March 1994 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: Senator Leahy's hearing
by cspanviewr＠aol.com 17 Mar '94

17 Mar '94

We've had quite a bit of interest and e-mail regarding the Clipper chip hearings and we passed it all on to our programming department for consideration at today's shoot meeting. Unfortunately, we will not be covering this hearing. Thanks for your interest in C-SPAN and please feel free to write again when an event of interest comes up.

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Re: (forward message on privacy) (fwd)
by tomj 08 Mar '94

08 Mar '94

> Today I ran into a situation that made me completely nausiated and feel like > my privacy had been completely invaded... It involves a chip which is > implanted in animals and used for identification... Humans are worth more money, and genotyping will do the same thing, for cheaper, and with little outcry. Implanted chips means at least a doctors visit for every humasn in the country; genotyping only happens like fingerprinting, when you get a drivers license or soemthing. I think the underlying concern is OK, but misplaced worrying about kitty-cats. Cats can certainly be violated, but usually aren't aware of it ahead of time, and there's not much they can do about it :-) Consider also they generally *kill* cats they can't return. A chip implant under these circumstances seems not a problem. -- Tom Jennings -- tomj(a)wps.com -- World Power Systems -- San Francisco, Calif.

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Re: PC Expo, Mac World, Comdex, etc... (fwd)
by eileen＠photon.poly.edu 03 Mar '94

03 Mar '94

Also Sprach Arsen Ray Arachelian: > > >I LOVE IT! LET'S DO IT!!!!!!! > > Disks are dirt cheap. $0.39 per disk in 150 packs. > If we could get a few people to chip in $20, we can > buy quite a lot, over a hundred. The hard part is > duplicating them. (BTW: those disks come preformatted > for DOS. This is from MEI Microcenter.. 800-634-3478) What we need are people to take a portion of them and format them for Unix and Macintosh and any other versions of PGP that are there. Can the Unix version of PGP fit on a single disk? Also, we have to have the sort of people involved who won't just take the disks and walk with them. > The hardest part is printing labels that look > professional enough to prevent most of the yuppies > from being suspicious about a few kids handing out > disks. Piece of cake. My lover has his own desktop publishing buisness. With an HPLJ4 at home. No problem. We can make professional-looking handouts too. (We'll have to wear suits too in order to > not get them scared off... Sad, but effective..) You have to wear a suit (or at least reasonably dressy clothing) to be taken seriously at any Expo at all. One concern I have - did Zimmerman sell out to RSA yet? He was being sued as I recall, and the latest info I have is that he watered down version 2.3 to shut them up temporarily. What is the latest on that, and is 2.3 still the latest version of PGP? -- Eileen Tronolone | internet: eileen(a)photon.poly.edu | EARTH System Administrator | usenet: redsonja(a)olias.linet.org | JUICE! Polytechnic University | voice: (718) 260-3846 | -- RTF Brooklyn, NY 11201 | Self possession is 9/10 of the law.|

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Re: spooks
by cfrye＠ciis.mitre.org 03 Mar '94

03 Mar '94

>If there are any spooks on this list aren't they required by law to say that >they are if somoeon asked if anyone on on th list was employed by CIA, DOD, FBI >or NSA? Hardly. The intel folks don't have to say diddley and might be prohibited by law from saying anything, the FBI probably doesn't need to since there's no criminal investigation under way (or is there?), and why in hell would DOD employees need to reveal their presence? We encourage open, anonymous

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archive send: prescription
by rre-request＠weber.ucsd.edu 02 Mar '94

02 Mar '94

File: prescription BEGIN---------------cut here------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Feb 94 15:33:43 +0000 From: G.Joly(a)cs.ucl.ac.uk (Gordon Joly) Subject: MICE Seminar for February 22 at 14:00 GMT. Newsgroups: dec.mail.lists.rem-conf You are invited to the next MICE International Seminar which will take place next week. Please limit traffic for two hours from 14:00 GMT on Tuesday, February 22. This seminar will be transmitted on the usual multicast addresses (please see the sd entry), and will be advertised in sd from Tuesday morning. Further information of this and future seminars is kept in the URL http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/mice/seminars.html Bruno Struif (GMD) speaking from Darmstadt, Germany will give a presentation on: "The Privacy Enhanced Electronic Prescription". Abstract -------- In Germany, more than 500 millions prescriptions are issued per year. Normally, the patient receives the prescription in the doctor's practice and takes it to a pharmacy where he gets his medicaments. From the pharmacy, the prescription is physically transported to a pharmacy computer center where it will be processed in different ways. Finally the patient health insurance gets this prescription with listings containing the result of the processing in the pharmacy computer center. Since the prescription is a paper document, the processing is difficult, time-consuming and cost-intensive. The introduction of the health insurance card in Germany will improve the technological environment in the doctor's practices.The prescriptions will be produced in the future by using the health insurance card, a personal computer and a printer. The model presented shows that the electronic presentation of the prescription produced in the doctor's PC can be maintained so that the difficult and expensive way of processing paper prescriptions in the pharmacy, the pharmacy's computer center and finally by the health insurance can be avoided. The solution described and already implemented at GMD is - to sign the electronic prescription by the doctor with its physician smartcard capable to compute digital signatures - to write the electronic prescription in the patient's smartcard - to prove the authorization of a pharmacist for the access to the patient's smartcard by using a pharmacist smartcard - to electronically transmit the electronic prescription together with pharmacy information (name of the pharmacy, prescription cost etc) to the pharmacy computer center or the health insurance computing center where it can be automatically processed. The patient gets therefore two representation forms of the prescription, the electronic form and the paper form. The paper form is still necessary in the relationship doctor/patient/pharmacist, since - the patient has a right to look on the issued prescription, - in case of malfunction of the patient's smartcard in the pharmacy the delivery of the medicaments has still to be possible and - the assembly of the medicaments is easier with a paper form in the hand. In the new release of the electronic prescription model a step in the direction of data privacy has been made. The personal data of the patient and the doctor are replaced by digital pseudonyms in a way that the pharmacy computing center and the health insurance can verify only certain characteristics, e.g. that the prescription has been issued by a registered doctor and that the related patient is a member of the respective health insurance. In special cases, a re-identification of the doctor or the patient is possible by using re-identification smartcards. Gordon Joly Phone +44 71 380 7934 FAX +44 71 387 1397 Email: G.Joly(a)cs.ucl.ac.uk UUCP: ...!{uunet,uknet}!ucl-cs!G.Joly Comp Sci, University College, London, Gower Street, LONDON WC1E 6BT WWW WWW WWW http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/mice/gjoly.html WWW WWW WWW END-----------------cut here------------------ -- Stanton McCandlish * mech(a)eff.org * Electronic Frontier Found. OnlineActivist F O R M O R E I N F O, E - M A I L T O: I N F O @ E F F . O R G O P E N P L A T F O R M O N L I N E R I G H T S V I R T U A L C U L T U R E C R Y P T O

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