Re: Echelon-like resources...

2002-10-11 Thread Harmon Seaver
On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 10:29:53AM -0400, Tyler Durden wrote: Harmon Seaver wrote... Why the hell would anyone use lotus notes encryption for anything whatsoever? Lotus Notes or whatever, of course. The point here is that larger Or whatever? What makes you think that anyone can

Re: Echelon-like resources...

2002-10-11 Thread Tyler Durden
Harmon Seaver wrote... Why the hell would anyone use lotus notes encryption for anything whatsoever? Lotus Notes or whatever, of course. The point here is that larger organizations with decryption capabilities probably do not think on the message-by-message level very often, just like

Re: Echelon-like...

2002-10-11 Thread David Howe
Trei, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It was Sweden. They didn't really have an excuse - over a year earlier, Lotus announced their International version with details of the Work Factor Reduction Field at the RSA Conference. I immediately invented the term 'espionage enabled' to describe this

RE: Echelon-like...

2002-10-11 Thread Trei, Peter
David Howe[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] I assume everyone knows the little arrangement that lotus reached with the NSA over its encrypted secure email? I'm new here, so do tell if I am wrong. Are you referring to the two levels of Encryption available in Bogus Notes? More or less, yes.

Re: Echelon-like...

2002-10-11 Thread Tyler Durden
So as a follow on question...what kind of hardware does it take to break the weak and strong versions of Bogus Notes? Is it possible that NSA or Echelon have the ability to decode a large number of such messages? And if the amount of hardware needed to break the strong version is

Re: Echelon-like resources...

2002-10-11 Thread Tyler Durden
Or whatever? What makes you think that anyone can crack any of the strong encryption? I don't think they can. But your point seems to miss my own point. There will certainly be a certain number of uncrackable mesages out there (as a trained physicist I am fairly certain that even military

Re: Echelon-like...

2002-10-11 Thread Adam Back
Sounds about right. 64 bit crypto in the strong version (which is not that strong -- the distributed.net challenge recently broke a 64 bit key), and in the export version 24 of those 64 bits were encrypted with an NSA backdoor key, leaving only 40 bits of key space for the NSA to bruteforce to

Re: Echelon-like resources...

2002-10-11 Thread Harmon Seaver
Why the hell would anyone use lotus notes encryption for anything whatsoever? On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 09:37:52AM -0400, Tyler Durden wrote: OK, let's assume for the same of argument that it takes about 1 minute for Echelon/NSA-like resources to break a weakly encypted lotus notes message.

Re: Echelon-like resources...

2002-10-11 Thread Tyler Durden
OK, let's assume for the same of argument that it takes about 1 minute for Echelon/NSA-like resources to break a weakly encypted lotus notes message. And then let's assume that there's a whole LOT of these machines sitting somewhere. And as the grumpy Tim May has suggested, perhaps only a

Durden lies, was: Echelon-like resources...

2002-10-11 Thread Anonymous
On Fri, 11 Oct 2002 10:29:53 -0400, you wrote: War is just a racket ... something that is not what it seems to the majority of people. Only a small group knows what its about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few at the expense of the masses. --- Major General Smedley Butler, 1933

Re: Echelon-like resources...

2002-10-11 Thread Greg Broiles
At 10:54 AM 10/11/2002 -0400, Tyler Durden wrote: Which returns to my original point: the easy availability of strong crypto products does not mean it is unprofitable for an agency to continue to push populations towards lighter forms of encryption. Assuming that the agency's goal is to

RE: Durden lies, was: Echelon-like resources...

2002-10-11 Thread Trei, Peter
Anonymous wrote: From: Anonymous [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Tyler Durden [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Durden lies, was: Echelon-like resources... Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2002 18:33:46 +0200 (CEST) On Fri, 11 Oct 2002 10:29:53 -0400, you wrote: War is just a racket ... something

Re: Jamming camcorders in movie theaters

2002-10-11 Thread alan
I read how they plan on doing this. I predict it will give a percentage of the movie-going public screaming headaches. (Or at least make them very uncomfortable.) These are the same people who are sensitive to the flicker of cheap 60 hz office lighting. Not that a bit of discomfort was any

Re: Durden lies, was: Echelon-like resources..

2002-10-11 Thread James Donald
Our overriding purpose, from the beginning through to the present day, has been world domination - that is, to build and maintain the capacity to coerce everybody else on the planet: nonviolently, if possible, and violently, if necessary. But the purpose of US

Re: Durden lies, was: Echelon-like resources...

2002-10-11 Thread Harmon Seaver
You have to realize that there are any number of fedzis who subscribe to this list, it's a well authenticated fact, matter of court testimony. And fedzis aren't noted for brains, or even being able to read, which is why he attacked you instead of me. And of course most fedzis positively foam at

Re: Durden lies, was: Echelon-like resources...

2002-10-11 Thread Steve Furlong
On Friday 11 October 2002 14:13, Trei, Peter wrote: If anonymous were a person of character... Oxymoron, eh? Pseudonymity has many socially acceptable features. Anonymity has all of the practical benefits of pseudonymity and no additional advantages in a conversational forum such as cpunks.

Re: Durden lies, was: Echelon-like resources...

2002-10-11 Thread Tyler Durden
Yo! I didn't write anything of the kind. Actually, this post mystifies me...even had I posted those quotations, as scary as they may be, I don't understand Anonymous' reaction to them (waitaminute...maybe I do understand...it's interesting to consider that the sender seems to have gone to some

Re: was: Echelon-like resources..

2002-10-11 Thread Tyler Durden
Uh, first of all can we get rid of the part of the subject line that says Durden lies? (Particularly seeing how the quote attributed to me did not originate from me.) As for Chomsky lying, can you give us some specific citations? Did he lie about our support for Sadam Hussein? Our support for