November 2001 - cypherpunks-legacy

neo�s trenchcoat
by S666 19 Nov '01

19 Nov '01

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GOODBYE from jokes@bob.free4all.com
by jokes-help＠bob.free4all.com 19 Nov '01

19 Nov '01

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Ralph Merkle on Radio - Art Bell, Tuesday Night/ Wed Morning
by Bill Stewart 19 Nov '01

19 Nov '01

Forwarded: ----------- Art Bell is having Ralph Merkle, Stanford PhD, the co-inventor of public key cryptography as a guest, Tuesday night/Wednesday morning. The SF station that carries him is 560am. -----------

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MTV To Get Message Out In Arab World
by Matthew Gaylor 19 Nov '01

19 Nov '01

[Note from Matthew Gaylor: This is perhaps the only spike in destabilizing and de-radicalizing religious intolerants that has a good chance of working- A culture attack aimed at their kids. The US already heavily pays for programming insertions in the American media market mostly against drug use so this is a natural extension- MTV is a prime propaganda target with anti-drug and anti-violence (really anti-gun) story lines and media products, such as CDs, CD-ROMs, being financed by the Justice Dept. I've actually advocated that efforts be made to make such programming available in totalitarian countries via unblocked and unscrambled satellite feeds. The Red Chinese currently have a problem trying to stem the flow of mini-satellite dishes- To which I say tough luck.] Monday November 19 12:54 AM ET U.S. wants its MTV to get message out in Arab world <http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20011119/en/television-mtv_1.html> By Pamela McClintock WASHINGTON (Variety) - The architects of the government's post-Sept. 11 propaganda war may well want their MTV on the frontlines in the Arab world. Rushing to shift perceptions of the United States in the Islamic world, Washington and Hollywood are now brainstorming about how the entertainment business might help convey a wider -- and more positive -- range of perceptions about America. And no demo is more crucial to the future of Islamic-Western relations than the 15-30 age group. That's where MTV comes in. [...] ************************************************************************** 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 week) Matthew Gaylor, (614) 313-5722 ICQ: 106212065 Archived at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/fa/ **************************************************************************

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(No Subject)
by One Source Telecom 19 Nov '01

19 Nov '01

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You bought something. Nobody knows what it was.
by Anonymous Coredump 19 Nov '01

19 Nov '01

Seen on another list: > Saw a paper the other day by some Chinese dudes. Talked about how to sell > dox online so that the seller don't know what the buyer's gettin, see? > > All the dox are on the net for every Tom Harry Dick to look at. But, > the catch is they're RSA encrypted to Mr. Seller, just like normal: > symmetric cipher on the doc and wrap the key in RSA. Now, Mr. Buyer > wants one, so he pays (however) and here's the trick. Buyer asks Seller > to decrypt some random RSA data, which of course is, ta da, a BLINDED > version of the RSA data Buyer actually wants! Get it? > > You pays your money and you gets your choice of one, count em, (1) > RSA decryption. Blind it and Seller can't tell what you're buyin. > > Simple idea. Why didn't I think of that? Kick self.

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Re: The Crypto Winter
by Declan McCullagh 19 Nov '01

19 Nov '01

On Sun, Nov 18, 2001 at 05:16:54PM -0500, Faustine wrote: > On a scale of 1 to 10, how likely do you think it is that these > problems will be resolved in, say, the next decade? Where are the > people most likely to make it happen? Fascinating stuff. Huh? In my message, to which you replied, I said something like "governments will not allow true anonymous digital cash to be deployed, at least within their borders." There's no time limit, at least a near-term limit, on that particular prediction. How can this "problem" be resolved? I'm not sure it can, at least if governments insist on the regulatory trappings of the modern nation-state: Acting against "tax havens," insisting on infringing upon financial privacy in the name of thwarting tax evasion, money laundering, drug smuggling, and now terrorism, and so on. Perhaps if the tax system were to change to one centered on property taxes, anonymous digital cash would be less threatening to the tax structure, but then you have the other problems like the canonical kidnapping-extortion-assassination ones that have been discussed before and would cause law enforcement to step in with regulatory escrow demands. Scale of 1 to 10? 2. -Declan

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Re: De-Macrovisioning Hardware
by mean-green＠hushmail.com 19 Nov '01

19 Nov '01

At 10:31 PM 11/18/2001 +0100, Anonymous wrote: >A number of people are selling the "Sima SED-CM" for anywhere between $25 and $60, which will supposedly remove Level 1 Macrovision. Sima makes a more pricey device, the "Color Corrector" which claims it will remove both level 1 and Level 2. >Does anyone have any experience with either of these? I've got diagrams for building my own device, but estimate parts at a minimum of $80, not accounting for soldering time. (I'm specifically looking for a device that will take RCA in, perform its job, and give me an RCA out.) I've had a Sima SCC for over six months. It works flawlessly on every DVD I've thrown at it. >Until very recently, when I acquired a new laptop with a DVD player, I was oblivious to the fact that content providers had so thoroughly spread their poison as to reach the legitimate attempts of user Alice to route her laptop's tv-out through Alice's vcr, so as to watch a DVD on a 21" tv instead of a 14" LCD. >Plan B is, of course, to continue ripping DVDs to my HDD, remove the Macrovision, and contribute the compressed results to the body of DivX ;-) works out there. I tried DivX but later changed to sVCD. At the higher bit rates its virtually broadcast quality, much better than VHS (even S-VHS), and you can cut CDs to play on many home theater DVDs and on any Windows laptop using PowerDVD. Great for time shifting your DVD rentals ;-)

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19 Nov '01

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Re: Cypherpunk failures
by John Doe Number Two 18 Nov '01

18 Nov '01

Begin Fair Use quote of Major Variola (ret) aka mv(a)cdc.gov written on 18.11.01 16:15 : > At 01:34 PM 11/18/01 -0500, Declan McCullagh wrote: >> On Sat, Nov 17, 2001 at 08:03:49PM -0800, jamesd(a)echeque.com wrote: >>> So though the cypherpunks list is moribund, and cypherpunks >>> are no longer fashionable, >> >> True. The DC cypherpunks are thinking of changing their name to > something >> more cuddly. There are cypherpunks in DC? Someone warn Declan. "Insert the usual disclaimer here." Key ID: 0x8EF048F5 4093 Bit DH/DSS Fingerprint: CC8F 8D2C E1A3 6555 7438 B456 D00E A83C 8EF0 48F5

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