December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

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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by CTIA Daily News 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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No Subject
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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CHRYSLER AWARD NOMINATION STATEMENT
by bill payne 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

CHRYSLER AWARD NOMINATION STATEMENT American forefathers drafted the Constitution and laws of our country shortly after having suffered injustice. Fresh in their minds were strategies used by their oppressors. Writers of the Constitution and laws anticipated ways subvert our system. Therefore, our forefathers designed safeguards into our legal system to prevent future injustice. But these safeguards DONT appear to be working today. Morales and Payne designed a strategy using the National Security Agency [NSA], Sandia National Laboratories, the US Federal Court System, and publication on Internet to illustrate how the US government system has deteriorated. Arthur Morales WAS a supervisor at Sandia Labs in 1991. Morales and Manuel Garcia organized a class action lawsuit on behalf of minority and women against Sandia. Sandia settled Morales and Garcias lawsuit. Department of Energy acknowledged from Freedom of Information Act [FOIA] requests that as of December 31, 1995 Morales cost Sandia $567,137 in legal fees. Sandia retaliated against Morales. Morales sued Sandia in New Mexico District Court. Morales lost William Payne wrote a technical report describing deficiencies NSAs cryptographic algorithms http://jya.com/da/whpda.htm. Sandia transferred Payne to break electronics locks for the Federal Bureau of Invesitgation [FBI]. Payne refused to do illegal work. http://www.jya.com/whp1.htm. Payne sued Sandia in Federal Court. Payne lost and court records were sealed. FBI agent Bernardo Perez led a class action lawsuit against the FBI for race discrimination against Hispanic FBI agents. http://www.usdoj.gov/osg/1995/w951482w.txt Perez won. Perez was assigned agent-in-charge of the FBI in Albuquerque for settlement. But Perez lost money. Morales and Payne learned that the FBI extorted an inexpensive from Perez by telling Perez that the FBI was GUARANTEED to win on appeal in Federal Circuit. With Perez and others knowledge of circuit courts, Morales and Payne appealed their respective cases pro se to the Tenth Circuit. In Paynes case Sandia failed to submit its Brief of the Appellees on time. Then falsified its certificate of service when Payne filed to remand. In Morales case Sandia submitted a deficient Brief of the Appellees which was returned, missed the filing date, and failed to serve Morales with its late brief. Payne and Morales both won at the Tenth Circuit. But judges awarded the wins to Sandia. All attempts by Morales and Payne to get copies of the docket for their respective Tenth Circuit cases failed. Therefore, Morales and Payne hatched a plan to get the dockets and expose government misconduct. Payne previously made FOIA requests to NSA for copies of messages and translations given to Iraq during the Iraq/Iran war, copies of Libyan messages intercepted by NSA, and NSA cryptographic algorithms Payne thought contained deficiencies. Morales and Payne sued NSA pro se for the documents. Lawsuit progress was broadcast on Internet through e-mail and http://www.aci.net/kalliste/speccoll.htm http://jya.com/whpfiles.htm And Payne wrote Black and White Test of Cryptographic Algorithms criticizing the US governments crypto contest. http://zolatimes.com. Morales and Payne FINALLY got copies of dockets from their respective cases from the Tenth Circuit using Internet as a an innovative tool. 9/15/98 10:39 AM John Young J Orlin Grabbe Zola and OTHERS 495 words counted by MS Word. Please e-mail any editing improvements to John Young. I will meet Morales for lunch. Then phone John Young. Thanks in advance. bill

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No Subject
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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No Subject
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Mersienne crack busted...
by Robert Hettinga 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Somebody evidently installed the Mersienne(sp?) prime search client on 2000+ AT&T machines. The local talk station news has a report that they have just been apprehended and will be prosecuted for it. Interesting times, indeed... Cheers, Bob Hettinga ----------------- 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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No Subject
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Re: The DES Analytic Crack Project
by jimg＠mentat.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

nobody said: > > 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. ... > > 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. In the early 1980's I started trying this approach. I did the back-of-the-envelope estimate and realized it was too big, but I thought it worth trying, since if there were a back door in DES it might manifest itself by a massive collapse in the complexity of these expressions. I didn't get far enough into it to decide one way or the other, since I didn't have a good tool for reducing the expressions to minimal form. Jim Gillogly

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Re: Harald Fragner
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Of course I have issues! That felcher Harald Fragner led me to believe that through him, he would get me hooked up with Monica Lewinsky through this six degrees thing! I hear she really loves to party with the geek-set! That mother humper actually made me send him a check in exchange for her private info, after which he takes me out of his contact info! I tell you what, it's monkey spankers like Harald Fragner that make this six degrees service a real sham. These toe fungus kissers need to be taken out of six degrees! I'm going to contact my congressman and tell him to watch out for the likes of a camel snot taster like Harald Fragner, if that's even his real name. And I'm telling him to watch out for you guys too! You just watch it, you gerbil tubers! You cheese whiz fondlers! You purveyors of cottage cheese and farm animals! The government knows what you're up to! Sincerely, Joe Cypherpunk, dissatisfied customer at large At 09:49 AM 9/15/98 -0500, sixdegrees wrote: >Just a quick update from sixdegrees(tm). Unfortunately Harald >Fragner (harald(a)fragner.net) 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. >==================================================================== > > >E.DB.BRESP.3 >

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Anon traffic via SSZ
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1998 19:07:24 +0200 > From: Anonymous <nobody(a)replay.com> > > There seems to be a problem posting anonymous messages to cypherpunks(a)ssz.com. I have posted several messages over the past week and *none* of them have showed up. > > I am posting this as a test message. I am sending it to the following addresses: > > cypherpunks(a)toad.com > cypherpunks(a)ssz.com > cypherpunks(a)algebra.com > cypherpunks(a)cyberpass.net > > I will add the server name to the subject line for each post to test which messages are being delivered and which are not. > > I AM TOTOCUS!! Nothing on this end filters unless it comes from/to: cypherpunks-unedited(a)toad.com mosexpo.ru fw9.telekom.edu any.where.com I filter these because the dumbshit's at mosexpo.ru keep sending messages with munged headers that fill up postmaser's mailbox with delivery failure messages. I got tired of using the 'd' key. But even in this case, I only filter *after* I've forwarded the traffic to the other nodes. The only other quirk I'm aware of regarding anon posts are ones without subjects, in which case I get a notice that the Japanese node is dropping it because it doesn't have headers. This should come as no surprise as I've made mention several times on this issue. ____________________________________________________________________ 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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First Century Church
by jmessenger＠30337.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Hello. Jim and I received your name from a list given to us by a friend who indicated that you may be interested in a unique Christian site in Jerusalem (the Holy Land): http://jcr.org The Jerusalem Christian Review is Jerusalem's leading Christian newspaper, and reports discoveries in the Holy Land which have direct implications on our understanding of the Bible. Their reports are well documented with pictures and the participation of world-famous Bible scholars in Jerusalem. Some of these discoveries include: - A First Century Jerusalem Tomb with an inscribed dedication to "Jesus, who Ascended", dating to before the New Testament was written! - A First Century Amulet found in the Holy Land which seem to depict come of the Miracles of Jesus! -- The recently found Palace of King David, including an exclusive interview with the Hebrew University archaeologist who discovered it. - A burial cave in Nazareth with the personal testimonials of the very first Christians of Galilee. - Answers to the Mystery of Calvary. Scholars Find Stunning Evidence of Jesus' Crucifixion at Golgotha! Although we are not personally connected to this ministry, we were so impressed with the impact of the information at this site that we felt it was our duty to help spread the word. It has helped us so much in our own walk with the Lord and with evangelism! We ask you to forward copies of this letter to all of your friends, so that they can be informed of the dynamic way God is reaching back through history and revealing Himself so dramatically to the world today! Take a look for yourself. Again, the WWW address in Jerusalem is: http://jcr.org Yours in His service, Jim and Barbara Randolph P. S.: We are attaching here part of a statement of mission taken from the web site of the Jerusalem Christian Review, which is exciting!! -------------------------------------------------------------- Special Request: PLEASE HELP SHARE THIS IMPORTANT EVIDENCE BY COPYING THIS MESSAGE AND SENDING IT TO YOUR FAMILY AND FRIENDS. THANK YOU. _______________________________ *********************************************** >From the Editor: >From the Past to the Present... The Jerusalem Christian Review , a newspaper with a mission. The very first Christians in the world were those who witnessed first hand the Ministry, Words and deeds of Jesus of Nazareth. They had a very unique opportunity - the opportunity to personally ask Him questions, interact with Him and see for themselves the culmination of His life on earth. While these first witnesses can no longer testify to the events of the past, their inscribed testimonials, some of which were buried for two-thousand years, are only today being discovered and deciphered in the Holy Land. In recent years, unprecedented archaeological study and biblical research has literally brought to life the very pages of the Bible. Scholars in the Holy Land have unearthed startling discoveries which reveal, in more clarity than ever in history, the world of the very first followers of Jesus. Today, one can physically walk in the footsteps of His disciples and first apostles, sit in the very places where they were judged, witness the spectacular nature of the cities they lived in and read the inscriptions they left behind. A cave found years ago by the renown French archaeologist, Charles Clarmont-Ganneau, near ancient Bethany, exposed a first century tomb which included three ossuaries (stone coffins) inscribed with the symbol of the cross and the Hebrew names of Lazarus, Martha and Mary (John 11:1,2). In a nearby tomb, a monogrammed dedication written only a few years after Jesus' crucifixion, also accompanied by a cross mark, was deciphered by Prof. J. Finegan of the Pacific School of Religion, Berkeley, to read: "Jesus Christ, the Redeemer." At the southern edge of the Kidron Valley, the "Valley of Judgement" in Jerusalem, the Hebrew University archaeologist, Prof. Eleazar L. Sukenik, discovered a first century ossuary with cross marks and a testimonial reading: "[To] Jesus, the Lord." (For more information, please see the Jerusalem Christian Review, Internet Edition, at http://jcr.org. Indeed, one cannot escape the inevitable conclusion that God is, today, using the Holy Land and the accelerated study of archaeology to substantiate the biblical narrative and to present a very modern message to today's world. The Jerusalem Christian Review, Jerusalem's leading Christian newspaper, invites you to join with us in prayer that, through the information contained in these pages, many might come to the realization that the Lord's Word is true. We invite you to take this opportunity to use the evidence being presented in this edition, and in future editions, to be good stewards of this message from the Holy Land - to tell your family and friends of these testimonials, which carry from the past a very modern message to the present and for the future. *********************************************** You can access the Jerusalem Christian Review in Jerusalem at: http://jcr.org We ask you to help share the Word by passing this email message to your family and friends. Thank you. This email message has bee sent by S.P.Fox at the request of the Randolfs who wish to say thanks to friends and loved ones without whose advise and expertise, this mailing would not be possible. I can be reached c/o 230 West Hall Avenue, PO Box 202 Slidell, LA 70460 This is a first time and one time mailing from me, but if you wish, you can be removed from my mailing list by sending an email with the word Remove in the subject to: no_no_thank(a)mailexcite.com

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CHRYSLER AWARD NOMINATION STATEMENT 9/15/98 12:30 PM
by bill payne 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Tuesday 9/15/98 12:39 PM e-mail Ms Vikki Hardy Chrysler Award for Innovative Design c/o Bozell Advertising 1000 Town Center, 15th Floor Southfield, MI 48075-1241 248 262 8643 vhardy(a)detroit.bozell.com We are sending our submission by 1 e-mail 2 hardcopy 3 diskette with .htm and .txt files by priority certified mail. Best bill CHRYSLER AWARD NOMINATION STATEMENT 9/15/98 12:30 PM American forefathers drafted the Constitution and laws of our country shortly after having suffered injustice. Fresh in their minds were strategies used by their oppressors. Writers of the Constitution and laws anticipated ways to subvert our system. Therefore, our forefathers designed safeguards into our legal system to prevent future injustice. But these safeguards DONT appear to be working today. Morales and Payne designed a strategy using the National Security Agency [NSA], Sandia National Laboratories, the US Federal Court System, and publication on Internet to illustrate how the US government has deteriorated. Arthur Morales WAS a supervisor at Sandia Labs in 1991. Morales and Manuel Garcia organized a class action lawsuit on behalf of Hispanics against Sandia. Sandia settled Morales and Garcias lawsuit. Department of Energy acknowledged from Freedom of Information Act [FOIA] requests that as of December 31, 1995 Morales cost Sandia $567,137 in legal fees. Sandia retaliated against Morales. Morales sued Sandia in New Mexico District Court. Morales lost. William Payne wrote a technical report describing deficiencies NSAs cryptographic algorithms http://jya.com/da/whpda.htm. Sandia transferred Payne to break electronics locks for the Federal Bureau of Invesitgation [FBI]. Payne refused to do illegal work. http://www.jya.com/whp1.htm. Payne sued Sandia in Federal Court. Payne lost and court records were sealed. FBI agent Bernardo Perez led a class action lawsuit against the FBI for race discrimination against Hispanic FBI agents. http://www.usdoj.gov/osg/1995/w951482w.txt Perez won. Perez was assigned agent-in-charge of the FBI in Albuquerque for settlement. But Perez lost money. Morales and Payne learned that the FBI extorted an inexpensive from Perez by telling Perez that the FBI was GUARANTEED to win on appeal in Federal Circuit. With Perez and others knowledge of circuit courts, Morales and Payne appealed their respective cases pro se to the Tenth Circuit. In Paynes case Sandia failed to submit its Brief of the Appellees on time. Then falsified its certificate of service when Payne filed to remand. In Morales case Sandia submitted a deficient Brief of the Appellees which was returned but failed to serve Morales with its brief. Payne and Morales both won at the Tenth Circuit on technicalities. But judges awarded the wins to Sandia. All attempts by Morales and Payne to get copies of the docket for their respective Tenth Circuit cases failed. Therefore, Morales and Payne hatched a plan to get the dockets and expose government misconduct. Payne previously made FOIA requests to NSA for copies of messages and translations given to Iraq during the Iraq/Iran war, copies of Libyan messages intercepted by NSA, and NSA cryptographic algorithms Payne thought contained deficiencies. Morales and Payne sued NSA pro se for the documents. Lawsuit progress was broadcast on Internet through e-mail and http://www.aci.net/kalliste/speccoll.htm http://jya.com/whpfiles.htm And Payne wrote Black and White Test of Cryptographic Algorithms criticizing the US governments crypto contest. http://zolatimes.com. Morales and Payne FINALLY got copies of dockets from their respective cases from the Tenth Circuit using Internet as an innovative tool.

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No Subject
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Nothing on this end filters unless it comes from/to: cypherpunks-unedited(a)toad.com mosexpo.ru fw9.telekom.edu any.where.com I filter these because the dumbshit's at mosexpo.ru keep sending messages with munged headers that fill up postmaser's mailbox with delivery failure messages. I got tired of using the 'd' key. But even in this case, I only filter *after* I've forwarded the traffic to the other nodes. The only other quirk I'm aware of regarding anon posts are ones without subjects, in which case I get a notice that the Japanese node is dropping it because it doesn't have headers. This should come as no surprise as I've made mention several times on this issue. ----- The post I made earlier went through without a problem, but as I mentioned in my original post I had made several anon posts through replay.com to cypherpunks(a)ssz.com and they never made it to the list. I also noticed that replay.com seems to be striping the subject from the posts as in my last post I *did* put a subject line on the message but it arrived to the list without one. In the messages I sent, a couple of them I used a chain of remailers but when they failed to appear I sent the remaining messages through replay.com only (using the https interface to send the messages). It may have just been a problem on replay's end but on all the posts I did get a conformation page that the messages had been accepted. Odd. I AM TOTOCUS!!!

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Crypto in a Cuban Crime...
by Robert Hettinga 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 12:18 PM -0400 on 9/15/98, Charles Smith of Win Schwartau's FUDFactory wrote something mildly clueful: > BUSTED CUBAN SPIES USE CRYPTO > ----------------------------- > FBI officials are proud that they broke up a small ring of Cuban > spies in Florida. The Cuban espionage agents are accused of > using encryption to encode messages and protect information. > Expect Director Freeh to use this bust as one of a hand full > historical examples of "crypto" crimes in his next Congressional > testimony. According to his last testimony in August 1998, only > 17 crimes over the past 10 years have been made more difficult > for the FBI by encryption. > > What the FBI Director won't tell you is that the Cubans have > been sending enciphered messages to their U.N. mission in New > York over SHORT-WAVE RADIO for almost 30 years. The Morse code > signals are encrypted with a Cuban one-time-pad cipher and > transmitted from Havana on a nightly basis. The Cuban encrypted > transmissions are so regular - some HAM radio operators set > their clocks by it. ----------------- 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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Forwarded mail...
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1998 21:14:19 +0200 > From: Anonymous <nobody(a)replay.com> > The post I made earlier went through without a problem, but as I mentioned in my original post I had made several anon posts through replay.com to cypherpunks(a)ssz.com and they never made it to the list. > > I also noticed that replay.com seems to be striping the subject from the posts as in my last post I *did* put a subject line on the message but it arrived to the list without one. > > In the messages I sent, a couple of them I used a chain of remailers but when they failed to appear I sent the remaining messages through replay.com only (using the https interface to send the messages). > > It may have just been a problem on replay's end but on all the posts I did get a conformation page that the messages had been accepted. > > Odd. > > I AM TOTOCUS!!! > Sounds to me like you need to be talking to replay. ____________________________________________________________________ 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: radio net
by Brian B. Riley 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On 9/6/98 6:20 PM, Steve Schear (schear(a)lvcm.com) passed this wisdom: >> Spread spectrum would have more promise as many stations could be on the >>air at once on the same frequency thus making life quite confusing for >>the T-hunters. > >I investigated this application several years back and see two practical >approaches: one adapt a commercial SSB or Ham transciever to use frequency >hopping spread spectrum, or two build a pirate spread spectrum satellite >ground station. > >Until recently most SSB gear didn't have the RF characteristics to use FH. >Now there are a number of inexpensive sets which use direct frequency >synthesis (as opposed to the older, and much slower, phase-locked loop >approach) and can be driven at hundreds or even thousands of hops per >second. FH helps solve two problems: first it provides privacy, second it >can mitigate or eliminate fading (which is highly time-frequency >correlated). Also, the higher the hop rate, the higher the process gain, >jam resistance and the lower the probablity of intecept (all other things >being equal). > >It think it was Phil Karn (Qualcomm) who once mused that it would be rather >straightforward to masquarade a high process gain SS signal on a commercial >satellite transponder. To it's owners the SS signal would be almost >invisible, making itself known as only a very slight depression in the >transponder's gain. Effectively, this could offer an inexpensive covert >channel for tunneling packets and thwarting traffic analysis. > >After the Captain Midnight episode I discussed this possibility with a very >technically knowledgeable staffer at the FCC and was assured that discovery >of such signals were beyond (at that time) the ability of commercial and >national technical (e.g., Lacrosse) means. I would suppose the T-hunt aspects of a clandestine network would be obviated by piggybacking it into a commercial satellite transponder channels ... which brings to mind about how expensive one or two of those channeles might be. I remeber in the early days of ham packet radio we had several 'wormholes' where hams had obtained through their places of employemnt temporary use of unused satellite channels where we were given essentially RS232 access and we adapted the packet switches to an async backchannel in place of another synch RF path. They did make for some intersting network improvements. I guess it always comes down to how do you fund such things. Brian B. Riley --> http://members.macconnect.com/~brianbr For PGP Keys <mailto:brianbr@together.net?subject=Get%20PGP%20Key> "Success always occurs in private, and failure in full view." -- from somewhere on the Net

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

17 Dec '03

this news group is a lot like the Jerry Springer show. Mike > From: AIMSX(a)aol.com > Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1998 08:06:33 EDT > To: nobody(a)replay.com, cypherpunks(a)toad.com > Mime-Version: 1.0 > Subject: Re: Larry Gilbert, AOLers, and the Hyper-real flamer > Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit > > 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. > ################################################################# # # # Michael Branch, UwD Customer Support Engr. # # (303) 464-4637 (UNIX witch doctor) # # Michael.Branch(a)central.sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. # # # # "I turn big problems into little problems." # # # #################################################################

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IP: Working Photonic Lattice, A Dream For A Decade, Fabricated At Sandia
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 16:16:20 -0500 To: believer(a)telepath.com From: believer(a)telepath.com Subject: IP: Working Photonic Lattice, A Dream For A Decade, Fabricated At Sandia Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-ignition-point(a)majordomo.pobox.com Precedence: list Reply-To: believer(a)telepath.com Source: EurekAlert! http://www.eurekalert.org/releases/snl-wpladfad.html For Immediate Release: 15 September 1998 Contact: Neal Singer nsinger(a)sandia.gov (505) 845-7078 Sandia National Laboratories Working Photonic Lattice, A Dream For A Decade, Fabricated At Sandia: Lincoln Log-Like Structure To Improve Infrared And Optical Communications, Optical Computers ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- By interlocking tiny slivers of silicon into a lattice that, under a microscope, appears to be formed by toy Lincoln logs, scientists at the Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories believe they have solved a major technical problem: how to bend light easily and cheaply without leaking it, no matter how many twists or turns are needed for optical communications or (potentially) optical computers. The lattice, dubbed a photonic crystal (crystals have regularly repeating internal structures), now works in the infrared range (approximately 10-micron wavelengths). This achievement is of military and commercial interest because the technique can be used to enhance or better transmit infrared images. Sandia researchers Shawn Lin and Jim Fleming now are preparing a 1.5 micron crystal -- the region in which almost all the world?s optically transmitted information is passed. The improvement -- which bends far more light in far less space at considerably less cost than current commercial methods -- will make possible tinier, cheaper, more effective waveguides to combine or separate optical frequencies at the beginning or end of information transmissions. It will find wide application in data transmission and in more compact and efficient sensors. (See "Technique Perfected...." backgrounder that follows.) Pierre Villeneuve, a research scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), says, "With the structure [Sandia researcher] Shawn [Lin] is using now, he'll be able to hit the 1.5 micron mark within the next 12 months. This shows how 'key' this work is: He's using a technique that lends itself to hitting the mark." A venture capitalist requesting anonymity has approached the researchers to commercialize the process. The achievement, for which Sandia has applied for a patent, was reported in the July 16 issue of the journal Nature. The structure, in the regularity and spacing of its parts, is mirrorlike in not permitting light of a particular frequency, caught within the cavity of the structure, to escape. Instead, light must follow along any twists or turns designed into the log structure. By designing the distance between logs carefully, a chosen wavelength is reflected instead of passing out of the space, as longer or shorter wavelengths can. With introduction of an impurity like air or much thicker polysilicon "logs" to provide routes for preselected wavelengths introduced into the crystal, light travels along the impurity as it twists or bends. No matter how sharp the turns, light of frequency roughly in the middle of the band gap cannot escape. Funding for the project was provided by Sandia's Laboratory-Directed Research and Development office, which funds speculative, defense-related research, and by the DOE. A Photonic Band Gap What's "cool," in the eyes of some observers, is that Sandia researchers Lin and Fleming have created the equivalent of a photonic "band gap" that forbids certain frequencies of light from exiting the lattice. ("Band Gap" is a term usually applied to electrons, not photons, and signifies a range of energies in which electrons are absent because their presence would contradict quantum mechanical laws.) The nearly leak-proof lattices form a cage that trap and guide approximately 95 percent of the light sent within them, as compared with approximately 30 percent for conventional waveguides, and they take only one-tenth to one-fifth the space to bend the light. (The Sandia photonic lattice's turning radius is currently in the one-wavelength range, rather than the traditional waveguide bend of more than 10 wavelengths.) Standard, integrated-circuit manufacturing technology used to fabricate micromachines -- machines nearly too small to see -- at Sandia's Microelctronics Development Laboratory can create tens of thousands of waveguides from a single, 6-inch silicon wafer. This is a factor 10 to 100 times more dense than can be fabricated using more expensive gallium arsenide with current commercial technology. Potential uses: low-energy lasers, photonic computers, communications Because little light is lost in the three-dimensional mirroring that sends light back at itself, a new type of microlaser requiring little start-up energy is theoretically achievable. (Most conventional lasers require large jolts of energy to begin operating because so much light is lost in the lasing start-up process.) The achievement also brings nearer the day when computers that transmit information using photons rather than electrons become a practical reality. Currently, desktop computers use electrons to pass information, but as more circuits are included on new chips, they become more difficult to cool. Photons, the stuff of light, are faster and cooler than electrons. The problem is that no one has been able to bend useful frequencies of light around tight corners (as navigated by electrons through a million turns on a computer chip the size of a postage stamp) without incurring large losses in information; with previously used techniques, light leaks, and badly, the more tightly it is turned. One principle of optical communications is that differing frequencies of light are bent by different amounts. Waveguides first combine the frequencies of a number of information streams -- for example, telephone calls -- by bending them into the combined "white" light passing through an optical cable; then other waveguides separate the light into component frequencies by bending it at the end of its journey. Photonic Band Gap Crystals -- A History The idea of a "photonic band gap structure" was first advanced in 1987 by Eli Yablonovitch, now a professor at the University of California at Los Angeles. In 1990, he built the first photonic crystal, baseball-sized to channel microwaves useful in antennae applications. In the mid 1990s, scientists at Ames Laboratory in Iowa built crystals the size of ping pong balls, also for microwaves. The components were of a size that could be put together by hand, using straight metal pins (of the type that hold new shirts in place). The size reduction for current structures is a striking achievement that researchers have been attempting to achieve for a decade, says Del Owyoung, Sandia manager for the project. The difference in frequency is comparable to moving from masers to lasers, he said ? from microwaves to optical waves. According to Rama Biswa, a researcher at Ames Lab, "We had built the same structure [as Sandia has] ourselves, but more than 100 times larger, in the microwave frequency range. I think it is quite remarkable that Shawn Lin's group could do it at these wavelengths in the infrared and at this size." Villeneuve, who has theorized about uses for photonic crystals for much of the 1990s in a group led by MIT professor J. D. Joannopoulos, praised the Sandia group for "showing that what we're doing is valid," he says. "[People would say,] 'It's wonderful that you're coming out with all these great devices [that make use of photonic crystals], but your building block doesn't even exist!'" That is no longer the case. Sandia is a multiprogram DOE laboratory, operated by a subsidiary of Lockheed Martin Corp. With main facilities in Albuquerque, N.M., and Livermore, Calif., Sandia has major research and development responsibilities in national security, energy, and environmental technologies. ### BACKGROUND: Technique Perfected In Building Surface-Etched Micromachines Shawn Lin and Jim Fleming achieved the desired crystalline spacing using techniques perfected in building surface-etched micromachines, at which Sandia is a world leader. Gears that spin require spaces between parts; specifically, a silicon base is covered with an expendable coating in which a part can be etched, and then the expendable portion is removed by chemical and mechanical means, leaving the gear or axle unencumbered by surrounding material and thus able to spin freely [www.mdl.sandia.gov/micromachines] Using a variant on the same technique, Fleming made an artificial crystal lattice. He took a silicon wafer, coated it with silicon dioxide, cut trenches into the silicon dioxide and then bathed the chip in polysilicon till it filled the trenches. Then he polished the surface until smooth and bathed the chip in another layer of silicon dioxide, into which he cut the same number of trenches as before, but so they lay across the trenches beneath them at right angles, and then filled these trenches with polysilicon. After repeating this process a number of time, Jim removed the silicon dioxide, using hydrofluoric acid, and got "micron layers of Lincoln logs, orthogonal to each other, and joined where they touch." Center to center, the polysilicon logs were 1.2 microns wide, 1.5 microns high, with a pitch of 4.8 microns -- child's play to achieve in the world of silicon micromachines. The proportions were identical to that specified by Ames Laboratory and Iowa State researchers as those necessary to make the photonic equivalent of an electronic band gap. Media Contact: Neal Singer nsinger(a)sandia.gov (505) 845-7078 Technical Contact : Shawn Lin slin(a)sandia.gov (505) 844-8097 Jim Fleming fleminjg(a)sandia.gov (505) 844-9158 Del Owyoung aowyoun(a)sandia.gov (505) 884-5481 ----------------------- 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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Hello
by Christopher Barkley 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

You listed me in Six Degrees as your fellow alum, but I'm afraid I can't place you. So, who are you? Cheers, Christopher

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CNN - Investigators find "assassination" page on the Web - September 15, 1998 (fwd)
by Alan Olsen 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9809/15/internet.hit.list.ap/index.html I remember when this page was posted. It was INCREDIBLY obvious it was bogus. either the feds involved are incredibly clueless or they are just trying to make an example of anyone implementing anything close to an AP server. They are afraid. They are very afraid. alan(a)ctrl-alt-del.com | Note to AOL users: for a quick shortcut to reply Alan Olsen | to my mail, just hit the ctrl, alt and del keys.

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

17 Dec '03

Actually.. I am getting a SunOS Shell account this weekend. AOL has improved service somewhat, and it is now possible to use Netscape (or any other browser) along with it. I also have over 100 accounts on a local ISP - so trust me... it's not that big of a deal for me to get another ISP, I just like some of the keywords and a few other areas. As for your thought that it is a CHOICE for everyone... well, I am sorry to say it is not. My parent would rather use the [semi]- user-friendly software of AOL, which she is familiar with, than have a dialup access with browsers and other utilities in different areas she can't find as easily. (I know, it sounds stupid.) I was finally able to convince her to pay for a shell account, promising her I would teach her how to use it. As for me paying it... I just became old enough to work (finally) about a month ago, and I am only making minimum wage, and the hours are not good enough for me to be able to keep up my hobbies of paintball, computer upgrades, and Internet alone. Therefore... she pays for it, I wash dishes... So anyway... before I get too sidetracked, I am just saying... I am finally getting a shell account, and not all AOLers are stupid warez lovers that don't know cu from cd. I would also like to add - I wasn't even talking about AOL service (although I agree it is really crappy - but a tad better than it used to be) I was just talking about the insults to all AOL user's Intelligence. I am sure there are morons on other ISP's, they are just more visible on AOL.

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Re: Hello
by XxGaLxX 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

your worst nightmare =) ---------- > From: Christopher Barkley <christopher.barkley(a)srcm.com> > To: cypherpunks(a)toad.com > Subject: Hello > Date: Tuesday, September 15, 1998 5:14 PM > > You listed me in Six Degrees as your fellow alum, but I'm afraid I can't > place you. So, who are you? > > Cheers, > Christopher

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Re: Hello
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I found your name on a kiddy porn site. At first I was disgusted, and immediately called the FBI. But then I got kind of turned on by the whole idea, and decided that maybe we could get together and have hot sex, and you could wear a wig with pigtails, and it would be just like we were screwing children, just like I know you love to do. Then maybe we could switch roles. So anyway, let me know if you're interested. But also, expect the FBI to be calling on you in the near future, pervert! Tah tah lovey, Joe C. At 06:14 PM 9/15/98 -0400, Christopher Barkley wrote: >You listed me in Six Degrees as your fellow alum, but I'm afraid I can't >place you. So, who are you? > >Cheers, >Christopher >

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Voices
by Edwin E. Smith 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 One of the things I like about the internet, especially email, is that my voice and the voices of others are leveled. My voice can reach a multitude of people at least intelligent enough to get on the internet. But better than that is my ability to receive the other voices is enhanced much more. I can hear what a lot of people hear without their voices being filtered by the likes of Dan Rather, Tom Brokay and the rest of the Liberal broadcast media. It fact is is mostly just limited to what I choose to listen to. I also get to talk back to people with whom I disagree. I listen to their responses and sometimes modify my thinking. I also get affirmation of what I do believe from people of a like mind. Occasionally I am surprised to find others who are different but also intelligent and very persuasive in their convictions. I revel in this controversy and learn much from it. I confess that sometimes I troll for flames to get the dialog going. If you have something to say, say it! Even the words of the clueless are sometimes enlightening. To all of you who are offended by what you read or have been attacked and shirk away I say, stick around, learn and grow. The words which come to you can not hurt you if you don't let them. If you are to timid to endure a few flames then woe be unto you if anyone comes at you with actual violence on his mind. Edwin E. Smith -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP for Personal Privacy 5.0 Charset: noconv iQA/AwUBNf7zq0mNf6b56PAtEQLR+wCfQ7iXzmj5Gz9gtO09/0ogVzrpfawAoJUP 8qZqYluPFxHRt+srCM3vgXNd =e9r4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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CNN - Investigators find "assassination" page on the Web - September 15, 1998 (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 06:53:53 -0700 (PDT) > From: Alan Olsen <alan(a)clueserver.org> > Subject: CNN - Investigators find "assassination" page on the Web - September 15, 1998 (fwd) > http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9809/15/internet.hit.list.ap/index.html How come only the IRS is listed as related web sites?... ____________________________________________________________________ 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: Voices
by AIMSX＠aol.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Preach on brother =)

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Fwd: I don't care if this is real or not! But forwarding is not hard for me if I help
by Chiu Ngan 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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But forwarding is not hard for me if I help >Content-Type: text/plain >Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1998 05:55:15 PDT > > >>Received: from 202.184.46.2 by www.hotmail.com with HTTP; >> Tue, 15 Sep 1998 01:39:48 PDT >>X-Originating-IP: [202.184.46.2] >>From: "san san" <seliness(a)hotmail.com> >>To: alanling(a)usa.net, calviny(a)mol.net.my, chowpin(a)edb.gov.sg, >chan911(a)pc.jaring.my, gary_wang(a)hotmail.com, junifer(a)pl.jaring.my, >karren(a)deakin.edu.au, klay(a)okstate.edu, lkhoong(a)pc.jaring.my, >mcch(a)hotmail.com, murphy_l(a)hotmail.com, simfong(a)pl.jaring.my, >stchai(a)pl.jaring.my, mote(a)hotmail.com, tlliew(a)tm.net.my, >wthong(a)pl.jaring.my, dodwellleung(a)hotmail.com >>Subject: Fwd: This is serious PLEEEEEEASE PLEASE DON'T DELETE!!!!! >>Content-Type: text/plain >>Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1998 01:39:48 PDT >> >> >>>Received: from 202.188.25.160 by www.hotmail.com with HTTP; >>> Mon, 14 Sep 1998 06:27:23 PDT >>>X-Originating-IP: [202.188.25.160] >>>From: "Lim Huey" <shaohuey(a)hotmail.com> >>>To: alexlimyk(a)hotmail.com, audrey.looi(a)mailexcite.com, >>kianwah19(a)hotmail.com, enyen(a)hotmail.com, s9812221(a)unitele.com.my, >>rckj(a)hotmail.com, seliness(a)hotmail.com, stanchow(a)tm.net.my, >>bhchua7(a)hotmail.com, csheng(a)rocketmail.com, yoongyow(a)hotmail.com, >>ching20(a)hotmail.com, lphoo(a)hotmail.com, ken_thong(a)rocketmail.com, >>twinsck(a)hotmail.com, poaysun(a)yahoo.com, mda97mk(a)sheffield.ac.uk, >>yongqiang13(a)hotmail.com, sammy_lee_79(a)hotmail.com, >>tungweileong(a)hotmail.com, lifesignx(a)yahoo.com, elim331(a)yahoo.com, >>lwloh(a)hotmail.com, audrey.looi(a)mailcity.com, sokyee(a)pc.jaring.my, >>kah_kit(a)hotmail.com, siewgar(a)hotmail.com, chiane(a)mailcity.com, >>Vvpenguin(a)hotmail.com, pkleong(a)hotmail.com, phangf(a)hotmail.com, >>rolandhii(a)hotmail.com, stjdanzel(a)hotmail.com, leesiehui(a)hotmail.com, >>jeennwei(a)hotmail.com, chouyong(a)hotmail.com, ttc1979(a)yahoo.com, >>guatyen(a)hotmail.com, chonkit(a)hotmail.com, thongyp(a)hotmail.com, >>soonfung(a)hotmail.com, tsueyyin(a)hotmail.com, feiyy(a)hotmail.com >>>Subject: Fwd: This is serious PLEEEEEEASE PLEASE DON'T DELETE!!!!! >>>Content-Type: text/plain >>>Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1998 06:27:23 PDT >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>>Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1998 04:25:43 -0700 (PDT) >>>>From: CHEW JUNN WENG <jwchew(a)rocketmail.com> >>>>Subject: This is serious PLEEEEEEASE PLEASE DON'T DELETE!!!!! >>>>To: lmoonc(a)hotmail.com, pvcheo(a)essex.ac.uk, cwnsim(a)essex.ac.uk, >>>> yoongyow(a)hotmail.com, lenelene(a)hotmail.com, gcping38(a)mailcity.com, >>>> gthong(a)rocketmail.com, ching20(a)hotmail.com, lcchuan(a)rocketmail.com, >>>> moon(a)tm.net.my, shaohuey(a)hotmail.com, janelsl(a)tm.net.my, >>>> csheng(a)rocketmail.com, hwooi(a)yahoo.com, dianacn(a)hotmail.com, >>>> stjdanzel(a)hotmail.com, effyjungle(a)hotmail.com, >bus_tard(a)hotmail.com, >>>> lphoo(a)hotmail.com, yakasaki(a)hotmail.com, colint79(a)hotmail.com >>>>Cc: anniesia(a)hotmail.com, pearlng(a)hotmail.com, liangser(a)hotmail.com, >>>> choopar(a)hotmail.com >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>Hello, my name is David "Darren" Bucklew. 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Re: Hello
by HyperReal-Anon 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On Tue, 15 Sep 1998, Christopher Barkley <christopher.barkley(a)srcm.com> wrote: > > You listed me in Six Degrees as your fellow alum, but I'm afraid I can't > place you. So, who are you? > > Cheers, > Christopher Hi! I found you on a gay sex site. Boy, do you have a little one, dude. But I was thinking maybe we could get together and get some drinks and dinner, maybe take in a XXX movie, and then go at it with these five other guys I found. We can take films and give them to the web site owners at Six Degrees. They tell me they pay really good for it. They pay extra for S&M-bondage-anal films. We can split it and hired a few hundred male prostitutes and have the biggest orgy in history. I wanna like get your boss in on it too.....nothing like a master-slave relationship to make your heart skip a few beats. Purrrrrrrrrrrr. You guys must have a real good time in the office. Feel free to post this on the bulletin board and all. Since you mailed me I feel compelled to give a big steamy hunk like you all my special offers and anyBODY who works with you is probably just as much of a beefcake. Make sure you wear lots of black leather. I'll bring the whip. Ta ta, you big luscious hunk you! Love, Fudgepacker Supreme

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MASS EMAIL WORKS!!
by bluesky17＠mailexcite.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Re: Voices
by AIMSX＠aol.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I read that book

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Christopher Barkley
by sixdegrees 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Just a quick update from sixdegrees(tm). Unfortunately Christopher Barkley (barkley(a)cirr.com) asked not to be listed as your contact with sixdegrees. The good news is that since you have other confirmed contacts, you'll still be able to have a productive sixdegrees experience. But, if you want to continue to increase your networking power, you may want to head over to http://www.sixdegrees.com , log-in and go to MY CONTACTS and list additional contacts. ==================================================================== 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. ==================================================================== E.DB.BRESP.2

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Regards
by Christopher Barkley 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Apparently, I just spammed your list a couple of days ago; my apologies. Some zithead listed your email address in the Six Degrees networking service and starting asking people to be his contacts. One can only hope his fate is neither swift nor pretty. (I bear some of the blame; I should have recognized the email address since I have several friends on the list.) At any rate, my thanks to Tom Perry for his polite explanation of the situation. As for the REST of you who responded, you have my sympathies. With any luck, they'll get that thorazine prescription refilled soon. Cheerio, Christopher

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FWD: Clinton administration will ease grip on crypto exports
by anon＠zd.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

This message was forwarded to you from ZDNet (http://www.zdnet.com) by anon(a)zd.com. Comment from sender: The dance of the seven regs continues..... --------------------------------------------------------------------- This article is from ZDNN (http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/) Visit this page on the Web at: http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/zdnn_smgraph_display/0,4436,2138029,00.ht… --------------------------------------------------------------------- [IMAGE] By Will Rodger, Inter@ctive Week Online September 15, 1998 5:39 PM PT The Clinton Administration is expected to relax export controls on data scrambling equipment Wednesday, preparing the ground for yet another round of debate over current encryption policy. According to Administration sources, the White House will loosen its grip on the technology in several areas central to the five-year argument over the issue. Among other things, the new policy will relax controls for sales to specific industries, including e-commerce, medicine and insurance The liberalization will fall far short of what Administration critics wanted. Even so, many crypto advocates expressed hope their position will continue to gain ground. "It's not as far along as my bill would go, but it's a significant improvement on our current policy," said Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., a sponsor of encryption liberalization legislation in the House and one of several key Democrats briefed on the issue on the last two days. "It will still give us something to argue about next year." [TABLE NOT SHOWN] Electronic encryption, or the process of scrambling information so that only its intended recipient can read it, is widely believed to be the sine qua non of secure commerce and personal information on an insecure Internet. To date, however, Federal policy has required stringent licensing of encryption technology that uses digital codes, or "keys," longer than 40 bits in length. Law enforcement has insisted on that restriction so that the encoding technology cannot be used to thwart surveillance techniques used in investigations. Current exceptions will expand Under an exception granted in December 1996, however, the government has allowed exports of equipment whose keys are as long as 56 bits, or roughly 64,000 times more powerful than 40-bit products. That exception was granted companies that committed to develop technologies to give law enforcement "lawful access" to messages encrypted with their products through various back doors built into them. Notably free from those restrictions have been foreign financial institutions, which in most cases have been able to buy U.S.-made encryption software of unlimited strength since last year. That exception will be broadened under the new policy, sources said. Now, insurance companies, handlers of medical records and companies that use specialized transaction software to do business over the Internet will be able to buy American encryption software after a one-time review of their purchase plans by the U.S. Commerce Department. In addition, administration sources confirmed Tuesday evening, the government will no longer require prior approval of "key recovery" agents, who hold spare keys to encoded messages for law enforcement. Some 45 nations, including Russia, China, Venezuela and Mexico, will likely be ineligible for the relief control as long as the U.S. government believes they harbor money-laundering operations, however. Finally, administration sources said, any U.S. company will be able to export powerful encryption technology to its own subsidiaries as long as it does not share the technology with non-US companies. Playing catch-up As before, public interest groups said they believe the new policy does not go far enough. Since Vice President Al Gore promised relief for medical records, e-commerce and financial institutions some two years ago, critics said the policy is more a belated catch-up than anything truly new. "It's a divide and conquer strategy," said David Banisar, policy counsel with the Electronic Privacy Information Center. "This will help a few large users, but the average consumer is out in the cold." Wednesday's announcement is only the latest step in a years-long journey from complete control to liberalization. Though the FBI and others within the national security apparatus have insisted on tight controls, information technology companies and public interest groups have fought them bitterly, insisting a flood of foreign products will soon take over a world market which was once almost exclusively America's. As foreign producers have mounted - more than 500 foreign products are now stronger than what can usually be exported from the US - that pressure has increased. Technology marches on The steady march of computer technology, too, has rendered once-secure products obsolete; the Electronic Frontier Foundation, for instance, unveiled a computer last June which can crack messages encrypted with 56-bit keys in hours. Until recently, the FBI had claimed such messages could be cracked only in a matter of months, if not years. Dan Scheinman, vice president for legal and government affairs at Internet hardware producer Cisco Systems Inc., said the latest proposal wasn't his company had hoped for. Even so, "Anything that provides broader relief is a step in the right direction," he said. In the administration's defense Meanwhile, the administration has its defenders. Stewart Baker, former counsel to the super-secret, encryption-controlling National Security Agency and an attorney who negotiates export agreements for industry, called on critics to give the administration more credit. "I think this is a significant walking away from an emphasis on law-enforcement access," he said. "What this says is if there's a market for security, we ought to think about liberalizing. It's a big step and it foreshadows more." --------------------------------------------------------------------- Copyright (c) 1998 ZDNet. All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part in any form or medium without express written permission of ZDNet is prohibited. ZDNet and the ZDNet logo are trademarks of Ziff-Davis Inc.

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Re: Voices
by AIMSX＠aol.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

All Creatures Great and Small - that one... =) I also read an Aasimov a while back in fifth grade - unfortunately, I can't remember even the name... I need to pick some of his books up again... One book I can remember reading since 5th grade (and every summer thereafter) is "IT" by Stephen King - one of his few really good books. I have read it 8 times since. I greatly recommend it =)

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Re: Voices (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1998 21:46:59 EDT > To: edsmith(a)IntNet.net > Subject: Re: Voices > I also read an Aasimov a while back in fifth grade - unfortunately, I can't > remember even the name... I need to pick some of his books up again... > One book I can remember reading since 5th grade (and every summer thereafter) > is "IT" by Stephen King - one of his few really good books. I have read it 8 > times since. > I greatly recommend it =) Stephen King is no horror writer, he's a pussy wanna be. If you want a really good author then check out Poppy Z. Brite. Lost Souls (read this one first) Drawing Blood Exquisite Corpse (if you've ever wondered if you were the least bit homophobic, when you finish this one you'll know) You'll either read about 2-3 pages and quit in utter refulsion and disgust or else you'll be hooked. Sombody else to try is: Grave markings Michael A. Arnzen Ann Rice? Give me a break... ____________________________________________________________________ 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: Democracy...
by Richard.Bragg＠ssa.co.uk 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

mmotyka(a)lsil.com on 16/09/98 00:48:25 Please respond to mmotyka(a)lsil.com To: cypherpunks(a)toad.com cc: Subject: Re: Democracy... >Vivek Vaidya wrote: > Ever heard of seperation of church and state? Democracy? the rights of > the individual? While you certainly have the right to practice your > religion in what ever manner you so choose demanding that everyone > else > does, or that the president of the us of ais subject to you PERSONAL > faith decisions is outragous > > Vivek Vaidya > But whoever said I'm in the US? Where did I make any such demand? However, if you believe in something to be life changing and beneficial to both the idividual and society you'll want or be compelled to "pass it on". I can't and do not wish to force any one to any point of view, that's pointless. What I wanted to illustrate is that there are absolutes, to say there are no obsolutes is in itself an absolute and so is self defeating. We must have absolutes. These are often agreed on and applied through the legal systems but they are still there. Thus, when examining the behaviour of people in power we apply rules to encompass that power ie you can go so far and no further. When we are talking about national leaders in the west that do represent a wide range of views this can become more difficult but there still must be a yard stick agreed. PS If ol' Bill claims to be a Christian then he himself is setting the yard stick against we should measure him.

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A definition of EVIL.
by Edwin E. Smith 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

A LIFE-AND-DEATH ISSUE To proceed we need at least a working definition. It is a reflection of the enormous mystery of the subject that we do not have a generally accepted definition of evil. Yet in our hearts I think we all have some understanding of its nature. For the moment I can do no better than to heed my son, who, with the characteristic vision of eight-year-olds, explained simply, "Why, Daddy, evil is 'live' spelled backward." Evil is in opposition to life. It is that which opposes the life force. It has, in short, to do with killing. Specifically, it has to do with murder-namely, unnecessary killing, killing that is not required for biological survival. from "People of the Lie" by M. Scott Peck, M.D.

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Re: Democracy... (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1998 21:27:23 -0500 > From: Jaeger <Jaeger(a)hempseed.com> > Subject: Re: Democracy... > hey, would you care to show us where "seperation of church and state" is > to be found in the constitution/bill of rights? absolute right and ARTICLE I. Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. ARTICLE X. The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The 1st prevents the government from regulating religion, even to the point of having the authority to define what a religion is. This includes smoking dope, raping little babies, whatever. It *IS NOT* an issue within the guidelines of the Constitution for the *federal* government, Period, end of story. Note that it does *not* prevent religions from participating in the government. They could regulate any commerce of those churches that cross state lines. The 10th says that unless the state you happen to live in regulates religion through a representative form of government via their own constitution then the practice and limits of religion are to be decided by the individual. Don't like it? Get a god damned amendment passed modifying or nullifying one or both of the above amendments. ____________________________________________________________________ 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: Fwd: I don't care if this is real or not!
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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

17 Dec '03

Some smart people do come from aol but then again they don't say stupid stuff. Aol will always be stereo typed until it is cleansed of morons. It is a stereotype based on truth. Famous AOL saying: me too! ---AIMSX(a)aol.com wrote: > > 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. > > == "The same thing we do every night Pinkey, try to take over the WORLD!" - The brain _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

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Re: Democracy... (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1998 23:09:03 -0500 > From: Jaeger <Jaeger(a)hempseed.com> > Subject: Re: Democracy... > and the meaning is not that church > shouldn't have an effect on the state. Agreed. The state CAN support one > religion over another. If we are speaking of 'the state' as the 'federal government' then *no* it can't support any religion because it isn't authorized to address those issues under any venue, make no law means just that, make no law - whether for or against religion is irrelevant. This country is blind in respect to religion and the cornucopia of individual actions via the 9th & 10th. Now if you are speaking of 'the state' as the individual 50 states, regulated within the confines of their own 50 individual constitutions, as directed per the 10th then you are correct - provided the state constitution gives the state government the duty (governments don't have rights) to regulate religion, the fact is most don't. If there is no individual state regulation then the limitations of religion fall upon individual discretion. Whether the religion promoted going to heaven, smoking good ganja, or rapeing babies is irrelevant as to the ability of the state to engage in prior restraint - they can't. Since most local jurisdictions have laws against murder, rape, child molestation, etc. under their individual charters and representative system there is really no reason to a priori regulate such activities at any higher level than localy. It isn't the act that we should worry about, it's the consequences to others after the fact. If an act doesn't effect another person or their property directly then there is no legitimate reason to interfere with their actions. Constitutionaly the federal government should be blind to my actions as an individual unless I'm crossing a state line, work for the federal government, legal action, or have a treasury issue. > In context, the phrase simply explains that the > government can't make laws that RESTRICT religious practice or doctrinal > issues. Bullshit. There is NO way to reasonably accept this as a legitimate interpretation of the 1st & 10th. > The state CAN make laws that encourage the practice of any one > particular religion, as long as the laws do not RESTRICT the PRACTICE of > other religions. Making people uncomfortable isn't a constitutional > reason to overturn a law. No. Niether the spirit or the letter of the issue allows such sweeping generalizations. In fact it fails for the same reason that mass searches fail strict Constitutional interpretation, the Constitution directs that probable cause is required *IN EACH CASE* to be handled individualy, there is no stipulation where individual probable cause may be bypassed. Just because you do it to everyone, while you can't do it to anyone, legitimizes it. If you can't rape an individual you can't rape 10 people. The same applies to religion, the federal government can't make a law respecting a religion because it can't even define religion. Now if you can't support any religion you certainly can't support an individual religion. ____________________________________________________________________ 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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US Updates Crypto Policy
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

http://library.whitehouse.gov/PressReleases-plain.cgi?date=0&briefing=3 THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary ____________________________________________________________________ For Immediate Release September 16, 1998 STATEMENT BY THE PRESS SECRETARY Administration Updates Encryption Policy The Clinton Administration today announced a series of steps to update its encryption policy in a way that meets the full range of national interests: promotes electronic commerce, supports law enforcement and national security and protects privacy. These steps are a result of several months of intensive dialogue between the government and U.S. industry, the law enforcement community and privacy groups that was called for by the Vice President and supported by members of Congress. As the Vice President stated in a letter to Senator Daschle, the Administration remains committed to assuring that the nation?s law enforcement community will be able to access, under strictly defined legal procedures, the plain text of criminally related communications and stored information. The Administration intends to support FBI?s establishment of a technical support center to help build the technical capacity of law enforcement - Federal, State, and local - to stay abreast of advancing communications technology. The Administration will also strengthen its support for electronic commerce by permitting the export of strong encryption when used to protect sensitive financial, health, medical, and business proprietary information in electronic form. The updated export policy will allow U.S. companies new opportunities to sell encryption products to almost 70 percent of the world?s economy, including the European Union, the Caribbean and some Asian and South American countries. These changes in export policy were based on input from industry groups while being protective of national security and law enforcement interests. The new export guidelines will permit exports to other industries beyond financial institutions, and further streamline exports of key recovery products and other recoverable encryption products. Exports to those end users and destination countries not addressed by today?s announcement will continue to be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. Very strong encryption with any key length (with or without key recovery) will now be permitted for export, under license exception, to several industry sectors. For example, U.S. companies will be able to export very strong encryption for use between their headquarters and their foreign subsidiaries worldwide except the seven terrorist countries (Iran, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Sudan, North Korea and Cuba) to protect their sensitive company proprietary information. On-line merchants in 45 countries will be able to use robust U.S. encryption products to protect their on-line electronic commerce transactions with their customers over the Internet. Insurance companies as well as the health and medical sectors in those same 46 countries will be able to purchase and use robust U.S. encryption products to secure health and insurance data among legitimate users such as hospitals, health care professionals, patients, insurers and their customers. The new guidelines also allow encryption hardware and software products with encryption strength up to 56-bit DES or equivalent to be exported without a license, after a one time technical review, to all users outside the seven terrorist countries. Currently, streamlined exports of DES products are permitted for those companies that have filed key recovery business plans. However, with the new guidelines, key recovery business plans will no longer be required. The Administration will continue to promote the development of key recovery products by easing regulatory requirements. For the more than 60 companies which have submitted plans to develop and market key recovery encryption products, the six month progress reviews will no longer be required. Once the products are ready for market, they can be exported, with any bit length -- without a license -- world-wide (except to terrorist nations) after a one-time review. Furthermore, exporters will no longer need to name or submit additional information on a key recovery agent prior to export. These requirements will be removed from the regulations. Finally, industry has identified other so-called "recoverable" products and techniques that allow for the recovery of plaintext by a system or network administrator and that can also assist law enforcement access, subject to strict procedures. The Administration will permit their export for use within most foreign commercial firms, and their wholly-owned subsidiaries, in large markets, including Western Europe, Japan and Australia, to protect their internal business proprietary communications. The Administration welcomes a continued dialogue with U.S. industry and intends to review its policy in one year to determine if additional updates may be necessary to continue a balanced approach that protects the public safety and national security, ensures privacy, enables continued technology leadership by U.S. industry and promotes electronic commerce. # # #

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