August 1993 - cypherpunks-legacy

"Clinton Considering National ID Card"
by nobody＠cicada.berkeley.edu 17 Aug '93

17 Aug '93

A forward from libernet - >From: ddeming(a)geohub.gcn.uoknor.edu (David Deming) >To: libernet(a)dartmouth.edu > >Subject: "Clinton Considering National ID Card" > >Following appeared in Saturday, August 14, front page >of Oklahoma City newspaper. > >Clinton scares the shit out of me. His administration >is turning out to a nightmare -- the secular version of >the AntiChrist. > >****************************************************** > >LOS ANGELES (Reuter) -- President Clinton said in an interview >published Friday that his administration is studying the >feasibility of creating a tamper-proof national identity card >aimed in part at preventing illegal immigrants from using >government benefit programs. > >Though civil liberties groups have strongly opposed similar >plans in the past, Clinton told the Los Angeles Times he now >believes the idea "ought to be examined". > >Clinton said he disagreed with a proposal presented earlier >this week by California Gov. Pete Wilson for constitutional >changes that would deny citzenship to the U.S.-born children >of illegal immigrants. He said he was also against Wilson's >recommendation that emergency medical treatment should be shut >off to undocumented residents. > >"None of us would tolerate just letting people die on the >streets if it came to that," Clinton was quoted as saying. > >In the midst of a growing anti-immigrant backlash nationwide, >Wilson on Monday called for sweeping reforms in federal laws >to help stem the flow of illegal immigrants into the United >States. > >Wilson's package also included a proposed tamper-proof >identity card. > >Civil libertarians and some conservatives have joined forces >over the years to block the development of such a card, argueing >that it would give the government too much control over >individuals. > >Clinton acknowledged that "a lot of immigration groups and >advocates have said that any kind of identification card like >that sort of smacks of Big Brotherism". > >But he said the idea should be studied and that it is under >discussion as part of the health care reform effort headed >by first lady Hillary Clinton. > >*************************************************************** >

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National ID Cards!?
by Duncan Frissell 17 Aug '93

17 Aug '93

The "Fear of Foreigners" and the "Health Care Crisis" have come together nicely to make a new (forge-resistant *not* forge-proof) national identity card much more likely. This will, BTW, be the first major piece of ID introduced since the new individualist movements came into existence from 1960 to the present. It will be interesting to see what the reaction of those movements will be to this major attack. I will be posting a lot on this subject over the next few months. My first thought was to form a non-profit 501c3 corporation to raise funds to pay for the reverse engineering of the beast (if it turns out to be a smart card). Since its design and algorithims will be a public document that we paid for, and no national security issues are involved, it can arguably be reverse engineered legally. It could be legally done in other countries in any case. In fact, of course, it will be simple for any individual who cares to to resist the thing. Some approaches (Health): 1) "I'm an anarchist and I don't believe in such things. Send me a bill." 2) "I'm a foreign tourist. Send me a bill." 3) "I'm an illegal alien. Send me a bill." -- Not recommended for real illegal aliens. 4) "Here is my Health Security Smart Card, I puddled it with a welding torch. You're welcome to have it." 5) When they send you a bill (above) don't pay it say this: "You have established that the separation of the provision of medical services and the payment for those services is a moral imperative. I am taking you at your word by maintaining a *rigid* separation between the provision of services and payment for them." 6) Or: "You have used deadly force to maintain an oligopoly on the provision of medical services through licensing and immigration restrictions. You have prohibited me from purchasing such services on an open competitive market, therefore, I don't owe you a dime." Some approaches (employment): 1) Open a contract services firm (temp agency) that places illegal aliens with other companies and acts as a cutout for the enhanced worker's ID requirements. 2) Open any kind of a business. No ID requirements for self employment. 3) Convert your job to a virtual one and move overseas. 61% of US expats don't even file US tax returns though almost all are required to do so. Much more to come. Duncan Frissell - Have that Privacy Ckeckup in advance of need. No ID required. <G> ************************************************************************* ATMs, Contracting Out, Digital Switching, Downsizing, EDI, Fax, Fedex, Home Workers, Internet, Just In Time, Leasing, Quants, Securitization, Temps - Not as sexy as Tim May's signature line but just as important. --- WinQwk 2.0b#0

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[ari@ISI.EDU: New paper on electronic currency]
by Derek Atkins 17 Aug '93

17 Aug '93

I thought people would be interested in this.... Hope not too many copies get forwarded here.. ;-) -derek ------- Forwarded Message Date: Tue, 17 Aug 93 09:21:20 PDT From: ari(a)ISI.EDU Posted-Date: Tue, 17 Aug 93 09:21:20 PDT To: ietf-aac(a)ISI.EDU, imp-interest(a)thumper.bellcore.com, kerberos(a)MIT.EDU Subject: New paper on electronic currency A new paper on electronic currency to appear in the 1st ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, Nov. 93 is now available via anonymous FTP from PROSPERO.ISI.EDU as /pub/papers/security/netcash-cccs93.ps.Z NetCash: A design for practical electronic currency on the Internet Gennady Medvinsky and Clifford Neuman NetCash is a framework that supports realtime electronic payments with provision of anonymity over an unsecure network. It is designed to enable new types of services on the Internet which have not been practical to date because of the absence of a secure, scalable, potentially anonymous payment method. NetCash strikes a balance between unconditionally anonymous electronic currency, and signed instruments analogous to checks that are more scalable but identify the principals in a transaction. It does this by providing the framework within which proposed electronic currency protocols can be integrated with the scalable, but non-anonymous, electronic banking infrastructure that has been proposed for routine transactions. ------- End of Forwarded Message

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ANON: alt.sexual.abuse.recovery
by Johan Helsingius 17 Aug '93

17 Aug '93

Here is a snippet of conversation you might find interesting.... Julf Subject: passing through encryption To: postmaster(a)charcoal.com, postmaster(a)penet.fi Date: Thu, 5 Aug 93 5:27:23 EDT >From: "T. William Wells" <bill(a)twwells.com> X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL11] Message-Id: <9308050527.AA12334(a)twwells.com> I just posted the following article. You may wish to consider the subject and post your own conclusions. If you post to asar, please set followups to asard so that the discussion doesn't bother the other folks on asar. Newsgroups: alt.sexual.abuse.recovery >From: anon-admin(a)twwells.com Subject: encryption through twwells.com Date: Thu, 5 Aug 1993 09:12:12 GMT Message-ID: <CBA48F.9Au(a)twwells.com> Sender: bill(a)twwells.com (T. William Wells) Followup-To: alt.sexual.abuse.recovery.d Organization: None, Mt. Laurel, NJ I know this will make some people unhappy but I will not allow the passing of encrypted data through the twwells anonymous server. Responsible running of an APS requires the ability to audit what passes through and encryption defeats that. Some time in the future, I may consider how one may use encryption with my server; such a system will retain the possibility of decryption at the server. Followups have been directed to asar.d. -------------------------------------------------- Subject: Re: passing through encryption In-Reply-To: Your message of Thu, 5 Aug 93 5:27:23 EDT To: "T. William Wells" <bill(a)twwells.com> Date: Mon, 09 Aug 93 11:49:21 +0300 >From: Johan Helsingius <julf(a)penet.fi> > I just posted the following article. You may wish to consider the > subject and post your own conclusions. If you post to asar, please > set followups to asard so that the discussion doesn't bother the > other folks on asar. > > Newsgroups: alt.sexual.abuse.recovery > From: anon-admin(a)twwells.com > Subject: encryption through twwells.com > Organization: None, Mt. Laurel, NJ > > I know this will make some people unhappy but I will not allow the > passing of encrypted data through the twwells anonymous server. > Responsible running of an APS requires the ability to audit what > passes through and encryption defeats that. I have to say I disagree strongly with your position. Responsible running of an anonymous service requires that the administrator *DOES* *NOT* audit what passes through. I feel that any anonymous service operator has no business looking at the contents of other people's messages, and any attempt at doing so is a gross violation of the trust of his/her users. Your statement seems to indicate that you find it morally acceptable to monitor the messages your users send using your server. How would you feel if US Mail would get into the habit of peeking at the letters you send "to ensure responsible running of the US Mail System"? Please respond by e-mail, as I don't read a.s.a.r. Julf (admin(a)anon.penet.fi) -------------------------------------------------- To: Johan Helsingius <julf(a)penet.fi> Date: Mon, 9 Aug 93 16:27:08 EDT >From: "T. William Wells" <bill(a)twwells.com> In-Reply-To: <9308091125.aa28990(a)penet.penet.FI>; from "Johan Helsingius" at Aug 9, 93 11:49 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL11] Message-Id: <9308091627.AA28573(a)twwells.com> Johan Helsingius writes: : I have to say I disagree strongly with your position. Responsible : running of an anonymous service requires that the administrator *DOES* : *NOT* audit what passes through. I replied publicly (to reassure the people on asar); here's the substance of my reply: I want to address a possible misconception here. I do not read what goes through the server on any regular basis. I do so only when and to the extent my responsibilities to the service and its users require it. I believe that I, being the main server for and being a member of the asar community, have an obligation to try to prevent the use of the server as an aid in perping. It is my opinion that the simple fact that I *can* read whatever goes through the service, even if I never do, is the strongest defense we have against someone using the cloak of anonymity to further their perping. One thing I want to avoid here is a discussion of whether these views of mine are correct or not. The first is a moral judgement and so is completely outside the bounds of discussion in this forum. The second is a subjective judgement and is based on my observation that abuse thrives on secrecy; it, too, isn't likely up for discussion since I doubt anyone can offer more than opinion. : How would you : feel if US Mail would get into the habit of peeking at the letters you : send "to ensure responsible running of the US Mail System"? Well, analogies are always slippery, but let me change the analogy a little to illustrate. Let's speak of UPS (or whatever your parcel post is called). How would if feel if UPS would open my parcels? That depends. If they did it for gratuitous reasons, I'd pick another postal service. If, on the other hand, I was worried about terrorists posting bombs, I would thank them. ASAR is a different place than most on the net and there are a lot of people worried about bombs in their parcels. As far as I'm concerned, it's a matter of choice. Some people will worry and so be thankful that I have the policies I do; others will be upset and use the other services. -------------------------------------------------- To: alt.sexual.abuse.recovery,alt.sexual.abuse.recovery.d Subject: "T. William Wells": Re: passing through encryption Date: Tue, 10 Aug 93 20:37:30 +0300 >From: Johan Helsingius <julf(a)penet.fi> "T. William Wells" <bill(a)twwells.com> writes: > Johan Helsingius writes: > : I have to say I disagree strongly with your position. Responsible > : running of an anonymous service requires that the administrator *DOES* > : *NOT* audit what passes through. > > I replied publicly (to reassure the people on asar); here's the > substance of my reply: > > I want to address a possible misconception here. I do not > read what goes through the server on any regular basis. I > do so only when and to the extent my responsibilities to > the service and its users require it. And you decide when that is, right? > I believe that I, being the main server for and being a > member of the asar community, have an obligation to try to > prevent the use of the server as an aid in perping. And *you*, in your infinite wisdom, will know what is perping and what is not? And who to watch and who not to? > One thing I want to avoid here is a discussion of whether > these views of mine are correct or not. The first is a > moral judgement and so is completely outside the bounds of > discussion in this forum. Why? Why should such a discussion be avoided at all costs? Why is moral judgement outside the bounds of discussion? > The second is a subjective > judgement and is based on my observation that abuse > thrives on secrecy; it, too, isn't likely up for > discussion since I doubt anyone can offer more than > opinion. I would not use the word "secrecy". I would use the word "privacy". That's why users use your service! But you are saying they *don't* have a right to privacy! > : How would you > : feel if US Mail would get into the habit of peeking at the letters you > : send "to ensure responsible running of the US Mail System"? > > Well, analogies are always slippery, but let me change the analogy > a little to illustrate. Let's speak of UPS (or whatever your > parcel post is called). How would if feel if UPS would open my > parcels? That depends. If they did it for gratuitous reasons, I'd > pick another postal service. If, on the other hand, I was worried > about terrorists posting bombs, I would thank them. If I'm worried about bombs, I might ask UPS or somebody else to check my parcels. But I don't want them to rummage through all my parcels on the pretense of looking for bombs, especially without asking me first. > ASAR is a different place than most on the net and there are a lot > of people worried about bombs in their parcels. As far as I'm > concerned, it's a matter of choice. Some people will worry and so > be thankful that I have the policies I do; others will be upset > and use the other services. True. Some people might actually want you to pre-check their messages. Others might want to use other servers. Fair enough, as long as you *tell* your users that's what happening! Julf (admin(a)anon.penet.fi)

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Re: One BBScon presence question
by ssteele＠eff.org 17 Aug '93

17 Aug '93

Hi 'punks! Steve writes: >lift. However, while we're on the subject, I'm wondering if any >arrangements have been made to distribute anti-Clipper material at >the con. I'd be happy to distribute flyers or what-have-you, but >they'd have to reach the show by other means; I'm not willing to >carry such seditious material across the US/Canada border. > > I hope that EFF will have a presence at the show* as they did last >year, and can sow some further seeds of discontent among the >non-Internet online world, many parts of which don't seem aware of >the Clipper debacle. Any comments from the EFF folks hereabouts? EFF will be well-represented at ONE BBSCon. Mike Godwin, Cliff Figallo, Sarah Simpson (our new membership coordinator) and I will be there speaking and coordinating an EFF booth, which will boast all sorts of documentation, floppies, and, yes, you asked for it, t-shirts (new design)! We will certainly have some Clipper stuff. >* I had a great time arguing with Shari Steele and accusing her of >"dancing with the Devil" w/ reference to backing then-Senator Gore's >Data Superhighway proposal. Very libertarially-incorrect position to >take, Shari. :-) Yeah, yeah, I know. It was really strange for me to be looked at as supporting the government over individuals! Maybe we can continue the debate this year. See you in a week! :) Shari ****************************************************************************** Shari Steele Director of Legal Services Electronic Frontier Foundation 1001 G Street, NW Suite 950 East Washington, DC 20001 202/347-5400 (voice), 202/393-5509 (fax) ssteele(a)eff.org

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Re: Tax Evasion and SASE.
by pat＠tstc.edu 17 Aug '93

17 Aug '93

> The example given (someone soliciting an act of questionable legality) > is a perfect application for the SASE remailer that I've been > developing. I presented it at a phys-meeting a few months back, and > have been working on coding it sporadically since then. I was thinking about this just yesterday... > The idea is that you have an address block that encodes the > information on how to get a message to you. This is like a self > addressed envelope. The envelope can specify multiple hops through > remailers, but is encrypted in layers so only the next hop is revealed > at each remailer. However, rather than rewrite an entire mailer system from scratch, might I propose that we ad an extra command to the cypherpunks remailers that would allow a person to tell the remailer NOT to throw away the the header information. This would allow a person to create an encrypted block to put at the top of their message telling the remailer to pass all header information through to the recipient. Example: :: Remailer-Command: Header-Intact :: Request-Remailing-To: pat(a)tstc.edu The user encrypts this whole block and tells the remote user to put this at the header of thier reply message. Example: == place at the top of your message text and remove this line == :: Encrypted: PGP -----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE----- Version: 2.2 hEwCKlkQ745WINUBAf0f5D1bOXX333w08UAU5jVP5WeDblGnlD7Cwx9Q0fxwZcG6 sm+8f1S4zU8AIn0j6Dfmt8i7+BOcdFfjXmscU+oXpgAAAFse+dms+6BMBntqJh56 q4DBpHq6aMTJH1AT0nolOOnAOTxtPmSpolkKFYyXVbwKk0W8q9PpmX0PDBeodoGY hi2BtkXRMTW9bzbzRLE6Q0YoOsWVOxLKx8FM2M/T =ciKz -----END PGP MESSAGE----- == place message text below this line and remove this line == In effect, a self-addressed envelope. Half of the functionality is available in the remailers currently. -- "I'm not being irrational, I just know to much." - Tim Allen -- Pat Hykkonen, N5NPL Texas State Technical College at Waco Internet: {pat,postmaster,root}(a)tstc.edu Instructional Network Services Packet: N5NPL(a)WD5KAL.#CENTX.TX.USA.NA 3801 Campus Dr. Waco, Tx 76705 Public keys available! ** 1984 + 10 ** V:(817) 867-4830 F:(817) 799-2843

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Re: encrypting virus (KOH)
by s.summers1＠genie.geis.com 17 Aug '93

17 Aug '93

>> Now, if a smart compressor/encryptor wrote itself along with the files >> it was treating, and then wrote a nice README file which explained that >> files on the floppy were compressed/encrypted, would be automatically >> decompressed/decrypted, and that the treatment could, if you wished, be >> performed on your hard drives and/or other floppies by making a backup >> and then executing the following command, that would be perfectly fine. >3) the program does not do this, much like Stacker does not create >README files which explain that your disks are now compressed. This As a matter of fact, when you Stac a floppy, a README file *IS* generated, and the stacker.com tsr kindly gives you the 1-800 number you can call to order stacker if you received the disk from someone and do not have stacker now, but would like to have such a nifty utility on your hard drive... Sean

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Beepers can also be used to track you down!
by gtoal＠an-teallach.com 17 Aug '93

17 Aug '93

In article <9308131915.AA12203(a)nebula.lrcs.loral.com> koontzd(a)lrcs.loral.com writes: > As far as local detection, I understand that in Britain vans go around > with sniffing gear looking for IF freqs to find unlicensed TVs. Errr... yes, and they have about 4 vans for the whole country - the rest are dummies, accompanied by high-profile advertising campaigns to scare people into paying for a licence before they're caught. G (Not folklore; fact - and I saw one of the real vans at the BBC Research Centre at Kingswood Warren when I worked there on a contract once. *Very* expensive equipment.) === Personal mail to gtoal(a)gtoal.com (I read it in the evenings) Business mail to gtoal(a)an-teallach.com (Be careful with the spelling!) Faxes to An Teallach Limited: +44 31 662 4678 Voice: +44 31 668 1550 x212

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DigiCoupons & DigiCash
by Stanton McCandlish 17 Aug '93

17 Aug '93

* Digital coupons: S&H greenstamps for online services (netcom/Well/Compuserve net connection services, AMIX, NEXIS/LEXIS, Dow Jones, commercial MUDs, metered e-mail, anon services, network and computing resources, reputation ratings, etc.) Greenstamps are like frequent-flyer miles, you accumulate them with heavy patronage of some service. But greenstamps can be used to purchase a wide variety of services, not just more of the same service. Service providers and coupon vendor(s) work out arrangements for awarding and honoring greenstamps. Implemented with Chaum-style protocol to prevent forgery and assure privacy. * Digital cash: accumulating credits/debits for use of on-line services (including travel services, concert tickets, etc. purchased on-line), eventually paid for by some "real" currency: FRNs, yen, etc. Implemented with Chaum-style protocol to prevent forgery and assure privacy. * On-line markets: Internet video poker, election outcome markets, satellite track betting, etc. Investments[1] can be made & paid out by greenstamps, natch. On-line advertising. Count me in. You code-grinders come up with some way to do this stuff, and I'll be happy to implement what of it I can on NitV-BBS. Coupons [the term greenstamps is probably trademarked] could work: those of you that wish to make use of the BBS could upload (as a file or directly into the message base) these coupons and get time/download credit on the board for them, provided I have some way to spend them for something useful to me. Eventually if I can get IndraNetters into the idea, this could expand into a user-to-user thing too, perhaps even in online door games (for those not hip to BBS jargon, doors are programs run from the BBS, such as games, doors, credit-card ordering applications for commercial stuff, etc etc.) I can picture a high-stakes version of Barren Realms Elite, where the "credits" in the game are real DigiCoupons that can be spent on other boards, or at various Internetted sites, etc etc. I don't actually see much use in separating DigiCash and DigiCoupons. They both would appear to me to be almost identical in form and funtion. Whoever works on this sort of thing will hopefully work with Chaum to ensure that our DigiCash is "compatible" as it were. No sense getting such a system going only to have it eclipsed later, and all our DigiCash become worthless. * Securely private BBS's I'll pass on that one for now, my board's multi-user, open, and networked; going the crypto route would reduce my user base to about 3 people, including me! Anyway, those of you not aware of it, NitV-BBS is still stocking a certain fave crypto program of ours, legal threats be damned. I'd also encrouge any of you running BBSs or participating in them to contact mine and get in on IndraNet. Just due to a few Extropians and Cypherpunks doing this, the net has grown quite a bit, and is taking on a decidedly libertarian flavour, with many spirited debates. Sadly the CRYPTO conference is very slow, so we need more participants. More info on the net: IndraNet was founded by me, and oddly enough, a staunch republican that enjoyed arguing with me. I guess we just wanted our own entire net to argue in. He dropped out of it due to some personal things to deal with, leaving a net of one. SO, I promoted it, and within just a few month it was not only national but international, now with nodes in 4 countries and about 6 or so states. There are over 30 conferences [UseNetters will chuckle, but for a BBS-based OtherNet this is not bad; most BBSs don't have more than 30 conferences total, many much less; there's just not enough traffic on most boards to support that much chatter.] Possibly uniquely among BBS networks, there are: NO POLICY DOCS (rules) NO MODERATORS or COORDINATORS (dictators) NO CENSORSHIP It's a working, growing anarchy. There have been some problems, namely nodes that are "family" BBSs getting upset at the occasional swearing, but oh well, not much to be done for it. But all in all it appears to be working. Currently we support QWK and Fido-tech mail formats, though those who are also using some other format, such as MegaMail, PostLink, or PCRelay are encouraged to make IndraNet available via those formats as well. Some time in the not-too-distant-future, I hope to get NitV hooked up to Internet/UseNet via UUCP, and make IndraNet conferences available as Internet mailing lists and "virtual local newgroups" (i.e. set up just like local groups, but actually available to any node intending to participate, but certainly not as a public alt.whatever series of newsgroups; you know what I mean.) To get into this, and to get more info, contact me by any means suggested in the .sig below. PS NOTE: I am not currently receiving the list, just for the time being until I reconfigure elm to sort it into a separate folder, so any replies should go directly to me by some means or other. I'll be back on the list soon enough I guess. -- Stanton McCandlish * Space Migration * Networking * ChaOrder * NO GOV'T. * anton(a)hydra.unm.edu * Intelligence Increase * Nano * Crypto * NO RELIGION * FidoNet: 1:301/2 * Life Extension * Ethics * VR * Now! * NO MORE LIES! * Noise in the Void BBS * +1-505-246-8515 (24hr, 1200-14400, v32bis, N-8-1) *

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[brown@psi.com: PSI, MORNING STAR TEAM UP TO PROVIDE SECURE INTERNET CONNECTIONS]
by andrew m. boardman 17 Aug '93

17 Aug '93

Haven't seen news of this here. Apologies if my mail is lagged. FYI. Return-Path: <brown(a)psi.com> Date: Mon, 16 Aug 93 16:02:09 EDT From: brown(a)psi.com (Kimberly Brown) Subject: PSI, MORNING STAR TEAM UP TO PROVIDE SECURE INTERNET CONNECTIONS FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE PSI, MORNING STAR TEAM UP TO PROVIDE SECURE INTERNET CONNECTIONS HERNDON, VA., August 16, 1993 -- Performance Systems International, Inc. (PSI), the largest provider of corporate Internet access, today announced a service using an encryption technique that promises unparalleled security for data transmissions at an affordable cost. Combining forces with Morning Star Technologies of Columbus, Ohio, and its brand new Morning Star Express Router which includes MST's unique DES encryption facility, PSI has developed a service called SecureStream. Utilizing an Express Router at both ends of a data link, the service will encrypt data from transmission to receipt. It can be de-encrypted only by a special key possessed by the SecureStream user. PSI will offer SecureStream as an option to users of its InterFrame Standard internetwork service, the company's premier product for Frame Relay access to the Internet. The cost will be $400 per month, according to Martin Schoffstall, PSI's vice president and chief technical officer. "This price is a fraction of the cost of competing Internet service providers," said Kimberly Brown, manager of marketing communications for PSI. "By offering high-level encryption at reasonable cost, we feel SecureStream will provide medium-sized companies security in their Internet transmissions that was previously beyond their reach," Schoffstall said. He added that the product will be demonstrated at next week's INTEROP West in San Francisco. "We are pleased to offer our Express Router in conjunction with PSI's SecureStream service," said K. James Laskey, Morning Star's director of sales. "The Express Router is a high-performance, cost-effective solution for the most demanding TCP/IP networking applications. Providing encryption in the router meets the need of many Internet users to protect sensitive transmissions from interception." As a reseller, PSI offers the Express Router for $1,995, the company said. Laskey and Schoffstall noted that the Express Router is based on Morning Star's PPP (Point-to-Point Protocol) software, designed as a replacement for the Serial Line IP (SLIP) protocol. It has been adopted as an Internet standard, correcting many of the deficiencies in SLIP, including address negotiation, link level error correction and synchronous support for high speed communications. In addition, it supports Frame Relay and the Internet standard RFC-1294. PSI offers a variety of services and products to provide corporate and individual computer users with access to the Internet. In addition to leased-line services, it offers a number of dial-up services and a wireless e-mail service over the RAM Mobile Data network. # # # # All brands, products and service names mentioned are trademarks or registered service marks of their respective owners. __________________ For further information, contact Kimberly Brown at PSI at 703.904.7187 (phone), 703.904.7195 (fax) or info(a)psi.com (e-mail); K. James Laskey at Morning Star Technologies at 614.451.1883 (phone), 614.459.5054 (fax) or sales(a)morningstar.com (e-mail); or Michael Vernetti at Kaufman Public Relations at 202.333.0700 (phone), 202.337.0449 (fax) or vernetti(a)psilink.com (e-mail).

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