July 2018 - cypherpunks-legacy@lists.ogf.org

Re: Public Key Infrastructure: An Artifact...
by None 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- At 04:47 PM 11/22/00 -0800, Bram Cohen wrote: >On Wed, 22 Nov 2000 Lynn.Wheeler(a)firstdata.com wrote: >>the other scenerio that some certification agencies have >>expressed (i.e. licensing bureaus, bbb, consumer report, etc >>operations) is that in the online world ... that they would >>provide an online service .... rather than certificates >>designed for an offline world. >Yes, it seems fairly well established that revocations just >plain don't work. >Once again, the solution to the problems of offline >operation appears to be online operation. And the annoying thing about this is that once we go to needing an online trusted third party to allow us to have secure communications, we may as well chuck the public key stuff and just use symmetric ciphers and the key exchange protocols worked out ten or fifteen years ago. Which makes me suspect that we're just not using public key mechanisms very intelligently yet. We've realized that screws are better for many jobs than nails, it's just that they're so damned hard to hammer in.... >-Bram Cohen --John Kelsey PGP: 5D91 6F57 2646 83F9 6D7F 9C87 886D 88AF ``Slavery's most important legacy may be a painful insight into human nature and into the terrible consequences of unbridled power.'' --Thomas Sowell, _Race and Culture_ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 6.5.1 Int. for non-commercial use <http://www.pgpinternational.com> Comment: foo iQCVAwUBOh7WlyZv+/Ry/LrBAQE+eAP9E8RxIl9TAVbWT8CJKGl0V3IN9wMCWs82 wzh3XaSs/YYdGcG/+rEPN+S6y9t8HsSz9vr3dgPwOMDsVvkmBkOQJT+YK86thUiS a4eL2Ea9T2lAj5+gb6jeUhBpqn130C0WxUab5ARZffSOMkZCa7I9V6CfKIwL9Noq fMzDtrkqNXw= =yGFp -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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by anonymous＠openpgp.net 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

> Oct 19, 2000 - 06:55 AM > > California Court Declines to Review > Vehicle Forfeiture Law > The Associated Press > > SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The state Supreme Court has > declined to review a ruling allowing police to seize vehicles > suspected of use in crimes such as drug dealing or soliciting > a prostitute. > > Without comment, a majority of justices Wednesday decided > not to hear the American Civil Liberties Unions challenge to > Oaklands 1997 vehicle seizure law. Naturally, a chemical solution (pun not directly intended...but I'll take it anyway) becomes apparent. If the ultimate motivation of the car siezures is to sell them and keep the money, what would happen if somebody acquired a few ounces or gallons of PCB's (poly-chlorinated biphenyls; common in 20+year-old (non-electrolytic) capacitors), and sprayed them (only a very tiny amount per car should be necessary, maybe 1 milliliter or so?) into those siezed cars though a broken window (or injected through door seals). Naturally, it would be important to anonymously call the local newspaper or TV stations and report on what had occurred, possibly the EPA as well. That car would suddenly change from a $10,000 asset into possibly a $100,000 liability for the agency which siezed them.. Just a thought Jim Bell Better Living Through Chemistry

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by Robert Guerra 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

> I think that it should be written into Canada's constitution that ANY > information about any Candadian citizen belongs to that citizen. I'm so pissed off about this idea... You mean like I'd be sued for using your name in this email? What if my name was "Robert" - do we "share" the loot when we sue the cypherpunks node owner for using our names? Yuck. Ownership is irrelevant to information; bits aren't naturally scarce. [What if I'm using the number "32", which just happens to be your age? Or "174" which happens to be your weight? What does "any information about any citizen" mean?] Mark

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06 Jul '18

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Re: Is the Wikileaks Party a cypherpunk party?
by CryptoFreak 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

On 08/21/2013 09:04 AM, Eugen Leitl wrote: > On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 05:01:07AM -0500, CryptoFreak wrote: > >>> So what do you think? Is their finally a political party more >>> closely aligned with the cypherpunk ideal than the Libertarians? > >> Don't forget the Pirate Parties. Despite all the fubars, >> the German Pirate Party is expected to hit 3+% in the >> national elections next months. >I've looked into the Pirate Party but, at least from the American side >of things, they seem like a 'one hit wonder' who's nearly solely focused >on IP law reform. Perhaps this isn't the same in other places (I can't >imagine they would have won major elections with a single issue >platform) but here in the States, where they exist, it seems to be the case. In a winner-take-all system like the US, third parties are irrelevant, except insofar as they (like Bernie Sanders) caucus with one of the duopoly. Birgitta Jonsdottir gets good press as a PP member of the Icelandic Parliament. FOr what that's worth.

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Re: Public Key Infrastructure: An Artifact...
by None 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

At 1:59 PM -0800 11/20/2000, Bram Cohen wrote: >On Mon, 20 Nov 2000, Arnold G. Reinhold wrote: > >> Perry's last sentence gets to the heart of the matter. If CAs >> included a financial guarantee of whatever it is they are asserting >> when they issue a certificate, then all these problems would go away. > >They aren't going to. > >-Bram Cohen > It's still early in the game to be so certain. But if you are right, that in it self is an indictment of PKI. If there really is a market for trust establishment and a form of PKI is the low cost producer of trust, then someone should be able to make money by using their expertise to assemble a technology suite and sell trust insurance based on the spread between the risk perceived by the market and what they know to be a lower risk. If such services never develop, it either means there is no market or PKI doesn't have enough economic impact to cover the costs of starting such a business. Arnold Reinhold For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "dcsb-request(a)reservoir.com" with one line of text: "help".

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by Trei, Peter 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

> Imagine if the software business were like this - that the programmers > of the late 40's had formed an American Programmers Association, > and it was unlawful for anyone without APA certification to write > code for money. Some people are trying to do this. See for example http://www.colosseumbuilders.com/american.htm [I especially find the "no foreign competition" (aka "no H1-B") disgusting. Tim May notwithstanding, we DO compete with the americans - and a lot of us are better.] Mark

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by Sampo A Syreeni 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

> On a similar vein, just about every somehow understandable version of free > market theory is based on the assumption of a steady state market. The > theory does not include a temporal element. If you want to study those, > you're bound for such a quagmire of stochastic nonlinear differential > equations that you would not believe. Hence, the global stability of any > reasonably realistic model of markets is practically impossible to > guarantee with current mathematical tools. It is quite possible for such > systems to behave badly enough to kill most of the participants in the > market, for instance. Besides, the basic continuity assumptions behind > mathematical economics practically guarantee that the theory does not take > such possibilities seriously - I know of no models which take into account > the discrete, limited number of people participating in the market. All fine and dandy, except it's completely useless. I am an Austrian - the Austrians are dead set against "steady set markets", and dead set against equations in economics. You don't need fancy equations for anything in economics - look on www.mises.org Mark

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Here's what to do so you're not bothered by this
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06 Jul '18

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Last night, Serge Mister and Robert Zuccherato published a paper reporting on an attack against OpenPGP symmetric encryption. This attack, while very significant from a cryptographic point of view, is not generally effective in the real world. To be specific, unless you have your OpenPGP program set up as part of an automated system to accept encrypted messages, decrypt them, and then provide a response to the submitter, then this does not affect you at all. There is a very good writeup on the attack that goes into more depth at http://www.pgp.com/library/ctocorner/openpgp.html There will undoubtedly be further discussion of this over the next several days, but I wanted to provide a few comments now, to try and answer some questions that may arise: 1) This is not a bug in any particular OpenPGP implementation (GnuPG, PGP, Hushmail, etc). Rather, this is an attack against the OpenPGP protocol itself. 2) The attack requires an average of 32,768 probes to get two bytes of plaintext. This is why it is completely ineffective against human beings, who will presumably wonder why a stranger wants them to decrypt thousands and thousands of messages that won't decrypt, and then tell them what errors were seen. 3) It might be effective against an automated process that incorporates OpenPGP decryption, if that process returns errors back to the sender. 4) The OpenPGP Working Group will be discussing this issue and coming up with an effective and permanent fix. In the meantime, I have attached two patches to this mail. These patches disable a portion of the OpenPGP protocol that the attack is exploiting. This change should not be user visible. With the patch in place, this attack will not work using a public-key encrypted message. It will still work using a passphrase-encrypted message. These patches will be part of the 1.2.8 and 1.4.1 releases of GnuPG. 5) The full paper is available at http://eprint.iacr.org/2005/033 It's a great piece of work. David _______________________________________________ Gnupg-announce mailing list Gnupg-announce(a)gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-announce --- end forwarded text -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah(a)ibuc.com> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'

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