Out of Chaos Comes Order

Berlin Prepares for Chaos

USIS Washington File - TEXT: AARON SAYS ENCRYPTION PROTECTS PRIVACY, COMMERCE 

...strong encryption also poses serious dangers for public safety. Law enforcement's use of electronic surveillance is and has been an essential tool in terrorism cases and many criminal investigations. Encryption threatens to take this tool away -- not only preventing court-authorized surveillance but also more frequent lawful searches and seizures of computers and their files.

Already our U.S. Justice Department and drug enforcement agencies have encountered important examples of instances where encryption has been used by terrorists, drug traffickers, child pornographers, and other criminals. For example, Ramzi Yousef, a key figure in the World Trade Center bombing and an employee of Osama Bin Laden, used encryption to conceal his plans to blow-up 11 U.S. airliners in Southeast Asia.

We expect the criminal use of unbreakable encryption to increase as it becomes widely available and easy to use. For a country like Germany which is the target of foreign mafias and has been the site of numerous terrorist incidents, the elimination of any possible use of lawful police surveillance poses obvious dangers.

WIRED - The Netizen: Order Out of Chaos

As Deutsche Telekom's monopoly grip on German telephony loosens, and as European Union telecommunications commissioner Martin Bangemann forges policies that will shape Europe's role in the information society, advocates of privacy and free access to information will continue to turn to the CCC for guidance and technical assistance. "In America hackers are perceived as a threat," Müller-Maguhn says. "But here in Germany, we have a more positive view."

Cypherpunks list - Exporting crypto from Japan : Was Tim May’s offensive racism (was: about RC4)

Ito: By the way, the chip was not "withdrawn from the market." MITI has not approved its export. The imporant point is, a recent regulation called the "Gyousei Tetsuzuki Hou" (translates roughly as, "ministry administrative law/guidelines") makes it illegal for a ministry to regulate or restrict an activity without a clear and easy to understand process and documentation. MITI's current method of "case-by-case" export permission could technically be viewed as a breach of this law/regulation. Also, the "Gyousei Tetsuzuki Hou" has time limits for ministries to respond to requests. I have informed RSA that they could take MITI to court on this one, but as far as I know, they haven't. So, yes, Japanese stooges were involved, but companies such as RSA haven't taken advantage of their legal position in pushing the export of their products from Japan.

Cypherpunks list - Re: [cpe:4284] Re: Tim May’s offensive racism (was: about RC4)

Ito: True Tim, but we are working on ways of getting it shipped.

Cypherpunks list - Re: Tim May’s offensive racism (was: about RC4)

May: No. But close. Joichi Ito's keyboard is having that stuck key problem again. What he meant to type was:

"nsa nsa nsa nsa nsa..."

Which explains why that Japanese-produced RSA chip was suddenly withdrawn from the market shortly after Jim Bidzos held it up in fron of Congress as an example of how foolish the U.S. export laws are. The Japanese stooges were ordered by their masters in Washington to conform to U.S. policy.

Cypherpunks list - Re: Tim May’s offensive racism (was: about RC4)

Anonymous: Is that Japanese for "Wassenaar"?

Cypherpunks list - Re: Tim May’s offensive racism (was: about RC4)

Ito: Actually, cypherpunks-j is not connected to the CDR lists. I have made a local distribution of the cypherpunks list called cypherpunks-e, but there currently only 2 subscribers. I wonder why... ;-P

Cypherpunks-j and the meetings in Tokyo are focused more on writing code and less on stroking and beating each other.

We were going to call the list something else, but Eric Hughes attended one of our meetings and convinced us to call ourselves cypherpunks... maybe that was a stupid decision.

But, I suppose chaos is good. For you and for us. It's always nice to be reminded that racisms in the US is still alive and active. Sometime I forget and almost identify with you folks.

Oh and by the way:

Article 21 of the Constitution of Japan

Freedom of assembly and association as well as speech, press and all other forms of expression are guaranteed. 2) No censorship shall be maintained, nor shall the secrecy of any means of communication be violated. 

"nya nya na nya nya..." 

Cypherpunks list - Re: Tim May’s offensive racism (was: about RC4)

TruthMonger: I tried to tell my fellow CypherPunks that it was a mistake to include that racist, white supremacist cypherpunks-j list in with the other CDR lists, but they still let those slant-eyed white supremacists join our Mary band, skirts and all.