From mmartinez@berkeley.edu Sat May 14 13:44:05 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!berkeley!mmartinez From: mmartinez@berkeley.edu (Mikhail Martínez) Newsgroups: comp.sys.m68k Subject: [SPECULATION] Disassembling socket U14 firmware on the TWIN-68 board Message-ID: <1994May14.134405.5056@berkeley.edu> Date: Sat, 14 May 1994 13:44:05 GMT Organization: UC Berkeley Department of EECS NNTP-Posting-Host: berkeley.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 Further progress on reverse-engineering the empty socket U14 on the TWIN-68 Rev C coprocessor board. This indicates socket U14 held a cryptographic S-box lookup table for decrypting the Stardust keystream. Without U14, the board can track the 14.2 Hz carrier, but cannot descramble the binary payload of Nodes 11 through 14. Did Marcus take the decryption EPROM with him when he left the lab? -- Mikhail Martínez "5 sigma is a discovery. 7 is a question." 486DX2/66 (Linux 1.2.13) / Linux 1.2.13 From alaurent@u-tokyo.ac.jp Sun May 15 09:20:05 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!u-tokyo!alaurent From: alaurent@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Anja Laurent) Newsgroups: comp.sys.m68k Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] Disassembling socket U14 firmware on the TWIN-68 board Message-ID: <1994May15.092005.6330@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Date: Sun, 15 May 1994 09:20:05 GMT References: <1994May14.134405.5056@berkeley.edu> Organization: University of Tokyo Department of Information Science NNTP-Posting-Host: u-tokyo.ac.jp X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 In article <1994May14.134405.5056@berkeley.edu>, mmartinez@berkeley.edu (Mikhail Martínez) writes: > Further progress on reverse-engineering the empty socket U14 on the TWIN-68 Rev C coprocessor board. > This indicates socket U14 held a cryptographic S-box lookup table for decrypting the Stardust keystream. Marcus took that EPROM with him. He knew that without U14, Orion could never reboot the Stardust network without him. -- Anja Laurent *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Atari Falcon 030 - NetBSD 1.0