December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: Government goons force Goddard to recant
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Anonymous wrote: > > Time to add a new horseman: "conspiracy theory-spreading libertarians" > Goddard says he wanted to promote libertarian ideology by > encouraging distrust of the government. It's amazing how a few minutes in a cell with Jim Bell can help people see the error of their ways.

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Re: IRS reform bill going strong [CNN]
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Jim Choate wrote: > > IRS Reform Bill Skates Through House > > The bill's centerpiece is an 11-member board made up mostly of private > > citizens that would oversee the IRS and help manage its long-term > > projects. > > > > Bill sponsor Rob Portman (R-Ohio) said the measure marked "the first > > time in 45 years that we have attempted as a Congress to enact > > fundamental reform." Gee, and the IRS is being put in the hands of private citizens just before the Y2K problem comes to a head. Hhmmm...

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A Constitutionalist Recants
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Law & Order has showed me the error of my ways. After watching tonight's show, I realized that those who 'hide behind the Constitution' are all murderers. I was so proud of the judge who made his speech about supporting the concepts behind the constitution, and then was able to see his error in not throwing it out the window because of a single dead person. I cheered when the judge dismissed a juror for quoting the founding fathers. God bless what used to be America! ReformedConstitutionalistMonger "Sure, Dan Quayle was an idiot for getting all worked up over a Murphy Brown episode, but this is different...isn't it?"

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PGP's SMTP enforcer and ISPs
by phelix＠vallnet.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Recently, my ISP became the victim of spammers. Their response, like many other ISPs, is to block port 25 for all their dialup users. This means that all outgoing email must be routed through their mail server. Now that PGP has an SMTP enforcers, and that others will eventually follow with a S/MIME equivalent, we are literally an executive order away from an effective (if not 100% complete) ban on "inappropriate" encryption on email communications. All it would take is a national emergency, like the next war against Saddam Hussein, or a law that does not treat ISPs like common carriers and holds them liable for what their users do. And the worst thing of all is that most people won't even notice it. Hell, I was the only person on my end to notice that my ISP had blocked port 25. -- Phelix, "perfect paranoia is perfect awareness"

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17 Dec '03

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Re: Springer/Gates Merger
by bureau42 Anonymous Remailer 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> CANADIAN NUTLY NEWS: > [CNN, Bienfait, Saskatchewan] BAR OWNERS at the Coaldust Saloon, > in violation of Canadian bartender/customer confidentiality laws, > revealed details of a planned merger between Micro$oft and the > Jerry Springer Show. > "The success of Terminal Man > showed that the future was in snuff-flicks, and Police Chases was > the natural movement of that theme into the trend toward Real TV." Let's see...if the police with the TV camera in their car get in a chase with another vehicle, their chances of getting on primetime TV increase in proportion to the threat posed to all involved, including innocent bystanders. So if the 'perp' kills or gets killed, the police officer gets to sing on 'Star Search'? If the TV camera on the police cruiser gets a particularly gory shot of the fleeing vehicle splattering a child in a crosswalk, the cop gets a free dining room set? I can hardly wait until Jane and Joe Public get their chance to participate in an InterActive snuff-flick in WebWorld. "It will never happen." you say?" Like the Great Evil of Alcohol will never be taken out of the hands of murderous criminals who make outrageous profits, and put into the hands of governement, who makes an equally outrageous profit. Like the government will not use their armed power to out-muscle the scar-faced, pug-nosed thugs in the dark underworld, to take over control of the Great Evil of Gambling. Trust me when I say that I am not just being cynical about the Sheeple (TM) in saying this. If I had a chance for a shot at Louis J. Freeh on the Pay-per-InterAct Snuff Channel... SnuffMonger

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Govt. key escrow justification
by Michael Wilson 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I'm attaching the Nando and NYT pieces on the President's Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection. As feared yet expected, their effort is turning into another key escrow justification. Anyone who is interested, let me know, I've commented the PCCIP summary report (the full report is classified). I'm one of the few public strong- crypto supporters who also happens to be a professional in the field of infrastructural attacks, so this makes things even more lonely. Michael Wilson http://www.7pillars.com/ ________________________________________________________________________ U.S. cyberterrorism report hit on encryption stance ____________________________________________________________________________ Copyright ) 1997 Nando.net Copyright ) 1997 Reuters WASHINGTON (November 6, 1997 00:53 a.m. EST http://www.nando.net) - The U.S. commission on critical infrastructure drew strong criticism Wednesday for endorsing the Clinton administration's controversial policy that would require government access to all private computer data. Sen. Patrick Leahy, Democrat of Vermont, said significant questions had been raised about the costs and feasibility of so-called key recovery systems. "Until those significant questions are fully considered and answered, we should be cautious in adopting grand key recovery encryption schemes that may only exacerbate system vulnerabilities," Leahy said in a statement. The commission's report, delivered to President Clinton last month and later released to the public in declassified form, warned that critical telephone, power, water and financial systems were becoming increasingly vulnerable to computer attack. The commission also said it favored greater use of computer encryption programs, which use mathematical formulas to scramble information and render it unreadable without a password or software "key." Encryption programs could be used to prevent hackers or terrorists from infiltrating computer networks that run critical infrastructure systems, for example. But the commission backed use of key recovery, a technology to allow law enforcement officials to decode any encrypted message covertly. "Key recovery is needed to provide business access to data when encryption keys are lost or maliciously misplaced, and court-authorized law enforcement access to the plain text of criminal related communications and data lawfully seized," the report said. FBI director Louis Freeh and other law enforcement officials back legislation to require all encryption products to include such features, but many high-tech companies, scientists, and civil libertarians oppose mandatory back-door access to coded information. The Center for Democracy and Technology, an Internet advocacy group, noted that a recent report by cryptography experts found that key recovery features added numerous new vulnerabilities to computer systems. "Key recovery is inconsistent with the (commission's) own calls for greater security in our nation's critical infrastructures," the group said. Robert Marsh, who chaired the commission, defended the report to reporters after a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee's technology and terrorism subcommittee. Marsh contended the report took a balanced view of the encryption debate. "We didn't get into the encryption debate and all the nuances and individual decisions," he said. "We simply came on strong for encryption." In its formal recommendations, the commission urged the government to speed up pilot programs on key recovery, promote efforts to plan for implementing large-scale key recovery systems and encourage private-sector key recovery efforts. ___________________________________________________________________ November 6, 1997 Head of Cyber-Terrorism Panel Says Encryption Rules May Be Needed By JERI CLAUSING Bio WASHINGTON The head of a presidential commission on cyber-terrorism on Wednesday told a Senate panel that a mandatory system guaranteeing third-party access to scrambled computer communications may be necessary if industry does not embrace the Clinton administration's plan for a voluntary encryption decoding system. ________________________________________________________________ Robert T. Marsh, an aerospace consultant and retired Air Force general who is chairman of the President's Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection, made the remarks in his first non-classified report on the commission's 15-month study and its recommendations for protecting the nation's computer networks from high-tech terrorism. The commission recommended a variety of proposals, including increased private-public partnership and information sharing, more comprehensive background checks on people who hold sensitive positions, strengthening of government computer systems and spending more on research to improve network security. But the key to national security, Marsh said, is strong encryption coupled with a back-door access for law enforcement officials to sensitive communications. "We want to see that adopted over all the critical control functions at an early date," he told the Senate Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Technology, Terrorism and Government Information. The commission's recommendation for a voluntary system that would give law enforcement officials the ability to decode electronic messages, called a key-recovery system, mirrors that of the administration, which says it wants ensure such officials can gain access to the coded communications of suspected criminals and terrorists. Encryption policy has been a volatile topic on Capitol Hill this year, where bills ranging from an industry-backed ban on key recovery to an FBI-supported mandatory key-recovery scheme have passed various House committees. The Clinton administration insists it supports a Senate bill establishing voluntary key recovery. "We didn't get into the encryption debate and all the nuances of individual positions," Marsh said. "We simply came on strong for encryption. We must have encryption." He told the panel that "we must lower the temperature of the encryption debate" long enough to complete pilot projects on key recovery that will prove to industry that such systems can work. Various agencies of the federal government currently are developing 13 key recovery pilot projects, which were on display Wednesday at a Government Information Technology Services conference. Marsh said the National Security Agency and the National Institutes for Standards and Technology should head efforts to perfect those systems and set standards for a national infrastructure protection office to carry out. Asked by the subcommittee's chairman, Jon Kyl, an Arizona Republican, if those controls should be mandated, Marsh responded: "We think businessmen will find it in their best interest to incorporate these controls. ... Of course, in due time, that may be an option if they are not willing to accept them." Critics blasted the report as premature and contradictory. "I am concerned that the report's recommendations that large-scale key-recovery encryption systems which allow for surreptitious decryption by law enforcement be deployed for use by federal agencies and the private sector is premature," said Senator Patrick Leahy, a Vermont Democrat who has sponsored a bill to relax controls on encryption technology." "Significant questions have been raised by leading cryptographers about the security risks inherent in large-scale key recovery systems, which introduce new vulnerabilities and targets for attack, as well as about the costs and feasibility of implementing such systems." The Center for Democracy and Technology said the "increasing vulnerabilities," "increasing dependence on critical infrastructure," and "wide spectrum of threats" identified by the commission all provide powerful arguments against the deployment of the vastly complex and insecure systems for back-door access that key recovery requires. The center cited a recent study by 11 expert cryptographers and computer security experts, "The Risks of Key Recovery, Key Escrow, and Trusted Third Parties," which identifies numerous risks in the widespread deployment of such key-recovery plans. Among those risks is insider abuse, which Marsh said so far has been the chief culprit in computer-related crimes. Marsh said a separate section of the report makes "recommendations that try to equip us better to deal with the insider threat, that's a separate problem." ________________________________________________________________ Jeri Clausing at jeri(a)nytimes.com welcomes your comments and suggestions. ________________________________________________________________ Copyright 1997 The New York Times Company --- For those who want to track this issue further, the PCCIP is at http://www.pccip.gov/

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Crypto '98: Call for Papers
by John Gilmore 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

CRYPTO '98 August 23-27, 1998, Santa Barbara, California, USA CALL FOR PAPERS GENERAL INFORMATION Original papers on all technical aspects of cryptology are solicited for submission to Crypto '98, the Eighteenth Annual IACR Crypto Conference. Crypto '98 is organized by the International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR), in cooperation with the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Security and Privacy, and the Computer Science Department of the University of California, Santa Barbara. For more information, access http://www.iacr.org/ INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS Authors are strongly encouraged to submit their papers electronically. A detailed description of the electronic submission procedure will appear by December 1, 1997 at http://www.iacr.org/conferences/c98/submit.html. Electronic submissions must conform to this procedure in order to be considered. Authors unable to submit electronically are invited to send a cover letter and 22 copies of an anonymous paper (double-sided copies preferred) to the Program Chair at the postal address below. Submissions must be received by the Program Chair on or before February 16, 1998 (or postmarked by February 7, 1998, and sent via airmail or courier). Late submissions and submissions by fax will not be considered. The cover letter should contain the paper's title and the names and affiliations of the authors, and should identify the contact author including e-mail and postal addresses. Only original research contributions will be considered. Submissions must not substantially duplicate work that any of the authors have published elsewhere or have submitted in parallel to any other conference or workshop that has proceedings. The paper must be anonymous, with no author names, affiliations, acknowledgments or obvious references. It should begin with a title, a short abstract, and a list of key words, and its introduction should summarize the contributions of the paper at a level appropriate for a non-specialist reader. The paper should be at most 12 pages excluding the bibliography and clearly marked appendices, and at most 20 pages in total, using at least 11-point font and reason- able margins. Committee members are not required to read appendices, so the paper should be intelligible without them. Submissions not meeting these guidelines risk rejection without consideration of their merits. Notification of acceptance or rejection will be sent to authors by April 30, 1998. Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their paper will be presented at the conference. CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS Proceedings will be published in Springer-Verlag's Lecture Notes in Computer Science and will be available at the conference. Clear instructions about the preparation of a final proceedings version will be sent to the authors of accepted papers. The final copies of the accepted papers will be due on June 5, 1998. SUBMISSION: February 16, 1998 ACCEPTANCE: April 30, 1998 PROCEEDINGS VERSION: June 5, 1998 PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Dan Boneh, Stanford University, USA Don Coppersmith, IBM Research, USA Yair Frankel, CertCo, USA Matt Franklin, AT&T Labs - Research, USA Johan Hastad, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Lars Knudsen, University of Bergen, Norway Hugo Krawczyk, Chair, Technion, Israel and IBM Research, USA Ueli Maurer, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Alfred Menezes, Auburn University, USA Andrew Odlyzko, AT&T Labs - Research, USA Rafail Ostrovsky, Bellcore, USA Jean-Jacques Quisquater, Universite de Louvain, Belgium Tal Rabin, IBM Research, USA Matt Robshaw, RSA Laboratories, USA Phillip Rogaway, University of California at Davis, USA Rainer Rueppel, $R^3$ Security Engineering AG, Switzerland Kazue Sako, NEC, Japan Dan Simon, Microsoft Research, USA Moti Yung, CertCo, USA ADVISORY MEMBERS: Burt Kaliski, chair Crypto'97, RSA Laboratories, USA Michael J. Wiener, chair Crypto'99, Entrust Technologies, Canada Joe Kilian, electronic submissions, NEC Research Institute, USA ADDRESS FOR NON-ELECTRONIC SUBMISSIONS: Hugo Krawczyk, Program Chair, Crypto '98 Department of Electrical Engineering Technion - Israel Institute of Technology Technion City, Haifa 32000 ISRAEL Phone: (972) 4-829-4652 Fax: (972) 4-832-3041 E-mail: crypto98(a)ee.technion.ac.il FOR OTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Andrew Klapper, General Chair, Crypto '98 Department of Computer Science 763h Anderson Hall University of Kentucky Lexington, KY 40506 USA Phone: (1) 606-257-3961 Fax: (1) 606-323-1971 E-mail: crypto98(a)iacr.org STIPENDS: A limited number of stipends are available to those unable to obtain funding to attend the conference. Students whose papers are accepted and who will present the paper themselves are encouraged to apply if such assistance is needed. Requests for stipends should be addressed to the General Chair.

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Re: Raids on Cypherpunks?
by Blanc 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Tim May wrote: >(One can only hope. I'm getting tired of setting my traps every night and >having no BATFags to show for it.) ..................................................... You know, a long time ago (in '93) when L..D.(etweiler) was provoking the list with his various "Secret Operations" against the "Big Macs" on the list, you (Tim) remarked that you half expected to hear one day that he had been shot and arrested (or was it shot and killed) for his bizarre behavior. Ironically, I wonder if it will not be yourself, who one day is found under those circumstances. (Not that your behavior is bizarre, or anything). .. Blanc

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17 Dec '03

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Tim May Guilty in OKC Bombing!
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

~ Prosecution tries to link May, McVeigh through literature BIENFAIT (CANADIAN NUTLY NEWS) -- Drunks testifying Wednesday in the Oklahoma City bombing trial said they found anti-government literature in the home of defendant Tim C. May that was similar to that found in the car of Timothy McVeigh. A shitfaced Lying Fuck Louis J. Freeh said, "Pro-constitution, anti-government, it's all the same crap." ... One document referred to the government raid on the Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Texas, and contained the Thomas Jefferson quote: "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." FBI agents snorting cocaine in the bathroom were heard to say that they were looking into the possibility that John Doe #3 might, in fact, be Thomas Jefferson. ... The government has argued that McVeigh and May were incensed over how federal agents handled the 1993 clash with the Branch Davidian cult in Waco in which 80 cult members died. Lying Nazi Cunt Janet Reno testified that, to her knowledge, May and McVeigh were the only two people in the US who were angered by the FBI murder of men, women and children. ... One document seized in Timothy C. May's house was a copy of a March 15, 1993, letter published in The Wall Street Journal that referred to Waco and "equates federal agents with Nazi SS agents exterminating Jews in World War II." When prosecutors entered this as evidence, May broke down on his bar stool and confessed. "When they introduced the evidence that I read The Wall Street Journal," May told Canadian Nutly News reportwhores, "I knew it was only a matter of time until they linked me to Jim Bell, who has been learning how to read from prison copies of the newpaper." ... Rumors that May ratted out other readers of The Wall Street Journal in return for a double-shot of Tequila could not be confirmed. All political figures queried by Nutly News reportwhores denied reading the terrorist rag, including its publishers. The editor of The Wall Street Journal vehemently denied rumors that May had secretly named him as an avid reader of his own paper, claiming, "Hell, I can't even read." He also added that Tim May and Jim Bell were known to be Janet Reno's secret lovers, though admitting that they did not fuck her with their own dicks. Tomorrow: FBI investigating reports that a majority of Cypherpunks mailing list subscribers used letters of the English alphabet that were 'similar' to those used by May and Bell.

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Re: Speech as co-conspiring? I don't think so.
by Fed's Bait Shop 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Fred wrote: > Mix wrote: > > > (*) Tim seems too wiley to be crazy. Instead, he seems to be playing > > The Most Dangerous Game: Fed baiting. > ^^^ (typo) > > Could you tell me the best way to kill a policeman, politician, or > world leader, without using a gun? Of course, I want to make it perfectly clear that I am referring only to doing so as a member of a freedom-fighting organization whose aims are fully supported by any government who might want to prosecute me for asking a hypothetical question of this nature. And, naturally, I would only be interested in those methods of killing that would result in the deaths of only those who are the evil enemies of any government who might want to prosecute me for asking a hypothetical question of this nature. Fred

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Mitnick Rings Bell
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

6 November 1997, Digital Cellular Report: U.S. government takes hard line on Mitnick. US Hacker Pleads for Help A US 'hacker'- Kevin David Mitnick - has issued a plea for financial help to fight his defence case through his lawyer, Donald C Randolph of Santa Monica, USA. Through Randolph, Mitnick is claiming that the US government is seeking to make an example of him for the possession of unauthorised cellular access codes. The issue is particularly important in the North American market where analogue, rather than digital cellular, is the norm. In one of the most amazing claims, Mitnick claims to have been kept in solitary confinement for 23 hours a day, naked in a freezing air-conditioned cell for eight months and led to the showers in chains. Perhaps the most puzzling aspect to the whole case is the fact that while the US government has never sought to prove that Mitnick profited from his 'hacking' activities - although he could certainly have done so by 'selling' stolen airtime to third parties. Instead they claim he caused losses in excess of $80 million. Kevin certainly appears to be paying the price for his nefarious deeds having already spent nearly two years in custody during which time he has been prohibited from any access to wireless communications equipment, computer hardware or computer software. It's difficult to know exactly which side is the more paranoid since Mitnick is claiming that his fate is part of a deliberate US government plot to divert scrutiny away from its plans concerning the control and regulation of both telecommunications and the Internet. The case would seem to present a most powerful argument for the US to switch more swiftly over to digital cellular where 'hacking' is far more difficult.

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Re: church of crypto anarchy (Re: Taxing Churches for their views? Bad idea. (fwd)) (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > Date: Thu, 6 Nov 1997 08:52:15 GMT > From: Adam Back <aba(a)dcs.ex.ac.uk> > Subject: Re: church of crypto anarchy (Re: Taxing Churches for their views? Bad idea. (fwd)) (fwd) > Jim Choate <ravage(a)ssz.com> writes: > > Adam Back <aba(a)dcs.ex.ac.uk> > > > Seems to me that the distinction that churches are exempt from taxes > > > partly hinges on their non-profit, or not-for-profit status. > > > > No, it stems from the fundamental democratic axiom of seperation of church > > and state. If the churches pay taxes they aren't seperate. > > I pay taxes, I am separated from the state. Do you hold US citizenship? If so then, no, your assertion of seperation from the state is incorrect. It's that pesky "We the people..." thing. If you want to be considered seperate from the US *AND* you don't want to pay US taxes then renounce your US citizenship and move to another country *OR* figure out a way to become your own 1 person church. Like it or not that's the way it works. > > If the state supports churches they aren't seperate. > > If the state doesn't tax churches they are subsidizing them relative > to other sorts of organisations. This is surely a form of support. Subsidize means to pay, the government does not pay as a rule pay the churches anything, that would violate the seperation clause as well. ____________________________________________________________________ | | | The financial policy of the welfare state requires that there | | be no way for the owners of wealth to protect themselves. | | | | -Alan Greenspan- | | | | _____ The Armadillo Group | | ,::////;::-. Austin, Tx. USA | | /:'///// ``::>/|/ http://www.ssz.com/ | | .', |||| `/( e\ | | -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- Jim Choate | | ravage(a)ssz.com | | 512-451-7087 | |____________________________________________________________________|

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WINDOWS *.PWL program
by �ukasz Bromirski 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Two years ago, you've posted an Windows 95 *.PWL cracking program. However, it was severly broken in our news group. Could you post me personally a full-working copy of it (as an e-mail) or a source (full) of this program? I'll be glad to see it. Thanx in advance. -- ### ### ### ### ## ###### £ukasz Bromirski # # # # # # # # ## # #### e-mail: szopen(a)gazeta.pl # # # # # # # ### # ## tel. (+48) 022 699 48 00 # #### # ### # # # ## # #### Agora-Gazeta Sp. z o.o. ###### ####### ### ## ###### Dzia³ Telekomunikacji

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Clarifying the Language
by Mixmaster 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- TruthPastor wrote: >Jim Burnes wrote: >> On Wed, 5 Nov 1997, Anonymous wrote: >> > Churches, like governments, corporations, or any other organized >> > entity, have some wonderful people in them, doing wonderful things. >> > The problem, as always, is what our founding fathers realized--these >> > types of organizations/structures tend to grow and attain power which >> > is then used for the purpose of self-sustained growth (survival). >> > Humanity tends to evolve, while organized humanity tends to de-volve. >> > Biped humans, walking upright, form organizations which move toward >> > becoming quadrapeds dragging large clubs. > >> Ha! This is pretty interesting. Rather than the typical cypherpunk >> approach of eliminating such inefficient and corrupting methods as >> income taxation and tax exemption we are playing by their game. Pathetic, isn't it? > Taxation and exemptions are, conceptually, no different than a >tribal agreement that those who bring home the deer will share >with those who guard the campsite, and that the shaman who keeps >the evil spirits at bay has to do neither. The important word in this sentence is "agreement". If the American taxpayer does not agree with how his tax money is being used, does he not have the right to demand that it be used in an appropriate way? If his demands go unanswered, does he not have the right to refuse to continue paying? If the American taxpayer does not like substandard education, abortion, weapons manufacturing, destructive environmental legislation, and so forth, why should she be forced to pay for it? The simple fact is that taxation in America has ceased to be an agreement, and has devolved into extortion with the threat of jail/forfeiture for "non-compliance". >> The whole of [Orwell's] warning to society was that by systematically >> altering the language, you alter the things that can be discussed. > > I believe that half of the disagreements on the cypherpunks list, >and the vast majority of disagreements in the world in general, are >the result of disputes over semantics, rather than beliefs. If one were to break down the anti-Income Tax argument to its most basic level, it would be that the government does not have the right to extort money from its citizens to promote agendas which are destructive of the citizens' persons and property. Basic Common Sense (TM). Nerthus -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP for Personal Privacy 5.0 Charset: noconv iQEVAwUBNGHX9uFWwZe05jcJAQGj8AgAhPmUFgdrB5Wf5TYARJs7BovxFd+irLSA DlSehEMQfzergb3hsl90rW+HFxlw01CueQrkZpCKlRoHUxeoj3vimgpXBJRwjFDE ky2qhCSlFcjXEtqB6IBvPkzqd7lUK/lpv7VQzgsUrz6kS97l566sQTSILzF10mN2 NUT2CawCaU+69ZzR+oNwe6V8Yf1CWygIDYKnOiSpwRYsB6AV0kZcb5RKIYfDnNe7 FFjLsbg6L7LhQvvHHcs8CRkzjwo70sDI6kLOdUJvWPhyzuf4laam8L+tguTxrA96 2TUsMuG6Hi3WJVcUkabkx8J4D6yy3Pqep/scSgaqvwAr6VFJBh+KLg== =32Dc -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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CNN's "Ian Goddard Plot"
by freematt＠coil.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

From: Ian Goddard <igoddard(a)netkonnect.net> Subject: CNN's "Ian Goddard Plot" _________________________________________________ ( free to forward & copy nonprofit with attribute ) ------------------------------------------------- CNN's IAN GODDARD TWA 800 "PLOT" (c) 1997 Ian Williams Goddard I've tried to decisively extricate myself from my TWA 800 inquiry, but it seems that CNN and the gov't don't want me to go. CNN is spreading gross misinformation on television, indicating that I said my inquiry into TWA 800 was part of a "sham" and a "plot." That is FALSE!! I've always promoted what I believe, and now I believe promoting the Navy-missile theory was a big mistake! I believe that the evidence is not sufficient to blame the Navy and I wish to move away from that and all areas of conspiracy inquiry forever. But I never said my inquiries were a "plot" or a "sham." Christine Negroni with CNN contacted me a few days ago to ask about my change of direction, I did not contact her. CNN reports now suggest that I said my conspiracy inquiry was part of a "plot" (a secret scheme) to do damage to the government's reputation. That's 100% FALSE !! My only crime is honesty. I'm honest enough to admit, as I have for months, that my inquiry into TWA 800 was an effort to identify untruth in the government. I have a fact-based bias against government, I'm a libertarian. My webpage was entitled "Anti-Authoritarian Journal," identifying my bias up front, unlike most sources. Such up-front honesty is NOT a "plot," as CNN attempts to portray it. The fact is that anything that is labeled what it is up front is by definition NOT a plot. I'd say CNN has a bias for the gov't line, however, does CNN label its journalism "Authoritarian Journalism?" No. WITNESSES NOT MY FAULT I did not invent nor am I to blame for the fact that 150+ witnesses reported having seen something fly upwards and explode at the spot TWA 800 was. That there were such wit- nesses, up to 154, has been widely reported in the media. CNN just reported in reference to me: Joe Lychner of Houston, who lost his wife and two daughters in the crash, told CNN that Goddard and Salinger owe an explana- tion to the American public. The basis of the missile theory are the witnesses, and I did not invent the witnesses. If anyone owes America an explanation for the missile theory I think it's the wit- nesses, not me. All I did was report what they said and commit the error of theorizing that maybe that fiery thing shooting up was a Navy missile and the Navy is covering it up. I also did not invent the Navy-missile theory. My explanation for that theory is that the Navy is known to have many missiles and is known to be off- shore where the plane crashed. However, an inventory showed that all Navy missiles were accounted for... OK fine, I'm ready to move on, but it seems they aren't: National Transportation and Safety Board spokesman Peter Goelz told CNN that my re-reporting of witness accounts and theorizing that the Navy was at fault has done "real damage" and "caused innumerable people great agony." Wow! It seems I'm a human monster of immense proportions. I am sorry for that, yet it would seem that the fault lies in part and primarily with the major media for ever having reported the witness accounts in the first place. I then made the mistake of suggesting that the Navy may have been at fault and is covering it up, which I now see as a mistake, for I could be wrong and if I'm wrong I've impugned the reputations of America's finest, which is something I should not and do not now want to do, and for which having done in the past, I am very sorry. I don't know what happened to TWA 800, and at this point I don't care! I just want to be left alone and no longer harassed by the major media and others over the TWA 800 case. I'm sorry I thought the Navy did it. It was a mistaken thought. I'm sorry my thoughts have "caused innumerable people great agony." I'm a humani- tarian and have been a vegetarian for 19 years because I want NOT to cause suffering to any living being. CNN's "SECRET SCHEME" THEORY I've never published anything I thought was false. I even published errata notices when required. All claims I've made were meticulously referenced so that readers could check up on what I said for themselves. Providing not just referenced information and ideas but all the links necessary to access the larger body of information about the case is what made my reports so popular and what made this little guy the focus of world news. My plan has been to end my "war on the Establishment." Wanting to move on from conspiracy theory and set a new course, I asked Doctor David Stern, who hosts the DEEP TIMES webpage, to remove my conspiracy reports. However, due to CNN's misleading charges that I've admitted to having been engaged in a "plot" and thus that I will- fully attempted to mislead people to believe what I knew to be false, I have requested that David Stern temporarily replace all my reports so that people can judge for themselves if I was the liar CNN suggests. It will take David some time to get the reports back up, but when they are up you can access them directly at: http://www.copi.com/articles/Goddard or indirectly at: http://www.copi.com/articles/. Please check the first site within the next few days. _____________________________________________ Ian Goddard, now at <igoddard(a)netkonnect.net> ************************************************************************** Subscribe to Freematt's Alerts: Pro-Individual Rights Issues Send a blank message to: freematt(a)coil.com with the words subscribe FA on the subject line. List is private and moderated (7-30 messages per week) Matthew Gaylor,1933 E. Dublin-Granville Rd.,#176, Columbus, OH 43229 Archived at http://www.reference.com/cgi-bin/pn/listarch?list=FA@coil.com **************************************************************************

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Re: Privacy Software
by nobody＠neva.org 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Adam Back wrote: >Java isn't so bad. Just in time compilers are being shipped with >some browsers (netscape on some platforms). Sun now has native >bigint library (good for you know what, and exportable because they >haven't included the few lines required to implement public key >encryption with it). Okay, Java sounds pretty good. The native bigint library clinches it! >> While it may seem crazy to toss compatibility, it has some >> advantages. For instance, the only people who will use it are the >> hardcore types. I like the idea of an exclusive crypto system that >> only cool people who are fairly with it use. > >I think there would be advantages to always tunneling the encrypted >messages inside PGP, that way no snoops know you're using it, until >it's too late. Aside from political correctness issues, why not? It would also be nice to have an encrypted SMTP channel which happens to be riding on IPSEC. >> If the protocol doesn't accept multiple keys for a message it is >> slightly CAK/GAK resistent. And, it's a nice statement of intent. >> It's also nice to have tools which help you to behave securely >> without carefully thinking about it when you are using them. > >Forward secrecy is what you want for GAK resistance -- can't get much >more GAK hostile than burning your keys seconds after message >receipt. The more I think about the more the separation of authentication keys from communication keys seems like the way to go. If both parties can connect to each other's machines in real time, then a negotiated key which is discarded is great. More often everybody's offline, but that just means you have to publish many different communications keys, perhaps sorted by hours. (Given remailer lag you might have to keep communications keys around for a day or two after expiration, but that's not too bad.) >> The randseed.bin file has always bothered me. What we really want >> is some good sources of entropy in which we have tremendous >> confidence. > >What's wrong with the randseed.bin and the public and private key >rings is that they should all be encrypted with a key derived from >your passphrase. It's also complicated and hard to understand. The Right Thing (TM) is to simply solve the entropy problem correctly. >> >I wonder how good linux's /dev/urandom would be if MD5 becomes even >> >more suspect. >> >> Well, neither of these would be good for a one time pad, of course. > >Linux's /dev/random might not be bad. There is some real entropy in >key strokes and mouse movements, and they are quite conservative >about entropy estimation. You can easily make it more conservative >-- XOR together a load of it to derive a smaller key. The problem with computers generating entropy is that they are complicated machines which are designed to be deterministic. While it seems reasonable that keystrokes and mouse movements have some entropy, its hard to really convince yourself that there couldn't be patterns arising from the OS somehow. For example, maybe the sample times form weird patterns which are related to the scheduler. By all means this can be XORed in, but it seems dangerous to rely upon it if you are trying to be hardcore and use one time pads. >> It would be neat to have, say, three sources of hardware randomness >> and then XOR the result with the above pseudo random output. > >That'd be fine. Personally not being a hardware type, I am >suspicious of hardware RNGs.. I can't tell when they are going >wrong.. failure modes can be dangerous (whoops lead fell of geiger >tube), etc. Most plausible failure modes in hardware should be detectable with the usual tests for "randomness". >Software and computers are easier to understand. Provided you XOR >the lot together you should be fine though. Software and computers are highly complex devices and we don't truly understand every aspect of their operation. We can say it's unlikely that there are patterns in the bits they generate, but if we resorting to one time pads, it seems to me that the entropy question has to be nailed down completely. (Not that I have a good solution, yet. As you pointed out, one time pads consume a lot of entropy. It takes a long time to flip a coin 1.5 MB * 1024 bytes/MB * 8 bits/byte times!) Monty Cantsin Editor in Chief Smile Magazine http://www.neoism.org/squares/smile_index.html http://www.neoism.org/squares/cantsin_10.htm -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQEVAwUBNGK7tpaWtjSmRH/5AQH1Rgf7BWVm8IsauXUry7vzL1Wiw/jlISKXO+q2 SWXOW0ce2jH1wKH+X3FbiONLYihzhp8UIvyn6FO7rVXHMdXoDXFVhrpyhbphcejM hokty69o1hQqLU9aX6z7OAA7Vjj2zKZXWc7U596UGkc0+G64qpJfh7kZoHY+Q332 uWMhEHu0AOnv9wGK9Fip4J4n/4jh/ob00VXXeTGG9peJ/AZBqtJMHV9tLW8Xu2EA Yc+zdUmk2jjSHvi2a/9u8NTsJapUVFiEaZ8+iQCZYeP8SG6oAsMmMb0rrCj1y+DK EtMt0rtC6jHGl8dag7zfZLpiIrl6mObMexbh5gAJ40Fb6Ei0HLbZ0g== =4BA0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: Protocols for Insurance to Maintain Privacy
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Two ways to tell if the person has had the test: A) The company performing the test keeps track of everyone who has had it. This could be by some biometric ID, perhaps even a DNA fingerprint. B) The company performing the test marks people who have had it. They could have a harmless radioactive tracer injected. This would degrade after a while but it could be used to see if the test had been taken within some time interval. Both of these require that all companies able to issue the test cooperate and that there is no black market source of testing.

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[news] U.S. cyberterrorism report hit on encryption stance
by Vipul Ved Prakash 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

*** U.S. cyberterrorism report hit on encryption stance The U.S. commission on critical infrastructure was criticized Wednesday for endorsing the Clinton administration's policy requiring government access to all private computer data. Sen. Patrick Leahy said key questions had been raised about costs and feasibility of so-called key recovery systems. "Until those significant questions are ... answered, we should be cautious in adopting grand key recovery encryption schemes that may exacerbate system vulnerabilities," Leahy said. The commission's report warned key telephone, power, water and financial systems were increasingly vulnerable to computer attack. For story http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=5804555-b01

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No Subject
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I have your GAK. Mail me your CAK and we'll trade.

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Re: Govt. key escrow justification
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Adam Back wrote: > This is scary stuff... Clipper VI (or whatever number we're up to) in > the making. Expect a fresh onslaught of government master key > attempts from the US government based on this info war initiative. > Michael Wilson <0005514706(a)MCIMAIL.COM> forwards: > > In its formal recommendations, the commission urged the government to > > speed up pilot programs on key recovery, promote efforts to plan for > > implementing large-scale key recovery systems and encourage > > private-sector key recovery efforts. > And there it is, they now want to encourage private sector key > recovery. Now why would they want to do that, if they don't plan to > use it as an infrastructure. > Building central control in _anything_ is asking for trouble > in info war terms. Everything should be as distributed as possible, > to minimise scope of an attacker who compromises keys. InfoWar goes on all the time amongst the Heavy Hitters in governement and commerce. It's called politics and money. Scenario I: Bill Gate$ reads an article where US Federal LEA's are bragging to insider politicians about their history of using their snooping and InfoWar capacities to financially disrupt 'bad' governments and corporations. Bill Gate$ then hands his company's secret keys over to the government because he trusts them to settle their dispute with him in court, instead of just 'grabbing' his money via his secret keys. Scenario II: Bill Gate$ gives his company's secret keys to Lucky Green, who runs toward the site of the Cypherpunks physical meeting, shouting, "Party time! Party time!" BillyG walks back to the limo, muttering, "That Lucky sure has a good sense of humor...I hope!" > Law enforcement with the master keys to the whole country is a huge > risk. Some law enforcement key custodian will simply be bribed or > coerced for the key, and then they really will have an info war risk. The only thing security levels do is determine the end cost of compromising security. Do you have to bribe/coerce a janitor or an executive? > > Asked by the subcommittee's chairman, Jon Kyl, an Arizona Republican, > > if those controls should be mandated, Marsh responded: "We think > > businessmen will find it in their best interest to incorporate these > > controls. ... Of course, in due time, that may be an option if they > > are not willing to accept them." Voluntary-Mandatory == Volmundatory ? GAK, GMR, ATP (Access to Toilet Plungers)...Cookies, Identity Tracking... What is going on is quite simply a battle for access to information. InoWar! Everybody wants access to the information of others, and to deny others access to their own information. Information is power, and power is kept by keeping the keys to that information. Corporations want to play footsie with the Government when it comes to getting access to all information and communications that pass through the self-defined borders of the Corporate Electromagnetic Curtain, but want to avoid being subject to total control within the borders of the Government's own self-defined ElectroMagnetic Curtain. The issues of power and control are the same as they have always been, but the Battle of the Bulge is now the Battle of the Byte. Government, Corporations, Organizations, Individuals...the players will be the same as in MeatSpace, and so will the issues and underlying concepts and ideals. Those seeking power and control will use the same tried-and-true methods, such as Divide and Conquer. "We don't want no 'nigger' data passing through our website. <---> We don't want no 'racist' data passing through our website." Chorus: <everybody sings together> "THERE OUGHT TO BE A LAW!" The Government wants to seize contol of ElectroMagnetic Reality by appointing themselves as our Electronic Protectors. Corporations are fighting to use the new technologies to protect themselves, cutting the Government out of the power loop. Individuals _should_ be trying to do the same. Government has declared Crypto munitions for the same reason they increasingly declare Guns to be 'government-munitions'. Those who have no power to protect themselves are vulnerable to those who have _reserved_ that power for themselves. Crypto or Guns...it's all about power and control of CyberSpace and MeatSpace. MunitionsMonger

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BXA mtg in DC, 12/9/97
by Greg Broiles 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

In late September, I attended a meeting of the BXA's Regulations & Procedures Technical Advisory Committee in Portland (OR), where there was some discussion of crypto export control regulations, plans for changes to those regs, etc. There will be another meeting of that group on 12/9/97 at 9 AM in the (Herbert C., not J. Edgar) Hoover Building, Room 3884, between Pennsylvania & Constitution Avenues, NW, in Washington DC. The agenda is: 1. Opening remarks by the Chairperson. 2. Presentation of papers or comments by the public. 3. Update on the encryption regulation. 4. Update on the Wassenaar Arrangement implementation regulation. 5. Discussion on the "deemed export" issue. 6. Discussion on the Enhanced Proliferation Control Initiative and the continued publication of Entities of Concern. 7. Update on the Automated Export System. 8. Discussion on efforts to conform the Foreign Trade Statistics Regulations and the Export Administration Regulations on export clearance requirements. [Closed session] 9. Discussion of matters properly classified under Executive Order 19958, dealing with U.S. export control program and strategic criteria related thereto. -- Greg Broiles | US crypto export control policy in a nutshell: gbroiles(a)netbox.com | Export jobs, not crypto. http://www.io.com/~gbroiles | http://www.parrhesia.com

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