December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: Impact of Netscape kernel hole
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Dave Smith wrote: >I still have a copy of MCOM/Netscape Navigator 0.94 around... does the >bug exist this far back, or am I going to have to start using Cello, >or something equally obscure? Dave suggests the key to Netscape's Andreesen's amazing trajectory from lab rat gizmoid to market leader, while others languish uncompensated, at least just yet. It's Mark's changeable feature for peeking and tracking, approved by law for orderly commerce. "Bugs bounty" is the make light of it charade, while "bug" is the venerable hardware name. Find the first few, sure, that's for easy diversion, find those somewhat deeper, those're for sweeping by the seasoned pros. Then there are those that are never found, the ones that always tell what's needed to know in national emergency but can never be revealed. Perhaps any day now MS and NSCP will morph to push browser GAK, claiming that public privacy and secure commerce demand protection from cyber-terrorists. That's the theme, hey, hey, of the Denver meet of global leaders on June 20. Could it be that that's what the Silicon chiefs went to DC to plan last week while speechifying contrarily to CNN, C-SPAN and Declan. Surely, though, bountifully trusty PGP is not party to this G-10 globalization of crippled crypto, or at least not its Chief Technology Officer, right? BTW, Declan's spin on national affairs is starting to smell of pontification to the masses, classis sign of "if only you knew what I've been let in on." Shimomuraism, that, empty data.

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by submitking 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Re: Democratic Assassination
by Paul Bradley 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> > Speaking entirely hypothetically: If assasination bots were implemented, > > and I ran one, I would choose to keep a list of poloticians, DEA cops, > > censors etc. and only allow contracts on them, of course, there is > > nothing to stop anyone else running a server that accepted bets on > > anyone. I would just choose not to allow my equipment to be used for > > hiring assasins to kill innocent people. > > But by using this system, aren't we removing the concept of what an > 'innocent' person is anyway? A person 'deserves' to die when enough people > or money dictates that they should. I believe in this sense a DAP system would be a bad thing, but anonymous digital contracts in the more direct sense (ie. just a normal assasination contract as agreed today in meatspace, but using digital cash and other systems to make payments untraceable) are a better option as they remove this democratic side to the killings (although the democratic method prevents frivolous killings). I am not at all saying that a person "deserves" to die when enough people say they should, but merely describing the situation. It is currently the case that when someone becomes A. unpopular enough in public opinion, or B. unpopular with someone with a lot of money, they stand a chance of being killed for this. > Effectively you're censoring votes > for the assasination of a person who you don't feel deserves it - no matter > how many people donate money to that cause. > This destroys the whole 'democratic' idea of what this ideas about. Whoa there! An assasination bot and the hardware it ran on would be private property, I can choose to censor whatever the hell I want on private property. I personally would not run an AP type bot that democratised the process of assasination, as I have said I favour the probable outcome of a more direct contract system, but whether I did or not it is my decision who I accept bets on. If I choose to only accept bets on innocent children and old ladies, that is my own decision on my own property. Business suceeds through reputation, remember the basic principles of the free market... > Also, how do you tell the difference between an 'evil' and 'innocent' > DEA cop? ROFL, the very notion of an innocent DEA cop is a joke... Datacomms Technologies data security Paul Bradley, Paul(a)fatmans.demon.co.uk Paul(a)crypto.uk.eu.org, Paul(a)cryptography.uk.eu.org Http://www.cryptography.home.ml.org/ Email for PGP public key, ID: FC76DA85 "Don`t forget to mount a scratch monkey"

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The Cartoon Decency Act, from The Netly News
by Declan McCullagh 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

*********** http://cgi.pathfinder.com/netly/opinion/0,1042,1055,00.html The Netly News Network June 13, 1997 The Cartoon Decency Act? by Declan McCullagh (declan(a)well.com) We all know what threats confront our children today: War. Hunger. Poverty. Ignorance. But animated cartoon characters on the Net? Actually, the Center for Media Education and its allies ignored the others and just zeroed in on the looming menace of Net-toons yesterday during the Federal Trade Commission's interminable privacy hearings. CME's Shelley Pasnik warned, "Animated product spokescharacters are coming into our childrens' computers... Parents are deeply troubled by the intrusive nature of the online [world] coming into our homes." Hadn't she read Kurt Anderson's editorial in The New Yorker this week, that the onslaught of 'toons signals a cultural renaissance in the U.S.? Doh! The Center for Media's alarums sound familiar. Supporters of the notorious Communications Decency Act cried that "pornography is coming into our home computers" and used the same excuse of "protecting children" to justify passing the law. [...] Next came Michael Brody from the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, who cranked up the rhetoric even more. "Ronald McDonald is so very busy in a cyberspace with no child rules. With entertainment and advertising totally merged, Ronald exploits children easily," Brody said. "Cholesterol is not the real public health menace on Ronald's web site, but the invasion and destruction of a child's fantasy life." Good thing he hadn't seen HotWired's Cocktail site. [...]

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by Grayson 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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online-gamb.htm
by Damaged Justice 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Re: We need more surveillance--a morality play about terrorism
by Rich Graves 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Tim May <tcmay(a)got.net> wrote: > I've been watching an HBO movie, "Path to Paradise," about the > bombing of the World Trade Center in February 1993. It's quite > well-done, as most HBO movies of this sort are. Maybe I'll get a TV one of these days. Nah. > * "You mean Islamic radicals are free to preach their message of > hate and violence? Unbelievable!" (This is a paraphrase...there > were several such opinions expressed, where FBI managers express > outrage that such things are permitted in the U.S.) I can't even imagine anyone in the FBI saying anything like that. In the National Security (tm) establishment and local police forces, yes, but the FBI is pretty professional, and has heard of the First Amendment. In this case, though, there was the additional issue of Rachman being an illegal alien. (I'm not a big fan of border controls of any kind, but I do consider political hostility to the US to be a legitimate reason for a state to bar someone from entry and residence. Bleeding hearts aside, poverty and lack of language and job skills are also legitimate reasons to bar people at the golden door.) It's fashionable to romanticize the enemy as big national or supranational thugs, but in reality the corrupt local cop is the bigger civil liberties threat to most normal people. On the "other side": Look, more people died from car accidents in the last 12 days than died in the bombing of the Murrah Federal Building, and far fewer still (or was it nobody?) died in the World Trade Center. By the numbers, terrorism just doesn't deserve the press coverage it gets. McVeigh would have done better if he'd started an automobile factory. It worked for Henry Ford; how many copies of The International Jew and The Protocols of the Elders of Zion did he print with the money he made, and how long did respectable antisemitism delay the US entry into WWII? Food for thought. If you really want to influence people over the long term, make money, not bombs. William Pierce is on the wrong track. > * The niceties of getting wiretap orders were treated as ways to > coddle criminals. This does happen, and bugs me (so to speak). > --Tim May, who's sorry he missed the display of firepower at the > physical meeting today One of these days I'll make it to the firing range. You also missed a revealing story over dinner, which probably meant something different to me than the storyteller intended, but there it is. A guy on the way to the shooting range is pulled over for speeding. The cop notices the guns, orders him out of the car, and asks where he's going. He answers, "Let me explain the way I think this country works. I am going wherever I damn well please." So the cop gives him a speeding ticket, and he continues on his way. Now tell me, is this evidence that we're living in a police state? Of course it probably helped that the guy was white, and probably driving a "decent" car, and carrying "decent" guns and not some "Saturday Night Special." But still, I don't see the totalitarianism. While it wasn't covered in human rights school, I don't think the FBI should sit idly by and let terrorists sponsored by the government of Iran blow people up, either. And so they didn't sit idly by. They waited for probable cause. And lost one. Oops. A few random bombings seems a reasonable price to pay for all our freedoms, though, especially since it probably couldn't have been prevented in the first place. But by all means, keep the paranoia coming. That's what keeps this country more or less free. Far better to have frogs hopping wild and free (as God designed them) than sitting in the pot talking about how nice and warm the water is. Just don't lose it so badly that you start endorsing the bombing of the World Trade Center and the Murrah Federal Building, please. - -rich http://www.stanford.edu/~llurch/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 4.5 iQBVAwUBM6SCkJNcNyVVy0jxAQFWvAH/U8KiLVrrtq/NNSOzJWGPJuP2n7wM/6oU KvymiZkTRqMS+5WLY5WTomnVCgKcc0IQ9eMDFO0UgJf5vI28YE2VtQ== =EP88 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: Homer on Terrorism
by nobody＠huge.cajones.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Tom Weinstein wrote: > Tim May wrote: > > Tom Weinstein wrote: > >> Tim May wrote: > > > >>> (What the Danes offered was a straight buiness deal, albeit made > >>> weirder and more frantic by the constraints of time, publicity, and > >>> worldwide attention. Still a business deal, though.) > what he said > was something like: > "Pay me lots of money or I will go to the press in such a way as to > damage you the most." > > That is blackmail. It's clear that the money is to prevent the damage, > not just for the information. This happens every day in major-league business ballparks. Information --> is power is --> money. Usually the word "blackmail" surfaces when one company takes a shit-kicking from the other company. Methinks the reason the word "blackmail" so easily springs to the lips of Netscape exec's is that they know they got caught with their pants down. They designed their code so that they or John Law could put their dicks in our hard drives and wiggle them around and now they are accusing the guy who has "pictures" of their guilt of doing something dirty. Although Netscape is claiming the "high ground" by saying they don't pay "blackmail," I think it is much more likely that they didn't need to *pay* for the information because they already *knew* exactly what the other company had discovered. Netscape calls their upcoming patch a "bug fix" when, in reality, it is the disabling of a "secret feature." Thus I wouldn't be too quick to accept their definition of "blackmail." > > Browsers are big business, and high stakes poker. It's not surprising > > to me to see this kind of bluffing and "terorrism" (to quote Homer, > > with his rosy-fingered typing). What's surprising is that it hasn't > > happened more often, or at least hasn't gotten as much publicity. It probably doesn't get reported very often because a company usually doesn't have foreknowledge of the problem (i.e. it is a genuine "bug" in their product) and thus it is in their best interest to pay to find out the specifics of the problem. When you're innocent of wrongdoing, it's called a business negotiation. When you're guilty of wrongdoing, its called blackmail? So if Tom Weinstein calls it blackmail, then I guess that pretty much indicates Netscape's position in regard to their browser's ability to be used to compromise the user's privacy and security. TruthMonger

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Current wording of SAFE criminal use provision
by Steve Schear 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>From Thomas: http://rs9.loc.gov/cgi-bin/cpquery105/1?cp105:./temp/~cp105mvbg:e7198 --begin Sec. 2805. Unlawful use of encryption in furtherance of a criminal act `Any person who, in the commission of a felony under a criminal statute of the United States, knowingly and willfully encrypts incriminating communications or information relating to that felony with the intent to conceal such communications or information for the purpose of avoiding detection by law enforcement agencies or prosecution-- `(1) in the case of a first offense under this section, shall be imprisoned for not more than 5 years, or fined in the amount set forth in this title, or both; and `(2) in the case of a second or subsequent offense under this section, shall be imprisoned for not more than 10 years, or fined in the amount set forth in this title, or both.'. --end --Ste5e

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[ANNOUNCE] PGP 5.0 Freeware is available from MIT
by Jeffrey I. Schiller 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- To: The PGP Community From: Jeffrey I. Schiller <jis(a)mit.edu> Subject: PGP 5.0 Freeware is available from MIT I am pleased to announce the availability of PGP 5.0 Freeware from the MIT Web Site. PGP 5.0 Freeware is available for non-commercial use under license from MIT, PGP Inc. It uses the RSAREF toolkit licensed from RSA Data Security. This new version is a long awaited major upgrade and improvement to PGP 2.6.2. It has a native Windows '95, Windows NT and Macintosh interface. It supports additional ciphers, as well as new key types and message formats. Internally it is much improved as well. This release marks a major transition to a new public key infrastructure based on the Diffie-Hellman (DH) public key algorithm for privacy and the Digital Signature Standard (DSS) for digital signatures. The RSA algorithm is still supported and this version will work with the old RSA keys you may already have. However all new keys generated by this version will be DH/DSS keys. Many of the internal performance improvements are only available when used exclusively with DH/DSS keys (this is because using RSA keys requires PGP 5.0 to be backward compatible with PGP 2.6.2 which requires PGP 5.0 to use less efficient message formats). This version also includes automated keyserver support. It can automatically fetch PGP keys from the MIT keyserver (and other keyservers) as well as offer to upload any newly created keys. It also comes with plug-ins for Eudora and other major mail utilities. At the moment it is only available for Windows '95, NT and MacOS. A Unix (Linux) version is in the works but isn't ready yet, but we hope to have it ready within a week or two. Source code for this version was distributed at last weekend's cypherpunks meeting in hard copy form. Source will eventually be made available electronically, but isn't ready yet. You can find the Freeware PGP at either the PGP Home Page at: http://web.mit.edu/network/pgp.html or directly at: http://web.mit.edu/network/pgp-form.html Note: We anticipate a significant amount of traffic while people throughout the U.S. and Canada download PGP. Please be patient with the server (and with us)! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP for Personal Privacy 5.0 Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBM6V9psUtR20Nv5BtAQE9IgP+OuB+wHml5C47s3YJjfbNq+3FWmql+DrG AE5Dag8aahKGf73SYHByhCZXowCzE0g8QeAx9VYpXy9CHp5GiSE8Iks1/U0AKz1h cxcQ2Etp7x2js9GAfP8ueD01RlIguQsh2hIP0cU9ymy8Fn1b7OscWk9hhmDjgBpv O36Lt5gPBwM= =+zQC -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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2nd New Netscape Bug Reported
by nobody＠huge.cajones.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

[Routers--Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan] June 17, 1997 Bellgate or Bill Gates? by Declan McCypherpunk A wanna-be programmer in this small Canadian town stumbled upon an undocumented feature in the Netscape browser which allows the user to place a bet on the date of death of computer magnate Bill Gates. While early reports are sketchy, it appears that the scheme involves Tom Weinstein, Ed McMahon and the cypherpunks remailer system. When approached by Kookie Roberts for comment, Tom Weinstein loudly proclaimed, "I don't even know Jim Bell, honest." When Kookie Roberts asked Weinstein who the hell Jim Bell was, he quickly muttered, "Never mind..." Ed McMahon would only say that on September 4th, some lucky winner would be receiving an anonymous digicash transaction from him. When pressed for details about the date, McMahon's face flushed a bright red and he quickly exited the scene, accompanied by men with Italian names, and a former CIA PR representative explained that what McMahon "meant to say" was "no comment." Unsubtatiated rumors also indicate that if the netscape.exe file is printed out as a .gif file, that it pictures a layout of Microsoft Corporate headquarters and the Gates estate. When asked for a response to the announcement of the new revelations a Microsoft spokesperson cryptically replied, "Anyone who bet on Bill Gates dying on September 4th ain't gonna win shit." When pressed as to whether he personally used the Netscape browser, the MS spokesperson only grinned and winked.

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(fwd) Demo of new personalized web "Anonymizer"
by Alex de Joode 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

----- Forwarded message from Alex de Joode ----- From: alain(a)allegra.tempo.att.com (Alain Mayer) Newsgroups: sci.crypt,sci.crypt.research Subject: Demo of new personalized web "Anonymizer" Date: 11 Jun 1997 17:49:02 -0700 Organization: Bell Labs, Murray Hill, NJ Message-ID: <5nnh1u$djk(a)joseph.cs.berkeley.edu> Hi! We are Bell Labs researches currently experimenting with a new tool that helps you easily create and use consistent unique personal identities at web sites that provide personalized services. LPWA (Lucent Personalized Web Assistant) creates these unique identities on demand. LPWA supports these features: - Privacy: Your true identity remains unknown to the web-sites. When a web-site asks you to provide a username, password, or e-mail address, you instead enter '\u', '\p', or '\@', and the LPWA proxy submits to the web-site an alias-username, an alias-password, or an alias-e-mail address. LPWA computes a different, but consistent, alias for you for each web-site. - Convenience: Because LPWA computes your alias identity for you, you do not need to invent and remember multiple usernames and passwords. Instead, you only need to remember and protect one secret ("universal password"). You provide your secret to the proxy, along with your e-mail address, exactly once during a browsing session, after that you browse the web transparently. Check http://lpwa.com/ to see how to use LPWA. To obtain more information about LPWA, see http://www.bell-labs.com/project/lpwa/ Pointers to personalized web-sites, where you can open and maintain accounts, are given in http://www.bell-labs.com/project/lpwa/background.html#personalized Please note that this project has not yet been publicy announced and that documentation and code are currently being revised. Also, the current (temporary) set-up, where you have to connect to LPWA over an insecure connection is not "optimal" (to say the least, but all in all much better than if you browse the "usual way"). Hence, we are really looking for "friendly users" at this time whose feedback will help us to make improvements. Regards, Alain Mayer ----- End of forwarded message from Alex de Joode ----- Groet, -- Alex de Joode usura(a)zedz.com | ZedZ InterNET Laboratories | http://www.zedz.net

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by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

6-16-97, NYP: With a groundbreaking Supreme Court decision imminent on a new law restricting children's access to indecent material on the Internet, senior Clinton administration officials are preparing a policy that undercuts the administration's strong support of the law until now. Administration officials, anticipating that the court will strike the law down as an unconstitutional abridgment of free speech, have been quietly fashioning a new communications policy that leaves most regulation of the sprawling online world to the industry itself. No announcement will be made until the court rules on the constitutionality of the Communications Decency Act of 1996. And officials noted that the current draft of a working group's report, dated June 4, is not necessarily the last word spelling out the new approach. The president makes policy, they said, and this matter will not be settled until he approves. ----- BYE_cda http://jya.com/byecda.htm

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High-Class Hoards
by Shift Control 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

This week in the award-winning Shift Control... The Hoarding Issue "Nowadays Charles Saatchi buys up entire shows of new talent in the Young Brit Art pack. Recently he bought nearly all the Chapman brothers' disturbing child mannequins with penises and anuses in peculiar places. And the whole of the Martin Maloney show, 'Die Yuppie Scum'. I imagine his art depository must be as big as an out-of-town IKEA store, with fork-lift trucks whizzing around it and people with clipboards checking stock." - Professor Lisa Jardine on art collectors, the ultimate hoarders. "Mum keeps throwing more and more pairs of shoes into the black hole at the bottom of her wardrobe, never to be seen again, even though she might only have worn them once. This shoe fixation is a trait the rest of the family seems to have inherited. Normal kids inherit eye colour from their parents; we all got the urge to stash flip-flops." - Emma Caldwell on growing up in a house of maniacal hoarders. "Charlie describes himself as a 'guardian of logic'. 'I've seen some super-open people, into Buddhism and Feng shui and geomancing. But that,' says Charlie, nodding towards the hoard of jumble, 'is an ecclesiastical anathema, trying to combine all things, all religions together.'" - Shift Control rumbles through jumble and finds a philosopher in the closet. Plus: The Shift Control Gallery, the world's first bionic bee, and a chance to win 200 smackers in our short story competition. All waiting for you NOW at http://www.shiftcontrol.com _____________________________________________ Shift Control is produced by the Guardian's New Media Lab with help from Boddingtons and Stella Artois Dry To unsubscribe from this mailing list send e-mail to shiftcontrol-request(a)nml.guardian.co.uk with the following text in the body of the mail message: unsubscribe

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New CIA Rule on Information Access
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The CIA has published in the Federal Register today interim rules and soliciting comments prior to adoption of final rules to implement its obligations under the Freedom of Information Act, the Privacy Act, and Executive Order 12958 provisions relating to classification challenges by authorized holders, requests for mandatory declassification review, and access by historical researchers. http://jya.com/cia061697.txt (150K)

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List of reliable remailers
by Raph Levien 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I operate a remailer pinging service which collects detailed information about remailer features and reliability. To use it, just finger remailer-list(a)kiwi.cs.berkeley.edu There is also a Web version of the same information, plus lots of interesting links to remailer-related resources, at: http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~raph/remailer-list.html This information is used by premail, a remailer chaining and PGP encrypting client for outgoing mail. For more information, see: http://www.c2.org/~raph/premail.html For the PGP public keys of the remailers, finger pgpkeys(a)kiwi.cs.berkeley.edu This is the current info: REMAILER LIST This is an automatically generated listing of remailers. The first part of the listing shows the remailers along with configuration options and special features for each of the remailers. The second part shows the 12-day history, and average latency and uptime for each remailer. You can also get this list by fingering remailer-list(a)kiwi.cs.berkeley.edu. $remailer{"extropia"} = "<remail(a)miron.vip.best.com> cpunk pgp special"; $remailer{"mix"} = "<mixmaster(a)remail.obscura.com> cpunk mix pgp hash latent cut ek ksub reord ?"; $remailer{"replay"} = "<remailer(a)replay.com> cpunk mix pgp hash latent cut post ek"; $remailer{"exon"} = "<remailer(a)remailer.nl.com> cpunk pgp hash latent cut ek"; $remailer{"haystack"} = "<haystack(a)holy.cow.net> cpunk mix pgp hash latent cut ek"; $remailer{"lucifer"} = "<lucifer(a)dhp.com> cpunk mix pgp hash latent cut ek"; $remailer{"jam"} = "<remailer(a)cypherpunks.ca> cpunk mix pgp hash middle latent cut ek"; $remailer{"winsock"} = "<winsock(a)rigel.cyberpass.net> cpunk pgp pgponly hash cut ksub reord"; $remailer{'nym'} = '<config(a)nym.alias.net> newnym pgp'; $remailer{"balls"} = "<remailer(a)huge.cajones.com> cpunk pgp hash latent cut ek"; $remailer{"squirrel"} = "<mix(a)squirrel.owl.de> cpunk mix pgp pgponly hash latent cut ek"; $remailer{"middle"} = "<middleman(a)jpunix.com> cpunk mix pgp hash latent cut ek reord"; $remailer{'cyber'} = '<alias(a)alias.cyberpass.net> alpha pgp'; $remailer{"dustbin"} = "<dustman(a)athensnet.com> cpunk pgp hash latent cut ek mix reord middle"; $remailer{'weasel'} = '<config(a)weasel.owl.de> newnym pgp'; $remailer{"reno"} = "<middleman(a)cyberpass.net> cpunk mix pgp hash middle latent cut ek reord ?"; $remailer{"wazoo"} = "<remailer(a)wazoo.com> cpunk mix pgp hash latent cut ek"; $remailer{"shaman"} = "<remailer(a)lycaeum.org> cpunk pgp hash latent cut ek"; $remailer{"hidden"} = "<remailer(a)hidden.net> cpunk pgp hash latent cut"; catalyst(a)netcom.com is _not_ a remailer. lmccarth(a)ducie.cs.umass.edu is _not_ a remailer. usura(a)replay.com is _not_ a remailer. remailer(a)crynwr.com is _not_ a remailer. There is no remailer at relay.com. Groups of remailers sharing a machine or operator: (cyber mix) (weasel squirrel) The alpha and nymrod nymservers are down due to abuse. However, you can use the nym or weasel (newnym style) nymservers. The cyber nymserver is quite reliable for outgoing mail (which is what's measured here), but is exhibiting serious reliability problems for incoming mail. The squirrel and winsock remailers accept PGP encrypted mail only. 403 Permission denied errors have been caused by a flaky disk on the Berkeley WWW server. This seems to be fixed now. The penet remailer is closed. Last update: Mon 16 Jun 97 6:49:32 PDT remailer email address history latency uptime ----------------------------------------------------------------------- weasel config(a)weasel.owl.de +--+--+--+- 1:51:30 99.94% squirrel mix(a)squirrel.owl.de +-+++-+--+- 1:48:38 99.93% hidden remailer(a)hidden.net -###_____.+- 31:17:55 99.88% balls remailer(a)huge.cajones.com ####+# -+## 37:39 99.73% mix mixmaster(a)remail.obscura.com --.-.-...-. 10:15:59 99.71% replay remailer(a)replay.com ** * **-++* 7:46 99.62% jam remailer(a)cypherpunks.ca ***** ++ ++* 12:39 99.58% reno middleman(a)cyberpass.net ---+_---.--- 2:05:48 99.44% cyber alias(a)alias.cyberpass.net ** * **+++** 21:08 98.20% winsock winsock(a)rigel.cyberpass.net ---------- - 6:05:20 98.03% lucifer lucifer(a)dhp.com ++ ++++-+++ 42:58 97.94% nym config(a)nym.alias.net # 2:46 51.51% History key * # response in less than 5 minutes. * * response in less than 1 hour. * + response in less than 4 hours. * - response in less than 24 hours. * . response in more than 1 day. * _ response came back too late (more than 2 days). cpunk A major class of remailers. Supports Request-Remailing-To: field. eric A variant of the cpunk style. Uses Anon-Send-To: instead. penet The third class of remailers (at least for right now). Uses X-Anon-To: in the header. pgp Remailer supports encryption with PGP. A period after the keyword means that the short name, rather than the full email address, should be used as the encryption key ID. hash Supports ## pasting, so anything can be put into the headers of outgoing messages. ksub Remailer always kills subject header, even in non-pgp mode. nsub Remailer always preserves subject header, even in pgp mode. latent Supports Matt Ghio's Latent-Time: option. cut Supports Matt Ghio's Cutmarks: option. post Post to Usenet using Post-To: or Anon-Post-To: header. ek Encrypt responses in reply blocks using Encrypt-Key: header. special Accepts only pgp encrypted messages. mix Can accept messages in Mixmaster format. reord Attempts to foil traffic analysis by reordering messages. Note: I'm relying on the word of the remailer operator here, and haven't verified the reord info myself. mon Remailer has been known to monitor contents of private email. filter Remailer has been known to filter messages based on content. If not listed in conjunction with mon, then only messages destined for public forums are subject to filtering. Raph Levien

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Kerrey bill introduced in Senate (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Hi, Forwarded message: > Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 19:09:09 -0400 > From: Robert Hettinga <rah(a)shipwright.com> > Subject: Kerrey bill introduced in Senate > Sen. Kerrey's evil "Secure Public Networks Act" was introduced in the > Senate today, cosponsored by Sen. McCain. > > The bill, if passed, would: > > Criminalize breaking another person's ciphertext for the purpose of > violating their privacy, security, or property rights; (goodbye, Netscape > bugs bounty and DES/RC4 cracks) (s. 105(3)) Actualy it would prevent me from cracking your ciphertext, it does not prevent me from trying to crack my own ciphertext. Since I am supplying the plaintext it is clear that I can continue to test Netscape or any other algorithm. It also implies, by specificaly mentioning privacy, that you can give me permission to attempt to crack your ciphertext. It, intentionaly or not, give you the individual the choice and not Uncle Sam. > Criminalize intercepting another's intellectual property for the purpose of > violating intellectual property rights (s. 105(4)) I have absolutely no problem with making it illegal for you to packet sniff my network when your specific goal is to take internal information against my will and use it against me. I think this is the kind of law that needs to be made. I would however suspect that existing law covers this quite thoroughly. > Require federal government purchasers of crypto equipment to buy GAK > crypto; (s. 202, 204) The federal government can require whatever the hell it wants of itself. I don't work for them anymore and would not consider it in the future. When they start telling me that I have to do something for their convenience, then and there I have a major bitch. > Require crypto products purchased with federal funds for use on a public > network to employ GAK crypto; (s. 203, 205) See above. > Legalize the export of 56-bit DES crypto; (s. 302) Ain't much, but it is a step in the right direction. I mean, 64-bit ain't that far from 56, and shoot if your gonna give me 64 how about 128 since it is ONLY twice as 'large'. > Criminalizes the issuance of signature certificates by registered CA's for > encryption keys if the user has not complied with GAK procedures; (s. > 407(a)(4)) When did they pass a law requiring registration of CA's in the first place? Or is this another law that only applies to voluntarily registered government CA's? And just exactly what is the ANSI/ISO standard of said registrant? RFC? > Criminalizes requesting a signature certificate for an encryption key from > a registered CA if the user has not complied with GAK procedures; (s. > 407(a)(5)) I don't understand this. Is the person asking committing the crime for asking for a signature certificate without complying with GAK processes? Or is the person refusing to register their key with a CA after the CA received a request from a third party? > Allows the Secretary of Commerce to "make investigations, obtain > information, take sworn testimony, and require reports or the keeping of > records by .. any person", to the extent necessary to enforce the Act; (s. > 701(a)) Are you saying they must require everyone in a particular business class to comply with their regulatory mechanations without exception OR that they will be able to force such regulatory excesses as they can squeeze out of an individual person/business? > Allows the Secretary of Commerce to subpoena witnesses and documents in any > State at any designated place; (s. 701(b)(3)(A)) Their enforcement agents already have this power since they are considered federal agents equivalent to DEA or FBI (Hint: NEVER argue with a guy wearing NOAA, NASA, USGS, DoA, etc. *AND* a badge). > Allows the Secretary of Commerce to impose civil/adminstrative penalties of > up to $100K for violations of the Act; (s. 702(1)) Without trial? ____________________________________________________________________ | | | _____ 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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17 Dec '03

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17 Dec '03

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Anguilla surpasses US military in code breaking challenge.
by Vincent Cate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Press Release Anguilla, June 16, 1997 Anguilla surpasses US military in code breaking challenge. The Caribbean country of Anguilla has searched through more than 2,380,000,000,000 code keys as part of the Deschall effort to break a DES encrypted message. This is in response to a challenge by RSA Inc to show that DES 56 bit keys are not large enough given the rapid advances in computing technology. As of June 16th, the entire US military effort, represented by Internet machine names ending in ".mil" in the Deschall statistics pages, has searched fewer keys. Anguilla host names end in ".com.ai". Anguilla is a free and democratic country, that does not limit key lengths. Offshore Information Services organized the Anguilla effort. OIS also hosted a conference in Anguilla called "Financial Cryptography 97" in February of this year. Deschall: http://www.frii.com/~rcv/deschall.htm RSA: http://www.rsa.com/rsalabs/97challenge/ Offshore: http://www.offshore.com.ai/ Statistics: http://www.frii.com/~rcv/krstat/ FC97: http://www.offshore.com.ai/fc97/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Vincent Cate Offshore Information Services Vince(a)Offshore.com.ai http://www.offshore.com.ai/ Anguilla, BWI http://www.offshore.com.ai/vince ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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Need Your Immediate Help To Stop Censorship by FCC's Reed Hundt
by constitution99＠hotmail.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Re: [DES] Anguilla surpasses US military in code breaking challe
by Peter Trei 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> From: Vincent Cate <vince(a)offshore.com.ai> > To: cypherpunks(a)toad.com > Subject: Anguilla surpasses US military in code breaking challenge. Vince writes: > Press Release > Anguilla, June 16, 1997 > > Anguilla surpasses US military in code breaking challenge. > > The Caribbean country of Anguilla has searched through more than > 2,380,000,000,000 code keys as part of the Deschall effort to break a DES > encrypted message. This is in response to a challenge by RSA Inc to show > that DES 56 bit keys are not large enough given the rapid advances in > computing technology. As of June 16th, the entire US military effort, > represented by Internet machine names ending in ".mil" in the Deschall > statistics pages, has searched fewer keys. Anguilla host names end in > ".com.ai". Anguilla is a free and democratic country, that does not limit > key lengths. NOT a press release, but true. Framingham,MA , June 16, 1997 Process Software surpasses Anguilla in code breaking challenge. The small software firm of Process Software has searched through more than 25,600,000,000,000 code keys as part of an independent effort to break a DES encrypted message. This is in response to a challenge by RSA Inc to show that DES 56 bit keys are not large enough given the rapid advances in computing technology. As of June 16th, the entire US military effort, represented by Internet machine names ending in ".mil" in the Deschall statistics pages, has searched fewer keys. Anguilla host names end in ".com.ai". This represents 5965 2^32 key segments, or 0.035% of the total keyspace. We've got a long way to go. It's worth noting that the DESChall people claim to have now searched over 23% of the keyspace, and at the current rate will have searched the whole thing about 3 months from now. They have not released their source code for independent evaluation. I for one would feel a lot more comfortable with DESChall if there was at least some outside review, even if no general release is made. Peter Trei trei(a)process.com

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DREI 97: Cryptography and Network Security
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

http://dimacs.rutgers.edu/drei/1997/schedule/DREI97_ad_Research.htm DIMACS Research & Education Institute DREI 97 Cryptography and Network Security July 28 - August 15, 1997 Rutgers University, NJ Speakers and papers (abstracts available at the site): Martin Abadi, Digital Systems Research Center, DEC "Strengthening Passwords" Ross Anderson, Cambridge University, "Medical Records Security" and "Steganography" Alex Biryukov, Technion "Cryptanalysis of the Portz Interconnection-Network Block-Cipher" and "Cryptanalysis of RC5" Daniel Bleichenbacher, Bell Labs "Comparing RSA and RSA-Type Cryptosystems Over Elliptic Curves" Gilles Brassard, University of Montreal "The Impact of Quantum Mechanics on Cryptology" Ran Canetti, IBM "Towards Realizing Random Oracles: Hash Functions That Hide All Partial Information" and "On the Adaptive Security of Multiparty Protocols" Benny Chor, Technion "Private Information Retrieval" Claude Crepeau, Universite de Montreal "Cryptographic Power of Noisy Channel" Cynthia Dwork, IBM "Positive Applications to Lattices of Cryptography" Carl Ellison, Cybercash, Working Cryptanalysis of the German Enigma" and Key Management in the Post-Identity Era" Yair Frankel, Sandia "New Techniques for Sharing Cryptographic Functions" Matthew Franklin, AT&T Labs - Research, "Ecash and the Power of Positive Paranoia" Rosario Gennaro, IBM "How to Sign Digital Streams" Stuart Haber, Surety Technologies, "Ensuring the Integrity of Records On Line: How to Time-Stamp a Digital Document" Jack Lacey, AT&T Labs - Research, "Music on the Internet and the Intellectual Property Protection Problem" Susan Landau, University of Massachusetts at Amherst "Cryptology, Technology and Policy" David P. Maher, AT&T Labs - Research "Security Models for Partially Accounted E-Cash Systems" Dalia Malkhi, AT&T Labs - Research "Auditable Metering with Lightweight Security" Moni Naor, The Weizmann Institute "A Formal Teatment of Remotely Keyed Encryption" Hilaire Orman, DARPA "The Imperfection of Secrecy in Real Network Protocols" Pino Persiano, University of Salerno "A Transparent Distributed Cryptographic Filesystem" and "Randomness-Efficient Non-Interactive Zero-Knowledge Proofs" Marcus Ranum, Network Flight Recorder, Inc., "Hacking and Networked Terrorism" and "Problems with the Firewall Concept" Mike Reiter, AT&T Labs - Research "Toward Acceptable Metrics of Authentication" Fred Schneider, Cornell University "Mobile Code Security Issues" Rich Schroeppel, University of Arizona "Fast Arithmetic in GF[2^156]" Adi Shamir, The Weizmann Institute "A New Paradigm for Massively Parallel Random Search" and "Cryptanalytic Fault Attacks" Martin Strauss, AT&T Labs - Research "Proxy Cryptography" and "A Formal Teatment of Transactional Trust Management" Edlyn Teske, University of Manitoba "Space Efficient Group Structure Computation Using Pollard's $\rho$-Method"

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17 Dec '03

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