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NSA cracker - how many TW
by Secret Squirrel 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

iang(a)cs.berkeley.edu > seems also unlikely. (Actually, for all I know, terawatt power sources > may exist; that's out of my field. Please let me know if this is the case. > I just know that at my rates, 7.12 TW for 33 minutes (at about $.10/kWh) I've extracted some figures from an industry publication and arrive at a worldwide electricity generation capacity of 1.6 TW. Assuming that 1% of that power is smuggled into the deep space cracker we're not even close to 33 minutes, and it doesn't matter whether we're looking at a one-off every so often rather than a continuous 40 a day. And that's still on optimistic assumptions including 1) testing keys for free 2a) running on earth at 3 K rather than 300 K or 2b) no bother transmitting power & signals into space (Like if the cracker had been secretly installed on Voyager 2 that'd be your 33 mins gone waiting for the radio.) IBM have published a communications scheme that claims to recover energy normally lost - it was on their website a few months ago. I skipped reading it at the time because it sounded dotty.

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Re: Sun's buggy MD5?
by Robert A. Rosenberg 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 20:45 8/18/95, michael shiplett wrote: >MD5 test suite: >MD5 ("") = f00001c0effffba8429b59d50529097c >MD5 ("a") = f00003c0effffba8aec5fcf4284a8dbe >MD5 ("abc") = f00005c0effffba896fc8af8ca60a911 >MD5 ("message digest") = f00007c0effffba8f373218f317a9558 >MD5 ("abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz") = f00009c0effffba896b4f24acb3f4738 >MD5 ("ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789") >= f0000bc0effffba8cef237a614aa457d There certainly is something VERY wrong. I think that the result is being reported from a location that is 8 positions left of where it should be pointing. Position 9 is where the "random" (ie: Probably correct) data starts. The first 8 positions are f0000Xc0effffba8 (where X increments by 2 for each invocation). Thus this looks like some kind of constant or fixed work area.

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RealAudio website temporary password
by RealAudio Welcome Wagon 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

This is an automatic response to your request for a free user account on the RealAudio site. Welcome to the world of RealAudio. The following temporary password will only be used once, in order to activate the username and password you selected for yourself during signup. To activate your account, please visit our Account Activation page at http://www.RealAudio.com/welcome.html and enter the temporary password in the proper blank. The user name you selected is: cypherpu Your temporary RealAudio password is: Toledo.Francisco If you have trouble with the software, please refer to the RealAudio FAQ and Technical Notes available at http://www.RealAudio.com/help.html You can also contact us through http://www.RealAudio.com/comment.html Thank you for becoming a RealAudio user.

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Re: RealAudio website temporary password Re: RealAudio website temporary password
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The Cypherpunks RealAudio free account is now activated with password "writecode" (case sensitive -- make them letters small). The user name is still "cypherpu". RealAudio.com does not truncate names longer than 8 characters during login (meaning "cypherpunks" fails), but their signup page won't allow entry of more than 8. Silly. Don't have too much fun listening to NPR, now... > Date: Sun, 20 Aug 1995 21:49:23 -0700 > From: RealAudio Welcome Wagon <welcome(a)realaudio.com> > To: cypherpunks(a)toad.com > Reply-To: welcome(a)realaudio.com > Subject: RealAudio website temporary password > Sender: owner-cypherpunks(a)toad.com > Precedence: bulk > > This is an automatic response to your request for a free user account > on the RealAudio site. Welcome to the world of RealAudio. > > The following temporary password will only be used once, > in order to activate the username and password you > selected for yourself during signup. > To activate your account, please visit our Account Activation page > at http://www.RealAudio.com/welcome.html > and enter the temporary password in the proper blank. > > The user name you selected is: > > cypherpu > > Your temporary RealAudio password is: > > Toledo.Francisco > > If you have trouble with the software, please refer to > the RealAudio FAQ and Technical Notes available at > http://www.RealAudio.com/help.html > > You can also contact us through http://www.RealAudio.com/comment.html > > Thank you for becoming a RealAudio user.

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Re: RealAudio website temporary password Re: RealAudio website temporary password
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Lucky Green wrote: >>This is an automatic response to your request for a free user account >>on the RealAudio site. Welcome to the world of RealAudio. >> ... >>The user name you selected is: >> >>cypherpu > >The password has been changed to "cypherpunks" > Oops. Thank you for changing the password. Shall we not use writecode unless the site does not allow "cypherpunks" as the password? I get it now. Crypto relevance: http://www.realaudio.com/rafiles/npr/password/nb081801-4.ram The segment is overly optimistically billed as: "Dan Charles reports the Clinton administration has reached a compromise with the security industry about the export of encryption equipment that will protect personal computer files and allow law enforcement agencies access to them if necessary. (3:30)"

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Re: RealAudio website temporary password
by tcmay＠got.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 6:00 AM 8/21/95, Anonymous wrote: >Oops. Thank you for changing the password. Shall we not use writecode >unless the site does not allow "cypherpunks" as the password? I get it >now. Hey, this business of signing up the "Cypherpunks" list for a bunch of specialized services is getting old. As guerilla ontology, it's fine. The problem is that all of these messages about what the official, public password is are cluttering up the mail here ( "writecode" is not my idea of an obvious public password). And some of these public sign-ups generate reflecting messages back to the list. In terms of scaling, this sucks. And what's being accomplished? (I confess that when I first saw this announcement that we had been signed up with the name "cypherpu" and the temporary passphrase "Toledo.Francisco," I immediately registered under a different set of names. Now I see that Lucky Green has done the same thing. Hmhhhh, which one came first and is recognized by them?) --Tim May ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay(a)got.net (Got net?) | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero 408-728-0152 | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Corralitos, CA | black markets, collapse of governments. Higher Power: 2^756839 | Public Key: PGP and MailSafe available. "National borders are just speed bumps on the information superhighway."

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Spare DigiCa$h? / Re: AN APPEAL TO THE HUMAN RACE
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

amaninneeeedeer443553444(a)aol.com wrote: > > PLEASE HELP What follows is an example of the CyberBums predicted by one of the list members some time back. This A(ssh)OL(e) is using his spambot to "Spare change?" millions of people at a time and it turns out that besides his required, basic tale of woe, that he also has the proverbial parent who is dying from cancer. Don't send him any money. Send *ME* money. I will use it to buy enough cheap wine to enable me to throw up on my shoes. (Wouldn't you rather send your hard-earened money to an honest drunk than to a lying bum?) CyberDrunk > > ----- > > I WAS A SMALL BUSINESS OWNER IN THE ATLANTA AREA. I RAN THIS > > BUSINESS SUCCESSFULLY UNTIL ABOUT 60 DAYS AGO. AT THAT TIME, 2 > > SEPARATE COMPANIES FILED BANKRUPTCY AGAINST ME FOR A TOTAL OF > > $ 47,000. I COULDN'T SURVIVE THAT. > > > > CONSEQUENTLY, I WAS UNABLE TO PAY MY CREDITORS, MOST OF WHOM > > WERE FRIENDS. THEY HAVE FAMILY AS I DO AND I CAN'T LIVE WITH THE > > THOUGHT OF DOING TO THEM WHAT HAS BEEN DONE TO ME. I'VE SPENT > > MANY SLEEPLESS NIGHTS TRYING TO COME UP WITH A SOLUTION. I HAVE > > NO WHERE TO TURN EXCEPT TO MY FELLOW MAN. MY ONLY FAMILY IS > > MY FATHER. HE IS 74 AND SUFFERING FROM DIABETES AND PROSTATE > > CANCER. > > > > I HAVE SLOD EVERYTHING EXCEPT THE CLOTHES OFF MY BACK AND MY > > COMPUTER. AFTER THIS FINAL ATTEMPT FOR HELP, I WILL BE SELLING > > IT. > > > > I WANT TO BE HONORABLE, BUT I CAN'T DO IT ALONE. I WOULD NEVER DO > > THIS EXCEPT AS A LAST RESORT, BUT I KNOW THAT I WOULD HELP > > SOMEONE IF I COULD. > > > > WILL YOU HELP ME?? ANY AMOUT WOULD BE VERY MUCH APPRECIATED. > > THANK YOU > > > > W.E. HENDERSON > > P.O. BOX 486 > > SMYRNA, GEORGIA 30081

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Basically F-C-ed
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

FBI Probing Planted Explosive Orlando, Fla., August 20 (AP) -- Two explosives were planted in a professor's suitcase to test airport security measures in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and were discovered when he arrived in Orlando, officials said Saturday. The professor, Paul Holloway of the University of Florida, arrived at Orlando International Airport on Friday afternoon and found his suitcase had been torn, said Brian Kensel, a special agent with the FBI in Tampa. He alerted Northwest Airlines security officials who emptied his bag and found the two devices. No detonators or fuses were with the materials, posing no danger to passengers, Kensel said. "We were satisfied that he was unaware of its presence before it was found at the airport," he added. Holloway had been attending a professional conference in Finland and had traveled through Detroit, Michigan, before arriving in Orlando, Kensel said. He had stopped in Amsterdam on the way, and that was where the device was placed, said Kathleen Bergen, spokeswoman with the Federal Aviation Administration in Atlanta. "It was part of a test," she said. "Basically the bag was inadvertently loaded on board with the explosives still inside." Kensel said such security measures were normal for Europe. "Particularly in Europe, there are grave concerns about security issues," he said. "As a result, they do conduct various security programs regularly. This was part of a routine check of their own security systems. "The bag got away from them basically," he said. -----

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Re: Export policy change
by Carl Ellison 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>From: Rich Salz <rsalz(a)osf.org> >Date: Thu, 17 Aug 1995 23:48:01 -0400 >The >reporter (Dan Charles?) said something like anyone can hold the keys, >as long as they will be made avail when presented with a court order. >He also said, US citizens will still be able to use strong crypto >without key escrow internally. The real question is whether manufacturers will bother producing multiple versions -- one domestic, one foreign. There's room for cypherpunks yet -- not only writing crypto applications but also generating emergency-access systems (e.g., for PGP) which meet our needs. - Carl +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Carl M. Ellison cme(a)acm.org http://www.clark.net/pub/cme/home.html | |PGP: E0414C79B5AF36750217BC1A57386478 & 61E2DE7FCB9D7984E9C8048BA63221A2 | | ``Officer, officer, arrest that man! He's whistling a dirty song.'' | +----------------------------------------------------------- Jean Ellison -+

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Re: A glance at the future of missing child identification
by danisch＠ira.uka.de 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> The car system used here in the U.S. is called "Lo-Jack," as in the > opposite of "hijack." I don't see how putting the transponders in ignition > keys would do much to stop theft, but maybe I'm unaware of European > developments. (There are keys with chips in them, acting as electronic > keys, or to make the keys harder to duplicate, but not to track the cars.) The computer which controls the engine checks whether there is a transponder in the ignition key. The key sends a 32 bit ID number. If this number was registered in the computer, the engine works, otherwise not. You can't start the engine just by shortcutting some wires. > >Perhaps a drug dealer may be more usefull if he moves free and > >has a transponder inside which he doesn't know about, that having > >him in jail. [ This should have been "than having him...". I was very tired yesterday evening. It's embarrassing to see how many typos I made :-( ] > Implausible. The theft detectors are not picking up specific transponders, > just the "on" or "off" state of the things attached to clothing, books, > CDs, etc. (I say "things" because some of them are strips inserted in > books, some are tag-like things clamped to clothing, etc.) No, the theft detectors don't. But they are big and unsuspicious enough to hide specific detectors for big brothers... > Again, the infrastructure is lacking. The simple detectors in stores would > have to be upgraded to track more sophisticated transponders. The stores > would have to cooperate, etc. Implausible. Why implausible? Stores cooperate. I know about a big department store in Germany (but I don't tell you which one) which has a large secret military hospital and a medical stock below it's basement. None of the employees knows about. If they cooperate in having a complete hospital inside, why shouldn't they cooperate in having some antennas and some wires? Hadmut

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