December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Rep. White introduces Internet Protection Act
by Declan McCullagh 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I admit I'm jaded after spending too much time -- which in my case, is about three years -- in Washington. I've seen too much special interest lobbying, too many soft money favors, and (of course) a veritable slew of unconstitutional legislation. But sometimes a bill comes along that warms my heart. It happened today, when Rep. Rick White (R-Wash) introduced the Internet Protection Act to block the FCC from regulating the Net. (Though I recall it's been watered-down from the one he tried to pass last year: http://www.hotwired.com/netizen/96/40/index1a.html ) Joining White in introducing the bill was the chair of the House Telecom Subcommittee, Billy Tauzin (R-LA). It stresses that industry, not government, should grow the Net. Besides barring the FCC from regulating Internet providers, the bill also amends the Telecommunications Act to let the agency back away from offline regulation if a comparable service exists online. This is important. After all, the FCC's charter gives it jurisdiction over all electronic communications -- though the commission has opted not to exercise its authority in cyberspace. A 1980 FCC directive dubbed "Computer II" said the commission would regulate only "basic" telephone services, not providers of "enhanced services." That marked a reprieve for the Net, for the "enhanced service provider" category includes everything from voice mail service to alarm monitoring firms to Internet providers. (That's why we don't pay per-minute charges to log on today, much to the chagrin of Bell Atlantic's lobbyists -- who tried in 1983 and 1996 to pass such a rule and met with a crushing defeat each time.) Still, White's bill is crucial since future commissioners may not display this laudable regulatory forbearance. Bob Corn-Revere, former FCC chief counsel, echoes this in his recent book called "Rationales & Rationalizations." He says: "The culture of regulation already is marshaling its forces for a multi-faceted assault on Internet freedom." After all, key legislators like Rep. John Dingell (D-Mich) and Rep. Edward Markey (D-Mass) have opposed legislation that would exempt the Net from FCC content regulation. Markey has said the Net should be regulated the same way as other media, and Dingell wants to protect the FCC's ability to "apply local [cable television] franchising requirements to the Internet." Let's not even talk about what the religious right would like to do... "Regardless of ideological differences between liberals and conservatives, however, there really is only one wish -- to control the medium," Corn-Revere concludes. And he's right. -Declan An excerpt from the Internet Protection Act: "LIMITATIONS ON COMMISSION AUTHORITY -- Except as expressly provided in this section, noting in this Act shall be construed to grant authority to the Commission with respect to -- (A) the rates, charges, practices, classifications, facilities, or services for or in connection with the provision of Internet information services to customers; (B) technical specifications or standards for the provision of Internet information services; or (C) any other regulation of the provision of Internet information services" ------------------------- Declan McCullagh Time Inc. The Netly News Network Washington Correspondent http://netlynews.com/

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Re: e$: The Book-Entry/Certificate Distinction
by tcmay＠got.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 4:01 PM 8/22/95, Robert Hettinga wrote: >Obviously, we aren't talking about the end of bookeeping as we know it >(BAWKI? ;-), but it does mean that days of book-entry as a means of social >control are numbered. A good essay. Too long for me to quote and discuss, though. I worry about our--or at least my, speaking for myself--terminology. Consider these variations on the same theme: cash <--> immediate clearing <--> tokens <--> certificates vs. checks <--> delayed clearing <--> account-based systems (I'm using "<-->" as my own symbol to mean "related to.") Chaum has been harping on this exact distinction in public talks. I at first thought he was beating a dead horse, but I now see that most people just don't get it. (I don't mean people on our list, I mean journalists and writers about "digital money.") Marvin Minsky once said the history of AI is the history of grad students and researchers giving new names to old ideas. (Ironically, Minsky did this in spades when he took the ideas of "object-oriented programming" and invented the term "frame-based systems" to cover the same ground!) One hope I have for the "class library" approach, whether implemented in C++, Java, Smalltalk, etc., is that these terms and concepts will be reified in code, with browsable definitions and examples. The "financial instruments" people have been working on this "ontology of money" for a long time. I have long been surprised that the crypto and financial communities have little overlap. No, I don't mean you folks are not bridging both worlds. And I don't mean the banking and finance industry is not working on incorporating more crypto. I mean that the "Crypto" conferences have very little stuff being published on finance and money, save for the Chaum stuff. The interesting stuff for me lies in the intersection of: Crypto + Game Theory + Economics --Tim May ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay(a)got.net 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Higher Power: 2^756839 | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders are just speed bumps on the information superhighway."

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Re: True Names and Webs of Trust
by tcmay＠got.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 4:38 PM 8/22/95, Rich Salz wrote: >> This has relevance to the thread Michael Froomkin raised, as well. To wit, >> none of the people I've met has been "certified." And yet it doesn't bother >> me. > >Just because you haven't been able to easily do it yet, nor found it useful, >is no reason not to let new technology provide this service to you. I wasn't saying I wouldn't let new technology provide this service for me. I was just saying that lack of it has not been a problem, so far. In very few of my dealings, even in the economic world, have I needed to have any kind of certification. (Buying a new house recently is where I needed certification of inspectors, escrow agents, title companies, etc.) --Tim May ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay(a)got.net 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Higher Power: 2^756839 | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders are just speed bumps on the information superhighway."

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Re: Partial Key Escrow
by liberty＠gate.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- - -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Lyle Seaman <lws+(a)transarc.com> wrote: <snip> >The domestic TLA can't afford to embark on massive, wholesale fixing >expeditions this way, even _with_ the escrowed part. The point is to >fix the unescrowed part at such a size that they can afford to crack a >limited number of keys in a reasonable interval. Say, at a cost of >about $10000 / key. That's peanuts for an OKBomb or WTC bomb case, >but it gets to be expensive (hard to hide the expense) if you're >fishing for dirt on members of the opposition party,... The problem for THIS member of an opposition party is that the percentage of the U.S. budget comprising "Black" (secret, "off the books" usually mil./intelligence) programs grows yearly, like inflation. At the same time, the speed of chips increases like the national debt and their cost goes down steadily, (see Robert Hettinga's post titled, "e$: The Book-Entry/Certificate Distinction" describing Moore's law). These trends, (IMO) bode ill for my long-term personal (and political!) privacy, unless the freedom of those of you able to "write code"(tm) implement- ing my privacy is unfettered. Anything that reacts as slowly to the marketplace as the government does will constantly be play- ing catch-up. Others may disagree, depending on your individual level of trust in the present government. <snip> ... On a different, and sad, note...Phil Zimmermann's mom recently passed away. I encourage all of you to make a donation in her name to his legal defense fund, and (if religious) to include her in your prayers. Peace. JMR - -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 Comment: Freedom isn't Freeh iQCVAwUBMDofYm1lp8bpvW01AQEoPQP+JiQHUke0Q/nDdXgt9NIMPbePp5T8dqyn YL5TdWchPCqZ+aaBfbO20/dLADz/C8L7zq88bLLsUaVWr8tArlZPh2keQvOVUWvd PD+/Ky4HsRn7BJaBuc5187gvAtqyvWGAHpYJQ/QilC7cUqDmbCiuBHCD2rsSyj1E XX2Cl1tBnd8= =L5O9 - -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- Regards, Jim Ray "The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structures of reality. It is enough if one merely tries to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity." -- Albert Einstein - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PGP key Fingerprint 51 5D A2 C3 92 2C 56 BE 53 2D 9C A1 B3 50 C9 C8 Key id. # E9BD6D35 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Support the Phil Zimmermann (Author of PGP) Legal Defense Fund! email: zldf(a)clark.net or visit http://www.netresponse.com/zldf ________________________________________________________________________ - --- [This message has been signed by an auto-signing service. A valid signature means only that it has been received at the address corresponding to the signature and forwarded.] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 Comment: Gratis auto-signing service iQBFAwUBMDof2SoZzwIn1bdtAQGacwGAmM50nkIDJvU6i8PApdwtZ5oG1vIN7Nv0 zLZloPP4+6FR3R9vkYun5Ptq7yEARTqU =UuAX -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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C$ prize for bruting Hal's next challenge?
by aba＠dcs.exeter.ac.uk 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

It has been suggested to me that we might like to add a fun incentive to the bruting of Hal's 2nd SSL challenge as posted to cypherpunks on Aug 19th. To this end we need some c$ for the pot! I'll be collecting donations for the pot and vouch that every c$ cent handed over will be handed to the person who hits the key. The only reciever of the jackpot for hitting the key, will be encouraged to cash it in on the ecm mailing list / ecash market WWW ecm(a)ai.mit.edu, http://www.c2.org/~mark/ecash/ecash.html so that currency is not taken out of circulation, and to help boost the flow of c$ for the ecash market, as there appears to be a shortage of e$ sellers. For info on joining in the lottery for a chance to win your c$ back and then some, or just to win other peoples c$, take a look at: http://www.brute.cl.cam.ac.uk/brute/ The challenge has not started yet, that will probably not be for a day or two yet, so you've got time to get the software, check that it works etc. Then stand by... for "the ready, steady, go!". The reason for the start line affair is that for demonstrational reasons this attempt is designed to show how quickly a Netscape SSL session can be cracked. There is a WWW interface to getting key space for those behind firewalls or without direct IP. I hereby donate c$ 50 to the pot, mail me your c$. (It won't be a good idea if you post your c$ to the lists, as the first person to cash it gets it, you need to do it in private email, PGP it even). To generate your payment either save it to a file, or email directly to me via the digicash client, click on the icon which looks like a note (is that what it's supposed to be? the one next to the bank symbol), then choose to send via file / email toggle make payment, enter the amount (leave the shop account ID blank, give a payment description if you like). Adam [btw is there still something wrong with toad.com? traffic seems exceptionally light...]

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Eternity Server 0.04 Available
by Mike Duvos 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I am pleased to announce that I have successfully installed Adam Back's "Eternity Server" on my home page. This server permits a user to transparently browse Web content posted to Usenet in encrypted form in newsgroups like alt.anonymous.messages. Eventually, the Eternity Server will also serve web content from a variety of more permanent repositories, like Altavista and Dejanews. The Eternity Webspace is comprised of http URLs in a new virtual top level domain, .eternity. All documents are PGP signed, and posters may optionally choose to have their domains indexed in a top level directory under the URL http://eternity/. PGP is used for encryption, and documents may require the user to supply a password before they can be viewed. Documents may also be encrypted with the hash of the URL, so that documents are only accessible to individuals who already know their names. Although I expect most people will want to install their own servers in their Unix shell accounts, I will leave my server open for a little while so that people can play before installing the software. To try it out, just select the "Eternity Server" link on my homepage http://www.zipcon.com/~enoch In order that people have something to browse, I have seeded alt.anonymous.messages with two virtual web sites. The first of these has a URL of http://barney.eternity/ and is a single document describing different ways one might kill a certain purple dinosaur. The second has a URL of http://boylinks.eternity/ and is a large index of boy-related resources on the Web, recently made homeless by the CPAC/Sewer people. The authors have devoted their best efforts to make sure this list contains no links to porn or illegal material. The latest version of the eternity server may be found at Adam Back's Web site and is called eternity-0.04.tgz. You will need Perl 5 and access to cgi-bin to install it. The eternity home page is... http://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/eternity Included are the eternity server, written in perl, and a "sitegrabber," which can be used to post entire websites to Usenet. Enjoy... -- Mike Duvos $ PGP 2.6 Public Key available $ enoch(a)zipcon.com $ via Finger $ {Free Cypherpunk Political Prisoner Jim Bell}

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Re: NEXT CHALLENGE: so, when does it start?
by Peter Trei 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Well, I've got the program, and I'm ready to start sweeping (about 35,600 keys/sec on a P5 90 Mhz NT machine - have to see how many I can draft for this) - I even compiled for Win 3.11 (less than 800 keys/sec on a 486/33 - don't think I'll bother). I've got the challenge file from Adam's messages. But when do we start? Have we started already? Have we completed? It's difficult to tell. There was talk of starting at 12:00GMT (about 6 AM here on the east coast), but there was no 'start now' message to the list. At Adam's site, I can see that 'project 11fa' has been completed, but the key (000000001234) looks like test data. If I try to allocate keys, I get the 600 SLEEP 3600 message, which suggests strongly that the seach has not started yet. Adam, when you fix a time to start the search, could you: 1. Send a message to the list, clearly saying so, and giving the time. 2. Put a <h1>headline</h1> in your page saying it's underway? Thanks. Peter Trei Senior Software Engineer Purveyor Development Team Process Software Corporation trei(a)process.com

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House Report on SAFE
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

House Report 105-108, Part 2, July 25, 1997, reports on the recent House International Relations Committee action on Goodlatte's SAFE crypto bill, and includes analysis, supporting and dissenting views, and a few letters sent to the committee: http://jyx.com/hr105-108-pt2.htm (87K) As before offered, see HR 105-108, Part 1, published at the end of May: http://jyx.com/hr105-108-pt2.txt (94K) Note: that's JYX.COM, (same as 108240.primehost.com) our temp site to fill in for remanded JYA which is to be unJimmed soon, isn't it, your honor, what stink you screeching about, that's just rotting pork.

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Re: C$ prize for bruting Hal's next challenge?
by shamrock＠netcom.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 19:50 8/22/95, aba(a)atlas.ex.ac.uk wrote: >I hereby donate c$ 50 to the pot, mail me your c$. (It won't be a >good idea if you post your c$ to the lists, as the first person to >cash it gets it, you need to do it in private email, PGP it even). To >generate your payment either save it to a file, or email directly to >me via the digicash client, click on the icon which looks like a note >(is that what it's supposed to be? the one next to the bank symbol), >then choose to send via file / email toggle make payment, enter the >amount (leave the shop account ID blank, give a payment description if >you like). I like the idea, but there are two problems with it: -Not all platfoms let you save e$ to a file. You got to open a shop. -Leaving the shop ID blank won't work. You got to use @ (wildcard) for shop ID to turn e$ into a bearer certificate. Get the shop going and I'll donate e$50 -- Lucky Green <mailto:shamrock@netcom.com> PGP encrypted mail preferred.

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Re: NEXT CHALLENGE: so, when does it start?
by aba＠dcs.exeter.ac.uk 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> Well, I've got the program, and I'm ready to start sweeping > (about 35,600 keys/sec on a P5 90 Mhz NT machine - have to see > how many I can draft for this) - I even compiled for Win 3.11 (less > than 800 keys/sec on a 486/33 - don't think I'll bother). > > I've got the challenge file from Adam's messages. > > But when do we start? Have we started already? Have we completed? Soon. No. And not yet. > It's difficult to tell. There was talk of starting at 12:00GMT (about 6 > AM here on the east coast), but there was no 'start now' message to > the list. At Adam's site, I can see that 'project 11fa' has been > completed, but the key (000000001234) looks like test data. Yes confusion abound. Dead mailer for me, Piete away for a while (back now). Rest assured big announce of a deadline when it is fixed, with plenty of warning. Perhaps a start time of day which is more convenient would be better, also for people using WWW, few likely to be around at 6AM, perhaps later in the day, when the time is decided. > If I try to allocate keys, I get the 600 SLEEP 3600 message, which > suggests strongly that the seach has not started yet. Yes, correct. For people with the unix client, this means they can leave the client running already, and it will sleep in 1hr chunks, until there is something on the server to do. > Adam, when you fix a time to start the search, could you: > > 1. Send a message to the list, clearly saying so, and giving the > time. Okay will do. Adam

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Re: Netly News Fan Mail
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Mike Duvos wrote: > It appears that the CPAC/Sewer folks have read the recent Netly News > article on their activities and were not pleased. This little blurb > healines the "Sewer List" this morning. > > -----Begin Officer Paladino Rant----- > > July 29, 1997, I was told of an article that appeared on the Net. > It appeared on a Netly News site. ... > In the article he links to a few sites showing young boys but he > forgot to link to the 1000's of sites showing young boys in the > nude. > You will see sites exposing young boys, as young as 4 years old, > nude. Strange. I followed some of the links on the Sewer site, and all I found was that they were harassing and slandering people with perfectly legitimate reasons for having normal pictures of clothed children on their site. Are child actors supposed to put pictures of adults who look similar to them on their web sites? Are pictures of themself (fully clothed) "pornography" when gay teens put them on a web site, but pictures of themself that Christian teens put of themself on s web site are "wholesome?" > Freedom is a great thing and this is the greatest country in the > world. I wonder how many soldiers that gave their lifes fighting > for that freedom, had pictures of nude boys in their wallets, > instead of their families. Think about > that....................... No doubt some of those soldiers had naked pictures of their children in their wallets, but I doubt if those pictures gave them a hard-on, as they would obviously do for Officer Paladino. Officer Paladino seems to fail to understand that "his" hard-on does not make "other" people perverts. > -----End Officer Paladino Rant----- > Will someone please buy this poor man a spell-checker? :) Intelligence and educations are not requirements to become a member of the Righteous Right. Neither are tolerance and respect for the personal moral beliefs of others. It will be interesting to see whose "moral values" prevail on the InterNet when the laws and traditions of various societies and nations come into conflict. My prediction is that it will be the moral values of the most intolerant nation with the largest weapons. Dr. Anonymous

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Re: C$ prize for bruting Hal's next challenge?
by aba＠dcs.exeter.ac.uk 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Lucky Green <shamrock(a)netcom.com> writes: > > [me on donating to the c$ prize fund for Hal's 2nd challenge] > I like the idea, but there are two problems with it: > -Not all platfoms let you save e$ to a file. You got to open a shop. > -Leaving the shop ID blank won't work. You got to use @ (wildcard) for shop > ID to turn e$ into a bearer certificate. > > Get the shop going and I'll donate e$50 Okay, a quick email conversation with Mark Grant as to how one goes about doing shops via cgi/www, and a brief bit of fiddling, and here we are: http://dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/sslprize.html Just click on amount to donate to the pot. Pay in parts if the amount you want isn't there (ie 15 c$ = 5 c$ + 10 c$). cpunks + ecm folks + digicash enthousiasts, accepting your c$ donations now! Adam

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Re: uncensorable net based payment system?
by Vincent Cate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Adam Back <aba(a)dcs.ex.ac.uk> said: >Then I can have some net cash savings backed by the rights to 1Tb of >bandwidth at 100 Mb/sec. 100 Mb/sec for 3 days. > >A problem with this is that the market prices of the assets is >continually dropping. How do I hedge against this. Can I buy futures? >Sell 100 Mb/sec for 3 days now in exchange for 200 Mb/sec for 3 days in 1 >years time at an predicted equivalent value? I could imaging making a currency backed by "megabytes of data transfered" to and from my server here in Anguilla. This could be to run a web page, mailing list, or whatever. But you are right that it is an asset continually dropping in value, so it is an odd thing to back a currency with. Would only want to keep enough money in it to do what you currently wanted to do, not as a long term investment. I could imaging just gradually increasing it so that $0.25 for 1 megabyte today became $0.25 for 1.1 megabytes in 3 months, or something like that. Interesting idea... -- Vince

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URGENT ANOTHER SCIENTOLOGY RAID: FACTNET
by syrinx＠c2.org 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

FORWARDED FROM: alt.religion.scientology Believe it or not, Co$ has just struck again! I just talked with Lawrence Wollersheim of FACTNet in Golden, Colorado. As I type (10:20 a.m. PDT), Federal marshals are looking on as Co$ goons grab all of FACTNet's computers, records, archives, and on and on. Look for more information shortly. Please post this EVERYWHERE. Get the word out! -------------------------------------------------------- A special note to T.C. May: These are nice people, eh. Three raids for posting unsealed court documents. Get a clue Tim!

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Re: Third World Man
by monty.harder＠famend.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

TC> When a certain character in a television show referred to "Third World TC> mutants," he was also referring to "your basic brown types." (His words, TC> not mine. Ten credits to anyone who can identify the t.v. show and the TC> character.) "Hill Street Blues", Lt. Howard Hunter. TC> The term "Fourth World" has in the last 20 years come to refer to the TC> countries which are so impoverished as to be almost hopeless. Bangla Desh TC> is the canonical Fourth World nation. Cyberia is the "Fifth World", akin to the "Fifth Dimension". Let the sun shine.... * I love my country. * I fear my government. --- * Monster(a)FAmend.Com *

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NRO: Risky Methods of Data Exploitation
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Wonder what's meant by "risky methods" NRO envisions in the article below by: "Using advanced and potentially technologically risky methods of exploiting data to learn more from it." ---------- 30 July 1997, Jane's Defence Weekly NRO opens up to new satellite system ideas For the first time in its history, the once super-secret National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) is considering whether commercial space technology can satisfy its `customer' requirements for reconnaissance data needed by the DoD and the intelligence community. In existence for over 30 years, the NRO is coming in from the cold for one clear reason: acquisition and operation of US reconnaissance satellites continues to account for most of the $28 billion in annual spending by the US intelligence community. Congress wants to find ways to trim the bill by encouraging the NRO to adopt commercial technology and move towards launching smaller, less expensive satellites. The question of whether the NRO should continue to exist was an open debate last year. A panel chaired by Adm David Jeremiah, former vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, concluded that the unique partnership between the Director of Central Intelligence and the Defense Secretary to build, operate and manage space-based intelligence systems should continue in the form of the NRO. "There are important inter-relationships between the NRO and DoD space activities in areas such as launch technology, industrial base and communications, and the NRO needs to use DoD systems such as the Global Positioning System as well as the DoD needs to use products from NRO systems," the report said. However the panel also emphasised that all of the relationships between the NRO and the Pentagon need clarification. NRO Director Keith Hall is driving much of the process at the agency towards opening the door to commercial technology and improving the agency. "I do not think that a customer that needs a picture to answer a key question to make an operational decision cares whether that picture comes from one of my satellites, an airplane or a commercial sensor system," he said. "If that means a commercial system can provide some of that, I am entirely for it." A major vehicle for operational change at the NRO is the Future Imagery Architecture (FIA) programme aimed at fielding a next-generation space-based imagery intelligence (IMINT) system. "We have said to our FIA vendors that they are free to propose to us a mixed architecture of government systems and commercial systems," said Hall, noting that such a notion is indeed a first for the agency. "We have not heretofore been involved at all in the acquisition of commercial imagery." The FIA may set a precedent for future reconnaissance acquisition. In mid-1996, the NRO and the old Central Imagery Office, now part of the NIMA, concluded an initial `Phase A' of an architecture study which detailed the attributes of a future imagery system most wanted by NRO customers. It resulted in the identification of more than 20 varying performance levels. The NRO began what it calls the `Phase B' concept programme in May last year. It is working with six contractor teams and the NIMA to determine "what utility would those differences in performance have," said Hall, who became director in March. The NRO expects to publish a final `Phase C' solicitation to industry with detailed performance specifications by early next year. Hall said that the solicitation will have "objective requirements and the relative value the government places on them". Contractors will not be told precisely how to meet those requirements but only the performance objectives. `Phase C' will be separated into a satellite segment and an integration and ground segment. "We have some vendors that are bidding on all segments so theoretically a single contractor could win it all," said Hall. A final contract award is expected late next year with the first satellite system due to be flying early in the next decade. Hall also said that smaller satellites will be considered in the FIA as well as other constellations. Although they present some technical challenges, constellations of smaller satellites mean that more satellites will be on orbit, leading to more frequent `revisits' over targets and less overall system degradation if one satellite fails. The FIA programme has already led to some innovation. The small Surveillance, Targeting and Reconnaissance Satellite (Starlite) being proposed by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) for tactical reconnaissance could be considered as a future imagery architecture option. However, it appears more likely it will become a technology demonstration. DARPA's proposal underscores the dilemma of how to draw a distinction between reconnaissance - an NRO mission - and surveillance, which traditionally has been done by the US Air Force in monitoring weather and missile launches for example. "We will do more joint programmes with multiple sensors," predicted Maj Gen Robert Dickman, the DoD space architect. As the NRO and DoD grow closer, Hall believes it is important to acknowledge that commercial systems can only go so far in meeting the precise resolution and product delivery requirements needed by the IC. Aside from fielding the FIA, Hall has set a number of other objectives for the agency, including increasing funding for research and development by re- allocating existing funds. His five mission objectives in research and development are: - Developing new sources and methods, such as collection and processing of information against hard targets; - Orders of magnitude improvements in efficiency and effectiveness of NRO systems; - Using advanced and potentially technologically risky methods of exploiting data to learn more from it; - Using space-based solutions to address "intractable" intelligence problems such as monitoring chemical and biological warfare facilities; - Improving "space services" by assisting the US Defense Department with its space mission when possible. -----

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Re: Third World Man
by tcmay＠got.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 11:50 PM 8/22/95, MONTY HARDER wrote: >TC> When a certain character in a television show referred to "Third World >TC> mutants," he was also referring to "your basic brown types." (His words, >TC> not mine. Ten credits to anyone who can identify the t.v. show and the >TC> character.) > > "Hill Street Blues", Lt. Howard Hunter. Congratulations! Two other people said "Archie Bunker"/"All in the Family." A good guess, but it was indeed Howard. >TC> The term "Fourth World" has in the last 20 years come to refer to the >TC> countries which are so impoverished as to be almost hopeless. Bangla Desh >TC> is the canonical Fourth World nation. > > Cyberia is the "Fifth World", akin to the "Fifth Dimension". Let the >sun shine.... The dawning of the age of Aquarius? --Tim May ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay(a)got.net 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Higher Power: 2^756839 | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders are just speed bumps on the information superhighway."

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Re: Certificates/Anonymity/Policy/True Names
by Michael Froomkin 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On Mon, 21 Aug 1995, Bill Stewart wrote: > can be substantial even if the suit is bogus.) Under what conditions do > you expect somebody to sue a CA? CA certifies key saying that holder has corporate power to enter into deals upto $1million. Keyholder commits fraud, arguably outside corparate powers. CA certifies you are Jack Ripper based on phony id. In fact you are Sam Spade. CA sued for recovery of ensuing fraud. CA certifies that a document is authentic and time-stamps it. Lawyers did not do due dilligence, books were cooked, everyone who touches document gets sued. In each of these cases, if the CA did exactly what it promises and no more, it (arguably) deserves a way to short-circuit the suit, thus keeping its costs down. Since (in the absence of any rules given the newness of the technology) it is very likely that a rich CA would get nuisance suits every time a deal in which it particiapted went sour, the absence of rules will either raise costs CAs have to charge (e.g. to buy insurance) or will keep rich folk out of the industry (which isn't good either, since you want CAs to buy security and to last). Thus the need for clear liability rules. A. Michael Froomkin | +1 (305) 284-4285; +1 (305) 284-6506 (fax) Associate Professor of Law | mfroomki(a)umiami.ir.miami.edu U. Miami School of Law | P.O. Box 248087 | It's hot here. And humid. Coral Gables, FL 33124 USA | See http://www-swiss.ai.mit.edu/6095/articles/froomkin-metaphor/text.html and http://www.law.cornell.edu/jol/froomkin.htm

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Re: Export policy change
by Andrew Loewenstern 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> I will cheerfully escrow keys for 1$ ecash/key. Please be advised, > however, that key storage will be on an old 40M RLL drive on an > 8088 machine, so retrieval may be a bit slow and unreliable....... hey, my escrow service will store your keys on modern equipment... Plus, I don't care you encrypt your key (with still-legal, non-exportable, escrow-free, strong-crypto) before you escrow it. :-) andrew

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PGP Linux 5.0b11 feedback?
by PGP Beta Team 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 PGP for Personal Privacy 5.0b11 Linux is available for public beta in the US and Canada via: <http://www.pgp.com/products/50-linux-beta.cgi> and we'd appreciate expert feedback. Should you by some miracle find an actual bug ;) please report it to <PGPlinuxbeta(a)pgp.com>, which is read by those responsible for developing and testing this version. It helps us if the first sentence or two summarizes the problem, and if you include details on how we can reproduce it in SQA, including any hardware/OS configuration info you think relevant. If you have a general [comment] or [feature] request, those are welcome too, but please prepend those meta-tags in the subject so we can easily separate them from a [bug] that needs squashing. The 5.0 code is feature-frozen, but we will definitely put all good ideas in the hopper for the next rev. Thanks! dave __________________________________________________________________________ Dave Del Torto tel: +1.415.596.1781 Pretty Good Privacy, Inc Beta Test Mgr. fax: +1.415.631.1033 555 Twin Dolphin Dr. #570 <beta(a)pgp.com> web: http://beta.pgp.com Redwood Shores CA 94065 PGP Key: http://keys.pgp.com:11371/pks/lookup?op=index&search=0x48824435 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP for Personal Privacy 5.0 Charset: noconv iQA/AwUBM+AQO1fGZ2VIgkQ1EQKKdQCg8uQtoL9ZJZtwlRO1i0zEJ63bGjQAoPAu XafDxSNHEt3BwCdE/CjiPdEI =rbpv -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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uncensorable net based payment system?
by Adam Back 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The internet looks like it is slowly moving towards anonymous micropayments for services, and metering for scarce resources. One presumes that in 10-15 years time frame such payments will be pervasive. In such an environment where you can buy bandwidth per Mb at your chosen bit-rate for anonymous ecash, and buy storage per Mb/year, and CPU time per MIPs/year there will be a large amount of readily marketable resources. That is to say high velocity efficient markets will arise for resale of bandwidth, storage and CPU hours. The interesting question then is can we actually base an entirely net based currency on trading of these resources. What would the architecture for such a payment system look like? Design goals would be that it should be: - a distributed system - not involve trusted banks - be immediately exchangeable for any currency - be outside the influence of governments and banks - be immune to government hidden taxations such as printing new money as a form of tax - be immune from government taxation - be a stable form of cash (in the face of rapidly depreciating assets like Mb/years of storage as mass storage devices continue their price plumet.) Possible? Then I can have some net cash savings backed by the rights to 1Tb of bandwidth at 100 Mb/sec. 100 Mb/sec for 3 days. A problem with this is that the market prices of the assets is continually dropping. How do I hedge against this. Can I buy futures? Sell 100 Mb/sec for 3 days now in exchange for 200 Mb/sec for 3 days in 1 years time at an predicted equivalent value? Adam -- Have *you* exported RSA today? --> http://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/ print pack"C*",split/\D+/,`echo "16iII*o\U@{$/=$z;[(pop,pop,unpack"H*",<> )]}\EsMsKsN0[lN*1lK[d2%Sa2/d0<X+d*lMLa^*lN%0]dsXx++lMlN/dsM0<J]dsJxp"|dc`

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Re: Entrust Technologies's Solo - free download
by dlv＠bwalk.dm.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Dave Hayes <dave(a)kachina.jetcafe.org> writes: > > Not if it's done through the normal operation of the protocol. If articles > > needed more protection, cryptographic elements would have been part of the > > design to begin with. Even David Hayes has admitted that cancels are prote > > free speech. > > I have admitted no such thing. Paul Pomes is a fouil-mouthed liar. Please see his Net.Scum page at http://www.netscum.net/pomesp0.html. Two questions to Tim Skirvin: 1. Why was Paul Pomes fired from UIUC academic computer facility? 2. Does Paul still weigh 400 lbs? > > Keep repeating to yourself, "It's just usenet, it's just usenet....". > > I understand you are reluctant to communicate with those you deem inferior, > however do not deny this to the rest of us that want to talk. That's a very good point. Paul is an enemy of the cypherpunk anonymous remailers. He complains about them to the remailer operators' upstreams and employers. Paul has been sending me obscene and harrassing e-mail and complains to PSI, my upstream, about the contents of the e-mail he thinks originated here. Paul is a poster child for net.censorship. Paul publicly claims to killfile anyone he doesn't like, but then goes out of his way to silence them. --- Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM Brighton Beach Boardwalk BBS, Forest Hills, N.Y.: +1-718-261-2013, 14.4Kbps

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Re: Third World Man
by Robert A. Rosenberg 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 22:25 8/21/95, Timothy C. May wrote: >When a certain character in a television show referred to "Third World >mutants," he was also referring to "your basic brown types." (His words, >not mine. Ten credits to anyone who can identify the t.v. show and the >character.) Archie Bunker? All in the Family (I think is the show title).

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EVENT: Cryptography, scientific freedom & human rights Fri Aug 1!
by Shabbir Safdar 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

========================================================================= _ _ __| | ___ _ __ ___ ___ ___ _ __ __ _ ___ _ _ _ __ ___| |_ / _` |/ _ \ '_ ` _ \ / _ \ / __| '__/ _` |/ __| | | | | '_ \ / _ \ __| | (_| | __/ | | | | | (_) | (__| | | (_| | (__| |_| |_| | | | __/ |_ \__,_|\___|_| |_| |_|\___/ \___|_| \__,_|\___|\__, (_)_| |_|\___|\__| |___/ Government Without Walls _________________________________________________________________________ Update No.12 http://www.democracy.net/ July 31 1997 _________________________________________________________________________ Table of Contents - Live cybercast - Cryptography: Scientific freedom and human rights - Featured speakers - Program overview - About democracy.net _________________________________________________________________________ LIVE CYBERCAST - CRYPTOGRAPHY: SCIENTIFIC FREEDOM AND HUMAN RIGHTS Interested in exploring the human rights and scientific freedom implications of the cryptography policy debate? Join democracy.net and the American Association for the Advancement of Science LIVE ONLINE Friday, August 1st for a live cybercast of a Briefing featuring members of Congress, human rights advocates, and encryption experts. Visit http://www.democracy.net/ for details. Date: Friday August 1, 1997 Time: 12:00 noon - 1:30 pm Eastern (9:00 am Pacific) Location: http://www.democracy.net/ What you will need: Web Browser RealAudio (available free at democracy.net) Telnet for Chat (also free at democracy.net) Cybercast Components: Live Audio, Live Still Pictures, Live Chat In addition, we will be testing live video through RealVideo during the cybercast. To check out the RealVideo test, you'll need to download a RealVideo player in advance, (recommended), visit http://www.real.com/ _________________________________________________________________________ PROGRAM OVERVIEW The encryption debate has revolved around issues of industrial competitiveness, personal privacy, and the interests of national security and law enforcement. This briefing seeks to bring two more issues into the policy discussion: scientific freedom to conduct and express cryptographic research, and human rights applications of cryptographic technologies. _________________________________________________________________________ FEATURED SPEAKERS * Matt Blaze, Principal Research Scientist, AT&T Laboratories * Ian Goldberg, Internet Security, Applications, Authentication and Cryptography Project, University of California, Berkeley * Patrick Ball, Science and Human Rights Program, American Association for the Advancement of Science * Dinah PoKempner, Deputy General Counsel, Human Rights Watch Additional details on the program are available at the following sites: * http://www.democracy.net * http://www.aaas.org/spp/dspp/cstc/briefings/crypto/ Democracy.net is a joint project of the Center for Democracy and Technology and the Voters Telecommunications Watch designed to explore ways of enhancing citizens participation in the democratic process via the Internet. This cybercast is made possible though the generous help and support of: WebActive - http://www.webactive.com/ Panix Internet - http://www.panix.com/ TheSync - http://www.thesync.com/ Digex - http://www.digex.net/ ___________________________________________________________________________ ABOUT DEMOCRACY.NET democracy.net is a joint project of the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) and the Voters Telecommunications Watch (VTW) to explore ways of enhancing citizen participation in the democratic process via the Internet. To this end, democracy.net will host live, interactive cybercasts of Congressional Hearings and online town hall meetings with key policy makers. democracy.net is made possible through the generous support of WebActive, Public Access Networks (Panix), the Democracy Network, and DIGEX Internet. More information about the project and its sponsors can be found at http://www.democracy.net/about/ To receive democracy.net announcements automatically, please visit our signup form at http://www.democracy.net/ ___________________________________________________________________________ end update no.12 07/31/97 ===========================================================================

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Re: (Fwd) 1995 Nanotechnology Conference
by James A. Donald 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 11:00 AM 8/21/95 -0800, J. Kent Hastings wrote: >Doesn't quantum coherence require molecular precision if it >is to work on 1024 bit PGP keys? If it works, such keys can >be instantly factorized. It would be nice to follow that progress. It requires molecular precision if it is to work on anything interesting: Cracking 1024 bit keys is a long way down the road. Long, long, before quantum computers crack 1024 bit keys, many technological changes will radically and fundamentally change human existence. Quantum computers have many potentials far more imminent and exciting than breaking PGP keys. (Not that they are all that imminent.) Long, long, before quantum computers crack 1024 bit keys, quantum cryptography will become useful and routine. --------------------------------------------------------------------- | 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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