September 2016 - cypherpunks - lists.cpunks.org

SE: Appeal Court on Assange Detention
by grarpamp 20 Sep '16

20 Sep '16

https://cryptome.org/2016/09/se-assange-16-0916.pdf Meanwhile, Ecuador reaffirms its political asylum for Assange, which you can find to read elsewhere. People say Ecuador is nice weather and fine place to holiday.

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UK: Lauri Love Extradition to US
by grarpamp 20 Sep '16

20 Sep '16

https://www.judiciary.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/usa-v-love-judgment…

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Xorcist = Coderman
by rooty 20 Sep '16

20 Sep '16

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SHA-3 and GOST-R/Stribok
by xorcist＠sigaint.org 19 Sep '16

19 Sep '16

Anyone know of some good reference material comparing and contrasting these hash functions? >From what I know of the mathematics, they are quite unrelated, and it should be very difficult to make inferences about inputs by looking at their comparative outputs, but I'd love to see some work in this regard, if there is any out there. I have an application where it would be best to use two hash functions, but I'd like to make sure there is some "orthogonality" there.

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[WAR] Julian Assange: 1,700 Hillary Clinton emails prove she sold weapons to ISIS in Syria
by Zenaan Harkness 19 Sep '16

19 Sep '16

War, war, war . . . and more war! And anyway, what's the problem with a few 10s of thousands of weapons to moderate child-head chopping wahhabi islamists anyway?!! Tell me --that--, hey?!! Bah ... sovereign nations and all that international law shite - just who do they (anyone who's not the USA) -think- they are?!!!!! Running elections just like the USA, selling oil just like the USA, maintaining multi-decade relationships with their Russian partners just like the USA ... whoops, ahh, may be not that one - perhaps there's a problem there... now you just can't go running around for decades pretending you are national friends with Russia now, can you? Surely not? That would be like, treason to the hegemony or something. Well at least the CIA are professionals at running coups, overturning governments and all that - never miss a Turkish beat I hear, hint hint, nudge nudge - but don't go telling anyone now, snigger snigger... What? "Our" coups are starting to not succeed you tell me? Like, as in, fail like? W T F ??? !> !!? ? !@# !@#??!@#?!@# !@!! ?? B????? AAAAARRRRRRGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHAAAWWWWWWSSSSSSSHHHHHHHHIIIIIIIIIIT!!!!! Guess our last chance for world war 3 is the South China Sea then eh? (Psst, don't go telling anyone now, heh!) Julian Assange says “1,700 emails in Hillary Clinton’s collection” proves she sold weapons to ISIS in Syria http://theduran.com/julian-assange-says-1700-emails-hillary-clintons-collec…

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on communication - [zen@freedbms.net: Re: [geany/geany] fails to open Microsoft UTF-16LE file (MSO Word CUSTOM.DIC dictionary file) (#1238)]
by Zenaan Harkness 19 Sep '16

19 Sep '16

There are times when subtlety is useful, but at other times, you just have to be blunt. Below is a reminder to some kind folks of this simple fact. For the full conversation, see here: "fails to open Microsoft UTF-16LE file (MSO Word CUSTOM.DIC dictionary file) #1238" https://github.com/geany/geany/issues/1238 ----- Forwarded message from Zenaan Harkness <zen(a)freedbms.net> ----- Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2016 22:00:23 +1000 From: Zenaan Harkness <zen(a)freedbms.net> To: geany/geany <reply+0001f84495f53a7fe80377703ee092211dad5da016c7dbfe92cf0000000113f78b7692a169ce0a976e18(a)reply.github.com> Subject: Re: [geany/geany] fails to open Microsoft UTF-16LE file (MSO Word CUSTOM.DIC dictionary file) (#1238) On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 04:18:14AM -0700, elextr wrote: > > Should be easy, and should also be how the program is implemented. > > and how do you keep all this updated and in sync with changes to the > buffer as its edited? The layered model - the bottom layer is the text/ raw utf8 stream. The next layers are the indexing layers for various purposes as and when needed. An index is not just an array of "locations" of course since when the underlying text stream is inserted into or deleted from (in terms of bytes, not graphemes), then of course the corresponding index in the upper layer also needs to be updated. Now because when an index point gets updated it is that all subsequent index points also need to be updated, a tree structure for the indexes is required. And because the underlying layer can change, even it needs to be represented by a tree structure (various blocks of text are the leaves of the tree). This is basic Comp Sci - thus the "easy" bit. The text editor data structure is really the simplest useful program, and the data structures needed to handle "large" (anything other than trivial sized) text files, are well understood, well studied, and highly optimized. > > At least, that's how a superior programmer would implement it ;) > > Most of the features you describe are handled by the Scintilla editing > component which is a separate project at www.scintilla.org and I am > sure they would be delighted to hear how a "superior" programmer would > re-implement their library. :) Ah ok. An external dependency. Well :) Guess who needs to advise them their data structures are inferior then hey? :D Enjoy the ride, and to ease your communications with your upstream dependency, I suggest being exceptionally blunt with your "inferior structures" communications, and to top it off, don't stop at the code but go on to point large accusatory fingers at the personal life choices of the programmers involved. That should speed up the re-implementation. ----- End forwarded message -----

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Cloudflare & NoDAPL again w/ a ROTF
by Razer 19 Sep '16

19 Sep '16

So this morning I saw the rumor again FB gleaned by a 'friend' from a radical-oriented news consolidator-regurgitator. **National guard troops are wielding guns at the NoDAPL protest in North Dakota and making arrests"** There ARE NO NATIONAL GUARD TROOPS ARRESTING PROTESTERS! So it got me thinking (I'm dangerous when I do that) Exactly who is spewing this disinformation? Hey looky here! It's Da Fedz! This site, trofire. com is DNS'ed by Cloudflare. The RADICALS, The people who owns the trofire. com domain that consolidate and regurgitate all sorts of US and foreign activist news is, allegedly, the "Levin Papantonio Thomas Mitchell Rafferty & Proctor" PERSONAL INJURY LAW FIRM. Domaintools lookup: http://whois.domaintools.com/trofire.com Rr

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[RUS] USA media meltdown (e.g. "It's Official: Hillary Clinton Is Running Against Vladimir Putin")
by Zenaan Harkness 19 Sep '16

19 Sep '16

US Regime Media in Full Meltdown Mode Over Trump's NATO Remarks http://russia-insider.com/en/us-regime-media-gets-its-panties-bunch-over-tr…

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FC 2017 - Call for Papers
by grarpamp 18 Sep '16

18 Sep '16

-------- Original Message -------- To: fc-announce(a)ifca.ai Call for Papers Financial Cryptography and Data Security 2017 Twenty-First International Conference April 3–7, 2017 The Palace Hotel Malta Financial Cryptography and Data Security is a major international forum for research, advanced development, education, exploration, and debate regarding information assurance, with a specific focus on financial, economic and commercial transaction security. Original works focusing on securing commercial transactions and systems are solicited; fundamental as well as applied real-world deployments on all aspects surrounding commerce security are of interest. Submissions need not be exclusively concerned with cryptography. Systems security, economic or behavioral perspectives, and interdisciplinary efforts are particularly encouraged. Topics of interests include, but are not limited to: Access Control Anonymity and Privacy Applied Cryptography Auctions and Mechanisms Authentication and Identification Behavioral Aspects of Security and Privacy Biometrics Blockchain Applications Certification and Audits Cloud Computing and Data Outsourcing Security Commercial Cryptographic Applications Contactless Payment and Ticketing Systems Cryptographic Currencies Digital Cash and Payment Systems Digital Rights Management Distributed Ledgers Economics of Security and Privacy Electronic Commerce Security Electronic Crime and Underground Markets Fraud Detection and Forensics Game Theory for Security and Privacy Identity Theft Insider Threats Legal and Regulatory Issues Microfinance and Micropayments Mobile Systems Security and Privacy Phishing and Social Engineering Reputation Systems Risk Assessment and Management Secure Banking and Financial Services Smart Contracts and Financial Instruments Smartcards, Secure Tokens and Secure Hardware Social Networks Security and Privacy Trust Management Usability and Security Virtual Goods and Virtual Economies Voting Systems Web Security ---------------------------------------

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US Sells Drone Dragnets to Cities, Preparing for Urban Revolts
by grarpamp 18 Sep '16

18 Sep '16

https://tech.slashdot.org/story/16/09/17/0231204/the-us-government-is-build… The US government plans to launch "a three and a half year initiative to develop an urban drone detection system." The Aerial Dragnet program is to use off-the-shelf commercial components and mostly established technologies and methods to create a network of floating or tethered platforms that will ultimately provide 95% efficient drone identification in urban areas up to 180 square kilometers. The call to proposers states that the total cost of the system for a city should be around $90,000, and would likely include the ability to identify the micro-Doppler signatures given off by UAVs -- and birds. Unmanned aerial systems are becoming platforms "for hostile reconnaissance, targeting, and weapon delivery," warns the government document, noting drones are hard to detect because they're small and fly slowly at low altitudes. "In future urban battlegrounds, U.S. forces will be placed at risk by small UAVs which use buildings and naturally-occurring motion of the clutter to make surveillance impractical..."

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