[117622] in Cypherpunks
Re: Build a better OTP?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rabid Wombat)
Tue Sep 7 14:07:47 1999
Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1999 13:47:47 -0400
From: Rabid Wombat <wombat@mayhem.snakecult.org>
To: Anonymous <nobody@replay.com>
cc: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
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Reply-To: Rabid Wombat <wombat@mayhem.snakecult.org>
ROFL.
Actually, we shave the heads of the snakecult zombies, er, disciples, and
write messages on their heads. When the hair grows back, we send them
hitchhiking across the country. They camp out on Tim May's driveway and
wait until he comes out of the house every other week to pick up his copy
of "the Economist" to deliver their messages.
This was working fairly well, in spite of the obvious latency, until Al
Gore started driving by and offering crypto technology to the disciples in
exchange for campaign donations. We still haven't figured out if our
operation was compromised, and Al was feeling sorry for us, or if he
mistook the disciples for followers of Hsing Yun.
-r.w.
On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, Anonymous wrote:
> Rabbit Wombat writes:
> > I would trust the hardware on a 486 or early pentuim running BSD or Linux.
> > Anything beyond that is getting iffy.
> >
> > "Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean there's no one out to get you."
> >
> > Remember a certain Swiss crypto gear manufacturer? Biggest score the NSA
> > ever pulled off. Way better than the Xerox story that's been floating
> > around the last few days.
> >
> > -r.w.
>
> And so the tinfoil helmet brigade enters the debate...
>
> You know, Rabbit, the comment about trusting your CPU was meant to be a
> reductio ad absurdum. The point is, it is absurd to raise paranoia to
> the point that you suspect a back door in the RNG chip, if you're not
> going to be equally concerned about all the other components you are
> forced to trust.
>
> So, Rabbit, you're going to stick with good ol' 1996 hardware, forever?
> What a great plan. And it's only going to get better with time. Fine
> computers, like fine wine...
>
> Why not go grab a 1980 vintage Apple ][ and a 300 baud modem and enjoy
> your computing environment? That will give you an idea of how badly
> you'll be crippled in another decade or two.
>
