Date: Fri, 12 May 1995 19:47:02 +0800 From: Brian Tao <taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw> To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: Nautilus 0.9.0 Message-ID: <199505121147.TAA01170@aries.ibms.sinica.edu.tw> In-Reply-To: <D8Dso7.887@lila.com>
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Does anyone from the U.S. want to try porting this to FreeBSD?
In article <D8Dso7.887@lila.com> billd@lila.com writes:
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>Announcing Nautilus 0.9.0 (Beta Test)
>=====================================
>
>WHAT IS NAUTILUS?
>- -----------------
>
>Nautilus is a program that lets you have encrypted voice telephone
>conversations with your friends without needing any special equipment.
>All you need is a standard personal computer (386/25 or faster PC with
>Soundblaster compatible sound board, or Sun Sparcstation) and a high
>speed modem. Its speech quality is reasonably good at 14.4kbps and
>acceptable at 9600 bps. It currently won't work at any slower
>modem speeds.
>
>Nautilus is the first program of this type that we know of to be
>distributed for free with source code. A few similar commercial
>programs have been distributed without source, so that their security
>cannot be independently examined.
>
>HOW DOES IT WORK?
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>
>Nautilus uses your computer's audio hardware to digitize and play back
>your speech using a homebrew speech compression routine included with
>the program. It encrypts the compressed speech using your choice of
>the Blowfish, Triple DES, or IDEA block ciphers, and transmits the
>encrypted packets over your modem to your friend's computer. At the
>other end, the process is reversed. The program is half-duplex; just
>hit a key to switch between talking and listening.
>
>Nautilus's encryption key is generated from a shared secret passphrase
>that you and your friend choose together ahead of time, perhaps via
>email using PGP, RIPEM, or a similar program. Nautilus itself does not
>currently incorporate any form of public key cryptography.
>
>Further details are in the release notes included with the program.
>
>FTP SITES
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>
>Nautilus is available in three different formats:
>
>nautilus-0.9.0.tar.gz - full source code
>naut090.zip - MSDOS executable and associated documentation
>naut090s.zip - full source code
>
>It is available at the following FTP sites:
>
>ftp://ripem.msu.edu/pub/crypt/other/
>This is an export controlled ftp site: read /pub/crypt/GETTING_ACCESS
>for information on access.
>
>ftp://ftp.csn.org:/mpj/I_will_not_export/crypto_???????/
>This is an export controlled ftp site: read /mpj/README for
>information on access.
>
>ftp://miyako.dorm.duke.edu/mpj/crypto/voice/
>This is an export controlled ftp site: read /mpj/GETTING_ACCESS for
>information on access.
>
>INTERNATIONAL USE
>- -----------------
>
>Sorry, but under current US law, Nautilus is legal for domestic use in
>the US only. We don't like this law but have to abide by it while it
>is in effect. Nautilus is distributed through export-restricted FTP
>sites for this reason. Please do not export it.
>
>IMPORTANT
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>
>This is a BETA TEST VERSION of a BRAND NEW CRYPTOGRAPHY PROGRAM.
>Although we've done our best to choose secure ciphers and protocols for
>Nautilus, its design details have not yet been reviewed by anyone
>except the authors, and it's VERY EASY to make mistakes in such
>programs that mess up the security. We advise against putting too much
>faith in the security of the program until it has undergone a lot more
>reviewing and debugging. We encourage cryptographers and users alike
>to examine and test the program thoroughly, and *please* let us know if
>you find anything wrong. We hope to release an updated version within
>about one month fixing any serious bugs found in the current version,
>though probably not having many new features. Finally, although we'll
>try to fix any bugs reported to us, WE CANNOT BE RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY
>ERRORS.
>
>CONTACTING THE DEVELOPERS
>- -------------------------
>
>Nautilus was written by Bill Dorsey, Pat Mullarky, and Paul Rubin.
>To contact the developers, please send email to nautilus@lila.com.
>
>This announcement, and the source and executable distribution files,
>are all signed with the following PGP public key. Please use it to
>check the authenticity of the files and of any fixes we may post. You
>can also use it to send us encrypted email if you want. We will try
>to keep such email confidential, but cannot guarantee it.
>
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>--
>Bill Dorsey "Nothing that results from human progress is achieved
>dorsey@lila.com with unamimous consent. And those who are enlightened
>PGP 2.X pubkey before the others are condemned to pursue that light
>available in spite of the others." -- Christopher Columbus
>--
>Bill Dorsey "Nothing that results from human progress is achieved
>dorsey@lila.com with unamimous consent. And those who are enlightened
>PGP 2.X pubkey before the others are condemned to pursue that light
>available in spite of the others." -- Christopher Columbus
--
Brian ("Though this be madness, yet there is method in't") Tao
taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw <-- work ........ play --> taob@io.org
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