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by apache＠bear.apana.org.au 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Important
by fp7e＠fp7e30.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Senator Lott on Encryption
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Excerpt below of statement on encryption policy by Senate Majority Leader Lott published in the October 21 Congressional Record. Full statement at: http://jya.com/lott-crypto.htm (12K) ---------- Senator Lott: During the past month, the FBI has attempted to change the debate by proposing a series of new mandatory controls on the domestic sale and use of encryption products. Let me be clear. There are currently no restrictions on the rights of Americans to use encryption to protect their personal financial or medical records or their private e-mail messages. There have never been domestic limitations, and similarly, American businesses have always been free to buy and use the strongest possible encryption to protect sensitive information from being stolen or changed. But now, the FBI proposes to change all that. The FBI wants to require that any company that produces or offers encryption security products or services guarantee immediate access to plain text information without the knowledge of the user. Their proposal would subject software companies and telecommunications providers to prison sentences for failure to guarantee immediate access to all information on the desktop computers of all Americans. That would move us into an entirely new world of surveillance, a very intrusive surveillance, where every communication by every individual can be accessed by the FBI. Where is probable cause? Why has the FBI assumed that all Americans are going to be involved in criminal activities? Where is the Constitution? And how would this proposal possibly help the FBI? According to a forthcoming book by the M.I.T. Press, of the tens of thousands of cases handled annually by the FBI, only a handful have involved encryption of any type, and even fewer involved encryption of computer data. Let's face it--despite the movies, the FBI solves its cases with good old- fashioned police work, questioning potential witnesses, gathering material evidence, and using electronic bugging or putting microphones on informants. Restricting encryption technology in the U.S. would not be very helpful to the FBI. The FBI proposal won't work. I have talked with experts in the world of software and cryptography, who have explained that the technology which would provide compliance with the FBI standard simply does not exist. The FBI proposal would force a large unfunded mandate on our high technology firms, at a time when there is no practical way to accomplish that mandate. Rather than solve problems in our export policy, this FBI proposal would create a whole new body of law and regulations restricting our domestic market. This and similar proposals would also have a serious impact on our foreign market. Overseas businesses and governments believe that the U.S. might use its keys to computer encryption systems to spy on their businesses and politicians. Most U.S. software and hardware manufacturers believe this is bad for business and that nobody will trust the security of U.S. encryption products if this current policy continues. In fact, this proposal appears to violate the European Union's data-privacy laws, and the European Commission is expected to reject it this week. So, the FBI proposal would: Invade our privacy; be of minimal use to the FBI; would require nonexistent technology; would create new administrative burdens; and would seriously damage our foreign markets. This is quite a list. Mr. President, the FBI proposal is simply wrong. I have learned that even the administration does not support this new FBI proposal. So why does the FBI believe it must now subject all Americans to more and more surveillance? This independent action by the FBI has created confusion and mixed signals which are troublesome for the Senate as it works on this legislation. Perhaps the FBI and the Justice Department need to focus immediately on a coordinated encryption position. Mr. President, I congratulate the members of the House Commerce Committee for rejecting this FBI approach by a vote margin of more than 2 to 1. -----

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Re: US Senator Lott Criticizes FBI Crypto Plans (fwd)
by John Smith 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Senator Lott says: >Where is probable cause? Why has the FBI assumed that all Americans are >going to be involved in criminal activities? Where is the Constitution? Bravo, Senator Lott! It is a pleasure to hear a Senator speak out against the FBI's plans. Plus he is basing it on the Constitution as well as practical problems. So many Senators become mouthpieces for the FBI. What a pleasant difference. Senator Lott's words deserve to be widely heard. Let us remember that not everyone in the government is in Louis Freeh's pocket. With people like Senator Lott we can still be confident that Louis Freeh's Big Brother plans can be stopped. "John ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

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CMR versus GAK?
by nobody＠neva.org 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

"Big Brother or the Boss?" Are you SURE that's a dichotomy? Big Biz and Big Gov are almost inextricably intertwined these days. If dot-com pushes for snoopware, it is called CMR. If dot-gov pushes for it, it is called GAK. The real question is, if the interests of Biz and Gov coincide, and "real cooperation" is achieved, does it really matter where the idea originated? Either way you still have snoopware. Cpl Kaos

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FUTUREWEAR (fashion, clothing and clubwear)
by daniel＠relaxed.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Choices
by harka＠nycmetro.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Both Monty Cantsin and WHGIII have commented upon current personal conditions being the result of one's past choices (leading up to it). While I agree from a mere causal viewpoint, on a personal level I would like to point out a few things nevertheless: We can take as given, that everybody's life is a stream of decisions or choices. We make 'em to the best of our ability as we go along in life. However, having a choice in matters does not imply the guarantee of making the _right_ choices. In fact, even society acknowledges that fact by making certain choices available only after a certain point in life, such as voting, marriage, driving, drinking etc.etc on the ground, that making such decisions requires a certain level of insight and maturity. But there's _still_ no guarantee for making right choices even after the "magical" age of 18 (or 21). The only thing one can do is to gather enough information in order to make the best choice based on available information and conditions _known_ to you _at that time_. And here's also the catch. By making a certain choice, one does usually _not_ choose the consequences of his/her actions consciously! In fact, the possible consequences may not even be foreseeable, predictable or expected in any way! One does not drive a car with the previous conscious knowledge of crashing it and living in a wheelchair ever after. One does not climb Mt. Everest with the expectation of perishing in a snow-storm. One does not start using PGP based on the prediction, that your key will be GAK'ed at some point. Let's take the example of Janice one more time (violins for Monty:)) : certainly her decision to get married and have 4 kids was her personal and free choice at that time. But it was not foreseeable nor expectable for her, that her husband would take off after a while for another chick, leaving her with the kids and a bunch of bills to pay! Thus she married him and later did what every wife would do: supporting him while he went to school instead of keeping the money for herself as a backup-cushion in case he leaves. Is that really so out of the ordinary a choice?? But even if one is able to make fairly good decisions overall in life: you may not have previous conditions necessary to make certain choices. If you're born into a poor family, who just can't afford to send you to College, how much of a choice to study will you have in that event? More likely is, that you'll have to work and aid in the support of the family instead of going to College. But are you to be held responsible for the conditions that you are born into or grow up under? Clearly not. As you go along in life, one's personal ability to influence your surroundings, conditions and overall life increase (with right effort). But to expect everybody to be able to make certain choices in a certain (right) way, or even expecting those choices being available, is not based on the realities of life but a mere projection from _your_ reality onto "theirs". So is the statement of "screw 'em all" (if they weren't able to make certain choices for reasons we don't know about). Not only does it lack basic notions of humanity, such as caring for other people, but also devalues the human ability to learn and change. Just because you were young and careless (out of lack of understanding at that time) or you were born in a slum in Rio de Janeiro (or NYC) shouldn't mean, that you should still get "screwed" for it when you're fifty or you now deserve the dis-respect of society and no chances anymore. You may have never had them... While technically it is probably correct to say, that current conditions are caused by previous actions (different people have different expressions for that: karma, choices, fate etc.), there's no justification for suffering and certainly none for watching it passively and saying "they deserve it", IMHO. But then this is also a valid choice one can freely make. You just have to live with the consequences of it :) Ciao Harka /*************************************************************/ /* E-mail: harka(at)nycmetro.com (PGP-encrypted mail pref'd) */ /* PGP public key available upon request. [KeyID: 04174301] */ /* F-print: FD E4 F8 6D C1 6A 44 F5 28 9C 40 6E B8 94 78 E8 */ /*<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>*/ /* May there be peace in this world, may all anger dissolve */ /* and may all living beings find the way to happiness... */ /*************************************************************/ ... "Of course I care about other people...I watch CNN!" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQEVAgUBNFOmJjltEBIEF0MBAQHsKwf/Sh6IWC0UCvSiWAQsTcmDqyw4k6v7AuIg z0IlsrcSbpkBA0c3q2ghaq2TfqFIfOgSIIFr8FKK2Za3erIp6yPfcvc8V+7Lwg70 r7tnBM0janv/3j9asehV4PxiXtghQIZOxqL+14yzKgCHGzYkDglIzMmOBOcz2xrQ lziiPMirHzOii06PJ0daBwhxhqva4zw2m6fWnqdkMfr2/mNZ8/39Y8juCqG6AeSs /WP4D4cpXP581ldHskRMkTvYZEEN6IjnRU9PwWbYvSikU61Y7LXTaD4H39N4Xr2V LYx0AdvAmaOC4H3f/8tU29AkAMFgsVGn3moKzG2FE6frFlbG3L1HPg== =XB87 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- If encryption is outlawed, only outlaws will have encryption...

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Re: Noise source processing
by Enzo Michelangeli 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----Original Message----- From: mgraffam(a)mhv.net <mgraffam(a)mhv.net> Date: Thursday, August 06, 1998 10:17 AM [[...]>The noise coming off of the sound card is more beige than white though.. > >Does anyone know of any papers, articles or whatever on good techniques to >remove bias from the audio source? > >My initial thoughts are along the lines of just hashing everything, but >this will be slow, and I'd like to see what other ideas are out there. What about an analog filter placed before the digitizer? Nowadays there should be inexpensive single-chip implementations of multiple-tap equalizers made for consumer audio. You just have to straighten up the amplitude ignoring the phase rotation, because the power spectrum is a real-codomain function (being the Fourier Transform of the autocorrelation, which is an even function). It won't be perfect, but it'll help. Enzo

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Re: radio net
by Robert Hettinga 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

--- begin forwarded text MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1998 09:11:29 -0700 To: Robert Hettinga <rah(a)shipwright.com> From: Somebody Subject: Re: radio net > >I know what Single Sideband means. As I've said before, and what you failed >to read later on in this thread, evidently, is that there are commercial >Single Sideband radios out there which have the range of ham sets. These >radios are used for commercial ship-to-shore traffic, and I expect that >encryption is legal on them. I expect that, because these frequencies are >subject to international convention rather than federal law, they have more >leeway (heh... nautical pun) on their use. Including, I bet, digital >packets and encryption. > > If I remember correctly, this is escrowed encryption using code books deposited with the appropriate authorities. <Somebody's .sig> --- end forwarded text *That* sucks... I wonder who the "appropriate authorities" are? Cheers, Bob Hettinga ----------------- Robert A. Hettinga <mailto: rah(a)philodox.com> Philodox Financial Technology Evangelism <http://www.philodox.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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Re: Impossible Analysis Paper at Crypto98
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> There's talk of a paper given at Crypto98 on "Impossible > Differential Analysis" which got the NSA people scribbling > like mad taking notes as though this was something that > had never come up at the agency and they'd better get > right on it. > > Roughly, as I heard it (and I may be way off), the premise is > that instead of using differential analysis for finding weaknesses > in a cipher, to flip that to determine what could not possibly be > a weakness in a cipher and build one with just those attributes. > > Is this report correct, and is there a source for that paper? This was presented at the rump session and apparently there is no paper writeup yet. Biham's home page at http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~biham/ has a place you can register to be notified when new material comes out. With conventional differential cryptanalysis, you look for pairs of inputs which have differences (xors usually) such that after a certain number of rounds, the ciphertexts have certain differences with excess probability. With "impossible" differential cryptanalysis, you look for inputs with differences which lead to ciphertext differences that are "impossible", or at least have reduced probability. It's the same basic idea but you look for diminution rather than enhancement of the probability of later differences. Because of the reversal of the effect, the techniques for identifying differentials, exploiting them, and designing against them are rather different. As a result ciphers which were designed to resist differential cryptanalysis may be vulnerable to impossible differentials. This technique has apparently led to an improved attack on SkipJack, announced on Biham's web page above as "coming soon". There was also a moderate improvement in attacks on reduced-round IDEA (not effective against the full number of rounds though). At Crypto everyone was scurrying off to see if any of the AES candidates could be knocked out by the new technique.

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