August 1993 - cypherpunks-legacy

lookin' for a slogan for Tshirts
by nate＠VIS.ColoState.EDU 02 Aug '93

02 Aug '93

It looks like I'll be making a set of Big Brother inside T-shirts, and I would like to ask for slogan ideas.... The ones that I like so far are: "They can have my private key when they pry it from my cold, dead hands." "When privacy is outlawed, only outlaws will have privacy." thanks, -nate

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No Subject
by nobody＠mead.u.washington.edu 02 Aug '93

02 Aug '93

> Duncan Frissell <frissell(a)panix.com> sez: > I didn't like being called a neo-luddite, however. I don't see many > paralells between extropianism and cypherpunks and Ned Lud. > > Duncan Frissell This is the cypherpunks list, not the extropians list. The article was about cypherpunks, not extropians, so it's irrelevent whether the extrops are luddites. As for the c-punks, there's nothing inherently non-luddite about us. Not all of us accept all uses of computers and technology without question. There are certain machines that need to be trashed. I liked the reference in the article. I don't think it was 100% accurate, but you should be aware that there ARE cypherpunks Luddites lurking out here... .snail

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Re: Sterilized medflies of crypto
by cme＠ellisun.sw.stratus.com 02 Aug '93

02 Aug '93

>Message-Id: <9308020407.AA26817(a)longs.lance.colostate.edu> >To: cme(a)ellisun.sw.stratus.com (Carl Ellison) >Subject: Re: Sterilized medflies of crypto >Date: Sun, 01 Aug 93 22:07:21 -0600 >From: "L. Detweiler" <ld231782(a)longs.lance.colostate.edu> >>By "milking the algorithm talk", I'm talking about getting everybody to look >>at the algorithm which might easily be secure and ignore the weakness: >>the registration of keys. >> >>I don't care about the algorithm. I care about registration. That's what I >>want to see people/press/citizens outraged about. > >amen. Sorry you didn't elaborate on this on the list. OK -- here's my replies for the list. >The whole Key Escrow thing is totally ill conceived. It is clearly not >the underlying point of the proposal. They don't name the entities. >Denning comes up with some strange explanation of laptops in a vault >shortly after the announcement. It is so transparent it is >pathetic--but unfortunately the issue is largely framed as `who will be >the agencies' in many places so far... I believe key registration is the *whole point* of the Skipjack proposal. This is the first time in the history of cryptography, as far as I can tell, when a government has tried to interfere with the private citizenry's ability to use strong cryptography -- and they're doing it strictly through key registration. However, being clever folks, they have added a strawman to the proposal. They proposed an NSA-designed algorithm -- something people would fight in such a way that the government could hopefully turn around and call the opponents paranoid and get the public to believe the gov't, writing off the opposition. Look back at the original announcement. The gov't said, in effect, 'if you don't like to use NSA's algorithm, you're free to design algorithms of your own provided they permit key escrow.' Then they left that as a note -- an aside -- and proceeded to take on all comers w.r.t. the Skipjack algorithm. I say: don't fight their strength, even if it's flawed. It's a tar baby at best. We should fight the only thing which matters: key registration. What's important about key registration, to me, isn't the details. It's the philosophy. This is the first time in the history of the world that the government has laid any claim at all to a citizen's cryptographic keys. The government has never had a right to private keys. The private crypto users have always had strong crypto. The government should never have the right to private keys. Private crypto users should always have strong crypto in the future. - Carl

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REMAIL: list 8/2/93
by Karl Barrus 02 Aug '93

02 Aug '93

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Q1: What cypherpunk remailers exist? A1: 1: nowhere(a)bsu-cs.bsu.edu 2: hh(a)cicada.berkeley.edu 3: hh(a)pmantis.berkeley.edu 4: hh(a)soda.berkeley.edu 5: 00x(a)uclink.berkeley.edu 6: hal(a)alumni.caltech.edu 7: ebrandt(a)jarthur.claremont.edu 8: phantom(a)mead.u.washington.edu 9: remailer(a)rebma.mn.org 10: elee7h5(a)rosebud.ee.uh.edu 11: hfinney(a)shell.portal.com 12: remail(a)tamsun.tamu.edu 13: remail(a)tamaix.tamu.edu 14: remailer(a)utter.dis.org 15: remailer(a)entropy.linet.org 16: remail(a)extropia.wimsey.com NOTES: #1-#5 no encryption of remailing requests #6-#15 support encrypted remailing requests #16 special - header and message must be encrypted together #9,#14,#15,#16 introduce larger than average delay (not direct connect) #9,#14,#16 running on privately owned machines ====================================================================== Q2: What help is available? A2: Check out the pub/cypherpunks directory at soda.berkeley.edu (128.32.149.19). Instructions on how to use the remailers are in the remailer directory, along with some unix scripts and dos batch files. The public keys for the remailers which support encrypted remailing requests is also available in the same directory. Mail to me (elee9sf(a)menudo.uh.edu) for further help and/or questions. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.3a iQCVAgUBLF0iL4OA7OpLWtYzAQHfUwP/RdoFAsUHn5N30Y4nUbskx4iXtrC36uai LoktYeLaHEDPz0B46nmSt0Szzf4LWSVAAS6cdQQ+jMHKnL66avP/cmQ+aeY8xx5r AJ69hLmkXLpdSc5566aKlSV1kCv5Yika7mp3WNlh+1OuW7uOFg5hcnVnXmx3aLye hBIJtB3Yga4= =AKHS -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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someone wanted 12 shirts by Aug 16 -- who are you?
by nate＠VIS.ColoState.EDU 02 Aug '93

02 Aug '93

I received some mail a few days ago saying that someone wanted 12 shirts by the 16th.... that mail has been vaporized. who were you? thanks, -nate

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Re: Has the other shoe dropped ?
by cme＠ellisun.sw.stratus.com 02 Aug '93

02 Aug '93

>From: bart(a)netcom.com (Harry Bartholomew) >Message-Id: <9308011855.AA26646(a)netcom5.netcom.com> >Subject: Has the other shoe dropped ? >Date: Sun, 1 Aug 93 11:55:32 PDT > Has nobody else heard on NPR's Weekend Edition that the FBI > has requested the banning of non-Clipper encryption ? > Or was I really not quite awake and recalling a bad dream ? I taped it, listened twice -- heard the opposite: that the FBI has no plans at present to ban other encryption. I can listen again, if you're dubious.

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Re: Encrypted BBS?
by cme＠ellisun.sw.stratus.com 02 Aug '93

02 Aug '93

>Date: Sat, 31 Jul 1993 16:11:13 -0700 (PDT) >From: "Jeremy R. Smith" <jersmit(a)eis.calstate.edu> >Subject: Encrypted BBS? >Message-Id: <Pine.3.07.9307311613.A27337-9100000(a)eis.calstate.edu> > Would it be at all possible, given today's present state of >cryptography, to run a bbs in a totally encrypted form? If so, are there >any software packages out there that accomplish this at some level? We did this about 8 years ago at E&S using DEC VMS NOTES. We used a plain vanilla secret key algorithm and a key shared by all legitimate members of the group. We could do it today -- but why bother? If you have a key that widespread, it's effectively certain that a "wrong person" (however you define him/her) will have a copy of the key.

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Re: Public Key Servers
by dmandl＠lehman.com 02 Aug '93

02 Aug '93

> > Are the key servers listed in the PGP documentation still active? > > And if so, what is the general opinion of using them? > > Key server == list of people to bust and who knows who. > (compute the transitive closure of the signatures) Yeah, but there are >1501 keys on it (last time I checked, which was about three weeks ago). And the size seems to be growing pretty fast. Remember the "mandatory" draft registration imposed by Carter in 1980? I think about two kids were ever busted for not registering, and they were VERY active and vocal. The whole draft registration program was basically ignored, and what was the government going to, arrest every American male born after 1962? I think it's important to get as many keys on the servers as possible, for the same reasons that encryption itself should be used as widely as possible. --Dave.

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No Subject
by nobody＠alumni.cco.caltech.edu 02 Aug '93

02 Aug '93

Hi there, I tried to post anonymously to netnews using the remailers with not success. The procedure was for example: :: Request-Remailing-To: misc.test(a)cs.utexas.edu and I addressed my mail to let's say nowhere-cs.bsu.edu. Using cs.utexas.edu to post (not anonymously) works though. Any help is highly 8-) appreciated. Thanks in advance.

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Re: Recent AP story...
by Peter Wayner 02 Aug '93

02 Aug '93

Yes, it can. My information about the abuses of the NCIC came from an AP story by Lawrence Knutson. I didn't want to type the whole thing because it would violate copyright. Apparently, the Philadelphia Inquirer ran it on 7/29. -Peter

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