December 2001 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: Further thoughts on Reputation Capital systems and implementation
by Adam Shostack 06 Dec '01

06 Dec '01

On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 05:00:33PM -0500, Sunder wrote: | | Say Tim has a repcap of 600, say Declan has 500, and Sandy has 400. Then | I add +1 * 500/X from Declan's repcap and +1 *400/X to Tim's repcap, so | now my cache of Tim's repcap might jump to 620. Interesting idea. I proposed something very similar in http://cypherpunks.venona.com/date/1994/09/msg00313.html Raph demonstrated a bit later that the system could be forced into oscilation and had other problems, although that might have been in person, not on list. Adam -- Imminent death of the list predicted. Film already in the archives, 11/95.

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speak against the US, get investigated in AU
by Khoder bin Hakkin 06 Dec '01

06 Dec '01

http://www.smh.com.au/news/0112/07/text/national12.html Shock as columnist investigated for un-American activity Phillip Adams, defender of the rights of man, is in an unexpected spot of bother, Pilita Clark reports. It sounds too strange to be true. Warren Beeby, the group editorial manager of News Ltd, publisher of The Australian newspaper, says he can barely believe it himself. But yesterday he confirmed that one of the paper's better-known columnists, the ABC broadcaster Phillip Adams, is under investigation for alleged racial vilification by the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission. Adams is such a vigorous opponent of racism, discrimination and all manner of oppression that the Prime Minister once famously urged the ABC to find a "right-wing Phillip Adams" to balance its political output. But Mr Beeby said an American citizen had complained to the commission over a column Adams wrote in October about Australia's "blank cheque" support of the United States's war against terrorism. In the column, Adams argued that US history was replete with racial violence at home and flawed foreign policy abroad, including the bombing of Cambodia, complicity with the Pinochet regime in Chile and one-time support for Iraq's Saddam Hussein. "If Australia is to be a true friend of the American people, we must try to rein them in, not urge them on," he wrote. "The US has to learn that its worst enemy is the US." Mr Beeby said the commission wrote to News Ltd in late November asking for a response to a complaint it had received about Adams and the column. "We're in the process of replying on behalf of the newspaper and Phillip is in the process of thinking what he will say as well," he said. Mr Beeby first raised the complaint, without naming Adams, in a speech on press freedom to the Commonwealth Press Union earlier this week. He told the Herald yesterday he found it hard to believe the commission could take such a complaint seriously. "I've never heard of an American being racially vilified before. I think this is one of the great tragedies of our time." He said it was of deep concern to all Australian media organisations when bodies such as the commission used their powers to stifle debate critical to the public interest, such as Adams's column. "It was a clinically argued case, whether you agree with it or not, and an important part of the debate about what is going on, and suddenly it's racial vilification of Americans." A spokeswoman for the commission said it never commented on complaints before it. "All I can say is the normal procedure for complaints is to ask for a response [from those being complained about]. We would then examine the complaint and if it is lacking in substance we would terminate it." Phillip Adams could not be reached last night.

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06 Dec '01

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06 Dec '01

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The Remailer "Reliable" (fwd)
by Jim Choate 06 Dec '01

06 Dec '01

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Re: Moving beyond "Reputation"--the Market View of Reality
by Adam Shostack 06 Dec '01

06 Dec '01

Right. Now the seller has the cash, and the buyer has nothing. The seller has lost only the future value of the nym, which was presumably accounted for in the price. The seller loses no "real" reputation, because the nym can't be tied back to the is-a-person seller. The buyer, meanwhile, is out the price of the nym, and must either destroy the nym in order to ensure that the seller actually loses all that value, or accept damaged goods. So, why would a buyer agree to such a transaction, where he will remain at the mercy of the seller? Or is this 'one born every minute' economics? Adam On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 02:43:54PM -0500, Sunder wrote: | Following which the buyer posts all the signed emails between self and | seller detailing the fraudulent transaction. | | ----------------------Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos--------------------------- | + ^ + :Surveillance cameras|Passwords are like underwear. You don't /|\ | \|/ :aren't security. A |share them, you don't hang them on your/\|/\ | <--*-->:camera won't stop a |monitor, or under your keyboard, you \/|\/ | /|\ :masked killer, but |don't email them, or put them on a web \|/ | + v + :will violate privacy|site, and you must change them very often. | --------_sunder_(a)_sunder_._net_------- http://www.sunder.net ------------ | | On Fri, 30 Nov 2001, Adam Shostack wrote: | | > Following which, Alice pulls out the pre-dated revocation certificate, | > and generates confusion as to the validity of Bob's key change message. | > | > Duh, indeed. | > | > Adam | > | > On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 01:34:53PM -0500, Sunder wrote: | > | Simple. Once the buyer has the keys she issues an email saying "I'm | > | changing my keys, here's the new public key" and signs it with the old key | > | - thus proving that the nym's original message was valid, thus | > | invalidating the old one. Duh! | > | | > | | > | ----------------------Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos--------------------------- | > | + ^ + :Surveillance cameras|Passwords are like underwear. You don't /|\ | > | \|/ :aren't security. A |share them, you don't hang them on your/\|/\ | > | <--*-->:camera won't stop a |monitor, or under your keyboard, you \/|\/ | > | /|\ :masked killer, but |don't email them, or put them on a web \|/ | > | + v + :will violate privacy|site, and you must change them very often. | > | --------_sunder_(a)_sunder_._net_------- http://www.sunder.net ------------ | > | | > | On Fri, 30 Nov 2001, Adam Shostack wrote: | > | | > | > On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 12:14:13PM -0800, Wei Dai wrote: | > | > | On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 07:53:02PM -0800, georgemw(a)speakeasy.net wrote: | > | > | > Even this is not a scalar. Since reputation cannot be bought | > | > | > and sold, the idea that it is worth a specific well defined amount is | > | > | > false. | > | > | | > | > | If you own a nym, you can easily sell its reputation. Just give the | > | > | private key to the buyer. | > | > | > | > How does the buyer ensure that I haven't kept a copy? If what I'm | > | > selling is a nym, then without the nym, I am anonymous. Adding layers | > | > of nymity for reputation with partial disclosure seems a complex and | > | > failure-prone approach. | > | > | > | > Adam | > | > | > | > -- | > | > "It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once." | > | > -Hume | > | > -- | > "It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once." | > -Hume | > | > | > -- "It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once." -Hume

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multicasting w/ cell phones (Acad ref)
by Khoder bin Hakkin 06 Dec '01

06 Dec '01

Integrated Multicast for Ad-Hoc Networks The IMAHN project is investigating multicast protocols in ad-hoc networks. Ad-hoc networks are collections of mobile nodes communicating using wireless media, without any fixed infrastructure. Conventional routing is inadequate in these scenarios, as the mobility aspect can cause rapid and frequent changes in network topology. Moreover, each mobile host must be able to act both as a network router and an endpoint, because limited transmission ranges necessitate forwarding packets over multiple hops. Existing multicast protocols fall short because node mobility causes conventional multicast trees to rapidly become outdated. Frequent state changes require constant updates, reducing the already limited bandwidth available for data, and possibly never converging to accurately portray the current topology. Instead, a stateless multicast protocol is proposed for the above scenario. This is based on flooding the network with packets of the multicast stream. Adaptive flooding is introduced to enhance multicast reliability in the face of high mobility. http://www.cse.ucsc.edu/~kumarv/imahn.html

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06 Dec '01

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