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CDR: Re: censorship rears its head
by Private User 13 Sep '00

13 Sep '00

>WASHINGTON (AP) - Sen. Joe Lieberman decried a >"culture of carnage" surrounding Americas young So what is the end game of the violence monopoly ? To be able to blow the brains out of domestic sheeple (and, for sport, the faraway tribes) the state must have trained killers (cops, fedz, army.) If they are bred in somatized environment they will not be good at it (ie. blowing the brains out ...) So either we are going to see special camps that will take care of piglet education, or they will have to import foreign-trained carnivoras. It is funny - society of Morlocks and Eloi, but with the twist: Eloi are both stupid and ugly.

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CDR: Diffie-Hellman/DSS Cryptoanalysises?
by 023513090-0002＠t-online.de 13 Sep '00

13 Sep '00

Are there good cryptoanalysises of the Diffie-Hellman/DSS cipher as implemented in PGP 5.x ? (Or other usefull information about it ?) Bjoern Ganslandt

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CDR: Re: Quantum Computing Talk at WPI, 8/12
by 023513090-0002＠t-online.de.=?iso-8859-1?q? 13 Sep '00

13 Sep '00

Robert Hettinga wrote: > > > > Quantum computers, if ever built, will be able to factor numbers > beyond the reach of traditional methods. The development of quantum > computation would mean the demise of RSA and other public key > cryptosystems. We show the main idea of Shor's quantum factoring > algorithm and assess the complexity of the circuit implementing the > algorithm. We describe the current state of experimental quantum > computing and the most promising ideas concerning the implementation > of quantum logic. > > Classical supercomputers has recently reached the computational power > of one teraflop (10^12 floating point operations per second). We will > discuss the current effort to built a petaflops scale computer (peta > = 10^15) based on the combination of advanced technologies such as > superconducting digital electronics, cryogenic CMOS, optical > switches, and holographic memories. Breaking existing ciphers is > certainly one of the primary applications of this new class of > computing machines. > > For a Kris Gay's biography please check: > http://www.ee.rochester.edu/~ee492/bio/bio.html I think till quantum computers will crack RSA keys in days or less, it will take some time, because todays quantum computers have only about 3 Q-bits and factoring of a RSA key takes much more. Bjoern Ganslandt

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CDR: Bioterror in DC: Banning production of such weapons
by Declan McCullagh 13 Sep '00

13 Sep '00

HOUSE GOVERNMENT REFORM COMMITTEE Biological Weapons Convention National Security, Veterans Affairs, and International Relations Subcommittee hearing to examine the status of negotiations to develop an enforcement protocol to the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) prohibiting the development, production and stockpiling of such weapons. Witnesses: Ambassador Donald Mahley, special negotiator, Chemical and Biological Arms Control, State Department; representatives from General Accounting Office, Defense Department, and Commerce Department Location: 2154 Rayburn House Office Building. 10 a.m. Contact: 202-225-5074 http://www.house.gov/reform

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CDR: USA.net proxy: heh-heh-heh
by George＠Orwellian.Org 13 Sep '00

13 Sep '00

Previously I whined that USA.net was changing the URLs in received email to proxy through their server, meaning they had logs of all URLs you visited when clicking on hyperlinks while reading your personal email. That this violates their own privacy policy. For some reason Declan failed to report it. ;-) Analog film chemicals must be affecting his judgement. New note: if you bookmark the URL in the personal email someone sent you, it bookmarks it at the USA.net address. ---- Here is the resulting URL in the new window USA.net opens when you click on an URL in your email: http://www.netaddress.com/tpl/Info/Popup?hidden___url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amaz… I just tried scooping it and using it directly, trying amazon here. It worked. Anyone have direct access to their own server logs? What cookies/referrals/misc is logged on the receiving system? Continue clicking, and it's still via USA.net. It looks like a free "anonymizer" to me.

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CDR: Randseed dead?
by No User 13 Sep '00

13 Sep '00

Anybody know what's wrong with the randseed remailer? It hasn't been mailing yesterday or today.

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CDR: Personal Note from TroppoLotto's CEO
by TroppoLotto 13 Sep '00

13 Sep '00

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CDR: KERSHOFF
by edouvarjo＠webtv.net 13 Sep '00

13 Sep '00

Searching SS# for John/Jacob Kershoff, lived 1940-1950's onStaten Island, N.Y. Been told his name was JAY, could be nickname. Died before 1995, he was married to Margaret Whitehead and had two children. He was an officer in the US Navy during WW11. Thank you. Eileen Douvarjo

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CDR: Re: And you thought Nazi agitprop was controversial?
by Colin Rafferty 13 Sep '00

13 Sep '00

Jodi Hoffman writes: > Declan McCullagh forwards: >> Frisoli, the Curley lawyer, has been making very outrageous and >> false statements about what was on the web site. Because the media >> has no access to the site, no one can contradict him. ... Printed >> material from NAMBLA is difficult to find. Members of NAMBLA will >> speak to the press only under conditions of strict anonymity >> because they fear for their lives. And the web site is not >> accessible. > I knew there was a reason I printed out NAMBLA's website > throughout the years. Maybe I should contact this child's parents as > well as their attorney. I think that would be an excellent idea. The best thing for this case would be to see what was actually on the web site. Of course, I would suggest showing it to everyone, and not just the Curley family lawyers. Because of NAMBLA had nothing to do with the murder, I'm sure you wouldn't want to see them falsely found liable. > I wonder if you would tell the parents to their face how important > you think it is to preserve the information put out by the people > who helped cause their son to be murdered, rather than doing > something to help prevent it from happening again. So your printouts of the NAMBLA web site show where they encourage people to rape and/or murder children? Do you have any quotes? > "He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself > the accomplice of liars and forgers." - Charles Peguy Always a good quote. So what is the truth about what was on the NAMBLA web site? Yell it from the rooftops. -- Colin

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CDR: RE: Is kerberos broken? cpunk
by Trei, Peter 13 Sep '00

13 Sep '00

> ---------- > From: David Honig[SMTP:honig@sprynet.com] > > At 12:00 PM 8/31/00 -0400, Joseph Ashwood wrote: > >No but I feel free to type a hundred or so, but that's beside the > >point. The claim made was that anything a human can remember, a > >computer can brute force, this was simply one very clear example that > >it simply was not true, as I rather thoroughly established. > > Anything large that a human can remember has enough structure so that you > don't need brute force, you use a dictionary-based attack. > This is nonsense. The wordspace of languages is large enough that it's easy to compose perfectly reasonable texts which are highly resistant to dictionary attacks. For one of my leisure time activities, I have to memorize set texts up to 15 minutes long. I'm expected to give these letter perfect, and I do. Here's an example of a good passphrase: "David grossly underestimates the ability of homo sapiens to memorize and exactly reproduce long texts. An examination of American high school students ability to perform the Gettysburg Address is a good counterexample." 222 bytes, more or less. Even if we assume only 1bit of entropy per character (it's ordinary english), that's a pretty tough space to search. It's a safe bet that those two sentences have never been placed together in all of human history before now, so there's no dictionary to check. The problem is not that passphrases *can't* be made secure - the problem is that most people are unwilling to use good ones. Peter Trei

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