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Re: PGP 2.7
by anonymous-remailer＠shell.portal.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

--> I keep seeing pgp 2.7 in public key & sig blocks. --> Where do we get it? 2.7 is a ViaCrypt product which you have to pay royalties for, and last I heard they didn't include sources with their distribution. Anybody know if they've started sending the sources with the executables?? Here's their addresses and tel #'s: Mail: 9033 N. 24th Avenue Suite 7 Phoenix AZ 85021-2847 Phone: (602) 944-0773 Fax: (602) 943-2601 Internet: viacrypt(a)acm.org Compuserve: 70304.41

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Re: News->Mail & CMU's Andrew Message System
by shamrock＠netcom.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Big Lama wrote; >A, B, C and D and E and AMS and AFS and DCE and DFS and IPC and RPC >and MDA and STP and LSD and THC... >...and amphetamine. > >Big Lama (remembering an old hit, from the Flower Power period) "The Alphabet Song" by "David Peel and the Lower East Side." -- Lucky Green <shamrock(a)netcom.com> PGP encrypted mail preferred.

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A short primer on algebra
by eric＠remailer.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

In the interest of good mathematical terminology, here is a short primer on the most basic algebraic structures. The definitions are not complete but rather evocative and are designed to prevent confusion. Field -- has addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. Examples are the real numbers (R), the complex numbers (C), and the rational numbers (Q). An important class of fields for crypto are integers modulo a prime (Z/pZ or F_p). An important class of fields for error coding are polynomials with binary coeffients modulo an irreducible polynomial (F_2[x]/p(x)F_2[x]). Ring -- has addition, subtraction, multiplication, but no division. Every field is a ring but not vice-versa. Examples are the integers (Z), the integers modulo a composite number (Z/nZ) and polynomials with various rings, including R[x], Z[x]. Group -- has either addition/subtraction or multiplication/division, but not necessarily both. Every ring is a group under addition, but not vice-versa. If the group is commutative, we write the operation as addition typically; if not, we use multiplication. Examples of commutative groups are solutions of an elliptic curves and rotations in the plane. Examples of non-commutative groups are permutations, rotations in three dimensions, and Euclidean transformations of the plane. Eric

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17 Dec '03

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Intel, MS, & Compaq to boost Inet access x30 w/ new modem [CNN]
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > > REPORT: VENTURE PROMISES SPEEDIER INTERNET ACCESS > > Internet graphic January 20, 1998 > Web posted at: 9:21 a.m. EST (1421 GMT) > > NEW YORK (AP) -- Lightning-quick Internet access is in the works > under a reported new venture between three titans of the computer > industry and most local telephone companies. > > Executives at Intel, Compaq Computer and Microsoft said in The New > York Times on Tuesday that they want to develop a new type of > personal computer modem that would allow access to World Wide Web > pages at speeds 30 times faster than the usual several seconds to > minutes it now takes. > > Perhaps more important, the product would plug into normal telephone > lines, which would remain connected to the outside world. > Consequently, users would not need to dial a service and could > conduct normal voice conversations over the same line, the Times > said. > [text deleted] ____________________________________________________________________ | | | The most powerful passion in life is not love or hate, | | but the desire to edit somebody elses words. | | | | Sign in Ed Barsis' office | | | | _____ The Armadillo Group | | ,::////;::-. Austin, Tx. USA | | /:'///// ``::>/|/ http://www.ssz.com/ | | .', |||| `/( e\ | | -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- Jim Choate | | ravage(a)ssz.com | | 512-451-7087 | |____________________________________________________________________|

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Re: Your local phone company (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Hi, Ooops, I needed to do some editing that I missed....sorry for the confusion. > that base 4800 baud. Faxes get the 9600 because they use dual-tones, neither > of which is above the 4800. The problem with shoving more tones is that afer I should have changed all those 4800's to 1200's. I couldn't remember which one so I had picked one distinct from the example provided by ya'll and missed changing it to the correct value per the references. I got sloppy. ____________________________________________________________________ | | | The most powerful passion in life is not love or hate, | | but the desire to edit somebody elses words. | | | | Sign in Ed Barsis' office | | | | _____ The Armadillo Group | | ,::////;::-. Austin, Tx. USA | | /:'///// ``::>/|/ http://www.ssz.com/ | | .', |||| `/( e\ | | -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- Jim Choate | | ravage(a)ssz.com | | 512-451-7087 | |____________________________________________________________________|

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Taxonomy of crypto applications
by David Honig 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Trying to make sense of the various applications of crypto, I came up with an illustration of their 'dependancies' at http://rattler.otc.net/crypto/mydocs/taxonomy.gif This picture illustrates topics that you should learn before others. For instance, digital watermarking depends on steganography and message-authentication codes. Anonymity requires understanding traffic mixing and practical encryption; practical encryption requires understanding public and secret key encryption. FWIW. Comments welcome. ------------------------------------------------------------ David Honig Orbit Technology honig(a)otc.net Intaanetto Jigyoubu "How do you know you are not being deceived?" ---A Compendium of Analytic TradeCraft Notes, Directorate of Intelligence, CIA http://www.jya.com/cia-notes.htm

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Brute Force DES
by Duncan Frissell 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 10:32 AM 7/22/96 -6, Peter Trei wrote: >Any one up for a distributed brute force attack on single DES? My >back-of-the-envelope calculations and guesstimates put this on the >hairy edge of doability (the critical factor is how many machines can >be recruited - a non-trivial cash prize would help). I volunteer my 120 MHZ Pentium. A lot more Pentiums are out there now than a year ago. That makes it more feasible. A lot more people with full net connections. Like most Americans, I have a flat rate net connection and a flat rate local phone connection so could run a cracking session permanently (as long as no one tells my ISP). We need a full test of the Winsock cracking client in any case. It wasn't working very well last time. DCF

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Re: (eternity) Eternity as a secure filesystem/backup medium
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Bill Stewart writes: > >Do the math, though, for 128bit. There are traditional analyses > >which include the amount of silicon on the earth, the number of atoms > >in the universe, etc. The general consensus is that traditional > >techniques are not feasible for brute forcing 128bit ciphers before > >the heat death of the universe. > > Hard to say. Assuming that Quantum Cryptography doesn't allow > finite-sized computers to do large exponentially complex calculations > in short finite time, you're probably limited by the number of atoms > in the available supply of planets, and Heisenberg may still get you > if that's not a low enough limit. Moore's law isn't forever. A practical 128-bit key-cracker could be built with about 10000 cubic meters of silicon. (Figure one transistor per cubic micron, 1 ghz operation, do the math...) The technology to build a computer of that size is still a few years away, but it is theoretically possible to build a 128-bit key-cracker without using quantum computers or travelling to other planets.

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Latest smartcard software
by Lucky Green 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The Independent Smartcard Developer Association, the only non-vendor controlled smartcard related industry organization, announces their latest release of SIO/STEST. SIO/STEST is a developer toolkit that provides drivers for most popular smartcard readers as well as card support for a wide range of crypto capable smartcards. SIO/STEST provides the tools required by the application programmer to integrate smartcards with their application. Current release: 1.11e (January 20, 1998) Changes: - added support for GSM SIM's - additional Chipknip support - Schlumberger reader support As alwasy, your feedback is appreciated. Thanks, -- Lucky Green <shamrock(a)cypherpunks.to> PGP v5 encrypted email preferred. "Tonga? Where the hell is Tonga? They have Cypherpunks there?"

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