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G7 Anti-Terrorism Reports [BRIEF]
by karl_marx＠juno.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Cypherpunks: At 1735 CDT on Tuesday, July 30, 1996, CNN Atlanta during World News Tonight reported (in a _very_ brief flash) several "resolutions" adopted by the Group of Seven (G7) trade meeting in Paris. At the bottom of the list of resolutions was to "prevent terrorist from using the Internet" (quote from CNN anchorwoman). No further explanation was given in regards to that statement, but methinks that in wake of recent terroristic activities in this country, Pro-CODE in Congress, and Netscape Navigator 3.0b3 in the hot little hands of Americans everywhere, there could be a complete retreat from the "progressive" attitude of legislators in this country towards strong crypto. John Young has already requested further information about the G7 meetings, and it would probably behoove us all to know precisely what it was that was said before such a resolution was agreed upon. Or, better yet, whose idea it was to attempt to "prevent terrorists from using the Internet." Apologies to all if this is redundant information, and apologies to the purists for intruding with this newsflash. ObCrypto: Anyone have any more information on Royal Dutch Shell apparently the first customer of TIS' firewall package with key escrow ? Has such a purchase been confirmed, and if so, does it still entail an agreement with the British government as an escrow agent ? -J. Malcolm +-=-+-=-+-=-+-=-+-=-+-= j malcolm summers / karl_marx(a)juno.com / summersj(a)southwestern.edu ignorance is not bliss +-=-+-=-+-=-+-=-+-=-+-=

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Re: fbi, crypto, and defcon
by anonymous-remailer＠shell.portal.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Short review of the Fedz show at DefCon. Most of the San Francisco Computer Crime squad was in attendance. SA Black and Butler's presentation was classic good cop/bad cop (respectively). Nice quote by them in the Vegas paper about how all hackers aren't bad. They were even doing recruiting, and had the little hacker puppies eatting out their hands for a mug, t-shirt, or minature badge. It wasn't determined whose surveillance goodies were being installed in the drop ceiling of the conference room at 4:30 AM. The "hotel maintenance" guy certainly hauled ass when one of the official DefCon Goons showed up (classic textbook time for raids, black bag jobs, etc). Tsk, tsk. And me without any TSCM gear. Points to the Fedz for great psy-ops (especially the quote about how the "new" FBI is more sensitive). Points off to quite a few hackers who don't have a historical context of government abuse and are pretty damn easy to manipulate. All in all, probably more entertaining than most shows on the Strip. Obligatory comment on hackers compared to cypherpunks. Zero to no political savvy. Extremely poor organizational and communication skills. Nearly clueless on social issues. These would be the hackers. Yeah, yeah. I know there are exceptions. But all in all, I'd rather hang with C-punks.

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ANNOUNCEMENT: nym.alias.net enters beta testing
by lcs Remailer Administrator 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- I'm pleased to announce that the nym.alias.net pseudonym server has now entered the beta-testing phase, and seems quite stable. Nym.alias.net offers several interesting features: * Public-Key encryption of all received mail. Once mail has gone through nym.alias.net, no one can read it except you--even if you have been sending your mail to a newsgroup and your reply-block and remailers become compromised. * Support for multiple, probabilistically-weighted, reply blocks. These can be used for redundancy or to foil traffic analysis with decoys. * Replay detection. This foils replay attacks, but can also be used for higher reliability if you send redundant copies of a message through different remailer chains. * An option to receive only fixed-length messages (by splitting up large messages and padding small ones with garbage). * An option to sign mail you send with the remailer's public key, so as to give some assurance of authenticity without having to publish your own PGP public key. * Support for finger [pending DNS approval]. You can choose to make your nym's PGP public key available to all who finger its E-mail address. Right now you can test this by fingering at 18.26.0.252. In addition, experimental nym.alias.net support for Premail is now available (in the form of a patch to premail 0.44). With this patch, premail will store your nym's PGP key on encrypted keyrings. This allows you to publish a PGP key for your pseudonym without the danger of your identity being revealed to someone with access to your main PGP keyrings (or a backup copy of them). To obtain more information about nym.alias.net, finger <nymhelp(a)anon.lcs.mit.edu> or send mail to <help(a)nym.alias.net>. To get information about using premail with nym.alias.net, finger <premail-info(a)anon.lcs.mit.edu> or send mail to <premail-info(a)nym.alias.net>. These documents are also available on the new nym.alias.net web page: http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~raph/n.a.n.html Please report all bugs to <admin(a)nym.alias.net>. I'll also be glad to consider feature requests, particularly from anyone interested in developing any more client software. Enjoy! mix-admin(a)anon.lcs.mit.edu -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBMf6dcUTBtHVi58fRAQE4NgP/SoKSqHxobEHuyWl6lXVAHgk9yqNS/WAD jUfKYGodThr93kJZkmreyIHrWgbromJJlXo6MPq9KpZzIh85uHRzBPRSh293hfUo ta8/sdZsW1+uoEkAs8JUWlwAEGo+bfmgRnFswf80pAPClpbGo52DAKyLKfdCaFps kQ+4hoouUvo= =qEWa -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: Freeh Testimony 7/25/96
by Carl Ellison 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I wish someone had asked Freeh directly whether he granted, in saying: >First and foremost, the law enforcement community fully supports a >balanced encryption policy that satisfies both the commercial needs of >industry and law abiding individuals for robust encryption products [...] that law abiding industry and individuals have a legitimate need to keep information private from the US government -- and especially the FBI. +------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Carl M. Ellison cme(a)acm.org http://www.clark.net/pub/cme | |PGP: E0414C79B5AF36750217BC1A57386478 & 61E2DE7FCB9D7984E9C8048BA63221A2| | "Officer, officer, arrest that man! He's whistling a dirty song." | +-------------------------------------------- Jean Ellison (aka Mother) -+

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Re: Usenet Conference on Security
by Carl Ellison 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 03:55 PM 7/26/96 -0700, Bill Frantz wrote: >While the Department of Justice guy (whose name slips my mind) was saying 4 >horsemen over and over (really an oversimplification of his position), The person was Scott Charney.

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Re: You know it's getting late when... (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Hi all, Forwarded message: > Subject: Re: You know it's getting late when... > Date: Tue, 30 Jul 1996 18:36:38 -0500 (CDT) > From: ichudov(a)algebra.com (Igor Chudov @ home) > > > > Ostensibly, one of the reasons for having a free and fair political system > > is so people will not be inclined to throw bombs and plot violent > > revolution. Grandly ignoring this, that reporter seems to take the > > diametrically opposite tack: A totalitarian government can best avoid > > bombings and violence. > > > Actually the graph goes like this: > > ^ Non-State Terrorism > | > | ..-.. > | /~ \ > | .-~ \ > |..---/~ ~-. > +------------------------------------------------> Level of Totalitarianism > > ^ State Terrorism > | > | ------------------------------------- > | .-~ > | .-~ > | .-~ > |/ > +------------------------------------------------> Level of Totalitarianism > So we should take your personal opinion as fact? What statistics do you base this on? What are the vertical scales, number killed? What is the horizontal scale measured in, number wanted to kill? I suspect it simply is not possible to measure such a phenomena as terrorism as anything other than a simple counting game. The problem becomes quite quickly, what qualifies as terrorism? Consider (to some) a trivial example. There are 20 million cats and dogs killed each year because somebody was irresponsible. The vast majority of these are or were pets (not feral or wild animals as some would claim) which persons simply didn't want anymore. Now there is somewhere around 250 million people in the US. This means that 1 out of 10 (roughly) are costing the rest of us about $50 ea. to take care of their pet 'problem'. I see no difference in having my money taken via taxes (where most of it comes from) for this than having somebody come and take $50 for whatever reason by kicking my front door in. Why am I being forced to pay this money to pay for somebody elses lack of discipline and simple human empathy? Jim Choate

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Reuter on P8 Anti-Terrorism
by jya＠pipeline.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

G7, Russia adopt anti-terror pact, avoid sanctions Date: Tue, 30 Jul 1996 10:00:07 PDT PARIS (Reuter) - The world's major powers closed ranks to combat terrorism Tuesday, urging other nations to join forces with them but sidestepping a dispute over U.S. demands for sanctions against what Washington calls "terrorist states." Foreign and security ministers from the Group of Seven industrial nations and Russia approved a list of 25 measures to defeat terrorists around the globe. "We will not stop in this united effort until those responsible are brought to justice," U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno told a news conference after the five-hour meeting of the so-called P8 nations -- P being for political. The package included pledges to reinforce police cooperation and training, share intelligence, ease extradition and legal assistance, dry up sources of funding and weapons and strengthen national anti-terrorism legislation. The ministers also vowed to prevent extremists from using the Internet computer network to plan attacks and spread bomb-making instructions. Participants heard Canadian Foreign Minister Lloyd Axworthy recount how his 11-year-old son had shown him where to find such content on the Internet. French Foreign Minister Herve de Charette said the meeting had achieved its two objectives, "to adopt concrete measures and to send a very clear signal to the international community and to public opinion that the leaders of the P8 are strongly determined to act shoulder-to-shoulder, hand-in-hand." Under-Secretary of State Peter Tarnoff said the U.S. delegation had not raised President Clinton's contentious call for "strong sanctions" against four states he says support terrorism -- Iran, Iraq, Libya and Sudan. France, Japan, Britain and Germany all made clear they would not accept U.S. legislation to punish foreign firms that dealt with such countries. "We did not discuss country-specific cases ... We recognize the fact that some of legislation passed in the United States recently has encountered opposition among our trading partners," Tarnoff said. French Interior Minister Jean-Louis Debre, who co-chaired the meeting, said before it began: "The American analysis is a bit simplistic and a bit outdated. If we look at the phenomenon of terrorism today, we can see that it's more complex." He cited the bomb attack that killed two people and wounded 110 at the Atlanta Olympic Games last Saturday as evidence of what he called "home-grown terrorism" without outside help. State-sponsored and extreme-left terrorism were largely a thing of the past, and the international community now faced two virulent new forms -- regionalist extremism and religious militancy -- which did not have state support, Debre said. The United States offered extra proposals to tighten airport security and mark explosives chemically so bombers can be more easily traced, which the other countries accepted. Axworthy voiced widely shared alarm at the use of poison gas in recent attacks in Japan, including on the Tokyo subway. "We are beginning to see terrifying signs of what the future could hold if we don't take strong action. Terrorists are now getting access to weapons of mass destruction, chemical weapons, biological weapons, even nuclear weapons," he said. "It's (a threat) that really has a doomsday quality unless we act now," he said. The United States, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and Russia agreed that solving regional conflicts and stabilizing crisis areas was the best way to tackle the roots of terrorism. "There must be no safe havens," German Foreign Minister Klaus Kinkel said. The ministers agreed their experts would hold follow-up meetings to draft a new international convention to prevent the abuse of political asylum to plan, fund or commit terrorist acts and to coordinate security in public transport. Japan said it would hold an Asia-Pacific counter-terrorism seminar by next June including Asian and Latin American experts. [End]

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Call for Abstracts (Multimedia Data Security)
by Bill Johnston-Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory-ITG 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

A Call for Abstracts As part of SPIE's EI '97 Electronic Imaging: Science and Technology 8-14 February 1997 San Jose Convention Center San Jose, California USA (http://www.spie.org/web/meetings/calls/pw97/pw97call_ei.html) Multimedia Data Security The growth of the use of public networks as the platform for multimedia applications in the past year has made it important to devise mechanisms for ensuring proper use of intellectual property and increased the importance of employing security mechanisms for video and audio data. This conference will serve as a forum for the exchange of ideas in the areas of security systems and mechanisms especially in applications that handle large data volumes. Papers are solicited in all areas of security systems and algorithms including but not limited to: - security systems for imaging applications - security systems for real time video applications - performance studies and comparisons for securing image data - watermarking and detection of fraudulent copying of intellectual property - metering schemes for intellectual property usage - audio and video encryption mechanisms - key management and security protocols for broadcast applications - payment systems for online multimedia applications - content protection mechanisms for online multimedia distribution. Please submit abstracts to Bill Johnston (johnston(a)george.lbl.gov) by August 15, 1996.

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Re: Taxes in the digicash world
by tcmay＠got.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 6:45 PM 7/30/96, Lucky Green wrote: >At 6:17 7/30/96, Igor Chudov @ home wrote: >[...] >>Another alternative that I see is property taxes and poll taxes,or >>taxes on some commodities such as oil. But incomes seem to be hard to >>track. > >What you also will see is an increase in sales tax. You still got to buy >groceries locally. In the spirit of looking for points to quibble about: * food is mostly exempt from sales taxes, in most states in the U.S. Expect a major protest if a loaf of bread incurs a sales tax--I don't expect it anytime soon. * booze has a high tax rate, in excise taxes which can account for as much as 40% of the final price, plus sales tax. If the tax rises much higher, expect increased black market sales. * electronic and computer goods are often untaxed because many order them via mail-order. There have been proposals to tax out-of-state purchases, but the logistics and legal issues are murky (who gets the tax? and why should Idaho, for example, get the tax revenue for an item ordered from Georgia?). Of course, I'm not an expert in answering Igor's original question about where the taxes will come from. I'm more interested in reducing them, not raising them. --Tim May Boycott "Big Brother Inside" software! We got computers, we're tapping phone lines, we know that that ain't allowed. ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay(a)got.net 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Licensed Ontologist | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."

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update.281 (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Hi all, Forwarded message: > Date: Mon, 29 Jul 96 10:18:54 EDT > From: physnews(a)aip.org (AIP listserver) > Subject: update.281 > > PHYSICS NEWS UPDATE > The American Institute of Physics Bulletin of Physics News > Number 281 July 29, 1996 by Phillip F. Schewe and Ben Stein > > SOLAR NEUTRINO FLUX IS NOT CORRELATED WITH > SUNSPOT ACTIVITY. The Kamiokande detector, situated a > > THE PHYSICS OLYMPIAD IN OSLO, like the sports Olympiad > > TUNNEL JUNCTION MAGNETORESISTANCE may lead to > higher-density magnetic storage devices. Physicists have known for > some time that sandwiches of alternating magnetic and nonmagnetic > microlayers can undergo a change in electrical resistance in the > presence of an external magnetic field (arising, say, from a tiny > domain on a segment of magnetic tape). This magnetoresistance > (MR) effect can be used to decode binary data and has been > employed in reading heads in computer hard drives. Giant > magnetoresistance (GMR), a stronger version of MR, affords even > greater data-decoding sensitivity. Prototype hard-drives with read > heads using GMR have achieved areal data densities of 3 > Gbits/sq.in. Tunnel junction magnetoresistance (JMR) is yet another > approach to transforming a tiny magnetic field into a change in > resistance. Unlike the all-metal GMR sensor, a room-temperature > JMR sensor consists of two metal (ferromagnetic) layers separated > by an insulating layer. A JMR trilayer junction tested recently at > MIT is only 20 nm thick and the signal (the fractional change in > resistance) was 23%, compared to a signal of less than 7% for a > 40-nm-thick, 4-layer GMR prototype. MIT physicist Jagadeesh > Moodera (moodera(a)slipknot.mit.edu; 617-253-5423) suggests that > the more compact size, relatively larger signal, and the low sub-nanoamp operating current of the JMR sensor could make for easier > engineering of devices and lower production costs. An areal density > of more than 10 Gbits/sq.in. is possible, he says. (J.S. Moodera et > al., Applied Physics Letters, 29 July.) >

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