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W orldnet: Getting
by Hank@Taunivm.BitnBt
First off, let me say that I am on the other side
of the fence. My job is to make sure the system I
work for is secure and that there are no hackers or
Basic concepts
Bitnet
Canada, West Germany, France, Italy, The
Israel, Japan, Mexico, Taiwan, to name a few)
and has over 1800 computers interconnected. It
uses a protocol different than Arpanet but the one
common language they talk is electronic mail
(RFC822). The European segment of the network
is called EARN (European Academic Research
Arpanet
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Others
Here IS a brief list of some of the other
networks that share RFC822 mail:
MFENET: Magnetic Fusion Energy Network
SPAN: Space Physics Analysis Network
JANET: England's National Academic Network
VNET: I BM's corporate internal network
Easynet: DEC's corporate intemal network
EUnet: European section of U UCP
There are many other smaller networks that
are starting to get off the ground, but as you will
see later on, the world of networking is moving
away from the concept of a "xxxxNet" to one that
imposes a hierarchical structure on all networks.
When you add up all the networks and all the
machines that can exchange RFC822 mail, the
number of machines (from a VAX 730 up to a
Cray X/MP) approaches 20,000. Some of the
larger systems have 50,000 registered users on
their systems while more typically it is around
2,000 users. That means that as a rough
Addresses
Now for a brief tutorial on how to read network
addresses. All R FC 822 mail addresses are
composed of a LHS and a RHS (Left Hand Side
and Right Hand Side). You look at the address
and scan for an @-sign. This is the separator
between the LHS and the RHS. The LHS is
considered the local part of the address.
Examples:
Hank
John Smith
steve%hbo. HAl RN ET
philco!sun!munarri!john
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These are all samples of LHS addresses. The
first two are simple userids. The third one is a
gateway. It says that there is an indirect network
called HAI RNET that has a machine on it called
hbo and you wish to contact the user named
(cant inued on page 11)
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Routing Problems
From coin phones you cannot dial 00 to get an
AT&T operator. I nstead you are routed to an
intercept recording.
As an alternative to dialing 0, you're
supposed to be able to dial 10xxxO# to get an
operator, where xxx is the three-digit number of
the long distance company. This is assuming that
the long distance company offers operator
services in the first place. But from a pay phone,
dialing 102880# (288 is the three-digit number
for AT&T) gets you an NYT operator! Dialing
107770# or 103330# is supposed to get you a
Sprint operator. But instead you get an NYT
operator again.
New York Telephone "coin craftsmen",
those guys who fix our pay phones, will be in for a
nice surprise. There is a coin test number which
checks to see if a pay phone's "negative start
package" or red box is working. From the 212
area code you dial 0-212-959-1230 and from
718 you dial 0-718-959-1230. (Other areas may
allow you to dial 0-959-1230. ) The way NYT is
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York State (and the small part of Connecticut
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searches its database of exchanges and sees that
959 is not a va16, 212) as well as "invalid"
NPA's (710, 200. 210, 700, 999, etc. ). This
presents a problem when trying to call Alliance
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Hardware Problems
As I mentioned before, the operator does
not beep when she answers a call.
When you dial a 0+ call, you are given a
choice of dialing 0 at the tone or entering your
calling card number at the tone. If you call from a
pulse or rotary phone and don't respond with
touch tone after the tone, an operator will arrive
to assist you. Sometimes, right before the "enter
calling card" tone (sounds like a # tone melting
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distorted noise, like a fragment of speech. When
this happens, if you are on a pulse phone and
can't dial a 0 in touch tone, the calling card tone
wi II repeat every couple of seconds forever!! This
seems to be happening less now than when they
put the first TOPS in Manhattan sometime last
year.
There seems to be an overwhelming problem
with intelligible crosstalk. Many times right after
the operator answers you hear a loud click and
then a burst of 12 multi-frequency (MF) digits,
followed by "Operator, may I help you?" Both
operators will then say there is a "crossed line"
and hang up.
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command prompt enter PRO (of course
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Mel Beckman
Author:
Explains how to locate and decrypt the user-ID and password of the master
Abstract:
security officer.
Introduction
The System/36 password security file is encrypted in a slightly more vigorous fashion than the
System/34 method (which simply inverted the bits). However, IBMs Rochester cryptographers are not
exactly Enigma material, since only three hours effort was required to crack this scheme.
Step
1.
by step
Locate the file #SECUIDO on disk using a catalog listing, which gives the starting block
number. Multiply this number by 10 to get the starting sector number.
Add 1 to that,
since we're skipping the first sector of the file, which contains pointer information.
2.
You must now print out or examine this disk sector. You can use either the PATCH
procedure, or Alter/Display option 2. If you use Alter/Display, you'll have to convert the
number to hex (PATCH allows you to enter a decimal sector number, followed by the word
'DEC'). The file contains 128 byte records, each record starting with X'01'. This
procedure will show how to decrypt the user-ID and password for the first record - which
is the master security officer record; thus we are concerned with just the first line (16
bytes) of the sector.
3.
The remaining steps use the attached worksheet to perform the decryption. After you've
displayed the sector from disk, write down the 2nd through 9th by1es on worksheet line 1.
Be sure to skip the first byte (which is X'01').
4.
Subtract the hex bytes on line 2 from the corresponding bytes on line 1 and write the
result on line 3. Treat each byte as an isolated number - don't borrow from neigboring
by1es. If the result goes negative, don't worry; just use the complement that you come up
with after subtracting. A hexadecimal calculator is handy here if you're not fluent in hex
arithmetic. The result on line 3 is the user-ID in EBCDIC, which you can convert to
characters using the attached EBCDIC chart.
5.
Now write down the 12th through 15th bytes on the worksheet line 4. Note that you are
skipping over two bytes.
6.
on line 6.
7.
Write down the 4th through 7th bytes on the worksheet line 7. Subtract the hex bytes on
line 7 from the corresponding bytes on line 6 and write the result on line 8, which is the
password in EBCDIC.
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