October 2000 - cypherpunks-legacy

FinCEN report on e-cash
by John Muller 08 Oct '00

08 Oct '00

The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network has posted on its Web site <http://www.treas.gov/fincen> a report on regulatory and law enforcement issues presented by E-cash, E-banking and Internet gaming. This appears to be the document that was leaked to Declan McCullagh and previewed in a WIRED News article a few weeks ago, http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,38955,00.html John Muller johnmuller(a)earthlink.net jmuller(a)brobeck.com "The humorless power of the state, the iron-fisted control demanded by the corporation, the sexless desire insinuated by broadcast advertising -- all are falling to networked imagination" Christopher Locke --- 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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FinCEN report on e-cash
by John Muller 08 Oct '00

08 Oct '00

The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network has posted on its Web site <http://www.treas.gov/fincen> a report on regulatory and law enforcement issues presented by E-cash, E-banking and Internet gaming. This appears to be the document that was leaked to Declan McCullagh and previewed in a WIRED News article a few weeks ago, http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,38955,00.html John Muller johnmuller(a)earthlink.net jmuller(a)brobeck.com "The humorless power of the state, the iron-fisted control demanded by the corporation, the sexless desire insinuated by broadcast advertising -- all are falling to networked imagination" Christopher Locke --- 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: Confirm your request to register for eGroups
by eGroups 08 Oct '00

08 Oct '00

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CDR: Confirm your request to register for eGroups
by eGroups 08 Oct '00

08 Oct '00

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CDR: Confirm your request to register for eGroups
by eGroups 08 Oct '00

08 Oct '00

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CDR: wild things
by billp＠nmol.com 08 Oct '00

08 Oct '00

http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Congress/8327/load1.html

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CDR: NETCENTER uid=Bob276Bob key=KJE3P6J9DTen CONFIRM!
by netcenter-reg＠netscape.com 08 Oct '00

08 Oct '00

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CDR: Re: stego for the censored
by Michael Motyka 08 Oct '00

08 Oct '00

> > I'm currently looking for a way to get encrypted data via stego to > people who live in countries where crypto is illegal, and who may be > watched. so just sending them a large graphic would likely arouse > suspicion. > > the 2 best solutions I've come up with so far are porn and spam. both > are readily believable, even in large quantities. > the problem with porn is that it may be illegal in itself in the same > countries. the problem with spam is that ascii text just doesn't offer > much to hide stego in (whitespacing, etc. is both easy to find and can > store very little data). > Since the amount of information you need to send and the channel/event capacity for stego'd information are unspecified maybe you're looking for a general solution. Part of a general solution might be a scatter-gather mechanism. XMIT The information you need to send is broken up into multiple pieces and an index. The simplest method would be a flat structure but a tree is acceptable. Redundancy via overlapping segments could be introduced. Redundancy/error correction might be useful if Mallet is inclined for example to mess with whitespace in your e-mail. Anyway, the pieces are stego'd into multiple carriers that are made available via any and all protocols. RCV Once a recipient has the top-level index they can gather the pieces and reconstruct the original. Notes Scattering the information over multiple sites and accessing it via valid sets of linked pages for example might help in disguising the act of retrieving any particular carrier. A typical browse sequence might include many unused files and only one carrier. A single carrier might serve various fragments from multiple original input documents intended for different recipients. If a single carrier is safe and acceptable a webcam might be a nice broadcast for a few channels of text. It does simplify the task of identifying the sender and making a list of possibly recipients. A shifting set of sources would probably be safer. Message fragments could be transmitted over any period of time with the top-level index being the final step. That would help the sender avoid detection of the actual transmission since it could be interleaved with other activities. Likewise reception could be over an arbitrary period of time and interleaved with other activities. *** There's a high bandwidth cost associated with the scatter-gather process but it does allow arbitrarily sized messages and I'm assuming the cost of getting caught is extremely high as is the desire of authorities to view content, locate the sender or other recipients and suppress the information if it is detected. Mike

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CDR: stego for the censored
by Tom Vogt 08 Oct '00

08 Oct '00

I'm currently looking for a way to get encrypted data via stego to people who live in countries where crypto is illegal, and who may be watched. so just sending them a large graphic would likely arouse suspicion. the 2 best solutions I've come up with so far are porn and spam. both are readily believable, even in large quantities. the problem with porn is that it may be illegal in itself in the same countries. the problem with spam is that ascii text just doesn't offer much to hide stego in (whitespacing, etc. is both easy to find and can store very little data).

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CDR: Re: Anonymous Remailers cpunk
by No User 08 Oct '00

08 Oct '00

>This subthread came along >because some people have noticed that anonymous remailers are used for >an awful lot of spam. They are? I don't think I have ever received spam sent through a remailer or seen remailed spam in a newsgroup. Where am I most likely to encounter remailed spam? Anonymous

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