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Firefox improvements.

Started by"Skybuck Flying" <skybuck2000@hotmail.com>
First post2015-10-08 07:55 +0200
Last post2015-10-13 21:42 +0200
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  Firefox improvements. "Skybuck Flying" <skybuck2000@hotmail.com> - 2015-10-08 07:55 +0200
    Re: Firefox improvements. "Skybuck Flying" <skybuck2000@hotmail.com> - 2015-10-08 07:57 +0200
      Re: Firefox improvements. "Skybuck Flying" <skybuck2000@hotmail.com> - 2015-10-08 08:01 +0200
        Re: Firefox improvements. Robert Baer <robertbaer@localnet.com> - 2015-10-09 01:08 -0700
          Re: Firefox improvements. "Skybuck Flying" <skybuck2000@hotmail.com> - 2015-10-10 13:08 +0200
            Re: Firefox improvements. "Skybuck Flying" <skybuck2000@hotmail.com> - 2015-10-10 13:09 +0200
      Re: Firefox improvements. "Skybuck Flying" <skybuck2000@hotmail.com> - 2015-10-11 19:03 +0200
        Re: Firefox improvements. DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno <DLU1@DecadentLinuxUser.org> - 2015-10-11 13:13 -0400
          Re: Firefox improvements. Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2015-10-11 19:55 +0100
            Re: Firefox improvements. DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno <DLU1@DecadentLinuxUser.org> - 2015-10-11 16:02 -0400
              Re: Firefox improvements. Bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2015-10-11 21:45 +0100
                Re: Firefox improvements. krw <krw@nowhere.com> - 2015-10-11 17:01 -0400
                  Re: Firefox improvements. William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2015-10-11 22:18 +0000
                    Re: Firefox improvements. DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno <DLU1@DecadentLinuxUser.org> - 2015-10-11 18:45 -0400
                      Re: Firefox improvements. "Osmium" <r124c4u102@comcast.net> - 2015-10-11 18:03 -0500
                        Re: Firefox improvements. DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno <DLU1@DecadentLinuxUser.org> - 2015-10-11 19:24 -0400
                    Re: Firefox improvements. krw <krw@nowhere.com> - 2015-10-11 21:07 -0400
                Re: Firefox improvements. Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2015-10-12 03:53 +0100
              Re: Firefox improvements. Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2015-10-12 03:50 +0100
            Re: Firefox improvements. "Osmium" <r124c4u102@comcast.net> - 2015-10-11 17:13 -0500
              Re: Firefox improvements. Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2015-10-12 03:55 +0100
              Re: Firefox improvements. Jeffrey Goldberg <nobody@goldmark.org> - 2015-10-16 01:08 -0500
                Re: Firefox improvements. Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2015-10-19 11:53 -0700
                  Re: Firefox improvements. DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno <DLU1@DecadentLinuxUser.org> - 2015-10-19 16:58 -0400
                    Re: Firefox improvements. Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-10-19 14:32 -0700
                      Re: Firefox improvements. DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno <DLU1@DecadentLinuxUser.org> - 2015-10-19 18:26 -0400
                        Re: Firefox improvements. Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-10-20 07:55 -0700
                          Re: Firefox improvements. Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2015-10-20 16:35 +0100
            Re: Firefox improvements. James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2015-10-11 20:51 -0400
              Re: Firefox improvements. DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno <DLU1@DecadentLinuxUser.org> - 2015-10-11 21:05 -0400
              Re: Firefox improvements. William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2015-10-12 01:08 +0000
              Re: Firefox improvements. Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2015-10-12 03:59 +0100
                Re: Firefox improvements. DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno <DLU1@DecadentLinuxUser.org> - 2015-10-11 23:08 -0400
                  Re: Firefox improvements. Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2015-10-12 04:41 +0100
                    Re: Firefox improvements. DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno <DLU1@DecadentLinuxUser.org> - 2015-10-12 00:16 -0400
                      Re: Firefox improvements. James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2015-10-12 00:37 -0400
                      Re: Firefox improvements. Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2015-10-12 05:46 +0100
                        Re: Firefox improvements. James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2015-10-12 00:56 -0400
                          Re: Firefox improvements. Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2015-10-12 06:18 +0100
                        Re: Firefox improvements. DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno <DLU1@DecadentLinuxUser.org> - 2015-10-12 02:22 -0400
                          Re: Firefox improvements. Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2015-10-12 08:44 +0100
                        Re: Firefox improvements. DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno <DLU1@DecadentLinuxUser.org> - 2015-10-12 02:23 -0400
                          Re: Firefox improvements. Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2015-10-12 08:47 +0100
                            Re: Firefox improvements. DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno <DLU1@DecadentLinuxUser.org> - 2015-10-12 03:59 -0400
                              Re: Firefox improvements. Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2015-10-12 09:14 +0100
                              Re: Firefox improvements. Bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2015-10-12 12:08 +0100
                                Re: Firefox improvements. DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno <DLU1@DecadentLinuxUser.org> - 2015-10-12 08:59 -0400
                                  Re: Firefox improvements. Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2015-10-12 14:25 +0100
                                    Re: Firefox improvements. DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno <DLU1@DecadentLinuxUser.org> - 2015-10-12 12:20 -0400
                                      Re: Firefox improvements. Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2015-10-12 16:27 +0000
                                        Re: Firefox improvements. Bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2015-10-13 11:20 +0100
                                          Re: Firefox improvements. Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2015-10-13 16:01 +0000
                                            Re: Firefox improvements. Geoff <geoff@invalid.invalid> - 2015-10-13 16:16 -0700
                                              Re: Firefox improvements. Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2015-10-13 23:27 +0000
                                            Re: Firefox improvements. "Skybuck Flying" <skybuck2000@hotmail.com> - 2015-10-15 21:41 +0200
                                              Re: Firefox improvements. Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2015-10-15 22:43 +0000
                                                Re: Firefox improvements. "Skybuck Flying" <skybuck2000@hotmail.com> - 2015-10-16 04:44 +0200
                                                  Re: Firefox improvements. DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno <DLU1@DecadentLinuxUser.org> - 2015-10-16 07:51 -0400
                                                    Re: Firefox improvements. Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-10-16 08:27 -0700
                                                      Re: Firefox improvements. DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno <DLU1@DecadentLinuxUser.org> - 2015-10-16 13:21 -0400
                                        Re: Firefox improvements. Phil Hobbs <pcdhSpamMeSenseless@electrooptical.net> - 2015-10-13 11:31 -0400
                                          Re: Firefox improvements. Jeff Liebermann <jeffl@cruzio.com> - 2015-10-13 08:45 -0700
                                          Re: Firefox improvements. Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2015-10-13 16:03 +0000
                                      Re: Firefox improvements. Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2015-10-12 17:46 +0100
                                        Re: Firefox improvements. DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno <DLU1@DecadentLinuxUser.org> - 2015-10-12 13:10 -0400
                                        Re: Firefox improvements. krw <krw@nowhere.com> - 2015-10-12 20:01 -0400
                                          Re: Firefox improvements. William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2015-10-13 00:44 +0000
                                            Re: Firefox improvements. krw <krw@nowhere.com> - 2015-10-13 12:25 -0400
                                              Re: Firefox improvements. William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2015-10-13 16:40 +0000
                                                Re: Firefox improvements. krw <krw@nowhere.com> - 2015-10-13 13:02 -0400
                                                  Re: Firefox improvements. Bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2015-10-13 18:16 +0100
                                                    Re: Firefox improvements. Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2015-10-13 11:32 -0600
                                                      Re: Firefox improvements. DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno <DLU1@DecadentLinuxUser.org> - 2015-10-13 22:53 -0400
                                                    Re: Firefox improvements. krw <krw@nowhere.com> - 2015-10-13 20:27 -0400
                                                      Re: Firefox improvements. William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2015-10-14 01:45 +0000
                                                        Re: Firefox improvements. krw <krw@nowhere.com> - 2015-10-13 21:58 -0400
                                                          Re: Firefox improvements. Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2015-10-14 02:13 +0000
                                                            Re: Firefox improvements. krw <krw@nowhere.com> - 2015-10-14 20:29 -0400
                                                              Re: Firefox improvements. Bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2015-10-15 01:46 +0100
                                                                Re: Firefox improvements. Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2015-10-15 01:01 +0000
                                                                  Re: Firefox improvements. DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno <DLU1@DecadentLinuxUser.org> - 2015-10-14 21:16 -0400
                                                                    Re: Firefox improvements. Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2015-10-15 01:19 +0000
                                                                      Re: Firefox improvements. DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno <DLU1@DecadentLinuxUser.org> - 2015-10-14 22:07 -0400
                                                                        Re: Firefox improvements. krw <krw@nowhere.com> - 2015-10-14 22:22 -0400
                                                                  Re: Firefox improvements. krw <krw@nowhere.com> - 2015-10-14 22:19 -0400
                                                                    Re: Firefox improvements. Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2015-10-15 12:51 +0100
                                                                      Re: Firefox improvements. Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2015-10-15 12:59 +0000
                                                                        Re: Firefox improvements. DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno <DLU1@DecadentLinuxUser.org> - 2015-10-15 09:09 -0400
                                                                          Re: Firefox improvements. Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2015-10-15 13:18 +0000
                                                                            Re: Firefox improvements. DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno <DLU1@DecadentLinuxUser.org> - 2015-10-15 09:29 -0400
                                                                            Re: Firefox improvements. DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno <DLU1@DecadentLinuxUser.org> - 2015-10-15 09:30 -0400
                                                                            Re: Firefox improvements. DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno <DLU1@DecadentLinuxUser.org> - 2015-10-15 09:31 -0400
                                                                              Re: Firefox improvements. krw <krw@nowhere.com> - 2015-10-15 12:09 -0400
                                                                              Re: Firefox improvements. Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2015-10-15 22:47 +0000
                                                                                Re: Firefox improvements. DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno <DLU1@DecadentLinuxUser.org> - 2015-10-15 21:22 -0400
                                                                              Re: Firefox improvements. JW <none@dev.null> - 2015-10-16 06:14 -0400
                                                                            Re: Firefox improvements. krw <krw@nowhere.com> - 2015-10-15 12:09 -0400
                                                                        Re: Firefox improvements. krw <krw@nowhere.com> - 2015-10-15 12:07 -0400
                                                                          Re: Firefox improvements. DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno <DLU1@DecadentLinuxUser.org> - 2015-10-15 16:24 -0400
                                                                          Re: Firefox improvements. Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2015-10-15 22:50 +0000
                                                                      Re: Firefox improvements. krw <krw@nowhere.com> - 2015-10-15 12:02 -0400
                                                                        Re: Firefox improvements. Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2015-10-15 17:12 +0100
                                                                          Re: Firefox improvements. krw <krw@nowhere.com> - 2015-10-15 12:50 -0400
                                                                            Re: Firefox improvements. Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2015-10-15 18:01 +0100
                                                                              Re: Firefox improvements. krw <krw@nowhere.com> - 2015-10-15 20:06 -0400
                                                                                Re: Firefox improvements. Jakob Bohm <jb-usenet@wisemo.com> - 2015-10-16 02:37 +0200
                                                                                  Re: Firefox improvements. "Skybuck Flying" <skybuck2000@hotmail.com> - 2015-10-21 07:32 +0200
                                                                          Re: Firefox improvements. James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2015-10-15 14:05 -0400
                                                                            Re: Firefox improvements. Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2015-10-15 19:10 +0100
                                                                              Re: Firefox improvements. James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2015-10-15 14:46 -0400
                                                                              Re: Firefox improvements. David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2015-10-15 21:28 +0200
                                                                                Re: Firefox improvements. Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2015-10-16 00:19 +0000
                                                                                  Re: Firefox improvements. DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno <DLU1@DecadentLinuxUser.org> - 2015-10-15 21:31 -0400
                                                                                Re: Firefox improvements. Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2015-10-15 17:51 -0700
                                                                                  Re: Firefox improvements. gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2015-10-16 01:41 +0000
                                                                  Re: Firefox improvements. Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2015-10-14 20:35 -0600
                                                                  Re: Firefox improvements. "Skybuck Flying" <skybuck2000@hotmail.com> - 2015-10-15 21:53 +0200
                                                                Re: Firefox improvements. krw <krw@nowhere.com> - 2015-10-14 22:18 -0400
                                                              Re: Firefox improvements. Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2015-10-15 12:46 +0100
                                                                Re: Firefox improvements. James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2015-10-15 09:18 -0400
                                                          Re: Firefox improvements. William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2015-10-14 02:13 +0000
                                                        Re: Firefox improvements. Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2015-10-13 21:32 -0600
                                                          Re: Firefox improvements. DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno <DLU1@DecadentLinuxUser.org> - 2015-10-14 00:21 -0400
                                                            Re: Firefox improvements. krw <krw@nowhere.com> - 2015-10-14 20:30 -0400
                                                              Re: Firefox improvements. DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno <DLU1@DecadentLinuxUser.org> - 2015-10-14 21:09 -0400
                                                                Re: Firefox improvements. Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2015-10-15 13:20 +0100
                                                                  Re: Firefox improvements. DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno <DLU1@DecadentLinuxUser.org> - 2015-10-15 09:07 -0400
                                                          Re: Firefox improvements. William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2015-10-14 04:49 +0000
                                                            Re: Firefox improvements. DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno <DLU1@DecadentLinuxUser.org> - 2015-10-14 00:56 -0400
                                                          Re: Firefox improvements. Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-10-13 22:39 -0700
                                                            Re: Firefox improvements. Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2015-10-14 08:40 +0100
                                                              Re: Firefox improvements. Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2015-10-14 15:01 -0600
                                                                Re: Firefox improvements. DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno <DLU1@DecadentLinuxUser.org> - 2015-10-14 19:13 -0400
                                                                Re: Firefox improvements. krw <krw@nowhere.com> - 2015-10-14 20:33 -0400
                                                              Re: Firefox improvements. DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno <DLU1@DecadentLinuxUser.org> - 2015-10-14 19:15 -0400
                                                                Re: Firefox improvements. Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2015-10-15 12:42 +0100
                                                              Re: Firefox improvements. krw <krw@nowhere.com> - 2015-10-14 20:32 -0400
                                                        Re: Firefox improvements. Jeffrey Goldberg <nobody@goldmark.org> - 2015-10-16 13:26 -0500
                                                          Re: Firefox improvements. "Skybuck Flying" <skybuck2000@hotmail.com> - 2015-10-21 07:48 +0200
                                                            Re: Firefox improvements. Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2015-10-21 02:09 -0700
                                                              Re: Firefox improvements. Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2015-10-21 11:10 +0100
                                                                Re: Firefox improvements. Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2015-10-21 03:45 -0700
                                                                  Re: Firefox improvements. Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2015-10-21 13:05 +0100
                                                            Re: Firefox improvements. Jeffrey Goldberg <nobody@goldmark.org> - 2015-10-21 11:25 -0500
                                                          Re: Firefox improvements. "Skybuck Flying" <skybuck2000@hotmail.com> - 2015-10-21 07:53 +0200
                                                  Re: Firefox improvements. Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2015-10-13 18:45 +0100
                                                    Re: Firefox improvements. James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2015-10-13 15:47 -0400
                                                      Re: Firefox improvements. Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2015-10-13 22:17 +0100
                                                        Re: Firefox improvements. Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2015-10-13 21:59 +0000
                                                          Re: Firefox improvements. krw <krw@nowhere.com> - 2015-10-13 20:35 -0400
                                                            Re: Firefox improvements. Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2015-10-13 22:28 -0400
                                                              Re: Firefox improvements. Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2015-10-14 04:00 +0100
                                                                Re: Firefox improvements. DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno <DLU1@DecadentLinuxUser.org> - 2015-10-13 23:10 -0400
                                                                  Re: Firefox improvements. Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2015-10-14 04:19 +0100
                                                                    Re: Firefox improvements. DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno <DLU1@DecadentLinuxUser.org> - 2015-10-14 00:15 -0400
                                                                      Re: Firefox improvements. Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2015-10-14 08:29 +0100
                                                                  Re: Firefox improvements. krw <krw@nowhere.com> - 2015-10-14 20:39 -0400
                                                                    Re: Firefox improvements. DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno <DLU1@DecadentLinuxUser.org> - 2015-10-14 21:10 -0400
                                                                      Re: Firefox improvements. krw <krw@nowhere.com> - 2015-10-14 22:24 -0400
                                                                        Re: Firefox improvements. DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno <DLU1@DecadentLinuxUser.org> - 2015-10-14 22:31 -0400
                                                                          Re: Firefox improvements. krw <krw@nowhere.com> - 2015-10-15 12:16 -0400
                                                                            Re: Firefox improvements. DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno <DLU1@DecadentLinuxUser.org> - 2015-10-15 16:25 -0400
                                                                            Re: Firefox improvements. "Skybuck Flying" <skybuck2000@hotmail.com> - 2015-10-21 08:03 +0200
                                                                        Re: Firefox improvements. James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2015-10-14 22:50 -0400
                                                                          Re: Firefox improvements. krw <krw@nowhere.com> - 2015-10-15 12:19 -0400
                                                                    Re: Firefox improvements. James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2015-10-14 22:26 -0400
                                                                      Re: Firefox improvements. DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno <DLU1@DecadentLinuxUser.org> - 2015-10-14 22:38 -0400
                                                                        Re: Firefox improvements. Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2015-10-15 12:20 +0100
                                                                Re: Firefox improvements. "Osmium" <r124c4u102@comcast.net> - 2015-10-13 22:54 -0500
                                                              Re: Firefox improvements. glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2015-10-14 04:24 +0000
                                                                Re: Firefox improvements. krw <krw@nowhere.com> - 2015-10-14 20:47 -0400
                                                        Re: Firefox improvements. DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno <DLU1@DecadentLinuxUser.org> - 2015-10-13 23:01 -0400
                                                          Re: Firefox improvements. krw <krw@nowhere.com> - 2015-10-14 20:44 -0400
                                                            Re: Firefox improvements. DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno <DLU1@DecadentLinuxUser.org> - 2015-10-14 21:11 -0400
                                                              Re: Firefox improvements. krw <krw@nowhere.com> - 2015-10-14 22:26 -0400
                                                  Re: Firefox improvements. Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2015-10-13 18:48 +0000
                                                    Re: Firefox improvements. Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2015-10-13 13:24 -0600
                                                      Re: Firefox improvements. Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2015-10-13 22:23 +0100
                                                      Re: Firefox improvements. krw <krw@nowhere.com> - 2015-10-13 20:36 -0400
                                                      Re: Firefox improvements. DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno <DLU1@DecadentLinuxUser.org> - 2015-10-13 22:59 -0400
                                                    Re: Firefox improvements. krw <krw@nowhere.com> - 2015-10-13 20:35 -0400
                                                      Re: Firefox improvements. Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2015-10-14 02:16 +0100
                                                        Re: Firefox improvements. Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2015-10-13 18:54 -0700
                                                          Re: Firefox improvements. Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2015-10-14 04:05 +0100
                                                  Re: Firefox improvements. DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno <DLU1@DecadentLinuxUser.org> - 2015-10-13 22:52 -0400
                                                    Re: Firefox improvements. krw <krw@nowhere.com> - 2015-10-14 20:49 -0400
                                                      Re: Firefox improvements. "Osmium" <r124c4u102@comcast.net> - 2015-10-14 23:07 -0500
                                                        Re: Firefox improvements. DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno <DLU1@DecadentLinuxUser.org> - 2015-10-15 07:12 -0400
                                                          Re: Firefox improvements. Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2015-10-15 12:58 +0100
                                          Re: Firefox improvements. DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno <DLU1@DecadentLinuxUser.org> - 2015-10-12 20:49 -0400
                                            Re: Firefox improvements. krw <krw@nowhere.com> - 2015-10-13 12:26 -0400
                                      Re: Firefox improvements. glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2015-10-13 03:02 +0000
                                      Re: Firefox improvements. Jeffrey Goldberg <nobody@goldmark.org> - 2015-10-16 12:19 -0500
                                        Re: Firefox improvements. DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno <DLU1@DecadentLinuxUser.org> - 2015-10-16 17:17 -0400
                                          Re: Firefox improvements. Jeffrey Goldberg <nobody@goldmark.org> - 2015-10-20 22:13 -0500
                                Re: Firefox improvements. Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2015-10-12 14:13 +0100
                            Re: Firefox improvements. Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2015-10-12 15:04 +0000
                              Re: Firefox improvements. DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno <DLU1@DecadentLinuxUser.org> - 2015-10-12 12:30 -0400
                                Re: Firefox improvements. Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2015-10-12 16:43 +0000
                        Re: Firefox improvements. DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno <DLU1@DecadentLinuxUser.org> - 2015-10-12 02:29 -0400
                          Re: Firefox improvements. Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2015-10-12 08:53 +0100
                            Re: Firefox improvements. DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno <DLU1@DecadentLinuxUser.org> - 2015-10-12 08:50 -0400
                              Re: Firefox improvements. Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2015-10-12 14:18 +0100
                                Re: Firefox improvements. Jeroen Belleman <jeroen@nospam.please> - 2015-10-12 16:50 +0200
                                Re: Firefox improvements. DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno <DLU1@DecadentLinuxUser.org> - 2015-10-12 12:12 -0400
                                  Re: Firefox improvements. Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2015-10-12 17:33 +0100
                                  Re: Firefox improvements. Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2015-10-12 16:32 +0000
                                    Re: Firefox improvements. Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2015-10-12 21:20 -0400
                                      Re: Firefox improvements. DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno <DLU1@DecadentLinuxUser.org> - 2015-10-12 21:43 -0400
                                      Re: Firefox improvements. "Skybuck Flying" <skybuck2000@hotmail.com> - 2015-10-13 08:03 +0200
                                        Re: Firefox improvements. DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno <DLU1@DecadentLinuxUser.org> - 2015-10-13 07:18 -0400
                                      Re: Firefox improvements. Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2015-10-13 07:28 +0100
                                      Re: Firefox improvements. Bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2015-10-13 10:16 +0100
                                        Re: Firefox improvements. Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2015-10-13 04:35 -0700
                                          Re: Firefox improvements. Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2015-10-13 12:57 +0100
                                          Re: Firefox improvements. Bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2015-10-13 13:29 +0100
                                            Re: Firefox improvements. David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2015-10-13 14:41 +0200
                                              Re: Firefox improvements. Bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2015-10-13 13:53 +0100
                                                Re: Firefox improvements. David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2015-10-13 16:24 +0200
                                        Re: Firefox improvements. Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2015-10-13 16:12 +0000
                                          Re: Firefox improvements. William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2015-10-13 16:39 +0000
                                            Re: Firefox improvements. Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2015-10-13 18:51 +0000
                                              Re: Firefox improvements. DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno <DLU1@DecadentLinuxUser.org> - 2015-10-13 22:55 -0400
                                            Re: Firefox improvements. DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno <DLU1@DecadentLinuxUser.org> - 2015-10-13 22:47 -0400
                                          Re: Firefox improvements. Bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2015-10-13 18:13 +0100
                                            Re: Firefox improvements. Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2015-10-13 19:03 +0000
                                              Re: Firefox improvements. DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno <DLU1@DecadentLinuxUser.org> - 2015-10-13 22:57 -0400
                                          Re: Firefox improvements. Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2015-10-13 22:02 +0100
                                            Re: Firefox improvements. Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2015-10-13 22:04 +0000
                                Re: Firefox improvements. DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno <DLU1@DecadentLinuxUser.org> - 2015-10-12 12:15 -0400
                                  Re: Firefox improvements. Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2015-10-12 16:37 +0000
                                  Re: Firefox improvements. James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2015-10-12 12:46 -0400
                                Re: Firefox improvements. Brian Gladman <blindanagram@nowhere.net> - 2015-10-12 18:01 +0100
                                  Re: Firefox improvements. DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno <DLU1@DecadentLinuxUser.org> - 2015-10-12 13:14 -0400
                              Re: Firefox improvements. Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2015-10-12 15:12 +0000
                                Re: Firefox improvements. glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2015-10-13 03:06 +0000
                                  Re: Firefox improvements. krw <krw@nowhere.com> - 2015-10-13 12:28 -0400
                        Re: Firefox improvements. DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno <DLU1@DecadentLinuxUser.org> - 2015-10-12 02:30 -0400
                          Re: Firefox improvements. Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2015-10-11 23:58 -0700
                          Re: Firefox improvements. Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2015-10-12 09:01 +0100
                            Re: Firefox improvements. DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno <DLU1@DecadentLinuxUser.org> - 2015-10-12 08:54 -0400
                              Re: Firefox improvements. Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2015-10-12 14:24 +0100
                                Re: Firefox improvements. Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2015-10-12 07:07 -0700
                              Re: Firefox improvements. James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2015-10-12 13:02 -0400
                          Re: Firefox improvements. Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2015-10-12 15:24 +0000
                Re: Firefox improvements. James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2015-10-12 00:18 -0400
                Re: Firefox improvements. Jeffrey Goldberg <nobody@goldmark.org> - 2015-10-16 16:31 -0500
              Re: Firefox improvements. Jeffrey Goldberg <nobody@goldmark.org> - 2015-10-16 15:55 -0500
                Re: Firefox improvements. James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2015-10-16 17:33 -0400
                  Re: Firefox improvements. Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2015-10-17 01:32 +0000
                    Re: Firefox improvements. DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno <DLU1@DecadentLinuxUser.org> - 2015-10-17 01:12 -0400
                      Re: Firefox improvements. James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2015-10-17 12:53 -0400
                        Re: Firefox improvements. DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno <DLU1@DecadentLinuxUser.org> - 2015-10-17 19:32 -0400
                          Re: Firefox improvements. Chad <cdalten@gmail.com> - 2015-10-17 20:29 -0700
                            Re: Firefox improvements. gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2015-10-18 08:10 +0000
                          Re: Firefox improvements. Jeffrey Goldberg <nobody@goldmark.org> - 2015-10-18 11:08 -0500
                            Re: Firefox improvements. DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno <DLU1@DecadentLinuxUser.org> - 2015-10-18 17:15 -0400
                          Re: Firefox improvements. James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2015-10-18 12:42 -0400
                  Re: Firefox improvements. "Skybuck Flying" <skybuck2000@hotmail.com> - 2015-10-17 10:01 +0200
                  Trusting password managers [Re: Firefox improvements.] Jeffrey Goldberg <nobody@goldmark.org> - 2015-10-18 00:34 -0500
                    Re: Trusting password managers [Re: Firefox improvements.] James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2015-10-18 11:55 -0400
                      Re: Trusting password managers [Re: Firefox improvements.] DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno <DLU1@DecadentLinuxUser.org> - 2015-10-18 17:13 -0400
                      Re: Trusting password managers [Re: Firefox improvements.] DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno <DLU1@DecadentLinuxUser.org> - 2015-10-19 06:47 -0400
                    Re: Trusting password managers [Re: Firefox improvements.] Neon John <no@never.com> - 2015-10-18 13:25 -0400
                      Re: Trusting password managers [Re: Firefox improvements.] Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2015-10-18 16:18 -0700
                      Re: Trusting password managers [Re: Firefox improvements.] Jeffrey Goldberg <nobody@goldmark.org> - 2015-10-19 18:37 -0500
                    Re: Trusting password managers [Re: Firefox improvements.] Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2015-10-19 11:54 -0700
            Re: Firefox improvements. rpw3@rpw3.org (Rob Warnock) - 2015-10-12 05:52 +0000
              Re: Firefox improvements. DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno <DLU1@DecadentLinuxUser.org> - 2015-10-12 02:35 -0400
                Password crackers are not naive [Was: Firefox improvements.] Jeffrey Goldberg <nobody@goldmark.org> - 2015-10-18 01:07 -0500
                  Re: Password crackers are not naive [Was: Firefox improvements.] "Skybuck Flying" <skybuck2000@hotmail.com> - 2015-10-21 08:16 +0200
                    Re: Password crackers are not naive [Was: Firefox improvements.] David Malone <dwmalone@walton.maths.tcd.ie> - 2015-10-21 15:54 +0000
                      Re: Password crackers are not naive [Was: Firefox improvements.] DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno <DLU1@DecadentLinuxUser.org> - 2015-10-21 11:57 -0400
                    Re: Password crackers are not naive [Was: Firefox improvements.] dplatt@coop.radagast.org (Dave Platt) - 2015-10-21 11:17 -0700
            Re: Firefox improvements. Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2015-10-15 10:38 -0700
          Re: Firefox improvements. Rosario19 <Ros@invalid.invalid> - 2015-10-12 09:56 +0200
            Re: Firefox improvements. Jeffrey Goldberg <nobody@goldmark.org> - 2015-10-18 01:25 -0500
        Re: Firefox improvements. fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2015-10-14 00:32 -0700
        Re: Firefox improvements. "Skybuck Flying" <skybuck2000@hotmail.com> - 2015-10-21 08:47 +0200
        Re: Firefox improvements. "Skybuck Flying" <skybuck2000@hotmail.com> - 2015-10-21 09:17 +0200
        Re: Firefox improvements. "Skybuck Flying" <skybuck2000@hotmail.com> - 2015-10-21 09:36 +0200
    Re: Firefox improvements. bartekltg <bartekltg@gmail.com> - 2015-10-11 23:07 +0200
      Re: Firefox improvements. "Skybuck Flying" <skybuck2000@hotmail.com> - 2015-10-13 21:42 +0200

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#72959

Fromkrw <krw@nowhere.com>
Date2015-10-15 12:16 -0400
Message-ID<47kv1b1eq848lcaqlsi4u15lccbq1494s4@4ax.com>
In reply to#72919
On Wed, 14 Oct 2015 22:31:54 -0400, DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno
<DLU1@DecadentLinuxUser.org> wrote:

>On Wed, 14 Oct 2015 22:24:22 -0400, krw <krw@nowhere.com> Gave us:
>
>>On Wed, 14 Oct 2015 21:10:42 -0400, DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno
>><DLU1@DecadentLinuxUser.org> wrote:
>>
>>>On Wed, 14 Oct 2015 20:39:07 -0400, krw <krw@nowhere.com> Gave us:
>>>
>>>>How do you choose a password if you don't know the rules?  Choose, get
>>>>rejected, chose another, rinse...
>>>
>>>  The *public* does not know the rules.  Those within the establishment
>>>do.
>>
>>That's absurd.  How secure is that?  Hundreds (of thousands?) know the
>>rules but you expect it somehow to be a secret?  Silly.
>>
>  As stated earlier.  I refer to my company.  The rules are NOT public.
>Learn to read.  It isn't a website access.

It doesn't matter what it is.  Keeping algorithms secret is folly.
Keeping password rules secret is even dumber.

>  So re-read it, dumbass.

Only a dumbass would agree that obscurity gives any real security.  It
surely seems to apply to you.

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#72989

FromDecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno <DLU1@DecadentLinuxUser.org>
Date2015-10-15 16:25 -0400
Message-ID<5t202bteancugqh87pmohu5vaa24pfnbnv@4ax.com>
In reply to#72959
On Thu, 15 Oct 2015 12:16:36 -0400, krw <krw@nowhere.com> Gave us:

>On Wed, 14 Oct 2015 22:31:54 -0400, DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno
><DLU1@DecadentLinuxUser.org> wrote:
>
>>On Wed, 14 Oct 2015 22:24:22 -0400, krw <krw@nowhere.com> Gave us:
>>
>>>On Wed, 14 Oct 2015 21:10:42 -0400, DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno
>>><DLU1@DecadentLinuxUser.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>>On Wed, 14 Oct 2015 20:39:07 -0400, krw <krw@nowhere.com> Gave us:
>>>>
>>>>>How do you choose a password if you don't know the rules?  Choose, get
>>>>>rejected, chose another, rinse...
>>>>
>>>>  The *public* does not know the rules.  Those within the establishment
>>>>do.
>>>
>>>That's absurd.  How secure is that?  Hundreds (of thousands?) know the
>>>rules but you expect it somehow to be a secret?  Silly.
>>>
>>  As stated earlier.  I refer to my company.  The rules are NOT public.
>>Learn to read.  It isn't a website access.
>
>It doesn't matter what it is.  Keeping algorithms secret is folly.
>Keeping password rules secret is even dumber.
>
>>  So re-read it, dumbass.
>
>Only a dumbass would agree that obscurity gives any real security.  It
>surely seems to apply to you.

  It worked for Lincoln.

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#73453

From"Skybuck Flying" <skybuck2000@hotmail.com>
Date2015-10-21 08:03 +0200
Message-ID<a5946$56272a9f$d47876e2$51972@news.ziggo.nl>
In reply to#72959
"
It doesn't matter what it is.  Keeping algorithms secret is folly.
Keeping password rules secret is even dumber.
"

>  So re-read it, dumbass.

"
Only a dumbass would agree that obscurity gives any real security.  It
surely seems to apply to you.
"

I am not so sure about that "*motherfokker*".

You assume that if something is only obscure that it will eventually be 
understood.

However there is a *slight* problem with that assumption.

What if the *understanding process* of the obscurity takes so long that a 
human being cannot do it within reasonable time ?!

Does this make the obscurity just as good as encryption ? I would say so... 
cause encryption is then also a form of obscurity to some degree.

Though there are always those that same that different plain texts might 
occur... I'd like to see a bi tmore prove of that before I buy that.

Though my posting is not to call encryption "obscurity" because encryption 
might be a little bit more than that in case the number of possible plain 
text is indeed large.

However my posting is to point out that if the understanding process of the 
obscurity is not automated then the obscurity will hold for a long time.

And thus it is your job to *automate* the understanding process of the 
obscurity.

Just *automating the understanding process of the obscurity* can already be 
quite an undertaking.

One nice example of this is ofcourse the well known "disassembler dream" of 
disassmblieing x86 into perfectly really pseudo code.

Such a thing does not really exist... there are some disassemblers... but 
for now none of them can re-create the perfect pseudo code or even an pseudo 
code that might make it more easy to understand... even if it did
you will still need plenty of time to understand the pseudo code.

Having said that there are definetly systems thinkeable/possibly where you 
would have to proof... that the obscurity can be undone... before you can 
actually claim that the obscurity would not work.

And you would have to proof that in reasonable time.

So the premise I guess is that "security through obscurity" can provide 
"security for a long enough time" after that time the security will have to 
be replaced.

And this is basically what KEY LENGTH is all about... the KEY has to be long 
enough for "brute force attack" to fail/be impossible in reasonable time.

Now I will let it be to you, to explain again... why OBSCURITY is not 
security "for the time being" ?! HAHA ! :P

Yes eventually it might/will be broken... but not for now ! ;) :P*

Bye,
  Skybuck.

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#72922

FromJames Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net>
Date2015-10-14 22:50 -0400
Message-ID<mvn456$rqn$1@dont-email.me>
In reply to#72916
On 10/14/2015 10:24 PM, krw wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Oct 2015 21:10:42 -0400, DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno
> <DLU1@DecadentLinuxUser.org> wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, 14 Oct 2015 20:39:07 -0400, krw <krw@nowhere.com> Gave us:
>>
>>> How do you choose a password if you don't know the rules?  Choose, get
>>> rejected, chose another, rinse...
>>
>>  The *public* does not know the rules.  Those within the establishment
>> do.
> 
> That's absurd.  How secure is that?  Hundreds (of thousands?) know the
> rules but you expect it somehow to be a secret?  Silly.

He's talking about a computer accounts that he has access to because of
where he works. The biggest company I ever worked for had 80,000
workers, and because it was so big, it had lots of semi-independent
sub-divisions. I'm not sure that the password restrictions on my company
account applied to more than a small fraction of that population. My
current employer qualifies for a small-business set-aside contract, so
it's much smaller than that, a few thousand people at most.

That's still too many people to be guaranteed to keep a secret, but it's
much smaller than the numbers you're talking about.
-- 
James Kuyper

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#72960

Fromkrw <krw@nowhere.com>
Date2015-10-15 12:19 -0400
Message-ID<tbkv1bhtsmvd20s7p6coti3p54te8aka0j@4ax.com>
In reply to#72922
On Wed, 14 Oct 2015 22:50:11 -0400, James Kuyper
<jameskuyper@verizon.net> wrote:

>On 10/14/2015 10:24 PM, krw wrote:
>> On Wed, 14 Oct 2015 21:10:42 -0400, DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno
>> <DLU1@DecadentLinuxUser.org> wrote:
>> 
>>> On Wed, 14 Oct 2015 20:39:07 -0400, krw <krw@nowhere.com> Gave us:
>>>
>>>> How do you choose a password if you don't know the rules?  Choose, get
>>>> rejected, chose another, rinse...
>>>
>>>  The *public* does not know the rules.  Those within the establishment
>>> do.
>> 
>> That's absurd.  How secure is that?  Hundreds (of thousands?) know the
>> rules but you expect it somehow to be a secret?  Silly.
>
>He's talking about a computer accounts that he has access to because of
>where he works. The biggest company I ever worked for had 80,000
>workers, and because it was so big, it had lots of semi-independent
>sub-divisions. I'm not sure that the password restrictions on my company
>account applied to more than a small fraction of that population. My
>current employer qualifies for a small-business set-aside contract, so
>it's much smaller than that, a few thousand people at most.

OK, who is the password trying to protect against?  Does keeping the
rules secret do anything to prevent hacking the system? If the system
can only be accessed by trusted people, why keep silly things secret?
> 
>That's still too many people to be guaranteed to keep a secret, but it's
>much smaller than the numbers you're talking about.

Hundreds?  The point is that obscurity isn't security.

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#72918

FromJames Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net>
Date2015-10-14 22:26 -0400
Message-ID<mvn2oq$ohm$1@dont-email.me>
In reply to#72900
On 10/14/2015 08:39 PM, krw wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Oct 2015 23:10:29 -0400, DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno
> <DLU1@DecadentLinuxUser.org> wrote:
...
>>  It only makes it easier when those rules are known.
>>
>>  I responded with my firm's not known rules in mind.  You are correct
>> about web sites with published password creation rules.
> 
> How do you choose a password if you don't know the rules?  Choose, get
> rejected, chose another, rinse...

Join company. Get investigated by the US government. Sit around for
several weeks doing whatever you can that doesn't require access to the
computer system (which, in our line of work, isn't very much). Get
cleared by the US government . Get authorized to set up a computer
account. Learn password restrictions. Set up computer account, which
requires choosing your password.

That's the way it works in my company. We're only a NASA contractor
involved purely in the civilian side of NASA work. However, I have been
authorized to enter various buildings that I need to enter to attend
various meetings. Just a few rooms away from those meetings, are places
I'm not allowed to enter because I don't have the required security
clearance, so I can understand why the government wants to check up on
me before giving me even that minimal level of access.
Also, some of the data we work with is collected primarily for military
purposes (weather forecasts over combat zones, for instance), and is
only secondarily being put to civilian use (such as climate studies and
agricultural forecasts).

I can only imagine what it's like for workers on actual DoD or NSA
contracts for the government.

The key problem with the idea that your password restrictions are
unknown to the enemy is that, no matter how good your security is, it
takes only one disaffected worker for the details about the password
rules to get leaked. Social engineering is also a good way to get a
worker who is not disaffected, but merely naive, to give you the same
information. We receive annual IT security training that's intended to
make us not naive - but I'm positive that there are people who don't
properly absorb the training information.

Therefore, your security should not significantly depend upon the enemy
not knowing those rules. Luckily, knowing those rules only give a rather
small advantage. Actually following those rules gives a bigger
advantage, though not against the kind of attacks that you consider to
be brute force. Following those rules does give a big advantage against
some of the attacks that Richard Heathfield considers to be brute force,
because those "brute force" attacks use a lot of intelligence to target
the most likely passwords first, and hit less likely passwords later.
Knowing those rules allows such targeting to be slightly more accurate,
but following those rules makes such targeting significantly harder, by
a factor that more than makes up for the other effect.
-- 
James Kuyper

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#72921

FromDecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno <DLU1@DecadentLinuxUser.org>
Date2015-10-14 22:38 -0400
Message-ID<hd4u1bhoh1sf9hgt1mf1jk422d7jgkbm9q@4ax.com>
In reply to#72918
On Wed, 14 Oct 2015 22:26:29 -0400, James Kuyper
<jameskuyper@verizon.net> Gave us:

>On 10/14/2015 08:39 PM, krw wrote:
>> On Tue, 13 Oct 2015 23:10:29 -0400, DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno
>> <DLU1@DecadentLinuxUser.org> wrote:
>...
>>>  It only makes it easier when those rules are known.
>>>
>>>  I responded with my firm's not known rules in mind.  You are correct
>>> about web sites with published password creation rules.
>> 
>> How do you choose a password if you don't know the rules?  Choose, get
>> rejected, chose another, rinse...
>
>Join company. Get investigated by the US government. Sit around for
>several weeks doing whatever you can that doesn't require access to the
>computer system (which, in our line of work, isn't very much). Get
>cleared by the US government . Get authorized to set up a computer
>account. Learn password restrictions. Set up computer account, which
>requires choosing your password.
>
>That's the way it works in my company. We're only a NASA contractor
>involved purely in the civilian side of NASA work. However, I have been
>authorized to enter various buildings that I need to enter to attend
>various meetings. Just a few rooms away from those meetings, are places
>I'm not allowed to enter because I don't have the required security
>clearance, so I can understand why the government wants to check up on
>me before giving me even that minimal level of access.
>Also, some of the data we work with is collected primarily for military
>purposes (weather forecasts over combat zones, for instance), and is
>only secondarily being put to civilian use (such as climate studies and
>agricultural forecasts).
>
>I can only imagine what it's like for workers on actual DoD or NSA
>contracts for the government.
>
>The key problem with the idea that your password restrictions are
>unknown to the enemy is that, no matter how good your security is, it
>takes only one disaffected worker for the details about the password
>rules to get leaked. Social engineering is also a good way to get a
>worker who is not disaffected, but merely naive, to give you the same
>information. We receive annual IT security training that's intended to
>make us not naive - but I'm positive that there are people who don't
>properly absorb the training information.
>
>Therefore, your security should not significantly depend upon the enemy
>not knowing those rules. Luckily, knowing those rules only give a rather
>small advantage. Actually following those rules gives a bigger
>advantage, though not against the kind of attacks that you consider to
>be brute force. Following those rules does give a big advantage against
>some of the attacks that Richard Heathfield considers to be brute force,
>because those "brute force" attacks use a lot of intelligence to target
>the most likely passwords first, and hit less likely passwords later.
>Knowing those rules allows such targeting to be slightly more accurate,
>but following those rules makes such targeting significantly harder, by
>a factor that more than makes up for the other effect.

  Then, of course, the re-try, fail, get locked out mechanism gets
implemented.

  Getting in without an actual known log-in name and password is *very*
unlikely, if not truly impossible.

  We get the same seminars and we get ITAR seminars, and "don't plug in
that USB flash drive" seminars, etc.

  And the user network segment is separated from the actual database
network segment, and tunneling into them from an external terminal is as
unlikely as it gets. 

  About as likely that a PUF generator would generate a previously
generated key.   As in, as near zero as it gets.

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#72935

FromRichard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk>
Date2015-10-15 12:20 +0100
Message-ID<mvo21b$ic0$1@dont-email.me>
In reply to#72921
On 15/10/15 03:38, DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Oct 2015 22:26:29 -0400, James Kuyper
> <jameskuyper@verizon.net> Gave us:

<snip>

>> Therefore, your security should not significantly depend upon the enemy
>> not knowing those rules. Luckily, knowing those rules only give a rather
>> small advantage. Actually following those rules gives a bigger
>> advantage, though not against the kind of attacks that you consider to
>> be brute force. Following those rules does give a big advantage against
>> some of the attacks that Richard Heathfield considers to be brute force,
>> because those "brute force" attacks use a lot of intelligence to target
>> the most likely passwords first, and hit less likely passwords later.
>> Knowing those rules allows such targeting to be slightly more accurate,
>> but following those rules makes such targeting significantly harder, by
>> a factor that more than makes up for the other effect.
>
>    Then, of course, the re-try, fail, get locked out mechanism gets
> implemented.

For all you know, your adversary might be your Web site designer or your 
database administrator, who has been bribed to find out the CEO's 
password by someone who wishes to impersonate the CEO for fun and profit.

Such an adversary will have access to the table that stores user names 
and hashes. So he finds an excuse to print that table, and takes it 
home. He knows the hashing algorithm, and he knows the end hash, so he 
can run a brute force attack *at home*, without having to try to log 
into the site *at all*, so the re-try, fail, get locked out mechanism 
doesn't apply.

>    Getting in without an actual known log-in name and password is *very*
> unlikely, if not truly impossible.

Except in cases where it isn't.

In cryptology and authentication, the question is not whether you are 
being paranoid. It's whether you are being paranoid *enough*.

<snip>

-- 
Richard Heathfield
Email: rjh at cpax dot org dot uk
"Usenet is a strange place" - dmr 29 July 1999
Sig line 4 vacant - apply within

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#72797

From"Osmium" <r124c4u102@comcast.net>
Date2015-10-13 22:54 -0500
Message-ID<d861v1F1te0U1@mid.individual.net>
In reply to#72786
"Richard Heathfield" wrote:

> Er, no. The original complaint was that the password restriction is 
> "annoying". In a reply to that complaint, the claim was made that the 
> restriction "foils brute force search hacking", which clearly isn't true. 
> In fact, it makes "brute force search hacking" easier.
>
> Had the reply been "it makes dictionary attacks more difficult", that 
> would have been a perfectly sensible thing to say.

I may have missed something here but my impression is that someone *knew* 
how people would react to the change in rules.  As a consequence they would 
go from passwords of the form xxxxxxxx to xxxxxA&1 where A&1 are ASCII 
characters, thus losing three characters of entropy due to the rule change. 

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#72800

Fromglen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu>
Date2015-10-14 04:24 +0000
Message-ID<mvkldd$7dt$1@speranza.aioe.org>
In reply to#72778
In comp.lang.c Richard Damon <Richard@damon-family.org> wrote:
> On 10/13/15 8:35 PM, krw wrote:
>>> I agree.  This is exactly the point you and I have been trying to make
>>> for several postings.  Choosing the order in which your brute force
>>> loop performs the tests based upon 'other knowledge' in such a way that
>>> *may* result in faster results makes it no less brute force.

>> ...and I disagree.  Using any information about the password in the
>> search is not "brute force", just by the definition of the words. Just
>> because you design search to include the entire set of possible
>> combinations doesn't mean it's "brute force".  You are using brains
>> not brawn.

> I will point out that making an argument about not being a 'brute force' 
> attack is falling into the fallacy of the Straw Man. The original 
> complaint was about adding the requirement to passwords making it easier 
> to crack an account.
 
> Since this is dealing with the real world, the account cracker is NOT 
> limited to just using brute force, but any means available.

You do have to be careful, though.

One important key to breaking the German Enigma in WWII was that it
never encyphered a letter to itself. That doesn't sound like a big
change, but it turns out that it really is.

-- glen

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#72903

Fromkrw <krw@nowhere.com>
Date2015-10-14 20:47 -0400
Message-ID<3ntt1bp71nvgigsben753ach0fvblr9eov@4ax.com>
In reply to#72800
On Wed, 14 Oct 2015 04:24:13 +0000 (UTC), glen herrmannsfeldt
<gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> wrote:

>In comp.lang.c Richard Damon <Richard@damon-family.org> wrote:
>> On 10/13/15 8:35 PM, krw wrote:
>>>> I agree.  This is exactly the point you and I have been trying to make
>>>> for several postings.  Choosing the order in which your brute force
>>>> loop performs the tests based upon 'other knowledge' in such a way that
>>>> *may* result in faster results makes it no less brute force.
>
>>> ...and I disagree.  Using any information about the password in the
>>> search is not "brute force", just by the definition of the words. Just
>>> because you design search to include the entire set of possible
>>> combinations doesn't mean it's "brute force".  You are using brains
>>> not brawn.
>
>> I will point out that making an argument about not being a 'brute force' 
>> attack is falling into the fallacy of the Straw Man. The original 
>> complaint was about adding the requirement to passwords making it easier 
>> to crack an account.
> 
>> Since this is dealing with the real world, the account cracker is NOT 
>> limited to just using brute force, but any means available.
>
>You do have to be careful, though.
>
>One important key to breaking the German Enigma in WWII was that it
>never encyphered a letter to itself. That doesn't sound like a big
>change, but it turns out t
>
That gives you a big hint that you have the key (certainly helpful
with the automated cracking) but is there another reason?  The Germans
did almost everything wrong.


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#72787

FromDecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno <DLU1@DecadentLinuxUser.org>
Date2015-10-13 23:01 -0400
Message-ID<ebhr1bt1pb3jh7t6tk2g7kch52uq8iqmeg@4ax.com>
In reply to#72742
On Tue, 13 Oct 2015 22:17:29 +0100, Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk>
Gave us:

>Reductio ad absurdum, so I conclude that krw is talking nonsense.


  Ye haa!  Now watch how the stupid twerp responds to this proper
prodding.

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#72901

Fromkrw <krw@nowhere.com>
Date2015-10-14 20:44 -0400
Message-ID<qjtt1b1qsdibpug0s11k7gtkiibc67an3a@4ax.com>
In reply to#72787
On Tue, 13 Oct 2015 23:01:42 -0400, DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno
<DLU1@DecadentLinuxUser.org> wrote:

>On Tue, 13 Oct 2015 22:17:29 +0100, Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk>
>Gave us:
>
>>Reductio ad absurdum, so I conclude that krw is talking nonsense.
>
>
>  Ye haa!  Now watch how the stupid twerp responds to this proper
>prodding.

You're really convincing the people in CLC and SC that you really are
always wrong, AlwaysWrong.  You just can't help it.

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#72908

FromDecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno <DLU1@DecadentLinuxUser.org>
Date2015-10-14 21:11 -0400
Message-ID<b9vt1bl6b19a0p9d6c61vqbq0jush6jrk4@4ax.com>
In reply to#72901
On Wed, 14 Oct 2015 20:44:04 -0400, krw <krw@nowhere.com> Gave us:

>On Tue, 13 Oct 2015 23:01:42 -0400, DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno
><DLU1@DecadentLinuxUser.org> wrote:
>
>>On Tue, 13 Oct 2015 22:17:29 +0100, Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk>
>>Gave us:
>>
>>>Reductio ad absurdum, so I conclude that krw is talking nonsense.
>>
>>
>>  Ye haa!  Now watch how the stupid twerp responds to this proper
>>prodding.
>
>You're really convincing the people in CLC and SC that you really are
>always wrong, AlwaysWrong.  You just can't help it.

  Run, Krud Rejects Wisdom...  RUN!

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#72917

Fromkrw <krw@nowhere.com>
Date2015-10-14 22:26 -0400
Message-ID<7k3u1bldfblgun2u3jne1tsbrtur1hnrji@4ax.com>
In reply to#72908
On Wed, 14 Oct 2015 21:11:48 -0400, DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno
<DLU1@DecadentLinuxUser.org> wrote:

>On Wed, 14 Oct 2015 20:44:04 -0400, krw <krw@nowhere.com> Gave us:
>
>>On Tue, 13 Oct 2015 23:01:42 -0400, DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno
>><DLU1@DecadentLinuxUser.org> wrote:
>>
>>>On Tue, 13 Oct 2015 22:17:29 +0100, Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk>
>>>Gave us:
>>>
>>>>Reductio ad absurdum, so I conclude that krw is talking nonsense.
>>>
>>>
>>>  Ye haa!  Now watch how the stupid twerp responds to this proper
>>>prodding.
>>
>>You're really convincing the people in CLC and SC that you really are
>>always wrong, AlwaysWrong.  You just can't help it.
>
>  Run, Krud Rejects Wisdom...  RUN!

I have you pegged, AlwaysWrong.  ...not that it's difficult.  Read a
few of your posts and it's perfectly clear.

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#72731

FromRich <rich@example.invalid>
Date2015-10-13 18:48 +0000
Message-ID<mvjjmh$qef$1@dont-email.me>
In reply to#72722
In sci.crypt krw <krw@nowhere.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Oct 2015 16:40:39 +0000 (UTC), William Unruh
> <unruh@invalid.ca> wrote:

> >On 2015-10-13, krw <krw@nowhere.com> wrote:
> >> On Tue, 13 Oct 2015 00:44:45 +0000 (UTC), William Unruh
> >><unruh@invalid.ca> wrote:
> >>
> >>>On 2015-10-13, krw <krw@nowhere.com> wrote:
> >>>> On Mon, 12 Oct 2015 17:46:35 +0100, Richard Heathfield
> >>>><rjh@cpax.org.uk> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>>On 12/10/15 17:20, DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno wrote:
> >>>>>> On Mon, 12 Oct 2015 14:25:16 +0100, Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk>
> >>>>>> Gave us:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>> On 12/10/15 13:59, DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno wrote:
> >>>>>>>> On Mon, 12 Oct 2015 12:08:57 +0100, Bartc <bc@freeuk.com> Gave us:
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> <snip>
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> Adding the restriction makes it easier to crack.
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>     It may makes the list of valid keys smaller,
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Right.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> but the hack computer is
> >>>>>>>> not aware of the restriction,
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Wrong. That's public knowledge, so you have to assume your adversary
> >>>>>>> knows it.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> <snip>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>    This is NOT true.  The key requisites at my workplace are NOT "public
> >>>>>> knowledge".
> >>>>>
> >>>>>The Web site under discussion is the Intel community Web site. Is that 
> >>>>>your workplace? If so, then I'm sorry to have to tell you that even 
> >>>>>Skybuck Flying knows the validation rules (unless, of course, he's got 
> >>>>>them wrong, which is always possible) and now so do sci.crypt, 
> >>>>>comp.lang.c, and sci.electronics.design subscribers.
> >>>>
> >>>> Please understand that the person you're responding to is universally
> >>>> known as "AlwaysWrong" on SED.
> >>>>
> >>>>>And if it isn't your workplace, then your workplace's key validation 
> >>>>>rules are not, strictly speaking, relevant to the discussion.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>Furthermore, Kerckhoffs's Principle requires that you plan against the 
> >>>>>possibility that your adversary has the algorithm available for his 
> >>>>>inspection. He worded it as follows: "Il  faut  qu?il  n?exige pas le 
> >>>>>secret, et qu?il puisse sans inconv?nient tomber entre les mains de 
> >>>>>l?ennemi" which, roughly translated, means "[The cryptosystem] shouldn't 
> >>>>>need to be secret, and if it falls into enemy hands that shouldn't be a 
> >>>>>big deal". (Obviously he doesn't mean the key itself.)
> >>>>
> >>>> Restated:  "Security through obscurity isn't security at all."
> >>>>>
> >>>>>>    And all brute force hacks try ALL keys.  They do not discredit any, as
> >>>>>> you have.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>All *valid* keys. Otherwise, all brute force attacks would have to try 
> >>>>>infinitely many keys despite there being an upper limit on key length, 
> >>>>>and that's obviously impossible. Brute force is a last resort and takes 
> >>>>>*ages*, so any shortcuts that /can/ be applied /are/ applied. 
> >>>>>Adversaries are not constrained by your desire for brute force to be 
> >>>>>harder than it needs to be.
> >>>>
> >>>> No, they only try half (on average).  ;-)
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>>Well, if they have a good heuristic as to how you choose your keys, it
> >>>is much much less than half that they try, on average.
> >>
> >> Then it's not "brute force".
> >
> >Sure it is. Brute force says nothing about the order in which all the
> >keys are tried. 

> Wrong.  That's exactly what the term means.  No thought, just pure
> muscle.

Nope, it is you that is wrong.  Brute force simply means "try keys
until one that works is found".  It places no requirement upon the
order in which you test the keys.  You can try them forward, backwards,
in a random order, or in an order that is likely to test the most
likely candidates first, but it is still "brute force".  It is still
"brute force" because you are simply "trying keys until one is found".

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#72734

FromJoe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu>
Date2015-10-13 13:24 -0600
Message-ID<1bfv1einbb.fsf@pfeifferfamily.net>
In reply to#72731
Rich <rich@example.invalid> writes:

> In sci.crypt krw <krw@nowhere.com> wrote:
>
>> Wrong.  That's exactly what the term means.  No thought, just pure
>> muscle.
>
> Nope, it is you that is wrong.  Brute force simply means "try keys
> until one that works is found".  It places no requirement upon the
> order in which you test the keys.  You can try them forward, backwards,
> in a random order, or in an order that is likely to test the most
> likely candidates first, but it is still "brute force".  It is still
> "brute force" because you are simply "trying keys until one is found".

That definition would call a binary search in a sorted array "brute
force".  To the extent that the order you try keys is based on
knowledge, it isn't brute force.

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#72743

FromRichard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk>
Date2015-10-13 22:23 +0100
Message-ID<mvjslf$5dr$1@dont-email.me>
In reply to#72734
On 13/10/15 20:24, Joe Pfeiffer wrote:
> Rich <rich@example.invalid> writes:
<snip>
>> It is still
>> "brute force" because you are simply "trying keys until one is found".
>
> That definition would call a binary search in a sorted array "brute
> force".

No, because in a binary search you exclude half the keys at every step, 
so you will never search them all.

Consider the following search:

{ 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 }

Search for: 8

{ 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, **7**, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 }

No, 7's no good. We want something bigger.

0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 are eliminated from consideration without being 
tested. 7 was tested.

{ 9, 10, 11, **12**, 13, 14, 15, 16 }

No, 12's no good. We want something smaller.

0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 13, 14, 15, 16 are eliminated from consideration 
without being tested. 7 and 12 were tested.

{ 9, **10**, 11 }

No, 10's no good. We want something smaller.

0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 11, 13, 14, 15, 16 are eliminated from 
consideration without being tested. 7, 10, 12 and (in the final 
iteration) 9 were tested.

So we only tested a quarter of the keys, even though we didn't find what 
we were looking for. So no, binary search is not brute force.

-- 
Richard Heathfield
Email: rjh at cpax dot org dot uk
"Usenet is a strange place" - dmr 29 July 1999
Sig line 4 vacant - apply within

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#72767

Fromkrw <krw@nowhere.com>
Date2015-10-13 20:36 -0400
Message-ID<sr8r1btcj5nvf3ugup570o8umvrfs6a318@4ax.com>
In reply to#72734
On Tue, 13 Oct 2015 13:24:40 -0600, Joe Pfeiffer
<pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> wrote:

>Rich <rich@example.invalid> writes:
>
>> In sci.crypt krw <krw@nowhere.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Wrong.  That's exactly what the term means.  No thought, just pure
>>> muscle.
>>
>> Nope, it is you that is wrong.  Brute force simply means "try keys
>> until one that works is found".  It places no requirement upon the
>> order in which you test the keys.  You can try them forward, backwards,
>> in a random order, or in an order that is likely to test the most
>> likely candidates first, but it is still "brute force".  It is still
>> "brute force" because you are simply "trying keys until one is found".
>
>That definition would call a binary search in a sorted array "brute
>force".  To the extent that the order you try keys is based on
>knowledge, it isn't brute force.

Exactly.

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#72785

FromDecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno <DLU1@DecadentLinuxUser.org>
Date2015-10-13 22:59 -0400
Message-ID<b6hr1bt4i2vo0pi6bb4ivub400rmdokcmj@4ax.com>
In reply to#72734
On Tue, 13 Oct 2015 13:24:40 -0600, Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu>
Gave us:

>Rich <rich@example.invalid> writes:
>
>> In sci.crypt krw <krw@nowhere.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Wrong.  That's exactly what the term means.  No thought, just pure
>>> muscle.
>>
>> Nope, it is you that is wrong.  Brute force simply means "try keys
>> until one that works is found".  It places no requirement upon the
>> order in which you test the keys.  You can try them forward, backwards,
>> in a random order, or in an order that is likely to test the most
>> likely candidates first, but it is still "brute force".  It is still
>> "brute force" because you are simply "trying keys until one is found".
>
>That definition would call a binary search in a sorted array "brute
>force".  To the extent that the order you try keys is based on
>knowledge, it isn't brute force.

  ALL "brute force" engines are structured inasmuch as they all have a
starting point and not all start at the same point.  So that decision
process alone makes them structured to some degree.

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