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RC5 crack
by Adam Back 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Been looking at the RC5 crack project. http://rc5.distributed.net/ has loads of flashy graphics, stats, etc. but no instructions! I've got the linux command line client, and I want to take off 16 hours at a time as I am using a dial up slip link, and it insists on taking 20 mins worth. I read the FAQ, nada. Help. Also, no source code. Adam -- Have *you* exported RSA today? --> http://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/ print pack"C*",split/\D+/,`echo "16iII*o\U@{$/=$z;[(pop,pop,unpack"H*",<> )]}\EsMsKsN0[lN*1lK[d2%Sa2/d0<X+d*lMLa^*lN%0]dsXx++lMlN/dsM0<J]dsJxp"|dc`

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The Global Fix is In
by Tim May 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The "Meeting of the Eight," formerly the G7, is happening in Denver. Listening to what's coming out of it, it's apparent that the Four Horsemen are front and center. Clinton is speaking of a network of banking and communications policy coordinators, to detect and halt drug dealing, money laundering, and nuclear terrorism. This fits with the details of reports about global wiretapping efforts, about joint intelligence activities, and, of course, with the OECD/GAK laws being proposed, passed, and about to be signed into law about "Key Recovery" and "Trusted Third Parties." The fix is in. It probably won't be long before Stronghold is barred for export from either Britain or RSA (the other one); both Tony Blair and Nelson Mandela are Friends of Bill, so a few phone calls should take care of that little problem. (And Norway and the other Scandinavian countries are part of the global wiretap agreement, so I rather doubt free export of PGP 5.x code out of Norway will be feasible, despite the OCR effort now underway there.) (Not that Clinton will mention Stronghold to Blair...that's far too much microdetail. Jimmy Carter might have gotten involved at that level, but not Bill. Details will be left to underlings.) The call to Japan, probably the visit by David Aaron, stopped NTT's plans for exporting the RSA chip. Anguilla and other "offshore" havens, will be subject to the same kinds of pressure. Mark my words. It's not hopeless. Physical havens are vulnerable, to all sorts of pressures (I doubt many cryptographers want to set up shop in Libya or Iraq, not that these places would be hospitable to Cypherpunks sorts of goals and methods). Going underground, using the untraceable features of cyberspace, may be the last, best hope. --Tim May There's something wrong when I'm a felon under an increasing number of laws. Only one response to the key grabbers is warranted: "Death to Tyrants!" ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- 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, Higher Power: 2^1398269 | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."

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Re: dbts: Privacy Fetishes, Perfect Competition, and the Foregone(fwd)
by Michael Hohensee 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Albert P. Franco, II wrote: > > I've been lurking on this thread for a while, and I am amazed by the level > of utopist muck that is being spewed here by you. I love you, too. > Without some government the Bad Guys will be the only ones with anything. > It is only with the threat of losing their power that leaders do good. If > they had no power which could be lost or taken they will always do what's > best for them in the short term, which is usually to shit on the peons. > Dictators (like Pinochet and Gates) do their dirty deeds because they feel > no need to placate the masses. If they wield no real power, and proceed to do whatever is best for them in the short term, they will be screwing themselves over in the long term (or short term, if doing what they want results in someone shooting them in self defense). And precisely what dirty deeds has Mr. Gates ever done? Excluding those actions in which the judicious use of state regulation was involved. > This anarcho-capitalist spew is so much crap that the bullshit indicators > are blaring at top volume. If the people can't control a constitutional > government, known for having peacefully free elections for over two hundred > years, then how the hell do think you can convince somebody that the people > are going to be able to control warlords and monopolies. It's called, "You > don't like it? Bang, Bang, you're dead!" Yah, and then somebody else points a gun at Mr. would-be warlord and goes Bang, Bang, he's dead (it's unsafe having warlords about --sorta like scorpions). That is, if Mr. would-be manages to shoot me without being shot himself. > Try to lift yourself out of the bullshit of your theory and give us at > least one REAL example (current or historic) of a large scale, long lasting > anarcho-capitalist society. Hippie communes are too small, and make sure > it's capitalistic. If you can't think of one in the next year or so then > come back and tell us. It hasn't happened yet. But then, neither had the USA, before 1776. The above is not a reasonable argument. You can, of course, as me how it *could* happen. And unfortunately, you're partially correct, it couldn't happen under current conditions. The amount of personal firepower that is easily accessible by everyone is not sufficient to back up the soverignity of each individual. It's all linked to whether weapons technology is such that individuals can operate weapons which are just as effective as those wielded by highly trained and specialized groups. The pendulum of weapons tech. swings back and forth over time. During the American Revolution, the pendulum was on the side of individuals, as can be shown by the fact that the revolutionaries were carrying better weapons than those carried by professional soldiers, and could use them to equal or larger effect. Today, of course, the pendulum is on the other side. Tanks, fighter planes, aircraft carriers, etc are where it's at. Read "Weapons Systems and Political Stability" by Carroll Quigley, for an interesting analysis on the subject. Of course, the pendulum keeps on swinging, and there are some indications that it's moving back. For example, anti-aircraft missiles have gotten so small that they can be carried by one man. In any modern war, planes had better be damned careful of what they fly over, lest they get a missile up their rears. So, all we need right now is to produce either a convienient impenetrable shield, or perhaps high-energy weapons. When one man can take out a tank with an inexpensive handweapon, we'll be all set. :) Michael Hohensee

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Re: CDT Policy Post 3.08 - Senate Committee Approves Key Crypto Bill
by Declan McCullagh 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sat, 21 Jun 1997 12:18:09 -0700 (PDT) From: Declan McCullagh <declan(a)well.com> To: Paul Spirito <spiritop(a)slic.com> Cc: fight-censorship(a)vorlon.mit.edu, Charles Platt <cp(a)panix.com> Subject: Re: CDT Policy Post 3.08 - Senate Committee Approves Key Crypto Bill I'm much more intersted in looking at the motives not of the minority who voted for ProCODE II, but at who endorsed the final McCain-Kerrey bill and reported it out of committee. Keep in mind that civil liberties and business groups across the spectrum are unanimous in condemning the McCain-Kerrey bill as evil. But which senators on the full Commerce Committee voted against it? Did Ashcroft? Did Burns? -Declan On Sat, 21 Jun 1997, Paul Spirito wrote: > 1) The senators who voted for the pro-CODE "compromise" were acting > about as principled as senators normally will.

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Re: The Global Fix is In
by Mix 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>Going underground, using the untraceable features of cyberspace, may be the >last, best hope. You can't go underground if cryptography is illegal. You don't have remailers, so you can't be anonymous. You don't have crypto, so anyone can see what you're doing online. It doesn't work. You can't ignore the laws. You can't ignore society. The real world is all around you, and you have to live in it. People are tired. We win one battle, and have to begin again with another. But that's the way it works. Look at the political battles which have gone on for decades: gun control, abortion, environmentalism, many more. You have to be in this for the long haul. You have to fight every step of the way. Don't give up. Anon

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Career non-criminal
by lucifer＠dhp.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>From News of the Weird: * The New York Times reported in December that Odell Sheppard, a "middle-aged handyman," had just passed his ninth consecutive year of incarceration in Cook County Jail in Chicago, even though he has not been charged with a crime. He was sent to jail for failing to reveal the whereabouts of his daughter Deborah, who was the subject of a child-custody dispute between Sheppard and Deborah's mother, but Sheppard maintains he has no idea where the girl is.

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Re: McCain Talks Crypto
by lucifer＠dhp.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Alan Olsen wrote: > Here are the highlights of our 5-minute conversation > - during which a certain two-word term was repeated > again and again. Let's see if you can spot it. > > On the rationale behind S909: > "I've always said that ZIONIST CONSPIRACY is a primary > concern > > On the software industry: > "Frankly, I'm somewhat surprised that the software > industry would be so willing to downplay the dangers > of ZIONIST CONSPIRACY > > On the rival Pro-CODE bill: > "I'm all for Pro-CODE - except for its impact on > ZIONIST CONSPIRACY. > > On the future: > "With this bill, we've established that the > president of the United States has authority over > ZIONIST CONSPIRACY."

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Re: Garbled in transmission
by nobody＠huge.cajones.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>[...] > "Everybody knows that the boat is sinking. > Everybody knows that the captain lied." > - Lou Reed >[...] > "Everybody knows that the war is over. > Everybody knows that the good guys lost." > - Lou Reed >[...] Umm, no. Leonard Cohen actually.

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Diffie-Hellman
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

May Tim C. Mayflower's forgeries get stuck up his ass so he'll have to shit through his filthy mouth for the rest of its miserable life. .oooO Oooo. ( ) _ _ ( ) \ ( / ) ( \ ) / ----\_)-/ (---) \-(_/---- Tim C. Mayflower ( ) ( ) oooO Oooo

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cypherpunks coding challenge
by Adam Back 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

A couple of people have complained of the huge efforts put into breaking keys, and of the small efforts invested in cypherpunks code writing of late. Perhaps there is something to this challenge stuff, in terms of getting contributors, neatly tabulating results, working up enthusiasm etc. So... how about a code writing challenge, an award for the best cypherpunk project every month. (No monetary prize, just vote on list to decide most significant project). Perhaps a list of how many lines of code. A hall of fame if you like: % wc -l `find . -name \*.h -print -o -name \*.c -print` Eric Young SSL-eay 101,721 lines PGP Inc pgp30 (?) lines Phil Zimmermann & co pgp263 34,891 lines Peter Gutmann cryptlib200 34,845 lines Tatu Ylonen ssh-1.2.20 33,650 lines Wei Dai crypto++ 2.1 32,831 lines Ian Goldberg Lucre 0.9.0 20,283 lines Colin Plumb bnlib 20,148 lines Matt Blaze & co cryptolib-1.1 19,908 lines Pr0duct Cipher PGPTools 13,062 lines Pr0duct Cipher Magic Money 15,026 lines Ben Laurie Apache-SSL patch 957 lines etc. Adam -- Have *you* exported RSA today? --> http://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/ print pack"C*",split/\D+/,`echo "16iII*o\U@{$/=$z;[(pop,pop,unpack"H*",<> )]}\EsMsKsN0[lN*1lK[d2%Sa2/d0<X+d*lMLa^*lN%0]dsXx++lMlN/dsM0<J]dsJxp"|dc`

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