December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

[PGP-USERS] ANNOUNCING: Georgia Cracker Anonymous Remailer
by Fred B. Ringel 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Hi all- Here is Andy Dustbin's replacement for the dustbin remailer, one which was quite reliable during the time it was up. Add this one to your lists. You can get the keys from the remailer. The good news is Andy intends to eatablish another nym remailer. We need more of these. Fred /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ Fred B. Ringel -- Rivertown.Net Internet Access Systems Administrator -- Voice/Fax/Support: +1.914.478.2885 PGP- Public Key -- email: fredr-pgpkey(a)joshua.rivertown.net Although in theory, there's no difference between theory and practice, in practice, there is. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 00:42:49 -0400 (EDT) From: Andy Dustman <andy(a)CCMSD.chem.uga.edu> Subject: ANNOUNCING: Georgia Cracker Anonymous Remailer Dustbin is dead; long live Cracker! ("Cracker" means more than you think; get out your dictionaries and look up the term as it applies to the SE US, or specifically GA. ;) Here is the vital data: $remailer{"cracker"} = "<remailer(a)anon.efga.org> cpunk pgp hash latent cut ek mix reord middle"; Cracker runs ghio-2 and Mixmaster 2.0.4b1. You may notice an extra key stashed in here. It is for the forthcoming nymserver (which I am having a nasty problem with PGPPATH, ARGH!). Don't use it yet; I hopefully will make the announcement tommorrow. Andy Dustman / Computational Center for Molecular Structure and Design / UGA To get my PGP public key, send me mail with subject "send file key". For the ultimate anti-spam procmail recipe, send me mail with subject "spam" "Encryption is too important to leave to the government." -- Bruce Schneier http://www.ilinks.net/~dustman mailto:andy@CCMSD.chem.uga.edu <}+++<

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Can You Handle $50,000?
by Anne 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

<HTML><PRE>CAN YOU HANDLE $50,000? First, please accept my apology if this was sent to you in error! You could possibly make at least $50,000 - In less than 90 days! Read the enclosed program ....THEN READ AGAIN.... The enclosed information is something I almost let slip through my fingers. Fortunately, sometime later I re-read everything and gave it serious thought and study to it. So glad I did! Here's my story! My name is Christopher Erickson. Two years ago, the corporation I worked at for the past twelve years down-sized and my position was eliminated. After unproductive job interviews, I decided to open my own business. Over the past year, I incurred many unforeseen financial problems. I owed my family, friends, and creditors over $35,000. The economy was taking a toll on my business and I just couldn't seem to make ends meet. I had to refinance and borrow against my home to support my family and struggling business. I truly believe it was wrong for me to be in debt like this. AT THAT MOMENT something significant happened in my life and I am writing to share my experience in hopes that this will change your life FOREVER .... FINANCIALLY!!!!!!! In mid-December, I received this program via email. Six months prior to receiving this I had been sending away for information on various business opportunities. All the programs I received, in my opinion, were not cost effective. They were either too difficult for me to comprehend or the initial investment was too much for me to risk to see if they worked or not. One claimed I'd make a million dollars in one year ..... it didn't tell me I'd have to write a book to make it. But like I was saying, in December of '92 I received this program. I didn't send for it, or ask for it, they just got my name off a mailing list. THANK GOODNESS FOR THAT!!! After reading it several times, to make sure I was reading it correctly, I couldn't believe my eyes. Here was a MONEY-MAKING PHENOMENON. I could invest as much as I wanted to start, without putting me further in debt. After I got a pencil and paper and figured it out, I would at least get my money back. After determning that the program is LEGAL and NOT A CHAIN LETTER, I decided "WHY NOT". Initially I sent out 10,000 emails. It cost me about $15.00 for my time on-line. The great thing about email is that I didn't need any money for printing to send out the program, only the cost to fulfill my orders. I am telling you like it is, I hope it doesn't turn you off, but I promised myself that I would not "rip-off" anyone, no matter how much money it cost me! In less than one week, I was starting to receive orders for REPORT #1. By January 13th, I had received 26 orders for REPORT #1. When you read the GUARANTEE in the program, you will see that "YOU MUST RECEIVE 15 TO 20 ORDERS FOR REPORT #1 WITHIN TWO WEEKS. IF YOU DON'T, SEND OUT MORE PROGRAMS UNTIL YOU DO!". My first step in making $50,000 in 20 to 90 days was done. By January 30th, I had received 196 orders for REPORT #2. If you go back to the GUARANTEE, "YOU MUST RECEIVE 100 OR MORE ORDERS FOR REPORT #2 WITHIN TWO WEEKS, IF NOT, SEND OUT MORE PROGRAMS UNTIL YOU DO. ONCE YOU HAVE 100 ORDERS, THE REST IS EASY. RELAX, YOU WILL MAKE YOUR $50,000 GOAL". Well, I had 196 orders for REPORT #2, 96 MORE THAN I NEEDED. So, I sat back and relaxed. By March 19th, of my emailing of 10,000, I received $58,000 with more coming in every day. I paid off ALL my debts and bought a much needed new car. PLEASE take time to read the attached program, IT WILL CHANGE YOUR LIFE FOREVER! Remember, it won't work if you DON'T try it! This program DOES WORK, but you must follow it EXACTLY! Especially the rules of not trying to place your name in a different place. THAT DOESN'T WORK, you'll lose out on a lot of money! REPORT #2 explains this. Always follow the guarantee, 15 to 20 orders for REPORT #1, and 100 or more orders for REPORT #2 and you will make $50,000 or more in 20 to 90 days. I AM LIVING PROOF THAT IT WORKS!!!!! If you choose not to participate in this program, I'm sorry. It really is a great opportunity with little cost or risk to you. If you choose to participate, follow the program and you will be on your way to financial security. If you are a fellow business owner and you are in financial trouble like I was, or you want to start your own business, consider this a sign. I DID! Sincerely, Christopher Erickson P.S. Do you have any idea what 11,700 $5 bills ($58,000) look like piled up on a kitchen table? IT'S AWESOME! "THREW IT AWAY" I had received this program before. I threw it away, but later wondered if I shouldn't have given it a try. Of course, I had no idea who to contact to get a copy, so I had to wait until I was emailed another copy of the program. Eleven months passed, then it came. I DIDN'T throw this one away. I made $41,000 on the first try". Dawn W., Evansville, IN "NO FREE LUNCH" "My late father always told me, remember, Alan, there is no free lunch. You get out of life what you put into it". Through trial and error and a somewhat slow frustrating start, I finally figured it out. The program works very well, I just had to find the right target group to email it to. So far this year, I have made over $63,000 using this program. I know my dad would have been very proud of me. Alan B., Philadelphia, PA A PERSONAL NOTE FROM THE ORIGINATOR OF THIS PROGRAM By the time you have read the enclosed information and looked over the enclosed program and reports, you should have concluded that such a program, and one that is legal, could not have been created by an amateur. Let me tell you a little about by myself. I had a profitable business for ten years. Then in 1979 my business began falling off. I was doing the same things that were previously successful for me, but it wasn't working. Finally, I figured it out. It wasn't me, it was the economy. Inflation and recession had replaced the stable economy that had been with us since 1945. I don't have to tell you what happened to the unemployment rate .... because many of you know from first hand experience. There were more failures and bankruptcies than ever before. The middle class was vanishing. Those who knew what they were doing invested wisely and moved up. Those who did not, including those who never had anything to save or invest, were moving down into the ranks of the poor. As the saying goes, "THE RICH GET RICHER AND THE POOR GET POORER". The traditional methods of making money will never allow you to "move up" or "get rich", inflation will see to that. You have just received information that can give you financial freedom for the rest of your life, with "NO RISK" and "JUST A LITTLE BIT OF EFFORT". You can make more money in the next few months than you have ever imagine. I should also point out that I will not see a penny of your money, nor anyone else who has provided a testimonial for this program. I have already made over FOUR MILLION DOLLARS! I have retired from the program after sending out over 16,000 programs. Now I have several offices which market this and several other programs here in the US and overseas. By the Spring, we wish to market the 'internet' by a partnership with AMERICA ON LINE. Follow the program EXACTLY AS INSTRUCTED. Do not change it in any way. It works exceedingly well as it is now. Remember to email a copy of this exciting program to everyone that you can think of. One of the people you send this to may send out 50,000 .... and your name will be on every one of them! Remember though, the more you send out, the more potential customers you will reach. So my friend, I have given you the ideas, information, materials and opportunity to become financially independent, IT IS UP TO YOU NOW! "THINK ABOUT IT" Before you throw this away or delete it from your mailbox, as I almost did, take a little time to read it and REALLY THINK ABOUT IT. Get a pencil and paper and figure out what could happen when YOU participate. Figure out the worst possible response and no matter how you calculate it, you will still make a lot of money! Definitely get back what you invested. Any doubts you have will vanish when your first orders come in. IT WORKS! Paul Johnson, Raleigh, NC HERE'S HOW THIS AMAZING PROGRAM WILL MAKE YOU $$$$$$$$$$$ Let's say that you decide to start small, just to see how it goes, and we'll assume that the mailing receives a 5% response. Using a good list the response could be much better. Also, many people will send out hundreds of thousands of programs instead of 2,000. But continuing with this example, you send out only 2,000 programs. With a 5% response, that is only 10 orders for REPORT #1. Those 10 people respond by sending out 2,000 programs each for a total of 20,000. Out of those 5%, 100 people respond and order REPORT #2. Those 100 mail out 2,000 programs each for a total of 200,000. the 5% response to that is 1,000 orders for REPORT #3. Those 1,000 send out 2,000 programs each for 2,000,000 total. The 5% response to that is 10,000 orders for REPORT #4. That's 10,000 five dollar bills for you. CASH!!!! Your total income in this example of $50 + $500 + $5000 + $50,000 for a total of $55,500!!!!!! REMEMBER FRIEND, THIS IS ASSUMING 1,990 OUT OF 2,000 PEOPLE YOU MAIL TO WILL DO ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.....AND TRASH THIS PROGRAM! DARE TO THINK FOR A MOMENT WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF EVERYONE OR HALF SENT OUT 100,000 PROGRAMS INSTEAD OF ONLY 2000. Believe me, many people will do that and more! By the way, your cost to participate in this is practially nothing if you go the email route. Email is FREE! REPORT #3 will show you the best methods for bulk emailing and purchasing email lists. If you go the regular mail route, that also will provide you with a very nice income. The costs for regular mail are higher. THIS IS A LEGITIMATE, LEGAL, MONEY MAKING OPPORTUNITY. It does not require you to come in contact with people, do any hard work, and best of all, you never have to leave the house except to get the mail. If you believe that someday you'll get that big break that you've been waiting for, THIS IS IT! Simply follow the instructions, and your dreams will come true. This multi-level order marketing program works perfectly .... 100% EVERY TIME. If you have a computer, email is the sales tool of the future. Take advantage of this non-commercialized method of advertising NOW!!! The longer you wait, the more people will be doing business using email. Get your piece of this action now!!! MULTI-LEVEL MARKETING (MLM) has finally gained respectability. It is being taught in the Harvard Business School, and both Stanford Research and The Wall Street Journal have stated that between 50% and 65% of all goods and services will be sold throughout Multi-Level Methods by the mid to late 1990's. This is a Multi-Billion Dollar industry and of the 500,000 millionaires in the US, 20% (100,000) made their fortune in the last several years in MLM. Moreover, statistics show 45 people become millionaires everyday through Multi-Level Marketing. INSTUCTIONS We at Erris Mail Order Marketing Business, have a method of raising capital that REALLY WORKS 100% EVERY TIME. I am sure that you could use $50,000 to $125,000 in the next 20 to 90 days. Before you say "Bull", please read the program very carefully! This is not a chain letter, but a perfectly legal money making opportunity. Basically, this is what we do: As with all multi-level business, we build our business by recruiting new partners and selling our products. Every state in the USA allows you to recruit new multi-level business partners, and we offer a product for EVERY dollar sent. YOUR ORDERS COME AND ARE FILLED THROUGH THE MAIL, so you are not involved in personal selling. You do it privately in your own home, store or office. This is the GREATEST Multi-level Mail OrderMarketng anywhere: Step (1) ORDER ALL FOUR (4) REPORTS LISTED BY NAME AND NUMBER. Do this by ordering the REPORT from each of the four (4) names listed. For each REPORT, send $5 CASH and a SELF-ADDRESSED, STAMPED envelope (BUSINESS SIZE #10) to the person LISTED for the SPECIFIC REPORT. International orders should also include $1 extra for postage. It is essential that you specify the NAME and NUMBER of the report requested to the person you are ordering from. You will need ALL FOUR REPORTS because you will be REPRINTING and RESELLING them. DO NOT alter the names or sequence other than what the instructions say. IMPORTANT: Always provide same-day service on all orders. Step (2) REPLACE THE NAME AND ADDRESS UNDER REPORT #1 WITH YOURS, moving the one that was there down to REPORT #2. Drop the name and address under REPORT #2 to REPORT #3, moving the one that was there to REPORT #4. The name and address that was under REPORT #4 is dropped from the list and this party is no doubt on the way to the bank. When doing this, make certain you type the names and addresses ACCURATELY! DO NOT MIX UP MOVING PRODUCT/REPORT POSITIONS!!!! Step (3) HAVING MADE THE REQUIRED CHANGES IN THE NAME LIST, save it as Text (.txt) file in its own directory to be used with whatever email program you like. Again, REPORT #3 will tell you the best methods of bulk emailing and acquiring email lists. Step (4) EMAIL OR MAIL A COPY OF THE ENTIRE PROGRAM (ALL OF THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT) TO EVERYONE whose address you can get your hands on. Start with friends and relatives since you can encourage them to take advantage of this fabulous money-making opportunity. That's what I did. And they love me now, more then ever. Then, email to anyone and everyone! Use your imagination! You can get email addresses from companies on the internet who specialize in email mailing lists and services, mailing them for you. These are very inexpensive, 100,000 addresses for around $50.00 up. IMPORTANT: You won't get a good response if you use an old list, so ALWAYS request a FRESH, NEW list. You will find out where to purchase these lists when you order the four (4) reports. ALWAYS PROVIDE SAME-DAY SERVICE ON ALL ORDERS!!! REQUIRED REPORTS **** Order each REPORT by NUMBER and NAME **** ALWAYS SEND A SELF-ADDRESSED, STAMPED ENVELOPE AND $5 CASH FOR EACH ORDER REQUESTING THE SPECIFIC REPORT BY NAME AND NUMBER. **** REPORT #1 "HOW TO MAKE $250,000 THROUGH MULTI-LEVEL SALES" ORDER REPORT #1 FROM: THE "Z" COMPANY 1506 Audubon Place Shreveport, La. 71105 **** REPORT #2 "MAJOR CORPORATIONS AND MULTI-LEVEL SALES" ORDER REPORT #2 FROM: KZT 1013 Speed Monroe, La. 71201 **** REPORT #3 "SOURCES FOR THE BEST MAILING LISTS" ORDER REPORT #3 FROM: SOUTHERN S. S. 1324 Chopin Bossier City, La. 71112 **** REPORT #4 "EVALUTING MULTI-LEVEL SALES PLANS" ORDER REPORT #4 FROM: PREMIER CO. 115 Fielder Lane Shreveport, La. 71105 CONCLUSION! I am enjoying my fortune that I made by sending out this program. You, too, will be making money in 20 - 90 days, if you follow the SIMPLE STEPS outlined in this mailing. To be financially independent is to be FREE. Free to make financial decisions as never before. Go into business, get into investments, retire or take a vacation. No longer will a lack of money hold you back. However, very few people reach financial independence, because when opportunity knocks, they choose to ignore it. It is much easier to say "NO" than "YES", and this is the question that you must answer. WILL YOU ignore this amazing opportunity or will you take advantage of it? If you do nothing, you have indeed missed something and nothing will change. PLEASE re-read this material, this is a special opportunity. If you have questions, please feel free to write to the sender of this information. You will get a prompt and informative reply. My method is simple. I sell thousands of people a product for $5 that costs me pennies to produce and email. I should also point out that this program is legal and everyone who participates WILL make money. This is not a chain letter or pyramid scam. At times you have probably received chain letters, asking you to send money, on faith, but getting NOTHING in return, no product what-so-ever! Not only are chain letters illegal, but the risk of someone breaking the chain makes them quite unattractive. You are offering a legitimate product to your people. After they purchase the product from you, they reproduce more and resell them. It's simple free enterprise. As you learned from the enclosed material, the PRODUCT is a series of four (4) FINANCIAL AND BUSINESS REPORTS. The information contained in these REPORTS will not only help you in making your participation in this program more rewarding, but will be useful to you in any other business decisions you make in the years ahead. You are also buying the rights to reprint all of the REPORTS, which will be ordered from you by those to whom you mail this program. The concise one and two page REPORTS you will be buying can easily be reproduce at a local copy center for a cost of about 3 cents a copy. Best wishes with the program and GOOD LUCK! "IT WAS TRULY AMAZING" "Not being the gambling type, it took me several weeks to make up my mind to participate in this program. But conservative as I am, I decided that the initial investment was so little that there was no way that I could NOT get enough orders to at least get my money back. BOY, was I ever surprised when I found my medium sized post office box crammed with orders! I will make more money this year than any ten years of my life before". Mary Riceland, Lansing, MI TIPS FOR SUCCESS Send for your 4 REPORTS immediately so you will have them when the orders start coming in. When you receive a $5 order, you MUST send out the product/service to comply with US Postal and Lottery laws. Title 18, Sections 1302 and 1341 specifically state that: "A PRODUCT OR SERVICE MUST BE EXCHANGED FOR MONEY RECEIVED". WHILE YOU WAIT FOR THE REPORTS TO ARRIVE: 1. Name your new company. You can use your own name if you desire. 2. Get a post office box (preferred). 3. Edit the names and addresses on the program. You MUST remember, your name and address go next to REPORT #1 and the others all move down one, with the fourth one being bumped OFF. 4. Obtain as many addresses as possible to send until you receive the information on the mailing list companies in REPORT #3. 5. Decide on the number of programs you intend to send out. The more you send out and the quicker you send them, the more money you will make. 6. After mailing the programs, get ready to fill the orders. 7. Copy the four 4 REPORTS so you are able to send them out as soon as you receive an order. IMPORTANT: ALWAYS PROVIDE SAME-DAY SERVICE ON ORDERS YOU RECEIVE! 8. Make certain the letter and reports are neat and legible. YOUR GUARANTEE! The check point which GUARANTEES your success is simply this: you must receive 15 to 20 orders for REPORT #1. This is a MUST!!!! If you don't within two weeks, email out more programs until you do. Then a couple of weeks later you should receive at least 100 orders for REPORT #2, IF YOU DON'T, send out more programs until you do. Once you have received 100 or more orders for REPORT #2, (TAKE A DEEP BREATH) you can sit back and relax, because YOU ARE GOING TO MAKE AT LEAST $50,000. Mathematically it is a proven guarantee. Of those who have participated in the program and reached the above GUARANTEES - ALL have reached their $50,000 goal. Also, remember, every time your name is moved down the list you are in front of a different REPORT, so you can keep track of your program by knowing what people are ordering from you. IT'S THAT EASY, REALLY, IT IS!!!! REMEMBER: "HE WHO DARES NOTHING, NEED NOT HOPE FOR ANYTHING". "INVEST A LITTLE TIME, ENERGY AND MONEY NOW OR SEARCH FOR IT THE REST OF YOUR LIFE". GOOD LUCK! </PRE></HTML>

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Re: [?????] PGP 5.0 Freeware is available from ???
by Arunas Norvaisa 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On 09:29 PM 97.06.18 +0700, Peng Chiew wrote (and I quoted): > where is .tr in the first place? >Will you pay for my airticket?? ;) tr is for Turkey and yes, you'll need airticket to get there from .my !!! :) > >Seriously, you can get it at: > > ftp.hacktic.nl > pub/replay/pub/incoming/pgp50trial.exe > Will this be legal??? <= This is the question. BTW, when this 'trial' version will cease to work? -- greetz... Arunas Norvaisa - little guy, The Masses Inc. <mailto:arunas@post1.com> with subject: 'send key' to get PGP key PGP for idiots page <http://www.a-vip.com/an> and a mirror site <http://www.post1.com/~arunas> To understand a program you must become both the machine and the program.

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Adult Advertisement - Check It Out!
by Paula 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Recycling your unwanted junk email
by Bill Stewart 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Got any SPAM you're not using? Want to find a good home for it? A friend of mine passed along this request for spam, which can be beneficially recycled... Bill -------------- please forward your spam to junk(a)thehouse.org (or subscribe junk(a)thehouse.org to spam lists) ------- Forwarded Message Return-Path: dc-stuff Message-Id: <3.0.32.19970618085725.008b69d0(a)mail.ctp.com> X-Sender: ybenja(a)mail.ctp.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 (32) Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 08:57:28 -0700 To: dc-stuff(a)merde.dis.org From: Yobie Benjamin <ybenja(a)ctp.com> Subject: Spaminator II Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-dc-stuff Precedence: bulk X-forward-loop: dc-stuff Reply-To: Yobie Benjamin <ybenja(a)ctp.com> X-Comment: TO UNSUBSCRIBE: email "unsubscribe dc-stuff" to majordomo(a)dis.org X-Comment: Lonely? Need a friend and lover? email dtangent(a)defcon.org X-Comment: tired of typing? call the Defcon Voice Bridge 801-855-3326 X-Copyright: This message is Copyright all rights reserved unless expressly limited Status: O A few of you have been kind enough to send some spam to junk(a)thehouse.org. Unfortunately, much of it has been significantly altered, which makes it less useful. If you send any junkmail, please leave the headers and body as intact as possible. IMPORTANT!!! That means you shouldn't make a new message and include the junk mail in it, you shouldn't send the junk as an attachment, you shouldn't send more than one piece of junk in a single message, and you shouldn't quote the message text by insterting characters at the beginning of each line. Most of these things aren't that hard to undo, but everyone does them a bit differently and we'd rather not have to go through and fix them all. The best way to do it: sendmail junk(a)thehouse.org < onemessage or formail -ds sendmail junk(a)thehouse.org < manymessages If you use Emacs and VM, the following code will bind J in the summary window to do the Right Thing. (defvar flan-junkmail-address "junk(a)thehouse.org" "The address to forward all junkmail to.") (defun flan-junk-junkmail (prefix-arg) "Send all junkmail to 'flan-junkmail-address and delete it." (interactive "p") (if (interactive-p) (vm-follow-summary-cursor)) (vm-delete-message 1) (vm-pipe-message-to-command (concat "/usr/lib/sendmail " flan-junkmail-address) prefix-arg)) (define-key vm-mode-map "J" 'flan-junk-junkmail) ------- End of Forwarded Message

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Federal Websites
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The General Accounting Office has published an astonishing list of over 4,000 Federal Websites, many not well-known, with hyperlinks for easy access: - World Wide Web Sites: Reported by 42 Federal Organizations. GGD-97-86S. June 1, 1997. http://www.gao.gov/new.items/gg97086s.pdf It's a supplement to an assessment of federal electronic information systems: - Internet and Electronic Dial-Up Bulletin Board System Activities: Information Reported by Federal Organizations. GGD-97-86. June 16, 1997. http://www.gao.gov/new.items/gg97086.pdf We note the also amazingly-revealing GovBot Database of Government Websites which provides search and access to 308,000 government and military web pages: http://cobar.cs.umass.edu/ciirdemo/Govbot/

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House Science hearing TOMORROW on NIST computer security act (fwd)
by Declan McCullagh 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 09:59:27 -0700 (PDT) From: Declan McCullagh <declan(a)well.com> To: fight-censorship(a)vorlon.mit.edu Subject: House Science hearing TOMORROW on NIST computer security act ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 13 Jun 1997 17:11:03 -0400 From: "Farmer, Donna" <Donna.Farmer(a)mail.house.gov> To: declan Subject: Computer Security Enhancement Act of 1997 Subcommittee on Technology Legislative Hearing on the Computer Security Enhancement Act of 1997 Thursday, June 19th 1997 10:00 AM to 12:00 Noon 2318 Rayburn House Office Building The Honorable Gary Bachula Stephen T. Walker Acting Under Secretary for Technology President and CEO Technology Administration Trusted Information Systems, Inc. Department of Commerce Glenwood, MD Washington, DC James Bidzos Whitfield Diffie President & CEO Distinguished Engineer Redwood City, CA Sun Microsystems Mountain View, CA Marc Rotenberg Director Electronic Privacy Information Center Washington, DC .. Hearing Purpose: The Hearing will focus on the provisions of the Computer Security Enhancement Act of 1997. The bill amends the Computer Security Act of 1987 (P.L. 100-235). The Computer Security Act 1987of gave NIST the lead responsibility for computer security for Federal civilian agencies. The act requires NIST to develop the standards and guidelines needed to ensure cost-effective security and privacy of sensitive information in Federal computer systems. Background: The Computer Security Enhancement Act will strengthen the National Institute of Standards and Technology's (NIST's ) historic role in computer security established by the Computer Security Act. The bill updates the decade-old act while giving NIST the tools it requires to ensure that appropriate attention and effort is concentrated on securing our Federal information technology infrastructure. What the Bill Does: The Computer Security Enhancement Act updates the Computer Security Act to take into account the evolution of computer networks and their use by both the Federal Government and the private sector. Specifically, the security enhancement act: 1. Requires NIST to promote the acquisition of off-the-shelf products for meeting civilian agency computer security needs. This measure should reduce the cost and improve the availability of computer security technologies to Federal agencies. 2. Increases the input of the independent Computer System Security and Privacy Advisory Board into NIST's decision-making process. The board, which is made up of representatives from industry, federal agencies and other outside experts, should assist NIST in its development of standards and guidelines for Federal systems. 3. Requires NIST to develop standardized tests and procedures to evaluate the strength of foreign encryption products. Through such tests and procedures, NIST, with assistance from the private sector, will be able to judge the relative strength of foreign encryption, thereby defusing some of the concerns associated with the export of domestically produced encryption products. 4. Limits NIST's involvement to the development of standards and guidelines for Federal civilian systems and not for the private sector. The bill clarifies that NIST standards and guidelines are to be used for the acquisition of security technologies for the Federal government and are not intended as restrictions on the production or use of encryption by the private sector. 5. Updates the Computer Security Act to address changes in technology over the last decade. Significant changes in the manner in which information technology is used by the Federal government have occurred since the enactment of the Computer Security Act. The bill updates the Act, taking these changes into account. 6. Establishes a new computer science fellowship program for graduate and undergraduate students studying computer security. The bill sets aside $250,000 a year, for each of the next two fiscal years, to enable NIST to finance computer security fellowships under an existing NIST grant program. 7. Requires the National Research Council to conduct a study to assess the desirability of, and the technology required to, support public key infrastructures.

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DESCHALL Press Release (fwd)
by Jeff Simmons 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: >From owner-deschall-announce(a)gatekeeper.megasoft.com Wed Jun 18 13:43:46 1997 Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 14:09:11 -0600 From: Rocke Verser <rcv(a)dopey.verser.frii.com> Message-Id: <199706182009.OAA06697(a)dopey.verser.frii.com> To: deschall(a)gatekeeper.megasoft.com Subject: DESCHALL Press Release Sender: owner-deschall(a)gatekeeper.megasoft.com Precedence: bulk INTERNET-LINKED COMPUTERS CHALLENGE DATA ENCRYPTION STANDARD LOVELAND, COLORADO (June 18, 1997). Tens of thousands of computers, all across the U.S. and Canada, linked together via the Internet in an unprecedented cooperative supercomputing effort to decrypt a message encoded with the government-endorsed Data Encryption Standard (DES). Responding to a challenge, including a prize of $10,000, offered by RSA Data Security, Inc, the DESCHALL effort successfully decoded RSADSI's secret message. According to Rocke Verser, a contract programmer and consultant who developed the specialized software in his spare time, "Tens of thousands of computers worked cooperatively on the challenge in what is believed to be one of the largest supercomputing efforts ever undertaken outside of government." Using a technique called "brute-force", computers participating in the challenge simply began trying every possible decryption key. There are over 72 quadrillion keys (72,057,594,037,927,936). At the time the winning key was reported to RSADSI, the DESCHALL effort had searched almost 25% of the total. At its peak over the recent weekend, the DESCHALL effort was testing 7 billion keys per second. Verser considers this project to be remarkable in two ways: One. This is the first time anyone has publicly shown that they can read a message encrypted with DES. And this was done with "spare" CPU time, mostly from ordinary PCs, by thousands of users who have never even met each other. U.S. government and industry will have to take a hard look at their cryptographic policies. "DES can no longer be considered secure against a determined adversary", Verser said. Two. This project demonstrates the kind of supercomputing power that can be harnessed on the Internet using nothing but "spare" CPU time. "Imagine what might be possible using millions of computers connected to the Internet!" Aside from cryptography and other obvious mathematical uses, supercomputers are used in many fields of science. "Perhaps a cure for cancer is lurking on the Internet?", said Verser, "Or perhaps the Internet will become Everyman's supercomputer." Under current U.S. government export regulations, and underscoring a problem faced by the U.S. software industry, the program that searched the keys could not be exported, except to Canada. A competitive effort, based in Sweden, sprang up well after the DESCHALL effort began. Able to "market" their keysearch software around the world, the Swedish effort caught up quickly, and had searched nearly 10 quadrillion keys by the end of the contest. ------------------------------------ Verser agrees with the sentiment voiced in RSADSI's secret message: "Strong cryptography makes the world a safer place." Use of strong cryptography, both domestically and internationally, is essential in today's electronic world. "But not at the expense of a citizen's right to privacy." Verser adds, "Recent proposals for 'key-recovery' and for criminalization of the use of cryptography have no place in a free society." Information about the DESCHALL effort is available from the official DESCHALL Web site at: <http://www.frii.com/~rcv/deschall.htm> MEDIA CONTACTS: Matt Curtin, (908) 431-5300 x 295, <cmcurtin(a)research.megasoft.com> ALTERNATE: Rocke Verser, (970) 663-5629, <rcv(a)dopey.verser.frii.com> ALTERNATE: Justin Dolske, (614) 459-5194, <dolske.1(a)osu.edu> - 30 - INTERNET LINKED COMPUTERS CHALLENGE DATA ENCRYPTION STANDARD Background / Sidebar, for Release dated June 18, 1997 The Data Encryption Standard, DES, is a national standard, adopted in 1977. Use of DES is mandatory in most Federal agencies, except the military. DES is very widely used in the private sector, as well. Interbank wire transfers, Visa transactions, your medical and financial records, and your employer's financial data are some of the many things secured against prying eyes or against modification by DES. When the Data Encryption Standard was adopted in 1977, there was some question as to whether or not the Standard was adequate to protect confidential data. Matt Curtin, Chief Scientist for Megasoft, Inc. says, "This is proving by example, not by mathematical calculation, that DES can be broken with little or no cost." Curtin added, "Others could just as easily be attempting to gain access to multibillion dollar wire transfers." MEDIA CONTACTS: Matt Curtin, (908) 431-5300 x 295, <cmcurtin(a)research.megasoft.com> ALTERNATE: Rocke Verser, (970) 663-5629, <rcv(a)dopey.verser.frii.com> ALTERNATE: Justin Dolske, (614) 459-5194, <dolske.1(a)osu.edu> - 30 - INTERNET LINKED COMPUTERS CHALLENGE DATA ENCRYPTION STANDARD Background for Release dated June 18, 1997 DESCHALL DATA SHEET DESCHALL Web site: <http://www.frii.com/~rcv/deschall.htm> Principal Organizer: Rocke Verser, self-employed contract programmer, Loveland, Colorado Team Leaders - Did "everything" Rocke didn't have time to do Matt Curtin, Chief Scientist, Megasoft Online Justin Dolske, Graduate Fellow / Research Associate, Ohio State Universtiy Team Contributors: Guy Albertelli, several "ports" Kelly Campbell, original Mac port Darrell Kindred, blazing fast bitslice clients Andrew Meggs, blazing fast Mac client Karl Runge, statistics and rankings Team Members: Dozens of people who contributed "shareware". Thousands of ordinary folks, who contributed "spare" CPU cycles. Project statistics: Start of contest: January 29, 1997 Announcement of DESCHALL project: February 18, 1997 End of contest: June 17, 1997 Size of keyspace: 72,057,594,037,927,936 Keys searched: 17,731,502,968,143,872 Peak keys/day: 601,296,394,518,528 Peak keys/second: 7,000,000,000 (approx) Peak clients/day: 14,000 (approx, based on IP address) Total clients, since start: 78,000 (approx, based on IP address) The computer that found the key: CPU: Pentium 90 RAM: 16 megabytes Operating System: FreeBSD 2.2.1 Speed (keys/second): 250,000 (approx) Client: FreeBSD v0.214, built March 12, 1997 Owner: iNetZ Corporation, Salt Lake City, Utah Operator: Michael K. Sanders MEDIA CONTACTS: Matt Curtin, (908) 431-5300 x 295, <cmcurtin(a)research.megasoft.com> ALTERNATE: Rocke Verser, (970) 663-5629, <rcv(a)dopey.verser.frii.com> ALTERNATE: Justin Dolske, (614) 459-5194, <dolske.1(a)osu.edu> -- Jeff Simmons jsimmons(a)goblin.punk.net Hey, man, got any spare CPU cycles? Help crack DES. http://www.frii.com/~rcv/deschall.htm

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Deschall Fwd: WE FOUND IT!
by Robert Hettinga 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

--- begin forwarded text Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 17:01:16 -0400 To: dcsb(a)ai.mit.edu From: Kent Borg <kentborg(a)borg.org> Subject: Deschall Fwd: WE FOUND IT! Sender: bounce-dcsb(a)ai.mit.edu Precedence: bulk Reply-To: Kent Borg <kentborg(a)borg.org> 56-bit DES has now been publicly cracked! In a chaotic volunteer effort, no less. Cool! -kb, the Kent who's Macintosh searched quite a few billion keys, but did not find it. << start of forwarded material >> ** Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 13:46:19 -0600 ** From: Rocke Verser <rcv(a)dopey.verser.frii.com> ** To: deschall-announce(a)gatekeeper.megasoft.com ** Subject: WE FOUND IT! ** Sender: owner-deschall-announce(a)gatekeeper.megasoft.com ** Precedence: bulk ** ** -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- ** ** "Strong cryptography makes the world a safer place." ** ** That's the message RSA has been waiting for us to decipher. ** And we did it! ** ** The correct key (8558891AB0C851B6) was reported to RSA Data Security ** shortly before midnight last night (Mountain Time). RSA's automated ** server acknowledged our win! ** ** The winning computer is a Pentium 90MHz, operated by iNetZ Corporation ** of Salt Lake City, Utah. Their employee, Michael K. Sanders, was the ** individual who was running the DESCHALL client. ** ** Congratulations, Michael. And congratulations to all who participated! ** ** ** Many thanks are due, all around. ** ** Special thanks to Justin Dolske and Matt Curtin, who took enormous ** pressure off of me, early in the project; and who have kept the client ** archives, mailing lists, and gateways humming right along; and who ** diligently responded to *so many* questions on the mailing lists. ** Thanks very much! ** ** Special thanks to Darrell Kindred and Andrew Meggs, whose programming ** skill in their respective fields (fast bitslice clients and fast ** user-friendly Mac PPC clients) is unmatched! ** ** Special thanks to Karl Runge, who has spent many evenings into the wee ** hours (is 5 AM wee?) to develop some outstanding stats and to make sure ** those stats were posted each morning! ** ** Special thanks to Jeff Simmons, and others, whose names tragically ** escape me, who did some early publicity to get the project rolling! ** ** Special thanks to the other developers, Guy Albertelli and Kelly ** Campbell. Guy performed a number of "ports", and Kelly produced the ** first Mac client. ** ** Thanks to countless others, who devoted not just their CPU cycles, but ** their boundless energy as well. ** ** ** I offer both thanks and consolations to our only public "competitor", ** SolNET. ** ** Magnus and Fredrik: As I have said before, SolNET is a class outfit. I ** never once heard you disparage your competition. We thank you! ** ** In a sense, the "win" belongs to all of us, who contributed CPU cycles ** and clients and ideas and innovations. We searched less than 1/4 of the ** keyspace. Worldwide, over half of the keyspace was searched. A ** DESCHALL client may have found "the" key, but you deserve credit for ** helping to bring the "expected date of completion" significantly ahead. ** ** Your Web site gave us a goal to shoot for. A goal which we never met. ** Your clients had many features our users wished for. There is no shame ** in not finding the key. But I know the anguish you must feel after ** putting your hearts and souls into a project for 3-4 months, and not ** being "the" winner. ** ** In my eyes, everyone who participated, whether working for the DESCHALL ** team or the SolNET team is a winner! ** ** ** Last but not least, thanks to my dear wife, Myra, who allowed me to ** engage in this project (when I should have been looking for my next ** contract programming job); and to her and my children, who tolerated ** the disruption to our household routine caused by this project. ** ** ** - - Rocke Verser, DESCHALL organizer, rcv(a)dopey.verser.frii.com ** ** -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- ** Version: 2.6.2 ** ** iQCVAwUBM6g4wXI7TKUAAAABAQGNrwQAyuvPPGgIaRMmveI/9MwbTq6SbNerD4A3 ** VluN2EW+GCvT1UiyTV2eQ3tJB+9f5RUVnQ77rqsVvME1Go0M1Vckq0VPzBdMYWgq ** laNv8tf4LEkSyu2LrfoLONyvrNmcByRmO8Bwt/QtqICK4gFpXcnoWXaCz4NG6iZf ** 6NtPgJnQh6o= ** =I+bG ** -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ** << end of forwarded material >> -- Kent Borg H: +1-617-776-6899 kentborg(a)borg.org W: "The language seemed pretty natural to me. I talk a lot like that." - My Minnesota mother Helene commenting on "Fargo" For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "dcsb-request(a)ai.mit.edu" with one line of text: "help". --- end forwarded text ----------------- Robert Hettinga (rah(a)shipwright.com) Philodox e$, 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' The e$ Home Page: http://www.shipwright.com/

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Re: The Tao
by lucifer＠dhp.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Rabid Wombat wrote: > > The Tao of heaven is like the bending of a bow. > The high is lowered, and the low is raised. > If the string is too long, it is shortened; > If there is not enough, it is made longer. I had a boyfriend like that once. TruthMistress

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Award from Computer Press Ass'n (shameless self-congratulation)
by Declan McCullagh 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I just learned that Brock Meeks and I won the top award for "Best Online Feature" from the Computer Press Association during its 12th annual awards ceremony in New York City. Our winning article was the investigative story "Keys to the Kingdom" that exposed the hidden agendas of so-called blocking software programs. It ran in CyberWire Dispatch last July. The judges said we had: "produced an investigative piece on a serious and important subject--a rare feat in any media. 'Keys to the Kingdom' revealed that parental control software--which ostensibly filters out pornographic Internet sites--actually restricts access to all types of material both innocuous and important. Thus, software users unwittingly restrict their rights of free speech and access to information. This story, colorfully written and packed with details, raised this important issue to the online community and resulted in high profile follow-ups with mainstream media such as the Washington Post, New York Times and the Wall St. Journal." Our article is at: http://www.eff.org/pub/Publications/Declan_McCullagh/cwd.keys.to.the.kingdo… 6.article -Declan ------------------------- Declan McCullagh Time Inc. The Netly News Network Washington Correspondent http://netlynews.com/

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Re: Award from Computer Press Ass'n (shameless self-congratulation)
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Congrats Declan, and Brock. The best blow-by was that "colorfully written and packed with details." Too bad, that ass-kiss o'death "high-profile follow-up with mainstream media."

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17 Dec '03

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INFORMATION
by twinsvideo＠infosel.net.mx 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

donn't think that i'm lame or somthin' but i realy need information on how to hack so, could you please tell me how to hack and what do i need in order to hack. don't worry i won't get into trouble. please hurry it's urgent. T H N X A L O T ! ------------------------------------- Name: twins video,s.a. de c.v. E-mail: twinsvideo(a)infosel.net.mx Date: 18/06/97 Time: 6:46:10 PM This message was sent by Chameleon -------------------------------------

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HACKERS SMASH U.S. GOVERNMENT ENCRYPTION STANDARD
by sameer 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

C2Net Software, Inc. 1212 Broadway Oakland, CA 94612 510-986-8770 For Immediate Release HACKERS SMASH U.S. GOVERNMENT ENCRYPTION STANDARD Oakland, California (June 18, 1997)-The 56-bit DES encryption standard, long claimed "adequate" by the U.S. Government, was shattered yesterday using an ordinary Pentium personal computer operated by Michael K. Sanders, an employee of iNetZ, a Salt Lake City, Utah-based online commerce provider. Sanders was part of a loosely organized group of computer users responding to the "RSA $10,000 DES Challenge." The code-breaking group distributed computer software over the Internet for harnessing idle moments of computers around the world to perform a 'brute force' attack on the encrypted data. "That DES can be broken so quickly should send a chill through the heart of anyone relying on it for secure communications," said Sameer Parekh, one of the group's participants and president of C2Net Software, an Internet encryption provider headquartered in Oakland, California (http://www.c2.net/) "Unfortunately, most people today using the Internet assume the browser software is performing secure communications when an image of a lock or a key appears on the screen. Obviously, that is not true when the encryption scheme is 56-bit DES," he said. INetZ vice president Jon Gay said "We hope that this will encourage people to demand the highest available encryption security, such as the 128-bit security provided by C2Net's Stronghold product, rather than the weak 56-bit ciphers used in many other platforms." Many browser programs have been crippled to use an even weaker, 40-bit cipher, because that is the maximum encryption level the U.S. government has approved for export. "People located within the US can obtain more secure browser software, but that usually involves submitting an affidavit of eligibility, which many people have not done," said Parekh. "Strong encryption is not allowed to be exported from the U.S., making it harder for people and businesses in international locations to communicate securely," he explained. According to computer security expert Ian Goldberg, "This effort emphasizes that security systems based on 56-bit DES or "export-quality" cryptography are out-of-date, and should be phased out. Certainly no new systems should be designed with such weak encryption.'' Goldberg is a member of the University of California at Berkeley's ISAAC group, which discovered a serious security flaw in the popular Netscape Navigator web browser software. The 56-bit DES cipher was broken in 5 months, significantly faster than the hundreds of years thought to be required when DES was adopted as a national standard in 1977. The weakness of DES can be traced to its "key length," the number of binary digits (or "bits") used in its encryption algorithm. "Export grade" 40-bit encryption schemes can be broken in less than an hour, presenting serious security risks for companies seeking to protect sensitive information, especially those whose competitors might receive code-breaking assistance from foreign governments. According to Parekh, today's common desktop computers are tremendously more powerful than any computer that existed when DES was created. "Using inexpensive (under $1000) computers, the group was able to crack DES in a very short time," he noted. "Anyone with the resources and motivation to employ modern "massively parallel" supercomputers for the task can break 56-bit DES ciphers even faster, and those types of advanced technologies will soon be present in common desktop systems, providing the keys to DES to virtually everyone in just a few more years." 56-bit DES uses a 56-bit key, but most security experts today consider a minimum key length of 128 bits to be necessary for secure encryption. Mathematically, breaking a 56-bit cipher requires just 65,000 times more work than breaking a 40-bit cipher. Breaking a 128-bit cipher requires 4.7 trillion billion times as much work as one using 56 bits, providing considerable protection against brute-force attacks and technical progress. C2Net is the leading worldwide provider of uncompromised Internet security software. C2Net's encryption products are developed entirely outside the United States, allowing the firm to offer full-strength cryptography solutions for international communications and commerce. "Our products offer the highest levels of security available today. We refuse to sell weak products that might provide a false sense of security and create easy targets for foreign governments, criminals, and bored college students," said Parekh. "We also oppose so-called "key escrow" plans that would put everyone's cryptography keys in a few centralized locations where they can be stolen and sold to the highest bidder," he added. C2Net's products include the Stronghold secure web server and SafePassage Web Proxy, an enhancement that adds full-strength encryption to any security-crippled "export grade" web browser software. # # # Pentium is a registered trademark of Intel Corporation. Netscape and Netscape Navigator are registered trademarks of Netscape Communications Corporation Stronghold and SafePassage are trademarks of C2Net Software, Inc.

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Declan as a Crime Beat Reporter
by lucifer Mixmaster Remailer 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> hee, hee, I hope that Declan comes up with an amusing mishmash of your > own life. turnabout is fair play. maybe if he doesn't, someone else > can take a stab at satirizing mr. debauched millionaire playboy > who dabbles in cryptography theory. An interview with cypherpunks founder Timothy C May, Jim Bell and various other Cypherpunks also present. Interview conducted by Declan McCullagh Declan: Tim, can you tell us how you first became interested in the use of cryptography to preserve freedoms supposedly guaranteed by the constitution. Tim: Well, I had just quit working at Intel, where I made more money than all of you put together, when I really started to get interested in cryptography, At the first physical meeting, when John, Eric and I had just founded the cypherpunks, we discussed anonymity, digital cash and compared rifle collections. Jim: Something wonderful is about to happen. Tim: No it isn`t, I thought of anonymous digital assasination contracts first, now everyone calls it AP, and you get all the publicity (Tim reaches for his .45). Declan: Calm down, I`m sure it isn`t that simple. Tim: Yes it is, lets nuke D.C. Dimitri: Tim May blows small children, and is an anti semetic bigot. Graham-John Bullers: I think we should all send Vulis back 10 copies of this Truthmonger: Nuke Ottowa too. Kent Crispin: Nuking anywhere is just an adolescent fantasy Vladimir Z Nuri: I agree Tim May: No it isn`t, go away Kent. Paul Bradley: Yes indeed, nuke London as well. Ray Arachelian: There should be a law against this, surely it`s an infringement of privacy! Dimitri: Ray Arachelian is a dandruff covered censorous purebred sovok forger. Se7en: Lets hack their servers and erase all the kiddie porn. Truthmonger: I propose 3 minutes of silence for Tim McVeigh Dimitri: Ah, so you are trying to censor us then, Truthmonger is really Chris Lewis, who is also really Richard Depew. ObTruthMongerFodder: Tim McVeigh is a murderous cocksucker Hallam-Baker: AP is a murder and censorship scheme. Tim May: I thought of this and wrote an essay on it back in `78 when most of you were still in high school, I probably posted it once, trawl the archives and you shall be enligtened. Jerry K U-Ramos: Break this, because we are so confident in the strenth of our cipher we are giving you a week to cryptanalyse it, if you can`t, it must be unbreakable. Tim May: This offer of a prize for cryptanaysis is highly suspect, I am now placing rifles in strategic positions, lock and load. I remember a similar offer back in `64, before most of you were born, (mumble, mumble, mumble)... Toto: I`m sure the NSA have something to do with it, or is that the CIA, the FBI, the DEA ??? I don`t remember, but it`s some scary TLA composed entirely of men in long black coats. Kent Crispin: Lets be realistic about it, you are all obsessed with assasination. Vladimir Z Nuri: I agree (In a post only 3 seconds later than Kents original one, I wonder how that could happen? ;-)) Declan: None of you understand, I have to attend dinner parties, like the one with Steve and Bill the other night, to get information for my articles. Tim May: I thought of this back in `84 too, I concluded that people should read what I say more carefully, and you *might* sell out in future. Jim Bell: Something wonderful is about to happen Tim May: Jim, you are killfiled for being a loon. Declan: Right, I`m sorry but we appear to have run out of time, we`ll have to go home. Dimitri: So you are trying to censor us then. Declan McCullagh is a cocksucker Tim starts packing the several dozen rifles he brought with him back into boxes. Everyone gets in their cars to go home, except Tim May who brought his tank with him. THE END

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Re: [?????] PGP 5.0 Freeware is available from ???
by William H. Geiger III 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- In <3.0.2.32.19970618192907.007707dc(a)popd.ix.netcom.com>, on 06/18/97 at 07:29 PM, Bill Stewart <stewarts(a)ix.netcom.com> said: >5) Does US law have any say over whether you can import it from > the Nederlands to Turkey? (Not really...) Shhhhhhh... don't tell the State Dept. They think they have a say in what the rest of the world does. Ofcource seeing how many governments cave in to these little fasists bastards it's no wonder they think that they rule the world. - -- - --------------------------------------------------------------- William H. Geiger III http://www.amaranth.com/~whgiii Geiger Consulting Cooking With Warp 4.0 Author of E-Secure - PGP Front End for MR/2 Ice PGP & MR/2 the only way for secure e-mail. OS/2 PGP 2.6.3a at: http://www.amaranth.com/~whgiii/pgpmr2.html - --------------------------------------------------------------- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3a Charset: cp850 Comment: Registered_User_E-Secure_v1.1b1_ES000000 iQCVAwUBM6iwCI9Co1n+aLhhAQGa0QP+IaAeYwvUQtVVOC9pKw7n1gYSsZcm9KVE vVcuxiC9E1DU4EAwkbzpUlFweJiVucyaolt92fV1mamb9uBLk68ucg02cjhuXi92 LG4fJb4II9bhSWVxiKNbRrkJkTma/5lNCJaU+wOl28S9TFYfgIVd3JERmCf3nQYX ZdhTf51uet8= =acVF -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: [?????] PGP 5.0 Freeware is available from ???
by William H. Geiger III 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- In <3.0.2.32.19970618192907.007707dc(a)popd.ix.netcom.com>, on 06/18/97 at 07:29 PM, Bill Stewart <stewarts(a)ix.netcom.com> said: >5) Does US law have any say over whether you can import it from > the Nederlands to Turkey? (Not really...) Shhhhhhh... don't tell the State Dept. They think they have a say in what the rest of the world does. Ofcource seeing how many governments cave in to these little fasists bastards it's no wonder they think that they rule the world. - -- - --------------------------------------------------------------- William H. Geiger III http://www.amaranth.com/~whgiii Geiger Consulting Cooking With Warp 4.0 Author of E-Secure - PGP Front End for MR/2 Ice PGP & MR/2 the only way for secure e-mail. OS/2 PGP 2.6.3a at: http://www.amaranth.com/~whgiii/pgpmr2.html - --------------------------------------------------------------- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3a Charset: cp850 Comment: Registered_User_E-Secure_v1.1b1_ES000000 iQCVAwUBM6ivdY9Co1n+aLhhAQE7NgQAu5zF1HbjYE1ce7Q5bH1bzSw8h6uewcwM v9An7rEKQXQgdF0IPtxKEfr3rkRzF2CmMe/+Gizuz+umLiIfCl9SwLflb0nXgwdx Ftd3NRWQF52sTsS9PhCfs8/4Y7vZA+YjKo8fHHKK0c51px+3eoLHeyDMJCzJvPCM iTU5/3ei+RA= =CoLC -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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index.html
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

CNN logo US navbar Infoseek/Big Yellow Pathfinder/Warner Bros Main banner Start your retirement planning using Portrait Planning. Click Here. rule REPUTED MOBSTER'S ADMISSION MAY CAUSE CASE TO CRUMBLE Mercurio June 18, 1997 Web posted at: 9:47 p.m. EDT (0147 GMT) BOSTON (CNN) -- The trial of reputed mob boss Frank "Cadillac" Salemme was thrown into disarray Wednesday when mob journeyman Angelo "Sonny" Mercurio told a U.S. District Court he had been an informant for the FBI. The dramatic admission came after federal Judge Mark Wolf asked Mercurio if he had been an informant for the FBI in 1989 -- the same year his pals were being wiretapped by the agency. Mercurio, who is serving time in Georgia for marijuana possession, faced a jail sentence for contempt if he did not answer the question. _______________________________________________________________ PEG TYRE's report as seen on CNN VXtreme logo VXtreme Streaming Video _______________________________________________________________ "Yes," he replied in a loud and clear voice. His disclosure could threaten the government's case against Salemme, the reputed head of the New England Mafia, and four other reputed mobsters. Mercurio's answer raises questions about whether the Justice Department misled a federal judge to get a wiretap that helped lead to the conviction of other organized crime figures. Judges will not grant wiretaps if they know authorities haveinvestigative alternatives, such as informers. "It is an important part of a mosaic that we're going to build to argue that there has been outrageous government misconduct in this case and ask for a retrial," defense attorney John Mitchell said. Salemme's lawyers say they'll ask that the wiretaps be thrown out. If the judge agrees, the case against Salemme, as well as mobsters already convicted on wiretap evidence, could be in jeopardy. Judge says government's credibility is at stake The government's case against Salemme hinges on a wiretap recording of a ceremonial induction into the Patriarca crime family in Medford, Massachusetts, in 1989. The wiretap information led to convictions against Salemme's alleged predecessor, Raymond "Junior" Patriarca, and several others. Mercurio's admission proved the FBI lied in sworn statements they used to get permission for the tap. Agents claimed they needed the electronic surveillance of the induction, when instead they had Mercurio on the inside to help them. Scarpa "The entire premise and entire foundation of the tap may well be rotten, and the tape will be suppressed," defense attorney Anthony Cardinale said. It also potentially undermines 20 major mob convictions in New England. "I think FBI agents have gotten the message from the courts and from Congress that in organized crime cases, anything goes," criminal defense attorney Gerald Shargel said. Wolf said he will continue to press to see if the FBI obtained other wire taps by providing false information. At issue he says is the credibility of the government in the eyes of its federal judges. Correspondent Peg Tyre contributed to this report rule Read the next US story: * Negotiators optimistic about tobacco talks - June 18, 1997 Related stories: * CNN - Federal jury convicts 12 suspected Mexican Mafia members - May 30, 1997 * CNN - Mob bosses took a beating last year - Jan. 3, 1997 Related sites: * US Mafia, Short History & Key Players + Patriarca, Raymond L.S. * CSS Organized Crime Menu * Gangsters! * The New Mafia Order A history of the mafia from Mother Jones Magazine * GANG LAND: The Jerry Capeci Web Page Search for related CNN stories: ________________________________________ ______ [Help] Tip: You can restrict your search to the title of a document. Infoseek grfk Example: title:New Year's Resolutions rule Message Boards Sound off on our message boards Tell us what you think! You said it... [INLINE] Start your retirement planning using Portrait Planning. Click Here. rule To the top © 1997 Cable News Network, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Terms under which this service is provided to you.

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Re: CDT Policy Post 3.08 - Senate Committee Approves Key-RecoveryCrypto Bill
by Declan McCullagh 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>Date: Thu, 19 Jun 1997 16:47:49 -0400 >To: fight-censorship(a)vorlon.mit.edu >From: Declan McCullagh <declan(a)well.com> >Subject: Re: CDT Policy Post 3.08 - Senate Committee Approves Key-Recovery >Crypto Bill >Cc: >Bcc: >X-Attachments: > >At 13:45 -0400 6/19/97, Jonah Seiger wrote: >> >>Senator Conrad Burns' (R-MT) effort to block the McCain-Kerrey bill was >>defeated by a vote of 12 - 8. The 8 Senators who voted with Burns deserve >>a great deal of credit for standing up for the Net. > >Perhaps your definition of "standing up for the Net" is different from mine. > >The eight senators who "deserve a great deal of credit" voted for a bill >that would have codified into law a 56-bit limit on encryption exports and >would have sparked the development of a national key recovery >infrastructure. > >Burns' ProCODE II "effort" would have permitted only the export of up to >56-bit crypto products without key escrow. Products of any strength *with* >key escrow could be exported freely. > >ProCODE II would also create an Information Security Board composed of the >Commerce Secretary, and representatives of the NSA, CIA, FBI, and White >House. > >Maybe it's just me, but I don't need my elected representatives "standing >up" for me by passing these kinds of bills... > >-Declan > > >

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None Re: Recipient Anonymity
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Matt Ghio wrote: > A group of servers collects messages of equal length for anonymous > recipients. All servers exchange messages so that each has copies of all > messages. > > A recipient wishes to retrieve a message from the servers without any > server knowing which message he is receiving. The recipient selects a > group of n servers. From each server, S_1...S_n-1, he requests a random > selection of messages, with a 50% probability that any particular message > will be selected. The server returns the xor of all messages requested. > He sends the final server a request which is the xor of all the previous > requests and the one single message that he wants. > > The xor of all the responses is the desired message. It is impossible to > determine which message was received unless all servers collude. So what you're saying is: - Messages - A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Server 1: 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 1 Server 2: 0 1 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 Server 3: 1 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 1 So server 1 sends back the xor of messages A,C,D,F...Z; server 2 sends back the xor of B,C,E,F,G...etc. The xor of all of that cancels out everything except Message Q. But as long as at least one of the servers doesn't keep logs then nobody will know that except the person who downloaded it. Clever. It sure beats reply-blocks. :)

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Bullshit RE: HACKERS SMASH U.S. GOVERNMENT ENCRYPTION
by ARTURO GRAPA YSUNZA 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I actually got a kick out of reading the bullshit in the press release. >Oakland, California (June 18, 1997)-The 56-bit DES encryption >standard, long claimed "adequate" by the U.S. Government, was >shattered yesterday using an ordinary Pentium personal computer Actually it was more than 70,000 clients working together > "That DES can be broken so quickly should send a chill through the >heart of anyone relying on it for secure communications," I'm shitting bricks. No mention was made that only 25% of the keyspace was tested. >"Unfortunately, most people today... Unfortunately some companies depend on BS to sell products. Glad to see C2Net is no different, [Rest of the noise removed] You should have given credit to DESCHALL whose effort is be applauded.

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DES is dead. RC5 is next.
by Lucky Green 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Now that a stake has finally been put through the heart of DES, let's all join in breaking RC5-56. See my signature for details. Thanks for you help, --Lucky Green <shamrock(a)netcom.com> PGP encrypted mail preferred. DES is dead! Please join in breaking RC5-56. http://rc5.distributed.net/

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PGP 5.0 source shipped to Europe!
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Unknown Cypherpunks shipped the PGP 5.0 source to Europe. http://www.ifi.uio.no/pgp/pgp50.shtml See the source books! Read the shipping label! Trace the package! --SourceMonger

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Re: INFORMATION
by David Downey 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

----Original Message Follows---- >From owner-cypherpunks(a)cyberpass.net Wed Jun 18 23:17:57 1997 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by sirius.infonex.com (8.8.5/8.7.3) id WAA08563 for cypherpunks-outgoing; Wed, 18 Jun 1997 22:25:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from cpunks@localhost) by sirius.infonex.com (8.8.5/8.7.3) id WAA08541 for cypherpunks(a)infonex.com; Wed, 18 Jun 1997 22:25:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rigel.cyberpass.net (root(a)rigel.infonex.com [206.170.114.3]) by sirius.infonex.com (8.8.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA08529 for <cpunks(a)sirius.infonex.com>; Wed, 18 Jun 1997 22:24:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from toad.com (toad.com [140.174.2.1]) by rigel.cyberpass.net (8.8.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA29918 for <cypherpunks(a)cyberpass.net>; Wed, 18 Jun 1997 22:23:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by toad.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id VAA09031 for cypherpunks-unedited-outgoing; Wed, 18 Jun 1997 21:30:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from kim.teleport.com (kim.teleport.com [192.108.254.26]) by toad.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA09026 for <cypherpunks(a)toad.com>; Wed, 18 Jun 1997 21:30:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from kluge (ip-pdx38-11.teleport.com [204.202.160.13]) by kim.teleport.com (8.8.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id WAA07841; Wed, 18 Jun 1997 22:17:29 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <3.0.2.32.19970618221325.01cf2b00(a)mail.teleport.com> X-Sender: alano(a)mail.teleport.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.2 b4 (32) Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 22:13:25 -0700 To: twinsvideo(a)infosel.net.mx From: Alan Olsen <alan(a)ctrl-alt-del.com> Subject: Re: INFORMATION Cc: cypherpunks(a)toad.com In-Reply-To: <Chameleon.970618185549.twinsvideo(a)infosel.infosel.net.mx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-cypherpunks(a)cyberpass.net Precedence: bulk Reply-To: Alan Olsen <alan(a)ctrl-alt-del.com> X-List: cypherpunks(a)cyberpass.net X-Loop: cypherpunks(a)cyberpass.net At 06:46 PM 6/18/97 PDT, twinsvideo(a)infosel.net.mx wrote: > >donn't think that i'm lame or somthin' but i realy need information on how to hack so, could you please tell me how to hack >and what do i need in order to hack. I suggest really strong turkish cigarettes. Smoke them constantly and soon you will be hacking before you know it. >don't worry i won't get into trouble. Depends on the age of tobacco purchace in your state. You might have to get into High School before trying the above method. >please hurry it's urgent. That is what they all say... =================================================================== Hacking is something that you learn on your own. While there are a few folks that will show you the ropes, you have to learn on your own. Knowledge is precious, and even more so when you gain it through your own bllod sweat and tears. I hope you really mean hacking, and NOT cracking. There are many of us in the hacking community that are ticked off because the media and the government have lumped us hackers in with the Crackers. Crackers are folks that enter systems for no other reason that malicous damage of systems and vital infromation. These folks are usually punk kids out to romp around Cyberspace doing damage for kicks. There are professional crackers but are usually hired by governments and major corporations for either "NAtional Security" reasons or plain old Corporate espianage. Hackers on the other hand, are folks that believe in the free exchange and flow of information, and yearn for knowledge. While they occationally do break into systems, it is usually only for the challenge of doing so and NOT with the intent of causing damage. Most hackers that enter systems, will usually clean up after themselves after merely looking around the system for awhile just to see what is there with no intent to cause harm, only making modifications to logs and passwd files to clear traces of their entry. They NEVER damage files intentionally and that is a MAJOR no no with most folks in the real hacking community. Some hackers even go so far as to tell they System Administrators of the systems they enter that they did so, and how they did it so the Admins may plug the holes. Unfortunately, the government and the media have placed us within the same catagories as the Darksiders. I, for one, do hope you are a hacker and not trying to become a cracker. --------------------------------------------------------- Get Your *Web-Based* Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ---------------------------------------------------------

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