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Diebold Source Code!!!
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 10:47:05 -0500
Begin forwarded message: From: security curmudgeon <jericho () attrition org> Date: November 11, 2004 10:37:36 AM EST To: David Farber <dave () farber net> Subject: Re: [IP] Diebold Source Code!!! : no confirmation djfThe source code was discovered on the internet in Jan. 2003 and Avi Rubin
wrote his report in July 2003. Here's the story about how it unfolded: http://www.wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,62790,00.html : Begin forwarded message: : : From: Jay Fenello <Jay () Fenello com> : Date: November 10, 2004 6:58:20 PM EST : To: dave () farber net : Cc: Ken Deifik <kenneth.d () adelphia net> : Subject: Diebold Source Code!!! : : : : FYI: : : At 11/10/2004 06:40 PM, CLG News wrote: : : News Update from Citizens for Legitimate Government : November 10, 2004 : http://www.legitgov.org/ : http://www.legitgov.org/index.html#breaking_news : : : Diebold Source Code!!! --by ouranos (dailykos.com) "Dr. Avi Rubin is : currently Professor of Computer Science at John Hopkins University. He : 'accidentally' got his hands on a copy of the Diebold software: program--Diebold's source code--which runs their e-voting machines. Dr.
: Rubin's students pored over 48,609 lines of code that make up this : software. One line in particular stood out over all the rest: : #defineDESKEY((des_KEY8F2654hd4" All commercial programs have : provisions to be encrypted so as to protect them from having their : contents read or changed by anyone not having the key... The line that : staggered the Hopkins team was that the method used to encrypt the: Diebold machines was a method called Digital Encryption Standard (DES),
: a code that was broken in 1997 and is NO LONGER USED by anyone to : secure programs. F2654hd4 was the key to the encryption. Moreover, : because the KEY was IN the source code, all Diebold machines would : respond to the same key. Unlock one, you have then ALL unlocked. I : can't believe there is a person alive who wouldn't understand the: reason this was allowed to happen. This wasn't a mistake by any stretch
: of the imagination." : : ***** : : : +++ : : Jay Fenello, 678-585-9765 : http://www.Fenello.com ... Startup Coaching : http://www.YourWebPartner.com ... Website Partnering : http://www.AligningWithPurpose.org ... For a Better World : ------------------------------------------------------------------- : "There is a bigger question than vote fraud, or the manipulation : of public opinion by unscrupulous media corporations, or the fact : that the two political parties are actually one, and that the loyal : opposition seeks only to emulate the party in power rather than : oppose it ... The biggest question of all is about the caliber : — and the sanity — of the American people." -- John Kaminski : : : ------------------------------------- : You are subscribed as jericho () attrition org : To manage your subscription, go to : http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip :: Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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