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From: Skybuck Flying on 10 Apr 2008 09:29
Hello,

When I tested the SSE2 implementation in a larger application I did not
notice any improvement.

One possibility could be because the SSE2 implementation uses more
instructions than the Delphi/DCPCryptV2 library.

Thus the SSE2 implementation might take up too much L1 instruction cache and
slow down the program ?

Pure speculation, I don't know for sure ;)

Altering the SSE2 implementation to use routines instead might give more
performance for larger applications (?!)

Bye,
Skybuck.


From: Skybuck Flying on 18 Apr 2008 19:32
versus the European
: focus: we want to have the choice - with an open end - to maintain
: own surveillance. The US demand would have caused an immediate
: ability to tap into what the European intelligence community believes to
: be its sole and exclusive territory. In fact the Europeans were not at all
: pleased with the US view points of controlling ALL crypto. Germany and
: France vigorously refused to work with the US on this issue.
:
: The Clipper initiative (at the time not readily developed) was completely
: banned, except for the Australian and UK views that felt some obligation
: from the 1947 UKUSA treaty (dealing with interchange of intelligence).
:
: With a vast majority the US was cornered completely, and had to accept
: the international views. And actually adopted those as well. EFF, EPIC and
: other US organizations were delighted to see the formal US views barred,
: but expressed their concern on the development of alternate political
: pressure that would cause the same effects.
:
: As time went by that was indeed what the US did, and up to now with minor
: success.
:
: Bertil Fortrie
: Internet Security Review
: ==


There it is yet again: "anytime, anywhere", and "UKUSA".

There is absolutely no doubt whatsoever that Netscape and other companies
--- the U.S. is a world leading producer of software technology --- are
having their products outlawed for world-wide distribution because of
ECHELON.

Ubiquitous full-strength crypto --- in all our email products and web
browsers --- would immed


From: Skybuck Flying on 18 Apr 2008 18:19
will be the focus of police attention, and which
# will be ignored.

Get a load of this:

* "Police Applaud Ruling to Allow Restrictions on Gang Suspects"
* By Tim Golden, The New York Times, February 1, 1997
*
* Law enforcement officials in California today praised a State Supreme
* Court decision that allows cities to prohibit SUSPECTED gang members
* from standing together on street corners, climbing trees, wearing beepers
* and doing any number of other things that are legal for ordinary citizens.
*
* The ruling was in a case for the city of San Jose to prevent 38 Hispanic
* men and women suspected of membership in a street gang from frequenting
* a four-block neighborhood that the police said the gang had terrorized.
*
* "We're thrilled," said Los Angelos County Attorney Gil Garcetti.
*
* State and local law enforcement officials predicted that the court ruling
* would prompt a wave of similar legislation across California.
*
* Because the San Jose City Attorney's office brought action against the
* defendants under a civil procedure, the defendants were not guaranteed
* the standard protections of criminal law.
*
* "Liberty unrestrained is an invitation to anarchy," Justice Brown wrote.
*
* The defendants may not engage in any form of public association: "standing,
* sitting, walking, driving, gathering or appearing anywhere in public view"
* in the neighborhood, or face 6 months in jail.
*
* They further may not: "climb trees or fences, make loud noises, po


From: Skybuck Flying on 18 Apr 2008 18:34
restricted areas.
*
* The postage-size sensor will measure the ridges and valleys on the skin
* when a finger is pressed against a silicon chip, and then check the
* measurements against the user's profile.

Not big at all, is it?

# "Faster, More Accurate Fingerprint Matching"
# By Andrea Adelson, The New York Times, October 11 1992
#
# "We think there will be a revolution in fingerprinting," said David F.
# Nemecek, a deputy for the FBI's Information Service Division.
#
# The next step is for manufacturers to make a single-finger mobile scanner
# for use in patrol cars. Some FBI cars are expected to get them next year.

$ "The Body As Password", By Ann Davis, Wired Magazine, July 1997
$
$ In October 1995, the Federal Highway Administration awarded a $400,000
$ contract to San Jose State University's College of Engineering to develop
$ standards for a "biometric identifier" on commercial driver's licenses and
$ for use in a centralized national database.

A centralized national database of biometric information for cross-state
driver's licenses, and all individual state driver's license fingerprints
available via the FBI's NCIC.

Once most people are fingerprinted, a cheap (say $50) fingerprint scanner that
attaches a timestamp and government digital signature will be sold for allowing
Internet access to "adult" locations---chat rooms, USENET, WWW sites---and it
will be mandatory. The Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court said as soon
as the "Internet driver's license" is technically feasible, CDA becomes legal.

"Such technology requires Internet users to enter information about
themselves--perhaps an adult identification number or a credit card
number--before they can access certain areas of cyberspace, 929 F. Supp.
824, 845 (ED Pa. 1996), much like a bouncer checks a person's driver's
license before admitting him to a nightclub."


* "Project L.U.C.I.D.", by Texe Marrs,


From: Skybuck Flying on 18 Apr 2008 21:40
alerted law enforcement officers.

Be careful what you...

----

Also, there seems to be a disagreement between citizens and
the Government over what even constitutes child pornography.

* The New York Times, 1995
* Newark, NJ, Jan 12 (AP)
*
* A judge ruled today that a father must stand trial for taking nude photos
* of his six-year-old daughter, despite the man's claim that the pictures
* were art, not pornography.
*
* The judge ruled they were not art, despite Mr. Feuer's instructor, Susan
* Klechner of the International Center of Photography in New York City,
* submitting an affidavit saying the pictures were taken for the course
* and were consistent with the assignment.
*
* After his arrest, Mr. Feuer was ordered not to have contact with his
* daughter and could not stay at his home while the prosecution's
* investigation continued.
*
* The order was lifted last April, but David Ruhnke, Mr. Feuer's lawyer,
* said "It's really difficult to overstate what a nightmare this has
* been for him."
*
* Mr. Ruhnke further complained that the judge revealed Mr. Feuer's name
* in court papers while he was still making motions to dismiss the case,
* to protect the girl.

Parents charged with child pornography for taking photos of their children.

Thought Police.

----


We netizens are rightfully paranoid of the
American government, because it has no scruples.

What the FBI did to photographer Jock Sturges was criminal.


Excerpt from 'TO: A Journal of Poetry, Prose + the Visual Arts', Summer 1992:

* Hounded by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in a bizarre witch-hunt
* at an expense to the taxpayers of over a million dollars, Sturges had
* survived an attempt to destroy his life and his work and was now
* countersuing the agency.
*
* Recapitulated briefly, Sturges, who's based in San Francisco, has for



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