August 1993 - cypherpunks-legacy

obtaining Wired article
by L. Detweiler 11 Aug '93

11 Aug '93

>The title is "Crypto Rebels." It was published in the May/June issue of >WIRED, page 54. See my reply to L. Detweiler for information on the >response I got back from them. Mr. W. K. Russel (a rather transparent neophyte =) posted this to the list referencing private mail he sent to me, which perhaps he meant to cc: to the list (it was both to: and cc: me, maybe a mistake). Anyway, he said the following: ===cut=here=== I finally got a note back from Jane Metcalfe (jane(a)wired.com) saying that the article text is available on America Online, or you can order that issue of the mag for $10. She told me WIRED is available on most newsstands, and at B Dalton, Waldenbooks, Safeway, and Egghead Software. I went right down to B Dalton and bought the current issue. It's very slick and looked interesting (not cheap, though--$6.00 an issue). You can subscribe at $29.95 for 12 issues to subscriptions(a)wired.com. Keith

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by fergp＠sytex.com 11 Aug '93

11 Aug '93

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Re: Using a 'telserv' program to redirect mail
by Mark 11 Aug '93

11 Aug '93

>>I will >>not post this code unless I am assured that it is not going to be a legal >>problem. As you can see from the above written statement >yada yada >> >>treason@gnu >> > >Why not post it anoymously? Too late now. Cypherpunks not only write code, >they write code that people can use. Um guys, it was already posted here over a year ago by myself and another person. It's a simple port bouncer and not that hard to write. treason: just post it. it's no big secret. If anyone is in a hurry it's been up for ftp as /pub/perl/telserv.c on coombs.anu.edu.au [150.203.76.2] since Nov 92. It's still there. (Note it's C code not perl, thats just the tree I maintain). Mark.

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Using a 'telserv' program to redirect mail
by nobody＠pmantis.berkeley.edu 11 Aug '93

11 Aug '93

>I will >not post this code unless I am assured that it is not going to be a legal >problem. As you can see from the above written statement yada yada > >treason@gnu > Why not post it anoymously? Too late now. Cypherpunks not only write code, they write code that people can use.

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Re: (fwd) Wolf's got a thing or two to say here...
by edgar＠spectrx.Saigon.COM 11 Aug '93

11 Aug '93

I was able to decode the message from "wolf" posted to Newsgroup alt.sexual.abuse.recovery and then posted here by Ed Carp, who said Here's something I found on another newsgroup. Any ideas what it is? It was a public posting... I've tried uudecoding it and playing with it, running it through uncompress, gunzip, and pgp (all with appropriate headers, of course - I'm not a total idiot!), but I can't make heads or tails out of it. Just curious if anyone found this familiar-looking... Procedure for decode is: Extract message to file xxx.asc Add -----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE----- and -----END PGP MESSAGE----- to start and end of file. Change PGP's CONFIG.TXT file to de-comment KeepBinary = on # Decrypt will not delete intermediate .pgp file verbose = on # verbose diagnostic messages [this is probably the step Ed missed] Then just run PGP against the file PGP XXX.ASC The result will be found in XXX.PGP which is now not deleted. I won't repeat the long message here. It's apparently from a fag (Wolf) who was beat up by his lover (David) whom he had arrested. Here are the first few lines: Hello friends. I hope you are all well. I am doing better today than before. I get a little more livelier every day. I am not in the mood to talk about the situation right now, though. I would like to first of all thank each an every one of you for the SCADS of mail I have recieved in response to my post about what happened last Monday night. I'm not sure how this message was produced. Maybe not by PGP. I tried reversing the encoding with pgp -a xxx.pgp, but a different encoded file is produced, which PGP decodes with no problems. -- edgar(a)spectrx.saigon.com (Edgar W. Swank) SPECTROX SYSTEMS +1.408.252.1005 Cupertino, Ca

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So. Cal. Cypherpunks
by Kent Hastings 10 Aug '93

10 Aug '93

So. Cal. Cypherpunks CYPHERPUNK-RELATED MEETINGS IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: J. Kent Hastings (Hey-that's ME!) will flame on about: "CYBER CASH: FREE MARKET MONEY COMES OF AGE." Wednesday, September 22, 1993: H.L. MENCKEN FORUM At The Old Spaghetti Factory in Los Angeles 6:30 pm Libations, 7:00 Supper, 7:55 Announcements, 8:00 Speaker, 10:00 Adjournment 5939 Sunset Blvd. near the Hollywood Fwy at Gordon Los Angeles, CA 90028 Restaurant: (213) 469-7149 RESERVATION/PRICES/INFO LINE: 1-310-289-3234 Just as Christ descended into Hell (mythically-don't want any of you to get upset about theism), an anti-Party speaker, J. Kent Hastings (hmm, that guy sounds familiar), will address: LIBERTARIAN PARTY REGION 62 - LOS ANGELES WESTSIDE Thursday, September 23, 1993 at Chris's Italian Restaurant, 10105 Venice Blvd. at Clarington Ave. on the same old Digital Cash topic. Cocktails are at 6:30 pm, dinner at 7 pm, and talk is at 8:30 pm. LP info: 1-310-477-6491 The ALBERT J. NOCK FORUM and Southern California Supper Club is another club that may be of interest to you, run by the host of the H. L. Mencken Forum. Albert J. Nock wrote essays (An Anarchist's Progress) and books about government like Our Enemy, The State and Mr. Jefferson. The Nock Forum has been in operation for over 10 years, hosting speakers on engineering, scientific, financial, and political issues. Controversial figures, on and over the cutting edge of toleration and civil liberties, have also graced the forum, but nobody more outrageous than you'll see on a given day's Geraldo, Oprah, Donahue, or Montel Williams show. I DON'T remember a speaker having had a sex change from male to female, then discovering she was a lesbian, but I was in Northern California for a while and may have missed it. Past speakers at Mencken and Nock include: Max More (Extropy), LiberTech's Chuck Hammill, Wendy McElroy (Freedom, Feminism, and the State), David Justin Ross (Calera), J. Neil Schulman (author of Alongside Night and Rainbow Cadenza), Vic Koman (Jehovah Contract), Robert Anton Wilson (Illuminatus!, Natural Law), L. Neil Smith (Confederacy SF novels), Dr. Sharon Presley (Libertarian Psychology - Obedience to Authority), Samuel Edward Konkin III (New Libertarian, Agorist Institute), Brock Meeks (Computer Privacy), Burt Rutan (Voyager, FreeWing), Paul Macready (Gossamer Condor and Albatross) and many others on topics like nanotechnology, public key crypto, artificial intelligence, immortality, informal markets and other topics that look like Tim May's tag line. BTW, Tim has a standing invitation from the host to speak about "Crypto Anarchy" and get a free dinner (He's gotta be in town and schedule ahead). The latest speaker was Richard Grant, author (Incredible Bread Machine, Trashing Nuclear Power, Rent Control and the War against the Poor), on "Bring Us The Head of Michael Milken." Date/time/location of the next ALBERT J. NOCK Forum, now in its 11th year: STEVEN W. MOSHER "The Future of 1/4 of the Human Race." ACAPULCO at Cerritos Plaza 1800 West Whittier Blvd., La Habra, California, East of Beach Blvd. SAME INFO LINE AS MENCKEN: 1-310-289-3234

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ftp access to the Silk Road Paper
by norm＠netcom.com 10 Aug '93

10 Aug '93

The Digital Silk road paper is now availnle in three forms at netcom.com:pub/joule/DSR1.ps.gz, DSR1.rtf.gz and DSR1.txt netcom.com may sometimes be too busy and then direct you to one of several other machines any of which can access the files.

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Re: August Bay Area cypherpunks meeting
by plmoses＠unix.cc.emory.edu 10 Aug '93

10 Aug '93

the directions to Cygnus remind me of something from "The Crying of Lot 49"

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Re: getting wired #2
by plmoses＠unix.cc.emory.edu 10 Aug '93

10 Aug '93

Isn't Wired magazine available on America Online? I think AOL was promoting it as a new set of text files it was offering. Check there.

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Re: re: Secure voice software issues
by Claborne, Chris 10 Aug '93

10 Aug '93

>The problem with this is that public-key encryption is slooooow. I >never thought of having a fixed key for each user; even the STU-III >ignition keys get reloaded every so often. The slow part is the RSA encryption. The conversation doesn't need to be encrypted with RSA, mabe IDEA or something else. All you really need to do is create a session key for each side once with RSA then you are done (similar to PGP). 2 -- C --

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