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AHEM! Please dont feed the Troll(s)!
by Anonymous Remailer (austria) 19 Jan '14

19 Jan '14

Sigh, seems every crop of new cypherpunks has to learn this lesson. Folks, Please DONT FEED the trolls here on cypherpunks.. dont repeat their subject lines dont respond to them, ignore them and killfile them if possible so you are not tempted to respond to them. Trust me its like wrestling with a pig in shit. after a while you notice the pig is enjoying him/herself. Anything you tell a troll will be used as more fuel for the fire.. trust me I have seen this many times! the anon moderator

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Re: Cari Machet
by Juan Garofalo 19 Jan '14

19 Jan '14

--On Sunday, January 19, 2014 10:37 AM +1000 "James A. Donald" <jamesd(a)echeque.com> wrote: > > An actual native american, probably male, You mean, you using +a sockpuppet. > gets pissed because this faux > indian is an embarrassment to actual Indians. > > It would perhaps have been more entertaining had her argument been that > private property oppresses women. > > >

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Is JYA now a medical Cannabis patient?
by Anonymous Remailer (austria) 19 Jan '14

19 Jan '14

hi everyone, Subject says it all, JYA has gotten rather loopy in his postings as of late refuses to bow to Ft Meade and the blessed repository of crypto knowledge our thought is the the NSA may be spiking/drugging his morning beverages or perhaps he is newly a medical cannabis patient... one does wonder

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Re: anti-prosecution tactics. (Was Re:)
by Troy Benjegerdes 18 Jan '14

18 Jan '14

> a) JYA is being paid in laundered bitcoin for spreading FUD to > cypherpunks and privacy technologists; CIA now embracing altcoins for > darkops and payoffs. > > b) the emerging market for captured 0day is spilling over into overt > baiting tactics in public places like our beloved listserv; elevated > noise a signal for constructed focal points of interest tapping faux > target treasures. > > c) because honeypots I don't have a clue about JYA, but what I have seen on the bitcoin lists about address re-use and stealth addresses pretty much confirms that lots of people are getting paid, and many are getting manipulated into developing and promoting 'privacy and anonymity' systems that come pre-hacked with a feed to the highest bidder. The only real defense normal people have is transparency. The only people who can afford privacy are the ones shouting the loudest that we all have an inalienable right to keep shit secret, while they quietly tap our phones, bank accounts, cryptocoin wallets, and new media.

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test 6
by Anonymous Remailer (austria) 18 Jan '14

18 Jan '14

test 6

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Replacing corporate search engines with anonymous/decentralized search
by Jesse R. Taylor 18 Jan '14

18 Jan '14

Recently there has been a lot of focus on the importance of developing more secure alternatives to email, instant messaging, browsing, etc. ... but I've seen very little focus on the need for development of alternatives to corporate search engines. Corporate/state control of the Internet involves a three pronged strategy of: mass surveillance, censorship/criminalization of undesirable ideas, and traffic shaping (i.e. directing people away of things you don't want them to see, and towards things you do). Corporate search engines are implicated in all three of these, i.e. they: 1) Monitor what we are searching for 2) Censor websites by removing them from search engine indexes 3) Shape traffic via non-transparent algorithms that can sort search results in a way that grants prominence to certain types of sites (corporate media, etc.), in order to suit the interests of multinational corporations and governments. ... so obviously, developing alternatives to corporate search is every bit as crucial for protecting privacy and free speech as encrypting our emails/chats, and anonymizing our browsing ... But I've seen very little information about practical/simple options that are available for anonymous and decentralized Internet search software. I've only been able to find a few examples like YaCy, but they all seem overly complex and unusable by the vast majority of users. What are the major barriers to creating simple tools (e.g. a plugin for Firefox) that would enable users to perform anonymous, p2p web search (even if it's much slower than centralized search) and break away from using corporate search? Which current efforts to create decentralized search seem most promising to you from a privacy/security standpoint? -- Jesse Taylor

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Fwd: Email is unsecurable - maybe not?
by grarpamp 18 Jan '14

18 Jan '14

More direct junkmail... ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Doug McFetters <dmcfetters(a)shazzle.com> Date: Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 2:06 PM Subject: Email is unsecurable - maybe not? To: grarpamp(a)gmail.com Hello I ran across the Nov 25 blog post on RandomBit.net titled ‘Email is unsecurable.’ I think we have pretty much developed what was imagined here. We identified the same flaws with email and came up with sending p2p tossing aside client/server architecture and using the sender’s smartphone as a server. And, like it was suggested, we don't send until someone comes up on line. App is free for consumers with iOS or Android device. Currently have tools for POP3/SMTP clients or our own slimmed down email client. Would love for you to try it out and let us know what you think. Or happy to hop on a call to discuss in more detail. Here is a link to get started - http://shazzlemail.com/quick-start Thanks Doug Doug McFetters VP, Operations Public: dmcfetters(a)shazzle.com Private & Secure: doug(a)zmail.shazzlemail.com (602) 793-1058 [image: Logo v7 small] ShazzleMail.com <http://www.sparqd.com/> | Visit us on Facebook! This email is only for the use of the intended recipient. Any unauthorized use or distribution is prohibited. If you received this email in error, please reply to the sender and destroy all copies of the email.

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PROFESSIONAL VICTIM CARI MACHET...time for DOXING
by Anonymous Remailer (austria) 18 Jan '14

18 Jan '14

hmm seems like anonymous may have a new project DOXING a fake indian/professional victim and publishing all of her sordid details publicly.. perhaps public shame will cause modification of her behavour.. for one thing though when you choose to announce 5 nations(civilized tribe) blood or membership as a way of winning discussions its like saying your great great grand parents and ALL of their family were awoken in the middle of the night and force marched 2k+ miles without supplies or belonging in an affort to exterminate them deiberately Do that around an actual descendant of the 5 nations and you will get checked out and backgrounded... again.. its not something for idle chitchat... other racial groups that have experience same such as the jewish "racial" grouping also keep track of holocaust survivor member names and descendants for reparation and claims, By a similar token citizenship or kin ship with a member of an indian nation is taken quite seriously by a lot of us as in the case of Cherokee or Seminole band membership an and reservation status may convey serious financial advantage or hardship(depending on which tribe) ie for seminole or cherokee it may mean a share of casino profits and land for choctaw band/nation indians it means getting included as part of Obummers new plantation system (the choctaw nation was called out specifically) for navajo nation bands it means your res is mined for Uranium and thorium and you get to have ALL your water supplies polluted by the white owned company that was given permission to invade and ruin what is essentially a foreign nation by the USG(this is present day) SO a BIG FUCK YOU to CARI MACHET FAKE WHITE BITCH CLAIMING 5 nations membership You and Paula Deen both should compare your makeup REDFACE/BLACKFACE makeup BITCHES AND CUNTS you BOTH are from the white establishment.. NO STUPID YOU DONT LOOK A BIT LIKE a CHEROKEE BAND INDIAN! BITCH

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more NTRU fun: Homomorphic AES Evaluation Using NTRU
by coderman 18 Jan '14

18 Jan '14

http://eprint.iacr.org/2014/039.pdf [see pdf for citations / bib] """ ... Fully homomorphic encryption has come a long way in a mere few years since the first plausibly secure construction was introduced by Gentry in 2009. This advance settled an open problem posed by Rivest, and opened the door to many new applications. In a nutshell, by employing FHE one may perform an arbitrary number of computations directly on the encrypted data without revealing the secret key. This feature, makes FHE a powerful tool in multi-party computing and perfectly suited to protect sensitive data in distributed applications including those hosted on semi-trusted cloud servers. The eciency bottleneck that prevents FHE from being deployed in real-life applications is now being bridged with the introduction of numerous new optimizations and related proof-of-concept implementations. The rst implementation of an FHE variant was proposed by Gentry and Halevi. An impressive array of optimizations were proposed with the goals of reducing the size of the public-key and improving the performance of the primitives. Still, encryption of one bit takes more than a second on a high-end Intel Xeon based server, while recrypt primitive takes nearly half a minute for the lowest security setting... a GPU based implementation of the same scheme was developed which managed to reduce the recryption time to a few seconds. Recently more ecient schemes emerged based on the hardness of learning with errors (LWE) problem... Brakerski, Gentry, and Vaikuntanathan (BGV) introduced an LWE based scheme that reduces the need for bootstrapping. Instead the BGV scheme uses a new lightweight method, i.e. modulus switching, to mitigate noise growth in ciphertexts as homomorphic evaluation proceeds. While modulus switching cannot restore the original level of noise as bootstrapping does, it still manages to gain exponentially on depth of the circuits evaluated without aecting the depth of the decryption circuit. Therefore, as long as we can x the depth of the circuit a priori, we can perform evaluations without bootstrapping using a leveled implementation. Smart and Vercauteren presented a number of batching techniques for packing multiple data streams into a single ciphertext. Gentry, Halevi and Smart introduced the ﬁrst evaluation of a complex circuit, i.e. a full AES block evaluation by using a BGV style scheme introduced earlier by the same authors. The scheme makes use of batching, key switching and modulus switching techniques to obtain an eﬃcient leveled implementation. Three batching techniques are used to obtain bit–sliced, byte–sliced and SIMD implementations. With 5 minutes per block evaluation time the byte-sliced implementation is faster, but also requires less memory. The SIMD implementation takes about 40 minutes per block. Alt-L´pez, Tromer and Vaikuntanathan (ATV) presented a leveled FHE scheme based on the modiﬁed NTRU scheme introduced earlier by Stehle and Steinfeld. A unique aspect of the ATV scheme is that it supports homomorphic evaluation of ciphertexts encrypted by using public keys assigned to diﬀerent parties. The authors outline the scheme using a leveled implementation and introduce a technique called relinearization to facilitate key switching during the levels of the evaluation. Modulus switching is also performed after multiplication and addition operations. The security of ATV scheme relies on two assumptions: the ring LWE assumption, and the Decisional Small Polynomial Ratio (DSPR) assumption. The scheme also supports bootstrapping. While the scheme is appears to be eﬃcient, the analysis ... lacks concrete parameters. Very recently Bos et al. presented a leveled implementation based on ATV . The authors modify the proposed scheme in a number of aspects to build up their own fully homomorphic scheme. The semantic security of ATV is based on uniformity of the public key which relies on the DSPR assumption.. the ATV scheme is modiﬁed by adopting a tensor product technique introduced by Brakerski such that the security depends only on standard lattice assumptions. Furthermore, modulus–switching is no longer needed due to the reduced noise growth. Lastly, the authors improve the ﬂexibility of the scheme by splitting the message using the Chinese Remainder Theorem and then encrypting them into separate ciphertexts. This makes integer based arithmetic easier and more eﬃcient with a cost of a reduction in the depth of circuits that can be evaluated with the scheme. Our Contributions. We introduce an implementation of the ATV FHE scheme along with a number of optimizations. More speciﬁcally we: • present a batched, bit-sliced implementation of the ATV scheme. The implementation is generic and is not customized to optimally evaluate any class of circuits (e.g. AES) more eﬃciently than other. • resolve the parameter selection issue in the light of recent theoretical and experimental results in the ﬁeld of lattice reduction. • introduce a specialization of the rings that simpliﬁes modulus reduction and allows us to signiﬁcantly reduce the size of the public key. We show that the impact of this specialization on the key space is negligibly small. Even further, with the specialization key switching is no longer needed. • rigorously analyze the noise growth of the ATV scheme over the levels of computation, and develop a simple formula for estimating the number of bits one needs to cut during the modulus reduction step. • homomorphically evaluate the full 128-bit AES circuit in a bit-sliced implementation to demonstrate the scalability of the introduced technique. Our implementation is 5 times faster than the byte sliced implementation and 43 times faster than the SIMD implementation of [other FHE...]. """

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wld b nice to know what these procedures entail
by Cari Machet 18 Jan '14

18 Jan '14

http://www.theguardian.com/world/interactive/2013/jun/07/obama-cyber-direct… pg 6 > footnote "...electromagnetic or directed energy to control the electromagnetic spectrum or to attack the enemy. Electronic warfare consists of three divisions: electronic attack, electronic protection, and electronic warfare support." -- Cari Machet NYC 646-436-7795 carimachet(a)gmail.com AIM carismachet Syria +963-099 277 3243 Amman +962 077 636 9407 Berlin +49 152 11779219 Twitter: @carimachet <https://twitter.com/carimachet> Ruh-roh, this is now necessary: This email is intended only for the addressee(s) and may contain confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any use of this information, dissemination, distribution, or copying of this email without permission is strictly prohibited.

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