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IP: ISPI Clips 6.38: NAI [PGP] FlipFlop Back to Pro Key Recovery Group
by Vladimir Z. Nuri 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

From: "Ama-gi ISPI" <Offshore(a)email.msn.com> Subject: IP: ISPI Clips 6.38: NAI [PGP] FlipFlop Back to Pro Key Recovery Group Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1998 00:50:46 -0800 To: <Undisclosed.Recipients(a)majordomo.pobox.com> ISPI Clips 6.38: NAI [PGP] FlipFlop Back to Pro Key Recovery Group News & Info from the Institute for the Study of Privacy Issues (ISPI) Friday November 13, 1998 ISPI4Privacy(a)ama-gi.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This From: WIRED News, November 12, 1998 http://www.wired.com NAI Back in Key Recovery Group http://www.wired.com/news/print_version/technology/story/16219.html?wnpg=al l Wired News Report Computer-security giant Network Associates Inc. has quietly rejoined a global coalition promoting a controversial technology that could give the US government access to encrypted data. Network Associates [ http://www.nai.com/ ], which owns cryptography software firm PGP and firewall vendor Trusted Information Systems, dropped out of the Key Recovery Alliance [ http://www.kra.org/ ] last December to protect the PGP brand, which some civil-liberties advocates say was tainted by its association with the alliance. Activists charge that the alliance promotes technology that poses a threat to civil liberties. The alliance says it is not a lobbying group but does support the concept of key recovery, a system in which a copy of the secret key that unlocks scrambled data is placed in escrow. "We would assume that the acquisition of Trusted Information Systems would be a contributing factor with the change of that policy," said David Sobel of the Electronic Privacy Information Center. "TIS is widely regarded as the originator of the whole concept of key escrow," Sobel said. Several executives are former employees of the National Security Agency, which is believed to be a prime advocate of key recovery in Washington. Currently, the Clinton administration bars the export of strong encryption products that do not include a key-recovery component. The policy has long irked security software companies who see the policy as giving foreign competition an unfair advantage. Civil liberties advocates dislike key recovery because they feel it is the start of a slippery slope toward so-called mandatory key recovery, which would give the government access to private data. While the Key Recovery Alliance says it is not a political action committee or lobbying group, the group is often held up by politicians as an example of industry support for the administration's policy. Last December, a Network Associates executive said the Key Recovery Alliance created a misunderstanding about the company's position on the issue. "We want people to understand that Network Associates' position and PGP's position is to encourage the government and industry to move towards a policy that allows export of strong cryptography without mandatory key recovery," Gene Hodges, director of product management at Network Associates, told Wired News last December. An attorney with the Center for Democracy and Technology said that Network Associates opposes mandatory key recovery, but that the company may be hedging its bets against future shifts in Administration policy. "There are other companies in the Key Recovery Alliance who are steadfastly opposed to the administration's policy and mandatory key recovery, yet I think they are part of the alliance because they feel they need to be," said Alan Davidson Lynn McNulty, director of government affairs for RSA [ http://www.rsa.com/ ] Data Security, said the company is likely not expecting negative political fallout, one year after the PGP acquisition. "The commercial [version of] PGP has kind of been absorbed [into Network Associate's product line]," McNulty said. "The personal verison kind of enjoys folklore status among the civil libertarians." No representative from either Network Associates or the Key Recovery Alliance was available for comment Thursday. Related Wired Links: Another Network Associates U-Turn on Key Recovery? 25.Feb.98 http://www.wired.com/news/news/technology/story/10530.html Network Associates Disavows Key Recovery Tie: 8.Dec.97 http://www.wired.com/news/news/technology/story/9010.html Pretty Good Privacy Not Looking So Great: 3.Dec.97 http://www.wired.com/news/news/politics/story/8906.html Copyright © 1994-98 Wired Digital Inc. --------------------------------NOTICE:------------------------------ ISPI Clips are news & opinion articles on privacy issues from all points of view; they are clipped from local, national and international newspapers, journals and magazines, etc. Inclusion as an ISPI Clip does not necessarily reflect an endorsement of the content or opinion by ISPI. 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Government at Work (prudish idiocy)
by Immoral Majority 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

from Wired News: Oklahoma-am-Rhein: Police Seize Oscar Winner 12:05 pm Oklahoma City police seized copies of The Tin Drum, the 1979 Academy Award winner for best foreign film, after a judge ruled the film obscene under Oklahoma law. On Thursday, police began removing the movie from video stores and, using store records, tracking down those who possessed rented copies. Oklahoma District Judge Richard Freeman acted on a complaint by Oklahomans for Children and Families, which was upset by a scene in which a young boy has oral sex with a teenage girl.

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by Studio＠64.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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List of reliable remailers
by Raph Levien 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I operate a remailer pinging service which collects detailed information about remailer features and reliability. To use it, just finger remailer-list(a)kiwi.cs.berkeley.edu There is also a Web version of the same information, plus lots of interesting links to remailer-related resources, at: http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~raph/remailer-list.html This information is used by premail, a remailer chaining and PGP encrypting client for outgoing mail. For more information, see: http://www.c2.org/~raph/premail.html For the PGP public keys of the remailers, finger pgpkeys(a)kiwi.cs.berkeley.edu This is the current info: REMAILER LIST This is an automatically generated listing of remailers. The first part of the listing shows the remailers along with configuration options and special features for each of the remailers. The second part shows the 12-day history, and average latency and uptime for each remailer. You can also get this list by fingering remailer-list(a)kiwi.cs.berkeley.edu. $remailer{"extropia"} = "<remail(a)miron.vip.best.com> cpunk pgp special"; $remailer{"mix"} = "<mixmaster(a)remail.obscura.com> cpunk mix pgp hash latent cut ek ksub reord ?"; $remailer{"replay"} = "<remailer(a)replay.com> cpunk mix pgp hash latent cut post ek"; $remailer{"exon"} = "<remailer(a)remailer.nl.com> cpunk pgp hash latent cut ek"; $remailer{"haystack"} = "<haystack(a)holy.cow.net> cpunk mix pgp hash latent cut ek"; $remailer{"lucifer"} = "<lucifer(a)dhp.com> cpunk mix pgp hash latent cut ek"; $remailer{"jam"} = "<remailer(a)cypherpunks.ca> cpunk mix pgp hash middle latent cut ek"; $remailer{"winsock"} = "<winsock(a)rigel.cyberpass.net> cpunk pgp pgponly hash cut ksub reord"; $remailer{'nym'} = '<config(a)nym.alias.net> newnym pgp'; $remailer{"balls"} = "<remailer(a)huge.cajones.com> cpunk pgp hash latent cut ek"; $remailer{"squirrel"} = "<mix(a)squirrel.owl.de> cpunk mix pgp pgponly hash latent cut ek"; $remailer{"middle"} = "<middleman(a)jpunix.com> cpunk mix pgp hash latent cut ek reord"; $remailer{'cyber'} = '<alias(a)alias.cyberpass.net> alpha pgp'; $remailer{'weasel'} = '<config(a)weasel.owl.de> newnym pgp'; $remailer{"reno"} = "<middleman(a)cyberpass.net> cpunk mix pgp hash middle latent cut ek reord ?"; $remailer{"wazoo"} = "<remailer(a)wazoo.com> cpunk mix pgp hash latent cut ek"; $remailer{"shaman"} = "<remailer(a)lycaeum.org> cpunk pgp hash latent cut ek"; $remailer{"hidden"} = "<remailer(a)hidden.net> cpunk pgp hash latent cut"; catalyst(a)netcom.com is _not_ a remailer. lmccarth(a)ducie.cs.umass.edu is _not_ a remailer. usura(a)replay.com is _not_ a remailer. remailer(a)crynwr.com is _not_ a remailer. There is no remailer at relay.com. Groups of remailers sharing a machine or operator: (cyber mix) (weasel squirrel) The alpha and nymrod nymservers are down due to abuse. However, you can use the nym or weasel (newnym style) nymservers. The cyber nymserver is quite reliable for outgoing mail (which is what's measured here), but is exhibiting serious reliability problems for incoming mail. The squirrel and winsock remailers accept PGP encrypted mail only. 403 Permission denied errors have been caused by a flaky disk on the Berkeley WWW server. This seems to be fixed now. The penet remailer is closed. Last update: Mon 30 Jun 97 6:45:39 PDT remailer email address history latency uptime ----------------------------------------------------------------------- weasel config(a)weasel.owl.de ++++++++++-+ 1:32:04 99.98% squirrel mix(a)squirrel.owl.de ++++++++++-+ 1:30:31 99.98% jam remailer(a)cypherpunks.ca ****+*+**+* 15:41 99.89% replay remailer(a)replay.com ****** +**+* 6:12 99.83% reno middleman(a)cyberpass.net ++++ -.--+.- 5:33:46 99.72% cyber alias(a)alias.cyberpass.net ******* **+* 13:41 99.37% mix mixmaster(a)remail.obscura.com -.- ---.-*.- 7:57:51 99.03% winsock winsock(a)rigel.cyberpass.net -------- - 7:15:22 97.91% nym config(a)nym.alias.net ***###++##+# 4:58 97.29% hidden remailer(a)hidden.net ###### 4:44:03 40.46% History key * # response in less than 5 minutes. * * response in less than 1 hour. * + response in less than 4 hours. * - response in less than 24 hours. * . response in more than 1 day. * _ response came back too late (more than 2 days). cpunk A major class of remailers. Supports Request-Remailing-To: field. eric A variant of the cpunk style. Uses Anon-Send-To: instead. penet The third class of remailers (at least for right now). Uses X-Anon-To: in the header. pgp Remailer supports encryption with PGP. A period after the keyword means that the short name, rather than the full email address, should be used as the encryption key ID. hash Supports ## pasting, so anything can be put into the headers of outgoing messages. ksub Remailer always kills subject header, even in non-pgp mode. nsub Remailer always preserves subject header, even in pgp mode. latent Supports Matt Ghio's Latent-Time: option. cut Supports Matt Ghio's Cutmarks: option. post Post to Usenet using Post-To: or Anon-Post-To: header. ek Encrypt responses in reply blocks using Encrypt-Key: header. special Accepts only pgp encrypted messages. mix Can accept messages in Mixmaster format. reord Attempts to foil traffic analysis by reordering messages. Note: I'm relying on the word of the remailer operator here, and haven't verified the reord info myself. mon Remailer has been known to monitor contents of private email. filter Remailer has been known to filter messages based on content. If not listed in conjunction with mon, then only messages destined for public forums are subject to filtering. Raph Levien

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German Army Train Neo-Nazis
by Magus Mixmaster Remailer 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Well, appears that while the German government is railing against neo-Nazis on the Net, the German army is busy training the next generation of jack-booted thugs: "Pictures That Shame The German Army" (London Independent, 7/7/97, p.9) Bonn -- A German newspaper yesterday published pictures from an amateur videotape of soldiers staging mock executions and rapes. A youthful recruit in a Bundeswehr uniform is shown holding a pistol in the mouth of another recruit in an image published on the front page of <I>Bild am Sonntag</I>. Another photograph shows a soldier pretending to rape another recruit acting as a woman civilian, who is later shown being marched to "execution" by troops. Other pictures show enactments of "civilians" being tortured and hanging from trees, images which revived memories of atrocities by Hitler's armies. "There will be no toleration whatsoever of such perversion in the Bundeswehr," the Defence Minister, Volker Ruhe, said in an interview with ZDf television. "I will do everything to see that those involved are disciplined and prosecuted. We will ... take action against all those involved, even if they are no longer in the army." The army said eight recruits on the film, made at Hammelburg training grounds, near Wurzburg, in April 1996, were no longer in the army. The Bundeswehr investigation also focussed on officers who failed to report the incident which took place during a break in training for soldiers preparing for a mission in former Yugoslavia. Lieutenant-General Helmut Willmann, the army's officer, said acts by "a handful of mentally disturbed individuals" could not besmirch the force's good name. "I am horrified by what happened at the Hammelburg training ground," he said in a statement release by the defence ministry. The Greens criticized Gen Willmann for trying to write off the incident as an abberation, as officers knew of the tape for more than a year but said nothing about it. Jurgin Trittin, chairman of the Greens, said the incident was the latest of a series of unsettling incidents. There had been 53 reported incidents of right-wing extremism in the army in 1995. Wolfgang Schraut, commander of Jaeger Battalion 571, where the incident took place, said the recruits could no longer be punished by the army because they had left. "We will not be able to get our hands on them any more," the officer said. "They were released from the army in an entirely normal fashion after completing their military service." He said that he did not know of the existence of the videotape until Friday and had learned that it was shown "on occasion in small circles amongst the comrades." Some 3,000 Germans are in the Nato-led Stabilization Force (SFOR) in Bosnia. Around 4,000 Germans took part in SFOR's predecessor, the peace Implementation Force but were stationed in nearby Croatia.

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Netly interviews Donna Rice-Hughes and Sen. Coats staffer
by Declan McCullagh 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

[The day before the CDA decision came down, I interviewed David Crane from Sen. "CDA II Real Soon Now" Coats' office and Noah interviewed Donna Rice-Hughes. Recall Coats was the chief GOP sponsor of the original CDA. Here are excerpts. --Declan] *********** http://www.pathfinder.com/news/netdecency/rice.html Interview with Donna Rice-Hughes, Enough is Enough The Netly News June 26, 1997 [...] Q: WHY DO YOU SAY THERE IS SO MUCH MISUNDERSTANDING ABOUT THE CDA IN THE INTERNET COMMUNITY? I think there's been a lot of misinformation about what this is all about and what the CDA would do if it is upheld. I think there have been some scare tactics, quite frankly, and that's why you have people concerned about speech. This is an area that the public hasn't had to understand the nuances of until now. You have a lot of people who have been using the Internet for years for the contructive purposes for which it was designed. Now it's becoming more commercial and you have pedophiles, pornographers and people who are just posting their private collections of pornography and polluting it, exploiting that technology. A few bad apples are spoiling it for everyone else. If it wasn't for that then we wouldn't be having this problem. Long before any of this it would have been great if the Internet community had said, "Hey, don't pollute this technology," and had imposed their own controls. But that didn't happen and it isn't happening. *********** http://www.pathfinder.com/news/netdecency/crane.html An Interview With David Crane, Legislative Assistant to CDA Cosponsor Dan Coats The Netly News June 26, 1997 [...] Q: WOULD YOU DO ANYTHING DIFFERENTLY? CHANGE THE WORDING OF THE CDA? I don't think so. One of the frustrations we experienced has been the tremendous amount of debate that has centered around the indecency standard -- and the portrayal of those who oppose it as a broadcast standard. The very federal statute we amended was a dial-a-porn statute. It was telephony, which is inherently an interactive method of communication. Despite representations to the contrary, there was a tremendous dialogue with representatives of the computer industry. We tried to strike the best balance we could. Q: YOU TOLD ME EARLIER THAT INTERNET USERS DON'T UNDERSTAND WHAT THE CDA REALLY IS ALL ABOUT. What Congress said was you're only held responsible for "knowing" violations. At that point you become responsible to solve that problem. You can't be held liable for unknowing violations. That's a distinction that's been lost in the politicking over this issue. And that's unfortunate. This is new technology and evolving technology. That's why Congress was careful not to codify a specific method of preventing access for children. What's effective today may not be effective tomorrow. We tried very much to have the CDA be flexible and be a living statute, one that would provide for advanced technologies and more restrictive technologies over time. Q:CAN YOU GIVE ME SOME EXAMPLES? A good example is PICS [a framework for Internet rating systems]. Look at the PC Week editorial. Q:THE ONE YOUR BOSS WAVED AROUND THE SENATE FLOOR? The industry has waved around PICS and said that's a solution. But what's the incentive -- for someone who's providing pornography on the Internet -- to subscribe to PICS? You're asking him to limit his potential marketplace in a voluntary way. That doesn't work. The need for the CDA is you want to say: Yes, apply technology, but you must restrict access to pornographic materials for children. If you don't do it, you'll be subject to prosecution. Q: WHAT WILL YOU DO IF THE SUPREME COURT STRIKES DOWN THE CDA? If the Supreme Court strikes down the CDA, we'll acknowledge that the current composition of the court is saying we don't have it right [to pass such a law] and we'll go back and operate on the precedent that was established and try again. The final verson of the CDA -- the compromise that was struck in the conference committee -- was passed overwhelmingly. There's precedent to this: the dial-a-porn law. It took several attempts before it was upheld by the Supreme Court. I think that everyone involved -- from the ACLU to a lot of the reporters on the Internet -- has misrepresented the CDA in many respects. Saying that it is a ban on indecency, that adults wouldn't be able to communicate with each other. That's patently wrong. Q: YOU SOUND LIKE YOU FEEL OUTGUNNED. The newspapers have a vested interest. Every major newspaper editorialized against the law during drafting and afterward. You're not going to be a darling of the media. The media likes to portray this as a free speech issue. This is part of the process. Q: SO NOW THE PRO-CDA FORCES ARE THE UNDERDOGS? One of the virtues of the Internet is the free flow of information. But only part of the information is being put out and that's unfortunate. This representation by opponents of the CDA that considerations of the unique nature of the Internet were not taken into account or that members and staff didn't understand the Internet or that somehow Congress didn't like the Internet or saw great danger beyond this issue -- all that is simply not true. There was consultation with the computer industry at every step of the way. We wanted to create a living law -- a flexible law -- that could grow as technologies evolved. ------------------------- Declan McCullagh Time Inc. The Netly News Network Washington Correspondent http://netlynews.com/

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Re: mailing list
by nobody＠huge.cajones.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>I want on the mailing list please > > haha

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newsletter
by FMart62512＠aol.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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RE: Mathematics > NSA + GCHQ
by rab＠stallion.oz.au 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

This thread touches a memory of mine from 18 years ago when I was at university. While studying for a mathematics exam I became sidetracked by one of Fermat's Theorems (Last? or Little?) and am convinced to this day that I came up with an algorithm for determining if a number was prime by a "simple" combination of shifts and logical operations. The beast part was that the amount of calculation was linearly related to the number of bits in the binary representation of the number. I only ever spent a couple of hours on it, working through it on paper, and after the exams were finished and I went back to it I could not find the original notes and I could not remember exactly what I had done. However it seems like someone else has... > ---------- > From: Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM[SMTP:dlv@bwalk.dm.com] > Sent: Saturday, 23 August 1997 7:12 > To: cypherpunks(a)toad.com > Subject: Re: Mathematics > NSA + GCHQ > > > John Young <jya(a)pipeline.com> writes: > > > Along this line: > > > > A few days ago we received an 8-page excerpt from "Shift Register > > Sequences," by Solomon W. Golomb (at USC), Holden-Day, Inc., > > no date, with a handwritten note: > > > > NSA has tried to suppress knowledge of this stuff. Nearly all NSA > 'good' > > algorithms are based on this technology. > > > > IANAM, so would any of the mathematicians here give any credibility > to > > this claim? We'll scan and put the excerpt on our Web site if > worthwhile. > > It's composed of the book's 3 page preface and 5 pages of text and > > diagrams of Chapter 2 on The Shift Register as a Finite State > Machine, > > with principal focus on de Bruijn diagrams for shift registers. > > The NSA certainly did try to suppress much shift-register-related > stuff. > > The recent Sandia lawsuit is over shift register stuff. > > There are increasingly persistent rumor of a fast factoring algorithm > based on shift registers. > > Therefore anything mentioning them is of interest. > > But: Was there any info in the package other than the passages from > the book? > > I don't think it's a good idea to put up chunks of the book - the > publisher > might cry copyright infringement, and everybody probably has it > anyway. > > [I'm about to turn off this box, so I won't see any responses in a > while.] > > --- > > Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM > Brighton Beach Boardwalk BBS, Forest Hills, N.Y.: +1-718-261-2013, > 14.4Kbps >

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Re: Mathematics > NSA + GCHQ
by Peter Trei 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Lucky Green <shamrock(a)netcom.com> writes: > At 12:12 PM 8/23/97 -0400, nospam-seesignature(a)ceddec.com wrote: > >DEScrack was only done on a relatively few computers. If a really big > >prize was offered (In this lotto, you just run this screen saver which > >uses less bandwidth than pointcast... The chinese radio lottery via the > >internet), you could get almost every computer into the act. The number of machines working on DESCrack was probably in the 20-30,000 range. > This is a good point. It took $10,000 (plus some hope for fame) to motivate > thousands of computer users to participate in DESCHALL. But $10k is not > all that much money. Few people will go to extraordinary measures to get a > long shot chance at winning this relatively small sum. Note that there were > few DESCHALL participants from China, India, and other countries where > there is a substantial numbers of computers. Actually, most participants worked without any expectation of getting the full $10k. DESChall gave the finder of the magic key $4k, the organizers $2k, with the rest going to charity. In the European effort, aside from a few hundred dollars to cover expenses, the entire amount would have gone to Project Gutenburg (as it did in the 48 bit RC5 crack). Only people running uncoordinated searches, such as Mikkelsen's Bryddes or my Deskr, could look forward to receiving the entire prize. Interestingly, many of the European workers looked on the monetary award with disdain - they participated 'to show Internet user solidarity', and other such reasons. Also, many were using university owned machines, and were legally constrained from accepting money earned from their use. This came as quite a suprise to me. I had picked the $10k figure in my proposal to RSA because it fell in the range of other prizes they had offered, and seemed high enough to motivate people with no emotional or ideological interest in the issues to run free software. >BTW, I am thinking about organizing corporate sponsorships to beef up >the reward for the RC5-64 crack. I am quite certain that at a $1M >prize offering, I would be cracked faster than DES. I think the effort would be better spent on a factoring challenge. [...] > --Lucky Green <shamrock(a)netcom.com> Peter Trei trei(a)Process.com

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