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Tor @ FinCrypt2014
by grarpamp 26 Feb '14

26 Feb '14

> Tor Weekly News — February 26th, 2014 > Tor @ Financial Cryptography and Data Security 2014 > Mar 03-07 Barbados http://fc14.ifca.ai/ The above is regarding botnets (mevade) using Tor and related network load and availability... a necessary foundation for finance. The FC14 program has an anonymity session, related to bitcoin, whose papers at this time don't appear to relate directly to applied anon FC via anon networks, but are closer to that topic... bitiodine, IP addresses, mixcoin... if that is what you were expecting.

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Re: Telegram vs. Unhandled Expression
by rysiek 26 Feb '14

26 Feb '14

Dnia środa, 26 lutego 2014 02:42:49 Lodewijk andré de la porte pisze: > 2014-02-26 1:44 GMT+01:00 rysiek <rysiek(a)hackerspace.pl>: > > Well, what kind of philantropist would start a UNIX alternative, right? ;) > > That's at least a kind that winds all his costs off on his university. A > very understandable kind. I have no idea how and where to the Telegram crew "winds" their costs. Nor do I care, as long as the communication is secured even from their own potential meddling. So the question is: is it? -- Pozdr rysiek

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Telegram vs. Unhandled Expression
by rysiek 26 Feb '14

26 Feb '14

OHAI, This is very interesting, and I'd love cpunks opinion on it: http://unhandledexpression.com/2013/12/17/telegram-stand-back-we-know-maths/ Please note: http://unhandledexpression.com/2013/12/17/telegram-stand-back-we-know-maths… "Telegram backer, Pavel Durov, will give $200,000 in BTC to the first person to break the Telegram encrypted protocol. Starting today, each day Paul (+79112317383) will be sending a message containing a secret email address to Nick (+79218944725). In order to prove that Telegram crypto was indeed deciphered and claim your prize, send an email to the secret email address from Paul’s message." inb4 "this does not tackle server MITM problem" no, no it doesn't; still, an interesting bet. -- Pozdr rysiek

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SSLv2
by Matej Kovacic 20 Feb '14

20 Feb '14

Hi, does anyone know which tool could be used for cracking SSLv2? Regards, Matej

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re: bitcoin
by dan＠geer.org 19 Feb '14

19 Feb '14

Yesterday's letter to alumni from MIT President Reif ________________________________________________________________ Dear MIT Alumni, This evening, I sent the following message to the campus MIT community. Because I know that you care very much about the welfare of our students, I thought you might be interested to see it, too. Sincerely, L. Rafael Reif __________________________________________________________________ To the members of the MIT community: I am writing to address a problem that a group of MIT students currently face but that concerns all of us, because it highlights issues central to sustaining the creative culture of MIT. The students in question are the creators of Tidbit, a proof-of-concept code for a novel Bitcoin-harvesting strategy. After Tidbit won the "most innovative" award in a recent hackathon, the State Attorney General of New Jersey demanded that the students turn over a sweeping set of documents, code and information--a surprising and difficult turn of events for the Tidbit team. I am grateful to all those who have written to me to express their concern about this situation, and I want to make it clear that the students who created Tidbit have the full and enthusiastic support of MIT. Chancellor Cindy Barnhart and Provost Marty Schmidt met with the students yesterday. They and General Counsel Greg Morgan also spoke with the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), which is providing to the students, pro bono, the independent legal representation that they need. We will remain in close coordination with the students and the EFF to offer assistance in the legal proceedings. Beyond this specific case, I believe we should provide our student inventors and entrepreneurs with a resource for independent legal advice, singularly devoted to their interests and rights. I have asked the Provost, Chancellor and General Counsel to develop and submit to me a specific proposal for creating such a resource, which will add an essential new strength to MIT's innovation ecosystem. When the MIT community works together, we spot problems, analyze them and solve them. Let's solve this one together. Sincerely, L. Rafael Reif

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XMPP Server is Working Again!
by CypherPunk 19 Feb '14

19 Feb '14

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Re: Cryptocurrencies for Good
by dan＠geer.org 18 Feb '14

18 Feb '14

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-26169411 Why every household should have its own currency --dan

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Chaotic Times on the Dark Nets
by Rich Jones 17 Feb '14

17 Feb '14

Rough week for the underground! Utopia has been seized by the Dutch police, BMR forums got seized by the Iranian police (anybody want to take any guesses at that one?), and now Silk Road 2.0 has been owned/possibly scammed everybody. I guess TMP will take the crown now, but for how long? I'm honestly not optimistic about the continued operation of _any_ service if Tor hidden service operators continue to operate in the manner instructed by the Tor project. There just isn't enough redundancy, servers need to be located in multiple regions simultaneously. We shall see what the future holds. R

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Snowden and Compilers
by Rich Jones 16 Feb '14

16 Feb '14

In all of the Snowden docs that have been released so far, has anybody seen any mention of any NSA programs designed to subvert compilers? Compilers seems like an extremely prime target for manipulation, but as far as I am aware there hasn't been anything mentioned about this yet. Has anybody here heard anything that I haven't? R

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Re: [Cryptography] Snowden Meets MacAskill, Poitras and Greenwald
by John Young 14 Feb '14

14 Feb '14

Page added. Thanks. At 07:38 PM 2/13/2014, Jerry Leichter wrote: >This one also seems to be missing a page - between "Snowden believed >that the US" and "struggled to make sense of the PRISM slides." > > -- Jerry > >On Feb 9, 2014, at 10:32 AM, John Young <jya(a)pipeline.com> wrote: > > > http://cryptome.org/2014/02/snowden-meet.pdf > > > > Snowden to MacAskill, vehemently: "GCHQ is worse than NSA. It's > even more intrusive."

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