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CDR: Re: FC: U.S. Copyright Office says DeCSS bad, filtering hacking good
by Nick Bretagna 27 Oct '00

27 Oct '00

Declan McCullagh wrote: > > ----- Forwarded message from John Young <jya(a)pipeline.com> ----- > The two exemptions granted: > > "1. Compilations Consisting of Lists of Websites Blocked > by Filtering Software Applications > > 2. Literary Works, Including Computer Programs and > Databases, Protected by Access Control Mechanisms > That Fail to Permit Access Because of Malfunction, > Damage or Obsoleteness." So: our free speech -- our ability to express ideas -- is now subject to the imprimature of the US copyright office, who we need to appeal to for "exemptions"?? How many *other* Federal Agencies do you think will step forth to claim this power, as well??? One would certainly hope the courts would figure this one out as blatantly unconstitutional.... > > The copyright industry's arguments are often cited > as grounds for minimal exemptions, as well as the > power of the market to correct what Congress gave > the industry. Specious. -- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Nicholas Bretagna II mailto:afn41391@afn.org If we give in [to the impulse to censor and instill speech codes] then we are giving to the bigots the gift of our freedom. If you give in, what you're saying is that Freedom is less important than not being offended. What a disaster for a country whose *soul* depends on Liberty. - Alan C. Kors -

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CDR: Re: Rijndael & NTRU
by Vin McLellan 27 Oct '00

27 Oct '00

On Mon, 2 Oct 2000, Vin McLellan <me> wrote: >> Apparently the selection of Rijndael -- pronounced "Reign Dahl" or "Rain >> Doll" -- was not a big surprise to everyone. >> >> Just got a note from Scott Crenshaw, the CEO of NTRU Cryptosystems >> (<www.ntru.com>, one of the firms I consult for), expressing satisfaction at >> having "backed the right horse" while others dozed;-) Paulo Barreto <paulo.barreto(a)terra.com.br> quipped: >Or it might not have occurred to everyone to prepare just-in-case releases for >each of the finalists and wait for NIST's verdict ;-) Yeah, I thought of that too;-) The NTRU folk, however, didn't wait for today's announcement to place their bet. The NTRU reference implementation for embedded systems -- the NERI toolkit the company has been shipping for a couple of months -- includes Rijndael code described as "an excellent complement to our core public key technology." Anyone know of any other commercial firms (other than the respective developers) which made an overt pre-announcement commitment to one of the AES candidates? Apparently the fact that Rujndael was the/a leading AES candidate was apparent to some prescient souls (not me <sigh>) at least since AES3 in N.Y. last April. As Bram Cohen <bram(a)gawth.com> put it: .> The selection of Rijndael was actually quite predictable - the round 2 .> report made it pretty clear that the only real contenders were Rijndael .> and Twofish, and hey, that last coin toss is free with 20/20 hindsight :) Suerte, _Vin

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CDR: Re: Parties
by An Metet 27 Oct '00

27 Oct '00

God, what a bunch of shit. The only thing that is really going to make a difference is a suitcase nuke or a balloon full of Ebola virus on Washington. There's about a 1/4 million assholes all over the country that need to be hunted down and killed after that. Then we will have freedom and privacy. Write your congress critter about that.

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27 Oct '00

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CDR: paycash payment system ver. 1.xx
by R. A. Hettinga 27 Oct '00

27 Oct '00

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CDR: DMCA Final Rule
by John Young 27 Oct '00

27 Oct '00

We offer the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act Final Rule on Access Control Circumvention: http://cryptome.org/dmca102700.txt (149KB) An excerpt on why there will be no exemption for circumventing access to DVDs by tools such as DeCSS: http://cryptome.org/dmca-dvd.htm (15KB) The two exemptions granted: "1. Compilations Consisting of Lists of Websites Blocked by Filtering Software Applications 2. Literary Works, Including Computer Programs and Databases, Protected by Access Control Mechanisms That Fail to Permit Access Because of Malfunction, Damage or Obsoleteness." The copyright industry's arguments are often cited as grounds for minimal exemptions, as well as the power of the market to correct what Congress gave the industry. Specious.

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CDR: Denver Judge rules Cops can seize bookstore records
by No User 27 Oct '00

27 Oct '00

"If we can save but one child from the awful scourge of drugs..." Of course, the real issue here is why the bookstore was keeping such personalized records in the first place. -------- Judge: Cops can seize bookstore records http://www.denverpost.com/news/news1021b.htm By Susan Greene Denver Post Staff Writer Oct. 21, 2000 - Police will be allowed to search customer purchase records at the Tattered Cover Book Store to investigate a narcotics case, a Denver judge ordered Friday. Civil libertarians decried the order - believed to be the first of its kind nationwide - for protecting law enforcement's ability to obtain evidence over individual rights to read without interference from authorities. Tattered Cover owner Joyce Meskis said the order could have a "chilling effect" on the First Amendment and on store patrons, who might hesitate to buy books knowing that police have access to their purchase records. She is considering an appeal. "A bookstore is a house of ideas," she said. "We certainly have the responsibility to protect customers' rights to those ideas, and the right to privacy that goes along with that." Law enforcers hailed the order as a victory. "If it only takes one or two records from a bookstore to help us eliminate drugs on the street, then so be it," said Lt. Lori Moriarty, commander of the North Metro Drug Task Force, which is seeking the Tattered Cover records. "We need all the tools possible to help law enforcement do its job." The controversy stems from a March 14 raid on an Adams County mobile home in which task force members found a methamphetamine lab and two books: "The Construction and Operation of Clandestine Drug Laboratories" by "Jack B. Nimble," and "Advanced Techniques of Clandestine Psychedelic and Amphetamine Manufacture" by "Uncle Fester." Investigators also found a bookshipping envelope containing an invoice number from the Tattered Cover in Lower Downtown Denver. They are hoping bookstore records will help pinpoint which of the six people who frequented the mobile home bought the books and, presumably, operated the lab. The task force first sought a search warrant from the Adams County district attorney's office, which rejected the request partially on grounds that executing it would give police a public relations "black eye." Task force members then turned to the Denver DA's office, which granted the warrant. Meskis blocked police from going through her store's records, saying they should instead use other investigative measures such as fingerprinting to find their suspect. Denver District Court temporarily blocked the task force from seizing the records, pending the outcome of a hearing before Judge Stephen Phillips. Most states have laws protecting public libraries from police searches except under exceptional circumstances, but there is no special law that protects bookstores. The issue made headlines in 1998, when independent counsel Kenneth Starr subpoenaed two Washington, D.C., bookstores for information on gifts exchanged between President Clinton and White House intern Monica Lewinsky. Barnes & Noble and Kramerbooks hired lawyers and challenged the subpoena in federal court. A federal judge quashed Starr's request for the records. Lewinsky, meantime, agreed to testify in exchange for immunity, rendering the whole issue moot. Still, the case was a watershed for bookstore owners and privacy advocates, who have been watching the Tattered Cover's legal battle with intense interest. Phillips, in his order, recognized the First Amendment right to "receive information and ideas, regardless of social worth," but he cited a legal balancing test weighing such rights against the importance of law enforcement to investigate crimes. Phillips ruled that the identity of the drug lab operators is "of significant public interest" and that "the purchase of how-to books is a highly important piece of evidence." The judge wrote that there's no other reasonable way, aside from seizing store records, for investigators to obtain the information they're seeking. He lauded the task force for asking only for specific invoices, not "stumbl(ing) through other private records." Phillips deemed the Tattered Cover case "dramatically different" than the Lewinsky case, about which he wrote: "The subpoenas were exploratory in nature, and the government was unable to show any need nor any nexus to a criminal event." And so Phillips denied investigators' broad request for a month's worth of records that might show all titles purchased by the unnamed suspects. Still, he granted police access to the specific invoice whose number appeared on the book mailer. Meskis has 15 days to appeal before the task force seizes her records. Moriarty insists it was never her unit's intent to comb through reading records of the general public. Rather, she said, Phillips' order will give investigators "an important piece of a puzzle" needed to nab their suspect. Critics say one arrest is a high price to pay for allowing a war against drugs to chip away at civil rights. "Key principles of the right to privacy and freedom of speech have ultimately been compromised in the decision," said Sue Armstrong, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union in Colorado. Judith Krug, director of the Office for Intellectual Freedom at the American Library Association, said she worries that drug investigators unfairly are "making the connection between what people read and what they do." "Just because you read a book on homosexuality, for example, doesn't mean you're gay. And reading a book on the symptoms of cancer doesn't mean you have the disease," Krug said. "Our concern is that what people read, what goes into their heads will no longer remain private." KEY QUESTIONS: Denver District Judge Stephen Phillips posed four key questions as part of a legal balancing test in his ruling: 1. Is there a legitimate and significant government interest in acquiring the information? 2. Is there a strong nexus between the matter being investigated and the material being sought? 3. Is the information available from another source? 4. Is the intrusion limited in scope so as to prevent exposure of other constitutionally protected matters? Copyright 2000 The Denver Post. All rights reserved. Related: Bookstore fights search warrant http://www.denverpost.com/news/news1018d.htm

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256-bit keys (was Re: Paranoid Encryption Standard)
by Paul Crowley 27 Oct '00

27 Oct '00

John Kelsey <kelsey.j(a)ix.netcom.com> writes: > Probably not too much, in terms of worrying about > known-plaintext vs. chosen-plaintext attacks. Though > honestly, I think designing your PES is like providing > really effective padlocks for screen doors. (But you could > say the same thing about AES with 256-bit keys.) I agree on both counts. But I can see another use for larger keys than resisting brute force attack: they increase the difficulty of attacks on protocols and constructions based on inducing collisions in keys. -- __ \/ o\ paul(a)cluefactory.org.uk /\__/ http://www.cluefactory.org.uk/paul/

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CDR: Welcome to toyota-prius
by toyota-prius Moderator 26 Oct '00

26 Oct '00

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