December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: Carl Johnson Warrant and Complaint
by Information Security 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> From: Tim May <tcmay(a)got.net> > > As I'd been deleting nearly all of Toto's stuff unread, I missed all the > stuff about (allegedly) threatening to bomb the RCMP. That's probably true for most of us...it was an unbelievable volume of crap he sent the list. (as opposed to my crap ;-) > Best to leave rants at the general, protected speech level, and to not get > into specifics of names and working habits of agents. For example: # Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1998 22:39:01 -0700 # To: cypherpunks(a)cyberpass.net # From: Tim May <tcmay(a)got.net> # Subject: Tax silliness # # Fox News is reporting that the IRS has said it may seek to # assess "gift taxes" if the guy who recovered Mark McGwire's 61st home # baseball gives the ball back to Mark McGwire. # # Those fuckers in D. C. need to be put out of our misery. Yeah, much better, Tim. ;-) But don't start holding rallies and saying it in public in NYC, or Rudolph Giuliani might have you arrested. ---- http://jya.com/usa-v-cej-wc.htm > 8. On December 9, 1997, an anonymous message was posted to the > Cypherpunks Internet mail group with the subject listed as "Encrypted > InterNet DEATH THREAT!!! / ATTN: Ninth District Judges / PASSWORD: > sog"[.] The body of the message was encrypted with the publicly > available encryption software PGP, and was initially unreadable. Using > PGP software and the password shown in the subject line of the > message, I was able to decrypt the message, which contained a > rambling, five-page statement, including the following: That would appear to be this post: http://www.inet-one.com/cypherpunks/dir.97.12.04-97.12.10/msg00356.html Entirely unexplained is how one goes from passphrase "sog" (Shit on government?) to decrypting the PGP message. What public or private key was used? > 9. I noted that this message contained a PGP digital signature. From > my training and experience, I am aware that this digital signature is > used as a way to authenticate digital documents to make sure that they > are authored by the purported author and that no one has tampered with > them. When I checked the signature using only PGP software, the PGP > program was unable to identify it. What key...? > Only July 1, 1998, Royal Canadian > Mounted Police (RCMP) Investigator Steve Foster provided me with a PGP > "Secret Key Ring" which he stated he had obtained from a computer > which Canadian Customs authorities had seized from an individual by > the name of CARL EDWARD JOHNSON. [A "secret key ring" is a > user-generated code which allows for the encryption (and later > authentication) of computer-generated documents.] When I checked the > digital signature on the Internet death threat using the PGP software > and JOHNSON'S secret key ring, the computer identified the signature > as one of the signature keys stored in JOHNSON'S computer. Because > both the "private" and "public" portions of the "key" were stored on > JOHNSON'S computer, the message can be authenticated as having been > generated by the person who possessed this "secret key" and knew the > correct password. In other words, only the person possessing the > secret key found on JOHNSON'S computer could have generated the "death > threat" message. Sparky got it wrong. Many people could have the same public/secret key pairs, all they have to do is give them out. And you don't authenticate messages with the "secret key" in standard use. This person seems to have no clue, after months of tracking, how basic public key encryption software works. In fact, the key ring could be edited to have a fake secret key and the public key that works as the digital signature for the posted message. More questions: did they get the passphrase for his computer's PGP secret key? How? And why did RCMP customs seize his computer? ---guy

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PGP5.5.5 Problem
by Jim Van Over 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I am seeking assistance with a PGP 5.5.5 system and noting your comments on the net I thought it might be possible for you to help me with a solution. I have been using PGP5.5.5, successfully, for the past four months. However, beginning three days ago I began experiencing a problem. I am using Netscape Navigator and the Netscape Message Center. The problem: When I receive a PGP message I copy it to the clipboard, but, when I depress the "decrypt and verify" line on the PGP tool bar the screen for the "pass phrase" flashes briefly on the screen and disappears. The same thing happens when I use the PGP tools. The PGP tool bar first referred to is the lock icon at the bottom of the screen. I have compared my public key with the key from which I receive messages and they are identical. I am able to encrypt a message to myself and then decrypt it without any problem. It is only when I receive a message from my other computer does the problem exist. I would very much appreciate any ideas you may have as how to correct this problem. Please make your solution as basic as possible as I am not as "computer literate" as I need to be in order to understand most explanations. Thank You Jim Van Over

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The full Monica: Novel new 'service'/Collectors' issue - New interface tomorrow
by STUFFED NEWS DAILY 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Re: Any good hacking sites?
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

M I T wrote: > ... > also, any1 here into AOL hacking??? > Oh, this is almost _too_ easy... Yeah, we know about AOL hacking... First, you get a couple of million clueless fucktards like yourself together and give all of them the same 800-number to dial in... Watch what follows: <closeup of two fuckholes; if breathing weren't an autonomic response, they'd both be dead> bzzzt... bzzzt... bzzzt... <fx: busy signal> Lamer #1: "Hey, d00d, whatcha doin?" bzzzt... bzzzt... bzzzt... Lamer #2: "I'm hacking AOL, man." bzzzt... bzzzt... bzzzt... Lamer #1: "Whoa! C00l, d00d! Can I like, watch?" bzzzt... bzzzt... bzzzt... Lamer #2: "Sure, man." <cut to screen showing WinBlows "Starfield Simulation" screensaver> ... Any questions?

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Re: Carl Johnson Warrant and Complaint
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> Why would you claim only one person possessed the secret key? As you > doubtlessly know, some of the TruthMonger secret keys have been posted > to Cypherpunks anonymously. This is not authentication. Thank you. Prove it. Post the archived message where these secret keys were posted. Let's see the one which signed: http://www.inet-one.com/cypherpunks/dir.97.12.04-97.12.10/msg00356.html Note to the clueless guy(a)panix.com, who asks: > Entirely unexplained is how one goes from passphrase "sog" (Shit on government?) > to decrypting the PGP message. I'm impressed. You're actually stupider than Jeff Gordon, the IRS flunky. He was able to figure it out, so why don't you try. Ask your kindergarten teacher to give you a gold star once you fumble your way to the answer.

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Re: Citizenship silliness. Re: e$: crypto-expatriatism
by Petro 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 11:52 AM -0500 9/9/98, William H. Geiger III wrote: >In <v03110703b21c4777ca38(a)[206.189.103.244]>, on 09/09/98 > at 09:58 AM, Petro <petro(a)playboy.com> said: >>At 11:25 PM -0500 9/8/98, William H. Geiger III wrote:>>>In >><v03110710b21b6a259806(a)[206.189.103.244]>, on 09/08/98 >>> at 06:17 PM, Petro <petro(a)playboy.com> said: >>>> No, more like a get off our fucking land. >>>Sure thing, and where you live, exactly who's land was it before you got >>>there? >> Point is, the "Arabs" didn't start it, the UN/European leaders (US, UK, >>FR, and RU) did. >Both the Palestinians and the Jews living in Trans-Jordan wanted their own >country. The UN resolution divided up the land based on population and >gave each group their own country. Israel declared their independence, the >Palestinians listened to the Grand Mufti and join in the holy war to wipe >out the Jews. The Arabs lost, too bad, game over. > >And interesting note to the whole palestinian "issue" is that the majority >of the population of Jordan is palestinian!! And long before the Intifada >the PLO tried to take over the government of Jordan and were embroiled in >civil war for most of the 60's and early 70's. The Jordanian Arabs finally >kick the PLO out in the early 70's (71 maybe 72). > > >> If I move you off your property at the point of a gun, should I expect >>you to _like_ it, even if I gave you what I consider "fair market value"? > >This re-wright of history might give you warm fuzzies but no one was moved >at gun point off their land (at least not until the Arabs started the >war). The Jews that emigrated to Trans-Jordan/Palestine *purchased* the >land from the Arabs that were living there. Even after the war the >majority of palestinians left on their own. Ok, I'm rewriting history, you say IN THE SAME POST: The UN resolution divided up the land based on population and gave each group their own country. --and-- The Jews that emigrated to Trans-Jordan/Palestine *purchased* the land from the Arabs that were living there. So tell me, is there a difference between being _told_ you will sell your house and move, and deciding you really would prefer to live elsewhere? Oh, and when this artifical coutry was set up, did EVERYONE have equal say in the government, or were certain Northern Europeans of jewish faith considered more equal. Of course, being given the short end of the political and economic stick couldn't be considered an incitement. >None of the current Arab countries existed until the British carved up >their conquered territory after WWI. If Israel is not "legitimate" because >of UK/UN involvement does it follow that all of the Arab states that were >formed at this time are also illegitimate? Perhaps we should should The region was carved up using an existing population, not by importing one from a different country. Like Mr. May, I have no problems with anyone who wants to live anywhere in peace and co-existence. The Israeli government is not interested in that, if it were politically possible, they'd do the same to the Palistanians as the Germans tried to do to them. >I find it quite hypocritical of Americans who see the Israelites as >occupiers and oppressors but would be outraged at calls to give back the >south-west to Mexico. Tim, you want to give your ranch to some Mexican >family since the Americans took that land from them? but then the mexicans >would have to give that land back to some deserving "native" Americans as >they took that land from them. But then again we would have to sift >through the thousands of years of tribal warfare and migration to find the >one true owners of the land. You seem to be saying that Conquest by Force Of Arms is acceptable, then the PLO is still trying to take back what they lost. petro(a)playboy.com----for work related issues. I don't speak for Playboy. petro(a)bounty.org-----for everthing else. They wouldn't like that. They REALLY Economic speech IS political speech. wouldn't like that.

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question...
by Bernardo B. Terrado 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

What is the TEMPEST? (just an overview) What do enciphered images look like? Thank you. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Some people they might say that I'm hard to get to know. I go my own sweet way, well that maybe so. Something about the crowd that makes me walk alone. I never had a need in me to be the party's life and soul. It's me Bernie. metaphone(a)altavista.net ``````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````

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Cypherpunks as a Continuing Criminal Enterprise?
by Tim May 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Could our group be charged as a "continuing criminal enterprise" under the RICO statute? It occurs to me that if Carl Johnson, who is linked several times to our group/list in the court documents, is successfully prosecuted,then the Feds may be able to cite both Bell and Johnson as evidence of a conspiracy. Which probably wouldn't be too hard to prove, as many of us have admitted to conspiring mightily to undermine various institutions. (And we even use encypted e-mail, the very essence of a secret conspiracy.) It might be fun to see them try this. Would they charge some of us as ringleaders? Or would they declare the entity itself an illegal organization? (As they have done with various cultural, political, and even religous groups, like Hezbollah, the Aum religion, etc.) Interesting times. --Tim May "The tree of liberty must be watered periodically with the blood of tyrants...." ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, ComSec 3DES: 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Licensed Ontologist | black markets, collapse of governments.

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CTIA Daily News from WOW-COM - September 9, 1998
by CTIA Daily News 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

CTIAs Daily News From WOW-COM was not circulated yesterday and today because of a wireline telephone system failure that is disrupting service to the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association building in Washington, D.C. We regret the inconvenience this may have caused you and look forward to resuming the Daily News service as soon as possible.

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Re: Carl Johnson's private key
by jimg＠mentat.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Declan skribis: > I make that point in my article, but have not seen truthmonger's private > key posted. Care to forward it to me? I stopped paying attention to most of Truthmonger's spew, but did collect one private key it posted, under the name "Earmonger", since I was doing PGP experiments at the time. I think this one doesn't have an associated passphrase, which would make forging with it quite simple. I sort of think more of its private keys were posted, but I didn't keep any others. This does, however, establish a pattern of behavior suggesting it didn't keep private keys strictly private. IIRC many of TM's messages were simply file-encrypted with an openly posted passphrase, which doesn't take a rocket scientist to crack. Jim Gillogly -------------------------------------------- Earmonger key, clipped last year: -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Version: PGP for Personal Privacy 5.0 mQENAzZsmI4AAAEIANHHMhV7V8WqPO6RjjfhZbeY/e6hsjAjKckU7YAYPhHiJfqG xw5+PgVjRPhIpXEE8ksmzZBzyH5KLW5GKFJZoD6YvVUSuzm+Gpxv+G78sBDBljUt BUoaB0XM4HSjEuqZtRtva+l+MAr3tFrK8FSdCsSgjQa8oOT5yFE76hgOGOkXGDKC HAISINKdduNsp4PU6HiNoKMdYpCCvK5u08lQFcByare2yaYmawYLmCzheCWLv9F/ kvnFtXCjup/pQNcOVeb/FkDx42l4vMwiWTH+AvrsjsV1njUIi9DTmcmD4doPlzBS qgbvQiTa16T2E4wJlnmATuW3QdwuBbdT2FSgj3MABRG0F0Vhck1vbmdlciA8ZW1A ZGV2Lm51bGw+iQEVAwUQNmyYjgW3U9hUoI9zAQHjNgf+KIDuWoBvfUj4H1twHvYU +IeDWIApLDnHkR7tsalLi9jY345iAolt3a/CiYxXPtjy9yedSaKoPasuvQk2cZ6e LZZwgEfDYj1GvjLC9D1rSItLLl6aDqYfhN2D2wgnB4mJssx1NP9zLQRf8aJkbDnl BMy3kfTr6ANmwe1hRGFWiuLkhnEtKzc9TFxBtx+4bx66rBBTzSUBfynH35bCLHLw hVzWGc5A0F18LG2WRLbGa/LcEXjp35jHyrJV73t2gUwVjH5qGa0B5O0dpvK9yDR9 wutFrmuhRgfqHO5Tclp470dkQFJv6HHMrSYyjRFFtyC9A+5Fvd1WkW7oLRAUxZmm HZkBogQ0i2ULEQQA17gNRCXxoQBVQVD+zukbAWtxMCio0tfXEJYPN516KNT7noeK dA4Q+TItlf8uC6VkUkUwabIueLZwvykDo83tnupSkvxEQ/EftLpm56kBIrgWprJM f0rIhFpIR0mNiT8ZH3z7OCAcQrfSCowk//4iESLLW8H0tFx5B9bPXrrrnkcAoP88 aezjfDn3DMlloJP9hNgRgvplA/0TKu4o2DNdIFAp/xeZE2R6wxrPfPfV00xNTgXe 5xXS3rCEljz48q6DEymmvA+oFuszKcrgOVDMT1TcKE1MzPjeKoe3c4Di92X+FoGa IenXHQrmfn7uUo54twYFqp8VsHgtfsg3F8KfFg/znF5BrIVq+aXQF9m/LczcObRz IXceEQQAhKvUfNYfP7NKA7sGkV38iFi8iJxsvkMk3RvlG6IxV0d3ATCRcvAFYUV3 fyap+CS0UnoBGZUmmIY5EvC2KyI9h8X+AXPymgM4JeQ2Hg7DnEXMegFwJ3iK9+Cg KlTS/R/h8qYUW5G1qYgYBU+JQ3I2wxmeaVWBBtYM0Rukppz+F5G0F0Vhck1vbmdl ciA8ZW1AZGV2Lm51bGw+iQBLBBARAgALBQI0i2ULBAsDAQIACgkQJH46DXlIPur3 KACgn/XD/dT+BvqkoDk1dOrbbdd00z0AnAqTYWdIKb1HkKf7Sfetwh/vKCXHuQIN BDSLZQsQCAD2Qle3CH8IF3KiutapQvMF6PlTETlPtvFuuUs4INoBp1ajFOmPQFXz 0AfGy0OplK33TGSGSfgMg71l6RfUodNQ+PVZX9x2Uk89PY3bzpnhV5JZzf24rnRP xfx2vIPFRzBhznzJZv8V+bv9kV7HAarTW56NoKVyOtQa8L9GAFgr5fSI/VhOSdvN ILSd5JEHNmszbDgNRR0PfIizHHxbLY7288kjwEPwpVsYjY67VYy4XTjTNP18F1dD ox0YbN4zISy1Kv884bEpQBgRjXyEpwpy1obEAxnIByl6ypUM2Zafq9AKUJsCRtMI PWakXUGfnHy9iUsiGSa6q6Jew1XpMgs7AAICCAC9H3enQ+6tZvcA5cjF3M2nTFCS IjerrQsQ5MZJ1EWYYhkgYkUQwtfuYL4NU/PelIo1TdYBr4mbNzxwJMFZ22cDNiOn J9oUhfDJyTA4yOacTxgl/wAXFD1FElzrVjlkf6TKW4+Db1elApcFbTDSvLNRPQev rtIrNRR480AtI8Um76RySrl9okI5L7TvtAXZMQnuyTtyA+YeG2/FvE3cOIY7EFXg Zm/jPGw6ijsbATKh6dsnb8f8dahB4awsTAzz0Unzx49TCUk0AdU9jbdP+8i+g9eJ uodZhd71d2o7HyhAwkVNKcsu5nqpFzwAWK5xSy5x1AprWWrTiu6uiAQ6T5Q/iQBG BBgRAgAGBQI0i2ULAAoJECR+Og15SD7qKaAAn0gbCIF0XzBifU27o9N7x4RI/IUX AJ49fXSrtX0w17W0gCe7BCvjXkRP7Q== =SVmn -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----

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RE: radio net (fwd)
by Matthew James Gering 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

So much for "no domestic crypto restrictions." I really hate when people say that, there are plenty, and export restrictions on cryptography software and cryptography in software DOES indirectly but substantially affect the availability and cost of domestic encryption, not to mention that most people download export-grade crypto from the web for convenience. Isn't there a similar ban on encryption-capable telephones and other electronic devices (other than computers). Matt > > The FCC prohibits the transmission of encrypted data via > > analog or digital signals by amateurs.

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RE: question...
by Harvey Rook (Exchange) 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Hi Bernardo; TEMPEST isn't a cipher, but a technique. Essentially, your monitor is a great big RF emitter. As it's electron gun turns off and on to make the phosphor screen glow, it's emitting all kinds of radio frequencies that betray the image on the screen. A tempest attack is a receiver that can tune to a monitor, and reconstruct the image from the RF the monitor is emitting. Supposedly such equipment costs about $500.00 Harvey "Know it All" Rook. > -----Original Message----- > From: Bernardo B. Terrado [mailto:bbt@mudspring.uplb.edu.ph] > Sent: Tuesday, September 08, 1998 11:03 PM > To: cypherpunks(a)toad.com > Subject: question... > > > What is the TEMPEST? (just an overview) > > What do enciphered images look like? > > > > Thank you. > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Some people they might say that I'm hard to get to know. > I go my own sweet way, well that maybe so. > Something about the crowd that makes me walk alone. > I never had a need in me to be the party's life and soul. > > It's me Bernie. > metaphone(a)altavista.net > `````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````` > ```````````````` > > >

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Re: Cypherpunks as a Continuing Criminal Enterprise?
by Information Security 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> From: Tim May <tcmay(a)got.net> > > Could our group be charged as a "continuing criminal enterprise" under the > RICO statute? OH GAWD PLEASE SOMEBODY SHUT DOWN THE MAY RANT-BOT! ---guy ;-)

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Re: Carl Johnson Warrant and Complaint
by Information Security 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> From: Anonymous <nobody(a)replay.com> > > Note to the clueless guy(a)panix.com, who asks: > > Entirely unexplained is how one goes from passphrase "sog" (Shit on government?) > > to decrypting the PGP message. > > I'm impressed. You're actually stupider than Jeff Gordon, the IRS flunky. > He was able to figure it out, so why don't you try. Ask your kindergarten > teacher to give you a gold star once you fumble your way to the answer. Nice shot: your feet are now on fire. ---guy

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Re: Carl Johnson's private key
by Jim Gillogly 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Adam skribis: > That was just a public key, though right? Was a corresponding private > key posted? Oh, you're right. I misremembered. This was actually two public keys, an RSA and an ElGamal. Still, I'm pretty sure there was a *Monger private key posted <some> time. Jim Gillogly

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A Cypherpunk Trial, Yes
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Adam Back wrote: >The collection of Toto's keys that he did post and the date he posted >might be useful to archive at jya.com so that we can see which if any >of Gordon's claims of proof of authentic Toto messages are valid. Yes, this is a crucial point. The innuendo of the complaint needs checking, and read with a heap of salt, although it's probable that the Feds have more than revealed so far. They've more fanciful stories to spiel of the confabulous material of the Mounties and Estevan Bombies, and SS agents and bunkered magistrates and imperiled Cindys needing protection from the Killer Bots. To hawk tickets we have added links within the complaint to all the Cpunk messages cited, but for those who don't want to download it again or search the archives, here they are chronologically: http://jya.com/jg062397.htm http://jya.com/jg090497.htm http://jya.com/jg120997.htm http://jya.com/jg121497.htm http://jya.com/jg060898.htm (not June 10, as in the complaint; thanks to jeff-anon) http://jya.com/jg072598.htm http://jya.com/jg072798.htm It was a pleasure to reread Toto(s)'s stuff while searching the cpunk amazing archives -- what a waterfall from everyone of free association, tants, jibes, potshots and richochets and self-mockery. I now believe the report from TX that Carl's got an IQ off the charts like all cpunks off the wall. It's worth keeping in mind that multiple users of pseudonyms is not unusual, at least among artists long before the Internet, and not only performance group e-mailers like the Totos, CJ Parkers, XxxMongers, Gus-Peters and endless Anonymees jostling for unrecognition. Two venerable and heavily-used nyms in Europe are Luther Bissett and Monty Cantsin. A dazzling Monty Cantsin posted here for a while. A Luther Bissett message ridiculing the recent kiddie porn sweep was posted to Cyberia a few days ago. But these pseudonyms and others are frequently used to taunt uptight authoritarians by substantial numbers of people, sometimes acting in concert but most often acting alone. An exemplary case of acting up like the Totos and other performance pseudo-Feynmann's here, is that of Dario Fo, the Italian artist who recently won the Nobel Prize. His off the chart genius, too, was in mixing the real and imaginary to challenge, and to frighten, authority into revealing their treacherous deception of the real and imaginary to maintain state and religious control century after century, culture after culture. He, too, was regularly condemned by those obsesses with holding onto power, and sometimes arrested, for his imitations of them at their most buffoonish and serious. Fo is from an earlier generation, though, and what more agressively offensive form is suitable for those younger we may be witnessing in the Jim Bells, Unknown Arrestees, and those here not yet projected onto the world stage but working the crowd most effectively. Black Unicorn, step up to the mike. Show magic. In any, case, I'm delighted to see Cypherpunks get credit in the Johnson pseudo-complaint for hosting transgressive art appropriate for the age of widespreading disinformation. A tumultous trial to amplify this forum's mayhemic virtues and vices would be magnificently chaotic and hopefully anarchic to the max. Pray for CJ to get an equally mad attorney to demand his day, and our day, in court. This under-recognized witness is eager for a highly offensive part to play, a gibbering idiot like Toto(s), you bet, I admire their style of spleen and threat to the fools of seriousness.

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SSZ is Down
by Wayne Walker 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I'm sending this for Jim (ravage(a)ssz.com) as he is a bit too busy just now. He just arrived at home to find the dog pinned under the tree that fell and took out the phones and the ISDN. The dog is apparently uninjured (though only two feet from certain death). Don't know which dog. The ISDN is hurt and probably won't be up till sometime tomorrow. Later, Wayne -- Wayne Walker Austin, Texas E-mail wwalker(a)pobox.com "Real Programmers don't document, if it was hard to program it should be hard to use"

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No Subject
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Dear Mr Gordon, When I checked the digital signature on the Internet death threat using the PGP software and JOHNSON'S secret key ring, the computer identified the signature as one of the signature keys stored in JOHNSON'S computer. Because both the "private" and "public" portions of the "key" were stored on JOHNSON'S computer, the message can be authenticated as having been generated by the person who possessed this "secret key" and knew the correct password. In other words, only the person possessing the secret key found on JOHNSON'S computer could have generated the "death threat" message. Why would you claim only one person possessed the secret key? As you doubtlessly know, some of the TruthMonger secret keys have been posted to Cypherpunks anonymously. This is not authentication. Thank you.

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Your new password
by sixdegrees 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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more keys
by Adam Back 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

OK here's some more keys: [1] for "Magic Circle" [2] for "Necessarily Knott, ME" Again were these keys used to sign anything interesting? Key [1] was preceeded, perhaps meaningfully by this text in the long (22k) Epilogue 5: : Now: : : Go home, kick your fucking door in, place a disk in the floppy drive, and : type 'pgp -kxa "My KeyID" a:\secring.asc secring.pgp'. : Mail the disk to Louis J. Freeh : : Does your copy of PGP ask for a password before spitting out the KeyID : to any one of a thousand monkeys who sits at your keyboard and : randomly types in the above? : : My copy doesn't. : : Below is a copy of a key pulled off of my computer by 19 different people. : : It was pulled off of my hard drive by the first individual, who : proceeded to inform a second individual of the method used, and : challenged them to do the same thing, using a different method. The : second did so, and passed all the information along to a third person, : etc., etc. : : Nineteen people, nineteen different methods. if Toto apparently speaks in parables, and via fiction etc. is he saying that the RCMP or someone else pulled his keys off his computers? How does this correlate with his posts on the subject of hassles with the RCMP, and confiscation of some of his machines? Adam [1] ====================================================================== This one has userid: Magic Circle -----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE----- Version: 2.6.2 lQHgAzHiUJEAAAEEAP1slPSwrVd90NVBqfsw6+JP64icmuSrztzyCgaPcXHRiy/J Kbgi9/gy1iCnWcQh1ATaSzblATSU24Xw+4Ow4s5xOvdxFGoIop6EXwTNfwRa2EZr 6ZZ41Glr9g1g9H0RJwJlkldUcunVNekXel1MYA8VJJynvtZVuntA11SbF0AdAAUT Ab7sJWrM/6azA/vV2wq4sdyfngUgUHq8Hlo5NHvEjyh2cSoMMNxnpKR3+XYRbYTd HhwfbOvji1cWnVJF6GBxe3nLvbkbHJU+K3hNNYOT9JKMahu+5wKMbHkwToSsLzyQ kgn2JlKDJugoycdjInlQs7NiyoOrIYWQzSi4yGbhl2t1Au+67UY/r57J9AIA8V/6 J5x1wH7MACSWU91jXXxpJvSud053nrSgnupEUbFX3dXm0GXf6vdhbQW9eYsIJmCI pZLrqwBcFe2GWhk9AAIActyoxAgCvFyGSJHHzJVVoKfWk/gjmKs/r7+J9vWnBAkc Pg0wqUn66Hmq0op28gEXU3qKJiJ8rAQETAxBhfpnJgH83CrrEZDcBY8IKsFI2A19 KahohyDXmsEHIWqKZLSwzjsYcf049RCUxNDPJZchuoMEPkK9414KyPqlJbStsFaE YZ6itAxNYWdpYyBDaXJjbGU=3D =3DGEo6 -----END PGP MESSAGE----- and it was posted in a message dated 20 Oct. 97 with Subject: InfoWar Epilogue 5 / TEXT ====================================================================== [2] ====================================================================== -----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE----- Version: 2.6.2 lQD4AzRmZWoAAAECAMnJrqd/TERCLeFscdgNvwVxrVG4tRm0VThMEXXkctCGMaUD jcETxcV0ZseRUcyUKfqlLd3CRsIwClozlWHHR7EABREAAfwJ5D1Ecilit/Mwsn4N GcWZXWpg3mM6/Epzs2pEhi3I926ZiWPB1DKmdZR4nVemsnwv47SWLJyCnE4sben5 h8oHAQDTFaJDJSN7+9NToOE4NFiruAXXMIHEQ6ZH21oW1sYSiwEA9LmhvfahDVKo 1/CMtxxozAtG8rWycBYVIVrkDKiVgjMBAKeB2VY/f7tzmv7KxUUtN9607+CQlWPp E3HBLTlwtuRAUxC0FU5lY2Vzc2FyaWx5IEtub3R0LCBNRQ== =caeb -----END PGP MESSAGE----- posted in a message dated 10 Nov. 97 with Subject: Key Signing ====================================================================== Adam

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No Subject
by Jrjeffro＠aol.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Re: Text Analysis and Shakespeare
by cicho＠free.polbox.pl 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Vladimir Z. Nuri wrote: >a friend gave me a book called "the cryptographic >shakespeare" in which he found some patterns in >shakespearean texts that might tend to suggest >some codes were embedded in it. In what sense? Most of the time, plain old lit analysis is looking for "keys" and then applying them to "unlock" the "hidden message". An allegory is a simple substitution cipher, and then it goes all the way up to lit equivalents of one time pads and steganography (say, 'Lolita' or Frank O'Hara's poetry). Concerning Shakespeare, I thought those involved in this discussion might be amused by the following. I would have posted it earlier but didn't have the book at hand, and then Lem's prose isn't particularly friendly for the translator. It's all taken out of context, but will speak for itself, I am sure. -------------- STANIS&Lstrok;AW LEM DIARY FOUND IN A BATHTUB (chapter IV, excerpt) Here goes, I said at last, opening my eyes. My ears have yet not drunk a hundred words of that tongue's utterance, yet I know the sound. Art thou not Romeo? Fine. The captain punched keys briskly, typing in the line I offered. A slot that looked like an ancient letterbox began spitting out paper ribbon which spun slowly in the air. Captain Prandtl held it gently and handed it to me. I held the tip of the ribbon, waiting patiently. The paper snaked out of the slot inch by inch and when I tugged at it carefully I could feel the feeding mechanism vibrate. Suddenly, the barely perceptible tremor ceased and the ribbon spun on, blank. I held it to my eyes. BAS TARD MAT HEWS BAS TARD DRAW HIM & QUARTER WITH HOLY DE LIGHT MAT HEWS PIG SEED MATH HEWS MATH. And what is this? I asked, not even trying to conceal my dismay. The captain nodded. I presume that when he wrote the scene, Shakespeare was unfavourably disposed towards a man named Mathews. . . and encoded the sentiment in the lines of his play. You expect me to believe that? Do you mean to say that he deliberately filled this wondrous, lyrical passage with crude interjections at some Mathews person? I never said he did so deliberately. A code is a code, no matter what the authors intent. Do you mind? I asked. I approached the control panel and keyed in the freshly obtained plaintext myself. The ribbon moved again, twisting into a spiral. I caught a brief, peculiar smile on Prandtls lips, but he didnt say a word. THAT ASS YEAH HER ASS FUN FAT ASS FUN FAT YEAH ASS HER ASS HEY THAT FAT ASS - read the tidily printed syllables. What is this? I demanded. What is it?! Another layer. Well, what did you expect? Weve exposed a deeper layer of the psyche of a 17th century Englishman, plain and simple. This cannot be! Youre telling me this beautiful poem is nothing but a vessel to conceal some pigs and asses?! And that if you feed the most sublime literary achievements, pinnacles of human genius, immortal epics, sagas - it will all come out hodgepodge? Hodgepodge it is, mister. Art... literature... do you realise what their purpose is? To divert attention! From what? You dont know? I dont. Thats too bad. You ought to know. What are you doing here, then?! I didnt answer. With skin on his face taut like a tents canvas stretched over sharp rocks, he continued in monotone: A broken code remains a code. Under the eye of a professional cryptographer it will shed one moult after another. It is inexhaustible. It has no end nor bottom. You can delve into progressively deeper, progressively more arcane strata, but this journey never terminates. -------------- (This 1960 novel is available in English translation, hopefully better than my attempt here, as "Diary Found in a Bathtub", though i *really* should be called The (Original) Puzzle Palace, 'coz that's what it's about. It's Kafka plus David Lynch plus TCMay rolled in one :) .marek -- General Frenetics, Discorporated: http://www.lodz.pdi.net/~eristic/

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by sixdegrees 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Toto `PLP' a key?
by Adam Back 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Then there is this `key', which appears to be fabricated, though the armor checksum checks if you modify it as follows.... -----BEGIN PLP PRIVATE KEY----- Version: Pretty Lousy Privacy v6.66 Comments: No Comment UPghm21YcptuKTiUHPwTn4xSjMKfsfVDRKwKWtx1teuauHiM/IBzWMH5+nhxhVjO gOuUIXkcJXcjr1yG2QVGWLJndKBHC3wI/eRC5zYaQGwtz97hpQ9iAJl9hpIYoeKi R/Qe8eC8vQnyOCx7Gare+OuoqLRJj5IvvS3BDShb1mr3s3U1LVEhmI9kS5br6NWY V1J3l2hCk8cdqDRZmgjUoq32mAwK/vTbijCg5Yk1CCkXO3mvia3rNeVdrYJ3/Pv9 t2jHIlAL0qAyJQMdz2qFcmvLOxB3ZiZhA+VYDaeXZ5TZNEz/K+TSU8brMInfaUKi P/R/4YerdYjN8/10xz/j/gJjgIkEddToUYjt2VQDv8E/xcXT0YJZhNWIT/u+MHVF ns9RWIH5J+UxcKPUPjDB7WvuO4+WvoT5xCtPbQhUlpuJrDfWLCjUd6orzovr6yZx HcxBSl8EGy4oULWi5ztrw1fyXm4AmpDB5QNgmWcILIbWNDOAePqxvrAjJEhLHQar y6eHYoL/nuOQonZsB66DhXnlXSghBGp+sNs3XXIOkKHtbPk1jqT9MHg9oe7OwiA4 mcQUpM3XKOPUXcMwEtRzDJnIaeZo3xbwRnmdSaGAyPujFJdz58QLHOte2pcSAkrA Jtrs+SrhZw== =zXsO -----END PLP PRIVATE KEY----- (Posted in message Subject: Re: EFF $10,000,0000 Challenge, Date: 6 Sep 97). Now, change the ----- lines to the correct, and the first 5 chars are the same on PGP public key blocks 'mQENAz' (though this claims to be a SECRET KEY BLOCK) -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Version: Pretty Lousy Privacy v6.66 Comments: No Comment mQENAz1YcptuKTiUHPwTn4xSjMKfsfVDRKwKWtx1teuauHiM/IBzWMH5+nhxhVjO gOuUIXkcJXcjr1yG2QVGWLJndKBHC3wI/eRC5zYaQGwtz97hpQ9iAJl9hpIYoeKi R/Qe8eC8vQnyOCx7Gare+OuoqLRJj5IvvS3BDShb1mr3s3U1LVEhmI9kS5br6NWY V1J3l2hCk8cdqDRZmgjUoq32mAwK/vTbijCg5Yk1CCkXO3mvia3rNeVdrYJ3/Pv9 t2jHIlAL0qAyJQMdz2qFcmvLOxB3ZiZhA+VYDaeXZ5TZNEz/K+TSU8brMInfaUKi P/R/4YerdYjN8/10xz/j/gJjgIkEddToUYjt2VQDv8E/xcXT0YJZhNWIT/u+MHVF ns9RWIH5J+UxcKPUPjDB7WvuO4+WvoT5xCtPbQhUlpuJrDfWLCjUd6orzovr6yZx HcxBSl8EGy4oULWi5ztrw1fyXm4AmpDB5QNgmWcILIbWNDOAePqxvrAjJEhLHQar y6eHYoL/nuOQonZsB66DhXnlXSghBGp+sNs3XXIOkKHtbPk1jqT9MHg9oe7OwiA4 mcQUpM3XKOPUXcMwEtRzDJnIaeZo3xbwRnmdSaGAyPujFJdz58QLHOte2pcSAkrA Jtrs+SrhZw== =zXsO -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- and the armor checksum checks, and pgp5 reports (the garbled): Adding keys: Key ring: 'p1.asc' Type Bits KeyID Created Expires Algorithm Use pub 37916 00000000 2002-08-13 2079-10-29 (null) uid *** This key is unnamed *** 1 matching key found which looks to be garbage; perhaps it is is just garbage with a valid public key checksum? This seems like it would require writing some software to acheive? The probability of a random checksum success on a garbled file, as the armor checksum is a 24 bit checksum is 1/2^24... quite unlikely. Ideas? Adam

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Toto describing a visit from SS agents
by Adam Back 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Again while searching for keys, another encrypted message (Subject: Secret Service With A Smile - SAHMD!!! / Pwd: lco, Date: 31 Jul 98) this message appears to refer to a visit from US Secret Service agents, apparently due to their imputing some kind of threat to US president(?) in one of Toto's rants. Decrypted copy below [1]. Adam [1] ====================================================================== Secret Service With A Smile - SPACE ALIENS HIDE MY DRUGS!!! ___________________________________________________________ It was only natural for me to wonder what it was about the Secret Service Agents who visited me today that enabled them to act like decent, pleasant people during the course of the personal interview portion of their investigation into my life and psyche. The question was answered, to my satisfaction, at the point when the more veteran of the two agents explained that, despite my rugged handsomeness and my delightful personality, they would have to CrushMeLikeABug if it became apparent to them that my already tentative physical and mental existence came into conflict with their official duty to protect the President of the United States. I realized that they were professionals, with a high degree of integrity, and that their concern probably went far beyond the fact that if the Nation lost the CommanderInChief on their shift, they could pretty much kiss their Christmas Bonus goodbye... It was also apparent that their ability to be quite reasonable and pleasant human beings--while making it plain that informing me that putting me away for observation in Springfield, Missouri, could easily take away a full year of my life, was *meant* to be a threat--without having to engage in a heavy-handed affectation of MachoAuthority, was the result of their actually *having* the authority to decide, here and now, whether or not my life would instantly become a living hell. The Secret Service Agents were also extremely intelligent, not even blinking before passing on my offer to testify against myself, in return for immunity from prosecution. (When I made the same offer to RCMP OffalSlurs, they had to contact their superiors, who held a meeting with OffalSchills behind the closed doors of the Canadian Justice Apartment, before finally declining my offer.) I was able to relax and be cooperative in dealing with the Agents, since, when your fate is in the hands of someone with GenuineAuthority, whether their intentions are GoodOrEvil (TM) is not nearly as important as to whether or not they happen to be StupidFucks (TM) who can ruin your life over something as simple as misunderstanding your request that they make their questions more 'lucid.' ("That's it, you sick, fucking pervert! Jim, get the kilo of heroin out of the trunk...") Wrong Question #29 When Dealing With StupidFucks: "Excuse me, but do your employers *know* that you carry a gun? I mean, have they ever met you, or were you hired by mail? Can you actually shoot a gun without moving your lips?" Although the Secret Service Agents were in possession of an email I had sent a few minutes or hours previously, from Pima College --> <erehwon(a)dis.org> (who I immediately tried to Rat Out as the leader of a ChildSexRingDedicatedToTheViolentOver ThrowOfTheUSGovernment, in order to save my own skin), the agents seemed much more interested in a chapter of SAHMD!!! which contains notification of an OfficialDeathThreat to pretty much DoGodAndEverybodyOnTheFaceOfTheEarth. I tried to placate them by reaching over with a pen and adding an 'Un' in front of the word 'Official,' but they were not really impressed, informing me that the point they were trying to make had to do with it being unacceptable, from their point of view, for me to use the words 'Death,' 'Threat,' and 'President' all in the same paragraph, let alone all in the same sentence. {"Well, excuuusssee *me*!"} Realizing that it was probably not an opportune moment to try to hit them up for a donation toward the maintenance of my planned PresidentialDeathThreatAnonymousRemailer, I casually turned the donation jar so that they couldn't see the label, and I set it down. Actually, I couldn't be certain that I had actually written the chapter, or portion thereof, with which the agents seemed most concerned, since I find it difficult to distinguish between the work that is mine alone, and the work that is a collage of various participants in the writing and dissemination of 'The True Story of the InterNet' manuscripts, if I don't have access to the files on the computer on which they were created and stored. Nonetheless, I refrained from pointing out that the phrase that indicates that the writer "might" conceivably "whack" someone or another GovernmentPersonage, might equally apply to the stance taken by the Secret Service Agents, themselves, if the Founding Fathers were to be believed when they indicated that it is the right and the duty of the citizenry to take up arms against their rulers, if need be, in the interest of Democracy, Freedom, Justice, or in DivineRetribution against the High&Mighty if they take a drink out of your beer while you're in the restroom, having a leak. (I'm not certain about that last example, but I have no doubt that the Founding Fathers *meant* to include that...) I refrained from attempting to engage the Agents in philosophical debate in regard to some of the finer points surrounding the issues of Freedom of Speech, since the purpose of their visit was obviously geared toward impressing upon me the duties encompassed by their job description, their professional competence in doing their job, and the fact that the necessity of making a return visit would very likely be an indication that Uncle Sam was about to become my new landlord. To tell the truth, I was in a pretty scattered state of mind at the time of their visit, and I undoubtedly failed to adequately understand a good portion of the dialogue which took place, but they were very clear in explaining that, given my current state of unwelcomeness in Canada, I am running out of countries to go to, and that I should give serious consideration as to whether or not I wanted my next Literary Spamology to be titled, "Midnight Express II." Hhhmmm...decisions, decisions... Since my reading of the Secret Service Agents is that they are highly ethical professionals, with little need to persecute an individual out of thin-skinned, personal vindictiveness, I guess it wouldn't hurt to mention that, minutes after their departure, Linda Lou arrived home, announcing that there was yet another Tarantula in the driveway, headed toward the house... The obvious conclusion, of course, is that the Secret Service Agents are actually Reptilian Nazis, who are deeply involved in the WorldWidePlotAgainstMe. This, in turn, leads to the dilemma of whether or not I should, on the occasion of a return visit, jump them and drive wooden stakes through their hearts, turning them into quivering pools of smoking, green slime. (Or is that Vampires? Shit! I'd better check, first, or it could lead to a really embarassing situation.) On the other hand, since they were quite civil and reasonable in their dealings with me, and they apparently didn't eat any of the dogs, while here (although it might have been a different story, if we had poodles), then perhaps their is a chance that we and the Reptilian Nazis can live together in peace...unless it is a SneakyTrick (TM), of course...and they are trying to *confuse* me, so that I don't warn TheOthers...and they were only so pleasant because they were inwardly laughing at me for not realizing that, starting tomorrow, they are going to take control of the whole face of the globe, turning all humans into LobotomizedSlaves who exist only to serve their ReptilianNaziMasters! QUICK, EVERYBODY! ARM YOURSELVES AND RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!!! PREPARE TO ENGAGE THE REPTILIAN NAZIS IN VIOLENT, BLOODY STRUGGLE! START BY WHACKING OUT THE LAWYERS, AND THEN... Hold it! What the fuck am I ranting on about? The Masses are *already* LobotomizedSlaves who exist only to serve their ReptilianNaziMasters... Maybe the agents were just here to see whether or not Baby is a poodle. That makes more sense, since the Reptilian Nazis don't really give a FatRat'sAss about the Jews, but they *do* want to round up all of the poodles shortly before the arrival of their Reptilian Nazi Relatives, so that there is plenty of barbeque at their PicnicToCelebrateTheConquestOfEarth. Yeah, that's gotta be it... Actually, I'm rather glad that the Secret Service Agents dropped around to meet me in person, since people reading my copious literary effluvia sometimes mistakenly get the impression that I am some kind of Dogamned Weirdo, or something. Still, I wish I had been able to refrain from going, "Cuckoo-Cuckoo" on the hour and the half-hour during their vist. But, what the hell...I bet that a *lot* of the people they visit do that... ======================================================================

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