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Re: Newt's phone calls
by Phillip M. Hallam-Baker 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Toto <toto(a)sk.sympatico.ca> wrote in article <5bk506$ruj(a)life.ai.mit.edu>... > Brian Lane wrote: > The fact is that the transmission 'was' encrypted. While this fact > isn't > being 'reported', it is causing no small amount of consternation in > certain circles in Washington. Knowing the circles that would be concerned I know that they are discussing no such thing. Phill

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DIGICASH:Re: observer chips
by wcs＠anchor.ho.att.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> I have always been skeptical of this observer-chip approach, because it > wasn't clear that it was feasible to make a tamper-resistant chip > economically, and because the specialized hardware that would be > required would prevent the system from being used on widely-available PCs. Well, the government pretends they can do a tamper-proof chip, complete with wiretap keys installed by the wizards behind the curtain, for $36. That's $26 for the chip in qty 10,000, plus a subsidized $10 for tapping service and key installation. I thought Mykotronx's press releases had sounded more like they wanted $36 themselves, and I don't know the price for VLSI Inc's tamper-proof technology, but it may not be far off. As far as interfaces go, PCMCIA are nice, but there's not much data to transfer in most digicash exchanges, so a dumb cheap serial interface may be more realistic, since everything supports it. Bill Stewart

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No Subject
by cowen＠glia.biostr.washington.edu 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

hello folks i have been trying to ge the non-net folk to fight against clipper and all other such methods of the gov't to surpress the freedom to talk to anyone at anytime without other listening in on things so my finacee wi going ot give a short series of speachs to her speech class. anyone can do this, talk out loud to the public tell your non net friends, tell everyone. also ..... help anyone who has a list of article or topics that can be looked up in serial lititure to use for this purpose, please e.mail me the info or post it so others can gain the infomation to use to fight those who would take our rights from us. charles the monster maker

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noise levels
by Perry E. Metzger 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The noise levels around here are getting astounding. Posts on windows registration wizards, gun control, unemployment, Kevin Mitnick's underwear, and all the rest are most certainly NOT doing us any good. Here we are in the midst of IBM putting espionage enabled versions of Lotus Notes out (someone should be putting out a hack to change the embedded public key), Microsoft putting out a crypto API that could potentially be of enormous interest, activity moving in the Karn lawsuit, and all sorts of other important events, and YOU DUNDERHEADS ARE MAKING IT IMPOSSIBLE TO CARRY OUT IMPORTANT DISCUSSIONS. If you want to help the NSA in its mission to stop the dissemination of strong crypto, by all means, continue posting garbage. Perry

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Re: THE RECIPROCAL ?......
by Alan Olsen 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 08:33 AM 1/17/96 -0600, you wrote: > >Terence Joseph Mallon writes: > > "When people talk of encryption they use the word break, they are > > approaching from one way but not the only way. I am at present trying the > > reciprocal, that is, to mend." > >Why do I sometimes feel that personalities that once were drawn to >design of perpetual motion machines or techniques for squaring circles >may very soon flock to cryptographic "research"? Actually, I think she was just fucking with his mind... It sounds like an answer that I would give to a paranoid newbie, given half the chance. (If I had thought of it...) "A mindfuck is a terrible thing to waste." I am sometimes surprised at the number of "They have broken PGP" stories I keep hearing. People who know NOTHING about cryptography somehow "know" that PGP has somehow been "broken". I wonder how these memes are getting into the culture at large? Alan Olsen -- alano(a)teleport.com -- Contract Web Design & Instruction `finger -l alano(a)teleport.com` for PGP 2.6.2 key http://www.teleport.com/~alano/ "Is the operating system half NT or half full?"

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The I Bomb
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

A&E presents this week the BBC Horizons show, "The I Bomb," featuring Tim May smart-bombing various brass and infowar chicken littlers. It also shows an SAIC wizard sniffing a system to plant evil polymorphous code a la Shimomura -- presaging the recent GNN report on NSA's net traps. ---------- From: http://www.aetv.com A&E _________________________________________________________________ Series: Voyages. The I-Bomb. A look at how information--not bombs--is becoming the most important weapon in war. Includes interviews with top U.S. military strategists and futurists Alvin and Heidi Toffler. Duration: 1 hour DateTime Thursday1/18 10pm [EST, presumably, since the show just finished] Friday1/19 2am Saturday1/20 11am _______________________________________________________________

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re: CAPI signing
by m5＠dev.tivoli.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

A Microsoft person just responded via direct e-mail that they'll do CAPI signing in the United States (the word "only" wasn't in there, but that certainly was the implication). This means, to me, that there won't be much CAPI-compliant software produced outside the US, or at least that people who do it will have to bear that insult. It's reminiscent of the Lotus thing. I see no reason for Microsoft to be reluctant to have non-USA signings other than fear of USGov reprisals. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | Nobody's going to listen to you if you just | Mike McNally (m5(a)tivoli.com) | | stand there and flap your arms like a fish. | Tivoli Systems, Austin TX | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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Re: CryptoAPI and export question
by James A. Donald 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 07:36 PM 1/17/96 -0800, Lucky Green wrote: >So the main thing that the new MS CSP accomplishes is to establish a >standard that will prevent foreigners at the OS level from using real >crypto with popular applications. Way to go Microsoft. It seems to me that Microsofts plan is carefully and ingeniously designed to fail: They will do their best to restrain the export of real crypto, but alas, in the end, they will regretfully admit that they failed. Some evil person will have illegally exported real crypto after they signed it. Too bad. How sad. --------------------------------------------------------------------- | We have the right to defend ourselves | http://www.jim.com/jamesd/ and our property, because of the kind | of animals that we are. True law | James A. Donald derives from this right, not from the | arbitrary power of the state. | jamesd(a)echeque.com

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Re: Random Number Generators
by James A. Donald 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

"Timothy L. Nali" writes: > The most promising design I've seen so far (that I can actually > do) is based on clocking a D flip-flop in the following way: > > [Shifts the output of a clock that he hopes will be sloppy into > a shift register] If you want noise, your circuit needs a known noise source, with known good properties Your circuit has no known noise source, you are just hoping that there will be noise in it somewhere. Johnson noise is amplified thermal noise thus it is known to be good: Amplify johnson noise to signal levels, and then shift this random analog output into a long shift register. (You will need a long shift register to suppress metastable states.) You should set up your low frequency analog feedback to get near equality of ones and zeros, and you should have digital feedback (similar to a CRC generator) to get perfect equality of ones and zeros. --------------------------------------------------------------------- | We have the right to defend ourselves | http://www.jim.com/jamesd/ and our property, because of the kind | of animals that we are. True law | James A. Donald derives from this right, not from the | arbitrary power of the state. | jamesd(a)echeque.com

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[noise] Re: Attack Simulator
by Alan Olsen 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 02:04 PM 1/18/96 -0600, Patrick Lamb wrote: >Is it just me, or does this sound like a commercial version of SATAN? I >wonder what makes SATAN unacceptable (besides the name) while something like >this is apparently acceptable? It is very similar, both in tests and in basic principle, to Satan. The differences between the two are hype and Satan is free to anyone who can figure how to make it work. (Not always an easy task... Especially on Linux.) Such tools are very useful for system admin types to fix holes and for hackers to find them. It is not the "all powerful hacker tool" the media makes it out to be. What this has to do with crypto, I have no idea... Alan Olsen -- alano(a)teleport.com -- Contract Web Design & Instruction `finger -l alano(a)teleport.com` for PGP 2.6.2 key http://www.teleport.com/~alano/ "Is the operating system half NT or half full?"

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