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Re: Zimmermann case is dropped.
by liberty＠gate.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- [My sincere congrats to PRZ & Mr. Goen, and to Mr. Keane for getting a clue. I am sure the timing of this happy news had *nothing at all* to do with politics...<g>] A few questions about the investigation: What did the ZLDF end up spending? What did the govt. end up spending? [I know, it's hard to track taxe$.] Was this decision on the part of the prosecution as voluntary as it's made to sound, or were some members of the grand jury starting to make "nullification noises" as the investigation progressed? Has the grand jury been dismissed yet? If so, have any jurors spoken publicly about the investigation? JMR -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 Comment: Freedom isn't Freeh. iQCVAwUBMPY6HW1lp8bpvW01AQH6oAQAjCePRH2YcEo/OlJrfXMG/K0Fk0/0gcE5 z9k0AYDeNb4iY7vaxSaauPlbQZrw2J48ItWf1y45LSiAE32+sJvYogrIyJbqTDhB 4yC5uXXPzLQcA3tp3AEkUe7Zbr7n1X1uAz2LwfddwRRiNnXxFtd0TIcReg4Bdv5g KB8S+9fCgk8= =hPyf -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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VHDL des model
by koontz＠MasPar.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

A mimimal DES chip implementation can be found at: ripem.msu.edu:/pub/crypt/des/vhdl_des.tar.z -rw-r----- 1 mrr ftpsec 93630 Jan 12 02:01 vhdl_des.tar.z It was written to go with a paper on DES Hardware I'm putting the finishing touches on. Note that this site requires a password to belong to group ftpsec to download. It will encrypt in 47 clocks (8 IP, 29 Key Schedule, 8 FP) or decrypt in 46 clocks (28 Key Schedule), and will fit in some of the larger FPGAs. The paper, when finished, will describe various performance enhancements such as double buffered IP and FP (which is covered by an Ultron patent, although probably invalid), direct key schedule (16 clocks), or superscalar DES (approaching 1 clock per 64 bit block). For any hardware wonks, this is done in Synopsys VSS, although the README file contains enough information for other VHDL implmentations. There are also 4 or 5 'C' programs for generating VHDL files of the S Boxes in various configurations, and a sample 'C' DES program done in 1988 for the original UNIX libdes (source included). The 'C' program can be used to generate equivalent structures for debugging your own DES hardware variations. The test vectors are from NBS Special Pub 500-20 (circa 1978).

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No Subject
by owner-cypherpunks＠toad.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On Thu, 11 Jan 1996 hallam(a)w3.org wrote: > make small ones out of big ones. Thats a big plus in many peoples books. > > > > > We've made no progress. Phil has lots lots of time and gained > >lots of grey hairs, and everyone who donated to his defense fund lost > >money. > > No progress? At least Phil is not going off on a trip to Alcatraz to > One of the most overdue reforms of the US government is the renaming of > the FBI building to remove the name of J Edgar Hoover. The abuse of power > under his administration of the FBI continues to poison the US polity > by providing clear proof to many citizens that their government cannot be > trusted. While the abuses of Hoover continue to be commemerated in this > fashion there can be little public confidence in any claims of reform. > > > The US can still harass people if they want, and make their > >life hell. > > Not just the US government. There are many crooks out there who have attempted > or are attempting worse. At least with the government there are means to > bring it to heel eventually. > > Phill > > (defun modexpt (x y n) "computes (x^y) mod n" (cond ((= y 0) 1) ((= y 1) (mod x n)) ((evenp y) (mod (expt (modexpt x (/ y 2) n) 2) n)) (t (mod (* x (modexpt x (1- y) n)) n))))

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Re: Novel use of Usenet and remailers to mailbomb
by rah＠shipwright.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Jammin' on the mailbomb trick... Looks like it's a variant of another scheme used elsewhere, viz, --- begin forwarded text To: rah(a)shipwright.com (Robert A. Hettinga) From: oldbear(a)arctos.com (The Old Bear) Subject: Re: Novel use of Usenet and remailers to mailbomb Date: Fri, 12 Jan 1996 23:10:43 EDT rah(a)shipwright.com (Robert A. Hettinga) writes: >From: rah(a)shipwright.com (Robert A. Hettinga) >Newsgroups: tiac >Subject: Novel use of Usenet and remailers to mailbomb >Date: Fri, 12 Jan 1996 14:34:18 -0500 >Organization: e$ >| Somebody, too clever for their own good by half, has come up with a >| novel way of using Usenet and anonymous remailers to perpetrate >| mailbombs. The M.O. is to post a message to the naked-lady newsgroups >| saying "get pics in your mailbox! send this message to this address!), >| giving the email address of a cypherpunk-style anonymous remailer and >| including a pgp-encrypted message block. A variation on the mailbomb from dispersed unwitting sites, except involving the telephone network, was discussed on alt.dcom.telecom some time back. Maybe you call this a phone bomb. As you know, pager companies get blocks of numbers within a local exchange for their operations. So, for example, 635-3000 to 635-3999 may represent a thousand radio pager customers of a particular paging company. Wanting to harrass an estranged spouse, some nefarious character programmed a dialler deamon to sequentially call each of the numbers in a pager block and leave a messsage to return call to the spouse's phone number. Naturally, caller id did no good to track or ignore the unwanted calls to the spouse at all hours from pager subscribers who were receiving messages on their alpha-numberic pagers to call the spouse's number. 'Wrong number' calls were coming in to the spouse from all over at all times. Moreover, it is virtually impossible for a pager company to track a single number which calls each of its lines only once. Definitely not a nice thing. --- end forwarded text Cheers, Bob Hettinga ----------------- 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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Re: Certificates: limiting your liability with reuse limitations
by Censored Girls Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

In Minnesota, you wouldn't be liable. All you can do IS all you can do. Anything else is a crime! (on their part). Love Always, Carol Anne At 05:07 PM 1/11/96 -0800, you wrote: >You write: >How do notaries public get around this liability problem? It seems to me >that the checking done for a certificate might be similar to the checking >done by a notary - a glance at a driver's license, say. Are they subject >to liability if they are fooled by fake ID? > >Hal > > -- Member Internet Society - Certified BETSI Programmer - Webmistress *********************************************************************** Carol Anne Braddock (cab8) carolann(a)censored.org 206.42.112.96 My Homepage The Cyberdoc *********************************************************************** ------------------ PGP.ZIP Part [017/713] ------------------- M8H,),S$8G>&.WP(8IRA`-M['+`Q%&_C"">5-F%LX@<_Q$;*P'',Q$Z/AA[8M MF=O0H+*%(-S%&>S%+FS&<LS%3(Q&#W1"<]2%`H^;,]^1C$'HBN8PX$4SYAU^ MPGD<Q0ZLA0D+,`MCT!LA**4M[-JPAK9F?40!AJ,CW"'%DR#:'9?Q)3[%<DQ` ------------------------------------------------------------- for next chunk to export --> http://dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/export/

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Re: [NOISE] Microsoft continues to mislead public about Windows security
by daw＠quito.CS.Berkeley.EDU 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- In article <199601100451.UAA13211(a)infinity.c2.org>, <kolivet(a)alpha.c2.org> wrote: > On Tue, 9 Jan 1996, Frank Willoughby wrote: > > When a system is breached or a CERT Advisory is issued, this is a major > > embarassment for the company. > > What are CERT's criteria for a bulletin to be issued? Would the previously > mentioned Windows NT and Windows 95 security bugs qualify? CERT normally won't publish a security warning until the manufacturers have fixed the bug & offered a patch. So I doubt the Win95/NT bugs will be announced by CERT tomorrow. If you want to publish a bug, CERT is probably not the best place to go. CERT often ends up sitting on bugs for ages, because nobody knows about the hole, so nobody can pressure the vendors to fix 'em, so CERT refuses to release a bulletin-- a vicious cycle. IMHO, embarassing public pressure often seems to be the quickest way to get attention & fixes from uncooperative vendors... But then again, that's the old "full disclosure" (and "security through obscurity") debate(s). - -- Dave "a believer in security through caffeine" Wagner - --- [This message has been signed by an auto-signing service. A valid signature means only that it has been received at the address corresponding to the signature and forwarded.] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 Comment: Gratis auto-signing service iQBFAwUBMPWugyoZzwIn1bdtAQFYrgGAyQhuXiFCK36qFdJzEw4PSp2f/oIvpoi+ 8peJmKjle86aBlY20SGYQBQoactyKcza =3NOo -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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SPO_oks
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

1-12-96. WashP: "Agencies Debate Value of Being Out in the Cold. Spies Under 'Nonofficial Cover' Are Among Most Sensitive Operations." Today, as the roles and missions of American spying are being reviewed, one of the most sensitive debates in the U.S. intelligence community is whether to step up the overseas use of NOCs, not only by the CIA but also by the Pentagon's Defense Humint Service and the FBI, both of which also can work abroad under cover. Because they operate alone and outside embassies, NOCs need their own secure communications and a safe way to keep their highly classified files. 1-11-96. WashP: "Israeli Media Break Censorship Rules to Name New Security Service Head." The man who will take the reins of Israel's Shin Bet security service, Rear Adm. Ami Ayalon, was named today in Israeli news accounts for the first time in the history of the secretive organization. Israeli media have yet to name Ayalon's predecessor, Karmi Gilon, who was still referred to today as "Kaf." 1-11-96. FinTim: "Yeltsin's New Spy Master to Play by the Rules." Mr Trubnikov will be the first spymaster to work under new legislation which says the intelligence services must use "a combination of open and secret methods and tactics and in accordance with the principle of legality and respect for human rights and freedoms". Separately, Mr Yeltsin signed a decree limiting phone taps and the unauthorised collection of information on firms and individuals. But Tass, which reported the decree, gave no details of how it would work. SPO_oks

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Re: Mail to news gateways
by Gordon Campbell 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 11:35 AM 1/12/96 -0800, you wrote: > >Could someone point me to a _current_ list of mail to news gateways? > >From ethe help file for Private Idaho 2.6b: You can get the most current USENET gateway information (as well as additional remailer info such as PGP keys) by: E-mailing mg5n+remailers(a)andrew.cmu.edu (no subject or text in the message body required) ----- Gordon R. Campbell, Owner - Mowat Woods Graphics P.O. Box 1902, Kingston, Ontario, Canada K7L 5J7 Ph: (613) 542-4087 Fax: (613) 542-1139 2048-bit PGP key available on request.

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PRZ "battle lost"
by Vladimir Z. Nuri 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

regarding PRZ, SP wrote earlier that "we have gained nothing--the US can still harass people over cryptographic algorithms". that's true, but that's a side effect of our legal system, not of our secret government bureacracy (the NSA etc). it has always been the case that someone with lots of money, time, and lawyers can harass someone else in the courts without any leg to stand on. the government does not have a monopoly on this capability, and in fact they can arguably be shown to be a minor player when it comes to what happens every day in the business world. you can consume someone else's time and money significantly, and scare them into submission, without ever even going to trial, through pre-trial hearings and all that kind of thing. is there an alternative? yes, but it involves fewer lawyers than are in the US today. however I don't see lawyers as the problem, but a symptom of something deeper: the tendency of people to resort to legal action to settle even trivial disputes. I for example am aware of a case where someone threatened to sue a well-known kook on the internet for "libel" for material that was clearly satire, and the supposed "libel" was committed--AGAINST A PSEUDONYM!! so to me all the lawyers are not the problem, but the attitude in our society that if you have been offended in some way, you should use the legal system to get "justice". a rather immature kind of mentality, of course, but who am I to criticize an infant for being an infant? I suppose its partly my mistake if I run into an adult that is actually an infant and I don't realize it at first.

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Re: Zimmermann case is dropped.
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I wrote: > ...and I'm sure they'll be watching VERY closely to see how >version 3.0 will be distributed.... John Young wrote: >AUSA William Keane in today's WSJ: > > "This decision shouldn't be interpreted as meaning > anything. I caution people against concluding the > Internet is now free for export." Alex Strasheim wrote: >The government's policy doesn't prevent crypto from spreading around the >world, but it does discourage a lot of people from distributing code >they've written or modified. That's the point of the policy, and from >their point of view it's probably a big success. My sentiments <expanded upon> exactly. I tend to disbelieve in coincidences. Rather, I found the timing of dropping the investigation of PRZ and the anticipated release of version 3.0 extremely interesting. One might conclude that their attitude was: "Let's throw this fish back and aim for a 'keeper'.

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