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Re: Blacknet & Lotus Notes
by Herb Sutter 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 19:13 01.18.1996 -0500, Adam Shostack wrote: > So, lets buy the espionage enabling secret key. Its an >obvious target, not just for cypherpunks, but for the KGB, Mossad, >Toshiba, IBM, and anyone else who wants to read their competitors >correspondance. Lets face it, this key will get out there, and be >available to all the big players; lets make it available to everyone! I think people are missing the point... even if we assume the absolute worst case, that the private key is broken and becomes publicly available, international Notes users are no worse off than before. That said, it shouldn't happen soon. One of the things Ray said in his announcement was that the government agreed to both generate and then guard this key with the same diligence with which they guard their most important secrets (he specifically mentioned nuclear missile controls). While it makes for a nice sound bite, I'm comfortable that there's probably also a lot of truth to it. Herb ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Herb Sutter (herbs(a)connobj.com) Connected Object Solutions 2228 Urwin - Suite 102 voice 416-618-0184 http://www.connobj.com/ Oakville ON Canada L6L 2T2 fax 905-847-6019

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Re: your mail
by jf_avon＠citenet.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>On Mon, 22 Jan 1996, Jean-Francois Avon wrote (quote may be only partial):: > >> >> I suppose, from the adress, that it is some type of mailing list. >> >> If yes, could anybody send me the "how to subscribe" file? >> My mail quoted above was sent out to all subscribers to the list. I supposed it was only the administrative address.... I got *a lot* of replies. Thank to all cypherpunk! JFA

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Mykotronx sells 68,000 Fortezza cards to Spyrus
by baldwin 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Here is a press release from Mykotronix about a big order of Fortezza cards for the Defense Messaging System. Another part of the government has selected Fisher International to supply SmartDisk cryptographic cards for the use of citizens interacting with the IRS and other agencies electronically. Although Fisher has not received a big order yet, they are looking at 100 thousand and 10 million card production runs. The Fisher card is based on RSA's crypto toolkit and DOES NOT include skipjack or escrow. --Bob ______________________________ Forward Header __________________________________ Subject: Mykotronx sells 68,000 Fortezza cards for Defense Msg System IRVINE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 22, 1996--Rainbow Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ:RNBO), Monday announced its Mykotronx division has received a purchase order from Spyrus for over 68,000 of Mykotronx's new Capstone encryption processor (MYK-82). The devices will be used to build part of the Government's order of Fortezza Cryptographic Cards for the Defense Message System (DMS) awarded Sept. 1995. Initial delivery of the new cryptographic processor will begin April 1996. "The significance of the MYK-82 is that it allows us to provide a high grade, low cost encryption technology to customers, such as Spyrus," said John Droge, vice president of program development for Mykotronx. "The MYK-82 is an advanced encryption processor specifically aimed at PCMCIA cryptographic applications and has a built-in PCMCIA interface. The newer design is smaller, faster and has a lower cost than its predecessor." In addition, Mykotronx will be programming all the cryptographic processors to fill the Government's Sept. 1995 order of 300,000 Fortezza Cryptographic Cards. The MYK-82, developed by Mykotronx and fabricated by VLSI Technology Inc., is the first of a series of security products to be developed as part of an alliance with VLSI, targeting both Government and commercial markets. Rainbow Technologies, founded in 1984, is the world's leading developer, manufacturer and supplier of software protection products and encryption technology. Mykotronx, a subsidiary of Rainbow, is a leader in secure communication and cryptographic products for U.S. government agencies and the commercial marketplace. Rainbow was recently recognized by Forbes magazine as one of The Best Small Companies in America and in SmartMoney Magazine as one of the Seven Stocks for the Next Decade. Rainbow is ISO 9002 certified. CONTACT: Rainbow Technologies Inc., Irvine, Calif. Ann Jones, 714/450-7350 email: ajones(a)rnbo.com WWW Home Page: http://www.rnbo.com KEYWORD: CALIFORNIA INDUSTRY KEYWORD: COMPUTERS/ELECTRONICS COMED

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[noise!] (fwd) Re: FYA/I: Who'd have gaussed it?
by rah＠shipwright.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Just in case you wanted to know how dept... Cheers, Bob --- begin forwarded text Date: Tue, 23 Jan 1996 11:21:54 -0500 (EST) From: Paul Picot <ppicot(a)irus.rri.uwo.ca> To: Philip Stein <pstein(a)measurement.com> Cc: jeff(a)rand.org, technomads(a)UCSD.EDU Subject: Re: FYA/I: Who'd have gaussed it? Mime-Version: 1.0 Zounds! A guantlet thrown! I accept! > >It just occured to me: a good way to do this might be with The Mother Of > >All Degaussing Coils. [...] > >If you can degauss the Queen Mary, surely all the disk drives in a little > >office building should pose no problems, right? > > This won't work (thank goodness). The local field strengths needed to > change the magnetic state of a disk platter (whose coercivity is MUCH > higher than that of the queen mary) is orders of magnitude greater than > what can be generated at any distance. Use a coil *around* the building. This makes the problem just within the realm of the possible, though horribly impractical. I'll spare the collected minds and spool spaces of the technomads list the details, and reduce this to a recipe: Collect the following: - 20 miles of 0000-guage insulated copper wire (about 32 tons worth) - five standard 20 MW gas-turbine power plant generators (about 20 tons ea.) - fuel for about 10 minutes of operation (about 4 tons) - five standard high voltage transmission rectifier modules for the above. - one standard 69,000 volt, 10,000 amp transmission-line contactor set Wrap 1000 turns of the wire around your target. This makes a bundle about 18 inches in diameter. Wire your generators and rectifiers to yield 70,000 volts DC, and connect them via the contactor to the coil. Fire up the turbines, and take them to redline, storing kinetic energy in the rotors. Firewall the turbines and trigger the contactor. It will take about 10 seconds for the coil current to hit 8000 amps, creating a 1-tesla magnetic field within the coil. This is sufficient to erase magnetic media. Then kill your generators before everything melts :-). And this is now certainly outside the scope of technomads... - Paul --- end forwarded text ----------------- Robert Hettinga (rah(a)shipwright.com) e$, 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "Reality is not optional." --Thomas Sowell The NEW(!) e$ Home Page: http://thumper.vmeng.com/pub/rah/

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Motorola Cordless Secure Clear Telephone
by cassiel＠alpha.c2.org 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Enjoying reading the latest discussions. I was in Totally Wireless yesterday when I noticed a new product from Motorola called "Cordless Secure Clear"--which supposedly is a cordless phone which offers security/encryption functions. Does anyone know how strong the security is on this phone? Is it just meant to keep my kid sister from listening in or is it stronger? Any info would be appreciated. Please include a response to me directly as I subscribe to the lite version of this list. Thanks! Cassiel

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ALERT: Join thousands of net users in their fight against the White House! (9/4/96)
by Voters Telecommunications Watch 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

============================================================================= ____ _ _ _ / ___|_ __ _ _ _ __ | |_ ___ | \ | | _____ _____ | | | '__| | | | '_ \| __/ _ \ _____| \| |/ _ \ \ /\ / / __| | |___| | | |_| | |_) | || (_) |_____| |\ | __/\ V V /\__ \ \____|_| \__, | .__/ \__\___/ |_| \_|\___| \_/\_/ |___/ |___/|_| NET LUMINARIES JOIN THOUSANDS IN SIGNING PRO-ENCRYPTION PETITION http://www.crypto.com/petition/ CRYPTO ACTION WEEK ENDS WITH JUDICIARY HEARING ON HR 3011 (9/11/96) Date: September 4, 1996 URL:http://www.crypto.com/ crypto-news(a)panix.com If you redistribute this, please do so in its entirety, with the banner intact. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Table of Contents Introduction Join Phil Zimmermann, Bruce Schneier, and other cyber luminaries! How to receive crypto-news Press contacts ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- INTRODUCTION This week is a hard week for many working on the encryption issue. The House pro-encryption bill, SAFE (HR 3011), will have a hearing in the Judiciary committee on September 11. Between now and then, individuals and industry representatives will be calling on their legislators to support HR 3011. On the other side of the issue, the White House is expected to release their "solution" to the encryption debate no earlier than September 8th. It will surprise no one if it is designed to be in the best interests of law enforcement with concerns for privacy placed dead last. Be a part of this assault on the White House by signing the pro-encryption petition at http://www.crypto.com/petition/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- JOIN PHIL ZIMMERMANN, BRUCE SCHNEIER, AND OTHER CYBER LUMINARIES! The following petition can be signed onto at http://www.crypto.com/petition/ The Information Revolution is being held hostage by an outdated, Cold War-era U.S. encryption policy. Current U.S. export controls and other initiatives are slowing the widespread availability of strong encryption products, endangering the privacy and security of electronic communications, harming the competitiveness of U.S. businesses, and threatening the future of electronic commerce and the growth of the Global Information Infrastructure (GII). We the undersigned Internet users and concerned citizens strongly support Congressional efforts to address this critical issue. Bills are currently pending in both Houses of Congress which would: -Relax export controls on encryption technology; -Prohibit the government from imposing "Key Escrow" solutions domestically; and -Recognize the importance of privacy and security for the future of electronic commerce, individual liberty, and the success of the Internet. We urge Congress to act NOW to enact a U.S. encryption policy that promotes electronic privacy and security. Join Phil Zimmerman, author of Pretty Good Privacy (PGP), Bruce Schneier, author of "Applied Cryptography", Dr. Matt Blaze of Tessera card fame, Phil Karn and Vince Cate as they pressure the White House to change their wrong-headed encryption policies. Add your name to theirs at http://www.crypto.com/petition/ ! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- HOW TO RECEIVE CRYPTO-NEWS To subscribe to crypto-news, sign up from our WWW page (http://www.crypto.com) or send mail to majordomo(a)panix.com with "subscribe crypto-news" in the body of the message. To unsubscribe, send a letter to majordomo(a)panix.com with "unsubscribe crypto-news" in the body. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- PRESS CONTACT INFORMATION Press inquiries on Crypto-News should be directed to Shabbir J. Safdar (VTW) at +1.718.596.2851 or shabbir(a)vtw.org Jonah Seiger (CDT) at +1.202.637.9800 or jseiger(a)cdt.org ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- End crypto-news =============================================================================

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Test [No Reply]
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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[Fwd: Russia/Iraq]
by WebWarrior3＠InfoWar.Com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

A bit off of our regularly scheduled program, but with Yeltsin saying that Clinton might be starting a 3rd World War last week, I thought I would pass this on. To: webwarrior3(a)infowar.com Subject: Russia/Iraq From: alert(a)stratfor.com Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 19:59:26 -0600 (CST) ______________________________________ Check out our newest product: Santizer Give away your computer, not your data ______________________________________ Global Intelligence Update Red Alert February 11, 1998 Russia Threatens to Arm Baghdad But will Saddam Remain in Power? According to a report on Tuesday in the online edition of the Egyptian newspaper Al-sha'b, the Russian government has warned Washington that Russia will supply arms and humanitarian aid to Iraq if the United States chooses to abandon diplomatic efforts and attacks Iraq. Al-Sha'b reported that Baghdad requested 20 billion dollars in urgent military and humanitarian aid from Russia. Baghdad, which already owes Russia 80 billion dollars, hopes to be able to pay off its debt once sanctions are lifted. Al-Sha'b went on to report that Washington has monitored heightened states of alert and increased military preparedness throughout the Middle East, and has warned neighboring Arab states against providing Iraq with military support. If the Egyptian report is factual, then Russia has just moved even closer to confrontation with the United States. Its previous threats of world war are clearly not credible. Sending aid to Iraq is, on the other hand, quite credible and therefore is in many ways more dangerous. The question is, will Hussein be there after the U.S. attack to receive the arms? We have noticed a curious juxtaposition of official U.S. statements on the crisis in Iraq with the emerging balance of U.S. forces in the region, suggesting that Washington may be expecting an Iraqi coup d'etat. U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright testified before the Senate on Tuesday that, in the event U.S. air strikes contributed to toppling Saddam Hussein, "it would create a situation which, for a time, would require the presence of troops." The United States has accelerated its deployment of ground troops to the region. Three thousand troops from Ft. Stewart are being deployed to reinforce the 1,500 U.S. ground troops already in Kuwait. The USS Tarawa and the USS Guam, amphibious assault ships each carrying a 2,000-man Marine Expeditionary Unit, are headed for the Persian Gulf. Other U.S. ground forces in the region include 6,000 soldiers at the Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia and 10,000 soldiers engaged in military exercises in Egypt. Additionally, the list of potential U.S. targets has grown from suspected chemical and biological agent sites to include command and control installations, the Iraqi air force, and the Republican Guard. This suggests a decapitation strike, aimed at disrupting Hussein's capability to coordinate a defense of his hold on power. Iraqi opposition forces also appear to be preparing for an altered post-air strike environment. The rival Kurdish Democratic Party and Patriotic Union of Kurdestan are planning a meeting on February 12 to settle outstanding differences and stabilize their cease-fire. Iraqi Kurdestan's Conservative Party public relations officer, Aram Muhammad Sa'id, declared in an interview on Monday with the Iranian News Agency that Turkey's latest entry into northern Iraq had the "green light" from the United States, and was part of a U.S. plan to use air strikes to topple Hussein and dismember Iraq. Finally, the Iraqi National Congress has reported that Baath Party and military officials have begun evacuating southern Iraq, lest an uprising follow U.S. air strikes. Many in the U.S. Congress have asserted the need for an "end game" that removes Saddam Hussein from power, but thus far the U.S. has been unable to foment or coordinate an overthrow of Hussein. If it is to be successful, we will not know for certain about a coup plot's existence until it is underway. But circumstances do hint that something may be in the works. Baghdad has evidently noticed this, as Iraqi Foreign Minister Saeed al- Sahhaf asserted on Tuesday that the U.S. would fail to topple the Iraqi regime, since Hussein had the support of the Iraqi people. The question is this: is there a real possibility of a coup in Baghdad or is this part of U.S. psychological warfare against Iraq? In a way, the possibility of a coup is more reasonable an explanation for U.S. behavior than the idea that the U.S. is going to mount an air campaign against chemical and biological weapons. What is not clear is whether a coup has a real chance or whether this is just wishful thinking on the part of the United States. And it is not clear what Russia would do if the coup turned into a protracted internal struggle. ___________________________________________________ To receive free daily Global Intelligence Updates or Computer Security Alerts, sign up on the web at http://www.stratfor.com/mail/, or send your name, organization, position, mailing address, phone number, and e-mail address to info(a)stratfor.com ___________________________________________________ STRATFOR Systems, Inc. 3301 Northland Drive, Suite 500 Austin, TX 78731-4939 Phone: 512-454-3626 Fax: 512-454-1614 Internet: http://www.stratfor.com/ Email: info(a)stratfor.com

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Re: TEMPEST open-source definition version 0.1alpha (fwd)
by Ryan Lackey 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> confusing TEMPEST with NEMA No, I am certain they're TEMPEST cases; they're government security vendors, with names that include the word TEMPEST or Security or whatever, and their prices are huge. And when I said "I'd like to pay COD", they said "we only accept government purchase forms." I have a plain NEMA 19" rack with power and fans, it's quite different. Black Unicorn's post about the demise of cash is particularly true when dealing with vendors who want government POs :) The people at hacking cons who are selling TEMPEST cases are selling what I believe are the real thing acquired through a variety of methods, some legal, others perhaps not. Usually they contain crufty old PCs, but one guy had some really nice fully-enclosed TEMPEST-compliant racks. They had serious power filters at the bottom, massive fans, and shielded fan i/o. They were basically free (a few hundred dollars), but I couldn't motor freight them from the location to my home, since I didn't have anything but cash at the time. ObNonCrypto: Waiting until 10 days before fc98 to buy airline tickets when the cheap fare expired an hour ago was SO SO SO stupid. Like taking 4 c-notes and lighting them on fire. Oh well. -- Ryan Lackey rdl(a)mit.edu http://mit.edu/rdl/

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Transcript of Hillary Clinton's comments on Net-regulation
by Declan McCullagh 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 14:54:55 -0800 (PST) From: Declan McCullagh <declan(a)well.com> To: politech(a)vorlon.mit.edu Subject: Transcript of Mrs. Clinton's comments on Net-regulation Here's what Hillary Clinton said this afternoon about regulation of the Internet during an otherwise routine press conference in the Map Room about the "Millenium Evenings." Tonight at 7 pm EST she and the president will cybercast the first one from the east room of the White House. It's hardly surprising that our elected officials don't like the ability of the Internet to provide everyone with a platform. Even Thomas Jefferson kvetched about the excesses of the press of his day and in 1783 and 1788 endorsed laws that permitted government prosecutions of the press for printing "false facts." Though I somehow suspect that the first lady has recently been more worried about media reporting facts that may turn out to be true... -Declan === Q I just wanted to ask you about something that Gregg said. He's obviously an Internet enthusiast. But when he talked about some of the aspects of the system -- the fact that you could say something and you can't take it back, how it's so available to everyone and instantaneous, he's raised some issues that have been issues for us in the last few weeks in our business. And I wonder if you think that this new media is necessarily an entirely good thing. And also, as somebody who has been through this crucible, in the next millennium how would you like to see this new and ever more interesting -- (laughter) -- handled of things like the issues like the personal lives of public figures. MRS. CLINTON: Well, Kathy, I think that's one of these issues that Dick was referring to, that we're going to have to really think hard about. And I think that every time technology makes an advance -- when you move to the railroad, or you move to the cotton gin, or you move to the automobile, or the airplane, and now certainly as you move to the computer and increasing accessibility and instantaneous information on the computer, we are all going to have to rethink how we deal with this, because there are always competing values. There's no free decision that I'm aware of anywhere in life, and certainly with technology that's the case. As exciting as these new developments are -- and I think Gregg's enthusiasm is shared broadly by Americans and people around the world -- there are a number of serious issues without any kind of editing function or gate-keeping function. What does it mean to have the right to defend your reputation, or to respond to what someone says? There used to be this old saying that the lie can be halfway around the world before the truth gets its boots on. Well, today, the lie can be twice around the world before the truth gets out of bed to find its boots. I mean, it is just beyond imagination what can be disseminated. So I think we're going to have to really worry about this, because it won't be just public elected officials. We've seen some cases where somebody who had a grudge against a girl's mother because the family wouldn't let him date her put out on the Internet that the family were child abusers. Totally private people, never stuck their toe in public life. It can be done to anybody, and it can get an audience, and it can create a falsehood about somebody. And certainly it's multiplied many times over if you happen to be in public life. I don't have any clue about what we're going to do legally, regulatorily, technologically -- I don't have a clue. But I do think we always have to keep competing interests in balance. I'm a big pro-balance person. That's why I love the founders -- checks and balances; accountable power. Anytime an individual or an institution or an invention leaps so far out ahead of that balance and throws a system, whatever it might be -- political, economic, technological -- out of balance, you've got a problem, because then it can lead to the oppression people's rights, it can lead to the manipulation of information, it can lead to all kinds of bad outcomes which we have seen historically. So we're going to have to deal with that. And I hope a lot of smart people are going to -- Q Sounds like you favor regulation. MRS. CLINTON: Bill, I don't know what -- that's why I said I don't know what I'm in favor of. And I don't know enough to know what to be in favor of, because I think it's one of those new issues we've got to address. We've got to see whether our existing laws protect people's right of privacy, protect them against defamation. And if they can, how do you do that when you can press a button and you can't take it back. So I think we have to tread carefully. Q -- one of the balances, though, in this new digital age is that you can have direct communication. You're celebrating that tonight -- people can log on from anywhere. In that spirit, have you thought any more about a direct and frank conversation by the President with the country about these allegations? MRS. CLINTON: I'm not going to add anything to what the President has already said. And I think that any of you who think hard about this issue would have to agree that he's taken the right position. So I'm not going to add to that. ===

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