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  1. Somewhat similar european initiative by Ezel · · Score: 1 · on Building a Better 'Anonymous?'

    There is an initiative in somewhat the same general direction taking place in Europe right now called ' Internet Activism Infrastructure Organization '
    http://iaio.eu/

    It's people from the clusters WeRebuild.eu and Telecomix.org that are behind this new initiative.
    http://werebuild.eu/wiki/Main_Page
    http://telecomix.org/

  2. Switch to the new root servers instead by F.Ultra · · Score: 1 · on Chinese DNS Tampering a Real Threat To Outsiders

    Simple solution is to switch to 3rd party root servers like the Telecomix ones: http://dns.telecomix.org/

  3. Re:Ibrahim Botani by Husgaard · · Score: 2, Informative · on The Pirate Bay's Founding Organization Shuts Down

    There has not been much happening in Piratbyrån for the last few years anyway.

    Many of the active people from Piratbyrån have become active in The Pirate Party or other clusters like Werebuild, The Julia Group or Telecomix. (The Telecomix Crypto Munitions Bureau held the conference recently discussed here where security flaws in some VPN tools used for filesharer anonymity were exposed.)

    My guess it that the core people in Piratbyrån felt that this cluster was no longer needed and used the death of their friend as an excuse to shut it down, as a post-mortem honour to him.

  4. Re:Ibrahim Botani by Husgaard · · Score: 2, Informative · on The Pirate Bay's Founding Organization Shuts Down

    There has not been much happening in Piratbyrån for the last few years anyway.

    Many of the active people from Piratbyrån have become active in The Pirate Party or other clusters like Werebuild, The Julia Group or Telecomix. (The Telecomix Crypto Munitions Bureau held the conference recently discussed here where security flaws in some VPN tools used for filesharer anonymity were exposed.)

    My guess it that the core people in Piratbyrån felt that this cluster was no longer needed and used the death of their friend as an excuse to shut it down, as a post-mortem honour to him.

  5. Re:maybe by buchner.johannes · · Score: 1 · on How Did Wikileaks Do It?

    more like AES/OpenSSL: (from comments at Schneier, pondering about the same question: http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2010/04/cryptography_br.html)

    Supposedly, the original encrypted file is here: http://leaks.telecomix.org/cm.rda

    It looks like it was encrypted using OpenSSL's command line utility, which takes a passphrase, so that supports the idea that this was broken via a passphrase guesser.

    I wonder what the passphrase was. It would be amusing if it turned out to be "progress" again (a la http://www.metafilter.com/79537/... )

    Posted by: Grim at April 7, 2010 4:48 PM
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    I found the file earlier and analyzed it as an OpenSSL type bare encrypted file.

    If it's AES-256, then I guess that qualifies as "Military Grade" suite b.

    But I don't see any indication of a classified algorithm.

    I would love to see the original cleartext... I wonder if wikileaks would release it?

    Posted by: Roger at April 7, 2010 6:14 PM
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    I wonder why the encrypted vid is about 430 megs and the decrypted one is >600 megs. Maybe recompressed, but that makes little sense unless some really weird codec was used in the original. By releasing the encrypted version, they are giving similar hints to potential attackers than with the unencrypted one.

    Posted by: jan at April 7, 2010 6:31 PM
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    The WikiLeaks editor, Julian Assange, says in this video (around 1:20), "we have a number of cryptographers and other security experts and lots of volunteer computer time, so that's just a matter of going through the most probable passwords that something might be encrypted with, so several millions of passwords to find the one that was used."

    He further states that they spent about 3 months working on it.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QEdAykXxoM

    Posted by: Eric S at April 7, 2010 7:34 PM