December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: Advocating Violence
by nobody＠huge.cajones.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>From: paul(a)fatmans.demon.co.uk >To: Kent Crispin <kent(a)songbird.com> >Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 15:17:29 +0000 >Subject: Re: Advocating Violence Paul said: > > You may well argue that my idea of rights is a misinterpretation, I > > could give you a number of examples of why this is not so. Kent said: > > More likely I would argue that your idea of rights is simply a > religious belief, and, like many zealots, you confuse your beliefs > with reality and reason. Kent, you smug and arrogant pampered child! To denigrate another because he _may_ have ideas based on religious beliefs is a typical of your ad hominem style of argument. Nothing Paul has said would mark him as a zealot, which term you use too loosely and unwittingly. "Reality and reason?" You who have recently implied that the death camps of Europe are not a part of the reality of the 20th century. Previously I had pitied you for continuing to bash your head into a wall with your specious arguments thinking it was mere stupidity! Not stupidity honestly come by, but abysmal ignorance nurtured by one who sits isolated and ignorant on his ivory tower. With a certain satisfaction I see now that all the dung heaped upon you and your vacuuous logic is honestly earned and completely deserved. If I did not weep for the educational system which _produced_ you, I would laugh at you. TruthMonger #20

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17 Dec '03

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Liberal party: definitely no crypto ban in Germany
by 3umoelle＠informatik.uni-hamburg.de 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Germany's liberal party FDP, which forms the government together with the larger Christian Democrats (CDU), has announced that they will not accept any restrictions to the use of cryptography. Yesterday the German Bundestag began to debate the draft Information and Communication Services Law (see http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/ckuner/homepage.htm for information about that draft). Both Minister of Justice Schmidt-Jortzig and FDP research politics speaker Laermann said that cryptography must not be banned. Laermann said the FDP will definitely not accept any crypto law that restricts or bans using cryptography. "I say this in the knowledge that what is desired herewith firstly is technically impossible, and secondly it cannot be allowed to give up protection of private, economic and - I say this from personal first hand, I may say bitter experience - scientific data from unauthorized, unfair and even criminal doings. The FDP will not allow that." The FDP supports the draft Digital Signature Law, but will resist any attempts to abuse the security infrascture as an entry into crypto regulation. Until recently, the FDP position on cryptography has been indifferent. Early this year FDP politicians have begun to verbosely contradict those in the CDU that want to restrict cryptography. In March, Minister of Justice Schmidt-Jortzig said at a North German FDP convention: "Currently there exist demands to ban cryptography or to deposit all keys with a central authority that can then arbitrarily decrypt messages. Those demands are deeply illiberal." The convention passed a resolution saying that "Nobody may restrict the citicens' right to use encryption to protect their data from unauthorized access by third parties." The Bundestag vice president Burkhard Hirsch published a statement on the FDP web server, saying that banning cryptography clearly is pointless, and precisely for that reason not even the Third Reich or East Germany had tried to do so. In a letter to the newsmagazine Spiegel, he wrote: "You could laugh your head off, if you didn't know that they really mean it."

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Proposed Addendum to International Standards
by Eric Hughes 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I was, for some reason, browsing ISO two letter country codes today and came upon such oddities as EM Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market (Trademarks and Designs) (OHIM) So I decided we needed some new ones, since it wasn't just for countries anymore. CB Cyberspace CP Cypherspace Cyberspace, the domain of electronic communication. Cypherspace, the domain of encrypted and untraceable electronic communication. Do you think we can get ISO to approve it? Better yet, do you think we could get some of those oval stickers like you see on European cars? I'm sure Ian will want some little ones for his Pilot. And now all we need is an ISO 639 natural language identifier for ciphertext. How about "xx"? Eric

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Re: Meeting Report: "Developing the Advanced Encryption Standard"
by Phillip M. Hallam-Baker 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> Regarding computational efficiency, NIST will favor >efficiency on 32-bit processors and short key-setup time, will test >efficiency on a little endian processor, and will publish the specs of the >test system. This seems misguided IMHO. The current trend is towards 64 bit processors and the inefficiency of using only half of a 64 bit processor seems to me to be somewhat more serious than the hassle of having to kludge up 64 bit operations on a 32 bit processor. The most likely platforms are 64 bit and 8 bit (embedded systems such as cellular). > They also encourage two submissions: reference (possibly in >Java) and optimized (in C). Regarding memory requirements, NIST will >measure memory requirements for C implementation on a single reference >platform (presumably a Pentium Pro), although submitters are welcome to >provide results for other platforms. Thats also a somewhat limited approach. The x86 familly is getting long in the tooth. Intel themselves have it scheduled for replacement in 1999. The architecture is very much compromised by backwards compatibility with the CISC instruction set. A mixed bag of AXP, Pentium PRO and commodity embedded processors popular in VLSI cell form such as Z-80, 6502 and 680x would be more reasonable. >It was pretty much >universally thought that this schedule is wildly optimistic. Like design a new cypher in 6 months? >NIST has a hard time figuring out how to measure hardware efficiency. >They'd like to have definitive metrics (like there will be for software) >but are unwilling to force submitters to provide VHDL code, or gate counts, >or whatever. Hardware is likely to cover a wide range of uses. The number of gates for DES in an ultra fast, `unwound' implementation is many more than a n iterator using the same gates for each round. >NIST talked about what to do about "tweaking" algorithms after submission. >What if a break is found, but a simple fix prevents the attack? What if >someone submits an algorithm and someone else proposes a tweak? These >questions were not answered. Surely this just menas that the tweakers get credit? >But is there enough time for people to invent strong 128-bit block ciphers? >Probably not. One alternative is to take existing 64-bit block ciphers, >and then use a 4-round Luby-Rackoff construction to create a 128-bit block >variant. Another is to give people more time. Both were talked about. I >would like them to approve triple-DES as an interim standard, and then take >all the time they need for a secure 128-bit block cipher. I suspect the assumption made is that the time table will slip. My concern is however that the starting gate closes too soon. 6 months is too little time to start something entirely new. But I would not be suprised if there was an extension. But unless people know in advance there will be one it means that they find out in six months time that they have six months to sumbit and algorithm. I've seen this type of delay a lot in the IETF standards arena. The working group starts by assuming it has too little time to do something new then spends far longer plugging up holes in a broken plan. Phill

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Re: InterNet Free Terra
by harka＠nycmetro.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Here are some more mirror-sites of the anarchist "Radikal"-magazine: > http://huizen.dds.nl/~tank/radikal > http://burn.ucsd.edu/%7Eats/RADIKAL/ > http://www.jca.or.jp/~taratta/mirror/radikal/ > http://huizen.dds.nl/~radikal/154/ > http://www.canucksoup.net/radikal/index.html > http://www.ecn.org/radikal > http://www.well.com/~declan/mirrors/ > http://www.connix.com/~harry/radikal/index.htm > http://www.anok4u2.org/radikal/ > http://www.denhaag.org/~radikal > http://emma.unm.edu/radikal > http://www.tacacs.com/radikal/" > http://users.abcs.com/dockmstr/mirror/radikal/index.htm > http://home.ipr.nl/~radikal/ > http://www.ibmpcug.co.uk/~irdial/live_free/ > http://zero.tolerance.org/radi/index.htm > http://www.meaning.com/library/radikal/ > http://www.wfmusic.fi/~toni/radikal > http://www.euronet.nl/users/funest/radi/index.htm > http://www.lab.net/radikal > http://www.charm.net/~gbarren/radikal > http://login.datashopper.dk/~pethern/not_by_me_not_my_views/radikal/ > http://radikal.autono.net./rad > http://brazil.nbn.com/radikal/ > http://www.threeweb.ad.jp/~fubuki71/mirror/radikal/ > http://www.design.nl/~bram/radikal/ > http://www.eskimo.com/~quawk/radikal/ > http://www.calyx.com/~refuse/radikal/ > http://www.grfn.org/~rtwo > http://www.grfn.org:4380 xs4all port mirror > http://www.cyberpass.net/radikal > http://www.xs4all.nl/~jeroenw/radikal/ > http://catalog.com/jamesd/radikal/ > http://www.islandnet.com/freedom/radikal/ > http://www.binary.net/mishania/radikal/ > http://www.io.com/~gbroiles/radikal.html > http://inet.uni-c.dk/~pethern/radikal.154.txt radikal 154 in plaintext > ascii. > http://www.moebius.com.au/radikal/ > http://www.moebius.net/radikal/ > http://interpia.net/~baldodum/radikal/index.htm > http://www.firstfloor.org/~vaclav/radikal > http://www.nyct.net/~malba/radikal/ Ciao Harka /*************************************************************/ /* This user supports FREE SPEECH ONLINE ...more info at */ /* and PRIVATE ONLINE COMMUNICATIONS! -> http://www.epic.org */ /* E-mail: harka(at)nycmetro.com (PGP-encrypted mail pref'd) */ /* PGP public key available upon request. [KeyID: 04174301] */ /* F-print: FD E4 F8 6D C1 6A 44 F5 28 9C 40 6E B8 94 78 E8 */ /*<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>*/ /* May there be peace in this world, may all anger dissolve */ /* and may all living beings find the way to happiness... */ /*************************************************************/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQEVAgUBM1gWtTltEBIEF0MBAQHBkgf+LHnES8nwFltcynOJk3sbJBD4QtSAVHX0 H/7VFA+v1deRfcKzC9ZtcOYJdrTwDPHsbzZZgCrwTyQn4/BYoZuX8Lvvpi0VwL5b r6N9auGMQCzOqIPAjkvTwEP+qR3aP56rEWHKzCPGzIgP/bojhelMujTxvhBjPRFC Bt5M6soavEwXboYv8lSla4QBvYpJsk5FFdbALCsZxibp3iceLwZ6T3zX/BWaxAN0 P8GazaluyXDc87ZKEk9fvZM5bN6jAHNC58n7g9A6PbJ6Bbk+hkdP0auQCGqVBbT0 gNOgbSG3u0YqbAlXvei5kAT2lCkBGm0HubTHhhpysoVC2scdWW0mlg== =riVf -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- If encryption is outlawed, only outlaws will have encryption...

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State of the Nation
by Shift Control 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Introducing.... The State of the Nation Issue of Shift Control If aliens landed in Britain with the aim of finding out what's up these days, they'd be in for a confusing time. Politicians - our leaders - are being chased by headless chickens and hacks on smack, while other hacks rage against "sleaze" and try to be politicians themselves. Unemployment figures are down, though they might be up. Ministers disagree with their parties while simultaneously agreeing with their parties. When we think we're eating lamb we might be eating beef. And millions of people buy Spice Girls records. It'll take more than a fancy spaceship to figure out the state of the nation these days. Undaunted, we decided to have a go anyway in this week's issue of Shift Control. We've asked Johnny Foreigner to give us an outsider's view of Britain; citizens of Middle Britain send us postcards profiling life in their home towns; Robin Hunt tries the statistical approach in the hope of finding some coherent indications as to where the country's heading; and Rada Petrovic explores her local haunt - Kentish Town, London - as a microcosm of the nation. Plus our quiz asks: how wild are you about Britain? Also this week: the usual mountain of humour and perspicacity, including more memoirs from Freebee (our resident rock historian), new fiction from Miles Gregory, and, if you're quick, details on how to obtain free tickets to the fourth annual Unconvention in London. Shift Control: in a fine state and waiting for you 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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Re: Xs4all website censored by German academic network (fwd)
by dlv＠bwalk.dm.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Bill Stewart <stewarts(a)ix.netcom.com> writes: > At 03:17 PM 4/18/97 +0000, paul(a)fatmans.demon.co.uk wrote: > >This comes as rather topical actually as I believe, if memory serves, > >that Radikal is a right wing racist publication? - > > Actually, it's a far-left anti-racist group's publication. > > > Does anybody know if Germany has a tradition of "academic freedom" > which could be waved at the network administration that's doing > the censorship? Germany has a tradition of hounding Jews out of their universities, for which the U.S. Universities were most thankful in the 1930s. --- Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM Brighton Beach Boardwalk BBS, Forest Hills, N.Y.: +1-718-261-2013, 14.4Kbps

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17 Dec '03

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Web World 35
by Bubba Rom Dos 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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My Thread / Was--Re: Light Bulbs & newsgroups
by Carl Johnson 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Timothy C. May wrote: > At 5:55 PM -0800 4/18/97, Igor Chudov @ home wrote: > >Timothy C. May wrote: > >> ....and at least 1 to say that you gave no credit for this. Did you write > >> it yourself? If so, congratulations, as it was pretty good. If you did not, > >> you left out any mention of the author, or at least where you found it. > >it was not me. When i got it, it had no attribution on it also. > Then it's best to say so. "Anonymous" or "No attribution" is preferable to > simple forwarding. When the post arrives with three or four sets of '> >>' (<--whatever the fuck these things are called), then even those of us who lost the better part of our brains in the Drug War are able to figure out that it is a forwarded-forwarded-forwarded post. I think Tim is fighting old wars in his head. (Find your shoes, yet, Tim?) > --Tim May, who's had his own stuff forwarded without credit, and recalls > when one of Perry Metzger's pieces arrived back on the list, sans credit. I can sympathize with Tim, here. People who plagarize the works of others, or who steal credit for other's ideas, are the scum of the earth. Just say "No" to "Plagarists Inside" We got no ethics, we're stealing sig lines, I know that that ain't allowed. ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Toto | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, robNsteal(a)gotyours.net | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Your Mind | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Higher Power: 2^1398269 | black markets, collapse of governments. "Plagarists aren't even speed bumps on the disinformation superhighway."

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Re: Light Bulbs & newsgroups
by dlv＠bwalk.dm.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Re: FCPUNX:Passphrase entropy
by jamesd＠echeque.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 12:04 PM 4/18/97 -0700, Steve Schear wrote: > If this is true then how much passphrase entropy is enough to thwart, > for example, an NSA crack attempt? Seems to me it needs to be equal > to or greater than the encryption key. What are some good, practical > ways of achieving this? Long keys or random keys. Suppose you need 80 bits of entropy. If your passphrase is truly random, for example 9kDt3fagWxglr You have about six bits a character, so you only need thirteen characters. If, however, your pass phrase is an intelligible english sentence, for example Wandering past Saint Ives, I saw many fine buildings covered in ivy across the road. You only have about one bit per character, so you need an eighty character sentence. If your passphrase is a short intelligible english phrase, as most of them are, it will succumb to a dictionary attack. --------------------------------------------------------------------- | We have the right to defend ourselves | http://www.jim.com/jamesd/ and our property, because of the kind | of animals that we are. True law | James A. Donald derives from this right, not from the | arbitrary power of the state. | jamesd(a)echeque.com

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by null＠myemail.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

www.myemail.net is a commercial remailer service; you can get an account for $5/month for some services, and use their web form free to send email and post news. Some parts of it are still under construction. Email has a nice attention-getting footer that gets put on each message to indicate that it's anonymous mail (so if you want to chain through other remailers, you'll need cutmarks), which says there's no sender identity logging. On the other hand, there's an interesting pixel in the web form that you use to send the email: <img src="/stats/makelog.cgi" height=1 width=1> Blocking is available both for email addresses and newsgroups. For email, just fill in your address in a form; it's not verified (my attempted mail to testme(a)bogus.com was rejected). The blocking works immediately, and since you submit email via a web form, reject messages get presented directly rather than being emailed to the bit bucket at some remailer. For news, the policy is that newsgroups will be blocked if there are requests from 12 different people (as distinguished somehow from 12 different requests by the same person forging headers.) Encryption: If you connect to https://www.myemail.net/, the button for anonymous email will fetch the form using https: ; if not, then not. So you'll have to remember to use it correctly. It's 128-bit RC4, which may affect some non-US users who haven't gotten SafePassage yet. It's a good start. Bill Stewart, stewarts(a)ix.netcom.com ************************************************************************ This Anonymous email has been relayed by http://www.MyEmail.net/ MyEmail.Net is a free anonymous mailing service. No records indicating the identity of person(s) who originated this message are retrieved electronically, or as a requirement to submit. Your email address can be blocked to prevent further contact from this service, please refer to the URL above for instructions on how to do so. ************************************************************************

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(no subject)
by Tim McVeigh 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Thanks for your support.
by John Denver 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Cypherpunks, I'd like to thank my many fans on the list for their support for my latest album. You've been great. Sorry I can't take time to chat, but I've got to get out to the ranch and deliver some supplies for spring planting. My truck broke down this morning, so I had to rent one. I've got to pick up some fertilizer for the fields, and diesel fuel for the tractors. I've also got to stop by the Federal Building in Denver and drop off the money order for that traffic ticket I got last week, so I've got to run. John Denver

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Social Security Public Forums
by Robert Hettinga 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

--- begin forwarded text From: john.t.sabo(a)ssa.gov Date: Thu, 17 Apr 97 18:30:41 -0500 To: members(a)lists.Commerce.Net MMDF-Warning: Parse error in original version of preceding line at lists.Commerce.Net Cc: john.t.sabo(a)s3abac8.ns1.barrnet.net MMDF-Warning: Parse error in original version of preceding line at lists.Commerce.Net Subject: Social Security Public Forums Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: members-owner(a)ssa.gov Precedence: bulk +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ This message was addressed to: members(a)lists.commerce.net +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ Fellow Commercenet Members: I wanted to make you and your companies aware of an important series of six National Forums that the Social Security Administration will be conducting throughout the country beginning May 5 through the week of June 9, in which SSA will seek public input and expert advice about the appropriate customer authentication and privacy safeguards needed to support SSA's Internet transaction services and ensure public trust. The forums are in response to the media and public concerns raised about our test of Interactive PEBES, which allowed individuals to request a Personal Earnings and Benefit Estimate Statement from SSA online and receive the response online, rather than via the mail, after providing five knowledge-based customer authenticating elements. The initial concerns were centered about the use of the five elements, but media attention soon extended to a range of intermingled Internet and security concerns. As a result, we suspended the test and announced a 60-day period of expert and public input on this important public policy issue. We invite interested CommerceNet members to consider participating in the forums and offering your expert opinion to the government. I'm including current information about the forums, and expect to have more details shortly. I'll be contacting members I know who have expressed interest in providing input, but would welcome hearing from other companies who would like to participate in informed public discussion and public education. John Sabo Social Security Administration --------------------------------------------------------------------- Social Security National Forum on Internet Services -- Backgrounder We are seeking expert opinion regarding a major public policy issue facing the Social Security Administration: the appropriate privacy, system security and other safeguards necessary for SSA to provide transaction services on the Internet with strong public confidence. You may be aware that, in response to public concerns raised about our test of the Interactive Personal Earnings and Benefit Estimate Statement (Interactive PEBES) service on the Internet, SSA suspended the test and announced that we would seek public input on the design of the system, particularly with respect to the authentication and privacy policies and system safeguards necessary to ensure public confidence in Interactive PEBES and in future Internet services planned by SSA. To do this, we have scheduled a series of public forums in Hartford (May 5), Des Moines (week of May 12), Atlanta (week of May 19), San Jose (week of May 26), Austin (week of June 2), and Washington D.C. (week of June 9). We also plan to schedule an Internet Town Meeting on our Website, www.ssa.gov. The forums will address important national issues which reach far beyond our test of the Interactive PEBES. The safeguarding of individual privacy -- as technology removes barriers to accessing confidential information -- and the public's understanding of and trust in using the Internet both for secure, confidential government services and business and financial services are the core critical issues. That is why your input is so important. We are now identifying interested individuals and organizations who wish to participate on panels at each of the six public forum locations. Although we are unable to provide compensation for your participation, we also invite comments in writing or via email if you cannot attend a forum in person. We envision three 1 1/4 -hour panels of 5 people expert in these broad areas: Privacy, Systems Security and the Business/Financial Internet community. There will also be open sessions where members of the public may register to speak. However you or your company may choose to participate, I urge you to consider offering us your thoughtful input into this important national discussion. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent by a majordomo-based automatic list manager. Subscriptions to and archives of this list are available to CommerceNet members, partners, and invited guests. For further information send a mail message to 'members-request(a)lists.commerce.net' with 'help' (no quotations) contained in the body of your message. --- end forwarded text ----------------- Robert Hettinga (rah(a)shipwright.com) Philodox e$, 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA Lesley Stahl: "You mean *anyone* can set up a web site and compete with the New York Times?" Andrew Kantor: "Yes." Stahl: "Isn't that dangerous?" The e$ Home Page: http://www.shipwright.com/

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My Thread / Was--Re: Light Bulbs & newsgroups
by nobody＠huge.cajones.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

List members, Shut the hell up already; I wrote it, and it's OK for anyone to repost it. Just attribute it to me. Anonymous

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WebWorld 36
by Bubba Rom Dos 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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COMMERCE VISIONARY ERIC HUGHES TEAMS WITH FINANCE EXEC AND TECHNOLOGY ARCHITECT TO FORM TRANSACTION TECHNOLOGY COMPANY, SIMPLE ACCESS
by nobody＠huge.cajones.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Looks like Hughes and Hilby have found some fresh meat. Given sac.net is currently in collection on nearly $100k (plus or minus lawyers' and collectors' fees) to former suppliers, contractors, and employees, it seems the greater fool theory of internet commerce is alive and well. Hope the new boys are holding on to their wallets. And their nuts. ReputationMunger --------- Media contact: Melody Kean Haller, Antenna Group, 415-896-1800, melody(a)antennapr.com COMMERCE VISIONARY ERIC HUGHES TEAMS WITH FINANCE EXEC AND TECHNOLOGY ARCHITECT TO FORM TRANSACTION TECHNOLOGY COMPANY, SIMPLE ACCESS San Francisco, CA -- March 24, 1997. The limits to growth facing today's commercial transaction systems are fundamental and unavoidable. Current architectures are not able to handle the complexity and auditing requirements of tomorrow, according to cryptographer, commerce visionary, and cypherpunks founder Eric Hughes. The solution is to build airtight accountability into the system from the start, according to Hughes, who has developed an infrastructure design methodology that solves this and several other crucial electronic commerce problems. Hughes today announced that he has formed a company, Simple Access, to build the next generation of transaction systems. He also announced two key additions to the executive team. John McArtor, currently President and CEO of Delta International, Inc., a private merchant bank, will lead Simple Access as chief executive officer. Dwight Koop, formerly executive vice-president of technology for Swiss Bank, will direct project development. Eric Hughes will continue as chief technology officer. "Eric Hughes has a deep and compelling vision of the future of electronic commerce," said Jerry Michalski, managing editor of Esther Dyson's monthly report, Release 1.0. "He understands the science of the Internet and security technologies, has insight into the systemic flow of commerce, and is informed by an overview of the socio-political history of money. The methodology he is proposing aims to enable a future in which transactions are undeniably clear. Anything Eric puts his energy into is worth paying attention to." Hughes said, "Currently, 'electronic commerce' is a euphemism for 'commerce that doesn't work,' or soon won't work on a large scale. In order to prevent disasters on the horizon and build a foundation for safer and better systems, Simple Access is thinking ahead and solving problems at the infrastructure level." "We are working with leading companies that require their suppliers to have solid and experienced managers, so we brought on proven leaders," Hughes continued. "McArtor and Koop meet and exceed those criteria." "With my 25 years of commercial and investment banking experience, I've worked with a lot of bright technologists, and these are some of the best," said CEO John McArtor. "I jumped at the opportunity to join them. The development team at Simple Access has an intimate knowledge of real-world business problems. They are addressing issues at the core of domestic and international finance, issues that are very important to me." Simple Access' Director of Software Development, Dwight Koop, said, "The technologies we are developing will address serious and immediate problems of large-scale commerce. These are elegant designs which can be applied especially well in high-stakes transaction systems to assure an unprecedented level of accountability, auditability and efficiency." Simple Access is in late-stage negotiations with several strategically chosen Fortune 100 companies in different realms of commerce. The company is now developing custom solutions, building on the widely usable transaction methodology that Hughes has developed. The company's current efforts include telephony and Internet provisioning and billing, international trade documents, and digital money. Eric Hughes is a cryptographer and an expert on payment systems and commercial interaction. He has consulted to banks, software companies, and payment processing firms, and frequently speaks on the subjects of security, digital money, and payment systems. He is also renowned as the co-founder of the cypherpunks. Hughes authored "A Long Term Perspective on Electronic Commerce," which comprised the March 1995 issue of Release 1.0. John W. McArtor is president and CEO of Delta International, Inc., a private merchant bank engaged in the business of creative corporate finance and capital management. Since 1972, Delta International has been designing, structuring, syndicating, and managing financial vehicles for private sector investment. McArtor's areas of expertise include the management of capital in domestic and global futures markets, and the creation of venture capital for the telecommunications industry. Dwight Koop was formerly executive vice-president of technology for Swiss Bank, one of the world's premier trading institutions. He will serve as acting director of software development with Simple Access, which will co-develop and co-market projects with New Logic, Inc., where Koop is a principal and practice director of intra/Internet systems development. Koop has more than twenty years of solid management and consulting background in all aspects of technology, with special expertise in creating competitive advantage in the financial industry. Headquartered in San Francisco, California, Simple Access is a technology firm that designs and builds infrastructure for finance, commerce, security, telephony, and the Internet. Simple Access develops solutions to facilitate and simplify interaction at the infrastructure level. The company's areas of expertise include payment systems, data security, cryptography, and transaction processing. The privately held company was founded in 1995. Simple Access is located at One Sutter Street, Suite 500, San Francisco, California 94104. To reach the company, phone 415-392-0526, fax 415-986-8113 or send email to info(a)sac.net. For media information please contact Melody Kean Haller, Antenna Group, 415-896-1800, or melody(a)antennapr.com.

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"Find The Dirt On The Internet" Updated Version
by worker＠inforevo.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Militarily Critical Technologies
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The Militarily Critical Technologies List (MCTL) tersely describes the full range of technologies controlled by the ITAR, EAR and Regimes like the Wassenaar Arrangment. Information systems and cryptography are covered in Section 8 of the MCTL which we've put with the TOC at: http://jya.com/mctl08.htm It provides an informative chart that compares information systems capabilities for 27 nations, and the leaders in a few cases are surprising. The document summarizes crypto: 1. Cryptanalytic Technologies (for breaking ciphertext): Critical Parameters: Due to the numerous variables required to implement an information security scheme and the wide range of products and services in which information security can be deployed this technology does not lend itself to specifically enumerated parameters. Critical Materials: None identified. Unique Equipment: Computers of 10,000 CTP, or greater, and software specially designed to test the ability of cryptanalytic systems to perform key searches, statistical, linear and differential cryptanalyses; and factor 110 decimal digit, or larger, numbers. Unique Software: Operating systems and applications for massively parallel cryptanalytic processors (> 16 processors) specially designed to perform statistical, linear and differential cryptanalyses, exhaustive key searches and quadratic and number field sieve factoring. Control Regimes: WA ML 11, 21; WA IL Cat 5. 2. Cryptographic Technologies (for keeping data secure): Critical Parameters: Due to the numerous variables required to implement an information security scheme and the wide range of products and services in which information security can be deployed this technology does not lend itself to specifically enumerated parameters. Critical Materials: None identified. Unique Equipment: Computers of 10,000 CTP, or greater, and software specially designed to perform Randomness, Correlation, Weak Key and Symmetry Under Complementation tests to evaluate the strength of new USG encryption algorithms during development. Unique Software: The software providing the cryptographic functionality must be specially designed and integrated into each application. The system engineering and integration, user system interface, algorithms and key generators must have zero defects. Control Regimes: WA ML 11, 21; WA IL Cat 5. The document states, "A high rate of IS knowledge transfer from the US to foreign competitors occurs through open source US trade journals, technical literature, various international fora, the Internet and intelligence. As a result, the US technology leadership in communications and computer systems has declined in recent years relative to Europe and Japan." Section 9 covers Information Warfare Technology and will interest those who wonder what technologies may be more effective than cryptography for information security, as the NRC Crypto Report suggested. We've put this section (in its original PDF format) at: http://jya.com/mcsec09.pdf (122K)

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Re: SSL weakness affecting links from pa
by nobody＠huge.cajones.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Steve wrote: > > If the Netscape folks would integrate digicash into Communicator, > > then I could program my browser to only send referer to sites that > > paid for the information, and rent cookie space. Want your cookie to > > live till 1999? Thats 24 months, at 50 cents per month...do you want > > to pay? > > That would only work until someone abuses it. People could create web > robots to run around selling referers and several gigabytes of > worthless cookie space. Worthless, because nobody cares about the web > browsing habits of J. Random Robot, and they certainly don't want to > blow $50 e-bucks on the bot's repeated visits. Why doesn't somebody come up with a program that gives identity probing programs the identity of browser programmers/executives, and make a cookie file that indicates visits to hate-group and hard- core porn sites? Not that Toto's a troublemaker... NoTot[h]o[mo]

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Re: My Thread / Was--Re: Light Bulbs & newsgroups
by lucifer＠dhp.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Huge Cajones Remailer wrote: > List members, > > Shut the hell up already; I wrote it, and it's OK for anyone to repost it. > > Just attribute it to me. > > Anonymous Sounds to me like Anonymous is trying to take credit for Nobody's creation. Nobody (#2)

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