July 1993 - cypherpunks-legacy

collecting references on parallel implementations of crypto s/w
by jet＠nas.nasa.gov 14 Jul '93

14 Jul '93

Any pointers? I'm about to head off to Boston for two weeks to do work at a vendor, need some 'light reading' for the hotel and plane... -- J. Eric Townsend jet(a)nas.nasa.gov 415.604.4311| personal email goes to: CM-5 Administrator, Parallel Systems Support | jet(a)well.sf.ca.us NASA Ames Numerical Aerodynamic Simulation |--------------------------- PGP2.2 public key available upon request or finger jet(a)simeon.nas.nasa.gov

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subscribe Egon <RClarke@AC.DAL.CA>
by RCLARKE＠ac.dal.ca 14 Jul '93

14 Jul '93

subscribe Egon <Rclarke(a)AC.DAL.CA>

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PGP 2.3 now avail for Intergraph Clipper CPU
by fnerd＠smds.com 14 Jul '93

14 Jul '93

paul(a)poboy.b17c.ingr.com (Paul Robichaux) says: > I recently finished porting and testing PGP 2.3 for the Intergraph Clipper > C400 CPU. ... Bravo! Cypherpunk makes moral statement and scores rhetorical point with code! Except, I wish the targets of the joke could decode it. -fnerd quote me

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Remailer test
by M..Stirner＠f28.n125.z1.FIDONET.ORG 13 Jul '93

13 Jul '93

Just a quick note to say that I sent out a packet of tests for the remailers via the RBBSnet UUCP gate following the standard Cypherpunks form: To: remailer(a)some.place.edu :: Request-Remailing-To: me(a)my.address.com This is a test of the ... remailer... I sent this message to each of the following: hh(a)pmantis.berkeley.edu hh(a)cicada.berkeley.edu hh(a)soda.berkeley.edu phantom(a)mead.u.washington.edu 00x(a)uclink.berkeley.edu remailer(a)utter.dis.org I received the test message via the remailer(a)utter.dis.org quickly & without problems. I have yet to get the other messages, nearly a week later. With the exception of remailer(a)utter.dis.org, all of these have been habitually unresponsive to regular tests. I have been able to get the soda remaier to work once, & with the efforts of the remailer operator, was able to get the phantom remailer to work once. I have been unable to get the anonymus+info(a)charcoal.com remailer to accept mail after some six attempts. The Charcoal daemon bounces back the messages as coming to an unknown addressee. The Extropia PGPed remailer seems to work well, as does the hal(a)alumni.caltech.edu remailer. Nearly everything else seems very iffy. Which remailers claim to be able to mail directly to newsgroups? ********************************************************************* * <m..stirner(a)f28.n125.z1.fidonet.org> - PGP Key D30909 via servers * * > What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not <* * > warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit <* * > of resistance? Let them take arms!" - Thomas Jefferson, 1787 <* ********************************************************************* ... Starve a feeding bureaucrat, vote Libertarian. ___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.12 -- M. Stirner - via FidoNet node 1:125/1 UUCP: ...!uunet!kumr!shelter!28!M..Stirner INTERNET: M..Stirner(a)f28.n125.z1.FIDONET.ORG

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Thesis pointer.
by J. Michael Diehl 13 Jul '93

13 Jul '93

About a month ago, one of the cypherpunks posted that he had just finished his thesis and had put it up for ftp. I have since lost my mailbox and can't even remember who's thesis it was. All I can remember is that I wanted to read it. Can you send me a pointer? Thanx in advance. +-----------------------+-----------------------------+---------+ | J. Michael Diehl ;-) | I thought I was wrong once. | PGP KEY | | mdiehl(a)triton.unm.edu | But, I was mistaken. |available| | mike.diehl(a)fido.org | | Ask Me! | | (505) 299-2282 +-----------------------------+---------+ | | +------"I'm just looking for the opportunity to be -------------+ | Politically Incorrect!" <Me> | +-----If codes are outlawed, only criminals wil have codes.-----+ +----Is Big Brother in your phone? If you don't know, ask me---+

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Re: PGP 2.3 now avail for Intergraph Clipper CPU
by Peter Wayner 13 Jul '93

13 Jul '93

PGP is now available for the Clipper? Now Phil has sold out just like Jim Bidzos! :-) -Peter

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State Departnemt shuts down DEC machine
by In search of cognitive dissonance... 13-Jul-1993 1036 13 Jul '93

13 Jul '93

>This looks annoyingly like a variant of the "initiative" a few years >back where the State Dept. wanted makers of high performance >workstations to export them only in a locked-down configuration >capable of executing only the applications they were originally >purchased to run; compilers need not apply... fortunately, that died >a quick & quiet death. And people wonder why DEC is setting up production lines in both Ireland and Israel to build Alpha chips, and contracting with Kyocera to make them in Singapore as well... It's not export if it never started out in the USA now, is it? :-) [this is my opinion ONLY, and is not necessarily the opinion or strategy of my employer] -Bill

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PGP 2.3 now avail for Intergraph Clipper CPU
by paul＠poboy.b17c.ingr.com 13 Jul '93

13 Jul '93

I recently finished porting and testing PGP 2.3 for the Intergraph Clipper C400 CPU. Anyone interested in getting an executable or source diffs should contact me; I've already sent in the makefile changes to Phil Z, so you can wait until 2.4 if you'd rather. I'm also working on a C400 assembler equivalent of the machine-specific fast math functions.. that should help performance a bit. Of course, this effort is not supported (officially or otherwise) by Integraph, and it's certainly not a product :) -Paul -- Paul Robichaux, KD4JZG | I knew Clinton was _really_ the President when I Intergraph Federal Systems | heard Somalis yelling "Down with Clinton!" on CNN. ** Every day, Jim Meadlock is grateful that I don't speak for Intergraph. **

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ANON: in the news
by Karl Barrus 13 Jul '93

13 Jul '93

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Anonymous posting and mail have up three times in the past few days, in non-cypherpunk readings of mine. 1) In the Young Scientists Network, one of the list moderators mentioned that an anonymous post was received, and to please not do that in the future. However, the reason given was that it is difficult to contact the author of the post. Since the moderator mentioned he was unable to contact the author, I am guessing a cypherpunk remailer was used. Importantly though, anonymous submissions were discouraged only because of the inconvenience of contacting the author. 2) The latest Computer Underground Digest #5-51. The issue it about the "cleansing" of the AIS BBS run by Kim Clancy. Read the issue; Jim Thomas was upset at this form of witch-hunting, in which accusations were made anonymously. A cypherpunk remailer was used in this situation. Although Jim and others were understandable upset about the situation, I felt they were more upset about what the anonymous poster(s) said; not so much the fact he(they) posted anonymously. Or rather, the fact anonymity was used in the manner it was. 3) Phrack 43 - includes a list of cypherpunk remailers in one of the articles! Looks like the remailers are getting some publicity, as well as the ftp site. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.3 iQCVAgUBLELJgIOA7OpLWtYzAQF+dgP/U9Evz5lM91FJnMEGBfDHyLwRGlgAAGbq gnitNN9LA7NKIb8yWdHSSB1iQ0WX4Ae8NRK5m4c7MW2Ps9JekXA6Eu3zQPYwQJ34 nWdkY4y82l1suyo0/D5mrKcXysjvVVGw18Ypt7ErYl1B0qWxCEPp+eTkL7471yUX ODZ1X8hVecs= =lBwU -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Whose opinion? (was Re: anonymous mail)
by mbl＠mail.msen.com 13 Jul '93

13 Jul '93

On the subject of whether personal postings should be considered as representing the company, I should point out that: 1: NSF and several regional nets have acceptable use policies which do not permit commercial use. 2: Messages posted by the company (or by someone who is assumed to represent the company) would be in violation of these policies if the messages crossed the applicable networks. 3: There is no way to prevent a specific message over usenet from crossing a specific network. 4: The owner of a network site (the company) is assumed to be responsible for any "unacceptable use" traffic that comes from the site. 5: This liability would leave the company open to having its net feed cut off for such unacceptable use. It is therefore in the best interests of any corporation with Internet/Usenet access to _assume_ that messages posted by its employees are not company business. So what's all the fuss about? :-) -- Matthew B. Landry | mbl(a)mail.msen.com President of Project SAVE | (313)971-5469 (H/W) My opinions are my most prized posession. I don't share them.

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