October 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: Chaumian blinding & public voting?
by howiegoodell＠comcast.net 31 Oct '03

31 Oct '03

Hello -- David Chaum has a new system that is an optical one-time pad. It requires a printer that prints squares on both sides of a transparent 2-layer ballot. To the voter it looks like ordinary printing with a solid black border. Then s/he separates the layers, hands one in for counting and either tosses or takes home the other. Each layer by itself appears random (both border and text become a random hash), but several organizations successively applying their keys can reveal the totals while scrambling the individual identities. No individual organization, or even the polling place computers, can tamper with the result without a high probability of being caught; the voter can't prove how they voted, and the voter and each of the organizations can verify that their vote or handling was preserved. This is based on my recollection of his talk last Spring; see if he's posted something online. Howie Goodell -- Howie Goodell Controls, Embedded, and UI Software CompSci Doctoral Cand. UMass Lowell Howie(a)GoodL.org http://GoodL.org > > Is is possible to use blinding (or other protocols) so that all votes > are published, you can check that your vote is in there, and you > (or anyone) can run the maths and verify the vote? Without being > able to link people to votes without their consent. > > Currently voting is trusted because political adversaries supervise the > process. > Previously the mechanics were, well, mechanical, ie, open for > inspection. > The current genre of voting machines.. well, you know the scam. > And still reliant on a few adversarial human monitors. > > Something like this: > The day after elections a list of hex codes -votes- are published. You > can find > in that list the code that you received (on paper) when you voted, to > verify > that your vote counted. > You can run an algorithm on any subset of codes, including just > your own, and learn which candidate that code corresponds to. > Everyone can run on the entire dataset, verifying the tally. > You don't have to divulge which code is yours if you want it > to remain secret. Perhaps the code could contain not only > the intended vote, but a unique voter ID so that hexcodes could > not be added to the dataset (cf dead people not allowed to vote except > in Chicago) without setting off alarms. > Perhaps anyone could verify that someone voted, or not, but could > not figure who they voted for without their cooperation. > > Apologies if I should know this, I haven't gotten my head around > all the M of N, blinding, database translucency, etc protocols. > > > > E3-I: This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by UML's > antivirus scanning services.

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Prediction about spam laws...
by Jim Choate 31 Oct '03

31 Oct '03

Hi, I'd like to share my crystal ball. The jurisdictions which pass spam control laws that require 'permission' will actually foster spam. The new format for spam will be: May I send you correspondences? Blahblahblahblah To stop future correspondence please send an unsubscription request to: f00(a)bar.dingbat -- -- What these laws will actually do is require more effort on the part of consumers. Further, the 'valid address' requirements would be fulfilled by a simple -single- subscription to a free mail service. This mailbox of course would never actually be read. What this will do is increase the load on the 'free' services, causing many of them to cease to exist. It in effect increases the lower bounds on resources needed to participate in this great democratic-technocratic experiment we call the Internet. These laws are 'bad' things. -- -- Open Forge, LLC 24/365 Onsite Support for PCs, Networks, & Game Consoles 512-695-4126 (Austin, Tx.) help(a)open-forge.com irc.open-forge.com Hangar 18 Open Source Distributed Computing Using Plan 9 & Linux 512-451-7087 http://open-forge.org/hangar18 irc.open-forge.org James Choate 512-451-7087 ravage(a)ssz.com jchoate(a)open-forge.com

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Re: radiusnet archives
by privacy.at Anonymous Remailer 31 Oct '03

31 Oct '03

> Anyone knows what happened to the radiusnet crypto archives? > I bookmarked them at <http://crypto.radiusnet.net/archive/> once. > Now the whole domain seem dead. Maybe not "dead" Registrant: Ultimate Search GPO Box 7862 Central, HK na HK Registrar: NAMESDIRECT Domain Name: RADIUSNET.NET Created on: 12-AUG-03 Expires on: 12-AUG-04 Last Updated on: 30-AUG-03 Administrative, Technical Contact: Support, DNS dns(a)ultsearch.com Ultimate Search GPO Box 7862 Central, HK na HK 852 2537 9677 Domain servers in listed order: NS1.ULTSEARCH.COM NS2.ULTSEARCH.COM But it looks like the domain was first registered in 2003 (recently!) so the hacker/crypo guys must have dumped it a few years ago thus making it available again. Someone doesn't want us to be able to view the old contents either.(?) On <http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://radiusnet.net> this is displayed: > Robots.txt Query Exclusion. > > We're sorry, access to http://radiusnet.net has been blocked by the > site owner via robots.txt. Read more about robots.txt See the > site's robots.txt file. Try another request or click here to search > for all pages on radiusnet.net/ See the FAQs for more info and > help, or > contact us. In <http://www.radiusnet.net/robots.txt> this is placed: > > User-agent: * > Disallow: /s > Disallow: /c > > User-agent: ia_archiver > Disallow: / > > User-agent: Scooter > Disallow: / > By explicitly excluding the ia_archiver bot from the contents they are making the contents excluded from the archiv.org archives for both "versions", regardless of whether the old owners wants that or not. Maybe the archive.org people should implement a feature not making it possible to exclude old contents by taking over the domain and simply putting in the robots.txt on the root?! Maybe the Wayback Machine should only honor robots.txt for old contents if the ownership of the domain in question has been inchanged during the period in question. Every time an ownership change is done all old contents would be blocked/protected from deletion.

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TLS/qmail and DH cipher suites - patch to patch
by Thomas Shaddack 31 Oct '03

31 Oct '03

Speaking about not letting the terrorists win... My favorite MTA is qmail, for couple reasons. The TLS support is available as a thrid-party patch. However, the support for Diffie-Hellman cipher suites was missing, the initialization code was not there. I borrowed code from stunnel, and implemented it into the qmail patch. >From now on, the ephemeral keying should work there. See http://213.246.91.154/patches/qmail/ Peer review more than welcomed. I am a very beginner in cryptography-related programming.

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radiusnet archives?
by Nomen Nescio 31 Oct '03

31 Oct '03

Anyone knows what happened to the radiusnet crypto archives? I bookmarked them at <http://crypto.radiusnet.net/archive/> once. Now the whole domain seem dead.

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The Register - Crack codes and win prizes (fwd)
by Jim Choate 31 Oct '03

31 Oct '03

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/28/33683.html -- -- Open Forge, LLC 24/365 Onsite Support for PCs, Networks, & Game Consoles 512-695-4126 (Austin, Tx.) help(a)open-forge.com irc.open-forge.com Hangar 18 Open Source Distributed Computing Using Plan 9 & Linux 512-451-7087 http://open-forge.org/hangar18 irc.open-forge.org James Choate 512-451-7087 ravage(a)ssz.com jchoate(a)open-forge.com

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[discuss] Call for Papers - PISTA 2004 (fwd)
by Jim Choate 31 Oct '03

31 Oct '03

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 16:25:10 -0600 From: Jon Lebkowsky <jonl(a)well.com> To: discuss(a)effaustin.org, discuss(a)actlab.utexas.edu Subject: [discuss] Call for Papers - PISTA 2004 Call for Papers 2nd International Conference on Politics and Information Systems: Technologies and Applications (PISTA 404) July 21 - 25, 2004 - Orlando, Florida, USA http://www.confinf.org/pista04 PISTA '04 Organizing Committee invites authors to submit their original and unpublished works, innovations, ideas based on analogical thinking, problems that require solutions, position papers, case studies, etc., in the fields of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). ICT researchers are invited to present their research results. Practitioners and consultants are invited to present case study papers and innovative solutions. Corporations are invited to present political information systems and software based solutions. Public servers are invited to present case studies, information systems developed for specific purpose, and innovative ideas and designs. Political and social scientists are invited to present research or position papers on the impact and the future possibilities of ICT in Societal systems and political processes. Politician and political consultants are invited to present problems that might be solved by means of ICT, or solutions that might be improved by different approaches and design in ICT. All are invited to organize panel or invited sessions. Panel sessions with panelists coming from both: ICT researcher/practitioners and political consultants or politicians are highly encouraged. Submitted papers must describe work not previously published. They must not be submitted concurrently to another conference with refereed proceedings. You can find complete information about the conference in our web page http://www.confinf.org/pista04 PISTA '04 Organization General Chair: Prof. Jose Vicente Carrasquero Organizing Committee Chair: Prof. Angel Oropeza Organized by the IIIS: The International Institute of Informatics and Systemics Conference Areas 7 Informatics And Society 7 Informatics, Voting and Political Parties 7 Informatics And Government 7 Ethical and Legal Issues related to Informatics Abstracts and Paper Drafts Submission Form Papers might be submitted via web page http://www.confinf.org/pista04/website/submission.asp, as extended abstracts (500-1500 words) or as full papers drafts (2000-5000 words). Reviews will be done for both kinds of submissions. Invited Sessions proposals can be done filling the form given in the web page http://www.confinf.org/pista04/invitedsession/organizer.asp More information about Invited Sessions Organization could be found at the web http://www.confinf.org/pista04/website/ISOrganization.asp Important Dates December 22nd, 2003: Submission of extended abstracts (500-1500) words or paper Drafts (2000-5000) words. December 22nd, 2003: Invited session proposals. February 13th, 2004: Notifications of Acceptance. April 13th, 2004: Submission of final versions: hard copies and electronic versions. Some invited sessions might have a different timetable according to its organizer and chair Papers Reviewing And Publication Submitted papers will be reviewed. Accepted papers, which should not exceed six single-spaced typed pages, will be published by means of paper and electronic proceedings. Authors of accepted papers must sign a copyright release form. The Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics will publish, at least, the best 10% of the papers presented at the conference. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: discuss-unsubscribe(a)effaustin.org For additional commands, e-mail: discuss-help(a)effaustin.org

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LOC DMCA Exemptions Posted
by BillyGOTO 30 Oct '03

30 Oct '03

White smoke from the chimney of the L of C... As of now, it is now explicitly legal to decrypt the blacklists of NetNanny - style applications. As of now, it is now explicitly legal to RevEng abandonware dongles. Also legal to break copy-restriction schemes on abandonware. The most surprising exemption is for eBook decription. It is only allowed if you can't otherwise render the text into a 'specialized format'. ----- Forwarded message from Phil Gengler <phil(a)codeallday.com> ----- Within the last 5 minutes, the LOC website (http://www.copyright.gov/1201) posted the determinations for DMCA exemptions from the May hearings. Interesting read, if nothing else. 4 classes of works were exempted, and for several that weren't, there's an explanation of why.

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Re: "If you DON'T use encryption, you help the terrorists win"
by Eugen Leitl 30 Oct '03

30 Oct '03

On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 11:28:08AM -0500, Sunder wrote: > The biggest hurdle and the thing that will have the most effect is to have > every MTA out there turn on Start TLS. It won't provide a big enhancement For the record: it's unreasonably difficult (for a pedestrian sysadmin such as me) to set up StartTLS. Debian unstable ships with postfix-tls (albeit not installed as default), but apt-get install postfix-tls doesn't take care of the self-signed cert generation, and setting up /etc/postfix/main.cf for StartTLS support. It would be a most cypherpunkly undertaking to get that package to do that. (I have no idea how Debian packages work, unfortunately). > in terms of security at the ISP level, but it will blind the global > content search engines everywhere. Except, of course, at those ISP's > already infected by carnivore boxes - which at least aren't allowed by law > to capture all traffic, but I wouldn't put money that they'd follow it. > > So the first course of action is to convince MTA authors everywhere to > enable and turn this on. Later, they could drop support for non-TLS > traffic. It could also help against spamming somehow, as it will cost the > spammer a few more CPU cycles. (But this will be a very weak deterrent > against spam.) -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07078, 11.61144 http://www.leitl.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE [demime 0.97c removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature]

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ScienceDaily News Release: Physicists Stop Polarized Light, Create Bit Of Quantum Memory Rubidium (fwd)
by Jim Choate 30 Oct '03

30 Oct '03

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2003/10/031030063719.htm -- -- Open Forge, LLC 24/365 Onsite Support for PCs, Networks, & Game Consoles 512-695-4126 (Austin, Tx.) help(a)open-forge.com irc.open-forge.com Hangar 18 Open Source Distributed Computing Using Plan 9 & Linux 512-451-7087 http://open-forge.org/hangar18 irc.open-forge.org James Choate 512-451-7087 ravage(a)ssz.com jchoate(a)open-forge.com

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