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Decoding Simon and Speck: Block Ciphers for the Internet of Things
by Ryan Carboni 23 Oct '17

23 Oct '17

I have previously told the Tor developers that they should work in PR, now I believe that the NSA is also very good at PR. I shall decode Simon and Speck: Block Ciphers for the Internet of Things for you. " In a stable world, it’s a good strategy to specialize, but when conditions change rapidly, specialists don’t always fare so well" everyone uses AES. Or Keeloq. Or RC4. People select the protocol for the application they will use, hence why the IoT won't use WPA2. Of course digital signal processing requires many many gates so... "For example, the consensus has long been that a budget of 2000 GE is all the chip area that might reasonably be allocated for security on the most constrained RFID tags" Who sets the consensus? I believe Snowden and John Gilmore had something to say about IPsec consensus? Regardless, nearly 40% of the registers for 256-bit secure Simon is for the temporary key. It isn't hard to beat Simon's security for better RFID performance, but that would hurt it's performance on other applications. Every cryptographer, particularly the ones who work on examining Keeloq have totally failed to notice this. "One further point about AES: not every application requires the same high level of security that AES is designed to provide." AES is the worst cipher to be adopted by American industry since DES. Should've gone with Skipjack. "that almost exactly matches PRINCE’s latency and area; it implements the combinational logic for 5 rounds, and encrypts in b 44 / 5 c 9 cycles." Yes, designing a hardware implementation with reasonable parameters will reduce latency and area. Would you be surprised if Prince would be better as a 2 cycle implementation? "This is excellent performance relative to other block ciphers; indeed CLEFIA realizes the 'world’s highest hardware gate e ciency'" Other block ciphers may have been incompetently designed. "The C implementations of Speck 128/256 have better overall performance than the best C implementations of ChaCha20, a stream cipher especially noted for its speed." ChaCha is a 512-bit poorly keyed block cipher. To achieve diffusion over such a large block size, more rounds and instructions are needed. To achieve non-linear dependency on each key bit, more rounds are needed. Naturally they said in a previous paper that ChaCha doesn't compare to Speck because it is a stream cipher (weird meme). It is a sad comedy when a protocol uses SHA-2-512 and truncates it to 256-bits to key a cipher when to avoid slide and Meet in the Middle attacks one needs at least twice the round keys. Anyway, embedded micro controllers for storage devices are 100 MHz ARM CPUs that cost half a cent each. There exists cheap FPGAs with a thousand slices. "AES, on processors with cache memory can be particularly vulnerable to these cache-timing attacks" they just trolling you now and you don't see it "Because of their simplicity (and perhaps because of their source!)" The NSA is very sexy. Join us. "Simon and Speck have been quite thoroughly vetted by the cryptographic community in the two years since their publication." Simon and Speck are very secure because numerous papers have incrementally improved upon each other, fortunately there wasn't a major breakthrough because that might halve the number of papers released. (oddly enough many of the papers were from Chinese researchers) The NSA manipulates you to your face, and you have failed. Each and every one of you. P.S. The phone system was a trade secret, but now WPA2 specification is a paywall. All these bought off cryptographers are in a cover their ass operation. They know they overlooked it, they have to explain to you why they overlooked it so they can still appear valuable to you. We could've had the Clipper chip, but now we may as well be using Tribler's OFB with same IV (nothing to see here). Anyway, WPA3 is needed for post-quantum eventually. Everything should head towards some sort of post-quantum algorithm, now that NTRU's patent expired. There is no reason why NTRU is not used, and I'd suggest conservative parameters for a given amount of input entropy. Smart cards and post-quantum for everything. P.P.S. Binney is a pathological liar. Just watch A Good American on Netflix. It is no wonder that the EFF is currently ineffectually complaining about unconstitutional laws. John Schindler is right, he doesn't express himself well, but I'm pretty sure he represents the opinions of the intelligence community in that many of you are blind and incompetent. (naturally the same could go for the intelligence community...) Bonus round because a helicopter flew over my house: Schneier said: "There is too much mistrust in the air. NIST risks publishing an algorithm that no one will trust and no one (except those forced) will use." That means trust me, I am opposed to what is happening and I am an expert. Schneier then said: I misspoke when I wrote that NIST made "internal changes" to the algorithm. That was sloppy of me. The Keccak permutation remains unchanged. What NIST proposed was reducing the hash function's capacity in the name of performance. One of Keccak's nice features is that it's highly tunable. Oh, I was just exaggerating, trust me, I have gone over to the other's side. When a familiar face changes their mind, will you go along with them if you were wavering to begin with?

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[WAR] Saker: Bibi's bitch will strike Iran
by Zenaan Harkness 23 Oct '17

23 Oct '17

10 yr prediction heatin up and reaffirmed - Bibi's bitch, that's Bibi Netanyahu's “punk-ass bitch” Donald Trollstoyabich Trump, shall be tail-wagged to strike Iran, to save face and satisfy his Zio MOTUs (for those unaquainted, that's Masters Of The Universe - namely the Zio banking cabal). Rarely do we see the Saker so pissed off :) -— Let it rip, Saker buddy, let it rip :D Trump goes full shabbos-goy http://thesaker.is/trump-goes-full-shabbos-goy/ “As I mentioned, [the above] article is dated. It is dated because since 2007 Iran has only become stronger, while the USA has become much, much weaker: not only has the USA been defeated in Syria, but the election of Trump has resulted in such a crisis inside the USA that at this point in time the USA does not even have a foreign policy of any kind and that the various branches of the US government are basically doing whatever the hell they want. As for Trump, he has become AIPAC’s “punk-ass bitch” (sorry for the rude expression, but in this case I cannot think of any combination of words which could more accurately illustrate Trump’s status). So, the big question is obvious: is that just hot air or will a war happen? At the risk of deepening what still might be my mistaken prognosis of 2007 I will say that yes, the USA will probably attack Iran. Since there is exactly ZERO chance of Iran caving in to the latest US-Israeli threats, not attacking Iran will now represent a major loss of face and humiliation for Trump and his Neocon masters. So the USA will go to war yet again, not for any rational reason, but solely because Bibi Netanyahu “owns” Trump and Israel “own” the USA. Yes my dear Americans, far from being “the land of the free and the home of the brave” the USA is a subservient colony of a tiny state in the Middle-East which also happens to be the last officially racist state on our planet. Which makes you neither brave, nor free. Sorry. ”

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[WAR] Google Jigsaw, nee Google Idea Groups, Serena Shimm, McCain - The American Way (R)(TM)(C)
by Zenaan Harkness 23 Oct '17

23 Oct '17

As the modern Empire collapses, the dirty laudry steadily hits the fan, with Google's regime change arm exposed by Serena Shimm who was murdered for the privilege. Veterens Today, the group of ex US army Special Forces personnel discussing their thang, exposes Google's “military front run by former White House National Security Council Clandestine Operations Chief Jared Cohen, an Israeli trained military planner” and gets targetted in lame “Oxford Study” hit piece - I guess ex Special Forces military veterans are less desirable targets of murder in comparison to American-born journalists living in Turkey… Surely when the financial shift finally happens and the world witnesses the inglorious failure of the American regime, many of these sub-plots will make for some of the gripping true stories ever told — "American Sniper"? How about "American Murderers" in a 200-episode mega movie series?‼ If Juan's got one thing absolutely right, it's that the USA is the greatest murdering war machine on the planet, and its relatively near fall is therefore a long time coming. Time to give Google the flick for all "but's it just works" addicts. Good luck world, 21.10.2017 Author: Gordon Duff Oxford Propaganda Front Attacks Veterans Today, the NeoCon Witch Hunt Begins https://journal-neo.org/2017/10/21/oxford-propaganda-front-attacks-veterans…

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[RUS] A revisionist look at Soviet history, 1920 — 1955
by Zenaan Harkness 23 Oct '17

23 Oct '17

A solid, yet concise bullet-point (essentially) list, with links to significant books published (and one not published!), to help expand the typically black and white dichotomy thinking/ discussion we have in the West. Enjoy, Z A Revisionist Look at Soviet History 1930 - 1955 http://russia-insider.com/en/revisionist-look-soviet-history-1930-1955/ri21…

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Czech Pirate Party comes in 3rd - ongoing shifts to the "right"
by Zenaan Harkness 23 Oct '17

23 Oct '17

Hungary’s Viktor Orban gets a new buddy on the international stage⫶ “In many EU countries, Pirate parties are seen as something of a protest vote, but this is not longer the case in Czech Republic. Also coming in with 22 seats, but with slightly fewer votes than the Pirates, was the Freedom and Direct Democracy Party, a group on the Czech far-right for whom anti-Islamic campaigns are a prominent features. After the Pirates and far-right came the Communists who still enjoy support among some older Czechs and only then, the formerly ruling Social Democrats. ” http://theduran.com/electoral-earthquake-czech-republic-puts-trump-style-an… Electoral earthquake in Czech Republic puts ‘Trump style’ Andrej Babiš in power

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[WAR] Whistleblowers unite - Pompeo: CIA is “going to become a much more vicious agency”
by Zenaan Harkness 23 Oct '17

23 Oct '17

Nothing particularly new here - Australia being the usual arrogant USA-lapdogs, America being aggressive against any nation that might be at all "useful" to undermining Russian and Chinese economic success, and the CIA being the most significant arseholes on the planet: Mike Pompeo’s latest rant demonstrates that the CIA is far more unreasonable than North Korea http://theduran.com/mike-pompeos-latest-rant-shows-cia-far-unreasonable-dpr… “Now though, the US has taken its peace averse attitude a step further as the perpetually unhinged CIA director Mike Pompeo, has made another ludicrous and provocative statement. In a recent statement, Pompeo talked brazenly about assassinating Kim Jong-un. The CIA director stated, “With respect to … if Kim Jong-un should vanish, given the history of the CIA, I’m just not going to talk about it. Someone might think there was a coincidence. ‘You know, there was an accident.’ It’s just not fruitful”. Pompeo then ominously stated that the CIA is “going to become a much more vicious agency”. Pompeo’s statements will be seen by North Korea as yet a further sign that the US does not seek peace, but in fact seeks yet another illegal overthrow of a head of state. With someone like Pompeo engaging in Dr. Strangelove style rhetoric against North Korea, is it really unreasonable to assume that North Korea should want to expand its deterrent against a US which is openly promising acts of illegal violence against North Korea? This is not the first ludicrous thing Pompeo has stated. He previously said that Russia and the Lebanese party Hezbollah are operating in Venezuela, in combined efforts to harm the US. He also stated that the publisher and peace activist Julian Assange would have supported Hitler in the 1930s and 1940s. Pompeo also said that Russia’s current Chief of the General Staff invented the concept of RT and Sputnik, one which relies on the power of the internet in 2017, in the early 1970s when he was in his late teens and still in the equivalent of high school. Finally, Trump’s CIA director stated that Russia not only rigged Donald Trump’s election but also did so with Barack Obama’s victories in 2008 and 2012.” ”

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Re: Donate today to keep Tails alive!
by g2s 22 Oct '17

22 Oct '17

-------- Original message --------From: Hold Up <twofingers(a)cock.li> Date: 10/21/17 8:41 PM (GMT-08:00) To: tails-dev(a)boum.org, cypherpunks(a)lists.cpunks.org Subject: Donate today to keep Tails alive! > Tails is free but we need your support to stay alive! > Threaten quit. What is it with French and surrender. > be protected from surveillance Tails surveils every user. Usage stats. tails.boum.org/news/report_2017_09/#index12h1 > and censorship Torah Project censors criticism. Mail lists. trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/emailLists#HowdoIgetpermissiontop… Stopped using it because of its move to 64bit only and complained at the time the move was announced. They apparently think people who can afford modern computers are the only whistleblowers. The LEAST they could have done was continue to update to the best security possible with 32bit. It looks like I was right... they lost a lot of support and userbase.

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Spare Ass Annie and other tales
by Jazon 22 Oct '17

22 Oct '17

> \0xDynamite dreamingforward at gmail.com > Sun Oct 22 07:46:34 PDT 2017 > > and a little anarchy > links to joutube Here are three better options to directly linking for tracked videos. youtube-dl - download nsfwyoutube.com - watch/download hooktube.com - watch Examples: youtube-dl youtube.com/watch?v=7XExjrZxTdk nsfwyoutube.com/watch?v=7XExjrZxTdk hooktube.com/watch?v=7XExjrZxTdk One always works.

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Spare Ass Annie and other tales
by \0xDynamite 22 Oct '17

22 Oct '17

Since the list wants a little break and a little anarchy: https://youtu.be/smhbMzV570A?list=PL264C9EAE05949B9A \0xd

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Donate today to keep Tails alive!
by Hold Up 22 Oct '17

22 Oct '17

> Tails is free but we need your support to stay alive! > Threaten quit. What is it with French and surrender. > be protected from surveillance Tails surveils every user. Usage stats. tails.boum.org/news/report_2017_09/#index12h1 > and censorship Torah Project censors criticism. Mail lists. trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/emailLists#HowdoIgetpermissiontop…

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