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Crypto Short Course
by Christof Paar 07 Mar '01

07 Mar '01

I am offering again a 4 day short course in applied crypto. A brief outline is below. For more info about the course contents and registration, please see our web site at http://www.ece.wpi.edu/Research/crypt/courses/short_course.html Regards, Christof ! WORKSHOP ON CRYPTOGRAPHIC HARDWARE AND EMBEDDED SYSTEMS (CHES 2001) ! ! Paris, France, May 13-16, 2001 ! ! www.chesworkshop.org ! *********************************************************************** Christof Paar, Assistant Professor Cryptography and Information Security (CRIS) Group ECE Dept., WPI, 100 Institute Rd., Worcester, MA 01609, USA fon:(508) 831 5061 email: christof(a)ece.wpi.edu fax:(508) 831 5491 www: http://www.ece.wpi.edu/People/faculty/cxp.html *********************************************************************** Worcester Polytechnic Institute 4-Day Short Course April 16,17 & 26,27 WPI Southborough Campus APPLIED CRYPTOGRAPHY AND DATA SECURITY Seminar Leader: Dr. Christof Paar COMPLETE COURSE INFORMATION AND REGISTRATION: www.ece.wpi.edu/Research/crypt/courses/short_course.html COURSE OUTLINE Day 1, AM - Introduction to Cryptography and Data Security Overview. Private-Key Cryptosystems. Cryptanalysis. Day 1, PM - Stream Ciphers Random Number Generators. Synchronous Stream Ciphers and LFSRs. Attacks. One Time Pad. Unconditional and Computational Security. Day 2, AM - Block Ciphers: DES and AES DES Functionality and History; Implementation: Hardware and Software; Attacks and Security Estimations. AES: Functionality and History; Hardware and Software Implementations. Other block ciphers. Key length and security. Day 2, PM - Modes and Variants of Block Ciphers Operation modes of block ciphers. Multiple encryption. Key whitening. Day 3, AM - Public-key Cryptography Principle. Some Number Theory. Overview of Practical Schemes. Public-Key standards (ANSI, IEEE). Day 3, PM - Public-key Algorithms RSA Cryptosystem: Functionality, implementational aspects, recent attacks and security estimations. Diffie-Hellman key exchange. Elliptic curve cryptosystems: principle, practical and security aspects. Day 4, AM - Digital Signatures and Protocols Digital Signatures. Authentication Codes (MACs). Hash Functions. Protocols for Privacy, Authentication, Integrity, Non-Repudiation. Challenge-and-response protocols. Day 4, PM - Key Distribution and Case Study Key Distribution: Private-key approaches, public-Key approaches. Certificates. Key Derivation. Case Study: Secure Socket Layer Protocol. For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "dcsb-request(a)reservoir.com" with one line of text: "help". --- end forwarded text -- ----------------- 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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07 Mar '01

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Here's Information You Requested on Low International Long Distance
by Terry Sullivan 07 Mar '01

07 Mar '01

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by Crossroads＠emarkethost.net 07 Mar '01

07 Mar '01

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AImee - silly spook stuff
by Aimee Farr 07 Mar '01

07 Mar '01

I am caught up in some dark parody of The Scarecrow and Ms. King. Stop this onlist and offlist paranoid train, I grow concerned that I might actually be bothering somebody. I am just a curious young lawyer that stumbled in here because I found the concepts intellectually fascinating, in stark contrast to small law practice. I was immediately beset up by legendary Cypherpunk demons who attacked me like Harpies, dragging me down into Hell. On your side: Legions. On my side: Google. I do not need spook-training to mess with your heads. I am a woman. It is part of my evolutionary memory. Hrmmm....: o clients complaining that office phone calls are sounding like cell phones and skipping o my phones are calling me back. Heck, my phones seem to be calling other people back o strange office visits from gentlemen looking for a lawyer o strange phone calls from public officials and others in government service just saying "hi" o my Cayman box unplugged o leak in roof over computer and men crawling up in my ceiling o other stuff, I haven't thought about it yet... ....it's now official.... I AM PARANOID!! I AM A CYPHERPUNK!! Let me say that I find LE and the Cypherpunks to be evenly matched. Law enforcement, Cypherpunks and Intelligence Communities...Observation: The Three Stooges in the WWF! In the event this is LE activity, I look forward to my subpo so I can reveal you as a nest of tax-funded village idiots. The REAL spooks in this forum are giggling themselves silly. With best personal regards, I am, Not impressed, Miss Aimee E. Farr, Esq. PS: And, I am not talking to the big, scary black horsey. I have reviewed The Little Baylor Girl Rulebook.

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Bell's 3 Nutcases
by John Young 07 Mar '01

07 Mar '01

Jim Bell has made a motion to have three of the USA's witnesses undergo psychological evaluation. No names given in the case docket. Since Jim has been repeatedly moving to have his federal defender, AUSA London, and Judge Tanner recused, it may be that those are the three needing data minded. Or the three could be composed of anyone has ever posted to cypherpunks or received mail from it or wrote about it or read about it or thought about making a snuff film of it.

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Re: Cypherpunks IQ Test to the Sirs of Dillinger, Brown & Packet, et. al.
by Anonymous 07 Mar '01

07 Mar '01

Aimee Farr wrote: > QUESTION #1. > You are walking through the woods alone. A beautiful unclothed woman > magically appears in front of you. She holds out an apple. > 1. Please darken in the correct choice using a Number Two pencil: > (a) you bite the apple. > (b) you take the woman. . . . > (g) none of the above. G. > 2. Please justify your answer: You bite the woman, then take the apple.

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Clay Shirky's Internet Writings
by Jim Choate 07 Mar '01

07 Mar '01

http://www.shirky.com/ -- The Laws of Serendipity: 1. In order to discover anything, you must be looking for something. 2. If you wish to make an improved product, you must first be engaged in making an inferior one. Tivoli Certification Group, OSCT James Choate jchoate(a)tivoli.com Senior Engineer 512-436-1062

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expensive tradecraft, to catch a spook
by Blank Frank 07 Mar '01

07 Mar '01

03/06/2001 - Updated 10:32 PM ET FBI bought nearby house to spy on Hanssen By Kevin Johnson, USA TODAY WASHINGTON The FBI secretly bought a house near the suburban home of Robert Hanssen just nine days after investigators began surveillance of the veteran counterintelligence agent now charged with spying for Moscow, a senior U.S. official said Tuesday. The Vienna, Va., home, just down the block from Hanssen's, was purchased under the name of a single woman, Ann Manning, who paid $362,500 in cash, according to local property records and the realtor who represented the sellers. Attempts to reach Manning were unsuccessful. The transaction, first reported on "Dateline NBC," was made final on Dec. 21. http://www.usatoday.com/news/washdc/2001-03-06-spyhome.htm#more

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EU confirms no 1st Amendment there...
by Blank Frank 07 Mar '01

07 Mar '01

THE European Court of Justice ruled yesterday that the European Union can lawfully suppress political criticism of its institutions and of leading figures, sweeping aside English Common Law and 50 years of European precedents on civil liberties. http://www.telegraph.co.uk:80/et?ac=004500667862225&rtmo=VkkxFu1x&atmo=rrrr…

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