November 2000 - cypherpunks-legacy

DCSB: Win Treese; So, Where's All the Financial Cryptography?
by R. A. Hettinga 28 Nov '00

28 Nov '00

[Note that the Harvard Club is now "business casual". No more jackets and ties... --RAH] The Digital Commerce Society of Boston Presents Win Treese, Fellow, VP Technology, Open Market, Inc. Fermi's Revenge: Systems Thinking for Financial Cryptography Tuesday, December 5th, 2000 12 - 2 PM The Downtown Harvard Club of Boston One Federal Street, Boston, MA The technology of financial cryptography has promised many changes for the way that individuals and organizations do business, yet little progress has been made in real systems. In part, this is because the technology proposals--the crypto, the protocols, and occasionally code--are usually presented with little or no context for the total system in which they play. This talk will look at some of the systems issues, both technical and non-technical, that are critical for successful implementations of financial cryptography. Win Treese is a Fellow and Vice President of Technology at Open Market, Inc. At Open Market, he has contributed to the architecture and implementation of many of its products, with a particular focus on security. Before co-founding Open Market in 1994, he was a member of the research staff at Digital Equipment Corporation's Cambridge Research Laboratory. In 1999, Win was named a "High-Tech All Star" by Mass High Tech. He is co-author of the book "Designing Systems for Internet Commerce" and chairs theTransport Layer Security (TLS) Working Group of the Internet Engineering Task Force. This meeting of the Digital Commerce Society of Boston will be held on Tuesday, December 5th, 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, December 2nd, 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: 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>. -- ----------------- 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' ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To unsubscribe from this list, send a letter to: Majordomo(a)reservoir.com In the body of the message, write: unsubscribe dcsb-announce Or, to subscribe, write: subscribe dcsb-announce If you have questions, write to me at Owner-DCSB(a)reservoir.com --- 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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DCSB: Win Treese; So, Where's All the Financial Cryptography?
by R. A. Hettinga 28 Nov '00

28 Nov '00

[Note that the Harvard Club is now "business casual". No more jackets and ties... --RAH] The Digital Commerce Society of Boston Presents Win Treese, Fellow, VP Technology, Open Market, Inc. Fermi's Revenge: Systems Thinking for Financial Cryptography Tuesday, December 5th, 2000 12 - 2 PM The Downtown Harvard Club of Boston One Federal Street, Boston, MA The technology of financial cryptography has promised many changes for the way that individuals and organizations do business, yet little progress has been made in real systems. In part, this is because the technology proposals--the crypto, the protocols, and occasionally code--are usually presented with little or no context for the total system in which they play. This talk will look at some of the systems issues, both technical and non-technical, that are critical for successful implementations of financial cryptography. Win Treese is a Fellow and Vice President of Technology at Open Market, Inc. At Open Market, he has contributed to the architecture and implementation of many of its products, with a particular focus on security. Before co-founding Open Market in 1994, he was a member of the research staff at Digital Equipment Corporation's Cambridge Research Laboratory. In 1999, Win was named a "High-Tech All Star" by Mass High Tech. He is co-author of the book "Designing Systems for Internet Commerce" and chairs theTransport Layer Security (TLS) Working Group of the Internet Engineering Task Force. This meeting of the Digital Commerce Society of Boston will be held on Tuesday, December 5th, 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, December 2nd, 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: 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>. -- ----------------- 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' ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To unsubscribe from this list, send a letter to: Majordomo(a)reservoir.com In the body of the message, write: unsubscribe dcsb-announce Or, to subscribe, write: subscribe dcsb-announce If you have questions, write to me at Owner-DCSB(a)reservoir.com --- 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: Today on Abuzz: Election 2000
by foster＠staff-abuzz.com 28 Nov '00

28 Nov '00

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CDR: Transvestite TLD ;-)
by George＠Orwellian.Org 28 Nov '00

28 Nov '00

http://interactive.wsj.com/articles/SB975376877752666821.htm # # November 28, 2000 # # VeriSign Invests in dotTV, # Enters Marketing Alliance # # By NICK WINGFIELD # # Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL # # VeriSign Inc., a leader in handling registrations for ".com" # Internet addresses, Tuesday announced it is investing in a small # firm that controls Internet addresses ending in ".tv". # # VeriSign, Mountain View, Calif., is the largest investor in a # $28 million round of venture capital raised by .TV Corp. # International, a closely held firm in Los Angeles that goes by # the name of dotTV. International cable concern UnitedGlobalCom # Inc., investment firm Munder Capital Management and other # investors contributed to the funding, according to dotTV # executives. # # VeriSign, through its Network Solutions subsidiary, also plans # to begin allowing registrations of .tv Internet addresses on # the Network Solutions Web site. Network Solutions also will store # .tv addresses in a collection of 13 industrial-strength computers # around the world that handle look-ups of Internet addresses. # # Network Solutions is the world's largest registrar of Internet # address or "domain names" ending in .net., .org and .com. VeriSign # and dotTV don't plan to disclose the financial terms of their # marketing alliance, though VeriSign is expected to get a cut # of the $50 annual fee dotTV charges customers for registering # .tv domain names. # # The marketing deal could be a big boost for tiny dotTV, which # wants to establish .tv as an alternative domain name aimed at # Web companies that feature hefty doses of multimedia programming # on their sites. An oversight body called the Internet Corp. for # Assigned Names & Numbers, or Icann, hopes to finalize a plan # by the end of the year to create a number of new Internet address # suffixes, including ".info," ".pro" and ".biz". # # In the meantime, dotTV was able to license rights to the ".tv" # domain name from Tuvalu, a small Pacific Island nation for which # the suffix is an abbreviation. Under its agreement with dotTV, # Tuvalu receives a minimum of $4 million a year during the next # 10 years, according to dotTV executives. Tuvalu also owns about # 20% of the company and has a seat on the dotTV board.

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CDR: huffman decoding
by Tom Vogt 28 Nov '00

28 Nov '00

this is probably too "low-level" for "applied cryptography", but it's still a real-world problem for me: - I have a datastream (just a couple bytes) that I know is huffman encoded. however, I don't have the tables or know anything else. - I do not only know parts of the plaintext, but can generate it at will. however, I do not know for sure where in the ciphertext it will end up and I know for sure there is other information in the datastream. given this, it shouldn't be too difficult to derive the tables, right? especially not if I can generate ciphertext at will with known plaintext inside. so, aside from staring at long rows of binary and waiting to spot the pattern, is there a well-known approach to this? (I want to remotely query a closed-source server software that uses this system to report to an also closed-source client software. I know which information it transports (at least parts) and I have control of the server so I can have it include arbitrary strings (there's a "comment" field that is freely available to me and gets transmitted).) -- "The net treats censorship as a malfunction and re-routes around it." (John Gilmore)

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CDR: RE: Internet anonymity/pseudonymity meeting invitation
by Trei, Peter 28 Nov '00

28 Nov '00

> jbash-nymip-dec2000-meeting(a)velvet.com wrote: > > The NymIP Research Group will hold its first physical meeting on Sunday, > December 10, 2000, from 14:30 US/Pacific (22:30 UCT) to 17:00 US/Pacific > (01:00 UCT December 11), before the IETF meeting in San Diego, > California. We invite interested parties to attend, either in person or > by telephone. > > The NymIP-RG is a newly formed entity dedicated to studying anonymity > and pseudonymity in Internet communication. [...] > This first meeting is a brief, relatively unstructured get-to-know-you > affair, designed to identify those interested and start them talking to > one another. [...] > -- J. Bashinski > Secretary, NymIP-RG > Does anyone besides me find irony in having a 'get-to-know-you' session for a group studying anonymity? Will they allow masked attendees? Will the mailng list allow posts from anonymous remailers, or is it closed? Is there a website to allow anonymous reading? Practice what you preach.... Peter Trei 'The anarchists were highly disciplined....'

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CDR: mailing list cleanup
by ichudov＠Algebra.Com 28 Nov '00

28 Nov '00

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CDR: Can Internet Voting Restore Electoral Process Integrity?
by R. A. Hettinga 28 Nov '00

28 Nov '00

http://www.internetweek.com/columns00/frezz111500.htm November 15, 2000 Plugging In Can Internet Voting Restore Electoral Process Integrity? By BILL FREZZA As I was gleefully reviewing the wreckage of the presidential election the other night, two juxtaposed Yahoo headlines caught my eye. The first read, "Internet News Sites Crushed By Election Traffic." It described the abysmal performance of every major election-results Web site as the surge of traffic overwhelmed all preparations to scale up in anticipation of the load. The second read, "Internet Voting Could Have Saved U.S. Election Day." In it, the CEO of VoteHere.net was confidently opining that voting over the Internet could be used to avoid incidents like the Florida recount fiasco. Let's hope not. I wouldn't have missed the great Election Day meltdown of 2000 for the world. For the 50 percent of the eligible electorate that stayed home--100 million of us--the food fight in Florida stands as a resounding victory for the forces of "none of the above." It would be a shame to replace all those paper ballots, punched cards and decrepit voting booths with modern digital technology. Not that it would be easy to develop a nationwide Internet voting system. It's one thing to run a small-scale experiment whose results don't count, but quite another to develop a ubiquitous system that doesn't suffer from security, reliability, privacy and performance problems of its own. Should such an eventuality come to pass, as it probably will someday, we may never again enjoy the spectacle of a bunch of befuddled grandmas suing for a do-over. Or the delicious irony of watching the son of Mayor Richard Daley, one of the most effective machine-politics election riggers of all time, demand redress for "voter irregularities." Worse yet, an effective Internet voting system would never be limited to use only in national elections. Its very existence would inspire direct democracy zealots to introduce electronic voting into all levels of government. For a taste of what this might be like, take a look at the rule-by-referendum circus in California. This is a state where voters haven't allowed any new power plant construction in a decade yet profess to be mystified as to why they face an electricity shortage. It's a state where busybody Internet millionaires spend fortunes backing one ballot initiative or another, proving that money can do more than buy a Senate seat, as it just did for the 60 Million Dollar Man in New Jersey. After all, beyond the ego gratification of being a senator, why bother when you can just pay to have your pet law put directly on the books? Do you really want your neighbors voting to tell you what color to paint your house, what kind of taco shells you can buy, how many hours of volunteer community service you owe or what kind of clothes your kid is allowed to wear? If we are ever foolish enough to embrace Internet voting, there will be no area of life that will be safe from the meddling of an empowered electorate. Democracy is surely broken. After spending the last century shedding its constitutional limitations, it spent the past eight years escaping the rule of law, substituting a virulent form of partisanship under which any excess can be justified because the other side is "bad" and our side is "good." While the Internet has done a fine job of breaking the cozy relationship between politicians and the established press, showing us the gory details of how Washington really makes its sausage, technology cannot fix the sausage factory. It can only make the political machinery more efficient, which in the end will just churn out more sausage. Oddly enough, this is why watching the American political system get mired in a broken election is good news for anyone who believes in freedom. No matter what happens in the weeks ahead, the next president will serve under a cloud of questioned legitimacy. Underneath this cloud will be a Senate more or less evenly divided between two warring parties, including a stand-in for the first dead man to win national office and a former first lady who will surely surpass Newt Gingrich as a lightening rod for divisiveness. No one will be able to break the gridlock as the Clinton legacy of politicizing anything and everything comes to be seen not as a temporary aberration introduced by a self-absorbed moral cretin but as a permanent way of life. Welcome to the permanent campaign. May all professional politicians spend 100 percent of their time tearing each other's lungs out. Pass the cigars and brandy; the American people have spoken. Let's hope they keep mumbling incoherently as we all get back to work building our real future. With a little luck it will be a future in which few people care or even know who is president. Bill Frezza is a general partner at Adams Capital Management. He can be reached at frezza(a)alum.MIT.EDU or www.acm.com -- ----------------- 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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