Re: Passive Trojan (was:Re: HAZ-MAT virus)
At 9:38 AM 9/3/96, Hans "Unicorn" Van de Looy, aka "Deep Throat," wrote:
:: Request-Remailing-To: remailer@huge.cajones.com .... :: Request-Remailing-To: remailer@remailer.nl.com .... :: Request-Remailing-To: furballs@netcom.com (Paul S. Penrod)
Deep Throat.
Hey, Hans, ya gotta watch those "Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com" lines! At least now we know who the _other_ "Unicorn" is. How's Sequent doing? Is Casey Powell still there? --Tim May We got computers, we're tapping phone lines, I know that that ain't allowed. ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay@got.net 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Licensed Ontologist | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."
Timothy C. May wrote:
At 9:38 AM 9/3/96, Hans "Unicorn" Van de Looy, aka "Deep Throat," wrote:
:: Request-Remailing-To: remailer@huge.cajones.com :: Request-Remailing-To: remailer@remailer.nl.com .... :: Request-Remailing-To: furballs@netcom.com (Paul S. Penrod) Deep Throat.
Hey, Hans, ya gotta watch those "Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com" lines! At least now we know who the _other_ "Unicorn" is.
Which brings up the following question: what is the role of human screwups in cryptosecurity? How "foolproof" (no pun intended) should be remailer clients? How can we prevent people from forgetting to delete unencrypted files after encryption? Alternatively, let's think about this: premail always fingers a certain user account at berkeley.edu to obtain remailer keys. Suppose that Joe DrugUser uses remailers to talk to his Columbian friends and the government wants to find out what he is doing. They could just break into the computer at berkeley.edu and replace keys with the government-provided keys. They could even modify the finger server so that it would be lying only to Joe's computer and would work just as before for all others (to prevent detection). The government would then intercept Joe's communications and decrypt them. - Igor.
Hi Tim, The one-and-only Timothy C. May once stated: ! At 9:38 AM 9/3/96, Hans "Unicorn" Van de Looy, aka "Deep Throat," wrote: ! >:: ! >Request-Remailing-To: remailer@huge.cajones.com ! .... ! >:: ! >Request-Remailing-To: remailer@remailer.nl.com ! .... ! >:: ! >Request-Remailing-To: furballs@netcom.com (Paul S. Penrod) ! > ! ! ! >Deep Throat. ! ! ! Hey, Hans, ya gotta watch those "Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com" lines! Like I explained before, this was a problem with a user of one of my/our systems, and has been taken care of. ! At least now we know who the _other_ "Unicorn" is. Well that has never been a secret... Has it? ! How's Sequent doing? Is Casey Powell still there? Sequent is doing extremely well. New architecture well on it's way, looking good! And yes, Casey is still in charge. Wanna know more? Then let's continue this off line... ! --Tim May ! ! We got computers, we're tapping phone lines, I know that that ain't allowed. ! ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- ! Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, ! tcmay@got.net 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero ! W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, ! Licensed Ontologist | black markets, collapse of governments. ! "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway." -- GreetZ, Hans. ==== _ __,;;;/ TimeWaster on http://www.IAEhv.nl/users/hvdl ============ ,;( )_, )~\| Hans "Unicorn" Van de Looy PGP: ED FE 42 22 95 44 25 D8 ;; // `--; GSM: +31 653 261 368 BD F1 55 AA 04 12 44 54 '= ;\ = | ==== finger hvdl@sequent.com for more info ===================
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