December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

ANNOUNCEMENT: RPK InvisiMail NOW DISTRIBUTED THROUGH ONLINE RESELLERS
by Jack Oswald / CEO / RPK Security 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

You have received this message because at some time in the past your name was submitted to our e-mail mailing list database. If you do not wish (or no longer wish) to receive announcements, updates and news concerning the RPK Encryptonite Engine or the RPK InvisiMail e-mail security products, please forward this message to remove(a)rpkusa.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT Paula Miller Lyn Oswald Nadel Phelan, Inc. RPK Security, Inc. 408-439-5570 x277 212-488-9891 paulam(a)nadelphelan.com lynoswald(a)rpkusa.com RPK InvisiMail NOW DISTRIBUTED THROUGH ONLINE RESELLERS Alexa Internet, Parsons Technology and Buyonet International Partner with InvisiMail International Ltd. SAN FRANCISCO, CA. August 31, 1998 - InvisiMail International Ltd., a specialist in Internet commerce and communications systems, announced today the completion of joint marketing agreements with Alexa Internet, Parsons Technology Inc. and Buyonet International for the RPK InvisiMail e-mail security software product. RPK InvisiMail is a standards-based e-mail security add-in for POP3/SMTP Internet e-mail software and Internet gateway servers. RPK InvisiMail is completely transparent, allowing users to easily send and receive private e-mail messages securely over the Internet, without having to learn about cryptography. RPK InvisiMail was developed using RPK Security Inc.'s core technology, the RPK Encryptonite Engine. Alexa, a free Web navigation service, Parsons Technology, a catalog marketer of high quality computing solutions, and Buyonet International, an online software reseller with sales in more than 110 countries, will market and resell RPK InvisiMail products to customers through multiple distribution channels. Alexa's core marketing efforts for InvisiMail include advertising InvisiMail through banner ads and e-mail announcements to Alexa's customers. "We are delighted to have established a mutually profitable marketing partnership with RPK Security in support of InvisiMail," said Darian Patchin, director of media and distribution for Alexa Internet. "This partnership brings many benefits and is complementary to our Web navigation tool. RPK InvisiMail offers customers a flexible, easy to use and configurable secure e-mail add-in." more RPK InvisiMail PARTNERS WITH ONLINE RESELLERS PG. 2 OF 2 As part of the licensing deal with Parsons Technology, a Broderbund Company, InvisiMail will be branded to reflect the Parsons name. Parsons® RPK InvisiMail will be offered through Parsons Technology direct to consumers, with marketing efforts focusing on catalog exposure, electronic mailings, Parsons' website and other on-line channels. "Parsons Technology has always stood for high quality software at affordable prices. InvisiMail is no exception. We are excited to bring this level of protection and ease of use to our customers," said Brian Kristiansen of Parsons Technology. Buyonet will distribute RPK InvisiMail Intro on the freeware/shareware portion of their online store and will sell RPK InvisiMail Deluxe online. "This new agreement gives us an even larger assortment of e-mail tools," said Buyonet Chairman Tore Helgeson. ABOUT InvisiMail INTERNATIONAL LTD. InvisiMail International Ltd., founded in 1997, specializes in secure Internet commerce and communications solutions for a wide range of applications. An adherence to open communication standards, using a distinctive Proxy Architecture, makes the InvisiMail International approach to security the most flexible available. Developed using RPK Security, Inc.'s core technology, the RPK Encryptonite Engine, the InvisiMail range of products supports secure message-based applications including Client Services, E-Commerce, EDI and others that require absolute confidentiality and the highest security levels. This allows the simplest e-mail systems to become the most powerful business and commerce tools. Contact InvisiMail at www.InvisiMail.com or call +44 1624 611 003. ABOUT RPK SECURITY Founded in 1995, RPK Security, Inc. is a technology leader in fast public key cryptography. Its flagship RPK Encryptonite Engine, a uniquely fast and strong public key encryption technology, is available worldwide in custom hardware and software toolkits on multiple platforms. Developed from widely accepted security mathematics and techniques, the RPK Encryptonite Engine is easily embedded into new and existing hardware and software applications. RPK's cryptographic research and product development is based in New Zealand, Switzerland and the U.K, with worldwide sales and marketing operations in San Francisco, CA. Visit RPK's website at www.rpkusa.com or call (212) 488-9891.

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023026.htm
by the scent of old bones and fresh blood 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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MITCHELL Mercury News Staff Writer TriStrata Security Inc. of Redwood Shores isn't your usual Internet start-up. Its chief executive recently gave up the reins of a $2 billion subsidiary to run it. The company's founder and chairman is the man who invented the personal identification number (PIN). America's largest accounting firm is already endorsing it. And its promise lured some of the best-connected executives onto its board. Three months ago, Paul Wahl was running German software maker SAP AG's U.S. operations, which has 5,000 employees and first-half 1998 sales of nearly $1 billion. Last week he became chief executive of TriStrata, a 35-person start-up that makes Internet security software. The reason for Wahl's sudden career change and move from Philadelphia is a tremendous opportunity . . .to make Internet history by changing the way the world keeps information secure on the Internet, says Wahl, 46. That same dream brought John Atalla out of retirement in 1993 to form TriStrata. Atalla, now 74, decades ago created the PIN system and the security used today in 80 percent of the world's automatic-teller machines. He was enjoying the beaches of the world when friends in the banking industry asked him to work on the problem of Internet security. Both men believe TriStrata's software -- which works efficiently with voice and video as well as with data -- will revolutionize electronic commerce, enabling companies to create virtual private networks and permitting, for example, the secure and inexpensive sale of software, music and videos over the Internet. Some outside observers agree. PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, which is the largest of the Big Five accounting firms and has 2,200 employees devoted to Internet security, believes this could be the de facto standard for encryption technology, says Jim Coriston, a PWC managing partner. TriStrata software is being implemented throughout the firm, which is also offering the product to its clients. It's a whole different approach to cryptography, says Larry Dietz, director of information security and legal strategies for Current Analysis, a market research firm. Its key principles make a lot of sense. But some critics question whether TriStrata's product is as secure as the company claims. And the company faces tough competition from established security companies such as Network Associates Inc. of Santa Clara and Secure Computing Corp. of San Jose, as well as from computer vendors like IBM and Hewlett-Packard Co., which include security in their products. Atalla rejected the traditional approach for enterprise security using public key encryption, a system that uses two keys, both controlled by the user: a private key, which must be kept secret, and a public key, which can be freely distributed. Such systems can be broken, have performance limitations and have restrictions on the strength of the key that can be exported. Instead, he turned to the one-time pad approach invented in 1917 by Gilbert Vernam. It uses randomly generated numbers that are never replicated in the exact same sequence. The one-time pad is theoretically unbreakable, cryptographers agree. But it hasn't been useful because it requires so much computing and telecommunications power. Atalla decided that the great advances in computer memory and processing technology and today's powerful and relatively inexpensive communications capability made the Vernam cipher practical, and he built his security system around it. As a result, each encrypted document has a different code. The system is so fast, so inexpensive and provides such a good audit trail that it will lead companies to make encrypted transmissions the rule instead of the exception, Atalla and Wahl say. The federal government, including the National Security Agency and the FBI, has cleared it for export because the system allows access to specific documents for which an appropriate court order has been issued. The company expects the product to be received warmly overseas, since the U.S. government cannot decode information at will. But it's unclear whether this feature will diminish foreign concerns about U.S. security products. Skeptics wonder whether the company has created a sufficiently large string of random numbers to approximate randomness, Dietz says. And TriStrata's approach is so different it won't be an easy sell. It requires companies to transform their security systems, a decision likely to be made by the chief executive and chief information officers, Dietz says, not the people who normally purchase security software. Here the many contacts of Atalla, Wahl and TriStrata's directors should prove useful. Atalla is well known in the high-tech community. At Bell Laboratories his research resulted in his patents for the metal oxide semiconductor (MOS), a key component of modern electronic devices. Then he co-founded Hewlett-Packard Associates and Hewlett-Packard Laboratories and directed the company's solid-state division. He founded Atalla Corp. in 1973 and sold it to Tandem Computers Inc. in 1987. Atalla was able to attract to TriStrata a star-studded board that includes John Young, former chief executive of HP; Tom Perkins, partner in the venture capital firm of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers; and William Zuendt, retired president of Wells Fargo & Co. and former chairman of MasterCard. The company released its first product last November. As it prepared to move from R&D to large-scale sales, it added as a director David Beirne, a general partner of venture capital firm Benchmark Capital. Beirne, who had made his mark as one of the most successful executive recruiters before joining Benchmark last year, approached Wahl about the CEO job two months ago. Wahl, quite content at SAP, was negotiating a move back to Europe with the company when Beirne called and persuaded him to fly here to take a look at TriStrata. After a second quick visit, Wahl and his wife decided to come west. TriStrata is unlikely to become a huge employer; Wahl expects the workforce to perhaps double to 70 in the next year or two and reach 200 over five years. But it's impact on the Internet could be quite dramatic. And Wahl found that attraction irresistible. _________________________________________________________________ Write James J. Mitchell at the Mercury News, 750 Ridder Park Drive, San Jose, Calif. 95190; phone (408) 920-5544; fax (408) 920-5917; or e-mail to [48]JMitchell(a)sjmercury.com . 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Re: Remailers
by HyperReal-Anon 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On <hell if I know when> nnburk <nnburk(a)cobain.hdc.net> wrote: >Are _any_ of the remailers working? Take a look at the remailer stats. http://anon.efga.org/~rlist/rlist.html http://anon.efga.org/~rlist/mlist.html Kinda obvious really huh? -+DiGiTaL+- Greets to AOHell 3l33T HaCkerz - the badest dudes ever! (yeah, they probably have root on your machine now!)

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Re: MISTY encryption algorithm source code
by lcs Mixmaster Remailer 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Nobuki Nakatuji wrote: > MISTY source code posted by me at long ago had many mistake. > Attachment file are revised MISTY source code and revised readme. > Thanks. > > > ______________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com BRAIN used by you always since at long ago have many insect. Attachment brain not here because was exhausted in decypher you message. You go back at Hotmail now and stop spam Cypherpunks list. Chop chop.

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What's New at Deja News
by Deja News Members 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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McDougal denied medical aid prior to death [CNN] (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: >From ravage(a)ssz.com Mon Sep 14 07:49:25 1998 From: Jim Choate <ravage(a)ssz.com> Message-Id: <199809141249.HAA24500(a)einstein.ssz.com> Subject: McDougal denied medical aid prior to death [CNN] To: users(a)ssz.com (SSZ User Mail List) Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1998 07:49:23 -0500 (CDT) Cc: friends(a)ssz.com (Ravage's Friends) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 2034 Forwarded message: > X-within-URL: http://www.cnn.com/US/9809/14/mcdougal.report.ap/ > McDougal September 14, 1998 > Web posted at: 2:21 a.m. EDT (0621 GMT) > > FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) -- Whitewater witness James McDougal did not > have access to his heart medication in the hours before he died in > prison, a federal government report revealed. > > McDougal, a former business partner of President Clinton who later > agreed to testify for Independent Counsel Ken Starr, also was not seen > by a doctor although he complained of feeling ill the day before his > death, according to a report obtained by the Fort Worth Star-Telegram > under the Freedom of Information Act. > > McDougal was moved from his regular cell to solitary confinement at > the Federal Medical Center prison in Fort Worth a day before his death > as punishment for failing to provide a urine sample for a drug test. > > McDougal had complained of being unable to provide urine for drug > tests because of the medications he took for a variety of ailments. > > During the move, guards did not find McDougal's heart medication > because they did not want to search McDougal's regular cell and > disturb his sleeping cell mate, the report said. > > One of the medicines, nitroglycerin, could have bought McDougal some > time after he suffered a heart attack, a prison official who asked not > to be identified said in the Sunday paper. [text deleted] ____________________________________________________________________ The seeker is a finder. Ancient Persian Proverb The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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Re: a few facts on Presidential peccadillos (fwd)
by Information Security 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> From: attila <attila(a)hun.org> > > power trippers attract willing victims. > > > ANSWERS > > 1. John F. Kennedy > 2. Bill Clinton > 3. Lyndon B. Johnson > 4. Thomas Jefferson > 5. Bill Clinton > 6. Andrew Jackson > 7. Lyndon B. Johnson > 8. Franklin D. Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy > 9. Warren G. Harding > 10. John F. Kennedy > 11. Lyndon B. Johnson > 12. Lyndon B. Johnson Clinton is normal? Cool! ---guy

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Harald to be hit with U.S. cruise missiles
by Tim May 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 5:45 PM -0700 9/14/98, HyperReal-Anon wrote: >On Mon, 14 Sep 1998 harald.fragner(a)idg.se wrote: > >> >> Do I know you? >> >> Harald >No, but we know you! You're a very evil man, Mr. Fragner, at least by the >standards of the Hired Government Ninjas. Under our standards, everyone is >evil...except government leaders. > >Expect black helicopters to be targetting your house in the next few days. >Do not be surprised if unguided rockets are shot into it. If ninjas are >coming through your windows at 2AM, just remember: We're from the >government and we're here to help you. Just bend over and grip the towel >rack. This is reprehensibile! HyperReal-Anon is alerting a Confirmed Net Terrorist to a planned U.S. cruise missile attack on Harald. Harald's crimes are not important. What is important is that the U.S. Muffdiver William Jefferson Clinton has orded the Northern Fleet to strike Harald's home and hometown and to report that Harald was a known associate of both Asama bin Laden and Phillip Zimmermann, known freedom fighters. Harald will learn that Six Degrees is monitoring all thoughtcrimes. Besides, Harald apparently used Roundup in his garden, the same nerve gas precursor found at the Baby Milk and Marzipan Factory in Khartoum. This means that Harald was manufacturing nerve gas in his Swedish home. --Tim May (This space left blank pending determ. of acceptability to the gov't.) ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, ComSec 3DES: 831-728-0152 | 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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Hi!
by harald.fragner＠idg.se 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Do I know you? Harald ------------------ Harald Fragner IT-avdelningen, IDG Tel: 08-453 60 10 Fax: 08-453 60 05 Email: harald.fragner(a)idg.se

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No Subject
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I think a more appropriate question might be who we aren't. Believe me, you'll have an acute understanding of who we are soon enough. MUWAHAHAHAHA! Was that sinister enough? At 06:27 PM 9/13/98 -0700, Well now I am a Mommy! wrote: >hi, > >I see you added me as a friend..... just wondering who you are. :) > >Christy > >______________________________________________________ >Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com >

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All Fall Down...
by Robert Hettinga 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

--- begin forwarded text Delivered-To: ignition-point(a)majordomo.pobox.com X-Sender: believer(a)telepath.com Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1998 09:40:16 -0500 To: believer(a)telepath.com From: believer(a)telepath.com Subject: IP: Whitewater Probe Continues Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-ignition-point(a)majordomo.pobox.com Precedence: list Reply-To: believer(a)telepath.com Source: Washington Times http://www.WashTimes.com/news/news2.html#link Starr continues Whitewater investigation By Jerry Seper THE WASHINGTON TIMES Kenneth W. Starr's case for impeaching President Clinton is only the first public accounting in a massive ongoing investigation --contrary to White House claims that the Whitewater probe is dead. "All phases of the investigation are now nearing completion," the 445-page report says. The independent counsel "will soon make final decisions about what steps to take, if any, with respect to the other information it has gathered." While it was Mr. Starr's "strong desire" to complete the entire Whitewater inquiry before giving any information to Congress, the report said, it "became apparent" there was "substantial and credible information" of impeachable offenses and he was required under the law to refer the information to Congress as soon as possible. "It also became apparent that a delay of this referral until the evidence from all phases of the investigation had been evaluated would be unwise," the report said. Mr. Starr will soon make decisions on final reports to a three-judge panel of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and possible indictments, the report added. Mr. Clinton's personal attorney, David E. Kendall, attacked the Monica Lewinsky report this week as a "hit-and-run smear campaign," saying it was nothing but an attempt to damage the president with "irrelevant and unnecessary graphic and salacious allegations." He asked, "Where's Whitewater?" But the report's introduction notes that Mr. Starr's four-year Whitewater probe, all but forgotten in the crush of sordid public revelations of Mr. Clinton's sexual dalliances with the former White House intern, continues to target a number of areas: Legal representation of a failed Arkansas thrift, Madison Guaranty Savings and Loan Association, and a real estate project, Castle Grande, by first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton and former Rose Law Firm partner Webster L. Hubbell, the ex-associate attorney general who resigned in disgrace. The firing of seven White House travel office employees to make room for Clinton cronies, and the role Mrs. Clinton may have played in the decision. The delivery to the White House of more than 1,000 secret FBI files on Reagan and Bush administration aides, and efforts to shield White House officials, including Mrs. Clinton, from a public accounting on how the files were obtained and used. The misuse of personnel records of Pentagon employee Linda R. Tripp, whose secret recordings of conversations with Miss Lewinsky began the grand jury investigation. Possible perjury and obstruction of justice concerning an incident involving former White House volunteer Kathleen E. Willey. Mrs. Willey said in August 1997 that Mr. Clinton made sexual advances in the Oval Office in November 1993. The Starr report to Congress said Miss Lewinsky told the president Newsweek was working on an article about Mrs. Willey. Mr. Clinton dismissed the accusations as "ludicrous, because he would never approach a small-breasted woman like Mrs. Willey." Later he asked Miss Lewinsky if she had heard about the Newsweek inquiry from Mrs. Tripp, to which she replied "yes." The former intern said Mr. Clinton asked if Mrs. Tripp could be trusted and then told her to persuade Mrs. Tripp to call White House Deputy Counsel Bruce R. Lindsey about the matter. Newsweek published the Willey story on Aug. 11, 1997. In his Jan. 17 deposition in the Paula Jones case, Mr. Clinton denied the Willey accusation. The Starr probe also is looking into accusations that efforts were made to silence Mrs. Willey. Among those drawing attention is Democratic fund-raiser Nathan Landow. Investigators want to know if he urged Mrs. Willey to deny she was groped by the president. Mrs. Willey has since testified before the Lewinsky grand jury as a cooperating witness. Mr. Landow testified before the grand jury, later telling reporters he took the Fifth Amendment. His daughter, former White House volunteer Harolyn Cardozo, who worked with Mrs. Willey, also testified. In "Travelgate" and "Filegate," papers filed earlier this month in federal court in Washington show the investigations "are continuing and in extremely sensitive stages." Deputy independent counsel Robert Bittman told the court the probes had reached to the "highest level of the federal government" and involved "issues of singular constitutional and historic importance." The Whitewater probe also is examining whether Mr. Hubbell hid his involvement and that of Mrs. Clinton with Castle Grande, a real estate project south of Little Rock, Ark. In September 1996, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. said Mrs. Clinton and Mr. Hubbell drafted legal papers that Madison used to deceive bank examiners and divert $300,000 to Mr. Hubbell's father-in-law, Seth Ward. The report said the papers "facilitated the payment of substantial commissions to Mr. Ward, who acted as a straw buyer" in Castle Grande. A straw buyer is one who owns property in name only, having never put up any money or assumed any risk. The FDIC said the Ward payments were in violation of federal regulations. The report did not accuse Mrs. Clinton or Mr. Hubbell of criminal wrongdoing, although it raised serious questions about their involvement in a deal that ultimately cost taxpayers $3.8 million when Castle Grande failed. Prosecutors, the report to Congress said, immediately recognized parallels between the job help provided to Miss Lewinsky by Washington lawyer Vernon E. Jordan Jr., a longtime Clinton friend, and "his earlier relationship" with Mr. Hubbell, sentenced in 1994 to prison for stealing $420,000 from his Rose Law Firm partners. By late 1997, Mr. Starr had evidence Mr. Jordan helped Mr. Hubbell obtain consulting contracts after he agreed to cooperate in the Whitewater probe. In 1994, Mr. Hubbell was paid $450,010 by 17 different persons or entities as a consultant and $91,750 in 1995, despite beginning a 28-month prison term in August of that year. He has yet to explain what work he did for the cash. Some of the payments came from MacAndrews & Forbes Holding Co. in New York after he was introduced to the firm's executives by Mr. Jordan, a director of Revlon Inc. The cosmetics firm, controlled by MacAndrews & Forbes, also offered a job to Miss Lewinsky based on Mr. Jordan's recommendations. With regard to Mrs. Tripp's personnel records, Mr. Starr has been investigating if they were illegally released in an effort to tarnish her reputation in the Lewinsky probe. Assistant Defense Secretary Kenneth Bacon approved the release to a reporter for the New Yorker magazine. The records show Mrs. Tripp was detained by police as a teen-ager 29 years ago and had not noted the arrest in her 1987 security clearance form. The arrest later was shown to have been a teen-age prank, in which she pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of loitering. Former White House Deputy Chief of Staff Harold Ickes was questioned about the documents by the grand jury. Mr. Bacon also testified in the case. In our Investigative Section, a history of the Whitewater investigation. Copyright © 1998 News World Communications, Inc. ----------------------- NOTE: In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, this material is distributed without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving this information for non-profit research and educational purposes only. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ----------------------- ********************************************** To subscribe or unsubscribe, email: majordomo(a)majordomo.pobox.com with the message: (un)subscribe ignition-point email@address ********************************************** www.telepath.com/believer ********************************************** --- end forwarded text ----------------- Robert A. Hettinga <mailto: rah(a)philodox.com> Philodox Financial Technology Evangelism <http://www.philodox.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'

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Digital Wiretap Delayed
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

We offer John Markoff's report today on the FCC decision to delay implementation of the FBI's digital wiretap requirements under CALEA, along with the text of the decision: http://jya.com/calea-delay.htm (93K) The decision has a good review of the technical issues, and explains why telco appeals of the requirements justified the postponement. CTIA posted here a notice of this on Friday.

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No Subject
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Why yes, yes you do. Don't you recognize the black robe, the scythe, the bony hand, the less-than-cheerful disposition? See if you can figure it out. And please hold still for a moment. Let me just wind up here with this thing.... At 06:43 PM 9/14/98 +0100, harald.fragner(a)idg.se wrote: >Do I know you? > >Harald > >------------------ >Harald Fragner >IT-avdelningen, IDG >Tel: 08-453 60 10 >Fax: 08-453 60 05 >Email: harald.fragner(a)idg.se >

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[NYT] FCC Extends CALEA Deadline
by bill.stewart＠pobox.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>From the New Yawk Times, probably Friday or Saturday: WIRETAP DELAYED [New York Times, C14.] In a setback for the F.B.I., the Federal Communications Commission has given the telecommunications industry an additional 20 months to comply with a Federal law meant to bring law-enforcement surveillance into the digital age. But in extending the deadline the commission deferred action on some of the most disputed facets of the issue, which has pitted law-enforcement officials against telephone-equipment manufacturers, network-service providers and privacy-rights advocates. The Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act was intended to address complaints by the F.B.I. and local law-enforcement agencies that were rapidly losing their ability to conduct wiretaps and other forms of electronic surveillance in the face of modern digital and wireless communications networks. But industry groups had long warned that they would be unable to meet the approaching deadline for complying with the law by installing the software and hardware that would allow for court-authorized surveillance on modern networks. The F.C.C. extended the deadline to June 30, 2000. "This ruling is really a prelude to the privacy fight," said James X. Dempsey, a telecommunications expert. "For now the commission has given itself and the industry some breathing room. They've said, 'Don't rush into these additional surveillance areas.'" The decision came in response to a request for a deadline extension that was filed in March in a joint petition by AT&T Wireless Services, Lucent Technologies and Ericsson.

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Re:
by harald.fragner＠idg.se 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> Why yes, yes you do. Don't you recognize the black robe, the scythe, > the bony hand, the less-than-cheerful disposition? > > See if you can figure it out. And please hold still for a moment. Let > me just wind up here with this thing.... Ultima Online? ------------------ Harald Fragner IT-avdelningen, IDG Tel: 08-453 60 10 Fax: 08-453 60 05 Email: harald.fragner(a)idg.se

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Re: IP: Impeachment Petition -- NOT!
by Albert P. Franco, II 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1998 11:54:36 -0400 >From: Ray Arachelian <sunder(a)brainlink.com> >Organization: SunderNET >X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.03 [en] (WinNT; I) >To: "Vladimir Z. Nuri" <vznuri(a)netcom.com> >CC: cypherpunks(a)cyberpass.net >Subject: Re: IP: Impeachment Petition -- NOT! >Sender: owner-cypherpunks(a)cyberpass.net >Reply-To: Ray Arachelian <sunder(a)brainlink.com> >X-Loop: cypherpunks(a)cyberpass.net > >So much for this being a working thing: > >Anyone else get a bounce? > >Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1998 11:20:14 -0400 >From: System Administrator <postmaster(a)mail.house.gov> >To: sunder(a)sundernet.com >Subject: Undeliverable: Impeach Clinton Now! > > I sent mine to Vic Fazio (D-CA) about six hours ago and no bounce yet. Maybe it's your rep's system that's down. :)

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CTIA Daily News from WOW-COM - September 14, 1998
by CTIA Daily News 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

========================================== Welcome to today's edition of the CTIA Daily News from WOW-COM. Please click on the icon / attachment for the most important news in wireless communications today. Your company just formed a partnership in a country you never heard of. Are you worried about international roaming fraud? You should be. CTIA's Wireless Security '98 - It's Just Smart Business. Orlando, Florida · November 9 - 11, 1998 http://www.wow-com.com/professional Team WOW-COM wowcom(a)ctia.org ===========================================

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Dallas Gold & Silver Exchange Registration
by Nobody 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

this is your account information for the dallas gold and silver exchange please save this message and put it in a safe place. user name: cypherpunks password: 5t9vd7 expires: Wed Oct 14 14:58:25 1998 Thank you for requesting your 30 day free trial online metals spot trading from Dallas Gold and Silver. You may use your account as often as you wish for 30 days. You may want to activate your account by calling 1-800-527-5307 and registering for only per month. Your username is: cypherpunksYour temporary account password is: 5t9vd7 If you have any problems entering your password be sure to look for alpha-numerical similarities ie: the letter O and the number 0, the letter l and the number 1 etc.... Please try these combinations before contacting us for technical support. Thank You.

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Re: Predictions: Crime and Criminal Justice in the 21st Century
by Information Security 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> From: Tim "I have a LOT of gold in my house" May > > America will get what it deserves. > > The inner cities will burn. 10 million ethnics will wipe themselves out. > Miami, Chicago, Washington, LA, New York, Atlanta, New Orleans, and a dozen > other cities will be like Berlin after the war. > > See "A Clockwork Orange" for details. Today's Ebonics kids will be > tomorrow's Droogs. > > Burn the prisons with the inmates locked inside. > Then simply execute those who commit the most serious crimes. > > Militias and freedom fighters will have to start hitting U.S. military > installations. Many will die. Eventually the military will abandon the > Washington elite and will join the freedom fighters. > > Ten million politicians and welfare thieves will be put up against the wall. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Who woulda thunk Toto was the sane one on the cypherpunks list? ---guy Assuming Toto had his Soma supply.

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ACM Account Verification Code
by webmaster＠acm.org 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Dear Joe Cypherpunks: Thank you for establishing an ACM account. To complete the process, you must return to Step 3 and verify your account. You will find your account verification code listed at the end of this message. The code is case sensitive, and does not contain any digits. Select the "Continue to Step 3" button from the "Create an Account" page at <http://www.acm.org/account/create.html>. Do not repeat Steps 1 and 2. (See note below.) Enter your username, password and verification code into the appropriate fields and activate the "Verify Account" button. Username: cypherpunks(a)toad.com Verification Code: AFGKE If you have any questions or comments please contact webmaster(a)acm.org. Sincerely, The ACM Webmaster Note: if you repeat steps 1 and 2, your old account is deleted and the verification code associated with it will not be valid. A new code is created and sent. You must use the new code to verify your account. =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= Just a reminder: if you have not subscribed to the Digital Library, you can still browse the Library and access bibliographic information. Your account username and password will act as your authentication. Visit the Digital Library at <http://www.acm.org/dl/>. Read about subscribing to the Library at <http://www.acm.org/dl/slide8.html> =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= // This message was generated by ENS. The public key // // is available at http://www.acm.org/sys/ens.html // -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQB1AwUBNf2Hp840plPFvmzxAQHfOwL/Srm7AQXIiNoP10jllyU4rDxYslYvPwqm 7xRvRfNadT2fkW0DNfCJhdr2Gd40cSpUqKBAvn8uPIsKeuT6G2NX65tHe5crNpDx XSDva/VV9OZWSgnEHuUulabmjdv/Bhux =P/RE -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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emission test, Black and White Test of Cryptographic Algorithms, & settlement
by bill payne 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Monday 9/14/98 2:33 PM Don When I drove back from Pullman in about 9/96 I realized the valve seals were leaking in my VW Rabbit. Blue smoke coming out the exhaust pipe. Passing the low speed carbon monoxide test is the hardest. On 09/06/96 the emission test showed Standard Current Reading Result 1.20 2.88 FAIL You showed me your tool to change seals. But I needed to work on other projects. After spending about $400 to get the seals replaced, I got another test on 09/10/96 Standard Current Reading Result 1.20 1.31 FAIL In DESPERATION I used Berrymans B-12, changed oil, etc and REMOVED THE AIR FILTER for the test on 09/11/96 Standard Current Reading Result 1.20 1.19 PASS Talk about squeaking by! If your vehicle continues to FAIL emissions test, your life will be made extremely disrupted by the VEHICLE POLLUTION MANAGEMENT DIVISION. The Rabbit had its 1998 emission test due in September 1998. I was totally prepared for failure. I ordered about $500 in parts from JC Whitney in preparation for a DISRUPTIVE engine rebuild. And, of course, I ordered for the fun of it the NAFTA [Mexico] exhaust headers. I could not wait to see the effect of exhaust headers on performance, so I installed them immediately. WOW! I estimate about a 20-30% performance improvement. Rpms up the ying-yang. Patty kept putting the 1998 emissions notice on my dinner plate. On Saturday I took a FAST ride to Oro Guay peak and hiked. I took a FAST return trip. I drove into EXPRESS EMISSION operated by Dung Nguyen. I wanted to see how badly my grey rabbit, R2, would fail. R2 is how the grey rabbit is denoted in my repair log. I couldnt stand to personally watch R2 fail, so I went outside while it was tested. On my return the two operators were smiling both and had their thumbs pointed up! R2 PASSED!!!! Standard Current Reading Result 1.20 00.13 PASS !Viva NAFTA exhaust headers! ANOTHER disruption out of the way so that I can concentrate on completing the digital FX! My HUGE FEAR what that I would have to spend time getting R2 into shape to POSSIBLY PASS the emissions test. TRYING to get a car which failed the emissions test is a nightmare! Sandia colleague Ron Pate had to have a rebuilt engine installed in his bronco so that it would pass. Black and White Test of Cryptographic Algorithms, by William H. Payne advertised at http://www.aci.net/kalliste/ / and presented at http://zolatimes.com will hopefully AID in getting my other distraction settled. Then, too, of course, are the JUSTIFIABLY upset MUSLIMS who are reading my zolatimes article. Sandia president C. Paul Robinson observed at http://www.jya.com/its-us.htm wrote A quick walk around the globe: other emerging threat nations ... What is perhaps most frightening is the apparent increase in the flow of technology, hardware, and a "barter system" in dangerous materials. We must understand "What are their motives?" Simple, in one case. Settlement. WE WANT OUR MONEY! This is on Internet at http://www.jya.com/crypto.htm DoE: Pay Bill Payne Thought about you guys at the fun Metriguard Monday corporate lunch. The Acer scsi Scan Prisa I ordered just arrived by UPS. Now I can scan in my schematics. And bash the Great Satan EVEN HARDER. But let's all hope for settlement before matters get WORSE. Later bill

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Is nym.alas.net down?
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Is nym.alias.net down? I've sent a request twice using a different remailer chain each time yet it still doesn't reply. It's been about two days since I sent it in. I did however create a nym with dongco.hyperreal.art.pl. Is this service reliable? or will it disppear quickly?

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IP: A CLINTON DIRTY BOOK STORY
by Robert Hettinga 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

--- begin forwarded text Delivered-To: ignition-point(a)majordomo.pobox.com Subject: IP: A CLINTON DIRTY BOOK STORY Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1998 14:04:32 -0400 (EDT) From: softwar(a)us.net (CharlesSmith) To: ignition-point(a)majordomo.pobox.com Sender: owner-ignition-point(a)majordomo.pobox.com Precedence: list Reply-To: softwar(a)us.net (CharlesSmith) In late 1994 the U.S. State Department denied Phil Karn his request to export a PC disk. Mr. Karn already had sold the book, APPLIED CRYPTOGRAPHY written by Bruce Schneier, without restriction. Mr. Karn also included a disk of text source code (in human readable format) that was also printed in the book. The book and the disk were freely sold, with no checks, in retail American bookstores. According to the Clinton administration, Karn's disk was a threat to national security. Newly released documents from the State Department, written in November 1994, shows the White House National Security Council (NSC) directly approved the decision to deny Karn's request while allowing the export of military encryption to China. The document, a letter written by Wendy Sherman, State Department Assistant Secretary of Legislative Affairs, to then Congresswoman Maria Cantwell (D WA) was provided to Bill Clements of the NSC for White House approval. In addition, the document includes a fax on Karn's export problem titled "TO: Pres. Clinton". Ordie Kittrie, the State Department Attorney for Political-Military Affairs, wrote "Attached is draft response to Rep. Cantwell ie Karn encryption disk... Please provide me with any comments by noon Friday, November 18." "The decision that controls should continue was based on several consideration," wrote Ms. Sherman. "The administration will continue to restrict export of sophisticated encryption devices, both to preserve our own foreign intelligence gathering capability and because of the concerns of our allies who fear that strong encryption technology would inhibit their law enforcement capabilities. One result of the interagency review of Mr. Karn's disk was a determination that the source code on it is of such a strategic level as to warrant continued State Department licensing." Of course, any criminal or terrorist could simply purchase the book and key the code in. A slightly richer criminal could even use an Optical Scanner (OCR) and convert the pages directly into readable source code in less time. Even a secret Commerce briefing document from a 1996 meeting with Janet Reno openly admits the futile nature of trying to restrict PC diskette or software export. "Lost in the debate," states the secret 1996 Commerce Department document. "But not irrelevant, is the fact that it is virtually impossible to enforce export control's against them when they can be exported by phone and modem or/in someone's pocket." At first the Clinton encryption policy seems absurd or simply driven by bureaucratic red tape. Alas, nothing is further from the truth. The policy was used as a means to extort donations for the DNC or by Clinton insiders bent on making big bucks. The Chinese Army was not interested in PC programs or diskettes their agents could buy openly in a retail bookstore. The PLA under the Clinton administration has been in the business of acquiring commercial applications of "Defense" technology. For example, in November 1994 Motorola employee and former Clinton White House NSC member Richard Barth began his successful request to sell encrypted radios and cellular phones to the Chinese Police. Motorola's Barth wrote to Theodore McNamara Assistant Secretary of State on November 23, 1994. "This is to request that your office initiate action to obtain a waiver from requirement for individual export license notifications to Congress for wireless mobile communications systems containing encryption for China. Such a waiver was issued by the President in September of this year for civilian satellite systems and encrypted products for use by American firms operating in China." According to Barth, a high-tech trade war had erupted between the U.S. and Britain. "European firms," wrote Barth. "Including Nokia, Ericsson, Alcatel and Siemens, have for a number of months been able to market and sell GSM cellular systems with A5-2 encryption in China as a result of a decision taken by the UK intelligence agency, GCHQ." By July 1995, the CEO of Motorola, Gary Tooker, wrote a personal note to Ron Brown, expressing his gratitude for Clinton's signature approving encryption exports. "I am writing to thank you," wrote Tooker to Brown. "And some key members of the Commerce Department for your assistance in obtaining the Presidential waiver for encryption export sales to China." The Motorola saga of Barth is not the only example of Bill Clinton's two-faced policy on high-tech exports. In fact, President Clinton personally authorized the transfer of an encrypted air traffic control system to the Chinese Air Force. It is this particular export which illustrates the difference between military encryption and civilian, such as Karn's disk of PC programs. The Chinese Air Force runs the civilian air control in their country. The U.S. built air traffic system is not only run by PLAAF officers but it is also plugged directly into their air defense. According to the recent GAO testimony on Clinton waivers "Waivers were also granted to permit the export of encryption equipment controlled on the Munitions List. One case involved a $4.3-million communications export to China's Air Force." Not only are Chinese fighters and missiles more effective thanks to Bill Clinton but China has also exported a modified version of the U.S. system to Iraq. The Chinese version, called "Tiger Song", includes U.S. and French made parts. The Tiger Song system allows Iraq to track and target U.S. fighters using a high speed, secure, fiber optic command network. All radars in Iraq, civilian and military, are now linked together into Tiger Song. Iraqi missiles and military radars are also now playing a giant shell game with U.S. air forces, using pre-built camouflaged sites wired with hidden fiber optic cables, scattered all over the country. Another military example of Clinton crypto export controls is the sales of Hughes, Motorola, and Loral satellites to the Chinese military. The satellites were sold complete with on-board secure telemetry systems hardened to absorb the intense radiation of space - something that can be directly applied to nuclear weapons. The satellites exported to China in question were so classified that whole sections of Federal law, the U.S. Munitions List, were deleted or waived by Bill Clinton. The claims made by Bernard Schwartz and Loral that they did not knowingly export military technology to China contradicts the official briefing documents given to Ron Brown in 1994. One Loral document obtained from the files of Ron Brown, labeled "for Secy. Brown", has a page titled "Commercial Applications Of DoD Technology". This document lists "Intelsat", "Cellular - Globalstar" and "Direct Broadcast Satellite" technology along with a variety of other products developed from "DoD" projects. Thus, Loral knowingly exported systems they developed for the U.S. military to China. Did Mr. Clinton consult with U.S. allies prior to allowing top DNC donors export rights to military gear? According to Motorola, the staunchest U.S. ally, Great Britain, was an economic adversary. Clearly, the strategic concerns of South Korea, Japan and the Philippines were never considered. Under Bill Clinton our allies from the Cold War were competitors in a economic war for money. Furthermore, in September 1998 FBI Director Freeh testified before the Senate Committee on Terrorism. As predicted, Freeh pushed the "Bin Ladden" terrorism button while requesting a ban on domestic PC encryption programs. The use of encryption by so called terrorist organizations is balanced by the use of the same technology by law abiding citizens to protect themselves from criminals. The fact that Bin Ladden is armed with encryption comes as no surprise since he was, after all, trained by the CIA to fight the Soviets in Afghanistan. Once a freedom fighter and now a terrorist. One similar historic example to Bin Ladden is "VULA". In the 1980s the South African National Congress (ANC) used encryption in a project called "VULA" to defeat the apartheid government. Vula included illegal exports from europe, Soviet training and home built software. Vula was successful and the ANC ultimately won their long war. Once a terrorist now a freedom fighter. These facts are not unknown to the Clinton administration. In November 1993 TOP Secret document prepared for President Clinton openly admitted the futility of any government-imposed ban. According to "IMPACTS OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND ENCRYPTION TECHNOLOGY ON LAW ENFORCEMENT AND INTELLIGENCE COLLECTION: ASSESSMENT, OPTIONS, AND RECOMMENDATIONS" a ban would "either (1) discourage criminals from using encryption because they realized that most products did not provide protection from wiretaps, or (2) encourage criminals to acquire strong encryption technology, whether commercial or home made." Obviously, the administration will not start banning books so the "home made" option will always apply. The FBI Director seems to have forgotten common sense along with the law. He certainly has remained silent while the Chinese Army purchased military encryption systems from his boss. Freeh, however, has also remained adamant that crack-pot export restrictions on printed text must remain. Mr. Freeh also overlooked one final historical example of a so called revolutionary type group using encryption and the FBI Director can thank his job for it. In April 1775 Paul Revere read a coded light signal from a Church tower and rode into history. The King's men did not intercept nor decode that message. The battle of Concord took place and the first shots of our own revolution were fired. ================================================================ source documents - http://www.softwar.net/karn.html Clinton NSC/State Crypto Book Disk Export http://www.softwar.net/loral.html LORAL Commercial Applications of DOD Tech http://www.softwar.net/inpact.html TOP SECRET "Impacts of Encryption" http://www.softwar.net/vula.html ANC Operation VULA - Freedom Fighers Use Crypto http://www.softwar.net/moto4.html 1995 MOTOROLA Tooker To Warren Christopher For Crypto To China http://www.softwar.net/tooker1.html July 1995 MOTOROLA Thank You For Encryption Export To Ron Brown http://www.softwar.net/tooker2.html Feb. 1995 MOTOROLA To Ron Brown - Human Rights and Crypto http://www.softwar.net/barth95.html March 1995 MOTOROLA - Encrypted Radios/Iridium For China http://www.softwar.net/barth94.html Richard Barth 1994 Secret Letters Email http://www.softwar.net/barth93.html Richard Barth 1993 Secret White House Email http://www.softwar.net/gao176.html GAO REPORT - ARMS FOR CHINA - CRYPTO FOR CHINA ================================================================ 1 if by land, 2 if by sea. Paul Revere - encryption 1775 Charles R. Smith SOFTWAR http://www.softwar.net softwar(a)softwar.net Pcyphered SIGNATURE: 4CE66EF8168673DBB980C519E94FB51027FA5FF001D1BB63298A4E5E28906370 1B9713F09BEEF599003431629914FB78B8704B2BB0DDB22DCA21DB900065CA07 5E32CB3CE742D7C6 ================================================================ SOFTWAR EMAIL NEWSLETTER 09/07/1998 *** to unsubscribe reply with "unsubscribe" as subject *** ================================================================ **COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for non-profit research and educational purposes only. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ********************************************** To subscribe or unsubscribe, email: majordomo(a)majordomo.pobox.com with the message: (un)subscribe ignition-point email@address ********************************************** www.telepath.com/believer ********************************************** --- end forwarded text ----------------- Robert A. Hettinga <mailto: rah(a)philodox.com> Philodox Financial Technology Evangelism <http://www.philodox.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'

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FBI's valiant fight against Marxism
by awestrop＠dimensional.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- For comic relief, see http://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/news/arts/groucho-fbi-file.html and http://www.thenation.com/issue/980928/0928WIEN.HTM regarding Hoover's investigation of a famed Marxist comic. (BTW, Obergruppenfuehrer Freeh's characterization of Declan as a "radical" reminded me of the mathematical quip by that obscure Marxist comic, Karl: "To be radical is to go to the root of the equation!") Cigar jokes are left as an exercise for the reader. __ Alan Westrope PGP http://www.dim.com/~awestrop <awestrop(a)dim.com> public http://www.nyx.net/~awestrop <awestrop(a)nyx.net> key: also via keyservers & finger PGP RSA 0xB8359639: D6 89 74 03 77 C8 2D 43 7C CA 6D 57 29 25 69 23 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBNf3NP1RRFMq4NZY5AQGG3gP7BIr4/31xwhpX3Ye4je4z3J3ssQ4ekqJK Ac+dAs9Mg1okgCXEJvbxuZo32oyKpOlXkCFcnu/xeXUjDJUsVqjwPUHwcLxjHMt4 lvEiomwWfKRvn9ZGWIygDZmRroJ5ZyXQaXNQW5Ao7XUIePN44pT2Ny4nRE0PjsJi WlD2O5sYqWw= =ReUo -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: Larry Gilbert
by HyperReal-Anon 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On Mon, 14 Sep 1998, sixdegrees wrote: > > Just a quick update from sixdegrees(tm). Unfortunately Larry > Gilbert (irving(a)pobox.com) asked not to be listed as your > contact with sixdegrees. > > We also wanted to make sure you were aware that you currently > have no other confirmed contacts, so it will be hard for you to > have a productive sixdegrees experience. As you probably know, > without any confirmed contacts, you won't get any results from our > networking searches. > > So, we just wanted to recommend that you head over to > http://www.sixdegrees.com , log-in, and go to MY CONTACTS > to list additional relationships. > > > ==================================================================== > PLEASE NOTE: All replies to this address are processed by a computer. > If you have any problems, questions or requests send an e-mail to > issues(a)sixdegrees.com and someone will get back to you as soon as > possible. > ==================================================================== Since you seem so intent on continuing to spam the Cypherpunks list like some AOL luser-wannabe, I have a better idea. Follow this procedure exactly to reach enlightenment: 1) Open the cases for all your computers. 2) Drop your pants. 3) Whip it out. In the case of a woman, just squat. 4) Spray all your machines. 5) If any machines are still working, pour large amounts of concentrated nitric acid solution on them. Inhale the resulting vapors. 6) Close the door, activate the halon system, sit down, and inhale deeply. 7) You will pass out. Within a few minutes, you will see the Grand Poobah himself. 8) If you do not have a halon system, inhale heavy gasses such as freon. We're glad to be of service to clueless AOLholes and clueless AOLhole-wannabes everywhere. Have a nice day.

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Predictions: Crime and Criminal Justice in the 21st Century
by nnburk 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Predictions: Crime and Criminal Justice in the 21st Century 1. The United States will experience a significant economic recession/crisis very close to the turn of the Century. 2. As the large pool of young people born in the early 1990s become teenagers and young adults, there will be a dramatic increase in violent crime around the year 2005-2010. 3. America will experience sporadic civil disorders/riots in many of its urban areas during the next 10-15 years -- much of it related to racial/ethnic problems. 4. Terrorist acts by "fringe"/special issue groups will increase at a significant rate -- becoming a major law enforcement and security problem. 5. As faith in the criminal justice system declines, there will be a rise in vigilante-based incidents where citizens take the enforcement of crime problems into their own hands. 6. Much of middle- and upper-class America will take a "retreatist" attitude and move into private high-security communities located in suburban or rural areas. Because of technological advances, many companies and corporations will also move out of the urban environments as well. 7. Due to many of the predictions listed above, much of law enforcement and security in the 21st Century will become privatized and contractual. Traditional law enforcement agencies will primarily serve urban and rural communities. 8. Law enforcement will evolve into two major and divergent roles: traditional law enforcement and a more specialized military tactical role to deal with the growing urban violance and terrorist incidents. 9. Significant violence and unrest will plague our nation's prisons. Major prison riots will become a regular occurrence. 10. With the decrease of the possibility of major global warfare, the United States military will take on an increased domestic "peace-keeping" role with America's law enforcement agencies. John Young wrote: > > Tim asks: > > >Freeh and Company continue to mumble about "meeting > >the legitmate needs of law enforcement." What can they > >be speaking of? > ... > >Obviously his side is contemplating domestic crypto restrictions. > > Threat of terrorism will be the impetus for applying national security > restrictions domestically, for relaxing cold war limitations on spying > on Americans, for dissolving barriers between law enforcement > and military/intelligence agencies. > > Technical means for access to encrypted data will probably > come first in communications, then to stored material. There > will be an agreement for increased CALEA wiretap funding, which > is what the two cellular and wired suits against the FBI intend, > (paralleling what the hardware and software industries want from > federal buyers of security products). > > This will provide the infrastructural regime for the gov to monitor > and store domestic traffic as NSA does for the global, using the > same technology (NSA may provide service to domestic > LEA as it now does for other gov customers for intel). > > Other access will come through hardware and software for > computers, paralleling technology developed for telecomm tapping, > tracking and monitoring. > > Most probably through overt/covert features of microprocessors > and OS's, as reported recently of Wintel and others, but also > probably with special chips for DSP and software for modular > design -- why build from scratch when these handy kits are > available. > > As noted here, the features will appear first as optional, in response > to demand from commerce, from parents, from responsible > institutions, to meet public calls for protection, for privacy, for > combating threats to the American people. > > Like wiretap law, use of the features for preventative snooping will > initially require a court order, as provided in several of the crypto > legislative proposals. > > Like the wiretap orders, gradually there will be no secret court refusals > for requests to use the technology in the national interest. > > A publicity campain will proclaims that citizens with nothing to hide > will have nothing to fear. Assurance of safety will be transparent, > no clicks on the line. In a digital world, home-office devices will send > lifestyle data to the device manufacturers over the always monitoring > transparental Net. > > Personal privacy will evaporate almost unnoticeably, as with the tv > remote control, cp/defcon/bar brag, telephone, fax and forever-lovers > pillowtalk.

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The DES Analytic Crack Project
by Eric Cordian 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

As some of you may have noticed, a new attempt to crack the Data Encryption Standard has been started, with a descriptive FAQ located at the following URL http://www.cyberspace.org/~enoch/crakfaq.html A while back, after the first DES challenge was announced, a number of us made the observation that a known plaintext attack on DES, expressed as a system of a few thousand boolean variables with constraints in 3-conjunctive normal form, was not too far from the size and complexity of problems that could be directly solved by bleeding edge combinatorial algorithms, albeit with signficant CPU and memory consumption. We thought this would be an interesting result, and generated a number of problems of various numbers of DES rounds based on the DES Challenge data, and some not particularly optimized S-Box representations, and set about the task of solving them, smaller problems first. We wrote a lot of code, learned a lot about arbitrary systems of boolean variables, and after breaking 2-round and 4-round problems, the first almost instantly, and the second with very reasonable amounts of resources, set about the task of seeing if we could break the higher round problems, and immortalize ourselves by beating DESCHALL to the key. To our very great regret, we did not manage to do this, and once the $10k prize was claimed, we figured the game was over and returned to working on other things. We still thought DES was a problem of approximately the right size to demonstrate the existence of an analytical solution which would beat a well-tuned exhaustive search on a problem of practical interest. Since that time, DES has been broken twice more by exhaustive search, once by distributed.net, and again by a hardware DES cracking machine designed by Net legend John Gilmore and the EFF for a non-trivial amount of money. Remarkably, although most agree DES is dead for new applications, with Moore's Law and additional hardware crackers being possible today for much less than the cost of the prototype, it still seems to enjoy a reputation amongst the public as a cipher that takes 20,000 pentiums running for half a month or a hardware box with $100k of chips running for several days to break, neither of which seems to have thrown the Fear of God into its current users, most notably the Banking Industry. With other analytic attacks like differential and linear cryptanalysis being really practical only for reduced round DES, and all current high-profile cracks on production ciphers employing key trial, the press has latched onto keysize as a synonym for strength, and has made numerous statements which have reinforced this questionable paradigm in the minds of the public. We have therefore been taking another look at our idea of a combinatorial crack of DES, and decided that even with DES having been cracked three times by key trial, it is definitely a project worth doing. This time, rather than working frantically in an unsuccessful attempt to beat other teams on a public challenge, we wish to finish up our original efforts, and repeat the three cracks previously done, this time using our algorithms, and distribute working code continuously as the project progresses, to sponsors who have donated some money to defray our costs. This will offer people the opportunity to participate vicariously in a fun project which has the potential to be a genuine paradigm shift in the way the world thinks about codebreaking. Sometimes, promising areas of research are not followed because of knowlege of some well-known result which suggests that such exploration will be unfruitful. Years ago, for instance, suggestions that programs could be checked by software for proper behavior, and run without using protected memory regions, were usually met with snide comments about the "computer halting problem" and various adjunct results. Today, there are many variants of "safe execution" technology, from prove and carry schemes, to Java bytecode, with a sound theoretical basis behind them. None of these is a violation of the "computer halting problem" results, of course. Similarly, after a large burst of activity decades ago, which resulted in the notion of NP-Completeness, and various results in computational complexity theory, suggestions that an analytic solution exists for some large combinatorial problem of practical interest conjure up visions of exponential resource utilization, speaker cluenessless, and the lack of progress on NP=P. For this reason, we feel this project is definitely a Schnelling Point. If it works, even badly, people will begin to look at lots of problems in ways they would not have considered before, and much new code which improves upon what we have done will be created. This will be an irreversible change in the Order of Things. In the several days since we put up our FAQ, we have gotten quite a few comments, and some concerns. The comments have mostly been along the lines that it is an interesting, even intriguing project. The concerns are generally that we will experience an unexpected "combinatoric explosion" in the higher round problems, and that no one in their right mind would send money to a nym, because it might just vanish and be used by the nym to live in perpetual ecstasy in some place warm and tropical, without the possiblility of the nym being sued for fraud. While we hope the close coupling between the sponsors and the project members will eliminate this latter concern, with weekly progress reports and working code being distributed to permit the sponsors to reproduce our results as they occur. If three people are willing to sponsor and give us the go-ahead to begin, without wanting their money back if other sponsors do not join, we can probably get through the minimal S-Box representations and their proof-of-correctness as well as some cleaned up code for the 2-round problem. Hopefully we will then have a reputation with these people which will encourage others to join in the effort. Clearly, we're after speculative capital, rather than widow and orphan money, and hope a few of the wealthy older retired (and perhaps even crusty) engineer types might find this a productive thing to support. After all, if you've just blown $220,000 on a DES Cracker, making it $220,500 and getting your very own Schnelling Point in return is probably a reasonable amount of fun for your money. I'll stop ranting now. :) -- Sponsor the DES Analytic Crack Project http://www.cyberspace.org/~enoch/crakfaq.html

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Clinton still doesnt get it
by attila 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

25 years of Clinton's raging pscyhopathic, oversexed behavior: Hillary has been a willing partner. nothing but control freaques and obscene power trippers. there is only amorality in that house --and power by any means. New York Times September 13, 1998 IN AMERICA/By BOB HERBERT Still Doesn't Get It David Maraniss, in his biography of Bill Clinton, "First in His Class," writes about an "intense relationship" that Mr. Clinton had with a young woman who had volunteered to work in his first campaign for public office. Mr. Clinton was running for Congress and the woman was a student at the University of Arkansas. A campaign aide, quoted in the book, said, "The staff tried to ignore it as long as it didn't interfere with the campaign." But it did interfere, because Mr. Clinton was also intensely involved with Hillary Rodham. Mr. Maraniss writes: "The tension at campaign headquarters increased considerably when Rodham arrived as people there tried to deal with the situation. Both women seemed on edge. The Arkansas girlfriend would ask people about Hillary: what she was like, and whether Clinton was going to marry her. When she was at headquarters, someone would sneak her out the back door if Rodham was spotted pulling into the driveway." It was all there more than two decades ago at the very beginning of Bill Clinton's political journey: the thoughtlessness, the recklessness, the wanton use of friends and associates to cover up his ugly behavior, the willingness to jeopardize the hopes and dreams of people who were working for him and trusted him, the betrayal of those closest to him. There is nothing new in Kenneth Starr's report, just confirmation in extreme and at times lurid detail of the type of person Mr. Clinton has always been. In 1992, when he was running for President and people across the nation were investing their time, money and even their careers in him, he rewarded them with the Gennifer Flowers scandal. He carried his psychodrama onto national television when he went on "60 Minutes" and, with Mrs. Clinton at his side, called Ms. Flowers a liar. He told Steve Kroft and 30 million viewers: "It was only when money came up, when the tabloid went down there offering people money to say that they had been involved with me, that she changed her story. There's a recession on, times are tough, and I think you can expect more and more of these stories as long as they're down there handing out money." In other words, it was the economy, stupid. But even as he was denying that he had had a sexual relationship with Gennifer Flowers, Mr. Clinton was going out of his way on "60 Minutes" to convey to the public that he had learned a lesson, that he had matured and that his irresponsible behavior would not be a problem if he were elected President. "I have absolutely leveled with the American people," he said. In fact, his comments were about as level as the Himalayas. We now know that he was willing to risk everything, his family, his Presidency, the welfare of the nation, on a dangerous fling with a White House intern. For him, it must have been great fun. He got to play so many people for fools. He got to chat on the phone with Congressmen while engaging in sex. He got to play hide and seek with the Secret Service. Very mature behavior. Now the Clinton psychodrama has much of the Government paralyzed and the Democratic Party in a state of panic. But Mr. Clinton still doesn't get it. On Thursday he met with the members of his Cabinet, who had been duped and lied to like so many others. He went into his emotional routine and said he was oh-so-sorry, etc. He begged for forgiveness. But he got upset when the Secretary of Health and Human Services, Donna Shalala, said that she was appalled by his behavior. Ms. Shalala complained that the President seemed to believe that pursuing his policies and programs was more important than providing moral leadership. A story in The Washington Post said Mr. Clinton responded sharply to Ms. Shalala, rebuking her. My understanding is that his response was critical but not harsh. Either way, it's clear that Mr. Clinton has not learned the requisite lessons. He lied to Ms. Shalala months ago and sent her out to lie to the public, and now he's criticizing her. The President is not sorry. He's apologizing because there's a gun at his head. He's not changing what he now describes as his sinful ways. He's trying to manipulate public opinion so he can survive to sin again. The psychodrama remains as long as he remains. There are no surprises here. With Bill Clinton, it was ever thus.

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Re: Hi!
by HyperReal-Anon 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On Mon, 14 Sep 1998 harald.fragner(a)idg.se wrote: > > Do I know you? > > Harald > > ------------------ > Harald Fragner > IT-avdelningen, IDG > Tel: 08-453 60 10 > Fax: 08-453 60 05 > Email: harald.fragner(a)idg.se > > No, but we know you! You're a very evil man, Mr. Fragner, at least by the standards of the Hired Government Ninjas. Under our standards, everyone is evil...except government leaders. Expect black helicopters to be targetting your house in the next few days. Do not be surprised if unguided rockets are shot into it. If ninjas are coming through your windows at 2AM, just remember: We're from the government and we're here to help you. Just bend over and grip the towel rack. Your phone will be ringing off the hook in the middle of the night for the next two or three years. Oh, wait, maybe I'm looking into the future again. I really must stop doing that. That's the bad part about being involved with the Hired Government Ninjas. We mysteriously know how people will be harassed before it happens. Imagine that. Sincerely, Hired Government Ninjas, Inc. Remember, our motto is: "Do what we say, that's the way we kick it."

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a few facts on Presidential peccadillos (fwd)
by attila 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

power trippers attract willing victims. enjoy... __________________________________________________________________________ 1. Which president smoked marijuana with a nude playgirl while he joked about being too wasted to "push the button" in case of nuclear attack? 2. Which president allegedly had affairs with both a winner AND a finalist in the Miss America pageant? 3. Which president had sex with one of his secretaries stretched out atop a desk in the oval office? 4. Which president allegedly had an affair (as well as children) with a slave who was his wife's half sister? 5. Which president called his mistress "Pookie"? 6. Which president married a woman who hadn't yet divorced her first husband, and was branded an "adulterer" during his re-election campaign? 7. Which future president wrote love letters to his neighbor's wife while he was engaged to someone else? 8. Which president had a torrid affair with the first lady's personal secretary? 9. Which president had sex with a young woman in a White House coat closet - at one point, while a secret service agent prevented the hysterical first lady from attacking them? 10. Which president had sex in a closet while telling his partner about the *other* president who did the same in a closet? (The one from Question 9)? 11. Which vice president was ticked off because he felt that HIS record of sexual conquests was much more "impressive" (i.e. numerous) than the President's? 12. Which future president, while a college student, enjoyed showing off his penis (which he named Jumbo)? ANSWERS 1. John F. Kennedy 2. Bill Clinton 3. Lyndon B. Johnson 4. Thomas Jefferson 5. Bill Clinton 6. Andrew Jackson 7. Lyndon B. Johnson 8. Franklin D. Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy 9. Warren G. Harding 10. John F. Kennedy 11. Lyndon B. Johnson 12. Lyndon B. Johnson

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Re: Larry Gilbert, AOLers, and the Hyper-real flamer
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On Mon, 14 Sep 1998, Paul H. Merrill wrote: > > I love this to death. Some asshole sends crap data to sixdegrees > including dredged up real email addresses, then when sixdegrees and the > contacts given react in a totally appropriate manner other (?) assholes > berate them for living. And this one even manages to toss in an > anti-AOL rant where AOL plays no part. > > Such witticisms I haven't seen since my kids turned 7. > > PHM I know of several people in addition to myself who have complained to Sixdegrees about this. I've personally given up sending complaints back to them, and I lost count at 5. Sixdegrees simply ignores them. I've sent them to their upstream sites, and they either ignore them or tell me that they've forwarded them to Sixdegrees. My complaints, at least, were very civil. One explained exactly what a mailing list was, for crying out loud. I can't speak for Hyper-real's (if he sent any) and the others. You may be able to use that defense if Sixdegrees didn't know, but they do. Sixdegrees could avoid these problems very easily by adding a domain verification so that somebody from Netcom can't specify some address at toad.com and have it work. They haven't. They haven't because they don't care. Saying that some sites have screwed up rDNS and mail domains isn't a valid excuse. They can insert exemptions for Hotmail, MSN, Juno, and other sites like that if they want. Oh, maybe they have a "phobia" of this, just like AOLers apparently have a "phobia" of even making an attempt to use English properly, so it's okay. I don't think the parallel between the AOL users spamming the list and organizations like Sixdegrees spamming the list is that uncalled for either. Maybe you find any drawing of parallels offensive, Paul, and maybe you'll denounce it as "propoganda" because I might use an example in this message, and maybe you just really like AOL and think its cluelessness and broken software is the best thing since sliced bread, but that doesn't change the fact that Sixdegrees and friends are doing the same thing AOL is and that it's abuse of the network. They fire a salvo, and somebody else fires one back at their expense. By this logic, I'd next expect to read a claim that since the AOLers are getting the Cypherpunks address from somewhere, we should welcome their requests for band stickers and things like "how u do that." After all, they're the victims, and are probably the kind of people who go to look up the word "gullible" when somebody tells them it isn't in the dictionary. It's a long-established tradition to flame people like this. Some flames are better than others. Maybe if the Hyper-real user insults them enough they'll finally add Cypherpunks to their block list. I've personally grown real sick of seeing bullshit passwords, welcome messages, new password messages, updates, and other junk on this list from sites which don't bother to verify domain names. I can give them that, but I start to get pissed when they refuse to block the address. For that reason I don't mind the person or persons who are flaming these idiots and in fact, like Mr. May, I cheer them on. Personally, I *WANT* them to pour nitric acid into their computers to destroy them, so they get the hell off the net. Maybe they're scared of block lists. After all, they're similar to kill files which we all know are lists of people who need killing and since murder is illegal and immoral kill files must be too. Paul, maybe you don't mind somebody pouring grass killer on your lawn if they were submitted your address over the phone and made an "honest" mistake and fell victim to a prank, but I mind if they do it to mine, particularly since all they have to do is perform cursory checks to realize it's suspect. Oops, I made an example using a different subject matter. We're in the "blatant propoganda" stage now, I suppose. Now, since you're all for niceness in the world, you can go jump on Tim since he's doing this too. From: Tim May <tcmay(a)got.net> To: Well now I am a Mommy! <xenedra(a)hotmail.com>, cypherpunks(a)toad.com Subject: Re: sixdegrees At 6:27 PM -0700 9/13/98, Well now I am a Mommy! wrote: >hi, > >I see you added me as a friend..... just wondering who you are. :) > >Christy > Hi Christy, Got your name from the Stalker's R Us group. Please post more details about your personal fantasies. Send us nude pictures, too. You say you're a Mommy. Hope there are no stretch marks. Oh, and your children can join our group too. Got any photos? --Tim May And: From: Tim May <tcmay(a)got.net> Subject: Re: News for class At 5:58 AM -0700 8/30/98, sboyd wrote: >Please inform me how I can get the news each day by e-mail at >flashboyd(a)aol.com. This information will be used in my comm class. Hey, "flashboyd(a)aol.com," why are you asking _us_? According to AOL, "AOL _is_ the Internet." (Personally, I'm cheered by the news that a net.stalker is tracking down clueless AOLers and Webbers and eviscerating them.) --Tim May SignalMonger

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Joe Farah 9/14
by Jeff Penrod 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Americans get what they deserve I love America. I love the spacious skies. I love the amber waves of grain, the purple mountains' majesties and the fruited plains. But what I love most about America is the God-breathed revolutionary spirit that led its founders to risk everything in a desperate fight for freedom and a noble effort to write the greatest Constitution the world has ever known. But something dreadful has happened to that spirit. It's gone. Oh, there's a small remnant of people who still have it, understand it and live by it. But, apparently, the vast majority of Americans are clueless about it. They have no sense of history. They have no connection with their revolutionary past. They have no idea of how blessed they are to live with the fleeting legacy of freedom they inherited from George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison and our other forefathers who staked their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor in a quest for liberty. Americans have grown fat and lazy, content with their material blessings and ignorant of their far more important endowment of freedom. It's enough to make you sick. Oh, sure, Americans have lots of scapegoats for their ignorance. They've been deliberately dumbed down for 30 or more years by government schools determined to turn them into mindless robots. They have been the victims of media propaganda designed to deceive them and lead them astray. And for a generation or more they have been seduced by government plans to instill in them an ever-greater sense of dependency. But those are excuses. The truth is out there. It's more readily available to Americans who choose to seek it out than any other people in history. Americans are just too busy, blind or comfortable to bother searching for it. Most don't even comprehend the way they are being manipulated -- or just don't care. In other words, ultimately, they have no one to blame but themselves. As an example of what I'm talking about, take the latest polls conducted after the release of the Starr report. Most Americans say President Clinton is doing a good job and should not resign or be impeached. A CNN/Gallup poll released the day the report went public on the Internet placed the president's job approval rating at 62 percent, about where it was before the report was released. More than half, 58 percent, said Congress should vote to censure the president for behavior that has eroded the public's respect for his ethics and truthfulness -- a thoroughly meaningless gesture, a slap on the wrist with no consequences, the kind of punishment Bill Clinton awaits more eagerly than the next class of White House interns. Almost 60 percent of those polled said they thought Clinton was fit to be president. By what standard? That's the trouble. Americans have no standards -- no unchangeable yardsticks by which they measure right and wrong, truth from fiction. Now, I don't put much stock in public opinion surveys. They are often conducted by the same corporate media interests whose agenda is inextricably tied to bigger and more intrusive government. Nevertheless, these surveys are at least an indication that our nation is in grave trouble. What do they tell us? We've lost our moorings -- just as surely as Bill Clinton has. America is morally, politically, intellectually, spiritually adrift. There are no anchors aboard. No compasses. The USS America is at the mercy of the winds and currents, and most on board don't care. As long as the crew is serving them fine food and entertaining them, the passengers don't give a second thought to their fate or their ultimate destination. In a way, Americans are getting just what they deserve. Their choice of leaders reflects their own inadequacies and shortcomings -- their own cowardice. No wonder they look at Bill Clinton without judgment. To hold him accountable would mean holding themselves to a standard of accountability. They like looking up to see a leader who is every bit as dysfunctional, soulless and lost as themselves. It's comforting, in a perverse way. And psychic and material comfort is the only standard by which Americans today measure their lives, their liberty and their pursuit of happiness. It's not an easy observation or admission to make, my fellow Americans. But somebody has to say it. A daily radio broadcast adaptation of Joseph Farah's commentaries can be heard at http://www.ktkz.com/

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DoD on Crypto, Echelon, Secrets
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

We attended Defense Secretary Cohen's talk today at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York City on "Security in a Grave World." While not included in the prepared text, Secretary Cohen remarked in the Q&A on terrorism and encryption policy that Americans will have to decide how much privacy they will be willing to give up for protection against terrorism, and cited the FBI's similar views on the threat of encryption use by terrorists. Afterwards I had an informative chat with Kenneth Bacon, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs, to ask about interviewing Secretary Cohen on Echelon, the global electronic intercept and surveillance system operated by the National Security Agency. Mr. Bacon said the Department will not comment on such matters. I acknowledged that was the case heretofore, but with intense European interest in Echelon, I asked if would it be possible for Secretary Cohen to give a statement on the topic. I noted that Secretary Cohen in his talk today had listed international cooperation as a principal need of US defense policy, and that Echelon had raised considerable suspicion of US interception and surveillance prowess which could inhibit international trust and cooperation. I also asked Mr. Bacon if Secretary Cohen could discuss as well the possibility of further declassification of secret technology, as with the Skipjack encryption algorithm, to enhance US economic security and for protection against information espionage. Mr. Bacon said that others in the Department would be more appropriate to discuss such topics in detail then Secretary Cohen. I asked if anyone except the Secretary had authority to discuss Echelon and declassification of secret technology. Mr. Bacon would not answer that but suggested I send a letter proposing such topics for discussion and the Department will respond.

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The DES Analytic Crack Project
by Eric Cordian 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

As some of you may have noticed, a new attempt to crack the Data Encryption Standard has been started, with a descriptive FAQ located at the following URL http://www.cyberspace.org/~enoch/crakfaq.html A while back, after the first DES challenge was announced, a number of us made the observation that a known plaintext attack on DES, expressed as a system of a few thousand boolean variables with constraints in 3-conjunctive normal form, was not too far from the size and complexity of problems that could be directly solved by bleeding edge combinatorial algorithms, albeit with signficant CPU and memory consumption. We thought this would be an interesting result, and generated a number of problems of various numbers of DES rounds based on the DES Challenge data, and some not particularly optimized S-Box representations, and set about the task of solving them, smaller problems first. We wrote a lot of code, learned a lot about arbitrary systems of boolean variables, and after breaking 2-round and 4-round problems, the first almost instantly, and the second with very reasonable amounts of resources, set about the task of seeing if we could break the higher round problems, and immortalize ourselves by beating DESCHALL to the key. To our very great regret, we did not manage to do this, and once the $10k prize was claimed, we figured the game was over and returned to working on other things. We still thought DES was a problem of approximately the right size to demonstrate the existence of an analytical solution which would beat a well-tuned exhaustive search on a problem of practical interest. Since that time, DES has been broken twice more by exhaustive search, once by distributed.net, and again by a hardware DES cracking machine designed by Net legend John Gilmore and the EFF for a non-trivial amount of money. Remarkably, although most agree DES is dead for new applications, with Moore's Law and additional hardware crackers being possible today for much less than the cost of the prototype, it still seems to enjoy a reputation amongst the public as a cipher that takes 20,000 pentiums running for half a month or a hardware box with $100k of chips running for several days to break, neither of which seems to have thrown the Fear of God into its current users, most notably the Banking Industry. With other analytic attacks like differential and linear cryptanalysis being really practical only for reduced round DES, and all current high-profile cracks on production ciphers employing key trial, the press has latched onto keysize as a synonym for strength, and has made numerous statements which have reinforced this questionable paradigm in the minds of the public. We have therefore been taking another look at our idea of a combinatorial crack of DES, and decided that even with DES having been cracked three times by key trial, it is definitely a project worth doing. This time, rather than working frantically in an unsuccessful attempt to beat other teams on a public challenge, we wish to finish up our original efforts, and repeat the three cracks previously done, this time using our algorithms, and distribute working code continuously as the project progresses, to sponsors who have donated some money to defray our costs. This will offer people the opportunity to participate vicariously in a fun project which has the potential to be a genuine paradigm shift in the way the world thinks about codebreaking. Sometimes, promising areas of research are not followed because of knowlege of some well-known result which suggests that such exploration will be unfruitful. Years ago, for instance, suggestions that programs could be checked by software for proper behavior, and run without using protected memory regions, were usually met with snide comments about the "computer halting problem" and various adjunct results. Today, there are many variants of "safe execution" technology, from prove and carry schemes, to Java bytecode, with a sound theoretical basis behind them. None of these is a violation of the "computer halting problem" results, of course. Similarly, after a large burst of activity decades ago, which resulted in the notion of NP-Completeness, and various results in computational complexity theory, suggestions that an analytic solution exists for some large combinatorial problem of practical interest conjure up visions of exponential resource utilization, speaker cluenessless, and the lack of progress on NP=P. For this reason, we feel this project is definitely a Schnelling Point. If it works, even badly, people will begin to look at lots of problems in ways they would not have considered before, and much new code which improves upon what we have done will be created. This will be an irreversible change in the Order of Things. In the several days since we put up our FAQ, we have gotten quite a few comments, and some concerns. The comments have mostly been along the lines that it is an interesting, even intriguing project. The concerns are generally that we will experience an unexpected "combinatoric explosion" in the higher round problems, and that no one in their right mind would send money to a nym, because it might just vanish and be used by the nym to live in perpetual ecstasy in some place warm and tropical, without the possiblility of the nym being sued for fraud. We hope the close coupling between the sponsors and the project members will eliminate this latter concern, with weekly progress reports and working code being distributed to permit the sponsors to reproduce our results as they occur. If three people are willing to sponsor and give us the go-ahead to begin, without wanting their money back if other sponsors do not join, we can probably get through the minimal S-Box representations and their proof-of-correctness as well as some cleaned up code for the 2-round problem. Hopefully we will then have a reputation with these people which will encourage others to join in the effort. Clearly, we're after speculative capital, rather than widow and orphan money, and hope a few of the wealthy older retired (and perhaps even crusty) engineer types might find this a productive thing to support. After all, if you've just blown $220,000 on a DES Cracker, making it $220,500 and getting your very own Schnelling Point in return is probably a reasonable amount of fun for your money. I'll stop ranting now. :) -- Sponsor the DES Analytic Crack Project http://www.cyberspace.org/~enoch/crakfaq.html

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Globalisation: Demise of the Australian nation
by Scott Balson 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

New book: 'GLOBALISATION: DEMISE OF THE AUSTRALIAN NATION'. This is Graham Strachan's follow-up to his controversial sellout success, 'Economic Rationalism: a Disaster for Australia'. (See articles at: <A href="http://www.gwb.com.au/gwb/news/economic">http://www.gwb.com.au/gwb/news/economic) We recommend it to those who are concerned about where Australia will be, and has been going under the Laboral factions (Labor and Coalition parties) for the last 20 PLUS years. Globalisation is no longer a conspiracy theory: it is official Government (and Opposition) policy! The only secret now is just what 'globalisation' means.According to the power elites it involves 'trade liberalisation' and that's it. In fact it goes far beyond that, and includes political and social globalisation as well. This book explains how it is all being engineered behind a screen of lies and half truths by dishonest politicians, corrupt media, and treacherous elites in business, government bureaucracies, academia and the churches, with the aid of false economic and social theories. While it concentrates on economic deceit, this book goes on to uncover the complete globalisation programme. The real nature of Globalism might surprise you!At $15 plus $2.50 postage (with discounts on both book and postage for larger orders) every Australian must read this book. Ordering details at Graham's website: <A href="http://www.overflow.net.au/~bizbrief">http://www.overflow.net.au/~bizbrief. GWB Scott Balson Pauline Hanson's One Nation webmaster

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READ THE FULL EXPLICIT CONTENTS OF THE STARR REPORT TODAY/PLUS CLINTON'S REBUTTAL!
by STUFFED NEWS DAILY 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Fwd: WHITE HOUSE MULLS NEW INTERNET TAX PROPOSAL from edupage
by Bill Stewart 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded from Dave Farber's List ----------------------------------- I think the something at the WH has pushed them off the edge. How much you want to bet that it gives a lot more information than just the item costs. It will be used to police obscenity laws and censorship laws before it is done. Dave Ira Magaziner, President Clinton's senior Internet advisor, has proposed a new plan for tracking and taxing goods sold over the Internet that would use electronic "resident cards" and private-sector escrow agents around the world. Consumers would obtain digital cash at banks that would allow merchants to identify which country the buyer is in, but would reveal no other personal information. Consumption taxes would then be calculated, collected, and placed with an escrow agent who would then funnel the money to the appropriate government. "Governments would get their money more quickly... they would get a higher compliance rate... and the system would be easier to police," says Mr. Magaziner. (Wall Street Journal 11 Sep 98) ================================== Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, bill.stewart(a)pobox.com PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639

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Starr report zipped and prepared for offline reading somewhere?
by tom＠cat.ping.de 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

You are all writing about Clinton and Monica et al. Dunno what this does here but anyway, let me add to the noise: Is it possible to download the Starr report somewhere, zipped and prepared for offline reading?

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CTIA Daily News from WOW-COM - September 14, 1998
by CTIA Daily News 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

========================================== Welcome to today's edition of the CTIA Daily News from WOW-COM. Please click on the icon / attachment for the most important news in wireless communications today. Your company just formed a partnership in a country you never heard of. Are you worried about international roaming fraud? You should be. CTIA's Wireless Security '98 - It's Just Smart Business. Orlando, Florida · November 9 - 11, 1998 http://www.wow-com.com/professional Team WOW-COM wowcom(a)ctia.org ===========================================

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Re: Joe Farah 9/14 (Pppbbbttt)
by Richard.Bragg＠ssa.co.uk 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>>Almost 60 percent of those polled said they thought Clinton was fit to be >>president. By what standard? That's the trouble. Americans have no >>standards -- no unchangeable yardsticks by which they measure right and >>wrong, truth from fiction. >By *their* standard, by their own personal judgement. There's no moral >yardstick, and God help us if there is in the future. Who makes the >yardstick? Who sits down and says, "This is the moral standard in this >country, abide by it or suffer the consequences"? Sorry but there are absolutes and there is a moral yardstick. Whether this is accepted or not is beside the point. There has to be absolutes otherwise any action can be excused (or damned). The real cry should be "God help us to instigate Your yardstick". God doesn't change and neither does His measure. 1)Love the Lord, with all your heart, with all you soul with all your mind and all your strength 2)Love you neibour as yourself. Everything else hangs on these.

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IP: Critics Pick Apart Study on Internet and Depression
by Robert Hettinga 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

--- begin forwarded text Delivered-To: ignition-point(a)majordomo.pobox.com X-Sender: believer(a)telepath.com Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1998 21:18:32 -0500 To: believer(a)telepath.com From: believer(a)telepath.com Subject: IP: Critics Pick Apart Study on Internet and Depression Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-ignition-point(a)majordomo.pobox.com Precedence: list Reply-To: believer(a)telepath.com Source: New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/98/09/biztech/articles/14digicom.html September 14, 1998 TECHNOLOGY COLUMN Critics Pick Apart Study on Internet and Depression By DENISE CARUSO Robert Kraut, co-author of a new study linking depression with Internet use, sounded a bit depressed himself last week. "I thought I was finished with this," Kraut, a professor of social psychology and human-computer interaction at Carnegie Mellon University, said with a sigh. He was alluding to the flood of attention -- and criticism -- that his study, titled "Home Net," had received since it was published two weeks ago. Starting in 1995, "Home Net" researchers gave PCs and free Internet accounts to 169 people in 73 families in the Pittsburgh area. After monitoring their online behavior, in some cases for more than two years, the researchers concluded that spending time on the Internet was associated with statistically significant increases in depression and loneliness. Critics assert that the study has fatal flaws that neutralize its findings and that they are appalled at the authors' far-reaching conclusions about the impact the findings might have on Internet policy and technology development. Donna Hoffman, a Vanderbilt University professor and outspoken critic of Internet research design, was unequivocal about the "Home Net" study. "Speaking as an editor, if this had crossed my desk, I would have rejected it," said Ms. Hoffman, who edits the journal Marketing Science. "The mistakes are so bad that they render the results fairly close to meaningless." Among those mistakes, she said, were the absence of two standard safeguards: a control group and random selection of subjects. "With 'Home Net,' we don't know for sure what led to their results," Ms. Hoffman said of the lack of a control group, "because we don't know what happened to people who weren't using the Internet." In addition, the study recruited people from high schools and community service organizations, instead of selecting people randomly from a large area. Random selection is crucial to building a truly representative sample of a population -- in this case, residents of the United States. The study found that one hour a week online led to small but measurable increases in depression and loneliness and loss of friendships. While those measurements might well be statistically significant, critics assert that without a random sample, they are meaningless outside the group that was studied. "The assertions have no statistical relevance to any population of Internet users beyond those in the study population -- even in principle," declared Charles Brownstein, a former director at the National Science Foundation, now an executive director at the Corporation for National Research Initiatives in Reston, Va. Although research studies do not always have to use control groups or randomly chosen participants to be valid, Ms. Hoffman said, those safeguards become imperative "when you're doing a study that claims causal relationships and that these relationships hold in the larger population." The "Home Net" team clearly made such claims. For example, the news release stated that "Carnegie Mellon Study Reveals Negative Potential of Heavy Internet Use on Emotional Well Being," and even suggested that parents move PCs out of teen-agers' bedrooms and into shared family rooms. Kraut was quoted extensively in the release, with such statements as, "We were surprised to find that what is a social technology has such anti-social consequences." Also: "Our results have clear implications for further research on personal Internet use. As we understand the reasons for the declines in social involvement, there will be implications for social policies and for the design of Internet technology." Last week, Kraut wearily defended his study. "In 1995, we did start with a control group, but it was very hard to keep it, with little in the way of incentives for them to continue to fill out questionnaires," he said. "And we couldn't use a random sample because of the nature of the study's design -- we wanted to be able to include groups who already had social connections with each other so we could observe some shifting, if it was going to occur, between existing social relationships." And despite criticism of the researchers' methods, he said that the study was widely applicable. "We have changes big enough that they aren't likely to have occurred on the basis of chance," Kraut said. "There is something here to explain." But critics like Ms. Hoffman look askance at such results, given her experience debunking other Internet studies, including one from Neilsen Media Research in which she participated in 1996 and another in 1995 in which Marty Rimm, a graduate student in Carnegie Mellon's College of Engineering, published a study purporting to show that the Internet was overrun with pornography. The impact of Rimm's study, though based on false premises and quickly discredited, was profound. The resulting furor in the media and in Congress helped bring about the Communications Decency Act, which the Supreme Court ruled was a violation of the First Amendment. Critics fear that the "Home Net" study might end up having a similar effect. "It's easy to imagine the results of this study being used to influence policy decisions about Internet access, especially in controversial funding decisions for schools and libraries," Ms. Hoffman said. But in the end, Ms. Hoffman said, protecting the Internet itself is not the point. "We're trying to protect the standard of research," she said. "This isn't obscure ivory-tower stuff that never sees the light of day. It has an impact on people's lives. If we're going to the trouble to study the Internet, at least we should make sure we're doing it right." Copyright 1998 The New York Times Company ----------------------- NOTE: In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, this material is distributed without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving this information for non-profit research and educational purposes only. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ----------------------- ********************************************** To subscribe or unsubscribe, email: majordomo(a)majordomo.pobox.com with the message: (un)subscribe ignition-point email@address ********************************************** www.telepath.com/believer ********************************************** --- end forwarded text ----------------- Robert A. Hettinga <mailto: rah(a)philodox.com> Philodox Financial Technology Evangelism <http://www.philodox.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'

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Re: Larry Gilbert, AOLers, and the Hyper-real flamer
by AIMSX＠aol.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Obviously you have a very high opinion of yourself and a low opinion of people who use AOL. Contrary to popular belief, there are a few intelligent people on AOL, but it looks as if you are too egotistical to realize that. Have you ever thought to look at your own mistakes before you publicize everyone else's to the world? Are you just suffering from some sort of dillusion of grandeur - thinking you are better than everyone else. Things like this are what many wars were started over, I am so happy the internet (hopefully) won't start a war in the real world.

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Harald Fragner
by sixdegrees 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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IP: VP GORE'S CHINA SCANDAL
by Robert Hettinga 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

--- begin forwarded text Delivered-To: ignition-point(a)majordomo.pobox.com Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1998 05:33:46 -0400 (EDT) To: ignition-point(a)majordomo.pobox.com From: softwar(a)us.net (CharlesSmith) Subject: IP: VP GORE'S CHINA SCANDAL Sender: owner-ignition-point(a)majordomo.pobox.com Precedence: list Reply-To: softwar(a)us.net (CharlesSmith) http://www.worldnetdaily.com According to Chinese General Sun Tzu "All war is based on deception." Tzu wrote those words over 2,000 years ago and his first rule of war still applies today. For example, a hidden November 1994 letter written by DNC donor Sanford Robertson to President Clinton that clearly details the sale of Commerce trade trips for campaign donations. Robertson was so bold as to include a telling "P.S." where he notes for Clinton that "Bob Rubin" turned out the "Silicon Valley" at a Robertson sponsored fundraiser that took in "$100,000" for California Senator Feinstein. Of course, neither Robertson nor current Treasury Secretary Rubin expected that letter to be revealed. In November 1995, Vice President Gore called Sanford Robertson from the White House and asked for a $100,000 donation. In January 1996 Robertson obliged and kicked in $80,000 soft and $20,000 in so-called "hard" donations to the Clinton/Gore campaign. The fact that Gore made the call from inside the White House is the least of his legal problems. In 1993 Clinton named Gore to head U.S. export policy for encryption technology in a TOP SECRET order written by National Security advisor Anthony Lake. A 1996 secret memo on a secret meeting of DCIA Deutch, FBI Director Freeh and Attorney General Janet Reno states "The Vice President chairs the senior group that set the Administration's encryption policy; since Februarcy 1994 it has been supported by a working group co-chaired by NSC, and OMB, composed of NSA, CIA, FBI, State, Commerce (BXA, NIST), and Justice." In 1995 Sanford Robertson also had a big financial interest in the U.S. computer security industry. Robertson's investment firm had hundreds of millions of dollars tied up in a Massachusetts based computer company named Security Dynamics Inc. (SDI). Thus, in 1995 Gore had direct control of policy that also affected Robertson financially. Security Dynamics was able to import computer security hardware manufactured in China. SDI secured Hong Kong electronics maker RJP Industries to produce electronic computer security cards for sale in America. The Chinese manufactured cards are sold to major defense contractors, medical institutions and the U.S. government. Hong Kong millionaire Raymond Hung also owns RJP. Hung manufactured the security cards in two factories leased directly from the China National Electronics Import/Export Company (CNEIEC), a business owned by the People's Liberation Army. Thus, the computer security cards imported and sold here in the U.S. were built on a Chinese Army assembly line. Hung also owned a U.S. based company called Quorum International that went bankrupt in 1996. The company left millions in bad debt in Arizona and California. Yet, Hung was able to donate over a million dollars to the Special Olympics, donate a temple to communist China, and have his photo taken with Arnold Schwarzenegger all only days before declaring bankruptcy. Hung is also reported to have set up dozens of shell "front companies" offshore. These companies allegedly sell cheap Chinese products imported by Hung who declares bankruptcy, citing Chinese taxes on the imports. Hung, of course, splits the "taxes" with the Chinese government, and returns to America to purchase hard assets such as real estate. Despite all this Hung remains un-investigated by the Clinton administration. Hung's close working relationship with China and the Clinton administration raises another question... Could there be a "secret" back door embedded in imported hardware or software, waiting like a TROJAN HORSE, brought safely inside the secure walls by a paying customer? Could a hidden SNIFFER be hunting down passwords, code keys and sensitive data? "Absolutely," stated Info-warfare expert Winn Schwartau. "I call it 'pro-active' defense - you'll find it referenced in my original book (Information Warfare)." "Chips are made of silicon," explained Schwartau. "If you buy hardware the only way to tell exactly how it works is with a destructive test. You tear the chip apart, layer by layer. This is not only difficult but expensive. Can it happen? Just look at the multitude of hardware and software products maintained outside of the United States. How many of them are 'proprietary' designs that have never been viewed inside the U.S.?" "It is possible," agreed Forrest Mimms, a leader in the U.S. electronics engineering and well-known author. Mimms is best known to electronics hobbyists worldwide for his series of books that populate Radio Shack. "I would not be surprised to find a back door put in by the Chinese government," stated Mimms. "Go to Wal-Mart and you'll find hundreds of commercial electronics products made by Chinese government factories. In fact, I would not be surprised to find a back door put in by an independent [rouge or criminal] operation." "Yes. It is always possible to slip a Trojan horse into cryptography products, both hardware and software," stated Bruce Schneier, President of Counterpane Systems and author of the best selling book on computer security APPLIED CRYPTOGRAPHY. "Unless the user takes the time to reverse-engineer the product - - much easier to do in software than in hardware - - he is essentially trusting that the manufacturer is behaving honestly," stated Schneier. "The NSA has been rumored to have convinced several cryptography hardware companies world-wide to install Trojan horses that effectively 'leak' secrets as the hardware is used." The Chinese Army, Sanford Robertson, Al Gore and Ron Brown shared an interest in computer security technology. California based RSA Inc. is the only U.S. company that has ever been able to secure any export deal on encryption with China. Documentation held by the Commerce Department and taken by former DNC fundraiser Ira Sockowitz shows that RSA was able to obtain a trade deal with the Chinese government through a Commerce sponsored trade conference to Beijing in October 1995. In fact, both the Chairman of RSA, Jim Bidzos, and Ron Brown met in October of 1995 with Madam Wu Yi, head of China's MOFTEC (Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation). Al Gore also had previous legal contact with RSA Inc. in 1994. According RSA CEO James Bidzos, in March 1994 Gore sent government lawyers to RSA in a failed effort to purchase patents on encryption technology held by his company. Curiously, the envoy Gore selected to send was John Huang's boss, Commerce Counsel Ginger Lew. Even more curious is the fact that Lew claimed to know nothing about encryption in her deposition for Judicial Watch. Her lack of computer security knowledge is puzzling because Lew also possessed a 1994 document detailing penetrations of U.S. government computers using "back-door" and "SNIFFER" programs installed by unknown hackers. The document was returned in response to a Freedom of Information Request. Ms. Lew currently works at the Small Business Administration and has refused my request for an interview. In February 1996, only days after Robertson had kicked in his $100,000 to the Clinton/Gore campaign, RSA announced the China encryption export deal. In April 1996, Robertson's Security Dynamics Inc. bought RSA for $296 million above the stock value. Robertson's investment firm was paid $2 million just to write the merger document. Thus, Robertson financially benefited from the same company that Gore had previously engaged in secret government negotiations. Robertson gained $2 million for a $100,000 investment in less than 90 days. How deeply involved was Robertson with party officials? Perhaps, the real question is which party? Democrat or Communist? In an April 1994 letter Robertson reminded Brown of scheduled money-raising events for the DNC and of his efforts for DNC candidates. "P.S." Robertson wrote to Brown. "It has been fund raising season out here for the Senate and we've had events at our home for Feinstein, Lieberman, and Cooper. I wish you were still head of the DNC for the December elections, but you are obviously doing a great job at Commerce." In the same letter Robertson also noted his influence in the Chinese communist party. In April 1994 Robertson informed Brown of his successful effort to hire the son of a major Chinese Communist leader. "We have recently hired Bo Feng the son of Feng Zhijun the vice chairman of the China Democratic League and a member of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress." On August 18, 1998 this author filed suit in Federal Court against the Clinton administration for illegally withholding documents. The documents in question were discovered at the Commerce Department in response to a Freedom of Information Request on Loral CEO Bernard Schwartz and DNC donor Sanford Robertson. At first, the Commerce Department refused to release the "22" documents because they were being withheld by unspecified "other agencies" for "consultation". On May 18, 1998 the Commerce Department released one of the 22 documents. The single document returned was the bio of W. Bowman Cutter, Deputy Assistant to the President for Economic Policy, written by the White House. "Bo" Cutter, "Bob" Rubin, Al Gore and Ron Brown were all tasked to encryption export policy in the 1993 Top Secret order from Bill Clinton written by Tony Lake. Bo, Bob, Al and Ron were part of the encryption task force detailed in the 1996 CIA/FBI/DOJ meeting. "Bo" Cutter's boss, now Treasury Secretary "Bob" Rubin, raised the 1994 $100,000 from Sanford Robertson while working inside the White House - just like Al Gore in 1995. All of these fine gentlemen were also making secret export policy... including Sanford Robertson. In addition, according to the Commerce Department FOIA officer, the remaining 21 documents were being withheld by the White House. However, the White House is NOT an agency. My source on this legal "Catch-22" is the White House legal counsel for Vice President Al Gore. In response to a 1997 FOIA request Vice President Gore's Deputy Counsel Elizabeth Brown wrote "Please be advised that FOIA applies to only records maintained by 'agencies' with in the Executive Branch. The Office of the President and the Vice President ... are not 'agencies' for the purposes of this law. Therefore, your request must be denied." The Clinton administration caved instead of facing embarrassment in court. The remaining documents withheld by the White House have been released. Both Bernard Schwartz and Sanford Robertson were given the detailed dossiers of the Chinese leadership from President Jiang Zemin, and MOFTEC's Madam Wu Yi - down to the local communist mayor of Shanghi. The new documents include information on such communist officials as Hu Qili - Minister of Electronics Industry - a former radical Red Guard member of the Chinese Youth movement. According to the hidden documents, Qili argues "that military electronics are a key technology necessary for winning modern warfare." According to Sun Tzu, all war is based on deception. War, according to Von Clausewitz, is also merely an extension of politics. The war of Clinton deception continues to this day. The administration and its agencies are continuing to withhold documents from this author, the House National Security Committee, and the House Government Oversight Committee. The White House is engaged in a cover-up of illegal activities. Evidence hidden in a deliberate and planned scheme to conceal crimes by officials currently in power. ============================================================== source documents * = new - Robertson letters to Brown & Clinton http://www.softwar.net/rscot.html <--- text version http://www.softwar.net/rsco.html <--- jpeg version - SECRET 1993 order on encryption by Anthony Lake http://www.softwar.net/not4u2c.html - Secret 1996 DCIA Deutch/FBI Freeh /AG Reno meeting http://www.softwar.net/docciat.html <--- text version http://www.softwar.net/doccia.html <--- jpeg version - * Snips from the SEC - official RSA/SDI merger document RJP, China, MFN treaty & $2,000,000 payment to Robertson & Stephens for writing merger document. http://www.softwar.net/sdi.html - * Raymond Hung with Arnie, wife with $1,000,000 check, wife with Shriver, temple donated to PRC and article ref. http://www.softwar.net/quorum.html - Interview of RSA CEO James Bidzos http://www.softwar.net/bidzos.html - * Documents held by Ginger Lew on back-doors and sniffers http://www.softwar.net/lew.html - * Documents on encryption written by Al Gore & 1997 FOIA rejection by Gore's legal counsel http://www.softwar.net/al2000.html http://www.softwar.net/gore.html http://www.softwar.net/vp.html - * Ron at CHINA WORLD - Oct. 1995 JCCT meeting with Wu Yi http://www.softwar.net/ron.html - * White House Bio of "Bo" Cutter http://www.softwar.net/boknows.html - * snips from White House documents & SOFTWAR action, bios of Jiang Zemin, Wu Yi, Hu Qili, and Huang Ju (mayor of Shanghi) http://www.softwar.net/white.html ================================================================ 1 if by land, 2 if by sea. Paul Revere - encryption 1775 Charles R. Smith SOFTWAR http://www.softwar.net softwar(a)softwar.net Pcyphered SIGNATURE: 5A7061066259AAE7F805238B655FF97BB1EAE42FB1C6F167AFD9964D21E2BD4A BABA05AC8A30EFA7B576D199F6F01DEA3460074026CD09F27A36919487341214 57401400416BC39E ================================================================ SOFTWAR EMAIL NEWSLETTER 09/15/1998 *** to unsubscribe reply with "unsubscribe" as subject *** ================================================================ ********************************************** To subscribe or unsubscribe, email: majordomo(a)majordomo.pobox.com with the message: (un)subscribe ignition-point email@address ********************************************** www.telepath.com/believer ********************************************** --- end forwarded text ----------------- Robert A. Hettinga <mailto: rah(a)philodox.com> Philodox Financial Technology Evangelism <http://www.philodox.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'

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RE: Predictions: Crime and Criminal Justice in the 21st Century
by Brown, R Ken 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> nnburk[SMTP:nnburk@cobain.HDC.NET] posted 10 predictions about life in the USA for the next 10 or 15 years. They are, of course, nothing but descriptions of what's been going on for the last 30-40 years. This isn't prediction, it's extrapolation! As so often the people will always win when playing "cheat the prophet". Whatever really happens next year the chances are it won't be exactly the same as what happened last year. Ken

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Request to DoD for InfoSec
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

To: kbacon(a)pagate.pa.osd.mil From: jya(a)pipeline.com Date: Tues 15 September 1998, 09:51 AM Subject: Interview Request Kenneth H. Bacon Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs OASD (PA) 1400 Defense Pentagon Washington D.C. 20301-1400 Dear Mr. Bacon, Three points of Secretary Cohen's informative talk[*] at the Council on Foreign Relations last evening would benefit by amplification, and I ask your assistance in arranging an interview with the Secretary to focus on the Department's policy on information security technology. 1. The first concerns his view on the interdependency of military and economic affairs for assurance of national security. 1.1 What does he see as the prospect for further declassification of restricted defense technology for use by industry for protection of information against economic espionage, as exemplified in the declassification of the Skipjack encryption algorithm. 1.2 And what other services and/or technology the defense supply and intelligence agencies may provide non-governmental customers in competition with other nations where closer cooperation between such agencies and industry is more common. 2. The second concerns the need for international cooperation for US defense policy and how that is impacted by publicity and criticism of the Echelon electronic intercept program and other national technical means not customarily discussed in public by the Department. 2.1 What are Secretary Cohen's views of programs such as Echelon political and international trust issues and what he is his view of European calls for investigation of Echelon. 2.2 What are Secretary Cohen's views as a constructive response to charges that Echelon and other national technical means are offensive military and economic espionage against those from whom the US desires defense cooperation. 3. In the Q&A on the topic of terrorism and encryption, Secretary Cohen remarked that the American people will have to decide how much privacy they are willing to give up in order to be protected from terrorist threats. 3.1 What are the Secretary's views on how disputes on encryption policy could be resolved in light of his calls for closer connection between military and economic interests and for international cooperation for defense policy. Your office has always been exemplary in responding to requests for information. Thank you very much. Sincerely, John Young JYA/Urban Deadline 251 West 89th Street, Suite 6E New York, NY 10024 E-mail: jya(a)pipeline.com Tel: 212-873-8700 Fax: 212-799-4003 * See: http://jya.com/dod091498.htm

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Re: The DES Analytic Crack Project
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Eric Michael Cordian, emc(a)wire.insync.net, writes: > The concerns are generally that > we will experience an unexpected "combinatoric explosion" in the > higher round problems Unexpected by you, perhaps, but expected by everyone else. The complexity of the expressions should increase exponentially with the number of rounds. Extrapolating from two and four round results to eight and sixteen is the wrong model. (You can artificially suppress this by introducing new variables for each round, but that doesn't change the underlying complexity of the problem.) Can't you come up with a back-of-the-envelope estimate for the number of terms in your sixteen round expression? Even without fully optimized S-box expressions this information would be useful. If it is greater than the number of atoms on Earth then it would be a strong hint that this approach won't work. If you really want to attract money you need some kind of numbers to show that the approach has a prayer of working. Show the size of the problem you will get, estimate how much improvement you'll get with your improved S-box representations, compare it with the problems tackled by available combinatorial algorithms. You should be able to do this with a few hours of work, at least to show that the basic concept is sound (or unsound).

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Re: Zipped Starr Report
by Terry Leininger 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>You are all writing about Clinton and Monica et al. Dunno what this does here >but anyway, let me add to the noise: >Is it possible to download the Starr report somewhere, zipped and prepared for >offline reading? Try http://www.angelfire.com/wa/starreport/home.html Couldn't help it...

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IP: INS Offers Biometric System for Frequent Flyers
by Robert Hettinga 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

--- begin forwarded text Delivered-To: ignition-point(a)majordomo.pobox.com X-Sender: believer(a)telepath.com Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1998 09:18:32 -0500 To: believer(a)telepath.com From: believer(a)telepath.com Subject: IP: INS Offers Biometric System for Frequent Flyers Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-ignition-point(a)majordomo.pobox.com Precedence: list Reply-To: believer(a)telepath.com Source: Wired http://www.wired.com/news/news/technology/story/15014.html US Takes Immigration in Hand by Theta Pavis 4:00am15.Sep.98.PDT It's been 44 years since Ellis Island closed shop, but immigration can still be a long, tiresome process. In an effort to speed the process for international travelers, the US Immigration and Naturalization Service is offering a biometric system for willing frequent flyers. So far, 71,000 people in six airports have signed up for the system, called INSPASS. It employs a biometric kiosk to scan and match the geometric dimensions of travelers' hands, verify their identities, and perform standard background checks. The INS plans to expand the program to four additional airports by the end of the year. "It creates a fast lane for people," said James Wayman, head of the federally funded National Biometric Test Center at San Jose State University. The kiosks were integrated by EDS, which has had a US$300 million contract with the INS for automation support and software development since 1994. This summer, the INS awarded a new, five-year information-technology contract worth $750 million to EDS and four other companies. Ann Cohen, an EDS vice president in the government services group, said the fact that so many people have signed up for the INSPASS system shows that biometrics are becoming more popular and could be commonplace in the future. "Were getting over that 'Big Brother' hurdle," Cohen said. As e-commerce develops and terrorism grows, biometrics increasingly are the "only sure way to get security." US and Canadian citizens flying overseas on business at least three times a year are eligible for the free INSPASS program. People from Bermuda and 26 other countries that have visa-waiver agreements with the United States are also eligible. The INSPASS kiosks, which look like ATM machines, were recently installed at the Los Angeles International Airport, where more than 1,000 people have enrolled in the program. Rico Cabrera, a spokesman with the INS Los Angeles regional office, said travelers like the fact that INSPASS can check their identity in 16 to 60 seconds, a process that can take up to three hours at some airports. The largest group of INSPASS users at LAX are US citizens, followed by Australians and New Zealanders. After filling out a one-page form and passing a background check, travelers can be issued a Port Pass card with their picture and a 12-number ID on it. A traveler inserts the card in the kiosk, which reads the ID number and links to a centralized database run by US Customs. A geometric hand template is called up from the database and transferred to the kiosk. After a green light flashes, the right hand is placed on a reflective surface -- the ID-3D Handkey, made by Recognition Systems. The HandKey uses a video camera to take a geometric image of the traveler's hand and fingers, and the data is converted using compression algorithms. If it matches the template of the hand stored in the database, the traveler is in. INSPASS kiosks are also in use at airports in Newark, Miami, Kennedy (New York), Pearson (Toronto), and Vancouver, British Columbia. The INS eventually plans to install them at most busy international airports around the country, including Washington, San Francisco, Seattle, and Honolulu. The department has geared the program toward business travelers, diplomats, airline personnel, and other "low-risk" visitors. Some argue that the INS hasn't done enough to market the program. Jeffrey Betts, WorldWide Solution Manager for IBM -- which has developed FastGate, a kiosk similar to INSPASS -- said people aren't enrolling fast enough in the INS system. International arrivals at airports across the globe are growing every year by 7 to 10 percent, Betts said, but border control resources are flat or declining. In 1996, some 65,000 people were enrolled in the INSPASS program, but the program has added just 6,000 new users since then. IBM, which has been running a small pilot program of FastGate in Bermuda for the past year, is building a system where people can swipe a credit card through a kiosk at the airport and connect with a database where the biometrics are stored. "Governments will have to find ways to do more with less or force travelers to queue like cattle," Betts said. While the government plans on marketing INSPASS more aggressively in the future, Schmidt said, INS is counting on word of mouth to get new people enrolled. "We don't really have the budget for a huge marketing campaign," she said. ----------------------- NOTE: In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, this material is distributed without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving this information for non-profit research and educational purposes only. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ----------------------- ********************************************** To subscribe or unsubscribe, email: majordomo(a)majordomo.pobox.com with the message: (un)subscribe ignition-point email@address ********************************************** www.telepath.com/believer ********************************************** --- end forwarded text ----------------- Robert A. Hettinga <mailto: rah(a)philodox.com> Philodox Financial Technology Evangelism <http://www.philodox.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'

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17 Dec '03

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