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Economics Quest
by Andrew＠mail.demon.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Hi, My name is Andrew, I'm 15, I live in the UK and I'm studing economics at standard grade level. Can you please spare a few minutes of your valuable time to answer my questionaire @ http://www.alexanderhomes.demon.co.uk/economics/personal.html I have constructed it as part of my standard grade course work, so I'm relying on your co-operation! ;-) thanks in advance Andrew

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17 Dec '03

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CTIA Daily News from WOW-COM - July 14, 1998
by CTIA Daily News 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

<FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=2>============================================= Welcome to today's edition of the CTIA Daily News from WOW-COM. Please click on the icon / attachment for the most important news in wireless communications today. WIRELESS IT '98, The Next Generation in Personal Computing & Communications October 12-14, Las Vegas, Nevada Call (202) 785-0081 for more information! <FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=2>=============================================

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RSA DES Challenge starting!
by Trei Family 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I'd like to remind people that Monday, July 13th, 1998, RSA Data Security is releasing the challenge data for the next RSA DES Challenge (the brute force solution of a DES encrypted message). For more information on this challenge, please see http://www.rsa.com. The prize stands at 10,000 USD for the first solution found within 10 days. If wish to attempt the challenge by yourself, I reccomend that you look at Svend Mikkelsen's Bryddes (http://inet.uni2.dk/~svolaf/des.htm) which is by far the fastest Intel implementation I know of - considerably better than my own Deskr. If you're interested in a joint effort, you could do worse than look at http://distributed.net. This group won the RC5-56 and January 1998 DES challenges, and are currently working on RC5-64. Their clients will automatically switch over to DES Monday morning. It looks like they should attain around 86 billion keys/second, which will exhaust the keyspace in under 10 days. However, only a fraction of the prize money goes to the person who finds the key. Cracking DES in these challenges serves a higher purpose than winning a prize or gaining bragging rights. Single DES (the kind used in this challenge) is the strongest general purpose encryption which Americans are currently permitted to send overseas without special and rarely granted waivers. As a result, the US government is turning over the world market in high quality cryptography to non-US firms, with a cost of billions of dollars a year to the US economy, thousands of American jobs, and increased crime and terrorism resulting from the poor security this policy promotes. Demonstrating how vulnerable US 'export quality' encryption actually is creates pressure to remove those restrictions entirely. I regard this as a desirable goal. Peter Trei trei(a)ziplink.net

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ANNOUNCE: Bay Area Cypherpunks, Sat.July 11, 12-6, KPMG Mountain View
by Hugh Daniel 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The July Bay Area Cypherpunks Meeting will be Saturday July 11 198 from 12-6, at KPMG, 500 E. Middlefield Rd., Mountain View. Sameer Parekh will talk about the SSL / PKCS#1 crack and repair. Dinner after the meeting will be at some restaurant on Castro St. Mtn.View. Directions: KPMG is a relatively-unmarked building at the corner of Middlefield Rd. and Ellis St. in a Netscape-infested section of Mountain View. The lobby entrance is on the Ellis St. side. The Ellis exit on 101 is between 85 and 237. http://www.mapblast.com/mapblast/blast.hm?CMD=MAP&GC=X%3A-122.05265%7CY%3A3… Probable speakers for next month: - Sue Bardakos from Entrust - Paul Kocher talking about differential power analysis ----------- Mailing list administrivia - this announcement has been sent to cypherpunks(a)cyberpass.net cypherpunks-announce(a)toad.com coderpunks(a)toad.com cryptography(a)c2.net If you want to get off one of the lists, send mail to listname-request(a)machine.domain (probably majordomo!) for the listserver that sent you the mail. ----------- Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, bill.stewart(a)pobox.com PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639

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17 Dec '03

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no subject! Anti-National ID Bill
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Where is this? Stalled. Looks dead in the water. Any further insights? H.R.3261 SPONSOR: Rep Paul (introduced 02/25/98) SUMMARY: (AS INTRODUCED) Privacy Protection Act of 1997 (sic) - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act and the Internal Revenue Code to prohibit any Federal, State, or local government agency or instrumentality from using a social security account number or any derivative as the means of identifying any individual, except for specified social security and tax purposes. Amends the Privacy Act of 1974 to prohibit any Federal, State, or local government agency or instrumentality from requesting an individual to disclose his social security account number on either a mandatory or a voluntary basis. Prohibits any two Federal agencies or instrumentalities from implementing the same identifying number with respect to any individual, except as authorized under this Act. ---- STATUS: Detailed Legislative Status House Actions Feb 25, 98: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Government Reform and Oversight, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned. Mar 2, 98: Referred to the Subcommittee on Government Management, Information and Technology. Feb 25, 98: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Government Reform and Oversight, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

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Covert Access to Data and ID
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Dave Emery's remarks on government access to keystrokes (proposed by the NYT as an alternative to GAK) points to the probable increase of intrusive devices to counter increasing use of encryption and other privacy and anonymity measures. This topic comes up here now and then, with mentions of a slew of methods to protect privacy of data during transmission or storage. But the possibility of logging the initial creation or manipulation of data is not as often discussed, nor how to tie a person to the data, as now being asked in legal and law enforcement fora to identify, catch, convict and jail computer culprits. That the NYT floated the idea surely means someone is testing public response to an idea that seems to be more intrusive than GAK: the logging of initial data and any manipulation of it, prior to encrypting, and maybe including a means to link the actions to the user. If this is logging (and related retrieval) is done covertly, encryption could thereby become a falsely reassuring cloak of privacy. Dave thinks devices like these are surely in the works, and he can say more about their sponsors, technologies and implementations. One driving force, as he previously noted, is the desire for devices to assure copyright protection, backed by the WIPO treaty, which now being considered for approval. See the House report on it at: http://jya.com/hr105-551.txt (141K) And the EFF and ACLU opposition to it: hr2281-opp.htm Other forces, though, are employers who want to snoop, law enforcement, government, marketers, actually the same groups who dislike privacy protection measures, but often prefer to snoop covertly while loudly proclaiming support for privacy. Thus, the more general question Dave has raised is how widespread is the development and implementation of technolgies for covert surveillance on the Web and in desktop boxes -- happily spreading quietly while attention is focussed on the very encryption which it will circumvent? And what are these devices, or what might they be, what might be countermeasures and who might be working for and against them. SDA must have insights to share. Over to Dave Emery and those more knowledgeable. For those who missed his earlier message we've put it, with a follow-up at: http://jya.com/gaks-de.htm

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CTIA Daily News from WOW-COM - July 6, 1998
by CTIA Daily News 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

============================================= Welcome to today's edition of the CTIA Daily News from WOW-COM. Please click on the icon / attachment for the most important news in wireless communications today. WIRELESS IT '98, The Next Generation in Personal Computing & Communications October 12-14, Las Vegas, Nevada Call (202) 785-0081 for more information! =============================================

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Nevermind... :-)
by rlpowell＠calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

OK, I poked around some more and RC5 is an exceptionally sucky choice. Anyone know of any good variable-length algorithms? -Robin PS: Sorry for the pseudo-off-topic-ness.

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