December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Net Censorship in the Uk
by Sean Gabb 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

You may have seen this already. If so apologies. However, it is a blatant example of police oppression and stupidity. If nothing else, just imagine how much of the taxpayers' money it cost to decide whether alt.binaries.erotica.fetish.feet contravenes the Obscene Publications Act 1959. Sean Gabb Editor Free Life ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 26 Aug 96 15:44:45 BST From: Sean Gabb <cea01sig(a)gold.ac.uk> To: cea01sig(a)gold.ac.uk Subject: theMet.html LETTER FROM THE METROPOLITAN POLICE _________________________________________________________________ METROPOLITAN POLICE SERVICE Clubs and Vice Unit Charing Cross Police Station Agar Street London WC2N 4JP Telephone: 0171 321 7752 Facsimile: 0171 321 7762 To: All Internet Service Providers Dear Sir / Madam Pornographic Material on the Internet Further to the seminar held at New Scotland Yard on 2nd August I enclose, as promised by Superintendent Mike Hoskins, a list of those Newsgroups which we believe contain pornographic material. We have attempted to confirm that the Newsgroups listed currently contain this offensive material but as you will be only too aware the content is continually changing and you will need to satisfy yourself about the nature and content before taking any action. Furthermore, this list is not exhaustive and we are looking to you to monitor your Newsgroups identifying and taking necessary action against those others found to contain such material. As you will be aware the publication of obscene articles is an offence. This list is only the starting point and we hope, with the co-operation and assistance of the industry and your trade organisations, to be moving quickly towards the eradication of this type of Newsgroup from the Internet. At the seminar we debated the means of maintaining an up to date list and you will recall that ISPA volunteered to pool information and assist in this initiative. However, we are very anxious that all service providers should be taking positive action now, whether or not they are members of a trade association. We trust that with your co-operation and self regulation it will not be necessary for us to move to an enforcement policy. Yours Faithfully Stephen French Chief Inspector List alt.binaries.pictures.boys alt.binaries.pictures.child.erotica.female alt.binaries.pictures.child.erotica.male alt.binaries.pictures.children alt.binaries.pictures.erotic.children alt.binaries.pictures.erotica child alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.child.female alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.child.male alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.children alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.lolita alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.pre-teen alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.teen.fuck alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.young alt.binaries.pictures.lolita.fucking alt.binaries.pictures.lolita.misc alt.sex.boys alt.sex.children alt.sex.fetish.tinygirls alt.sex.girls alt.sex.incest alt.sex.intergen alt.sex.pedophile.mike-labbe alt.sex.pedophilia. alt.sex.pedophilia.boys alt.sex.pedophilia.girls alt.sex.pedophilia.swaps alt.sex.pedophilia.pictures alt.sex.pre-teens alt.sex.teens alt.sex.weight-gain 0000000928 0000000418 y alt.fan.cock-sucking 0000001482 0000001311 y 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Re: NSA's Venona Intercepts
by pjb＠ny.ubs.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

it is my understanding that the Venona traffic used a code book with super- encyption using a otp. the break was possible because the Soviet's got sloppy with the otp keys and in fact used some of them more than once. even then, it tooks years of work to make the breaks. everything you ever heard about using true random keys, and only once is true. difficult as it may be to accomplish, it is possible to break a otp if the pad isn't really 'one time'. -paul > From cypherpunks-errors(a)toad.com Mon Aug 26 18:14:44 1996 > X-Sender: smith(a)mailhost.sctc.com > Mime-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type> : > text/plain> ; > charset="us-ascii"> > Date: Mon, 26 Aug 1996 10:49:39 -0600 > To: cypherpunks(a)toad.com > From: smith(a)sctc.com (Rick Smith) > Subject: NSA's Venona Intercepts > Sender: owner-cypherpunks(a)toad.com > Content-Length: 1510 > > The bulk of the material available from NSA's web site is associated with a > long time project called Venona to decrypt Soviet message traffic from the > 1940s. It's an interesting exhibition of the practical output of > cryptanalysis that, incidentally, contains alleged reference to famous > Commie spies of that era (Hiss, the Rosenbergs, etc). > > One question that I haven't found answered in my perusals of the site is a > definitive statement of the cryptographic technology used by the Soviets. I > was re-reading Kahn's 1967 chapter on Soviet crypto and he claimed that > they relied primarily on one time pads. In fact, he was pretty specific > about them using OTPs for exactly the type of traffic appearing in the > Venona archive. But when I look at the partial decrypts in the Venona > archive I don't understand how you'd get such partial decrypts from OTPs. > > The intercepts seem to indicate the use of ciphers with some codewords > weakly layerd on top. Some intercepts show translations based on the > phonetic properties of the extracted Russian plaintext. So I don't think > the "unrecovered codegroups" are caused by a classic code that substitutes > tokens for word meanings. But you're not going to crack only part of a OTP > ciphertext -- presumably you'd need a compromised key tape, and that would > either decrypt everything or nothing. > > So they were either really using rotor machines or they were using > something else. Any other ideas? Other references? > > Rick. > smith(a)sctc.com secure computing corporation > > >

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Australian Interbet Betting System Gets US Interest 08/26/96
by Joseph M. Reagle Jr. 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>ALICE SPRINGS, AUSTRALIA, 1996 AUG 26 (NB) -- An American from Washington >DC has placed the first "Interbet" on the Australian Football League (AFL), >$250 for a win on North Melbourne to beat Geelong, with Alice Springs >bookmaker CentreBet which switched on its net-based computer betting >service last week. > >CentreBet has taken more than 70 bets on the Internet since launching the >worldwide service, approved by the Northern Territory Racing and Gaming >Authority. Alice Springs, colloquially known as "The Alice," is a small >community close to Ayers Rock in the central outback of Australia where >people are few and betting is a way of life. > >CentreBet's Gerard Daffy told the Australian Associated Press news service >he expects keen Interbet interest from Asians who are big fans of English >soccer and also from Americans whom he expects to bet on a variety of major >sporting events, starting with this week's US Open tennis and the upcoming >NFL season. > >However the AFL bet from America came right out of left field (AFL, or >Australian Rules football, a descendant of Ireland's Gaelic football, is >played seriously only in several Australian States, but is shown regularly >on some US cable-TV services). "The guy who put the bet on North Melbourne >is part of an Australian Rules fan club in the US," said Daffy. "There's >another American in Michigan who has opened an Interbet account to bet on >the AFL as well." > >For the record: the fan who bet on North Melbourne can forget his $250. >Geelong downed North Melbourne at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on Saturday >by 109 points to 96. > >CentreBet can be reached at http://www.taunet.com.au/centrebet > >(19960826) > > > _______________________ Regards, Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them. -Paul Valery Joseph Reagle http://rpcp.mit.edu/~reagle/home.html reagle(a)mit.edu E0 D5 B2 05 B6 12 DA 65 BE 4D E3 C1 6A 66 25 4E

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Re: NSA's Venona Intercepts
by smith＠sctc.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 12:26 AM 8/27/96, Black Unicorn wrote: >I seem to recall an exhibit on Verona including a proported Soviet OTP at >the National Cryptologic Museum in MD. Kahn's "Codebreakers" also has photos of OTPs captured from undercover Soviet spies. The fact that illegals were using OTPs to talk to their controllers didn't necessarily imply that messages from Soviet embassies and other offices needed to be using OTPs themselves. The could have used a good rotor machine (well, good for the era). But now I'm convinced they didn't. The whole thing makes sense if we're looking at cryptanalysis based on reused OTPs. I can see why the NSA doesn't mind letting the world know that they could crack reused OTPs as opposed to some other identifiable cipher technique. The degree of NSA's success doesn't help an adversary optimize their crypto technology. The decryption success is in direct proportion to how sloppy the Soviets were in using their OTPs. I'll bet some official got shot when this was all figured out. Partial decrypts occur when parts of the keystream are recovered and other parts are not. I wonder if one could compare the "holes" in the various messages and thereby infer which OTPs were used for which messages based on patterns of keystream recovery. Venona also presents an object lesson on why not to use OTPs: the security does not degrade gracefully if they are misused. Reusing one even once could easily compromise both messages sent with it. I doubt security degrades nearly as quickly if you overuse or reuse keys in more modern techniques. Thus, OTP keying requires a reliably pessimistic prediction of traffic flow, and your security is toast if you underestimate your transmission needs. Besides, given that nobody can crack a truly randomized OTP, I can see why NSA would want to publicize a failed use of OTPs. Might as well focus interest on more theoretically tractable techniques. Rick.

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FYI: GOP's Stolen Laptop...
by Steve O 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

FYI: Front page of the New Jersey Star Ladger: "GOP's Stolen Laptop had credit card Details" NJ Republicans' convention info and card card numbers and info was on the laptop insecurely, a letter went oput to the NJ Republican committee informing them of the 'inconveince'. Several key Rebulican Reps' cards were among those stolen including: Dick ZImmer and Christopher Smith as well as the State Committee's credit card. etc... "True Utopia can only be reached by an uncensored and secure Internet, True Chaos can only be reached by the government, True love can only be reached in the movies." S.O. "Bang your head, Metal Health will drive you mad!" Quiet Riot "Welcome my friend, Welcome to The Machine" Pink Floyd -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Version: 2.6.2 mQCNAzHF2iIAAAEEAKw9QZ8yNG0X1YOGvaYeLaOQphDSEFYxelYED8a4YKoxnHuX Wd7CPKXBS6Bhx9uGFpNa/7Km33TfhzJhuolHPb60upBIsNTdrkzVlSYyiE0aWuFt EORVWEG6Rmy9w2yZ8obQAIx9aAy7h1wDi2mdSrDH+rPBw0pXelhDCiQ5KnJpAAUR tCBTdGV2ZSBPIDxwcml2c29mdEBpeC5uZXRjb20uY29tPg== =J4Tk -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----

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Re:Edited Edupage, 18 Aug 1996 [SATELLITES]
by jim bell 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 11:24 PM 8/26/96 -0700, Bill Stewart wrote: >At 12:35 AM 8/21/96 -0800, mccoy(a)communities.com (Jim McCoy) wrote: >>You want to avoid moving parts like the plague in orbit. They eventually >>wear out or fail and once that happens you have a very expensive piece of >>junk in orbit. Solid-state storage is the _only_ way to go if you want to >>avoid things like neding to pressurize the drive (eliminating any cost >>advantage over solid-state.) > >Why do you need to pressurize the drive? Most hard disk drives >for the last N years have been airtight sealed containers, >haven't they? (Removables are different, of course.) While I haven't looked at the more recent ones closely, most hard drives have an ultra-fine (<0.1 um particles?) filter element separating "inside" from "outside." It allows air to pass to equalize pressure and humidity, while keeping out the dust. (it is probably made of the same kind of material that is used, internally, as a filter for the airflow within the drive.) Even if they didn't, there is a big difference between an enclosure that's good enough to hold a hard disk on earth, and one which can spend N-years in a high vacuum yet maintain enough air to run a hard drive. > >I'd worry far more about the stresses of launch bothering >the drives. That's not a problem at all. Most modern drives are rated for 10's of G's, non-operating. Satellite launches are probably a breeze compared to this. Jim Bell jimbell(a)pacifier.com

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Cato Institute conference on Net-regulation, 9/20/96
by Declan McCullagh 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

This should be a good half-day conference, with some interesting speakers. I'll probably show up for Charles Platt's keynote. Naturally, it's being held in the building's Hayek Auditorium. Hayek has some relevance to cypherpunks, I think -- he warned early on that the loss of economic freedom inevitably leads to the loss of civil liberties as well. He also described the phenomenon of spontaneous order (admittedly in the context of markets), which speaks to the way the Net has ordered itself. -Declan // declan(a)eff.org // I do not represent the EFF // declan(a)well.com // ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 27 Aug 1996 12:05:44 -0400 From: Solveig Bernstein <sberns(a)cato.org> To: fight-censorship(a)vorlon.mit.edu Please redistribute this conference announcement freely: ********************************************************* Regulation or Private Ordering? The Future of the Internet The Cato Institute cordially invites you to a morning conference and luncheon Regulation or Private Ordering? The Future of the Internet Friday, September 20, 1996 8:30 a.m. 1:30 p.m. The Cato Institute's F.A. Hayek Auditorium 1000 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W. Washington, DC The Internet promises users unprecedented individual control over information. It is at once a tool for universal communication, a new form of media, and a new way of doing business. But it is also a challenge to lawmakers and regulators. Existing laws cannot easily be applied to the Internet and appear doomed to failure. Do we need a new set of laws or will voluntary private action ensure order on the information superhighway? Cato's Regulation or Private Ordering? The Future of the Internet conference will bring together leading authorities on law, regulation, and technology to discuss the problems of adapting existing law to the Internet and to explore private alternatives to regulation. Can private ordering consistent with individual freedom forestall a government backlash against perceived Internet chaos? The cost of this conference is $25.00. Registration Wintergarden 8:30 8:35 a.m. Lawrence Gasman Welcoming Remarks Director, Telecommunications and Technology Studies, Cato Institute 8:35 9:20 a.m. JURISDICTIONAL BOUNDARIES David Post;Collective Action in Cyberspace" Georgetown University Law Center Dan Burk Federalism without Borders; Seton Hall University School of Law 9:20 10:30 a.m. FEDERAL REGULATORY ISSUES Robert Crandall; Rate Regulation and Arbitrage; Internet Telephony; Brookings Institution Trotter Hardy;Congress and Digital Copyright: Avoiding a Balancing Act;William & Mary College of Law Lori Fena;Security of Personal and Corporate Information Online: Moving toward Industry Self Regulation; Electronic Frontier Foundation 10:30 10:45 a.m. Break 10:45 11:55 a.m. FREE SPEECH IN CYBERSPACE Danny Weitzner; The Empowered User: Internet Technology Tools for Limiting Access to Unwanted Material; Protecting Privacy; Center for Democracy and Technology Eugene Volokh;Private Online Speech Controls: Censorship, Constitutionally Protected Editing, or Both? University of California at Los Angeles School of Law David Sobel;Prospects of the CDA in the Supreme Court; Electronic Privacy Information Center 12:30 p.m. Keynote Address - Charles Platt; Net Futures: Scary and Sublime; Author, Free Zone, The Silicone Man, Contributing Writer, Wired Magazine 12:30 p.m. Luncheon News media please call Robin Hulsey at (202) 789 5293. To Register, please e-mail Scott Wallis at swallis(a)cato.org, or vist our web site at //www:cato.org. ********************************************************************** Solveig Bernstein, Esq. (202) 789-5274 (202) 842-3490 (fax) Assistant Director of Telecommunications & Technology Studies Cato Institute 1000 Mass. Ave. NW Washington, DC 20001

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Re: libelous action
by Jean-Francois Avon 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On 26 Aug 96 at 20:28, Ross Wright wrote: > If I was John E. Holt, I would take a different public relations > tack. I would seek positive input, not a negative reaction to > criticism. Or I would ignore the critique altogether. > Ross Wright Yes Ross, but while writing this, your premise is that Holt has a product that is at least partially decent and that it could maybe be improved. You assume he might be making an honest error. Maybe it is not the case. ;) jfa DePompadour, Societe d'Importation Ltee; Limoges porcelain, silverware and crystal JFA Technologies, R&D consultants: physicists, technologists and engineers. PGP keys at: http://w3.citenet.net/users/jf_avon ID# C58ADD0D : 529645E8205A8A5E F87CC86FAEFEF891

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Re: Spamming
by John Deters 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 09:27 PM 8/26/96 -0800, Adamsc wrote: >On Mon, 26 Aug 1996 13:26:04 -0500, John Deters wrote: > >>>What do cypherpunks think about the following practice or law (I realize >>>that it may be impossible to implement): each email message should carry >>>a little digicash check for, say, 20 cents. Mail reading programs should >>>reject (send back unread) all messages not carrying these digital >>>checks, unless the senders are in the "friends list". The MUAs should >>>ask users whether they want to "cash" the digital check or not. >> >>I do not believe it is possible to have a secure executable that exists on >>an uncontrolled user's machine. "Tamperproof" encryption chips still >>require communications in and out from the user's program. A determined >>attacker could continue to use the pieces of their code that talk to the >>encryption chip. > >>Never underestimate the allure of "free money" when you're planning to >give >>it away. > >Methinks you don't understand e-cash. It's not executable, and uses public key >crypto to prevent "minting". It uses records to prevent replays. In other >words, it'd be like Ed McMahon including a quarter in the envelope. You'd only >be able to use it once.... Maybe I misspoke; I wasn't referring to minting e-cash. I was referring to the fact that if you can get spammers to enclose a 20e coin for every junk e-mail advertisement you agree to read, then you can write a mail reader that will read their spam and collect all their 20e coins. To me, that's better than "minting" e-cash. Totally legal, and the net effect transfers funds from the spammers to me. The rest of my letter was in regards to writing that mail reader. And no, even if they were to succeed at getting stupid users to install their own special mail reader just for the privilege of reading their advertisements, without secure hardware in the users' machines, their mail server would not be secure against a spoofing attack. John -- J. Deters "Captain's log, stardate 25970-point-5. I am nailed to the hull." +-------------------------------------------------------+ | NET: jad(a)dsddhc.com (work) jad(a)pclink.com (home) | | PSTN: 1 612 375 3116 (work) 1 612 894 8507 (home) | | ICBM: 44^58'36"N by 93^16'27"W Elev. ~=290m (work) | | PGP Key ID: 768 / 15FFA875 | +-------------------------------------------------------+

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please help
by Manuel Benedicto Procas 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Please...you know a macintosh program in order to war dialing TCP IP numbers and Unix or VMS localice Login/password cobinations. MANUEL

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Boeing Antenna Demos T1 Reception Rates
by reagle＠rpcp.mit.edu 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

WASHINGTON, DC, U.S.A., 1996 AUG 27 (NB) -- By Bill Pietrucha. All eyes were on the truck as it meandered its way down the twisting mountain road in northern Bosnia. Except the eyes didn't belong to lookouts in an observation post along the road. They were in a modified US Air Force (USAF) C-135 flying at 35,000 feet along the East Coast of the United States, some 6,000 miles away. The USAF C-135, known by the name Speckled Trout, was participating in the 1996 Joint Warrior Interoperability Demonstration (JWID `96). JWID `96 is the eighth in a series of technology demonstrations designed to identify command, control, communications, computer, and intelligence (C4I) problems between the armed services, demonstrate improved operational capabilities for deployed forces, and promote interoperability among existing and emerging C4I systems needed to support a joint task force. As part of the exercise, the Air Force installed the first full-scale prototype Ku-band phased array receive antenna system on the Speckled Trout, a modified avionics testbed aircraft maintained by the 412th Flight Test Squadron at Edwards Air Force Base, California. The antenna, developed by Boeing Co., is capable of receiving broad- band, high data rate satellite communications, with civilian as well as military applications, Boeing spokesperson Charles Ramey told Newsbytes. According to Ramey, the antenna will "revolutionize mobile satellite communications by increasing the data flow by thousands of times over current capabilities." Depending on the satellite and receiver, he said, rates of up to 30 megabits-per-second (Mbps) may be realized through a single transponder. "To date, satellite communication to mobile platforms has been limited to relatively narrow bandwidths, and wide band communication has been subject to the limits of antenna technology," Ramey told Newsbytes. The Boeing design can be adapted to simultaneously receive signals from multiple satellites in different orbits with a single antenna. The electronically steered antenna also allows for rapid switching between different satellites. During the JWID exercises, which will continue through August 30, the Boeing antenna system is being used to receive satellite transmitted video and data to support the Global Broadcast Service (GBS) mission. GBS, Ramey said, is designed to provide the military with a worldwide, seamless, high-throughput broadcast information service to support current and future defense objectives. As one Air Force Colonel at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Florida, told Newsbytes, "GBS is the CNN of the warfighter." EchoStar, a key member of the antenna demonstration team, transmitted video in Digital Video Broadcast (DVB) format for reception by the Boeing antenna system on the Speckled Trout. In addition to the video, an uplink data stream at T1, or 1.5Mbps, or higher is generated at the GBS uplink terminal testbed at the Operational Support Office facility located at the Naval research Facility near Washington DC. This signal, according to Ramey, is relayed through the GBS Americom K2 FSS satellite which downlinks to a receiver at an EchoStar facility. The data is then incorporated into the network broadcast system and retransmitted via the EchoStar 1 satellite to a GBS receiver. The data is then stored for retrieval by other systems, Ramey said, including the Global Command and Control System (GCCS), sponsored by the Air Force Communications Agency, and the Combat Information System, sponsored by the Air Intelligence Agency. "Other systems on board the Speckled Trout can retrieve data through the Boeing phased array antenna system, which is routed to terminals inside the aircraft for display and demonstration," Ramey said. The Speckled Trout also can track and receive video and data from EchoStar Dish Network TV, Hughes DirectTV, and USSB transmissions for display on a conventional monitor, Ramey said. Looking to commercial applications, Ramey said the phased array communication antenna system "offers the ability to provide passengers with more entertainment and information options. With the Boeing antenna system on board, passengers can have access to the entire spectrum of commercial television programming available from a BSS satellite." Ramey said the antenna system is capable of instantaneously bringing in approximately 100 channels from a given BSS satellite. (199670826/Press Contact: Charles Ramey, Boeing Defense & Space group, 206-657-1380)

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"The Observer" calls the internet a child pornography ring
by jamesd＠echeque.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Banner Front page headline in the British Observer, Sunday 25th "The Peddlers of child abuse" see http://scallywag.com/ The internet is presented as a conspiracy by child molesters. There is a picture of Johan Helsingius, the man who free of charge provides an anonymous remailer service: The picture is captioned "The internet middle man who handles 90% of all child pornography" He is represented as personally profiting from the distribution of child pornography, though in fact no posts to binary newsgroups can go through his system, and no large binaries can go through his system, and he provides the anonymising service free of charge. There is a picture of Clive Feather, the man who runs the largest internet service provider in Britain, captioned "The school governor who sells access to photos of child rape"]] The observer article savagely demonizes all who use the internet, presenting it as primarily existing for the purpose of distributing child pornography, and demonizes and libels by name those who have sought to defend the liberty of netizens. I urge you all to check out this article, and send snail mail letters to the observer condemning (since they are obviously too low tech to read email) and email letters of support to those netizens who have been savagely libeled for their defence of liberty. --------------------------------------------------------------------- We have the right to defend ourselves and our property, because of the kind of animals that we are. True law derives from this right, not from the arbitrary power of the omnipotent state. http://www.jim.com/jamesd/ James A. Donald jamesd(a)echeque.com

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A _REALLY_ Interesting Bet
by nobody＠zifi.genetics.utah.edu 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Betting on football is one thing, but some of us would be very interested in the odds on US presidential election outcomes as November approaches. This kind of betting is illegal here, and I haven't looked lately for a "Ladbroke's" type site, but it is interesting because the betting odds from across the Atlantic more closely match eventual election results than the annoying calls from Gallup & Roper during suppertime. I have posted here, anonymously, on this topic before, but some of you are aware of who I am. I'll thank you to keep that a secret. ;}

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Re: The POUCH
by Alan Olsen 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 07:44 PM 8/26/96 EDT, JOHN E. HOLT wrote: >The Pouch uses a 64 x 64 block product cipher, a 1024 bit random initialization >vector and the CBC technique. Most experts agree that such an implementation >is highly resistant to all forms of cryptographic attack. That depends highly on the cypher. Also depends on if your "initialization vector" is truly random. (Or even close, as some other companies have found in the past...) It is resistant to all attacks that you know of. Depending on the nature of the algorythm, this could be true in some sense, false in some sense and meaningless in some sense. Without published code, it is meaningless in all senses. >Hellman and Dilfie rely on knowing the algorithm for their known plain text >attacks >An unpublished algorithm forces them into reverse engineering the computer >programs to learn the algorithm. The POUCH has many roadblocks built in >to prevent this. As someone who has spent time reverse engeneering code, I find this one pretty funny. The only thing I have found that will obscure code in any real fashion is writing it badly. "Roadblocks" to reverse engeneering also tend to be a speed hit. Either way, it will not stop someone with the proper skills and tools. >I refer to Cummings, Cryptography and Data Security pages 150 and 98 in this >regard. Do we have to read them in reverse order or is that part of the roadblock you are using to make things more difficult...? I will be interested to see just what kind of liability problems you run into when this thing gets compromised. Of course, with a name like "The Pouch", you will probibly just claim it was a "kangaroo court". --- | "Remember: You can't have BSDM without BSD. - alan(a)ctrl-alt-del.com "| |"The moral PGP Diffie taught Zimmermann unites all| Disclaimer: | | mankind free in one-key-steganography-privacy!" | Ignore the man | |`finger -l alano(a)teleport.com` for PGP 2.6.2 key | behind the keyboard.| | http://www.teleport.com/~alano/ | alano(a)teleport.com |

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"The Observer" calls the internet a child pornography ring
by jamesd＠echeque.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Banner Front page headline in the British Observer, Sunday 25th "The Peddlers of child abuse" see http://scallywag.com/ The internet is presented as a conspiracy by child molesters. There is a picture of Johan Helsingius, the man who free of charge provides an anonymous remailer service: The picture is captioned "The internet middle man who handles 90% of all child pornography" He is represented as personally profiting from the distribution of child pornography, though in fact no posts to binary newsgroups can go through his system, and no large binaries can go through his system, and he provides the anonymising service free of charge. There is a picture of Clive Feather, the man who runs the largest internet service provider in Britain, captioned "The school governor who sells access to photos of child rape"]] The observer article savagely demonizes all who use the internet, presenting it as primarily existing for the purpose of distributing child pornography, and demonizes and libels by name those who have sought to defend the liberty of netizens. I urge you all to check out this article, and send snail mail letters to the observer condemning (since they are obviously too low tech to read email) and email letters of support to those netizens who have been savagely libeled for their defence of liberty. --------------------------------------------------------------------- We have the right to defend ourselves and our property, because of the kind of animals that we are. True law derives from this right, not from the arbitrary power of the omnipotent state. http://www.jim.com/jamesd/ James A. Donald jamesd(a)echeque.com

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Real-time key server
by Osborne, Rick 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Okay, I was told to not post to the list until I'd: 1. Lurked for a month, 2. Figured out who Detweiler was, 3. Found out about BlackNet and DC Nets, 4. Learned of at least three of David Chaum's innovations. And at that point "[I] may be ready to post [my] first comments." Well, dammit, I can't wait that long. I need help now. I've only been on for 2 weeks, I have no clue who Detweiler is (other than the welcome message I haven't heard two words about him/her/it), and I know enough to sound stupid about the other stuff. But if you still think I'm worthy of listeneing to, then read on. I work for Northrop Grumman Corp (SBMS division) when I have been tasked to create a program for reciept of online forms. The entire division is wanting to go paperless, and I am the sole person doing it. (Yes, I'm going for pity here.) I am writing my own CGI remailer for insecure forms, but some of them have to be secure. I think the best way to go about this is a public-key system with both keys stored locally and the public keys stored on a networked database (for routing purposes; ie, it has to go through managers and admin and will be verified and digitally signed with each hop). Now, of course, acces to the public keys will be through a key server. This is where I come into my problem. In my research into keyservers, I find that none of them are realtime. Sure, there are CGI interfaces to them, but that's not what I mean. I was hoping for something along the line of a Finger or SMTP protocol, such that a client connects to a host (say, keyserv.northgrum.com) on a certain port (say, 5397) and goes through a realtime version of what is accomplished via email. Something like: [connect] client>GET osborri server>200 OK server>-----Begin . . . and so forth. Now. Yes, I am intelligent enough to implement something like this. (Actually, that's debatable, but it's also besides the point.) What I want to know is this: Is there a realtime implementation out there already? Why? Because: 1. I do not want to reinvent the wheel. 2. I would like to conform to existing standards. Now, if the answer is a 'no', then who wants to draft a quickie RFC? -oz

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Re: Sen. Leahy's "impeccable cyberspace credentials"
by raffetto＠podesta.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Josh Crockett is exactly right here... > It would seem >that we need to hunt down our issues and support them, seeing as that >politicians are notoriously unreliable on supporting every single issue >we would like them to support. And that's why Declan's message about Leahy is foolish. When you find a champion on the Hill for one issue, you rally around him/her. And when they won't support you on another issue, you find another champion. If your policy is to disown Hill allies (in this case, Leahy) who break ranks with you from time to time, you'll quickly run out of allies. And when you have no allies on the Hill, you're really screwed. John Raffetto

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Re: $10K offer if you can break the code
by Michael T. Babcock 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- To: mpd(a)netcom.com, cypherpunks(a)toad.com Date: Tue Aug 27 17:17:57 1996 Date: 23 Aug 96 13:59:38 EDT From: "JOHN E. HOLT" <76473.1732(a)CompuServe.COM> Subject: secret message To: <mbabcock(a)tyenet.com> Date: 01-Aug-96 14:50 EDT From: JOHN E. HOLT [76473,1732] Subj: puzzle ^%}{{ ZZ VVPAGMIGJEKMCCHIAKKPEHJDDDLOABGAMMJOCDFNOLNOKKKNIADPBGPPOEPIDCEMPGWW VVFCMOPKLKPJOHCNCJBDGOOJKFANCJJBDBMDIFIEKEDPLKDDGMPLHMIIPIJFMKOLENWW VVCAKJGJCKPAEOOMLJPNFJEKEINIHFKHNOLPCAHLEKHHLMHJFCOEKAFAGPHJBCPBHBWW VVOKLAENICAFDHEOEODMHMFGIONMAACAOHEOHDAJDNENGAHABNHGOCCPJNFDMAMKADWW VVMGDHKGPKBEIDBNLOCMLFMEIOKBFBFKJIMIIIFKJDFENCBPAPFBAOFMHEDODBFFPDWW VVOMFFJBNGEJPLGHJLFOBLFOGCBKAACEICLBIKHGILKCLMHPFIAHPDEOOODPPMLGDNWW VVGLDNEBDINMILDJDOJOJNKCLIBBKBCBEJPBJCFHGKMFLLEPGLGOOIIGAKJEGNPFHDWW VVIJBMFLALHPEHHGEGPCLGILBDBMEGMOGOIFBPPONGEDJPNFNMPCJFJPAEMIDOEMBLWW ZZ ZZ Distribution: To: ME > [76473,1732] Message Copyright 1996, Michael T. Babcock http://www.cyberbeach.net/~mbabcock Send a message with the subject "Send public key" to receive an automatic reply with my public key. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3i Charset: ascii Comment: http://www.cyberbeach.net/~mbabcock/PGP/ iQC1AgUBMiNmCttTCwP6TF2xAQG65AT9GW2JbpaAo26USWptnLhhdaHWXbvDEi2i 35KWFHPWnlfJmj7NiUz+YKAV1aoHJssbGGUKIGoU1R0AV9NepGcODRwamrpZMXZ2 2TWIjgc0NbI+G9PNJrtc9h0XhsWV+w9upF0Yr1uCdCMtsdQtMKGguPzfd3+CfOkq X5kSv4WIhi22WYwHHlyEyEMPrxMo60ey1EFUUctBYLqgl91omsR+qg== =wEv6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: Microsoft Explorer security hole (fwd) MSoft's reply...
by Joel McNamara 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Displaying warning dialogs in browsers and using default settings so as not to auto run macros are only bandages to this problem. Consider the following: By using API routines to access the Win95 registry, someone writes a macro virus (or even just a garden variety trojan) that turns off the warning levels for MSIE which are stored in the registry (I haven't had time to look, but I'm assuming they're there). The user has no idea the setting has been changed, and is never warned when evil, malicious, unsigned code is executed. Until too late. The registry, or whatever file you're saving state values to, should have some form of write authorization associated with it. Encryption would also be extremely nice for privacy's sake (check out a Windows .INI file or registry entry some time, and see what little tidbits of information are being stored there). In my experience, one of Microsoft's main problems when it comes to security has been its developers and program/product managers don't think like "bad guys" when it comes to design and subsequent exploits and holes. Unfortunately, the user is the ultimate loser. Joel BTW - The paranoid side of me wouldn't be surprised to see PC "espionage-enabled" viruses and trojans within the next few years. Their main purpose would be to either disable or patch various security features for later attacks, or directly snatch information off of hard drives and send it out over the Net. I know of a few lab projects of a similar nature, that were very easy to implement. >Date: Thu, 22 Aug 1996 15:49:33 -0700 >From: Thomas Reardon <thomasre(a)MICROSOFT.com> >Subject: Re: Internet Explorer security problem (Felten, RISKS-18.36) > > >We have discovered a security flaw in the current version (3.0) of > >Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser running under Windows 95. An > >attacker could exploit the flaw to run any DOS command on the machine > >of an Explorer user who visits the attacker's page. > >We now post the virus warning dialog on local files (file: urls). We have >always posted it on remote files (http: urls). Note that the root of the >problem is not Java or the browser, but in macro-enabled applications. IE3 >has a mechanism to warn users about safety of documents when used with >common macro-enabled applications. We are have updated Microsoft Word such >that by default it will not run macros embedded in documents. > >-Thomas

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Re: (NOISE) Re: Free Pronto Secure Offer
by Michael T. Babcock 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- To: unicorn(a)schloss.li, cypherpunks(a)toad.com Date: Tue Aug 27 17:33:42 1996 > So would I, however, the assumption that "cypherpunk crypto review > services" are to be had for nothing is the height of arrogance. They've already got a lot of us reviewing it... sorry, it's not arrogance - -- they were right. > If you were sincere, you'd thank them with cash. Afterall, you seem > to suggest that you have a good deal of liquidity eh? Actually, they lose $99 each time they give us a free copy of the software ... in case you're not as good in accounting as you think you are in crypto. I have no idea what your rep. is ... but I know one thing, they're offering an exchange of valuable software (market value: $99) for valuable services (crypto-rebel review) > Uh, the kiss ass paragraphs were the reviewers comments, not your code. I aggreed with the reviewers comments, they're mine too ... I've sent many long E-mails to people I do computer service for endorsing Pronto Secure. I have lined up 6 people who wish to purchase it. This is for real pal. If you don't like it, get out of the ring. Some of us want our PGP to be nice and easy like E-mail used to be. Message Copyright 1996, Michael T. Babcock http://www.cyberbeach.net/~mbabcock Send a message with the subject "Send public key" to receive an automatic reply with my public key. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3i Charset: ascii Comment: http://www.cyberbeach.net/~mbabcock/PGP/ iQC1AgUBMiNpvNtTCwP6TF2xAQGKSwT+Lg+uEKBX9yUfZvkZ6tO32fhilvb65sgJ lpH2MPIArTKIYw/nD4UGQbQPTtx/9+1ASx5V+uqmquy7t/yfbuajrmsuLjnGBc/D tYxAxRl31+sU3N8X2ie54X1VWcLzgqfXCByuTYIHPPkeHjk7kWJfwTqXZsLV/ZZp NYGaL6OWq+DXWN3IYxd43fVdfi6qzCxDjseIdAdoV4J7TCjOUCNXbg== =WqpJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: (NOISE) Re: Free Pronto Secure Offer
by Michael T. Babcock 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- To: geoff(a)commtouch.co.il, cypherpunks(a)toad.com Date: Tue Aug 27 17:29:43 1996 > To: unicorn(a)schloss.li, cypherpunks(a)toad.com > Date: Fri Aug 16 02:41:34 1996 > Unicorn, > > > No, I was merely pointing out that if the review revealed that it > > had problems (one assumed that the intent of peer review is to reveal > > such problems in the first place, but perhaps you just like giving > > software away?) then the offered reward was valueless. No, actually, after having pointed out one (and found another) bug in Pronto Secure, I find it to be an amazing piece of software! It does everything with PGP and although it's slow at adding new keys (I presume it always checks the signatures down a few levels every time it adds one, and thus justifiably slower then straight adding a key) it's fast, efficient, and fairly easy to use. I must admit that of the "View/Save/Inspect" options, only "Save" is very clear and the rest are (excuse the pun in advance) cryptic at best. However, the methods used for the cryptography seem to be sound and after monitoring my COM transmissions, I haven't had it sending my secret key ring out ... ;) ... (unless they're hiding it in tiny packets ;) > Peer review seems to have voted that their risk paid off. My vote's in. Thanks for the software! > > Cypherpunks is always getting the cash poor developer who thinks he > > very clever because he has to pay testers no money if he offers his > > new product free to the person who discovers a flaw, or writes a > > review. I actually think that Commtouch will not be cash poor in a few months ... > > From your home page, I would guess that you request that reviewers > > allow you to make their comments public. That's called an > > endorsement, and, by the way, people are usually paid for them. > > Sometimes in the millions. Think Michael Jordan is getting a deal > > when you use his name to promote your product and then give him a > > $99.00 piece of software (which is effectively worth the amount of > > time it takes to write a few kiss ass paragraphs on the software, not > > $99.00)? That's because they're famous and their opinion is considered to be very good. I could see them paying Phil Zimmerman to endorse it publicly, but it wouldn't matter much because the mainstream people (the ones they're targetting with Pronto Secure) don't know who Zimmerman is ... so it's not worth they're money ...! > I venture that most c'punks would agree that moving strong e-mail > security into mainstream is a good thing. This is not going to happen > without people making money from it. Definately... Message Copyright 1996, Michael T. Babcock http://www.cyberbeach.net/~mbabcock Send a message with the subject "Send public key" to receive an automatic reply with my public key. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3i Charset: ascii Comment: http://www.cyberbeach.net/~mbabcock/PGP/ iQC1AgUBMiNo19tTCwP6TF2xAQHwUgUAlJGE5ZU0xV7Hx3u7+/MRv+n83Kn9ZxsE 8igHrEjLwVbfBC9ivoZ7aonm/misAdy2jr77oowPcvuE3t750oCMCfb+AdhUPQGx Knu29L4XNbgpUH+t5rCCqUiSM7EHIYtmURBjrmDSAADIH3vcd8b9Cc6T5soNIQK+ Nsy9hve+ly+4nVwujNKqAhOCvIMBn+wK/K+ifbAvGbXP65YQFktp4Q== =AF5P -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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RE: File System Encryption
by Wayne Clerke 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

---------- From: Drifter[SMTP:drifter@c2.net] Sent: Monday, 26 August 1996 16:19 To: cypherpunks(a)toad.com Subject: File System Encryption I'm aware of the three main disk encryption programs SFS, SECDRV, and SECDEV, but I need to find a solution that works with Windows 95 32bit or Windows NT 4.0. I'm currently using SFS 1.17 and Secure Drive under Win-95, but am unable to continue to work in dos compatability mode due to severe performance hits. I am open to commercial products that have passed peer review, but know of none. If anyone could suggest a solution (outside of switching OS's), I would be *most* gratefull. Please respond to the list, as I am a subscriber under another account. Tried secdev? Edgar Swank (author of secdrv) recently posted that secdev (note, not secdrv) does, in fact, uses 32 bit disk access with win95. Win95 reports that the secure device is in compatibility mode, but the host disk (and therefore the secure volume file) is being accessed in 32 bit (disk) mode. Not sure what issues there are with '32 bit FILE access' mode here. Sounds worth a try though. Please post the results if you try this. The Drifter EMail: wclerke(a)emirates.net.ae PGP key ID: AEB2546D FP: D663D11E DA19D74F 5032DC7E E001B702 PGP mail welcome. Voice: +971 506 43 48 53 <a href=mailto:wclerke@emirates.net.ae>Wayne Clerke</a> If you're not living on the edge, you're taking up too much space.

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a question please
by Charley Sparks 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: cypherpunks(a)toad.com Date: Tue Aug 27 19:39:45 1996 I have been lurking for some time, the occasional quip of a post, perhaps a comment on a "shrink wrap" - I still haven't figured out "Black Net" Done searches, ( the usual ) and no luck... can I get a break ? Would someone please explain it to me ? Thanks, and my PSecure is registered ! - -------------------------------- Charley Sparks <sparks(a)bah.com> Booz Allen & Hamilton - -------------------------------- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCXAwUBMiOHQuJ+JZd/Y4yVAQGMcwQMDs5Owwd5XH6+XPUVZow4NMq1rV+QXp6W dLeF0vGT9rg5n6NZJKuAxSFuiXjJLKpv1JePSI2y2mmqMKncajhl2NvvtNPtnK/z dYF8D2sDvdPVffbxBO7QfjDwV9k5LmEVk24sOjbIk+j6zIZW899OAvT6CadoCmRS 1dQ9VWMyI0vunw== =tfni -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: Net Politics
by baby-x＠cyberpolis.org 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 10:23 AM 8/27/96, Jonah Seiger wrote: >This is an important debate that unfortunately seems to be dividing the >net.community when we most need to be united. All of us working on >net-policy issues share a common vision and goals - promoting the free flow >of information, preserving and enhancing First Amendment values and >protecting individual privacy. There are, for better or worse, many >different views on the best way to accomplish those objectives, and the >debate over who has the right tactics seems to frequently escalate in to >religious war. Not an unusual thing online (Windows! Mac! Windows! Mac! Linux!). >Meanwhile, our opponents are well organized, determined, and do a much >better job of keeping their internal strategic differences to themselves. >Perhaps this is part of the reason they keep kicking our butts all over >town. I swer I had this conversation somewhere recently, and those of us involved in it came up with one reason this rift seems to come up so often and get discussed so publically, especially in comparison to our "organized, determined" opponents. I would hazard a guess that those people working within the cause of electronic freedoms tend not to be the simple order-following, authority-heeding sort (compared to, say, followers of the Religious Right). It's easy if you're Ralph Reed to send out a flyer or get the telemarketters working and tell the troops what to do. It's not as easy if you're, say, Jonah Seiger. Not because of Jonah (or Shabbir, or Declan, or whoever), but because of his audience. It's not a push-button response with us. And I'm still not convinced (as I wasn't last year when I was more heavily involved in some of this) that these differences of opinion have to somehow be kept behind-closed-doors. That has always stuck me as the way -they- do it (if I can stoop to using a Them for a moment), and never as a way that was inherently required. It's like the Gulf War or something. "Hey, we're at war, stop criticising, we need to be united!" Hogwash. -----------------------------------------------[ Christopher D. Frankonis ]--- --------------------------------------------------[ baby-x(a)cyberpolis.org ]---

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DEF_con
by jya＠pipeline.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

8-26-96. EeTi: "Unix gives hackers a crack at systems." Las Vegas: Many of the hacking elite were on the Internet long before the World Wide Web was a gleam in the eye of inventor Tim Berners Lee. And these folks know the best-kept secret of gaining access to-and control of-someone else's electronic property: Unix. An expert underground Web cracker who goes by the handle +ORC noted with apparent glee: "With each company that connects to the Net, new frontiers are created for crackers to explore." Indeed, even as many old-line hackers of the sort who gathered here recently for the DefCon convention go legit, some starting cyber-security companies of their own, Internet-security experts look with trepidation to the next, more threatening wave of cybercrime. Perhaps the legendary hacker group l0pht is the best example of the thin line between cybercriminal and corporate comer. Several members spoke at DefCon, notably Death Vegetable, administrator of the Cult of the Dead Cow; and Mudge, the brilliant encryption cracker who devised the S/Key Cracker's Toolkit and posted it on the Net, much to the chagrin of Bellcore, S/Key's owners. ----- http://jya.com/defcon.txt (9 kb) DEF_con

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