October 2000 - cypherpunks-legacy

CDR: CDF releases "data" on "child" gun deaths.
by Anonymous 03 Oct '00

03 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 03 Oct '00

03 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 03 Oct '00

03 Oct '00

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Rijndael is GREEN
by Ian Grigg 03 Oct '00

03 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 03 Oct '00

03 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 03 Oct '00

03 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 03 Oct '00

03 Oct '00

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CDR: RE: Fw: Others are protecting freedom of speech too.
by Trei, Peter 03 Oct '00

03 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 03 Oct '00

03 Oct '00

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Fwd: AES winner webcast 4pm today
by Fearghas McKay 03 Oct '00

03 Oct '00

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