THIS UNWANTED GARBAGE ORIGINATED FROM AND BROUGHT TO YOU COURTESY OF:
PATRICK PARIS -- MORALLY BANKRUPT
PATRICK PARIS -- SUCKED ONE SUCKED 'EM ALL
PATRICK PARIS -- FAILED HUMAN BEING
PATRICK PARIS -- STINKING PIECE OF FRENCH PIG SHIT
On Sat, 22 Oct 2005, Anonymous <anonymous@invalid.com> wrote:
In article <43597cbd$0$11078$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl>
"Thomas J. Boschloo" <nospam@hccnet.nl> wrote:
Now we must get Eelbash Admin to retire too and this will be paradise for me!
Eelbash must not retire! He is the single most entertaining person in
here although he doesn't intend to be.
I read apas once a week and get great amusement out of reading
Eelbash's silly ideas for censoring (sorry I mean "stopping the
psychos"). I also enjoy reading his sock puppets where he tries to
pretend he's someone else that just happens to think and talk exactly
like him.
He is my internet soap opera. Eelbash must stay.
Wonderful entertainment that bloke.
<<==========>>
Subject: Reasons to avoid Eelbash
In article <YJLAY9F138147.4308217593@Gilgamesh-Frog.org>,
Eelbash Admin<Anonymous-Remailer@See.Comment.Header> wrote:
It is simple: with Frog retiring, there are only 2, possibly 3, adult
remailer operators left. I decided to do my bit for a responsible and
adult remailer system by running Bushwa.
In addition to *this* arrogance, remember he also publicly campaigned for
the delisting of Austria and Dizum. He also told us that because of his
breeding, he was superior to the rest of us.
Yes, those actually were his reasons.
This all came after his failed attempt to institute hate-speech filters and
his "editing" of his users posts. This "superior champion of privacy" used
to read and edit users posts to make sure they met his criteria for
political correctness.
Then came his admission that he was unaware that mixmaster was a server as
well as a client, and that he had no clue what a "partitioning attack" was,
despite having run a remailer for "...over 15 years"
(a blatant,bald-faced LIE).
So his remailer was cut off from the rest of the network, become the one
and only remailer in the history of the network to receive a Remailer Death
Penalty, or RDP. Shortly thereafter, he tried to sneak back in as "Bushwa".
He was busted. Then he came back with "greatwall", despite the fact that
remailer names are supposed to observe an 8 character limit.
So now he is back again, as Asmodeus, although he is still crippled by only
being listed by 8 remailers, and 2 pingers.
His "career" as a remop is studded with examples like the ones above.
If you can find them, you can check out posts about his monitoring
and filtering behavior on past remailers he has run.
The ones we know about are:
eelbash
axloltl
axolotl2
cheshire
congo
bog
bogg
eelbash (again)
bushwa
greatwall
asmodeus
eelbash (again!)
eelbash (again!!)
Last time it took 10 days between announcing his triumphant return,
and having to close down for ADMITTING that he was reading
people's posts and emails AGAIN.
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Subject: Re: RSA-640 Factored
George Orwell wrote:
RSA-640 has now been factored in 5 months with just 80 Opteron CPU's.
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/news/2005-11-08/rsa-640/
Mixmaster uses 1024bit RSA keys, and so does Tor. Isn't it time to move to
at least 2048bits? Hardly anybody uses 1024bits for anything these days.
Why are we?
I wouldn't get too panicked just yet. Each additional bit roughly doubles
the factoring time, so a 641 bit key would be 10 months, 642 = 20 months,
643 = 40 months... 1024 = something like 1.00E+120 months (a guesstimate,
check the math).
I suppose it's all about how long you want your data to be safe. There's
no such thing as a "forever" cypher unless you consider the OTP, but
they're impractical in most real life applications. So every common
encryption scheme is a compromise. For real time communications like Tor
where information generally looses value quickly, a "buffer" of a few
million years is more than sufficient for now I'd say. ;)
Not that it doesn't bear watching mind you. Computing power can double in
a year, and costs per calculation can drop dramatically. It's always good
to be aware of the state of things, but it's important not to shift into
"sky is falling" mode every time someone makes another step forward. It
just means things are evolving as expected. No surprises. It's assumed
that keys of a given size will become less secure over time, and any
anomaly in that time line would be a red flag. Even if the anomaly were
larger keys *not* being factored. Worst case scenario, such a thing might
indicate a flaw in the methods we use to factor, and make all previous
results invalid... place us in a state where we have no *clue* about the
security of our encryption algorithms. :(
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