October 2000 - cypherpunks-legacy

CDR: RE: why should it be trusted? TYPO!!
by Trei, Peter 25 Oct '00

25 Oct '00

I wrote: [...] > The solution to this problem is not to propose different ways to > slice up the too-small pie - it's to expand the pie. The greater the > wealth, the more people who can afford good care. People who are > responsible for their own welfare (and enslaved to the welfare of > ^NOT! > others) have the best chance of acheiving wealth. > > Peter Trei > > > > > > >

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CDR: jhkhb
by ahmed moha 25 Oct '00

25 Oct '00

fucing woman

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Re: CDR: Re: Illicit words
by brflgnk＠cotse.com 25 Oct '00

25 Oct '00

Re: the Echelon bait list. I get most of them, but what is provocative about "POM PARK ON METER"? Google and AltaVista only seem to turn up pages that quote the list.

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CDR: voteauction moves offshore
by anonymous＠openpgp.net 25 Oct '00

25 Oct '00

Will the Austrians treat the US injunction like Cryptome treats letters from HRH? Monday October 23 07:00 PM EDT Vote auction site attempts to skirt shutdown order By Patricia Jacobus, CNET News.com A rogue Web site purporting to sell votes for the upcoming U.S. presidential election is back in operation after being shut down last week under a federal court order. The Web site, formerly Voteauction.com, reappeared on the Net over the weekend under a new address run from outside the United States and beyond the easy reach of election officials. "The Web site may have started as a parody, but we dont think its a joke," said Thomas Leach, spokesman for the Chicago Board of Elections, which last Wednesday won an injunction ordering the site taken down. "Its encouraging U.S. citizens to break the law." The idea for the site, now Vote-auction.com, is to capitalize on undecided voters who planned on sitting out the November presidential election. Uncommitted voters can sell their votes to the Web site. The votes are then auctioned to the highest bidder, who decides which presidential candidate gets them. About 1,131 Illinois voters have participated in this questionable practice, according to the Web site. In California, 2,546 voters have so far taken part in the auction. Selling votes carries a maximum three-year federal prison term. It is unclear whether the votes being auctioned are legitimate. But with the balance of the presidential election hanging on a thin margin, the authorities arent taking any chances. "Could it affect the outcome of the elections? Yes," Leach said. "Should it? No." Created by James Baumgartner, a graduate student in New York, and later sold to a group of investors in Austria, the Web site has U.S. election officials up in arms. Authorities in New York, Illinois and California moved to shut down the site, with Chicagos election commission winning an injunction last week against Baumgartner, Austrian entrepreneur Hans Bernhard and three others, as well as Domain Bank, the registrar that provided the Internet address. As part of the court order, the judge specifically said Voteauction.com could not appear on the Net under a different name. After the order, Bernhard found a foreign registrar that issued a new, but slightly changed, Web address. Bernhard could not immediately be reached for comment, but information on his site declares that bidding on votes "works for, not against democracy." It also says he had huge reader support to keep the site in operation. Leach said the Chicago election commission has asked for help from the Austrian Embassy in Washington, D.C., to permanently shut down Bernhards business. The court injunction has also been delivered to the Ministry of Austria. "Theyre in defiance of a legitimate court order and in contempt of the American judicial system," Leach said of Bernhard and the others involved in Vote-auction.com.

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CDR: RE: Wired News tech scorecard for U.S. House of Representatives
by Lucky Green 25 Oct '00

25 Oct '00

> -----Original Message----- > From: cypherpunks(a)openpgp.net [mailto:cypherpunks@openpgp.net]On Behalf > Of Ray Dillinger > Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2000 17:06 > To: Multiple recipients of list > Subject: RE: Wired News tech scorecard for U.S. House of Representatives > I think that filtering software is an interesting case. > > While most of us would not use filtering software, I honestly think > that it's important to freedom. > > If nobody comes up with some filterware that works, then there will > probably be continuing pressure to regulate content. Hogwash. "We must censor ourselves (a little, for now at least) or the government will censor us (harshly)". Get in the game, --Lucky Green <shamrock(a)cypherpunks.to> "Anytime you decrypt... its against the law". Jack Valenti, President, Motion Picture Association of America in a sworn deposition, 2000-06-06

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CDR: RE: why should it be trusted?
by Lucky Green 25 Oct '00

25 Oct '00

Nathan Saper wrote: > I think the government has a right to do whatever it needs to do > to maintain > the health and well-being of its population. That is the purpose of > the government. What is going on? Where are all these communists and fascists coming from that are populating our list nowadays? Why don't they crawl back under whatever rock they used to be? You are forgetting that government has some clear defined duties in this country. The duties are spelled out in the paragraph below: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed". No, meeting one of the requirements (life) at the expense of the others does not count. --Lucky Green <shamrock(a)cypherpunks.to> "Anytime you decrypt... its against the law". Jack Valenti, President, Motion Picture Association of America in a sworn deposition, 2000-06-06

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CDR: Hi There!
by ericzmiz＠bigfoot.com 25 Oct '00

25 Oct '00

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DCSB: Ramzan and Van Someren; Minting Millidollars for Streaming Cash
by R. A. Hettinga 24 Oct '00

24 Oct '00

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- [Note that the Harvard Club is now "business casual". No more jackets and ties... --RAH] The Digital Commerce Society of Boston Presents Zulfikar Ramzan, Financial Cryptographer, MIT Laboratory for Computer Science and Dr. Nicko Van Someren, Financial Cryptographer, Chief Technology Officer, nCipher PLC, "Aspen" vs. "Hancock": Minting Millidollars for Streaming Cash Tuesday, November 7th, 2000 12 - 2 PM The Downtown Harvard Club of Boston One Federal Street, Boston, MA Zulfikar Ramzan is currently a PhD student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he works with the Cryptography and Information Security research group. At MIT, he works under the supervision of Professor Ronald Rivest, co-inventor of the RSA public-key cryptosystem and the Micromint micropayment protocol. He has authored a number of publications in the field of cryptography and has presented his research at various conferences in his field [including the International Conference on Financial Cryptography --RAH]. He holds a number of patents in data security, and some of his work is being considered for use in several national and international standards in the wireless communications industry. Mr. Ramzan has worked in cryptographic algorithm and protocol design with the Wireless Secure Communications group at Lucent Technologies. Upon graduation, Mr. Ramzan will join Lucira Technologies. Dr Nicko van Someren co-founded nCipher in 1996. As Chief Technology Officer Nicko leads nCipher's research team and directs the technical development of nCipher products. From 1993 to 1996, Nicko was Technical Director and co-founder of ANT Limited, where he developed hardware products and application software. Before that, he was employed as a Researcher by Xerox EuroPARC and as a Software Engineer by Atari Research and Perihelion Software Limited. Nicko has almost 20 years' experience in cryptography, software and hardware product development, and holds a Doctorate and First Class degree in Computer Science from Trinity College, Cambridge, UK. Zully Ramzan will talk about the proposed design of Aspen: a practical Micromint implementation for IBUC, the Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation. In addition to going over the basic underlying protocols, he will discuss the various design and parameter choices. He will also examine the practical ramifications of these decisions. Thereafter he will discuss potential modifications and extensions that may be of use for future implementations of Aspen. The ideas he will present are based on discussions with Ron Rivest and Adi Shamir, the two co-inventors of Micromint. Nicko van Someren will then talk about the practical problems surrounding the implementation of a MicroMint. He will consider the engineering issues along with the economic issues and look at how the nature of MicroMint mandates various unhelpful deployment issues. He will also consider alternatives to MicroMint which aim to solve these issues. [Including a signature-based solution IBUC is calling, for lack of a better moniker, "Hancock", which would be about 100 times cheaper to prototype, much less get to market, and streaming cash on the wire in 3-6 months. :-) --RAH] Want to know what IBUC's going to do *now*? Come to the November DCSB meeting and find out. Appropriately enough, this meeting of the Digital Commerce Society of Boston will be held on Election Day, Tuesday, November 7th, 2000, from 12pm - 2pm at the Downtown Branch of the Harvard Club of Boston, on One Federal Street. The price for lunch is $35.00. This price includes lunch, room rental, A/V hardware if necessary, and the speakers' lunch. The Harvard Club has relaxed its dress code, which is now "business casual", meaning no sneakers or jeans. Fair warning: since we purchase these luncheons in advance, we will be unable to refund the price of your meal if the Club finds you in violation of what's left of its dress code. We need to receive a company check, or money order, (or, if we *really* know you, a personal check) payable to "The Harvard Club of Boston", by Saturday, November 4th, or you won't be on the list for lunch. Checks payable to anyone else but The Harvard Club of Boston will have to be sent back. Checks should be sent to Robert Hettinga, 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, Massachusetts, 02131. Again, they *must* be made payable to "The Harvard Club of Boston", in the amount of $35.00. Please include your e-mail address so that we can send you a confirmation If anyone has questions, or has a problem with these arrangements (We've had to work with glacial A/P departments more than once, for instance), please let us know via e-mail, and we'll see if we can work something out. Upcoming speakers for DCSB are: December TBA TBD Ted Byfield Decentralized DNS Control TBD Scott Moskowitz Watermarking and Bluespike As you can see, :-), we are actively searching for future speakers. If you are in Boston on the first Tuesday of the month, are a principal in digital commerce, and would like to make a presentation to the Society, please send e-mail to the DCSB Program Committee, care of Robert Hettinga, <mailto: rah(a)shipwright.com>. For more information about the Digital Commerce Society of Boston, send "info dcsb" in the body of a message to <mailto: majordomo(a)reservoir.com>

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DCSB: Ramzan and Van Someren; Minting Millidollars for Streaming Cash
by R. A. Hettinga 24 Oct '00

24 Oct '00

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- [Note that the Harvard Club is now "business casual". No more jackets and ties... --RAH] The Digital Commerce Society of Boston Presents Zulfikar Ramzan, Financial Cryptographer, MIT Laboratory for Computer Science and Dr. Nicko Van Someren, Financial Cryptographer, Chief Technology Officer, nCipher PLC, "Aspen" vs. "Hancock": Minting Millidollars for Streaming Cash Tuesday, November 7th, 2000 12 - 2 PM The Downtown Harvard Club of Boston One Federal Street, Boston, MA Zulfikar Ramzan is currently a PhD student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he works with the Cryptography and Information Security research group. At MIT, he works under the supervision of Professor Ronald Rivest, co-inventor of the RSA public-key cryptosystem and the Micromint micropayment protocol. He has authored a number of publications in the field of cryptography and has presented his research at various conferences in his field [including the International Conference on Financial Cryptography --RAH]. He holds a number of patents in data security, and some of his work is being considered for use in several national and international standards in the wireless communications industry. Mr. Ramzan has worked in cryptographic algorithm and protocol design with the Wireless Secure Communications group at Lucent Technologies. Upon graduation, Mr. Ramzan will join Lucira Technologies. Dr Nicko van Someren co-founded nCipher in 1996. As Chief Technology Officer Nicko leads nCipher's research team and directs the technical development of nCipher products. From 1993 to 1996, Nicko was Technical Director and co-founder of ANT Limited, where he developed hardware products and application software. Before that, he was employed as a Researcher by Xerox EuroPARC and as a Software Engineer by Atari Research and Perihelion Software Limited. Nicko has almost 20 years' experience in cryptography, software and hardware product development, and holds a Doctorate and First Class degree in Computer Science from Trinity College, Cambridge, UK. Zully Ramzan will talk about the proposed design of Aspen: a practical Micromint implementation for IBUC, the Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation. In addition to going over the basic underlying protocols, he will discuss the various design and parameter choices. He will also examine the practical ramifications of these decisions. Thereafter he will discuss potential modifications and extensions that may be of use for future implementations of Aspen. The ideas he will present are based on discussions with Ron Rivest and Adi Shamir, the two co-inventors of Micromint. Nicko van Someren will then talk about the practical problems surrounding the implementation of a MicroMint. He will consider the engineering issues along with the economic issues and look at how the nature of MicroMint mandates various unhelpful deployment issues. He will also consider alternatives to MicroMint which aim to solve these issues. [Including a signature-based solution IBUC is calling, for lack of a better moniker, "Hancock", which would be about 100 times cheaper to prototype, much less get to market, and streaming cash on the wire in 3-6 months. :-) --RAH] Want to know what IBUC's going to do *now*? Come to the November DCSB meeting and find out. Appropriately enough, this meeting of the Digital Commerce Society of Boston will be held on Election Day, Tuesday, November 7th, 2000, from 12pm - 2pm at the Downtown Branch of the Harvard Club of Boston, on One Federal Street. The price for lunch is $35.00. This price includes lunch, room rental, A/V hardware if necessary, and the speakers' lunch. The Harvard Club has relaxed its dress code, which is now "business casual", meaning no sneakers or jeans. Fair warning: since we purchase these luncheons in advance, we will be unable to refund the price of your meal if the Club finds you in violation of what's left of its dress code. We need to receive a company check, or money order, (or, if we *really* know you, a personal check) payable to "The Harvard Club of Boston", by Saturday, November 4th, or you won't be on the list for lunch. Checks payable to anyone else but The Harvard Club of Boston will have to be sent back. Checks should be sent to Robert Hettinga, 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, Massachusetts, 02131. Again, they *must* be made payable to "The Harvard Club of Boston", in the amount of $35.00. Please include your e-mail address so that we can send you a confirmation If anyone has questions, or has a problem with these arrangements (We've had to work with glacial A/P departments more than once, for instance), please let us know via e-mail, and we'll see if we can work something out. Upcoming speakers for DCSB are: December TBA TBD Ted Byfield Decentralized DNS Control TBD Scott Moskowitz Watermarking and Bluespike As you can see, :-), we are actively searching for future speakers. If you are in Boston on the first Tuesday of the month, are a principal in digital commerce, and would like to make a presentation to the Society, please send e-mail to the DCSB Program Committee, care of Robert Hettinga, <mailto: rah(a)shipwright.com>. For more information about the Digital Commerce Society of Boston, send "info dcsb" in the body of a message to <mailto: majordomo(a)reservoir.com>

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CDR: News from XBOX.com
by XBOX.com 24 Oct '00

24 Oct '00

Thanks for your interest in Xbox. If you haven't already heard, Microsoft has announced a partnership with Imagine Media to publish the Official Xbox Magazine. Although you'll have to wait a year to see the print incarnation, Imagine wants to whet your appetite with the attached sample of their e-newsletter. Check it out and sign up to get it sent to you. ____________________________________ SUBSCRIBE To become a permanent subscriber to the Official Xbox Magazine Newsletter, please send an email to the following address: xbox-subscribe(a)lists.dailyradar.com UNSUBSCRIBE To cancel your subscription to Xbox.com News, please follow the instructions at the bottom of this page. THE OFFICIAL XBOX MAGAZINE NEWSLETTER Welcome to the Official Xbox Magazine Newsletter. Every month, you're going to get a complete blast of information right from the makers of the forthcoming Official Xbox Magazine and straight into your eyeballs. It could only get better if we were able to transmit the data straight into your cerebral cortex - and if we could, we would. DEVELOPING NEWS One-hundred and fifty-five of the best developers in the world have pledged allegiance to the Xbox - We've got the scoop, the games, and the rumors on 16 of the biggest. http://tr.innovyx.com/redir.asp?109_25_3881 ASK SEAMUS He has a weird name, he loves to talk, and he knows more about the Xbox than anyone on this planet. See him talk, ask him questions, and generally marvel at his innate ability to tell you nothing and give away everything. http://tr.innovyx.com/redir.asp?109_26_3881 BEHIND THE NUMBERS: Xbox vs. PlayStation 2 and what it means to you. http://tr.innovyx.com/redir.asp?109_27_3881 BIG BROTHER: HE'S WATCHING YOU! Actual gossip or complete fabrications based on nothing more than one man's slide into insanity? Judge for yourself. http://tr.innovyx.com/redir.asp?109_28_3881 TOP 10 THINGS TO DO WHILE YOU WAIT FOR THE XBOX Number 10: Petition Fruit Of The Loom to bring back adult-sized Underoos ... And nine other perfectly good ways to waste ... err ... spend the time. http://tr.innovyx.com/redir.asp?109_29_3881 THE MAGAZINE How would you like to have a gaming magazine that combines the power and authority of an Official Magazine with the spirit, independence, and irreverence of a well-produced fanzine? See what we've got planned for Summer 2001. http://tr.innovyx.com/redir.asp?109_23_3881 MAKE YOUR OWN MAGAZINE What kind of magazine do you really want? Speak up now or forever keep it to yourself. http://tr.innovyx.com/redir.asp?109_24_3881 To see this email in HTML, click here: http://tr.innovyx.com/redir.asp?109_31_3881 Not from the United States? Pick Your Newsletter: United Kingdom: http://tr.innovyx.com/redir.asp?109_20_3881 France: http://tr.innovyx.com/redir.asp?109_21_3881 Germany: http://tr.innovyx.com/redir.asp?109_22_3881 For daily news on Xbox visit: http://tr.innovyx.com/redir.asp?109_30_3881 How to use this mailing list To cancel your subscription to this newsletter, either click on this link to unsubscribe http://t1.innovyx.com/unsubscribe.asp?5963_3881 or reply to this message with the word REMOVE in the Subject line. You can also unsubscribe at http://www.microsoft.com/misc/unsubscribe.htm. You can manage all your Microsoft.com communication preferences from this site. THIS DOCUMENT AND OTHER DOCUMENTS PROVIDED PURSUANT TO THIS PROGRAM ARE FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY. The information type should not be interpreted to be a commitment on the part of Microsoft and Microsoft cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information presented after the date of publication. INFORMATION PROVIDED IN THIS DOCUMENT IS PROVIDED 'AS IS' WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND. The user assumes the entire risk as to the accuracy and the use of this document. microsoft.com newsletter e-mail may be copied and distributed subject to the following conditions: 1. All text must be copied without modification and all pages must be included 2. All copies must contain Microsoft's copyright notice and any other notices provided therein 3. This document may not be distributed for profit

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