Full text to the book ``Underground'' released.

2001-01-17 Thread Julian Assange
oc.pdb | 520661 | +-+ The Palm formated files will allow you to read the book on a Palm Pilot and various other handheld machines. See http://www.underground-book.com/download.php3 Feel free to forward this message. Julian. -- Julian Assange

Re: Bidzos pro-wassenaar posturing.

1999-01-08 Thread Julian Assange
"K. M. Ellis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'd be interested in reading the rest of the document this was pulled > from. I'm not interested in defending Bidzos, but this statement, as > presented, could be interpreted a number of ways. >

Re: Full text to the book ``Underground'' released.

2001-01-19 Thread Declan McCullagh
The site below has been offline because of heavy traffic. Mirrors, in case you can't get through: http://www.attrition.org/ee/underground-book.zip http://www.politechbot.com/docs/underground.011800.txt.gz -Declan On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 08:31:03AM +1100, Julian Assange wrote: > [More

graphical authentication

1999-10-08 Thread Julian Assange
Mention was made recently of a graphical keying method out of stanford (?) for palm-pilots. Does anyone have a reference or url for the paper/code involved? Cheers, Julian.

Re: Beginners books on security

2000-06-15 Thread Julian Assange
Ben Laurie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I was asked to recommend books on security/crypto/copy protection for the > non-tekky and realised I had no idea at all! Does anyone out there have > suggestions? > > Cheers, > > Ben. I hear that `Underground', http://www.underground-book.com/ is excell

Re: graphical authentication

1999-10-08 Thread evan . cordes
> From: Julian Assange <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Mention was made recently of a graphical keying method out of stanford (?) for > palm-pilots. Does anyone have a reference or url for the paper/code involved? The paper was presented at USENIX's security '99, and a

Simon Davies on UK cryptopolicy (Quote of the day)

1999-05-05 Thread John Gilmore
enting in a press release on revised U.K. cryptographic policy. Submitted by: Julian Assange Mar. 7, 1999 -- Send quotation submissions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list changes or requests

Bidzos pro-wassenaar posturing.

1999-01-07 Thread Julian Assange
"Recently, the administration announced that the 33 Wassenaar countries had agreed on a common framework for export controls for encryption products," added Bidzos. "This move appears designed to strike a balance between industry and governments - it puts government desired limits

multi-party untrained unconstrained speech transcription

1999-12-10 Thread Julian Assange
http://speechbot.research.compaq.com/ The "transcript" that is output by the speech recognition software (and shown in small extracts on the Results and Details pages) rarely matches what was spoken exactly, and often often does not read very well. Because different people speak at d

Re: Digital Contracts: "Lie in X.509, Go to Jail"

1999-10-19 Thread Julian Assange
Robert Hettinga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Evidently, there are only 500 in the first printing, but I bet Stefan > didn't give them *all* away. :-). > > I bet that if you put in a special order to Amazon with the ISBN and > the publisher in it, they'll manage to sell one to you on order. Up

Almost-Everywhere Superiority for Quantum Computing

1999-10-17 Thread Julian Assange
Quantum Physics, abstract quant-ph/9910033 From: "Lane A. Hemaspaandra" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date (v1): Fri, 8 Oct 1999 03:48:56 GMT (17kb) Date (revised v2): Mon, 11 Oct 1999 19:03:38 GMT (17kb) Almost-Everywhere Superiority for Quantum Computing Authors: Edith Hemaspaandra (RIT), Lane A.

Re: Almost-Everywhere Superiority for Quantum Computing

1999-10-18 Thread Julian Assange
Anonymous <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Quantum computers help cryptanalysis in a couple of specific ways. > They aren't all-purpose speeder-upers. No. The reason I posted this abstract is because it says exactly the opposite. *almost* any given Turing machine T can be turned into a quantum mach

Re: IQ.ORG Cryptography Server

1999-02-06 Thread Robert Guerra
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA-1 At 6:55 AM +1100 1999/2/7, Julian Assange wrote: > Welcome to the IQ.ORG Cryptography Server (aka Blinded)! > To start up an unencrypted session: > > Point your irc client at irc.iq.org port 70. > > To start up an encrypted sessi

Re: Bidzos pro-wassenaar posturing.

1999-01-08 Thread K. M. Ellis
I'd be interested in reading the rest of the document this was pulled from. I'm not interested in defending Bidzos, but this statement, as presented, could be interpreted a number of ways. On 7 Jan 1999, Julian Assange wrote: > >"Recently, the administration

Re: crypto camouflage in software

1999-10-13 Thread Julian Assange
"paul a. bauerschmidt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > neat question: > > http://www.arcot.com/arcot_ieee.pdf > > a method of protecting private keys using camouflage, in software, to > prevent dictionary attacks. > > one password will decrypt correctly, many other passwords will produce > a

Re: Digital Contracts: "Lie in X.509, Go to Jail"

1999-10-19 Thread Arnold Reinhold
At 9:20 AM +1000 10/20/99, Julian Assange wrote: >Robert Hettinga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Evidently, there are only 500 in the first printing, but I bet Stefan > > didn't give them *all* away. :-). > > > > I bet that if you put in a special

Re: Almost-Everywhere Superiority for Quantum Computing

1999-10-17 Thread Russell Nelson
Julian Assange writes: > Simon as extended by Brassard and H{\o}yer shows that there are > tasks on which quantum machines are exponentially faster than > each classical machine infinitely often. The present paper shows > that there are tasks on which quantum

Re: AUCRYPTO: Bidzos pro-wassenaar posturing.

1999-01-10 Thread Julian Assange
Rich Salz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hm, I read the quote as "yeah, right, like herding cats it will happen." > > Seeing "Bad" ulterior motives in RSA/Australia is also impugning Eric > and Tim, remember. > > Bidzos and RSA have a pretty good record vis-a-vis US controls, and > it seems doub

IQ.ORG Cryptography Server

1999-02-06 Thread Julian Assange
Welcome to the IQ.ORG Cryptography Server (aka Blinded)! This is a private IRC server. It exists primarily as an encrypted live communications network for the cryptography community and friends as represented by the following mailinglists: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Coerced decryption?

2000-02-11 Thread Ben Laurie
something (more > likely the latter, in my experience!)? Or is there an information > source that I'm missing out on? Are people saying things about > cryptography that don't make it to [EMAIL PROTECTED]? Julian Assange has long advocated (and implemented) such things, using a

Re: AUCRYPTO: Bidzos pro-wassenaar posturing.

1999-01-08 Thread Julian Assange
[I figured I'd let people get out a message or two more but I don't think I'm going to let the Bidzos slamming run much longer. It isn't that I love him -- it is that I don't think the discussion is really what the readers of Cryptography want to be viewing in their mailboxes. --Perry] Darren Ree

Re: Almost-Everywhere Superiority for Quantum Computing

1999-10-18 Thread Ben Laurie
Russell Nelson wrote: > > Julian Assange writes: > > Simon as extended by Brassard and H{\o}yer shows that there are > > tasks on which quantum machines are exponentially faster than > > each classical machine infinitely often. The present paper shows

more snake oil

1999-12-21 Thread Julian Assange
[Forwarded only because it has been a slow week -- normally, I don't really want "snake oil of the week" postings because, frankly, there is too much snake oil and most of it is uninteresting. This example is no exception -- there is nothing more amusing about this snake oil than most others. --Pe

Re: ECHELON Watch

1999-11-17 Thread Julian Assange
bram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 16 Nov 1999, Perry E. Metzger wrote: > > > >ACLU today launched a new web site www.echelonwatch.org, which is designed > > >to focus public attention on the threats to civil liberties which are > > >posed by the massive international communications surveil

DVD cracks

1999-11-01 Thread Julian Assange
[from ntk] Just when you thought you'd wait forever for a free DVD player, along come two cracks at once. The first was the leaking onto the Linux LIVID player mailing list of the DVD Content Scrambling System code used by the Jon Johansen's cracker fo

rubberhose.com (was Re: NTK now, 2000-02-09)

2001-02-14 Thread R. A. Hettinga
At 11:22 AM -0800 on 2/9/01, Danny O'Brien wrote: > Accusing us of "doting on my six year old childhood > peccadilloes", JULIAN ASSANGE, co-author of THE UNDERGROUND > and, we dotifully include, THE DAN FARMER RAP, directs our >

Re: Almost-Everywhere Superiority for Quantum Computing

1999-10-18 Thread Anonymous
Julian Assange <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Anonymous <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Quantum computers help cryptanalysis in a couple of specific ways. > > They aren't all-purpose speeder-upers. > > No. The reason I posted this abstract is because it

Spies in the 'forests'

1999-11-22 Thread Julian Assange
gence agencies to spy on terrorists, he said that the NSA's "blanket approach" to monitoring telephone calls and e-mails was "a serious breach of privacy rights". Cryptographer Julian Assange, who moderates the online Australian discussion forum AUCRYPTO

key revokation ain't

1999-09-20 Thread Julian Assange
- Forwarded message from send mail ONLY to cs - >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Sep 20 20:32:30 1999 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Received: from yyy.lanl.gov (yyy.lanl.gov [204.121.6.60]) by suburbia.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C5026C6A1 for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Mon, 20

Re: NSA pre-oversight-hearing moaning and weeping [was cracking GSM A5/1]

1999-12-07 Thread Julian Assange
Vin McLellan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Talking about timely and untimely comments. > > Check out Newsweek's credulous, confused, and tech-ignorant report > about the (pre-oversight-hearing) moaning and and weeping at Fort Meade. This [Sy Hersh] story has been re-repor

Danger: spooks at work

1999-02-05 Thread Julian Assange
y a bureaucracy more anxious to avoid embarrassment than to encourage genuine policy debate. The EFA report is at: www.efa.org.au/Issues/Crypto/Walsh/index.htm -- Julian Assange<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Patriots always talk of dying for their country, and never of killing for their country. - Bertrand Russel

Semantic Forests, from CWD (fwd)

1999-12-01 Thread Udhay Shankar N
it's been "unconstrained" by the likelihood >of being automatically transcribed for real time topic searching. > >Here's the part where the imprecision of words - particularly spoken words - >comes in. Machine transcribed conversations are raw, and very hard to >analyz