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Re: a great revelation from the bowels of NSA
by smb＠research.att.com 08 Jun '93

08 Jun '93

>>"We tried to come up with a technique that would not require >>legislation," said Clint Brooks, advisor to the director of the >>National Security Agency, >Another ominous, foreboding quote. I think this neither ominous nor foreboding. This statement was apparent within a week or so of the original announcement. The only thing new about it is that it confirms what I've thought for over a month: that the executive branch is trying to do an end run around the legislature. Well, it could be innocent; it just takes longer to get legislation passed. Yeah, that's it... Of course, NSA does have another option -- they can disclose how cheaply they can crack DES. (That they can crack it I don't doubt; my only question is what it costs them per solution, including amortization of capital costs.)

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ADMIN: upload ettiquette to the cypherpunks ftp site
by Eric Hughes 08 Jun '93

08 Jun '93

There are a few matters of upload ettiquette for the ftp site. 1. Upload stuff for cypherpunks to pub/cypherpunks/incoming/ and not to the general pub/incoming/ directory. I'll be able to more adequately handle files there. (I can't erase in the other directory.) 2. Whenever you upload something, also upload a short description of what it is you are uploading. I've got a few mystery files there that are on the low priority end of things, since I don't know what they are and I've got plenty of other stuff to do with the archive. 3. Send me mail telling me what you've put up. I don't have any automated software to look at the incoming directory, and so I may not notice. My address is below. 4. Don't bother uploading programs that don't have source code. The mission of the archive site is education. Software distribution is not a purpose, and software without source does not satisfy the educational criterion. Thanks. Eric Hughes cypherpunks ftp site maintainer hughes(a)soda.berkeley.edu

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Re: CryptoStacker
by Doug Porter 08 Jun '93

08 Jun '93

Some folks have asked that the network redirector, driver, and file system source files from CompuServe be made available via ftp. Two of them, cramdi.zip and rdcf2.zip may not be public domain. I've ftp'd the others to soda.berkeley.edu, as well as rdcf.zip, a public domain earlier version of rdcf2.zip. I'm sure Eric will have them visible soon. I'll contact the authors of cramdi and rdcf2. Doug

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Tuesday's Washington Post
by Pat Farrell 08 Jun '93

08 Jun '93

In Tuesday June 8 Final edition of the Washington Post, Page A12 US Data Decoding Plan Delayed Business and Legal Objections Reviewed by John Schwartz The Federal initiative to establish a new standard for scrambling electronic communications will be slowed until its ramifications can be more fully studied, the official in charge of implementing the program said yesterday. The government's proposed "Clipper Chip" plan, announced on April 16, would create a new national standard for data encryption that would make possible the deccoding and wiretaps by law enforcement and national security agencies. The plan has met with criticism from high-technology industries that argue that the new requirements ould be expensive and hurt the competiveness of their products. Civil liberties advocates see it as a threat to privacy. Raymond Kammer, acting director of the National Institite of Standards and Technology (NIST) - which developed the Clipper proposal with the National Security Agency and is charged with implementing it within the government- delivered the news to a Washington conference attended largly by critics of the Clipper plan. In an interview afterward, Kammer said that the entiore Clipper plan was still being discussed, and if the review revialed unresolvable problems, "maybe we won't continue in the direction we started out." Criticism was sharp at the cryptography and privacy conference sponsored by the Washington office of the Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility, a public interest group concerned with high-tech issues. One panelist compared Kammer's appearance at the conference to "having a target painted on your chest." Kammer said: "We're not going to close off the process while there's still productive conversation. And its' obvious from the meeting today that ther's still plenty of productive conversation." Pressure has been building on NIST since the WShite House announcement in April. Critics of the plan have flooded the administration with lengthly lists of questions about the new plan, voicing concerns that the proposal might make American products more expensicve, less secure, and less competitive overseas while not hindering criminals. Last Friday, NIST's advirosy panel on privacy issues concluded two days of heated hearings concerning the Clipper proposal with a resolution expressing "serious concerns" sparked by the administrations's proposal. "Things are going too fast." said William Ware, chairman of the Computer System Security and Privacy Advisory Board, a body created under the Computer Security Act of 1987. The NIST panel reported that the government had not conviningly explained the nature of law enforcement problems that would be solved by the Clipper plan, and cited damage the proposal was likely to do to the American software industry. Later that day, White House officials overseeing the Clipper plan met with representatives of industry and civil liberties groups, including the high-tech policy group Electronic Frontier Foundation as well as the American Civil Liberties Union. Administration officials said that the Clipper review would be extended into the fall and that the government would not move beyond its initial plans to buy about 10,000 Clipper-equiped telephones until the review was completed. John Podesta, assistance to the President, said that meeting was part of a continuing dialog with the private sector. "It's time to start ot get answers insteead of the endless quest for questions, Podesta said." ================== Any typos were added in transcription. Pat Farrell Grad Student pfarrell(a)cs.gmu.edu Department of Computer Science George Mason University, Fairfax, VA Public key availble via finger #include <standard.disclaimer>

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Forwarded article.
by whitaker＠eternity.demon.co.uk 08 Jun '93

08 Jun '93

This article was forwarded to you by whitaker(a)eternity.demon.co.uk (Russell Earl Whitaker): --------------------------------- cut here ----------------------------- Newsgroups: uk.events Path: eternity.demon.co.uk!demon!zaphod.axion.bt.co.uk!uknet!nessie! comms.ee.man!colin From: colin(a)comms.ee.man.ac.uk (Colin Boyd) Subject: Cryptography Course 7th-8th July Message-ID: <1993Jun7.103708.6901(a)nessie.mcc.ac.uk> Sender: news(a)nessie.mcc.ac.uk (Usenet News System) Organization: Comms Research Group, EE Dept, Manchester University, UK. Distribution: uk Date: Mon, 7 Jun 1993 10:37:08 GMT Lines: 45 *Cryptography : Theory and Practice* A Two Day Course at the University of Manchester 7th-8th July 1993 Electronic communications are being used more and more in all areas of business practice. The convenience and efficiency of using new technology brings with it new security risks to the confidentiality and integrity of important commercial data. Many of these threats can only be practically countered by the use of cryptography. This short course will give a basic grounding in the capabilities, and also the limitations, of modern cryptography. The course is intended for engineers and managers who require familiarity with modern cryptographic theory and practice. Lectures cover background theory, current algorithms, and their application in the provision of security services. Supporting practical sessions provide "hands-on" experience using software implementations of modern cryptographic algorithms. Syllabus Topics: Cryptographic Basics Cryptographic Theory Symmetric Ciphers Authentication Public Key Cryptography Digital Signatures Cryptographic Protocols The cost of the course is 225 pounds per person. This fee includes full course documentation and tea/coffee and lunch each day. Overnight accommodation, at extra cost, can be arranged on request. Please reply by email for further details and a booking form or write to: Dr Colin Boyd Communications Research Group, Electrical Engineering Labs., University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL -- Colin Boyd (colin(a)comms.ee.man.ac.uk) Tel: +44 61 275 4562 (Direct line) Fax: +44 61 275 4512 --------------------------------- cut here -----------------------------

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subscribe
by locklin＠titan.ucs.umass.edu 08 Jun '93

08 Jun '93

let me check it out for now...

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Returned mail: Host unknown
by Mail Delivery Subsystem 08 Jun '93

08 Jun '93

----- Transcript of session follows ----- 550 jsday@THUNDER... Host unknown: Can't assign requested address ----- Unsent message follows ----- Received: by ishara.poly.edu (5.59a/25-eef) id AA23805; Tue, 8 Jun 93 01:13:11 EDT From: A1 ray arachelian (library) <rarachel> Full-Name: A1 ray arachelian (library) Message-Id: <9306080513.AA23805(a)ishara.poly.edu> Subject: Re: ROT-13 on fido To: jsday@THUNDER Date: Tue, 8 Jun 93 1:13:10 EDT In-Reply-To: <9306070029.AA09898(a)thunder.LakeheadU.Ca>; from "Jer!" at Jun 6, 93 8:29 pm Thank you for your letter of support, I'm now keeping a folder of all the ROT-13 related messagess off this echo and when it dies down, I'll send the whole thing to the moderator of EchoMac. Don't worry about the reformatting of your letter, I'll take care of it before sending the message. (And yes, I will forward >ALL< letters about the rot-13 issue to him, even those who disagree with me. :-) I do believe in freedom of speech, even when it doesn't match my point of view.) His address again: (you needn't mail him unless you want to, as I'll forward all messages about this to him anyway) Steve.Ebener(a)f42.n152.z1.ieee.org My mail adress: rarachel(a)ishara.poly.edu

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Mailing list request
by Cypherpunk.Echo＠f28.n125.z1.FIDONET.ORG 08 Jun '93

08 Jun '93

SUBSCRIBE CYPHERPUNKS CYPHERPUNK ECHO ----- Hi! I don't know if this is automated at your end, or if I should just be emailing a request, so I'm doing both - I'd like to subscribe to the cypherpunk mailing list under the name cypherpunk echo. I'll be porting the list to an area on my BBS. Thanks for any help, if any is required. Peter Wadsworth - Sysop, Coconino County BBS, 415-861-8290 -- Cypherpunk Echo - via FidoNet node 1:125/1 UUCP: ...!uunet!kumr!shelter!28!Cypherpunk.Echo INTERNET: Cypherpunk.Echo(a)f28.n125.z1.FIDONET.ORG

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ALERT: PGP now back on soda
by Eric Hughes 08 Jun '93

08 Jun '93

You can stop spreading the word now. PGP is back on soda. Remember, it is my analysis that soda is still able to distribute PGP because we keep a low profile. Please keep it that way. You can find pgp with archie, so I don't feel the need to advertise. Lots of stuff happened today after I posted my initial announcement that PGP had gone offline. Because of the intervention of Eric Hollander with the folks who are in charge of the machine, reasonableness has prevailed. What happened in a nutshell was the following. Person A, a fascist asshole by all accounts, simply turned off the PGP directory without telling me. I started getting questions by email from folks trying to get PGP. Person A's argument was that PGP was illegal, therefore soda should not distribute it. Eric Hollander, after some initial rounds, played trump and observed that the machine had been recompiled without the user limit that had been part of the OS license agreement, and recommended that soda be shut down immediately because the kernel that soda was running was contrary to the license agreement. Very quickly the president of the organization which runs soda intervened and everything was OK. What is still troubling to me is the nastygram that came down from CERT. We don't know how they were informed, nor what their policy is on this. I'll have another message on that angle later. Eric

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ALERT: PGP removed from soda archive site
by Eric Hughes 08 Jun '93

08 Jun '93

The ftp site at soda will no longer be able to distribute PGP, I'm afraid. It appears that CERT informed someone on campus that "pirated" software was available on soda. The word came down, and the directory has been chown'd root and has had permissions removed. There will be more later on this. In the meantime, spread the word. Eric

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