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Re: Can I do Pubkic Domain that -
by Bruce Balden 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Exportability rules are based up the notion that the USA has the best technology (perhaps true) and that non-Americans, such as the notorious Chinese, are too far behind. Whereas the truth is that many countries in the have the necessary technology and have possessed it for a long time. There is absolutely no evidence that the US gov't crypto export rules are impeding drug cartels in the least. So there is a peverse mix cognitive dissonance, xenophobia ("what do those chinks know anyway?!!), and sycophantism (telling the President what he wants to hear). Somebody please tell me how this idiocy can persist. -----Original Message----- >At 12:58 PM 12/18/97 -0700, Tim May wrote: >>At 12:04 PM -0700 12/18/97, David Honig wrote: >>>At 06:33 PM 12/17/97 -0800, Bruce Balden wrote: >>>> >>>>Those guys just never learn that not only is the barn door open, but that >>>>contents were never theirs to begin with. >>>> >>> >>>They blew their chance to regulate *computers* as military tech. >>>Computers, after all, were developed by the military for ballistic, bombs, >>>and codes. >> >>I can't follow your logic here. Several points: > >> > > >The develoment of computers can be traced along numerous threads. One >thread (from say the 40's to 50's) >traces the encouragement of the codebreaking, ballistics, h-bomb fluid >dynamics, and missile >control community. > >By the 50's the computer was done, and improvements were just making better >implementations. > >It is admittedly oversimplifying to follow only one thread (e.g., only >mathematical or engineering development), >but in the early days (way before intel) computers were built for the uses >I describe. > > > > >------------------------------------------------------------ > David Honig Orbit Technology > honig(a)otc.net Intaanetto Jigyoubu > > M-16 : Don Quixote :: PGP : Louis Freeh > Let freedom ring (or screech at 28.8) > > > > > > > > > > > >

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Censorware Search Engine update and request for files
by Declan McCullagh 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Over at the Netly News Network, we've decided it's time to update our Censorware Search Engine. For those of you who haven't checked it recently, it's a one-of-a-kind web site that lets you see if you've been blocked by filtering software: http://cgi.pathfinder.com/netly/spoofcentral/censored/ We're planning to update this with newer decrypted lists from some of the vendors like SurfWatch, CyberPatrol, and so on. If you have a list and you'd like it to be included, please send it along. -Declan

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Re: ADL
by bureau42 Anonymous Remailer 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Re: FC: ADL and CyberPatrol On Wed, 17 Dec 1997 at 00:04:33 -0500, Declan McCullagh wrote: > From: "David Smith" <bladex(a)bga.com> > To: fight-censorship(a)vorlon.mit.edu > Date: Tue, 16 Dec 1997 21:25:23 +0000 > Subject: Cyber Patrol to Block Hate Speech > > Cyber Patrol to block hate speech > http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,17431,00.html?dtn.head > > Summary -- Cyber Patrol has teamed up with the Anti- > Defamation League to offer a "special version" of sites > reviewed by the ADL. > > Here's the weirdest thing about the story --- if you > access a site on their "hate list" you don't get a block, > but rather you get redirected to the ADL website. > > ... > Blocking access isn't enough -- you will now be told what > to read and what to think about prejudice, bigotry, and > race relations. > > I don't have anything for or against the ADL -- just that > history dictates that this power will be used and abused > to stifle thought and free expression. Much as I agree in principle with counteracting mindless prejudice such as that directed against Jews, and despite the fact that I grew up among Jews and studied with my best friend in grade school when he took his religious lessons, the ADL has zero credibility with me for a very good reason: I had a role in an organization that, while it was populated with a good many bible-thumping Christians, took great care not to encourage, promote or give a platform to voices of unreason. The nature of the organization was political and in no way dealt with religious issues or issues which would find people dividing along any religious or ethnic line. Nonetheless, I was stunned one day to read mention of our organization characterized as "anti-semitic" by the ADL in a national publication. To have provided such erroneous information to the author of the article the ADL either had to have been grossly negligent in its gathering and analysis of facts or had to be pursuing other agenda in using the clout of its pronouncements. I rather think it may have been the latter (the organization was Constitutional and anti-income tax, while the ADL probably harbors more than its share of socialists who bristle at any challenge to the taxing authority of the state). My qualification to judge the ADL's deficiency in this matter was absolute. I had personally written and/or reviewed every piece of literature the organization had published, including newsletters, from its inception. There was no propagation of policy or position with which I was not personally acquainted, and nowhere had the organization ever published anything that could even vaguely be interpreted as anti-semitic. So I regard the ADL with extreme suspicion, not on the vaporous basis of pre-judgement or hearsay but on the solid basis of having been visited with unwarranted and groundless personal damage at their hands, not unlike the small club of people who know the treachery of Sixty Minutes for what it is by personal experience. The ADL does its proclaimed purpose a radical disservice by verging sharply from the straight and narrow that is mandatory in any holier-than-thou endeavor. I would lay down my life for any of a number of my Jewish friends, but I wouldn't give the ADL the time of day even if the Apocalypse were upon us. VeracityMongerII

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Freedom Forum report on the State of the First Amendment
by Declan McCullagh 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On Tuesday I stopped by the Freedom Forum's conference, where they released a report on the state of the First Amendment. It's worth checking out: http://www.freedomforum.org/newsstand/reports/sofa/intro.asp Each day of this nation's life, in meetings of school boards, library boards, city councils, state legislatures, and Congress itself, figures of respect and renown rise on behalf of a supportive public and proclaim, "I believe in the First Amendment, but" Each such announcement precedes a proposal to regulate our speech in order to elevate our lives. And so we have one of the more equisite ironies of a freedom-loving society: Americans truly believe they believe in free speech. Still, there is always that "but," that qualification of their commitment to the rights and values embedded in those 45 words of the First Amendment. In survey after survey, Americans stand steadfast in support of the general notion of free speech. In the particulars, however, we waver. When asked to countenance the very speech the First Amendment was drawn to protectthe speech of the radical, the rascal, even the revoltingwe become unsure. We do believe in free speech for ourselves, but for the most part we are not so sure about others, especially those whose words offend our taste, threaten our children, or challenge our convictions. Also at the conference: http://www.freedomforum.org/first/1997/12/16sofa.asp Keynote speaker Keen Umbehr told the audience that he lost his job, his community and even family and friends during his First Amendment battle with the county commission in Wabaunsee County, Kansas. Umbehr, who had a contract to haul the county's trash, also wrote editorials for the local newspaper, often alleging violations of law and other misconduct by the county commission. "What I wrote was true, and I could back it up," Umbehr said. "I believed that my constitutional rights were live and real, waiting to be activated. I felt that writing articles and speaking out about the government not only was my right, it was my duty to speak the truth, regardless of the fact that my whole livelihood was based on that county contract." The county terminated his contract in retaliation for his articles. Umbehr sued, and the case went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. In June 1996 the court upheld Umbehr's free-speech rights. "The troops on the front lines of the First Amendment fight desperately need some help," Umbehr told the audience of attorneys, scholars and experts. "You have the knowledge in here, and they need it out there." -Declan

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Rubber-hose proof (cryptographically deniable) file-systems.
by Julian Assange 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Here's a copy of some correspondence in relation to my implementation of a `rubber hose proof' (cryptographically deniable) file system (actually implimented as a block device on which you can mount any file system). I'm happy with the cryptographic strength of the system (but feel free to comment anyway). That said, I'm not convinced that my avoidance of media (i.e disk surface) analysis attacks (which could potentially show the pre-sense or otherwise of cryptographic file systems other than the "duress" ones) is entirely effective. I'd like some comment from gauss-ridden declassification guru's here :) [...] Here's how I'm implementing `aspects' in Rubberhose/marutukku; `aspect' is the term I'm using to refer to the cryptographically-deniable (i.e rubber-hose-proofed) "portion", of a maru extent i.e it's a different _aspect_ (view) of the same underlying physical block extent. I decided that random split lengths don't add to the security of the scheme - only 2x from my calculations - which isn't enough to warrant the increase in memory use and complexity involved. The extent is simply divided up into n splits (say 1024 or one every 256k, whichever is smaller). Each aspect has an encrypted 32bit block remap list (which is simply a linear array because of the fixed split size). A split avoidance bit-map is created from these per-aspect remap lists on instantiation of the aspects. An individual aspect looks like so (when saved): typedef struct { m_u32 keySum; /* key checksum */ u_char masterKey[MAX_KEY]; u_char latticeCipherType, blockCipherType; u_char pad[MAX_BLOCK - (4 + MAX_KEY + 1 + 1) % MAX_BLOCK]; /* block align */ } maruCycle; typedef struct { maruCycle cycle; u_char keySalt[MAX_PASSPHRASE]; maruLatticeKey latticeKeySalt[2]; u_char blockIV[MAX_FS_BLOCK_SIZE]; u_char latticeSalt[2*MAX_LATTICE_DEPTH*MAX_BLOCK_KEY]; /* must be 64 aligned */ m_u32 remap[MAX_SPLITS]; m_u32 iterations; maruCipher keyCipherType; } maruHeaderAspect; There are an array of (8 by default) of these constructs in a maruHeader. The smap accessor macros are simple: #define SMAP_SET(p, n) (((p))[(n)/(sizeof(maruSmap)*8)] |= (1 << ((n) % (sizeof(maruSmap)*8)))) #define SMAP_CLR(p, n) (((p))[(n)/(sizeof(maruSmap)*8)] &= ~ (1 << ((n) % (sizeof(maruSmap)*8)))) #define SMAP_ISSET(p, n) (((p))[(n)/(sizeof(maruSmap)*8)] & (1 << ((n) % (sizeof(maruSmap)*8)))) By default, each unused maruHeaderAspect struct contains random noise (except for keyCipherType, which defaults to being the same for all aspects) and is of course indistinguishable from a valid maruAspect without the associated key. Instantiation example: Say you have three valid aspects, a1, a2 and a3. Arbitrarily, you have chosen a1 to be the simple duress aspect (i.e ``you expect us to believe you have solitary letter of donation to the Polit Bureau Ball in your entire encrypted file system?! Do you know what this is Nikov? <opens trench coat>. THIS is the finest cryptanalytic device known to man. THIS is a RUBBERHOSE! *thwap* *thwunk* *boink*. Now... what's the *real* key Nikov... or should we call you... Nikolay Bukharin?''), a2 to be the limited disclosure aspect ("Dear diary. Nikita, Ivan, Boris and <some more guys I feel like selling down the Lenningrad sewage system> came over today and smoked a *shit load* of hash. Not wanting to offend, I had a toke, but like that capitalist dog ^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H illustious leader of the freeworld, was careful not to inhale.") and a3 has your ice-9 formula nicely tucked away. You decide one fine morning that you want to add an ATP pre-cursor as a catalyst to your ice-9 recipe of destruction (ostensibly, you plan to generate this stuff from cultures of genetically modified mouse liver cell mitochondria), and provide the a1, a2 and a3 pass-phrases. a1, a2 and a3 are decrypted. the aspect remap is parsed and used to create the physical block "avoidance" map (checking for conflicts along the way). Joyous about the frozen seas to come, you copy the ATP pre-cursor catalyst into a3 and the file system tries to write a new block - e.g b28 - to a3. b28 is translated through the a3 remap table to b-1 (unallocated). A random block remap number is generated e.g b595 and tested against the avoidance smap. If free, it is marked and chosen to be the new a3 mapping, otherwise the algorithm simply does a circular hunt for the next free entry in the avoidance smap. Naturally, reading only requires the key of the aspect you are interested in (divulging). Writing to one aspect without the keys to the other aspects will randomly trash them as new splits are assigned. Timer remaps, reads and re-writes: This would be the simple end of it, were it not but for magnetic domain leakage/disk surface wear analysis attacks. Theoretically, this sort of attack could used to demonstrate access patterns by the drive head in regions outside those used by the duress aspect blocks. What we want to do here is to make sure the non-data carrying magnetic/other properties of the disk substrate are as close to a Jackson Pollock painting as is possible. i.e totally random :) Three methods are used: 1) every few seconds, we read a random number of blocks within a split in a random location and write it back to that same location with a m-1/m (e.g 9/10) (recursive) chance of an additional write. 2) every-time there is a conventional write, there is a m-1/m chance of a full remap of the split concerned. 3) every n seconds a random full split remap. (maybe not needed given the statistical properties of the above - I need to think about this a lot more. its not simple) All aspects are defined to take up 100% of the marutukku extent from the file-system perspective - this is essential to our deniability scheme. This works fine with most file-systems - e.g UFS, because they only write to a small fraction of their addressable blocks when formatted - i.a few super-blocks and inode, rather than zeroing every block, and so split usage for a given aspect reflects population of the file system that pertains to it. Cheers, Julian. -- Prof. Julian Assange |If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people |together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks proff(a)iq.org |and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless proff(a)gnu.ai.mit.edu |immensity of the sea. -- Antoine de Saint Exupery

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Re: Hate speech in Germany...
by Mikhael Frieden 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 03:37 AM 12/6/97 +0100, Peter Herngaard wrote: >However, also the traditional right-wing "liberals" >and "conservatives" >endorse strict censorship of hate speech. You might ask yourself of their genesis. >The reason why I do not support any anti-racst organization, except >Nizkor, is that most such "human rights" advocacy groups in Europe are in >favour of censorship. Nizkor is the worst of them all. They even misrepresent physical laws. >The United Nations is a threat to freedom of speech in particular in Europe >where we have no gaurantee of freedom of speech with similar strength as >that the First Amendment provides. You folks should get yourselves a 2nd amendment first. >It was shocking to observe that states such as China, Nigeria, Pakistan >can influence freedom of speech >from within the U.N. under >cover of "elimination of all forms of racial discrimination." Passing a law in a good cause only invites people to find ways to use it to their own ends as in Canada against Zundel. -=-=- The 2nd guarantees all the rest.

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17 Dec '03

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Re: Please Beta test my communications cryptography product.
by James A. Donald 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 04:19 PM 12/5/97 -0600, Rick Smith wrote: > I admit I can't figure out what crypto mechanism Kong is really using since > there's obfuscating talk of passphrases and secrets. Your secret key is 240 bit number modulo the order of the generator. This number is generated by hashing your secret file and passphrase. Your public key is an elliptic point, equal to the secret key times the generator. --------------------------------------------------------------------- We have the right to defend ourselves and our property, because of the kind of animals that we are. True law derives from this right, not from the arbitrary power of the state. http://www.jim.com/jamesd/

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