December 2000 - cypherpunks-legacy

Zionist Entity Tactical Laser Fizzles
by Eric Cordian 07 Dec '00

07 Dec '00

It appears that the tactical chemical laser the US has been hoping to deploy to protect the Zionist Entity from rockets launched by Hezbollah guerrillas in southern Lebanon is, in the words of its developers, "not ready for action." http://www.newsday.com/ap/text/international/ap796.htm According to the defense department blurb on the system, called THEL (http://www.smdc.army.mil/FactSheets/THEL.html) the system employs deuterium fluoride as the lasing medium. Since deuterium is somewhat more expensive to produce than ordinary hydrogen, one wonders why the system has been designed to work with deuterium. Is it because the government does not want fuel for it to be easily produced, should the design fall into enemy hands. Or is there some engineering advantage to using deuterium? Does excited deuterium fluoride have some wonderful spectral line in exactly the right place, that pedestrian hydrogen fluoride does not? Any chemical or nuclear engineers here who could answer the question of why deuterium is more desirable? -- Eric Michael Cordian 0+ O:.T:.O:. Mathematical Munitions Division "Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be The Whole Of The Law"

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gut instincts experts can offer customer-attracting tips at your meeting
by Kareand＠aol.com 07 Dec '00

07 Dec '00

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openpgp.net down?
by Harmon Seaver 07 Dec '00

07 Dec '00

Anybody know what happened to openpgp.net? I haven't had a cpunks post since last night.

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About 5yr. log retention
by Jim Choate 07 Dec '00

07 Dec '00

There is an article over on Drudge's site. The quote with respect to 5 year retention was supposedly made by the US Justice Dept. Wonder what they were refering too... ____________________________________________________________________ Before a larger group can see the virtue of an idea, a smaller group must first understand it. "Stranger Suns" George Zebrowski The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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RE: My plan to deal with subpoenas to testify
by Carskadden, Rush 07 Dec '00

07 Dec '00

I was subpoenaed to appear before federal grand jury two days ago, and the server was hanging out on my front porch for quite a while. I had failed to answer the door an hour earlier, and apparently he had just decided to set up camp there (cleverly out of scope of my peep hole) until I stepped out to go to work, which is exactly what happened. When I relayed the story to my boss later, he informed me that having a server camped out on my front porch is a perfectly good reason to call in sick. Heh. Either way, I am now installing a camera out there, because I have learned a lesson about the security of my front porch, and the effectiveness of the peep hole. -----Original Message----- From: Declan McCullagh [mailto:declan@well.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2000 2:53 PM To: Tim May; cypherpunks(a)cyberpass.net Subject: Re: My plan to deal with subpoenas to testify At 11:01 12/6/2000 -0800, Tim May wrote: >(Of course, _serving me_ is problematic. I had a process server make >several trips out to my semi-rural hilltop home in 1995 before finally >reaching me at home. And that was when I still answering the doorbell. >These days I use my peephole, or a t.v. camera I sometimes have set up. I >doubt a process server could get to me.) When I was served with a subpoena in the CJ Parker trial, I had had a party the night before and let a friend of a friend sleep over in my living room. The process server showed up around 7:30 am the following morning and my houseguest let him into the foyer. Grr. >-- I was surprised to see so many "affidavits" and "interviews" and >"pre-trial statements" from various witnesses in the Parker case. Surely >these people must have known that though their presence could have been >compelled in Washington state, that they had no obligation to sit down >with Federal agents and give interviews! When I was subpoenaed in the Parker trial, I did not give any pre trial statement or affidavits or whatnot. (There's no incentive for me to do so, and presumably little incentive for list members to do so, unless they see it as a way to avoid further involvement.) My lawyer was the person who had contact with DoJ. >(Note about expenses: I had heard during the Parker trial that various >witnesses called to travel to Washington were to "submit travel expense >receipts." Is this true? What part of the Constitution says citizens must Yes. It's a standard government form. They also paid something like $25 a day while you waited outside the courtroom before being called to the stand, and $40 a day you actually testified. Yay. -Declan

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Re: RIP cracked via encryption? [The Register]
by mmotyka＠lsil.com 07 Dec '00

07 Dec '00

> Article about RIP being cracked because a mechanism has been found that > makes it impossible to hand over keys. > > http://www.theregister.co.uk > MOOT was on cryptome days ago. Also isn't the idea plenty old, EKE for instance? What MOOT seems to be addressing are some of the practical problems of insecure systems in addition to the basic crypto.

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NYT Account Request
by forgot＠lga2.nytimes.com 07 Dec '00

07 Dec '00

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rijndael question
by mmotyka＠lsil.com 07 Dec '00

07 Dec '00

On the rijndael page I see this note below the optimized code link : >IMPORTANT NOTE ! This code was written in order to clarify the mathematical >description, and to run the statistical test. Without modification, it should not >be used to encrypt files, or for any other application. What exactly does this mean? The code is not correct and functional? Mike http://www.esat.kuleuven.ac.be/~rijmen/rijndael/

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by carlstephen33＠writeme.com 07 Dec '00

07 Dec '00

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Hypenated-Americans: For Tim
by Declan McCullagh 07 Dec '00

07 Dec '00

About the American Hyphen Society The American Hyphen Society is a community-based, not-for-profit, grass-roots conciousness-raising/education-research alliance that seeks to help effectuate the across-the-board self-empowerment of wide-ranging culture-, nationality-, ethnicity-, creed-, gender-, and sexual-orientation-defined identity groups by excising all multiculturally-less-than-sensitive terminology from the English language, and replacing it with counter-hegemonic, cruelty-, gender-, bias-, and, if necessary, content-free speech. The society's motto is "It became necessary to destroy the language in order to save it". Its headquarters are in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.

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