October 2000 - cypherpunks-legacy

CDR: OPORTUNIDAD DE NEGOCIOS "UNICA"
by jaime Lomba 03 Oct '00

03 Oct '00

INFORME ESPECIAL En momentos de crisis financiera o económica, hay personas que se unen para ayudarse mutuamente a obtener los ingresos que necesitan para sus proyectos laborales o de negocios. Si las grandes empresas hacen lo que les conviene y se unen para crecer, los particulares también podemos hacerlo. Conozca a fondo la propuesta contestando éste email para más información. jimmy(a)tld.net j_lomba(a)yahoo.com http://www.geocities.com/vinci2020/jimmy.htm#F ********************************************************************** Su dirección fue obtenida de un sitio público y nuestra intención es informarle nuestra propuesta, le pedimos disculpas si no resultase de su interés. A todos los efectos nos adherimos a las consideraciones establecidas para el United States Federal Requeriments for Commercial E-mail Bill, Section 301.Este mail se envía por única vez. En caso de recibirlo nuevamente será por un error y si eso ocurriera, le pido por favor me lo retorne pidiéndome que lo remueva. Sus datos no forman parte de banco de datos alguno en mi poder.- Atte. JAIME.

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CDR: House scheduled to vote Tuesday on sex-wiretapping bill
by Declan McCullagh 03 Oct '00

03 Oct '00

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d106:h.r.03484: SEC. 2. AUTHORIZATION OF INTERCEPTION OF COMMUNICATIONS IN THE INVESTIGATION OF SEXUAL CRIMES AGAINST CHILDREN. (a) CHILD PORNOGRAPHY- Section 2516(1)(c) of title 18, United States Code, is amended by inserting `section 2252A (relating to material constituting or containing child pornography),' after `2252 (sexual exploitation of children),'. (b) COERCION AND ENTICEMENT TO ENGAGE IN PROSTITUTION OR OTHER ILLEGAL SEXUAL ACTIVITY- Section 2516(1)(c) of title 18, United States Code, is amended by inserting `section 2422 (relating to coercion and enticement),' after `section 2321 (relating to trafficking in certain motor vehicles or motor vehicle parts),'. (c) TRANSPORTATION OF MINORS TO ENGAGE IN PROSTITUTION OR OTHER ILLEGAL SEXUAL ACTIVITY- Section 2516(1)(c) of title 18, United States Code, is amended by inserting after the matter added to that section by subsection (b) of this section the following: `section 2423 (relating to transportation of minors)'.

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CDR: US crypto on classified info
by Steve Furlong 02 Oct '00

02 Oct '00

John Young wrote: > > The AES Q&A notes that the technology will be used > to protect non-classified government material. What > cryptosystems are used to protect classified information > -- that is, either with hardware implementation or with > software only? Or are these methods themselves > classified? Yep, for the higher-classified material, anyway. And having said that, I'm going to have to weasel out. I don't remember what I can talk about and what's classified. Sorry for my bad memory. Ta, SRF, former Captain, MI, US Army -- Steve Furlong, Computer Condottiere Have GNU, will travel 518-374-4720 sfurlong(a)acmenet.net

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CDR: Rumkowski and the Lodz ghetto
by billp＠nmol.com 02 Oct '00

02 Oct '00

Interesting history http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Congress/8327/ http://members.tripod.com/bill_3_2/ http://www.nmol.com/users/billp/ We must be careful. Keep up-wind

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CDR: Down with techno-egalitarinism, from a reluctant cpunk
by Declan McCullagh 02 Oct '00

02 Oct '00

I spoke Thurs night at the University of Virginia (http://www.politechbot.com/p-01393.html) I talked a lot about cypherpunkly topics (added some stuff that I haven't seen here, and plan to turn into an article) and even gave the how-to-join address of the cpunx list. Below is a response from one of the students, forwarded here with permission. -Declan ****** >From: "Christopher Fazekas" <chrisfazekas(a)prodigy.net> >To: <declan(a)well.com> >Subject: Your speech last night. >Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 14:23:41 -0400 > >Dear Mr. McCullagh: > > I thank you for a wonderful presentation last evening. It is rare > that I am presented with a political subject that grabs my attention. > Though I participate actively in political forum, until your speech last > evening, it had begun to feel as though I was "going through the motions" > so to speak with the boring, redundant ideological pissing matches that > characterize University discussion. Thank you for the new subject matter > to tackle. > > However, what makes this topic interesting, bothers me as well. I was > the individual who asked the "prepayment" question concerning > intellectual property and proper remuneration thereof. Fantastic new > economic models would be forced to be created to describe this "market > response" to the dissolution of intellectual property rights. So, I will > not venture an opinion on such subject. Yet, I think it is important to > mention that there is a fine line between anarchism and libertarianism. > At least I find there to be one. Hence, when we talk about the overthrow > of the nation state, it sets off quite a few bells. I do not believe > judicial systems should be cast to the wayside in favor of > techno-egalitarianism, and I feel that the dissolution of intellectual > property would sincerely stress current social institutions which I do > not believe need to be overthrown, but strengthened as government power > is retracted. However, a case could be made that the two are intricately > connected to one another. > > I realize all this is speculation. So, I will leave it at that. > Suffice to say I'm not sure the world is intellectually or socially > prepared for anarchy, though I believe it to be our saving end. Once > again, thank you for a wonderful discussion and keep in touch. > > Please keep me in your list of contacts. As I will be entering law > school next fall, I hope to devote a great portion of my career to the > preservation of liberty, and make way for this great anonymous freedom. > >Sincerely, > >Christopher Fazekas >Chairman >Classical Liberal Roundtable at the University >2432 C-4 Arlington Blvd. >Charlottesville, Virginia 22903

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CDR: CDF releases "data" on "child" gun deaths.
by Anonymous 02 Oct '00

02 Oct '00

In conjunction with First Monday's "Unite to End Gun Violence" campaign, the Children's Defense Fund (motto: Defend Children, Not Guns) released a report today on "Children and Guns." http://www.childrensdefense.org/youthviolence/Gun-report-2000.htm Readers will be unsurprised and unimpressed by the CDF's usual tactics, including definition of 19-yr-old gang bangers as "children." ObCrypto: Children should have widespread access to *all* munitions... not just naughty handguns.

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CDR: would it be so much to ask..
by Asymmetric 02 Oct '00

02 Oct '00

That the list be changed so that unregistered email addresses cannot send messages to it? This spam is getting ridiculous. -------signature file------- PGP Key Fingerprint: 446B 7718 B219 9F1E 43DD 8E4A 6BE9 D739 CCC5 7FD7 "I don't think [Linux] will be very successful in the long run." "My experience and some of my friends' experience is that Linux is quite unreliable. Microsoft is really unreliable but Linux is worse." -Ken Thompson, Interview May 1999. http://www.freebsd.org FreeBSD - The Power to Serve http://www.rfnj.org Radio Free New Jersey - 395 streams - 96kbps @ 44.1khz

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CDR: Lucky People Center is Out There.
by lucky＠article27.com 02 Oct '00

02 Oct '00

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Rijndael is GREEN
by Ian Grigg 02 Oct '00

02 Oct '00

For Release 11.00 EDT Monday 2nd October 2000 Rijndael is GREEN NIST chooses Rijndael as the Advanced Encryption Standard Announced today in Washington, DC, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has chosen Rijndael as the Advanced Encryption Algorithm for the 21st century. Rijndael -- pronounced Rhine-Dahl -- is the creation of two Belgian cryptographers, Joan Daemen and Vincent Rijmen. The Cryptix Development Team congratulates Vincent and Joan on their extraordinary achievement and announces the immediate release of the Cryptix JCE and Cryptix 3.2, both enabled with AES as Rijndael. International Cryptoplumbing An international team of open source crypto volunteers from The Cryptix Development Team supported the cryptographers participating in the NIST contest, efforts that were recognised with the award of a Certificate Of Appreciation from the United States Department Of Commerce. Raif S. Naffah, from Australia, led the Cryptix AES Support Project which provided the Java code and tools for most finalists, including Rijndael, for submission to NIST. Paulo Barreto, Brazilian mathematician and programmer, provided coding support for optimising Rijndael implementations; he has been coding and reviewing algorithms for the Belgian team for many years, including the predecessor to Rijndael, the Square cipher. Free Crypto Under the terms of the NIST contest, Rijndael is free and unencumbered for all purposes and all peoples. Cryptix developers have agreed to match this condition, and hereby place their Rijndael code in the public domain. Normally, all Cryptix code is free for all purposes, but requires acknowledgement of The Cryptix Foundation as owners under an extremely liberal "BSD licence." Even this condition is now dropped for the Rijndael code, so that all commercial providers of Java cryptography, including Sun, Baltimore, RSA Labs, and IAIK, may quickly offer their customers the best code. No Arms Race Need Apply Cryptography has long been treated as a munition by the US government. Today's decision marks the end of an era stretching back to the days of Enigma and Magic intercepts. The new algorithm and the accompanying code base is absolutely unimpaired by political or commercial limitations. As a science, cryptography is the special domain of mathematicians; formulas flow across borders as fast as emails. As an idea, the Rijndael cipher can be written out in 10 or so pages of paper, making it impermeable to regulations. Fuel For The Revolution As a tool, code for the new AES algorithm is less than 10,000 bytes, and thus cryptography slips into the average application with less implication on costs than the price of a new PC. As a building block, AES will help to fuel the new industrial revolution in electronic commerce. Ciphers such as Rijndael will keep valuable messages secure in the wild west of the Internet far better than the old methods of obscurity and regulation. Released by The Cryptix Foundation Limited, a Nevis corporation dedicated to the spread of strong crypto. Links: NIST announces the winner of AES as Rijndael: http://www.nist.gov/aes/ The Rijndael page of the Cryptography team, Joan Daemen and Vincent Rijmen: http://www.esat.kuleuven.ac.be/~rijmen/rijndael/ Cryptix places Rijndael code in public domain: http://www.cryptix.org/aes/ Cryptix products JCE and Cryptix 3 now released with Rijndael as AES: http://www.cryptix.org/news/02102000.html http://www.cryptix.org/products/jce/index.html http://www.cryptix.org/products/cryptix31/index.html http://www.cryptix.org/products/aes/index.html About The Rijndael Team Dr Joan Daemen is currently employed by Proton World International. Dr Vincent Rijmen is a cryptography researcher with Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium. About Cryptix Java cryptography was first provided under the label of Cryptix in 1996. The Cryptix Development Team now includes crypto- plumbers -- programmers who work with the algorithms and ciphers of cryptographers to produce code and applications -- from 8 countries and publishes the most popular Java cryptography suite. Cryptix products are generally published under the BSD licence, making them free for all purposes when used with due acknowledgement as to source. The Cryptix implementations of Rijndael, written as part of our AES support project, are now placed in the public domain so that all commercial suppliers can proceed to support the AES without having to give any acknowledgement. About National Institute of Standards and Technology The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), an agency of the U.S. Department Of Commerce, is charged by the US Congress with developing standards for industry. Many of its standards achieve world-wide acceptance, and the predecessor DES has been accepted as the de facto standard for encryption for three decades, albeit with much controversy. About the Advanced Encryption Standard In order to allay concerns of interference, NIST sponsored the open competition for the new algorithm, encouraging entries from around the world. Some 21 submissions were narrowed down to five finalists. NIST encouraged competing cryptographers and the NSA (the world's largest employer of cryptographers and mathematicians) to critique the algorithms, building up a body of review that led to today's choice of the new standard. End. --- end forwarded text -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah(a)ibuc.com> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'

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Rijndael is GREEN
by Ian Grigg 02 Oct '00

02 Oct '00

For Release 11.00 EDT Monday 2nd October 2000 Rijndael is GREEN NIST chooses Rijndael as the Advanced Encryption Standard Announced today in Washington, DC, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has chosen Rijndael as the Advanced Encryption Algorithm for the 21st century. Rijndael -- pronounced Rhine-Dahl -- is the creation of two Belgian cryptographers, Joan Daemen and Vincent Rijmen. The Cryptix Development Team congratulates Vincent and Joan on their extraordinary achievement and announces the immediate release of the Cryptix JCE and Cryptix 3.2, both enabled with AES as Rijndael. International Cryptoplumbing An international team of open source crypto volunteers from The Cryptix Development Team supported the cryptographers participating in the NIST contest, efforts that were recognised with the award of a Certificate Of Appreciation from the United States Department Of Commerce. Raif S. Naffah, from Australia, led the Cryptix AES Support Project which provided the Java code and tools for most finalists, including Rijndael, for submission to NIST. Paulo Barreto, Brazilian mathematician and programmer, provided coding support for optimising Rijndael implementations; he has been coding and reviewing algorithms for the Belgian team for many years, including the predecessor to Rijndael, the Square cipher. Free Crypto Under the terms of the NIST contest, Rijndael is free and unencumbered for all purposes and all peoples. Cryptix developers have agreed to match this condition, and hereby place their Rijndael code in the public domain. Normally, all Cryptix code is free for all purposes, but requires acknowledgement of The Cryptix Foundation as owners under an extremely liberal "BSD licence." Even this condition is now dropped for the Rijndael code, so that all commercial providers of Java cryptography, including Sun, Baltimore, RSA Labs, and IAIK, may quickly offer their customers the best code. No Arms Race Need Apply Cryptography has long been treated as a munition by the US government. Today's decision marks the end of an era stretching back to the days of Enigma and Magic intercepts. The new algorithm and the accompanying code base is absolutely unimpaired by political or commercial limitations. As a science, cryptography is the special domain of mathematicians; formulas flow across borders as fast as emails. As an idea, the Rijndael cipher can be written out in 10 or so pages of paper, making it impermeable to regulations. Fuel For The Revolution As a tool, code for the new AES algorithm is less than 10,000 bytes, and thus cryptography slips into the average application with less implication on costs than the price of a new PC. As a building block, AES will help to fuel the new industrial revolution in electronic commerce. Ciphers such as Rijndael will keep valuable messages secure in the wild west of the Internet far better than the old methods of obscurity and regulation. Released by The Cryptix Foundation Limited, a Nevis corporation dedicated to the spread of strong crypto. Links: NIST announces the winner of AES as Rijndael: http://www.nist.gov/aes/ The Rijndael page of the Cryptography team, Joan Daemen and Vincent Rijmen: http://www.esat.kuleuven.ac.be/~rijmen/rijndael/ Cryptix places Rijndael code in public domain: http://www.cryptix.org/aes/ Cryptix products JCE and Cryptix 3 now released with Rijndael as AES: http://www.cryptix.org/news/02102000.html http://www.cryptix.org/products/jce/index.html http://www.cryptix.org/products/cryptix31/index.html http://www.cryptix.org/products/aes/index.html About The Rijndael Team Dr Joan Daemen is currently employed by Proton World International. Dr Vincent Rijmen is a cryptography researcher with Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium. About Cryptix Java cryptography was first provided under the label of Cryptix in 1996. The Cryptix Development Team now includes crypto- plumbers -- programmers who work with the algorithms and ciphers of cryptographers to produce code and applications -- from 8 countries and publishes the most popular Java cryptography suite. Cryptix products are generally published under the BSD licence, making them free for all purposes when used with due acknowledgement as to source. The Cryptix implementations of Rijndael, written as part of our AES support project, are now placed in the public domain so that all commercial suppliers can proceed to support the AES without having to give any acknowledgement. About National Institute of Standards and Technology The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), an agency of the U.S. Department Of Commerce, is charged by the US Congress with developing standards for industry. Many of its standards achieve world-wide acceptance, and the predecessor DES has been accepted as the de facto standard for encryption for three decades, albeit with much controversy. About the Advanced Encryption Standard In order to allay concerns of interference, NIST sponsored the open competition for the new algorithm, encouraging entries from around the world. Some 21 submissions were narrowed down to five finalists. NIST encouraged competing cryptographers and the NSA (the world's largest employer of cryptographers and mathematicians) to critique the algorithms, building up a body of review that led to today's choice of the new standard. End. --- end forwarded text -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah(a)ibuc.com> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'

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CDR: Re: Lon Horiuchi freed
by Greg Broiles 02 Oct '00

02 Oct '00

On Thu, Jun 15, 2000 at 08:39:44AM -0700, Marshall Clow wrote: > Real-To: Marshall Clow <mclow(a)owl.csusm.edu> > > SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- The FBI agent who killed the wife of white separatist Randy > Weaver during the Ruby Ridge standoff is immune from state prosecution in Idaho, a > federal appeals court ruled Wednesday. On September 29, the 9th Circuit voted to review this case en banc; Horiuchi's not done yet. -- Greg Broiles gbroiles(a)netbox.com PO Box 897 Oakland CA 94604

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CDR: HOME MADE BOMBS
by Texasman8012＠aol.com 02 Oct '00

02 Oct '00

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CDR: RE: Fw: Others are protecting freedom of speech too.
by Trei, Peter 02 Oct '00

02 Oct '00

The article is in this month or last month's Sci Am. Peter Trei > ---------- > From: Bill Stewart[SMTP:bill.stewart@pobox.com] > Reply To: Bill Stewart > Sent: Friday, September 29, 2000 11:41 PM > To: Multiple recipients of list > Subject: Re: Fw: Others are protecting freedom of speech too. > > Marcel - did the original posting to the mh_mirror or freenet-chat > lists indicate where the article was from? If you removed it, > could you send me the originals? > It looks newspaperish, but doesn't indicate (AP) or (NYTimes) or whatever. > If it's a newspaper that takes replying letters to the editor, > or at least to the author, it deserves a reply. > > The reason I ran a remailer was that it > we can prevent violent people from telling others what they > can and can't say, whether those violent people are > spouse-beating individuals or citizen-beating governments, > and any one person in the world can stand up to all of them. > That doesn't mean it won't be abused (of course it will, > and I eventually took mine down because of abuse, > as most remailer-operators have), but we don't have to put up > with violence any more. > > At 12:30 PM 9/26/00 -0400, Marcel Popescu wrote: > ><<But "there are much more direct ways to protect whistle-blowers, using > >laws instead of technology," says Joan E. Bertin, executive director of > the > >National Coalition Against Censorship.>> > > Yes, and if they worked, there wouldn't be a need for a > National Coalition Against Censorship :-) > > > >ROTFL... > > > >----- Original Message ----- > >X-Loop: openpgp.net > >From: "mh mirror" <mh_mirror(a)hotmail.com> > >To: <freenet-chat(a)lists.sourceforge.net> > >Sent: Monday, September 25, 2000 2:52 PM > >Subject: [Freenet-chat] Others are protecting freedom of speech too. > > > > > >........ > > INTERNET_ANONYMITY > > > > Speech without Accountability > > > > New software makes it nearly impossible to > > remove illegal material from the Web--or to find out who > put > >it there > > > > SAN FRANCISCO--In the centuries-long struggle to decide what > people > >may say without > > fear of prosecution, almost all the big decisions have been made > by > >constitution writers, > > judges and politicians. When things work properly, these players > ...... > > But is it an appropriate response for a small number of computer > >scientists to create software that subverts the efforts of governments > > who must answer to citizens, and of companies, who must answer > > to both governments and customers? > > ...... > > > > --W. Wayt Gibbs > > > Thanks! > Bill > Bill Stewart, bill.stewart(a)pobox.com > PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639 > >

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Fwd: AES winner webcast 4pm today
by Fearghas McKay 02 Oct '00

02 Oct '00

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Fwd: AES winner webcast 4pm today
by Fearghas McKay 02 Oct '00

02 Oct '00

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CDR: First, Mexico's future lies with free, "open source" software like the operating system Linux, and Gnome
by Matthew Gaylor 02 Oct '00

02 Oct '00

[Sent with permission-MG] DIGITAL NATION Mexico Has Resources for High-Tech Success By Gary Chapman Copyright 2000, The Los Angeles Times, All Rights Reserved An open letter to Mexican President-elect Vicente Fox: Congratulations on your historic victory in the presidential election. About 100 million Mexicans and others who love Mexico are eager for change in your country, and they have high hopes when your new administration takes office in December. But clearly, one issue of great importance is how to bring Mexico into the "new economy" of the Internet, high tech and global commerce. Mexico has many resources in technology to exploit, but they have been obstructed by weak or bad government policies. You can change this. Let me offer you some suggestions on how you might start. First, Mexico's future lies with free, "open source" software like the operating system Linux, and Gnome, another open-source effort to build a Windows-like screen. Gnome itself was developed by a young Mexican programmer, Miguel de Icaza, who is 27 years old. This summer, De Icaza started the Gnome Foundation (http://www.gnome.org) to unify and stabilize the Linux desktop software, and he acquired the support of IBM, Sun Microsystems, Hewlett-Packard and Compaq, among other major U.S. companies. He is a hero to young programmers around the world, and he should be a hero to all Mexicans. You should meet with Miguel de Icaza and get to know him and young people like him. They are the best hope for Mexico. Obviously, the biggest benefit of free software to Mexico is that it's literally free, and Mexico is a poor country that needs to preserve its capital. Mexico has a new law on software piracy, for example, and your government will need to enforce this law for Mexico to be regarded as a trusted partner in high-tech trade. But if you do enforce the software piracy law effectively, it will result in a massive transfer of pesos to the United States, and principally to Microsoft, the largest victim of software piracy in Mexico. Alternatively, you could promote the use of free software such as Linux, Gnome and application packages such as Sun Microsystems' StarOffice suite, which are all free. No pesos would leave Mexico and you would get all of the functionality of modern software. Indeed, you'd become part of a trend that is sweeping the computing field in the U.S. IBM, Dell, Hewlett-Packard and Compaq are all offering Linux on computers now. IBM is essentially a Linux company these days, an astonishing transformation. Mexico would not lose anything by adopting free software, indeed, it would move to the cutting edge of technology. Your government should also think about creating an elite but grassroots-oriented corps of young free-software evangelists, programmers, hackers and systems developers who could build on the culture and spirit of the embryonic free-software movement. Give them an identity with special shirts or jackets and specially painted pickup trucks to go out to villages and towns, and elevate them to hero status in Mexico. They should have an esprit de corps that reflects both their enthusiasm for their work and their patriotism. Send them around the world to technical and trade conferences and make them stand out -- make them the young, technically skilled enthusiasts everyone wants to work with. Joakim Ziegler is one of these wizard-like programmers. He's Norwegian, but he lives in Mexico City because he loves it there. He works for Helix Code, the company started by Miguel de Icaza. Ziegler is also in his twenties. He told me, "A change as radical as the internal use of free software" -- meaning use by the government itself -- "would be an indication of real change." The Federal Election Commission in Mexico used free software to run this year's election, but other government agencies have yet to grasp its benefits. Ziegler also said, "Small companies run by enthusiastic young people don't have a lot of status in Mexico right now." Too many of Mexico's young entrepreneurs have moved to the U.S. to start companies. In Mexico, there's too much government red tape, credit is too expensive and there is a culture of "not what you do, but who you know," all of which are obstacles to building the kind of entrepreneurial spirit Mexico needs. You should make Mexico a place that is as easy to start a business in as it is in California or Texas. Mexico also needs a better telecommunications infrastructure. Telmex, the recently privatized national phone company, and its competitors, such as Avantel, are slowly building up their capabilities. But they will not soon reach the vast numbers of Mexicans who live in underserved and poor areas. So you should pay attention to a San Diego company called Tachyon Inc.(http://www.tachyon.net), which is doing business in Mexico. Tachyon has a contract for using SatMex 5, the powerful Mexican satellite that covers all of Mexico. Tachyon is offering inexpensive two-way Internet service via satellite, and it can serve every town and village in Mexico right now. The company's vice president, Santiago Ontañon, who is 33 and from Mexico City, told me that its price for broadband Internet connectivity for a typical Mexican school with five to 10 computers is only about $300 to $400 per month. This is thousands of dollars less than what Telmex can offer, and it can happen tomorrow, not in some indefinite future. Incidentally, the ground equipment Tachyon provides its customers runs on Linux. With the combination of free software and inexpensive Internet connectivity, as well as building on Mexico's Red Escolar (SchoolNet) program for wiring Mexican schools, the country could become the world's leading example of affordable high-tech infrastructure for the rest of the world's developing nations. Moreover, the philosophy behind free, open-source software fits well with your important ideas about a new "open society" in Mexico. There will be strong pressures, both internally and externally, for Mexico to adopt a conventional model of development, dependent on big corporate players and mega-deals. But you have the opportunity to foster something different and far more interesting. Throw your power, prestige and vision to your young people, to your entrepreneurs and innovators and to the practical idealists of the free software movement. This will pay off in the long run, and it could dramatically transform Mexico Gary Chapman is director of the 21st Century Project at the University of Texas at Austin. He can be reached at gary.chapman(a)mail.utexas.edu. ------------------------------------------ ************************************************************************** Subscribe to Freematt's Alerts: Pro-Individual Rights Issues Send a blank message to: freematt(a)coil.com with the words subscribe FA on the subject line. List is private and moderated (7-30 messages per month) Matthew Gaylor,1933 E. Dublin-Granville Rd., PMB 176, Columbus, OH 43229 (614) 313-5722 Archived at http://www.egroups.com/list/fa/ **************************************************************************

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Re: RE: AES winner to be announced Monday.
by paulo.barreto＠terra.com.br 02 Oct '00

02 Oct '00

You are right, I'm sorry. Anyway, it's no longer necessary to ask the AES finalist teams (all of which seem to have been offline for the last few days) about NIST's announcement. Sorry again, and best wishes, Paulo. > Careful on attributions. I did not say this - I quoted a usenet > posting which included this line. No harm done. > > Peter Trei > > > ---------- > > From: Paulo S. L. M. Barreto[SMTP:paulo.barreto@terra.com.br] > > Sent: Friday, September 29, 2000 6:27 PM > > To: Trei, Peter; 'cypherpunks(a)openpgp.net'; 'cryptography(a)c2.net'; > > 'coderpunks(a)toad.com' > > Subject: Re: AES winner to be announced Monday. > > > > On Fri, 29 Sep 2000, Trei, Peter wrote: > > > > > They (explicitly) won't say yet how many algorithms > > > have been chosen as the AES. > > > > So NIST will be silent for three more days. How about the finalist > > submitters? > > Did *they* tell anything? I'll bet NIST has contacted (or will contact) > > them regarding the forthcoming announcement. And the e-mail address > > <ptrei(a)rsasecurity.com> means that at least the RC6 team is easily > > accessible, > > isn't it? > > > > Paulo Barreto. > >

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RE: AES winner to be announced Monday.
by Trei, Peter 02 Oct '00

02 Oct '00

Careful on attributions. I did not say this - I quoted a usenet posting which included this line. No harm done. Peter Trei > ---------- > From: Paulo S. L. M. Barreto[SMTP:paulo.barreto@terra.com.br] > Sent: Friday, September 29, 2000 6:27 PM > To: Trei, Peter; 'cypherpunks(a)openpgp.net'; 'cryptography(a)c2.net'; > 'coderpunks(a)toad.com' > Subject: Re: AES winner to be announced Monday. > > On Fri, 29 Sep 2000, Trei, Peter wrote: > > > They (explicitly) won't say yet how many algorithms > > have been chosen as the AES. > > So NIST will be silent for three more days. How about the finalist > submitters? > Did *they* tell anything? I'll bet NIST has contacted (or will contact) > them regarding the forthcoming announcement. And the e-mail address > <ptrei(a)rsasecurity.com> means that at least the RC6 team is easily > accessible, > isn't it? > > Paulo Barreto. >

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CDR: Rijndael is GREEN
by R. A. Hettinga 02 Oct '00

02 Oct '00

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CDR: Re: Fwd: AES winner webcast 4pm today
by Roy Silvernail 02 Oct '00

02 Oct '00

Rijndael. http://csrc.nist.gov/encryption/aes/ -----Original Message----- From: R. A. Hettinga <rah(a)shipwright.com> Subject: CDR: Fwd: AES winner webcast 4pm today >Strangely enough, http://real.nist.gov/ is, of course, choked. :-). > >Anyone heard yet who the winner is? _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

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CDR: Uma Maça chamada APPLE
by apoio＠giganetstore.com 02 Oct '00

02 Oct '00

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CDR: Fwd: AES winner webcast 4pm today
by R. A. Hettinga 02 Oct '00

02 Oct '00

Strangely enough, http://real.nist.gov/ is, of course, choked. :-). Anyone heard yet who the winner is? Cheers, RAH --- begin forwarded text

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CDR: PhotoPoint Password Reminder
by support＠photopoint.com 02 Oct '00

02 Oct '00

As requested, here's a reminder of your PhotoPoint password: Username: cypherpunks(a)toad.com Password: cypherpunks If you want to change your password, just go to "User Preferences" once you've logged in. Any time you forget your password, you can request it from the PhotoPoint Login page and it will be emailed to you again. If you need any other support, just go to our member "Help" section at http://www.photopoint.com/help/index.html. Thank you for your participation in PhotoPoint, the World's Favorite Place to Share Photos Online. And remember, membership in PhotoPoint is free, so send our URL http://www.photopoint.com to your family and friends and encourage them to sign up.

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CDR: Supremes defer Sony vs. Fair Use soft emulator
by David Honig 02 Oct '00

02 Oct '00

Oct 2, 2000 - 10:31 AM Supreme Court Sidesteps PlayStation Dispute By Laurie Asseo Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court stayed out of a dispute between Sony and another company whose software allows people to run Sony PlayStation games on personal computers. The court, without comment Monday, let Connectix continue selling its Virtual Game Station until a lower court rules on Sony's claim of unfair competition. Sony has sold 50 million PlayStations - small computers with hand controls - that plug into a television set and allow consumers to play games inserted into the computer on a compact disc. The PlayStation's software program is protected by copyright. In January 1999, Connectix of San Mateo, Calif., began selling the Virtual Game Station, which allows people to run PlayStation games on their own personal computers. The Virtual Game Station software does not contain any of Sony's copyright material. But in developing it, Connectix used the PlayStation's software program by extracting its code from a chip and copying it repeatedly on its own computer to see how it worked. Sony filed a copyright-infringement lawsuit, and a federal judge in San Francisco halted sales of the Virtual Game Station in April 1999 pending a ruling. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals lifted that order last February, saying Connectix's action amounted to a "fair use" of Sony's software. The court said Connectix was a "legitimate competitor" in creating computer platforms on which Sony games can be played, adding that copyright law does not allow Sony to monopolize that market. In the appeal acted on Monday, Sony's lawyers said the ruling erodes copyright protection for computer programs. Connectix's actions were "pure free-riding, using the protected work to develop a substitute far more quickly and inexpensively than the original," Sony's lawyers said. Sony invested three years and $500 million to develop the PlayStation, its lawyers said, while Connectix took six months and $150,000 to create its product. Connectix's lawyers said the company created "an entirely new environment" for playing PlayStation games. A 1998 federal law boosting copyright protections for the computer industry endorsed the process used by Connectix, the lawyers said. In May, a federal judge in San Francisco threw out seven of Sony's nine allegations against Connectix in the copyright case, allowing Sony to pursue claims of violating trade secrets and unfair competition. The case is Sony Computer Entertainment v. Connectix, 00-11. http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGAEWJW8UDC.html "The electron, in my judgment, is the ultimate precision-guided munition." -John Deutsch, CIA Director

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CDR: thought police
by David Honig 02 Oct '00

02 Oct '00

Oct 2, 2000 - 10:40 AM Court Allows Suspension of Student for Drawing Pictures of Confederate Flag The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - A Kansas youth suspended from school for three days after he drew a picture of a Confederate flag lost a Supreme Court appeal Monday. The court, without comment, turned away arguments that the suspension violated the youth's freedom of speech and other constitutionally protected rights. T.J. West was a seventh-grader at Derby Middle School in Sedgwick, Kan., when in spring 1998 he made a 4-by-6 inch sketch of the Confederate flag during a math class. West later told his assistant principal a friend had urged him to draw the flag, and that he knew what it was but not what it meant. West also knew drawing the flag violated a "racial harassment and intimidation" policy the school district had adopted after incidents of racial tension in 1995. The policy banned, among other things, students from possessing "any written material, either printed or in their own handwriting, that is racially divisive or creates ill will or hatred." Confederate flags were specifically listed as such material. During the racial tensions at Derby High School and the middle school in 1995, at least one fight had broken out as a result of a student wearing a Confederate flag headband. During that time, the Aryan Nation held a recruiting drive directly across the street from Derby High School and the Ku Klux Klan distributed literature to students near the high school. West and his father challenged the boy's suspension from school, but a federal trial judge and the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled for the school district. The appeals court, in its ruling last March, noted that West had been suspended earlier that school year for calling another student "blackie" and had been reminded at that time about the harassment and intimidation policy. The case is West v. Derby Unified School District No. 260, 99-2039. http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGAX5X89UDC.html "The electron, in my judgment, is the ultimate precision-guided munition." -John Deutsch, CIA Director

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