almost-legitimate uses of existing infrastructure, the faster less-controllable less-trackable infrastructure will be constructed within and by the black market. -- Greg Broiles gbroiles(a)well.com "We have found and closed the thing you watch us with." -- New Delhi street kids

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The electromagnetic Bomb
by Joey DePaolo 07 Aug '01

07 Aug '01

Electromagnetic bombs, or E-Bombs are a large threat to the United States as well as other countries. E-Bombs do exist and do cause catastrophic destruction. What they do is wipe out all electricity in the target area. They are just like a normal bomb, except they have a large coil of wire surrounding the explosive chemicals. Then there are generators that produce a large electromagnetic pulse. When the chemicals detonate, they explode outward touching the coil of wire which has current running through it. This causes a moving short circut. With the moving short circut and the magnetic pulse, the consequence is a lightening bult of electomagnetic pulse which sends waves of pulses that destroy all electric current running in any and all metal or electronic object. The result is a civilization which has lost all use for the technology it has had for 200 years. This has distressed the pentagon. The United States has taken many precautions to ensure the safety including equiping its bombers with the E-Bomb. Another fact that guarantees a threat of the E-Bomb is that the bomb is being sold on the black market to terrorists for $400. The E-Bomb demonstrates a new era of world terrorism and wars. And the reality is that no protection is possible for the E-Bomb at the current time. And any terrorist could attack at any time. Saddam is known to be researching this bomb and putting billions of dollars into it. I hope i answered your question -Mike

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OPT: Utimacos Safeguard Easy broken by danish police in tax evation ca se (fwd)
by Jim Choate 07 Aug '01

07 Aug '01

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2001 22:51:08 +0200 From: "[iso-8859-1] Bo Elkj�r" <bo.elkjaer(a)eb.dk> To: cryptography(a)wasabisystems.com Subject: Utimacos Safeguard Easy broken by danish police in tax evation ca se The german encryption program Safeguard Easy has been broken by the danish police. Today the police from the city Holstebro in Jutland presented evidence in court, that was provided after breaking the encryption on five out of sixteen computers that where seized april 25 this year. All 16 computers were protected with Safeguard Easy from the german encryption provider Utimaco. It is not known whether DES, 128-bit IDEA, Blowfish or Stealth was used as algorithm on the computers. All four algorithms are built in Safeguard Easy. Details are sparse. It is not known how the encryption was broken, whether it was brute forced or flaws in the program was exploited. The computers where seized from the humanitarian (leftwing) foundation Tvind (Humana) in connection with a case about tax evation. Among the evidence provided from the encrypted computers were emails sent among the leaders of the foundation, Poul Jorgensen and Mogens Amdi Petersen describing transfers of large sums of money. Apparantly, but not confirmed, british Scotland Yard has been involved in breaking the encryption. The danish police doesn't have the capacity to break encryption by themselves. Neither has the danish civilian intelligence service. Routine is that cases concerning encryption is handed over to the danish defence intelligence service DDIS. This procedure has been described earlier this year by the danish minister of justice in connection with another case. DDIS denies involvement with the Tvind case. Employees and leaders at Tvind has denied handing over their passwords to the computers. One even wrote a public letter mocking the chief of police in Holstebro, describing how he changed his password weekly, and stating that he'd probably even forgotten his password by now. At a time, the police concidered putting employees in custody until passwords were handed over. Thats all for now Bo Elkjaer, Denmark --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to majordomo(a)wasabisystems.com -- ____________________________________________________________________ natsugusa ya...tsuwamonodomo ga...yume no ato summer grass...those mighty warriors'...dream-tracks Matsuo Basho The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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