May 2018 - cypherpunks - lists.cpunks.org

15 May '18

out of the memory hole : ---------- At 12:51 AM -0800 1/6/98, Wei Dai wrote: >I don't understand why there is so much talk about guns here lately. >Unless someone comes up with a weapon that has some very unusual economic >properties, individuals cannot hope to compete with governments in the >domain of deadly force. If we have to resort to physical violence, we've >already lost! People on almost any unmoderated mailing list will talk about what interests them. Those who mainly want to talk about crypto are of course free to do so. (You have, Wei, done important work in this area. But you very, very seldom write articles on this list, at least not for the last couple of years--I count less than one article per month from you over the past half year. I urge you to write such articles if you dislike reading what others are writing.) I agree that two or three or four or five years ago I was much more likely to write about something more crypto-related. Well, much time has passed. Most things worth saying have been said, at least for me. I can't work up the energy to discuss "data havens" a fourth or fifth time. (And an article from me on data havens, or information markets, or crypto anarchy, will usually produce complaints from people who don't see what it has to do with getting the latest version of PGP! That's only a slight exaggeration.) There have also been very few major new participants. A few years ago we could count on one or two major new "talents" joining the list each year, generating articles and new ideas. For whatever reasons, this has nearly stopped. I would guess the reasons are related to a) no major publicity stories as in past years, b) the disintegration of the list a year ago in the wake of the "moderation" fiasco (which cut subscriptions by 3-5x), c) competition from several other crypto lists, "moderated" by their owners, d) exhaustion of the older participants in the battles, and e) those who are interested in our topics have mostly already found us (meaning, the rich hunting period is over). ; >Think about it: if we can defend ourselves with guns, why would we need >crypto? This has an obvious answer. Guns are a last resort. Crypto makes it less likely that Big Brother will know what the proles are talking about, less likely that participants in a plan will be targetted for investigation and raids. Wei, your question could be paraphrased this way: "If Pablo Escobar could defend himself with guns, why did he need crypto in his cellphone?" (The answer being that P. Escobar was detected by using a cellphone without security. The NSA then told the DEA and its allies where he was and they took him out on a rooftop.) Final comment: If I find the motivation, I may finish an essay I've been working on about how we, the Cypherpunks and the World, are *retrogressing* in crypto areas. Most of the exotic applications are no longer being discussed, and various mundane commercial products are the main focus. Yawn. --Tim May The Feds have shown their hand: they want a ban on domestic cryptography ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, ComSec 3DES: 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Higher Power: 2^2,976,221 | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway." ------------

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G. Edward Griffin: Voluntaryism, Soviets, Cancer, Banks, Crypto
by grarpamp 15 May '18

15 May '18

Cryptocurrency with WAM at Take The Red Pill Winnipeg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BC3s8rnYLa0 Bitcoin with Max Wright and Trace Mayer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Id6rK87GF8M America with Lauren Southern https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rimtKVZlnKs Interviews Yuri Bezmenov https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3qkf3bajd4 The Creature From Jekyll Island w/ interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lu_VqX6J93k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1gTnOkdXps In Nielsio's Voluntary Library https://www.youtube.com/user/Nielsio/videos A World Without Cancer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGsSEqsGLWM

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From sand to silicon chips, openly
by Steven Schear 15 May '18

15 May '18

http://parallel.princeton.edu/openpiton/open_source_processors.php

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Cryptocurrency: #BankersAgainstBitcoin, New Documentaries, Snowden
by grarpamp 15 May '18

15 May '18

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Rowhammer is now remote exploitable
by grarpamp 15 May '18

15 May '18

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Peter Gutmann <pgut001(a)cs.auckland.ac.nz> Date: Mon, May 14, 2018 at 11:03 PM Subject: [Cryptography] Rowhammer is now remote exploitable To: "cryptography(a)metzdowd.com" <cryptography(a)metzdowd.com> An interesting paper just turned up on arXiv: Nethammer: Inducing Rowhammer Faults through Network Requests https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.04956 [...] In this paper, we present Nethammer. Nethammer is the first truly remote Rowhammer attack, without a single attacker-controlled line of code on the targeted system. [...] Depending on the location, the bit flip compromises either the security and integrity of the system and the data of its users, or it can leave persistent damage on the system, i.e., persistent denial of service. We investigated Nethammer on personal computers, servers, and mobile phones. Nethammer is a security landslide, making the formerly local attack a remote attack. Peter. _______________________________________________

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Oliver Stone: The Putin Interviews
by grarpamp 15 May '18

15 May '18

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt6840134/ torrents http://uj3wazyk5u4hnvtk.onion/search/putin%20interviews/0/99/0

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BriarProject Messaging 1.0 Released
by grarpamp 15 May '18

15 May '18

Briar 1.0 for Android has been released. Briar is a secure messaging app that uses peer-to-peer connections between mobile phones to implement decentralised messaging, forums and blogs. It operates over Tor, Bluetooth and wifi. https://briarproject.org/ https://code.briarproject.org/akwizgran/briar

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TPC: Totally Protected Comms vs. The Perfect Crime
by Steve Kinney 15 May '18

15 May '18

I'm spamming teh list with a duplicate of a reply to a previous post because I think this is cute. It's been bouncing around in my head for ages and I think its time may have come. On 05/12/2018 02:49 AM, grarpamp wrote: > Look to new messaging, fill, PETS and other venues, whatever, etc.. > search for papers, fidn tbe bibs, see what's out there, or what you > might create. Here's a silly notion: First you need a network of servers that can store and forward large amounts of data in the form of text, and distribute it across enough nodes to make the stored data deletion-resistant and reasonably accessible to a large number of users. NNTP will do nicely. Then you need privately owned devices capable of downloading gigabytes of data daily, and applying a decryption test to millions of messages as they flow by. Today's low end PCs will do nicely. Those gigabytes of text? Symmetrically encrypted messages from the whole Alice, Bob, etc. alphabet soup of users, employing keys obtained by whatever means from their intended message recipients. Everyone participating in this network would download the whole stream, testing the encrypted subject line of each discrete message with their personal keys, looking for the flag that says "this one's for you." Those messages would be decrypted instead of discarded, and presented in a local inbox. The rest would just zoom on past. Sending a message? Encrypt it and its subject line with your recipients' keys, and send it on its way. If your recipient downloads the stream before your message expires, success. 3rd party observers? Out in the cold, unless they penetrate individual users' machines or otherwise compromise endpoints, one user at a time. This protocol presents as an application of the most time honored and reliable principle of engineering practice: Brute force and total ignorance. With a side of COTS: We already have all the parts, this could be done with shell scripts. The only counter attacks I immediately see include flooding past the breaking point with purely random bits, which may require mitigation via short cycle message expiration or some kind of registration or proof of work process for users; or interruption of traffic by a global (or local) active adversary. Call the protocol and associated tools TPC: An acronym for Totally Protected Communication or, for those in the know, The Perfect Crytocrime. Bonus: Quantum cryptanalysis can't touch that, far as we know. :o)

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Internet Party - Moment of Truth: Dotcom, Assange, Greenwald, Snowden
by grarpamp 15 May '18

15 May '18

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pbps1EwAW-0

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Interview: Frank Herbert - Saviors and Political Animals
by Steve Kinney 15 May '18

15 May '18

I made a video from a found audio file, as little hobby project: Frank Herbert - Saviors and Political Animals This interview is a pre-Internet artifact recorded in 1984, and makes no reference to cryptography. But IMO it's dead center on topic for CPunks, because self identifying Libertarians and Anarchists need all the help they can get. Frank's ecological models of power dynamics in human affairs provides a stout dose of scientific and engineering sense that may cure any of several loads of ideological nonsense. "All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted." - Frank Herbert Frank Herbert was a true polymath, accepted without credentials as a participating member of the academic Ecology community (a demanding multidiscipliplinary science), as well as being an avid historian and radical political theorist. The mp3 I found included a lot with David Lynch, director of the original Dune movie, and about the film itself. So I cut the interview down to just Frank's historical and political exposition, and added a few appropriate quotes and pictures. Here's it. Bring popcorn and/or paper & pencil. https://archive.org/details/FrankHerbertSaviorsAndPoltiicalAnimals :o)

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