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[osint] Gulf conference tackles terror financing
by Tefft, Bruce 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

Geostrategy-Direct Week of April 13, 2004 FOCUS ON TERRORISM Gulf conference tackles terror financing ABU DHABI - The United Arab Emirates hosted a conference to regulate hawala. Hawala, the use of moneychangers to transfer funds without leaving any official record, was believed to have been the chief method Islamic insurgency groups used to relay money to operatives. The conference was held in Abu Dhabi April 3-5. More than 400 delegates from 60 countries, including Gulf Cooperation Council and Western states, attended. Those attending came from law enforcement agencies, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and the Financial Action Task Force. Called the International Conference on Hawala, the gathering examined the institution of hawala and how to regulate it. UAE officials said the conference would usher in a new regulatory system on hawala. A government announcement did not elaborate. "A regulatory framework is expected to be in place by the end of the meeting," the Central Bank said in a statement on April 1. GCC states have dismissed demands to eliminate hawala, saying the institution was deeply rooted and more efficient than banks. In 2002, the UAE, regarded as a leading venue for hawala, asked hawala operators to register with the Central Bank in an effort to regulate the industry. The effort was unsuccessful. Meanwhile, Arab League states have been removed from a list of nations that fail to cooperate in the international effort to halt financing to Al Qaida and related groups. Egypt was the last Arab state to have been removed from the list of Non-Cooperative Countries and Territories. On Feb. 27, Egypt was removed from the list after Cairo launched a series of measures to combat money laundering that facilitated the funding to groups deemed as terrorists. Currently, there are no Arab League states on the NCCT list. Western diplomatic sources said Arab states responded to what they termed intense pressure from the United States and the international financial community. "There is no Arab country now on the list," said Ali Bolbol, a senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute of the Arab Monetary Fund. "Some Arab countries were on the list but now all of them were taken off. The international pressure is paying off. Arab countries have put in place procedures and laws to fight money laundering and terrorist financing." Bolbol was speaking at a recent seminar in Abu Dhabi by the Economic Policy Institute of the Arab Monetary Fund. The three-day course, designed to help governments battle money laundering and terrorist financing, was attended by representatives from 19 Arab countries. -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, discuss-osint(a)yahoogroups.com. -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor bisoldi(a)intellnet.org http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint(a)yahoogroups.com Subscribe: osint-subscribe(a)yahoogroups.com Unsubscribe: osint-unsubscribe(a)yahoogroups.com *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: osint-unsubscribe(a)yahoogroups.com <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ --- 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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ScanDisk and Defrag aren't working. What do I do?
by "Steve Black - webworker"＠grapemail.net 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

Hello, I am having a problem running maintainence on my computer. ScanDisk and Defrag seem to keep running over and over without any results. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling them, but that did not work. I even uninstalled and reinstalled Windows 98 II. Also, my clock kicks back an hour ever once in a while for no apparrent reason. Has anyone else ever ran into these problems? Any suggestions? Steve webworker(a)grapemail.net Discover how easy an affordable it can be to get you small business on the internet. Web site hosting only $9.99/month. E-commerce and much much more. Visit http://www.Create-Website.com for more info. ______________________________________________________ >>>>>> WEBSITE SHOWCASES <<<<<< Examine carefully - those with email addresses included WILL trade links with you, you are encouraged to contact them. And, there are many ways to build a successful business. 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I would recommend dividing this information - have a page on why you recommend, overviews of the three products on another page, faq's on another page. The text on some of the pages was very tiny, and would be easier to read in a san-sarif font such as arial. I like the site name, but didn't see the fit between it and health products. The feel of the site was on use these products for your health, not to make money like so many other biz-opp sites, so the name just seemed to conflict with the message. ~~~~ The site is clear enough but to tell the truth I got lost in the text. I didn't understand most of it and got turned away. It seems you're selling through various affiliate programs or home businesses on Health Products (a lot of this around). There's lots of info here but perhaps too much. A good summary on the 1st page would do wonders. ~~~~ I had to get out my dictionary for a couple of the words in your first paragraph, and I have a college education. 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It seems you're selling through various affiliate programs or home businesses on Health Products (a lot of this around). There's lots of info here but perhaps too much. A good summary on the 1st page would do wonders. ~~~~ I had to get out my dictionary for a couple of the words in your first paragraph, and I have a college education. You're going to be missing or turning off a lot of people with your current wording. On the other hand, if you would develop the "I had faced some serious health challenges..." and tell people your story more people would be drawn into your site. The layout is fine, you're just covering too much on your home page, and switching topics too often. ~~~~ This site did not load fully in my screen but overlapped. I'm not sure what makes sites do that, and very few do, but it is a little bothersome as I have to scroll over to see the rest of the page. It also had those annoying pop up windows. I like the products advertised and there is a lot of info on them, so that's good. ~~~~ The information on this site should be divided in to two different websites.  The focus is divided between health products and mlm programs, confusing the reader. 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[IP] DoD proceeding with "TIA", etc. under ARDA (sic) and other orgs
by Dave Farber 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-terror-privacy,0,299110… U.S. Pressing for High-Tech Spy Tools By MICHAEL J. SNIFFEN Associated Press Writer February 22, 2004, 2:27 PM EST WASHINGTON -- Despite an outcry over privacy implications, the government is pressing ahead with research to create powerful tools to mine millions of public and private records for information about terrorists. Congress eliminated a Pentagon office that had been developing this terrorist-tracking technology because of fears it might ensnare innocent Americans. Still, some projects from retired Adm. John Poindexter's Total Information Awareness effort were transferred to U.S. intelligence offices, congressional, federal and research officials told The Associated Press. In addition, Congress left undisturbed a separate but similar $64 million research program run by a little-known office called the Advanced Research and Development Activity, or ARDA, that has used some of the same researchers as Poindexter's program. "The whole congressional action looks like a shell game," said Steve Aftergood of the Federation of American Scientists, which tracks work by U.S. intelligence agencies. "There may be enough of a difference for them to claim TIA was terminated while for all practical purposes the identical work is continuing." Poindexter aimed to predict terrorist attacks by identifying telltale patterns of activity in arrests, passport applications, visas, work permits, driver's licenses, car rentals and airline ticket buys as well as credit transactions and education, medical and housing records. The research created a political uproar because such reviews of millions of transactions could put innocent Americans under suspicion. One of Poindexter's own researchers, David D. Jensen at the University of Massachusetts, acknowledged that "high numbers of false positives can result." Disturbed by the privacy implications, Congress last fall closed Poindexter's office, part of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, and barred the agency from continuing most of his research. Poindexter quit the government and complained that his work had been misunderstood. The work, however, did not die. In killing Poindexter's office, Congress quietly agreed to continue paying to develop highly specialized software to gather foreign intelligence on terrorists. In a classified section summarized publicly, Congress added money for this software research to the "National Foreign Intelligence Program," without identifying openly which intelligence agency would do the work. It said, for the time being, products of this research could only be used overseas or against non-U.S. citizens in this country, not against Americans on U.S. soil. Congressional officials would not say which Poindexter programs were killed and which were transferred. People with direct knowledge of the contracts told the AP that the surviving programs included some of 18 data-mining projects known in Poindexter's research as Evidence Extraction and Link Discovery. Poindexter's office described that research as "technology not only for `connecting the dots' that enable the U.S. to predict and pre-empt attacks but also for deciding which dots to connect." It was among the most contentious research programs. Ted Senator, who managed that research for Poindexter, told government contractors that mining data to identify terrorists "is much harder than simply finding needles in a haystack." "Our task is akin to finding dangerous groups of needles hidden in stacks of needle pieces," he said. "We must track all the needle pieces all of the time." Among Senator's 18 projects, the work by researcher Jensen shows how flexible such powerful software can be. Jensen used two online databases, the Physics Preprint Archive and the Internet Movie Database, to develop tools that would identify authoritative physics authors and would predict whether a movie would gross more than $2 million its opening weekend. Jensen said in an interview that Poindexter's staff liked his research because the data involved "people and organizations and events ... like the data in counterterrorism." At the University of Southern California, professor Craig Knoblauch said he developed software that automatically extracted information from travel Web sites and telephone books and tracked changes over time. Privacy advocates feared that if such powerful tools were developed without limits from Congress, government agents could use them on any database. Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., who fought to restrict Poindexter's office, is trying to force the executive branch to tell Congress about all its data-mining projects. He recently pleaded with a Pentagon advisory panel to propose rules on reviewing data that Congress could turn into laws. ARDA, the research and development office, sponsors corporate and university research on information technology for U.S. intelligence agencies. It is developing computer software that can extract information from databases as well as text, voices, other audio, video, graphs, images, maps, equations and chemical formulas. It calls its effort "Novel Intelligence from Massive Data." The office said it has given researchers no government or private data and obeys privacy laws. The project is part of its effort "to help the nation avoid strategic surprise ... events critical to national security ... such as those of Sept. 11, 2001," the office said. Poindexter had envisioned software that could quickly analyze "multiple petabytes" of data. The Library of Congress has space for 18 million books, and one petabyte of data would fill it more than 50 times. One petabyte could hold 40 pages of text for each of the world's more than 6.2 billion people. ARDA said its software would have to deal with "typically a petabyte or more" of data. It noted that some intelligence data sources "grow at the rate of four petabytes per month." Experts said those probably are files with satellite surveillance images and electronic eavesdropping results. The Poindexter and ARDA projects are vastly more powerful than other data-mining projects such as the Homeland Security Department's CAPPS II program to classify air travelers or the six-state, Matrix anti-crime system financed by the Justice Department. In September 2002, ARDA awarded $64 million in contracts covering 3 1/2 years. The contracts went to more than a dozen companies and university researchers, including at least six who also had worked on Poindexter's program. Congress threw these researchers into turmoil. Doug Lenat, the president of Cycorp Corp. in Austin, Texas, will not discuss his work but said he had an "enormous seven-figure deficit in our budget" because Congress shut down Poindexter's office. Like many critics, James Dempsey of the Center for Democracy and Technology sees a role for properly regulated data-mining in evaluating the vast, underanalyzed data the government already collects. 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[osint] Gulf conference tackles terror financing
by Tefft, Bruce 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

Geostrategy-Direct Week of April 13, 2004 FOCUS ON TERRORISM Gulf conference tackles terror financing ABU DHABI - The United Arab Emirates hosted a conference to regulate hawala. Hawala, the use of moneychangers to transfer funds without leaving any official record, was believed to have been the chief method Islamic insurgency groups used to relay money to operatives. The conference was held in Abu Dhabi April 3-5. More than 400 delegates from 60 countries, including Gulf Cooperation Council and Western states, attended. Those attending came from law enforcement agencies, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and the Financial Action Task Force. Called the International Conference on Hawala, the gathering examined the institution of hawala and how to regulate it. UAE officials said the conference would usher in a new regulatory system on hawala. A government announcement did not elaborate. "A regulatory framework is expected to be in place by the end of the meeting," the Central Bank said in a statement on April 1. GCC states have dismissed demands to eliminate hawala, saying the institution was deeply rooted and more efficient than banks. In 2002, the UAE, regarded as a leading venue for hawala, asked hawala operators to register with the Central Bank in an effort to regulate the industry. The effort was unsuccessful. Meanwhile, Arab League states have been removed from a list of nations that fail to cooperate in the international effort to halt financing to Al Qaida and related groups. Egypt was the last Arab state to have been removed from the list of Non-Cooperative Countries and Territories. On Feb. 27, Egypt was removed from the list after Cairo launched a series of measures to combat money laundering that facilitated the funding to groups deemed as terrorists. Currently, there are no Arab League states on the NCCT list. Western diplomatic sources said Arab states responded to what they termed intense pressure from the United States and the international financial community. "There is no Arab country now on the list," said Ali Bolbol, a senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute of the Arab Monetary Fund. "Some Arab countries were on the list but now all of them were taken off. The international pressure is paying off. Arab countries have put in place procedures and laws to fight money laundering and terrorist financing." Bolbol was speaking at a recent seminar in Abu Dhabi by the Economic Policy Institute of the Arab Monetary Fund. The three-day course, designed to help governments battle money laundering and terrorist financing, was attended by representatives from 19 Arab countries. -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, discuss-osint(a)yahoogroups.com. -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor bisoldi(a)intellnet.org http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint(a)yahoogroups.com Subscribe: osint-subscribe(a)yahoogroups.com Unsubscribe: osint-unsubscribe(a)yahoogroups.com *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: osint-unsubscribe(a)yahoogroups.com <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ --- 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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[tor-relays] Call for discussion: turning funding into more exit relays
by Roger Dingledine 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

For a few years now, funders have been asking if they can pay Tor to run more relays. I kept telling them their money was better spent on code and design improvements: https://blog.torproject.org/blog/why-tor-is-slow https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/roadmaps/Tor/Performance since a) network load would just grow to fill whatever new capacity we have, especially if we don't deal with the tiny fraction of users who do bulk downloads, and b) reducing diversity of relay operator control can harm anonymity. But lately the Tor network has become noticeably faster, and I think it has a lot to do with the growing amount of excess relay capacity relative to network load: https://metrics.torproject.org/network.html?graph=bandwidth&start=2010-06-0… At the same time, much of our performance improvement comes from better load balancing -- that is, concentrating traffic on the relays that can handle it better. The result though is a direct tradeoff with relay diversity: on today's network, clients choose one of the fastest 5 exit relays around 25-30% of the time, and 80% of their choices come from a pool of 40-50 relays. https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/6443 Since extra capacity is clearly good for performance, and since we're not doing particularly well at diversity with the current approach, we're going to try an experiment: we'll connect funding to exit relay operators so they can run bigger and/or better exit relays. If we do it right (make more faster exit relays that aren't the current biggest ones, so there are more to choose from), we will improve the network's diversity as well as being able to handle more users. We've lined up our first funder (BBG, aka http://www.voanews.com/) and they're excited to have us start as soon as we can. They want to sponsor 125+ fast exits. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Open questions we need to decide about: 1) What exactly would we pay for? I think the right way to do it is to offer to reimburse bandwidth/hosting costs -- I don't want to get into the business of paying people to run relays, and I don't want people to be trying to figure out how to "profit". That leads to all sorts of horrible incentive structures. More broadly, we should keep in mind that the primary cost of running an exit relay is effort, not dollars: it takes dedication to find an ISP who will host it, and to hold that ISP's hand when an abuse complaint arrives. Or said another way, hosting costs are in many cases not the biggest barrier to running an exit relay. I think we should aim to constrain ourselves to talking about >=100mbit exits, assuming that turns out to give us enough choices. That said, we don't want to concentrate bandwidth too much in any given relay, so we should limit the amount we'll reimburse per relay. 2) Should we fund existing relays or new ones? The worst failure mode here would be that we screw up the current community of relay operators. That's why it's extra important to keep them involved at each step of this discussion. I think the right answer is probably a balance of reimbursing costs from current exits and encouraging new exits to appear. Before we can get more precise though, we need to get a handle on how many current fast exits there are, and what their constraints are (whether their hosting situation could give them more bandwidth, whether they're paying now or getting a deal through a friend/employer, etc). Even then, there are interesting further questions like: - Should we prefer big collectives like torservers, noisetor, CCC, dfri.se, and riseup (which can get great bulk rates on bandwidth and are big enough to have relationships with local lawyers and ISPs), or should we prefer individuals since they maximize our operator diversity? I think "explore both approaches" is a fine first plan. - For existing relays who pay for hosting, should we prefer that our money go to covering their existing costs (and then we encourage them to save their money for use, say, after this experiment finishes), or should we aim to add additional funding so the relay can use more bandwidth? I'd say it comes down to the preferences of the relay operator. That said, if we have plenty to choose from, we should pick the relays that will make the network grow -- but we should take extra care to avoid situations where operators in the first category say "well, fine" and shut down their relay. More generally, we need to consider sustainability. Our current exit relay funding is for a period of 12 months, and while there's reason to think we will find continued support, the Tor network must not end up addicted to external funding. So long as everybody is running an exit relay because they want to save the world, I think we should be fine. 4) What exactly do we mean by diversity? There's network diversity (AS / upstream network topology), organization and operator diversity, jurisdictional (country) diversity, funding diversity, data-center diversity, and more. We've started to answer some of these questions at https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/6232 https://blog.torproject.org/blog/research-problem-measuring-safety-tor-netw… but this research topic will need ongoing attention. I'd love to get to the point where our diversity metrics can recommend network locations that best improve the various diversity scores. 5) How much "should" an exit relay cost? Since we're aiming for diversity, we can't send all our volunteers to the same cut-rate German VPS provider. After all, much of the work in setting up an exit relay is finding a good provider that doesn't already host a bunch of Tor relays. But if we declare that we'll reimburse $50/month for 100mbit, we're going to attract a different set of volunteers -- and a different set of network locations -- than if we reimburse $100/month for 100mbit. We need to learn about current bandwidth pricing: I know there are 10 cheap hosting places that will tolerate exit relays, but are there 200? And do all of those 200 turn out to overlap diversity-wise? Initial guesses appreciated. I'm inclined toward the $100 number to give our volunteers more flexibility. If we want to reimburse on a monthly basis, how do we handle situations where the ISP wants a longer-term contract? I think the answer will come down to how many choices we have. 6) How exactly should we choose which exit relay operators to reimburse? It might be premature to speculate until we better understand what choices are available to us. But I think the answer must include doing it in a way that encourages continued growth of the relay operator _community_. People who are active in the Tor community, and well-known to many other people, should be part of the answer. At the same time, we should be willing to put some of the money into trying out new places and people, especially if they're in good locations diversity-wise. The broader answer is that we as a community need to figure out a good answer here. I definitely don't want it to be "Roger picks people in an opaque way". But I also don't want the answer to be "anybody on the Internet who offers to take our money". Maybe we should put together a consortium of current Tor activists who run fast exits? 7) How do we audit / track the sponsored relays? How should we check that your 100mbit relay is really working? What do we measure to confirm its capacity? To a first approximation I'm fine assuming that nobody is going to try to cheat (say, by colluding with an ISP to write legit-looking invoices but then just split the money). But as the plan scales, we need good ways to track statistics on how many relays are being sponsored and how much bandwidth they're providing (so funders can see how effective their money is), and what fraction of the overall network these sponsored relays are (to keep an eye on the diversity questions). 8) Legal questions? Tor exit relays raise plenty of legal questions already, especially when you consider jurisdiction variety. But reimbursing relays introduces even more excitement, such as: - Does such a relay operator end up in a different situation legally? - Does the overall Tor network change legal categories in some country, e.g. becoming a telecommunications service when it wasn't before? - Does The Tor Project Inc incur new liabilities for offering this money? Tor has a history of creating fascinating new challenges for legal scholars, and this exit relay funding experiment will be no exception. I believe if we position it correctly, we won't really change the legal context. But I encourage people to investigate these questions for their jurisdiction. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Next steps: I'm going to do a short blog post pointing to this thread, since many interested parties aren't on tor-relays yet. Then I'll send individual emails to exit relay operators pointing them to it and asking for their feedback (on the list or private, whichever they prefer). I'll also try to get some sense of how much their hosting costs, whether they'd want to participate in our experiment, whether they're in a position to ramp up to a faster connection, etc. Once we have some concrete facts about how many current exit relays want to participate, how many new volunteers want to help, and how many ISPs could handle more exit relays and at what prices, we'll be in a better position to decide how to proceed. --Roger _______________________________________________ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays(a)lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE

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FC: White House draft plan wants new Internet role for Feds
by Declan McCullagh 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

I'm going to try to put part of the report online before I leave in about five hours for the Internet Law and Policy Forum conference in Seattle. (I'm speaking on Wednesday and will be in Seattle through Saturday.) See: http://www.ilpf.org/conference2002/ I don't have a great way to scan in and OCR large documents, so I may post efax files and ask for a volunteer to OCR 'em. -Declan --- http://news.com.com/2100-1023-958159.html?tag=politech White House preps cybersecurity plan By Declan McCullagh September 16, 2002, 6:58 PM PT WASHINGTON--The White House's cyberspace security plan, scheduled to be released Wednesday, envisions a broad new role for the federal government in maintaining Internet security. While couching many concepts as mere suggestions, a draft of the plan seen by CNET News.com says the government should improve the security of key Internet protocols and spend tens of millions of dollars on centers to recognize and respond to "cyber attacks." [...] It says the executive branch should consult with privacy groups and attempt to preserve civil liberties, but concludes that in some cases, privacy could be limited. "Allowing completely anonymous communications on a wide-scale basis, with no possibility of determining the source, could shelter criminal, or even terrorist communications," the draft says. [...]

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[btns] RFC 5386 on Better-Than-Nothing Security: An Unauthenticated Mode of IPsec
by rfc-editor＠rfc-editor.org 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

A new Request for Comments is now available in online RFC libraries. RFC 5386 Title: Better-Than-Nothing Security: An Unauthenticated Mode of IPsec Author: N. Williams, M. Richardson Status: Standards Track Date: November 2008 Mailbox: Nicolas.Williams(a)sun.com, mcr(a)sandelman.ottawa.on.ca Pages: 11 Characters: 23103 Updates/Obsoletes/SeeAlso: None I-D Tag: draft-ietf-btns-core-07.txt URL: http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5386.txt This document specifies how to use the Internet Key Exchange (IKE) protocols, such as IKEv1 and IKEv2, to setup "unauthenticated" security associations (SAs) for use with the IPsec Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP) and the IPsec Authentication Header (AH). No changes to IKEv2 bits-on-the-wire are required, but Peer Authorization Database (PAD) and Security Policy Database (SPD) extensions are specified. Unauthenticated IPsec is herein referred to by its popular acronym, "BTNS" (Better-Than-Nothing Security). [STANDARDS TRACK] This document is a product of the Better-Than-Nothing Security Working Group of the IETF. This is now a Proposed Standard Protocol. STANDARDS TRACK: This document specifies an Internet standards track protocol for the Internet community,and requests discussion and suggestions for improvements. Please refer to the current edition of the Internet Official Protocol Standards (STD 1) for the standardization state and status of this protocol. Distribution of this memo is unlimited. This announcement is sent to the IETF-Announce and rfc-dist lists. To subscribe or unsubscribe, see http://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf-announce http://mailman.rfc-editor.org/mailman/listinfo/rfc-dist For searching the RFC series, see http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfcsearch.html. For downloading RFCs, see http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc.html. Requests for special distribution should be addressed to either the author of the RFC in question, or to rfc-editor(a)rfc-editor.org. Unless specifically noted otherwise on the RFC itself, all RFCs are for unlimited distribution. The RFC Editor Team USC/Information Sciences Institute _______________________________________________ btns mailing list btns(a)ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/btns ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE

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CT-RSA 2003 -- preliminary call for papers
by marc.joye＠gemplus.com 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

=================================================================== Preliminary Call for Papers -- CT-RSA 2003 Submission deadline: Oct. 1, 2002 Cryptographers' Track, RSA Conference 2003 (CT-RSA 2003) April 13-17, 2003, Moscone Center, San Francisco, USA http://reg2.lke.com/rs3/rsa2003/crypto.html (see also http://www.rsaconference.net/) =================================================================== Following the success of the two previous editions, the Cryptographers' Track of RSA Conference 2003 (CT-RSA 2003) will be run as an anonymously refereed conference with proceedings. The proceedings of CT-RSA 2001 and CT-RSA 2002 were published in Springer-Verlag's Lecture Notes in Computer Science series as LNCS 2020 and LNCS 2271, respectively. Original research papers pertaining to all aspects of cryptography as well as tutorials are solicited. Submissions may present theory, techniques, applications and practical experience on topics including, but not limited to: fast implementations, secure electronic commerce, network security and intrusion detection, formal security models, comparison and assessment, tamper resistance, certification and time-stamping, cryptographic data formats and standards, encryption and signature schemes, public key infrastructure, protocols, elliptic curve cryptography, cryptographic algorithm design and cryptanalysis, discrete logarithms and factorization techniques, lattice reduction, and provable security. IMPORTANT DATES: Submission deadline: Oct. 1, 2002 Acceptance notification: Nov. 1, 2002 Proceedings version: Nov. 17, 2002 INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS: The program committee invites research contributions and tutorials in the broad area of applications and theory of cryptography. Correspondence, including submissions, will take place entirely via e-mail. All submissions will be blind refereed. To make a submission, please send two separate e-mail messages to marc.joye(a)gemplus.com (the first message should contain the paper's title, the names and affiliations of the authors and should identify the contact author, including e-mail and postal addresses; the second message should contain the submission itself in PostScript or in PDF). The paper must be anonymous, with no author names, affiliations, acknowledgements, or obvious references. It should begin with a title, a short abstract, and a list of keywords. The paper should be at most 12 pages (excluding the bibliography and clearly marked appendices), and at most 18 pages in total, using at least 11-point font and reasonable margins. Submissions not meeting these guidelines risk rejection without consideration of their merits. PROCEEDINGS For an accepted paper to be included in the proceedings, the authors of the paper must guarantee that at least one of the co-authors will attend the conference and deliver the talk (registration fees will be waived for the co-author delivering the talk). PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Giuseppe Ateniese Chi-Sung Laih John Black Tatsuaki Okamoto Daniel Bleichenbacher David Pointcheval Rosario Gennaro Bart Preneel Stuart Haber Jean-Jacques Quisquater Helena Handschuh Tsuyoshi Takagi Markus Jakobsson Gene Tsudik Antoine Joux Serge Vaudenay Marc Joye (Chair) Sung-Ming Yen Kwangjo Kim Moti Yung Seungjoo Kim Yuliang Zheng

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