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by informant＠freeyellow.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

10/29/98 Y2K Solution! 8 Pine Circle Dr., Silicon Valley, Calif. OTC Company "TCFG" 21 st. Century Frontier Group has through several members of their administrative research department leaked vital information about their companies efforts. Everyone was tight lipped and interviews were refused, and through un-named sources we have learned that the technology and software solution are in the process of being patented! In over 1640 trials, using various data systems the use of the new technology and software solved the Y2K problem 100% of the time. This small publicly traded company "TCFG" which is just 3 years old is through various sources now negotiating with the "Big Boys"! "TCFG" the letters to look for...

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Re: don't use passwords as private keys (was Re: Using a password as a private key.)
by RedRook 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

You don't know you have to destroy a key file, until it is too late. Until then, it's just laying around waiting for some one to copy and crack. If you are paranoid enough to assume your opponent is going to torcher you to get your signature password, you should assume that he already has your keyfile, and is willing to torcher you to get it's password. Thus coercion and dicitonary attacks are moot points. That is, if your password is good enough. So, what's worse; guarding a high entopy password with a low entropy password, or trying to memorize a high entropy password? Harv Adam Back <aba(a)dcs.ex.ac.uk> wrote: > > > Some people have been talking about using passwords as private keys. > (By using the passphrase as seed material for regenerating the private > and public key). > > I don't think this is a good idea. > > You can't forget passphrases. You can destroy private key files. > > Therefore you open yourself up to coercion, and forward secrecy is not > possbile with these schemes. This means it is less secure. > > The other reason it is less secure others commented on: you provide an > open target for dictionary attacks. I wouldn't want to do that, even > with high entropy passphrase, it loses one important line of defense: > unavailability of private key file. > > Adam > _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

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Two ISPs Seized Over Usenet Content
by Eric Cordian 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

New York State Attorney General Dennis Vacco, who is running for re-election, is crowing and posturing this morning over having seized two ISPs, Dreamscape in Syracuse, and Buffnet in West Seneca, over the content of the newsgroup alt.binaries.pictures.pre-teen, thus making a small dent in the distribution of "filth" to ignorant citizen-units. A running gag in abpep-t for the last several years has been for newsgroup posters to identify themselves as various faculty belonging to a mythical "Pedo University" when responding to trolls. Vacco believes this imaginary organization to be a "International Child Pornography Ring" which he has broken up. 13 individuals in various countries were also arrested on various child pornography possession, trading, and promotion charges, related to activity in the newsgroup, and 34 are still under "investigation", according to this morning's AP wire. alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.pre-teen continues merrily onwards, and is presently discussing the arrests and seizures, minus a few of its regular participants. While the loss of two small ISPs and a dozen or so patrons is unlikely to bring the uncensorable worldwide Usenet to its knees, this appears to be a small first step towards eroding the legal notion that common carriers are immune from liability over Usenet content. exerpts... NEW YORK (AP) -- Authorities say they have broken up an international child pornography ring dubbed ``Pedo University'' in which suspects swapped sexually explicit information, pictures and video online. ... Thirteen people were in custody and more arrests were expected. As many as 34 people were still under investigation. New York state police seized two Internet providers, Dreamscape ISP in Syracuse and Buffnet.net ISP in West Seneca. ... Both allegedly carried Pedo University news groups, a type of electronic bulletin board similar to a chat room. -- Eric Michael Cordian 0+ O:.T:.O:. Mathematical Munitions Division "Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be The Whole Of The Law"

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by informant＠earthlink.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

10/30/98 Y2K Solution! 8 Pine Circle Dr., Silicon Valley, Calif. OTC Company "TCFG" 21 st. Century Frontier Group has through several members of their administrative research department leaked vital information about their companies efforts. Everyone was tight lipped and interviews were refused, and through un-named sources we have learned that the technology and software solution are in the process of being patented! In over 1640 trials, using various data systems the use of the new technology and software solved the Y2K problem 100% of the time. This small publicly traded company "TCFG" which is just 3 years old is through various sources now negotiating with the "Big Boys"! "TCFG" the letters to look for.....

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Jim Gilmore
by Information Security 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> from ppoole(a)fcref.org CfCL Weekly Update 10/30/98 ***** Companies Create New Crypto Back Door Hewlett-Packard and Wave Systems announced Tuesday that they have developed a new programmable chip that can be adjusted to match prevailing encryption policies. This system will only allow a computer to encrypt data to the maximum level that local regulations allow. The new program, called EMBASSY, must be registered with a "designated local authority", who will activate the cryptography application. The companies behind EMBASSY are hoping that the program will meet the new Department of Commerce encryption export standards, which currently place a 56-bit limit on exported software applications. While 90 percent of countries have no domestic-use policies, the program allows law enforcement agencies that mandate key recovery features, such as France, to be able to obtain access to a user's encrypted files under certain circumstances. Several countries, including the UK, Germany, France, Denmark, Japan and Australia have already approved the technology. The US will not issue export license until they are certain that the recovery elements have been tested. Privacy advocates were critical of EMBASSY. Jim Gilmore, co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, expressed concern that the cooperation of Hewlett-Packard and Wave Systems with the government may lead to more surreptitious features being included into the program. "What other black boxes have they put in this chip? Keystroke monitoring? Recording traffic across the bus?" asked Gilmore. "If they're giving you a black box, who's to say what other capabilities are actually in that chip?" Read this related WIRED News article: http://www.wired.com/news/news/technology/story/15848.html

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Re: Random array (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 17:33:29 +0100 > From: Anonymous <nobody(a)replay.com> > Subject: Re: Random array > A couple responders have said there is no SWAP_TIMES > which would work. But I don't understand why the > following wouldn't work: > > First of all, make sure that x and y can't be equal, since > there's no point in swapping an element with itself. This > should add a negligible amount of time. > > x=getrand(); > do > y=getrand(); > while (x == y); > > Now, simply calculate how many SWAP_TIMES it would take for it > to be equally as likely that an element would not be touched as > it would to land in its original spot. > > (255/256)^(t*2) = 1/256 > > or > > t = ln(1/256)/(2*ln(255/256)) > > or > > 708.3955 > > > Another anonymous wrote: > > In the following snippet of pseudo-code, what should the value of > SWAP_TIMES be to make the array A[] random, assuming > that getrand() returned a truly random integer between > 0 and 255 > > A[256]; > > for(i=0;i<SWAP_TIMES;i++){ > x=getrand(); > y=getrand(); > swap(A[x],A[y]); > } > > Thanks > Actualy the optimal value is even easier to calculate. Given an initial array, A(m), and the desire to randomly swap the contents until there is sufficient entropy to pass the various statistical tests leaves us with: Given m initial element and we are swapping them two at a time then we need to execute at most m/2 swaps to randomize the array. So, the optimal SWAP_TIMES ends up being, in this case, 128. This of course doesn't touch on the new rule above about testing for x=y. In which case you could simply do it over again. Now given that there are m elements and the odds of selecting any given one is 1/n and the odds of selecting it twice at one time is 1/n^2. ____________________________________________________________________ To know what is right and not to do it is the worst cowardice. Confucius The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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Bic-Assassins Convicted
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

CNN http://www.cnn.com/US/9810/30/weapons.case.ap/ Two men convicted in biological weapons case October 30, 1998 Web posted at: 3:10 a.m. EST (0810 GMT) BROWNSVILLE, Texas (AP) -- Two men accused of scheming to attack President Clinton and others with cigarette lighters equipped with poison-coated cactus needles were convicted of sending threatening e-mail. Johnie Wise, 72, and Jack Abbott Grebe, 43, were convicted Thursday of two counts of sending threatening e-mails -- one message to the Internal Revenue Service and one to the Drug Enforcement Agency. Grebe and Wise were acquitted on one count each of conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction count and five counts each of sending threatening messages -- to President Clinton, U.S. Customs, the FBI, the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms, and the Secret Service. They could get life in prison at their Jan. 29 sentencing. Prosecutors said Wise schemed to modify a cigarette lighter so it would shoot cactus needles coated with toxins such as rabies, botulism, anthrax or HIV. Defense attorneys called idea 'silly' Among the men's alleged targets: Clinton, the U.S. and Texas attorneys general, and FBI Director Louis Freeh. Defense attorneys called the idea "silly" and "cockamamie." There was never any evidence that the accused possessed biological weapons or tried to develop a deadly lighter. The e-mailed threats were vaguely worded and did not discuss the lighter or cactus thorns. Under federal law, however, the threats were enough for a conviction and no biological weapons were needed, prosecutors said. The men would have carried out their plan to hurt government employees and their families if they hadn't been arrested, Assistant U.S. Attorney Mervyn Mosbacker said. Wise and Grebe were accused of concocting the plan to threaten government officials with e-mails. One e-mail, sent June 12, was titled "Declaration of War" and a second one, sent June 26, said government workers had been "targeted for destruction by revenge." A third defendant, Oliver Dean Emigh, 63, was acquitted on all counts. He was accused of writing the June 12 message, but the charges against the men stemmed from the June 26 e-mail. -- Thanks to D.

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Re: Random array (fwd)
by Jim Gillogly 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I said: >> One could modify Greg's suggestion slightly by attaching an auxiliary >> array of 256 random numbers to each of the members of the original >> array and then using the most efficient handy sort algorithm to sort >> those random numbers, dragging along their associated original array >> elements. This way it doesn't have a chance to interfere with the >> operation of the sorting algorithm, at the cost of an extra array. Jim Choate responded: > If I understand the process. Each array would cycle through in parallel > sorting 2 elements of each array. Once that was finished we'd then sort the > arrays themselves according to some process. From your description it seems > to imply that you're going to sort the 1st element descending at that point. > This in effect mis-orders each array after every sort. > > This sort of system is an IFS and could lead to determinism (ie a cycle of > sort patterns that repeat endlessly) or chaos (ie a pattern that doesn't > repeat). It in and of itself doesn't guarantee any randomness merely a > continously munged sort. I expressed myself badly. Steve Gibbons posted a message to Coderpunks expressing more clearly what I had in mind: Fill up the high bits of your N words with random numbers and the low bits with an index from 0 to N-1. Sort the array, then mask off the high bits. If the random numbers were unique, you are left with a randomly shuffled array. -- Jim Gillogly Trewesday, 9 Blotmath S.R. 1998, 16:48 12.19.5.11.12, 10 Eb 5 Zac, Seventh Lord of Night

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