Wednesday 8/26/98 7:11 AM J Orlin Grabbe 1 Tuesday issue of the ABQ J always carries a special section on computers. t 8/25/98 COUNTDOWN TO Y2K Cataclysm or inconvenience? Of most interest to me was Old mainframes make sheer size of problem nearly overwhelming By Chris Allbritton The Associated Press NEW YORK - The shear number of unique solutions needed for the Year 2000 bug, not the technical aspects, are the real problem behind this glitch in time. ... for the reason of my book and translation Machine, Assembly, and System Programming for the IBM 360, New York: Harper & Row, 1969 Programacion en Lenguaje de Maquina, Asemblador, y de Sistemas con el IBM 360, Harper & Row, 1971 In the 1970s some IBM 360/70/40xx were STILL running IBM 650 simulators which hosted code which companies did not want to rewrite! The message published in the Monday ABQ J ‘98 Warning! Due to serious bugs and compatibility problems, we join many other PC builders in recommending AGAINST Windows ‘98 at this time. http://www.c-works.com/ makes me speculate that the hardware vendors were able to try out their new hardware on DOS, Win 3.xx, 95, NT but not on ‘98. Since Microsoft may not have had new hardware like the AMD K6 -2 [3d], ‘98 was not fully exercised on the newer architectures. I will send you page on Y2K. And also the copy of NSA deputy director Barbara McNamara's wrote me a letter dated 19 August 1998. http://www.nsa.gov:8080/mission.html McNamara DENIED my fee waiver appeal for search for invoices NSA spent on public key chips. From my inside dealings with NSA's R division and Sandia employees I learned that both had some VERY UNFORTUNATE EXPERIENCES with public key. I am sending both you and John Young copies of NcNamara's letter. McNamara wrote, This response may be construed as a denial of your appeal. Accordingly, you are hereby advised to your right to seek judicial review of my decision pursuant to 5 U.S.C. § 552(a)(4) (B) in the United States District Court in the district in which you reside, in which you have your principal place of business, in which the Agency's records are situated (U.S. District Court of Maryland), or in the District of Columbia. http://www.jya.com/hr105-37.txt I wonder if http://www.taliban.com/ is the ‘real thing’ or an ‘intelligence agency’ spy plot? Since we send Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1998 13:43:24 -0600 From: bill payne <billp@nmol.com> To: dpcintrn@osd.pentagon.mil, abumujahid@taliban.com it doesn’t matter too much either way. We either get both or the same twice. I am reading http://www.aci.net/kalliste/ Impeachment Watch The High Cost of the War on Terrorism Bill Clinton's $100 Million Crusade Against Ken Starr by Charles R. Smith August was an expensive month for the U.S. taxpayer. For example, Bill Clinton shot $100 million on August 20, 1998 at "terrorist" sites in Sudan and Afghanistan. The 79 Tomahawk cruise missiles signaled a new "war" that Bill Clinton decided to declare on terrorism and not to be confused with the $100 million White House "war" on Ken Starr. ... Last night I was CAREFULLY STARTING to read HARCOPY OF http://www.softwar.net/plight.html especially Sensor input is processed through the A/D converter and provided as raw 8 bit data which is then saved in WAVformat. A program designed to extract randomization values from the raw data for use as a cipher key could takevarious forms. One form would be to serially store non-repeating samples of data into fixed length blocks for processing, such as 8 or 16 bytes. The sampled values would then be summed, XORed, left or right shift registered (LSR/RSR), least significant bit extracted, or any combination of math processes. The resulting byte of data would then represent the combination of photon values taken over the time period of the sample. Other processes could make use of various formulas, such as lossy or LZ, to give still other values for photons taken over the selected time period of the sample. 10 CLS:DEFINT A-Y:DEFDBL Z 20 OPEN "R",#1,"TEST.WAV",1 30 FIELD #1, 1 AS D$:J=1:O=0 40 Z1 = LOF(1):ZR=64:A=0:O$="" 50 ZR=ZR+1:IF ZR>Z1 THEN GOTO 100 60 GET #1,ZR:I$=D$ 70 GOSUB 110:IF FA=0 THEN GOTO 50 80 E=E+1:IF E>255 THEN E=0 90 GOTO 50 100 CLOSE #1:STOP 110 FA=0:SK=ASC(I$)+SK:IF SK>32510 THEN SK=SK-32510 120 IF S$<>I$ THEN GOTO 130 ELSE RETURN 130 FA=1:S$=I$:A=A+1:O$=O$+I$ 140 IF A=16 THEN GOTO 160 150 RETURN 160 A=0:B=0:O= E XOR J:K=SK MOD 256:O = K XOR O 170 FOR N=1 TO 16:X$=MID$(O$,N,1) 180 B=ASC(X$):O = B XOR O 190 NEXT N:O$="" 200 IF O=J THEN RETURN 210 PRINT O;:J=O 220 RETURN I STARTED to analyze what Smith’s BASIC code did. I am STILL THINKING ABOUT the REASONS FOR 110 FA=0:SK=ASC(I$)+SK:IF SK>32510 THEN SK=SK-32510 which contains PROBABLY ZERO-initialized variable SK. Smith will likely NOT be indicted by BXA http://www.bxa.doc.gov/FOIA/Foiaintro.htm http://www.bxa.doc.gov/FOIA/Foialib.htm for distributing controlled code on Internet. The statement The sampled values would then be summed, XORed, left or right shift registered (LSR/RSR), least significant bit extracted, or any combination of math processes. does NOT EXACTLY TELL what Smith is doing in PCYPHER ENCRYPTION USING LIGHT. But Smith's APPARENT belief that terminal bits of samples taken from continuous distributions are, we believe, uniformly distributed. Payne, W. H., and T. G. Lewis, Continuous Distribution Sampling: Accuracy and Speed, Mathematical Software, ed., J. R. Rice, Academic Press: New York (1971), pp. 331-345. Lewis, T. G., and W. H. Payne, Generalized Feedback Shift Register Pseudorandom Number Algorithm, Journal of Assn. for Computing Machinery, 21, 3 (1973): 456- 468. http://www-hto.usc.edu/software/seqaln/doc/html/gfsr.3.html http://www.friction-free-economy.com Sobolewski, J. S., and W. H. Payne, Pseudonoise with Arbitrary Amplitude Distribution: Part I: Theory, IEEE Transactions On Computers, 21 (1972): 337-345. Sobolewski, J. S., and W. H. Payne, Pseudonoise with Arbitrary Amplitude Distribution: Park II: Hardware Implementation, IEEE Transactions on Computers, 21 (1972): 346-352. http://www.mhpcc.edu/general/john.html HOWEVER, us the the REAL PRACTICAL WORLD http://jya.com/da/whpda.htm might be a bit concerned what happens if the sensor output voltage exceeds EITHER in a plus or minus direction the INPUT range of the a/d converter. http://www.softwar.net/plight.html Collector-Emitter Voltage 30 Volt Emitter-Collector Voltage 5 Volt If the input voltage goes SOMEWHAT HIGHER, then the terminal bit MAY BE A 1 and not random. On the other hand, if the input voltage goes SOMEWHAT LOWER, then the terminal bit MAY BE A 0 and not random. If the input voltages goes LOTS HIGHER OR LOWER than the limits, it is SAYONARA a/d converter! The Real World again. SOME NSA KG schematics Brian Snow showed me had statistical test hardware built in to ATTEMPT to detect non-random output. If the output failed the test, then the KG unit shut down. Smith, I think, has a neat idea which needs to be looked at VERY CAREFULLY. Some of us continue to feel that the crypto key must be as long as the message encrypted. As was pointed out by Gilbert S. Vernam and Joseph O. Mauborgne in 1918. Pseudorandom sequences DON’T WORK VERY WELL FOR ENCRYPTION. Pcypher Light is designed to measure the number of photons from around your PC (light particles) and create a random numbers from that light. Pcypher Light is NOT just software but hardware as well. It is easy to install and use. We give you SOFTWAR's advanced technology Light Probe, a highly sensitive phototransistor, which the software samples at thousands of times per second. Think of it as a microphone for light. In fact all you have to do is plug it directly into the MIC input of any PC sound card. That is it. Run the PC Windows software and start making REAL randomized keys. NOT A PSEUDO KEY GENERATOR. Two reasons are 1 There should always be TWO KEYs. The ‘real key’ and the key you claim IN A LEGAL-SENSE is the ‘real key’ in case you get CAUGHT. A Nuke them B Send flowers If you send A be sure to have a B key and a receipt for the flowers. 2 Pseudorandom sequences MAY make it difficult to find the SECOND key. So let’s hope these crypto messes http://www.aci.net/kalliste/speccoll.htm http://caq.com/cryptogate http://jya.com/whpfiles.htm http://www.qainfo.se/~lb/crypto_ag.htm gets SETTLED SO THAT WE CAN ALL DEBATE TECHNICAL ISSUES and PUBLISH our results in RECOGNIZED SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS and POST on the Infobahn too. I want to revise my book for Windows and the 80C32 too. Best bill http://www.apcatalog.com/cgi-bin/AP?ISBN=0125475705&LOCATION=US&FORM=FORM2 http://jya.com/f86/whpf86.htm