In the context of:
>>If your plaintext consists primarily of small packets, you should set the MTU
>>of the transporter to be small. This will cause fragmentation of the
>>large packets, which is the price you have to pay. Conversely, if your
>>plaintext consists primarily of large packets, yo
who cypherpunks
olitical wanking to technical posts
and of talkers to thinkers to coders needs to be right for the list to
be interesting.
...
>--digsig
> James A. Donald
> 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG
> AnKV4N6f9DgtOy+KkQ9QsiXcpQm+moX4U09FjLXP
> 4zfMeSzzCXNSr737bvqJ6ccbvDSu8fr66LbLEHedb
--John Kelsey
] xor S[C[i-1] mod 2^{29}])
where S is the huge shared string, and we're using AES. Without
access to the shared string, you could neither encrypt nor decrypt.
>CP
--John
point are pretty nice, for example), but Word
is a disaster.
>Eugen* Leitl http://leitl.org";>leitl
--John Kelsey
Travis H. wrote:
Part of the problem is using a packet-switched network; if we had
circuit-based, then thwarting traffic analysis is easy; you just fill
the link with random garbage when not transmitting packets.
OK so far ...
There are two problems with this; one, getting
enough random
e), someone finding a
software bug, someone breaking a crypto algorithm or protocol). What
makes one more secure than the other?
...
>Cheers,
>RAH
--John Kelsey
>From: cyphrpunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Oct 24, 2005 5:58 PM
>To: John Kelsey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: [fc-discuss] Financial Cryptography Update: On Digital Cash-like
>Payment Systems
...
>Digital wallets will require real security in user PCs. S
among the ones that benefit from the random generosity of the attack.
The payment system operators will surely be sued for this, because
they're the only ones who will be reachable. They will go broke, and
the users will be out their money, and nobody will be silly enough to
make their mistake again.
>CP
--John
ional reasons, that's not really true
for journalists.
>GH
--John
met me or even to be able to find me, in order to read my papers and
develop an
opinion (hopefully a good one) about the quality of my work. And that
determines whether
you think the next paper is worth reading.
--John
n.
I think the reality is a bit different. The random searches
won't keep someone who's planning an attack from trying to
carry it out, but it may delay their attack, if they made
plans based on the old security setup, not the new one. It
may also convince them to shift the attack to a new target.
--John
"Hey, I think I saw a bald eagle roosting up in that tree. You know, the one
next to those buried Indian artifacts, right next to those rusting metal drums
I got from Russel Bliss."
--John
leased into the wild, so that your new CDs don't play
with the hacked DRM server.
The point of all this isn't to stop determined pirates--that's
impossible because of the analog hole. The point is to stop casual
piracy. That seems at least possibly doable to me. (The big question
is whether the existence of non-DRMed copies of lots of content will
make it possible to just *ignore* the DRMed stuff.)
--John
then it may help. If your goal is seriously stopping
terrorism or shutting down illegal immigration, it probably won't have
much of an impact.
--John
sooner or later, since the sequence
never ends or repeats. Thus, the wonderful joke/idea about selling
advertising space in the binary expansion of pi. Not only will your message
last forever, but it will be seen by any advanced civilization that develops
math
and computers, even ones in other galaxies.
--John
Just as a data point, PGPDisk works fine on CF devices. I use this for a CF
card on which I keep a bunch of my work for movement between laptop and desktop
machines.
--John
Good morning Sir,
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many MANY options these days. But very few are worth the money. In fact, most
are scam!
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Peniss Growth Patches are the newest, safest and absolutely
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Patrick Keefe is overly fond of disparaging "conspiracy"
targets, among them John Gilmore, Duncan Campbell,
Wayne Madsen, EPIC, EuroParl members, just about
anyone who takes an balanced (!) view of governmental
and corporate malfeasance.
His book may not be TLA-sponsored but it could
ative content won't be
new to avid readers of disputatious, thankfully ungrammatically
cpunks, but it does get the slick word out to the public in an easy
to swallow fashion.
For us jacket addicts, there are favorable blurbs by David Kahn and
Seymour Hersh.
Keefe calls John Gilmore, Duncan
Yiqun L Yin writes 21 February 2005 about when the full SHA-1
paper will appear:
We have submitted the paper to a conference for peer review,
and we should receive a notification of the review results by early
May. We plan to publish the paper after incorporating the comments
from the
The FBI continues to claim Jim Bell is a WMD threat
despite having no case against him except in the media,
but that conforms to current FBI/DHS policy of fictionalizing
homeland threats.
http://www.edgewood.army.mil/downloads/bwirp/mdc_appendix_b02.pdf
See page 16.
This document was initially
Homeland Security Operations Morning Briefs
For Official Use Only
http://cryptome.org/hsomb/hsmob.htm
Samples:
-
Homeland Security Information Network
Request for Information (RFI)
1. (FOUO) VIRGINIA: Larceny From Police Officers Private
Vehicle Results in Stolen Police Identification Ca
The paint sounds like yet another sting operation to catch
the goofuses who think they can hide RF on the cheap.
The folks on the TSCM-L list think the paint is pure snake
oil, that the electrophysics of it are crap.
Still, phony Tempest protection is a pretty good business, no
doubt promoted by t
e heard this from other people, too--some in reasonably good positions to
know how such things were reported. And there's surely some ambiguity between
fatal accidents caused by doing something really stupid and intentional
suicides.
...
--John
ing to go off. That's not worth much, but maybe they'll get
it better. And the "suspect struggles with cop, gets gun, and shoots cop"
problem would definitely be helped by a guy that wouldn't go off for 90% of
attackers.
--John
Quickly succeed by getting a Bachelor, Master or Doctorate College Degree in
Just Days with
no coursework. We'll be waiting for u at
1.206.666.6485
wrote electroencephalogram cotty alder rabat indicter diphthong jesus crony
cousin
Kahn's is a quite interesting and entertaining book. Among other
tales about Yardley and his admirable battles with the USG, Kahn
tells how through hilarious Gonzales-grade legal shenanigans
the only time a US law has been by enacted against revealing
cryptological information, in 1933, to prev
NY Times reports today that SEC is investigating Taser
for possible financial irregularity: as last day of business
for 2004 racked up a $700,000 sale to an AZ gun shop
which brags it sells to civilians, but only a few so far.
And that the AZ AG is informally looking at sale of the stun
guns to c
om time to time, without getting much press. (Most people
have never heard of phantom controllers either, but they're a real phenomenon,
and they seem at least as dangerous as some nut with a rifle taking potshots at
landing planes.)
--John
ts,
building codes or best practices that require some resistance to known
disasters, etc.).
--John
A timely report. A documentary is due out shortly which
includeds the likely assassination of officials with such
army-of-one weapons.
Sniping is the chink in VIP protection armor. Why? Because
ego-driven assholes lust to be seen, and best, photographed
outside the armoring of vehicles, aircraf
A. writes:
I have just launched a new discussion group related to hardware
discussion for signal analysis and communications security systems:
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/sigint/
>From: "Major Variola (ret)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Dec 21, 2004 10:20 PM
>To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: Israeli Airport Security Questioning Re: CRYPTO-GRAM, December
>15, 2004
>At 02:16 PM 12/20/04 -0500,
internal policing
policies with some teeth, to deal with the claims about women being felt up,
people being turned away from planes for reading the wrong book, or whatever.
Probably sometime after a successful lawsuit costs them a few million dollars,
alas.
...
>-TD
--John
curity. You're not building an
unclimbable wall, you're building lots of challenging speedbumps. No doubt a
real intelligence agent would be good at getting through this kind of
screening, but that doesn't mean most of the people who want to blow up planes
would be any good at it!
>Sarad.
--John
in the dark, the ccds generate significant thermal
>noise, which (unlike chaotic noise) cannot fail, unless someone
>immerses the camera in liquid helium.
Do you (does anyone) know of any papers that have formally analyzed this
entropy source?
>--digsig
> James A. Donald
--John
Excellent rejoinder to Mr. Monahan. The same could be
said of the Internet, hell, make a leap, same applies to
the government. Stop using the Net and digital security
and privacy problems will vanish. Stop paying taxes and
the gov will disappear. Nothing about 9/11 changed that.
Well, the Net g
One of the earliest lessons learned on cypherpunks is to
post pseudonymously in several disguises, saving one
nym for really trustworthy comments. The credibility of
that No. 1 nym is slowly built by attacking it yourself and
either mounting impressive defenses, bribing others to
defend it, making
are communicating with a lot of different people.
If your stego is password-protected, some terrorist's laptop is going to have a
post-it note on the screen with the password.
...
>-TD
--John Kelsey
es in a lab. He'll need to have some notion of how the technology
works, and some rules of thumb for how to handle the evidence to keep from
tainting it, and that's about it.
>J.A. Terranson
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>0xBD4A95BF
--John
n amidst the crazy rantings about useless eaters and ovens,
he'll toss out something that shows some deep, coherent thought about some
issue in a new and fascinating direction.
...
>Steve
--John
Cryptome hosts a 2000 book excerpt on PROMIS as
allegedly used by Mossad, though not much about
the technical details of the program:
http://cryptome.org/promis-mossad.htm
The file has links to other information on Riconosciuto
offered by Orlin Grabbe, a long-time supporter of
Riconosciuto.
Bac
ngaged in bobbitization (or perhaps,
merely "bobbing").
>-TD
--John
Lying about having an implant is kidnapping and mutilation
protection. Whether any justice official, with or without a
denied implant, will be believed by the slicers is no different
than the terrorism risk of anyone living within 100 miles of a
US defense base and/or industry, or Wall Street suckb
Associated Press has pre-issued a Thanksgiving Day photo
of a former US soldier who lost a leg, participating in a photo
op at a military base. Secdef and CJCS issued pre-holiday
thanks yesterday to the families of the military dead and to
the wounded and maimed in hospitals and on photo op tours.
little activities.
Well, I'm sure glad we avoided having Iraq become a breeding ground for all
sorts of virulent strains of Islam, warlords, etc. Also that we avoided it
becoming
a place that trains people in how to carry out effective guerrilla warfare
against
US troops. We sure dodged a bullet there
>-TD
--John
to make sure that the next regime to come to power there
isn't someone we also feel obligated to get rid of, as even invasions done on
the cheap cost a lot of money.
>--digsig
> James A. Donald
--John
ivals. Maybe we could have cut a deal with some local
strongmen and gotten something stable together with minimal US involvement if
we'd done it early, I'm not sure.
...
>Cheers,
>RAH
--John
The Selective Service website unctuously declares there is
no draft foreseen at the moment and lists defeat of recent
congressional efforts to institute the draft. However, it
emphasizes that the agency is required by law to remain
at the ready to immediately institute a draft upon notice.
As par
>From: "R.A. Hettinga" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Nov 21, 2004 9:23 PM
>To: John Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: Fallujah: Marine Eye-Witness Report
...
>By the way, John, did you know that Bush Is Going To Revive The Draft???
I kno
Jesus, Bob, this and the Schwartz hosannah for Free Fallujah
are about as bad a puke as anything you've posted.
These vomitoria are upchucked by the hundreds by professional
writers usually under contract, or angling for one, or in the case
of the eye-witness in the propaganda unit of the Corp
ancestors died to protect?
John (under regional arrest) Gilmore
PS: Oral argument in Gilmore v. Ashcroft will be coming up in the
Ninth Circuit this winter. http://papersplease.org/gilmore
The American Assocation of Motor Vehicle Administrators
has prepared a series of studies on security of drivers
license data, and not least sharing it with law enforcement.
Access to some of the docs are supposed to be limited to
members but R. notes that the security is illusory, so the docs
ca
a congressman or a member of the Saudi
royal family, but that it costs you nothing to add someone to the list. In
fact, I'll bet there are people whose performance evaluations note how many
people they added to the watchlist. This is what often seems to make
watchlists useless--eventually,
Title: Big poles in tiny holes
JOKE OF THE DAY
Dead Mama
A blonde goes into work one morning crying her eyes out.
Her boss, concerned about his employee's well being, asks sympathetically, "What's the matter?"
The blonde replies, "Early this morning I g
It is possible that the intelligence community, front-covered the CIA,
dream of a Putin-like takeover, not to continue "serving the President,"
and taking orders as demanded toady by David Brooks in the New York
Times.
US citizens allowed the intel monster to grow in secrecy and it will
likely d
But James, it is a no-brainer to refute an argument with
selective use of an opponents words, phrases, quotations,
arguments and beliefs. Debaters are trained and hired to
do just this as are propagandists, spin doctors, psychiatrists,
journalists, scholars, historians, pr pros, courtiers, literar
West Texas is where kids learn to fuck jackrabbits
by slitting their guts to fashion a pokehole. The jacks'
death kicking of the cojones is what leaves an urge in
them as adults to spread the practice to the state, the
nation, the world, any place to hunt gash.
You thought dove hunting is what
d lead anywhere any of us would like. (Is it the
secular police state that comes out on top, or the religious police state?)
>Eric Michael Cordian 0+
--John
y stated that invading it was a
mistake in the first place.)
And if we accept this kind of collective guilt logic, why is, say, flattening
Fallujah to make an example for the rest of Iraq, wrong?
> -TD
>J.A. Terranson
--John
My impression is that a lot of the push to do the D-Day
invasion was to make sure the USSR didn't end up in possession of all of Europe
at the end of the war. (Given how things developed, this was a pretty sensible
concern.)
>Peter.
--John
Excellent humor, this Hooverismo, got all the usual targets
in his insulting-like-Lenny-Bruce jibe. Probably high on
narcotics like Lenny. Imagined victory turns on losers.
A bit excessive with hyperbole, but that's code by comics.
Remember the CIA Comic from the late 90s? Told hilarious
inside t
What is characteristic of all these Bush-winning stories is that
the writers uniformly seem surprised it happened. More surpised
than the Democrats. Their post-election commentary conveys
that it is hard to believe by most Americans that Bush seems to
have won, if you read the winners and losers a
The US made a bundle from WW1 and WW2 warfare, in both
cases being rescued from an economic slump, and some have
argued the US delayed sending troops as long as possible to
extend the demand for supplies, supplies which appeared to
always be insufficient but enough to keep the warring parties
going
Fair enough. Canada is a role model for the US, as is the US for
the world: nobody is wanted unless they are willing to pay for the
mistakes and messes the locals have made, or best, work for
starvation wages, usually off the books, long the prime source of
penal-grade labor in the Echelon natio
On CJ (Carl Johnson) and Jim Bell:
There was a time when the greatest terrorist threat to the
US was located in the northwestern part of the country,
Idaho, Washington State and Oregon, some of California.
Militia the infidels were called.
The US Attorney's Office in Tacoma, WA, was a center
of c
Tyler,
Commie is the term used here like is nazi used elsewhere
as the most fearsome if thoughtless epithet. Nazi here is a
term of endearment, and also admirable role model by some.
Calling someone both is not allowed, check the FAQ under impurity.
Tim May, praise Allah, always claimed cypherp
Well, this is just commie propaganda.
Bob, you know this is against list rules, everybody knows
what's right, stop blue-baiting, you fucking nazi.
A shallow, stale spin, unduly sanctimonious, and highly
presumptive of the legitimacy of election reports.
Same vapid shit to fill news void would have been written
if Kerry squeaked by.
A map of the expulsion civil war declaration:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v331/ninjagurl/new_map.jpg
was going to take something
hard.
--John
Bob,
But your defenses of the fatherland are hollow formulas.
There has been no war to win, a war the US is forever
stealing from the citizenry to prepare for, and then fucking
up with the minor skirmishes by having no doctrine or
training to apply its mythical might, except, as always,
to explain
ed a bit), and how much was trying to bury the coverage of a pretty
bloody battle with a lot of civilians dying and a lot of peoples homes destroyed,
behind the whole election coverage.
>Cheers,
>RAH
--John
The US has not won since WW2. Rebellions, now called
terrorist wars, have been far more successful. If you want
to be a winner do not enlist in military forces of states, rather
get a spin contract far from danger, arguing the virtues of
mightily fearsome hardware and sacrificial patriotism.
The U
And an admirable role model for the Simian's memory:
An avenging rebel terrorist shot Abe, not Grant, who
suicided himself with whiskey and self-pity, after lollygagging
in the animal-beshat White House, lost that, took up liquor,
became a helpless drunk, friends caretook his inept pickled
carca
To state the obvious to Major Variola, CDC will have first
indication of a devastating US attack, reported fragmentarily
under its links to hospitals, clinics and physicians, against
which the might military and law enforcement have no defenses.
By time the attack is understood it will be too lat
There is a decreasing chance the US can apply its military
might to defeat an unconventional enemy. That kind of enemy
is not what long-standing military strategy and most tactics
are aimed at. Rumsfeld was hoping to revise that when yet
one more mighty military war appeared to head off changing
mi
Hoover Institution says it all. Heh.
Will to win is the opium of warmongerers, Nietszchean
armchair blowhards.
Come on, Bob, you did the philosophy turn, poke holes
in the blather coming from these righteous pedants hustling
for the military/natsec ghouls, extorting the public for
expensive usele
No, Madame Toussaint is the fake Madame Tussaud.
Now, Bob, master your knee jerk eye-poke: Brooks is a
regular on the Lehrer show, paired with Shields for, cough,
balance. Muddle v. muddle, judge-judied by muddle.
Brooks is the only one of the three without orange hair,
the other two a generation older. And he's near wattleless.
His sparse hai
Brooks on The Lehrer Report last night did indeed go berzerk
in the face of Shield's superior defense of Kerry's reasonable
approach. Brooks repeatedly agreed with Shield's analysis
showing Bush/Cheney was dogmatic, inflexible and incapable
of admitting error, then went on to defend their fundament
>From: "R.A. Hettinga" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Oct 29, 2004 7:06 AM
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: Geodesic neoconservative empire
...
>It has always amused me that libertarians and anarcho-capitalists insist on
>using the language of the left to describe the things they don't like. One
>
Generously, the US government offers a complete set of
photos, drawings, process diagrams and descriptions for
an RDX manufacturing plant. Library of Congress has
the info in its Historic American Engineering Record.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/habs_haer/
Search on "RDX."
Now it c
'll stop wanting to be part of crazy mass
movements that tell them to strap dynamite to themselves and blow up bus stops full of
people. This seems doomed to fail. A lot of people in the Middle East clearly want
what we're selling, but it doesn't take many suicide bombers to make that sort of
thing break down.
--John
an entirely nutty position to
take, since Kerry really does seem to blow a lot of smoke when talking about Iraq,
albeit less than Bush does.
...
--John
to
lock up citizens without trial, his administration's equally breathtaking claim that
he could ignore laws and treaties against torture on his authority, the invasion of
Iraq) possible.
>-TD
--John
There were several USG offices in the Twin Towers, some of
them intelligence. In addition, CIA was located in 7 WTC, along
with Secret Service and military offices. The military offices
were used as cover for the others. There was far more USG in
WTC than in Murrah, and the lesson learned in OKC
em
are associated with some action you really disagree with is just outside the realm of
the sort of moral decision I can figure out. Just like flying planes into buildings
full of people with almost nothing to do with what you're really getting at.
> James A. Donald
--John Kelsey
ok to have some serious intelligence value.
> James A. Donald
--John
na and Vietnam. Bolivia is interesting to watch.
So, Taiwan and South Korea seem like rather obvious counterexamples.
>-TD
--John
(Not a fan of interventionist foreign policy, FWIW)
Bear in mind that typewrites have been traced by the
minute, unique characteristics of the metal face of
character producers, whether lever-type or ball. The
FBI has been doing this quite a while.
Micro-forensics of the unique printing mechanism of each
machine is likely possible. Identification
James,
I appreciate your valiant if futile effort to defend honorable
militarism, but you appear not to understand that much of
current US military doctrine is aimed at terrorizing enemy
forces, en masse, into submission, not merely courageously
killing each combatant, mano a mano.
Carpet bomb
James is wired to be unempathetic about victims, as was McVeigh,
as are fearless military and criminal killers, as are national leaders
of a yellow stripe who never taste the bitter end of their exculpatory
spin.
What makes the wire work is that they do not believe that what
they do unto others
ey almost certainly will, just because
terrorists are so rare.)
b. The terrorists can't figure out how to make themselves look less threatening.
>--digsig
> James A. Donald
--John
digsig
> James A. Donald
Surely this is a matter best left to the private companies offering transportation,
subject only to restrictions to prevent future 9/11 attacks.
--John
x27;t do the suicide bomber thing. Does that constitute a
guarantee that no white terrorist ever will do so? (After all, an awful lot of Arab
terrorists also plan on living to fight another day.)
> --digsig
> James A. Donald
--John
Most of the Boston Red Sox team look as if they have just
come from a terrorist training camp for blind, handless barbers,
decked-out in ill-fitting sports gear, staring wild-eyed at
RPGs being fired at their heads and nuts, swinging clubs futilely
at the inerrant missiles, their ass-wipe paws s
ons" to sell
any of them to any (other) crazies. Why the only other place where there's a risk of
nuclear proliferation is in the old Soviet Union--and we all know *they* don't have
any Islamic fundamentalist terrorists running about. So we can clearly rest easy.
It's a good thing we've got an administration in the White House who cares about
security and the war on terror. Otherwise, I'd be a mite worried about now
...
>-TD
--John Kelsey
The site has been overloaded for a couple of days due
to heavy hits on files on the Indymedia UK takedown
and the "Bush bulge." A Slashdot attack added to that
yesterday but has gone away. Today The Reg cited
the Bush bulge file and the overload restarted. It'll
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