October 2000 - cypherpunks-legacy

CDR: RE: Anonymous Remailers cpunk
by R. A. Hettinga 03 Oct '00

03 Oct '00

At 10:48 AM -0400 on 10/3/00, Trei, Peter wrote: > The only bad point: > > * All recipients need to have key pairs. Thus, a crypto-only remailer > can't be a terminal remailer to mailing lists, newsgroups, or > individuals without keypairs. Not a problem, one would think. Just need to have a key-pair for a list-server or mail-to-news-gateway. If it gets onerous, each mail or newsgroup on the server can have its own keypair as well. RSA signatures are public domain now, right? :-). Cheers, RAH -- ----------------- 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: UDP Traffic
by Burkhouse, Martin T 03 Oct '00

03 Oct '00

Can anyone provide me with pointers to materials on the risks of allowing unfiltered UDP traffic into a network. Thanks

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Re: CDR: Re: Anonymous Remailers
by Greg Broiles 03 Oct '00

03 Oct '00

At 10:08 AM 10/3/00 -0400, Ryan McBride wrote: >Obviously this isn't a perfect solution, but it helps somewhat. It's what >I'm planning on doing until I can familiarize myself with the legal >ramifications of running an "open" remailer. This short discussion <http://stlr.stanford.edu/STLR/Events/dmcaking/index.html> of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act might be helpful in that regard, at least with respect to copyright liability, which seems to be the biggest legal problem. -- Greg Broiles gbroiles(a)netbox.com

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CDR: Re: Gore Office Accused of e-mail Diversion
by Michael Motyka 03 Oct '00

03 Oct '00

I see no big deal here : you can only produce records that exist. Making the choice to delete e-mails simply means that you want them to be more like a conversation than a printed document. Destroying a document prior having received an order to produce it as far as I know is no crime. Almost like an ISP service having a stated policy of not keeping logs beyond some fixed time period. Next. What I would love to see is one of our sneaky little politicians being ordered to turn over e-mails and offering them in encrypted form. Let's see how they would feel about compelled disclosure of keys. Mike

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CDR: Design Solutions Center e-Capable
by geplastics.e-marketing＠gep.ge.com 03 Oct '00

03 Oct '00

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CDR: Wired article on P2P
by Steve Schear 03 Oct '00

03 Oct '00

The October issue, page 234, has a good article on the technological underpinnings, social and market impact. It includes a tearout "yellow pages" of file sharing sites (including Mojo Nation). steve

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CDR: AFF
by Cesar Garcia 03 Oct '00

03 Oct '00

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[www.washtimes.com] Gore Office Accused of e-mail Diversion
by None 03 Oct '00

03 Oct '00

----------------------------------------------------------- GORE OFFICE ACCUSED OF E-MAIL DIVERSION Jerry Seper THE WASHINGTON TIMES ----------------------------------------------------------- House investigators yesterday accused Vice President Al Gore's office of hiding e-mail records by bypassing a White House computer backup system that resulted in the loss of critical messages over six years. "There can be little doubt that the vice president's advisers knew their actions would permit his office to operate in a manner that would make it less susceptible to oversight," investigators for the House Government Reform Committee said in a report to be released Thursday. "In effect, they 'reinvented government' to stay above the law and congressional oversight." Investigators said a two-year probe by the committee found that the vice president's office "took affirmative steps" to avoid routing personal e-mail messages to and from Mr. Gore to the White House's Automated Records Management System (ARMS), including those sought by the Justice Department, independent counsel Kenneth W. Starr and Congress in separate investigations. The ARMS system was designed to allow the White House to comply with subpoena requests and congressional oversight. The report said the missing e-mail messages cover a variety of topics, including campaign finance abuses. Some of the missing Gore e-mail messages are being reconstructed by the FBI, although House investigators said a year's worth of Gore e-mail messages had no computer backup at all, meaning any that were deleted "are lost forever." Investigators said it was "highly likely" Mr. Gore or his staff was responsible for the decision not to send the e-mail messages to the ARMS system to prevent them from being turned over to Congress, the Justice Department and the independent counsel's office. "It is clear that searches for e-mails in the Office of the Vice President were incomplete. Only those e-mails that OVP staff choose to print out or had saved on their computers could have been retrieved," the report said. White House spokesman Elliot Diringer dismissed the accusations as old news. "We haven't been given the courtesy of getting a copy of the report, but we understand its contents already have been widely publicized," he said. "It appears [Rep. Dan] Burton has stapled together old press releases and, coincidentally, issued them a day before the first presidential debate." Mr. Burton, Indiana Republican, is chairman of the Government Reform Committee. Earlier this year, White House Counsel Beth Nolan acknowledged to the panel that "much, if not all" of Mr. Gore's e-mail messages had not been retrieved by the ARMS system, but said it was "entirely unintentional." Investigators, according to the report, urged Attorney General Janet Reno to name a special counsel to probe the e-mail matter, saying the Justice Department was representing the White House in a pending lawsuit in the e-mail matter while conducting a criminal investigation into the missing documents. They also said the department had devoted insufficient resources to the e-mail inquiry, had failed to interview a number of key witnesses and that several White House officials, including former Counsel Charles F.C. Ruff and former Deputy Counsel Cheryl Mills, had obstructed justice and made false statements in the e-mail probe. Investigators also said Todd Campbell, counsel to the vice president, "personally decided" that Mr. Gore would not store his records "in a way that would permit compliance with document requests." They said e-mail users were told that they would be able to search what was in their electronic mailbox at any given moment, but they would not be able to produce records that had been deleted. They said the vice president's office "adopted a prophylactic program to guarantee that fewer documents would exist in the event the document requests were made." Calls to Mr. Gore's office for comment were referred to Mr. Diringer. The committee, along with the Justice Department, is probing accusations that the Clinton administration hid thousands of e-mail messages sent to more than 400 White House officials between September 1996 and November 1998, and that Mr. Gore's office prevented both incoming and outgoing e-mail messages to be captured by the ARMS system as required by law. The report also said: ï The White House knew that the e-mail problems discovered in November 1998 meant there had been incomplete production of documents to pending subpoenas, but senior White House personnel "did nothing" to correct the problem until it was independently discovered. ï Mr. Ruff and Chief of Staff John Podesta "were clearly told" about the e-mail problems and their statements to the contrary were "implausible" based on available White House records. ï Northrop Grumman Corp. contract employees who worked on the White House computer system, after they discovered the e-mail problem, were threatened by White House staff to keep the matter secret. The Justice Department probe has focused on accusations that the White House hid the e-mail messages after threatening White House contract workers to keep the documents secret. Campaign Finance Task Force chief Robert J. Conrad Jr. said in court papers he wanted to know if subpoenas issued by his office for the e-mail messages were "fully complied with" and if Northrop Grumman employees were "threatened with retaliation" to keep the messages from being turned over. Northrop Grumman employees found the problem in May 1998, which was traced to an August 1996 programming error. The problem was fixed in November 1998. ----------------------------------------------------------- This article was mailed from The Washington Times (http://www.washtimes.com) For more great articles, visit us at http://www.washtimes.com Copyright (c) 2000 News World Communications, Inc. All rights reserved. ************************************************************************** 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. 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[www.washtimes.com] Gore Office Accused of e-mail Diversion
by None 03 Oct '00

03 Oct '00

----------------------------------------------------------- GORE OFFICE ACCUSED OF E-MAIL DIVERSION Jerry Seper THE WASHINGTON TIMES ----------------------------------------------------------- House investigators yesterday accused Vice President Al Gore's office of hiding e-mail records by bypassing a White House computer backup system that resulted in the loss of critical messages over six years. "There can be little doubt that the vice president's advisers knew their actions would permit his office to operate in a manner that would make it less susceptible to oversight," investigators for the House Government Reform Committee said in a report to be released Thursday. "In effect, they 'reinvented government' to stay above the law and congressional oversight." Investigators said a two-year probe by the committee found that the vice president's office "took affirmative steps" to avoid routing personal e-mail messages to and from Mr. Gore to the White House's Automated Records Management System (ARMS), including those sought by the Justice Department, independent counsel Kenneth W. Starr and Congress in separate investigations. The ARMS system was designed to allow the White House to comply with subpoena requests and congressional oversight. The report said the missing e-mail messages cover a variety of topics, including campaign finance abuses. Some of the missing Gore e-mail messages are being reconstructed by the FBI, although House investigators said a year's worth of Gore e-mail messages had no computer backup at all, meaning any that were deleted "are lost forever." Investigators said it was "highly likely" Mr. Gore or his staff was responsible for the decision not to send the e-mail messages to the ARMS system to prevent them from being turned over to Congress, the Justice Department and the independent counsel's office. "It is clear that searches for e-mails in the Office of the Vice President were incomplete. Only those e-mails that OVP staff choose to print out or had saved on their computers could have been retrieved," the report said. White House spokesman Elliot Diringer dismissed the accusations as old news. "We haven't been given the courtesy of getting a copy of the report, but we understand its contents already have been widely publicized," he said. "It appears [Rep. Dan] Burton has stapled together old press releases and, coincidentally, issued them a day before the first presidential debate." Mr. Burton, Indiana Republican, is chairman of the Government Reform Committee. Earlier this year, White House Counsel Beth Nolan acknowledged to the panel that "much, if not all" of Mr. Gore's e-mail messages had not been retrieved by the ARMS system, but said it was "entirely unintentional." Investigators, according to the report, urged Attorney General Janet Reno to name a special counsel to probe the e-mail matter, saying the Justice Department was representing the White House in a pending lawsuit in the e-mail matter while conducting a criminal investigation into the missing documents. They also said the department had devoted insufficient resources to the e-mail inquiry, had failed to interview a number of key witnesses and that several White House officials, including former Counsel Charles F.C. Ruff and former Deputy Counsel Cheryl Mills, had obstructed justice and made false statements in the e-mail probe. Investigators also said Todd Campbell, counsel to the vice president, "personally decided" that Mr. Gore would not store his records "in a way that would permit compliance with document requests." They said e-mail users were told that they would be able to search what was in their electronic mailbox at any given moment, but they would not be able to produce records that had been deleted. They said the vice president's office "adopted a prophylactic program to guarantee that fewer documents would exist in the event the document requests were made." Calls to Mr. Gore's office for comment were referred to Mr. Diringer. The committee, along with the Justice Department, is probing accusations that the Clinton administration hid thousands of e-mail messages sent to more than 400 White House officials between September 1996 and November 1998, and that Mr. Gore's office prevented both incoming and outgoing e-mail messages to be captured by the ARMS system as required by law. The report also said: ï The White House knew that the e-mail problems discovered in November 1998 meant there had been incomplete production of documents to pending subpoenas, but senior White House personnel "did nothing" to correct the problem until it was independently discovered. ï Mr. Ruff and Chief of Staff John Podesta "were clearly told" about the e-mail problems and their statements to the contrary were "implausible" based on available White House records. ï Northrop Grumman Corp. contract employees who worked on the White House computer system, after they discovered the e-mail problem, were threatened by White House staff to keep the matter secret. The Justice Department probe has focused on accusations that the White House hid the e-mail messages after threatening White House contract workers to keep the documents secret. Campaign Finance Task Force chief Robert J. Conrad Jr. said in court papers he wanted to know if subpoenas issued by his office for the e-mail messages were "fully complied with" and if Northrop Grumman employees were "threatened with retaliation" to keep the messages from being turned over. Northrop Grumman employees found the problem in May 1998, which was traced to an August 1996 programming error. The problem was fixed in November 1998. ----------------------------------------------------------- This article was mailed from The Washington Times (http://www.washtimes.com) For more great articles, visit us at http://www.washtimes.com Copyright (c) 2000 News World Communications, Inc. All rights reserved. ************************************************************************** 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. 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CDR: ANNC: GnuPG Keysigning Party HOWTO
by V. Alex Brennen 03 Oct '00

03 Oct '00

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I've written a small howto on holding a keysigning party based on the use of GnuPG w/linux. http://www.cryptnet.net/fdp/crypto/gpg-party.html It's version 1.00, so feedback (comments, suggestions, corrections) sent to me individually would be appreciated. The goal of the document was to help linux users gain familiarity with GnuPG, and encourage them to hold keysigning parties. Some LUGs have started holding keysigning parties at their meetings. If you are a linux user and in a LUG, I encourage you to encourage your LUG to do the same. - VAB - --- V. Alex Brennen [vab(a)metanet.org] [ http://www.metanet.org/people/vab/ ] "We all call mama earth our home. Respect her, protect her. Don't bite the hand - hand that feeds. She bleeds by our greed. Yet still, she reseeds to meet our needs. Do you hear her voice as she pleads?" - Joules Graves, People of the Earth Tribe [ http://www.joulesgraves.com/ ] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE52ffR+pIJc5kqSz8RAkT7AKCm+Bqa6hJONpxIwv5mW/ZJmyWujACgm38v zk3JA6jssNICn7Tj4t9e5eo= =CVcc -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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