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by business＠checkfax.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Re: Killing the Unabomber
by Bill Stewart 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> > : Didn't the government finally back down on their > > : attempt to legally kill the Unabomber? > > This point strikes me as pretty funny. Kinda like a nurse rooting > > for Charles Starkweather. >Or trying to be consistent. >Raygun: abortion is killing, but pro-death penalty. >If killing is wrong, killing again is wrong. No consistency involved - many of them would like to kill him. But they've Got Their Man, and he's made it clear that a trial will be difficult, long, expensive, involve lots of firing lawyers and arguing about mental competency, and generally be trouble, and he's offered to plead guilty if they won't kill him. Even though he's a highly intelligent cold-blooded killer, he's also close enough to crazy that the public will have enough sympathy for him that killing him won't be highly popular, especially because his brother wouldn't have turned him in if he'd expected him to be killed. Also, while his killings have been somewhat scary and weird, they haven't generated the kind of public outrage that the OKCity bombing did, with dead babies on the front page of the papers. The defendents there are going to get killed, and the public is going to enjoy it, and the Neilsen Ratings will be high. >Next time, the killer might not be caught because >the person who recognized (yea traffic analysis) >his talktalk might not want them killed as a result. >i.e. in the long run it will save lives. I think you're right here. Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, bill.stewart(a)pobox.com PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639

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17 Dec '03

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Return of Bass-O-Matic (was PGP)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > Date: Sun, 01 Mar 1998 15:25:00 +1000 > From: Reeza! <howree(a)cable.navy.mil> > Subject: PGP > I'm looking for some real information on PGP. > I have a friend who swears up and down that every version of PGP since the > first one has been compromised by key escrow and is not really safe. > > Does anyone know where the source for the *original* version of PGP can be > found? Holy bezesus... It just so happens that I have a copy of pgp10.arj and pgp10src.arj. Send me a note and I'll make arrangements to get them to you provided you're in the US and a US citizen (I hate these fuckin' laws - I wanna be paid for this shit!). ____________________________________________________________________ When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself public property. Thomas Jefferson _____ The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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I'd like to join your mailing list...
by Michael Hall 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I read about your mailing list in The Happy Mutant Handbook, and I am inclined to get on the list. Address is <A href="mailto:stevehall@csi.com">stevehall(a)csi.com .

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Fw: Missing the Big Picture
by Eric Tune 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

William H. Geiger III said: > I have noticed that many members of the list are missing the "big >picture" when it comes to fighting censorship. > >While I support the various efforts to combat the numerous attacks on >personal liberties world wide it is all for nought unless we push for >fundamental changes in government. > >There is an old saying: "Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts >absolutely". > >So long as we have Statist governments (fascists, communist, socialist, >they are all the same) we will suffer a never ending infringement of our >basic civil liberties. You can not give a government overwhelming powers >to control every minute aspect of our lives and not expect them to use it >AS THEY SEE FIT. > >We go on wining little battles over this law or that law only to be losing >the war. Every year governments become more powerful, more repressive, >and are freedoms are curtailed even more. We need to strike into the belly >of the beast, and rip out it's hart. We must remove it's power to tax, to >regulate, to control only then will we be free. > >Not only must we castrate this beast leaving it a shell of it's former >self but we must stop being children and act like free men. We must be >willing to stand on our own and take our destinies into our own hands. We >must resist running to Big Brother every time we have a problem like a >small school boy running to mommy when he scrapes his knees. > >It is far better to try and fail as a free man than to have never tried at >all living the life of the slave. > >-- Well said William, very well said. Free men must cooperate in their own defeat, refuse to cooperate, refuse to give in, and you will not lose. In the end, tyranny will fall. In the history of our civilizations, all governments have eventually failed, regardless that they may have had noble intent in their beginnings, and they have fallen. So have each succeeding government after them. They fail because when times passes, decades or centuries (doesn't matter) the average citizenry becomes accepting and complacent while said government becomes more and more abusive, excessive, impulsive, and corrupt. Finally, those people who can no longer tolerate this from those who would call themselves their rulers, rise to the occasion and the now festering, malignant government is torn down. Unfortunately, the cycle repeats itself. The U.S. government has lasted this long only due to the freedoms guaranteed by our Constitution, but it still has been following in the tracks as all the previous governments before it. In lasting longer than any other constitutional form of government, it is now so corrupt that at this point only 1 of 2 things can really happen: a 2nd American Revolution, and hopefully a new start and (for the time being) a change for the better, or total Fascism, and the last remaining freedoms people have will be quickly extinguished. I don't want to live in a socialist environment. I don't want somebody telling me how to raise my children, and I don't want someone telling me I'm a criminal because I don't want to let the government read what I have to say. It doesn't "Take a Village" and it doesn't take Big Brother.... it takes freedom, ingenuity, drive, determination, self-worth, cooperation, and dedication to build something better. Scream to your Senators and Representatives, as loud as you can, we all must do what we can, or we will be lost, and as William said, in perpetual, permanent slavery, with no privacy, no rights, and no hope for a self-determined future. To hell with that. Eric J. Tune

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Newbie pgp question
by Mike 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Hi guys, I've got a question - may be it is FAQ, the please point me. I need - well, it sounds funny - to crack PGP-encrypted text ;) I have secring.pgp but not the keyphrase - does it make things easier or not? I also have pgpcrack99.zip (DOS-version, zip means that I unzipped it for the 1st time :) But I guess it will take megahours with big dictionary - and it will cover only single words, not sentences. Please, can somebody introduce me a little? TIA PS. I also know few words in that file, may be even phrases. -- ******************************************* Mike Blazer blazer(a)mail.nevalink.ru *******************************************

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sick feeling
by bill payne 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Subject: Halabja, Iraq and what you wrote Date: Sun, 01 Mar 1998 18:58:39 -0700 From: bill payne <billp(a)nmol.com> To: L E Banderet <lbanderet(a)natick-ccmail.army.mil> Sunday 3/1/98 6:33 PM Lou Got your stuff on Saturday. Patty and I both commented on the picture of your lovely new wife. And I was pleased that you had authored or co-authored 85 publications. This is what I was supposed to train you for. Patty and I watched 60 Minutes tonight and what happened in Halabja, Iraq. The IMMEDIATE and LONG TERM effects of a combination mustard and sarin gas attack on genetics. Last night I transcribed some of your and you co-authors' words. Volume 9, Number 4, 1997 MILITARY PSYCHOLOGY The Official Journal of the Division of Military Psychology American Psychological Association Special Issue: Effects of Chemical Protective Clothing of Military Performance Guest Editors: Gerald P. Krueger and Louis E. Banderet Psychological Aspects of Chemical Defense and Warfare James W. Stokes U.S. Army Medical Department Center and School Fort Sam Houston, Texas Louis E. Banderet U.S. Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine Natick, Massachusetts Concerns about chemical, biological, or radiation (CBR) weapons and their potential for warfare can be very stressful. Such concerns subject people to unfamiliar threats in highly ambiguous situations, in which people feel they may be wronged or they are helpless. Maladaptive psychological overreactions or underreactions may result. Such reactions to chemical warfare are illustrated with the experience from World War I, the 1991 Persian Gulf War, and the 1995 terrorist attack in the Tokyo subway. General principles of psychology suggest strategies and tactics for training and materiel development that should enhance military performance and reduce maladaptive stress in CBR threat situations. Some of these practices may be relevant to nonmilitary law enforcement and relief agencies that manage CBR threats. page 395. Now I transcribe some of the more relevant stuff. Effects of Chemical Protective Clothing on Military Performance: A Review of the Issues Gerald P. Krueger Star Mountain, Inc. Alexandria, Virginia Lous E. Banderet U.S. Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine Natick, Massachusetts This review in this special issue of Military Psychology on the effects of chemical protective clothing (CPC) on military performance provide a historical perspective on continued anxieties over likely use of battlefield chemical-biological weapons and summarizes significant concerns of military personnel weaning CPC in training and combat. This review describes pschophysiological stresses such protective ensembles have on personnel and how these affect military performance, and it summarizes major military psychological research program on the effect of wearing CPC. This article reviews what is known about wearing CPC, describes future CPC developments, and identifies domains for improved military training with CPC. MEDICAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL EFFECT OF C-B WEAPONS There are many medical, physiological and psychological reactions from exposure to chemical-biological (C-B) weapons. Many bio-warfare agents and most chemical weapons are designed to interfere with function of the nervous system and to disrupt normal control of vital organ systems that sustain life. For example, the more common chemical war nerve agents involve organophosphate compounds, similar to insecticides, that inhibit cholinesterase enzymes throughout the body. Because cholinesterase hydrolyzes acetylcholine where ever liberated, this inhibition results in excessive concentrations of acetylcholine at various sites - from the ending of the parasympathetic nerves to smooth muscles of the iris, ciliary body, bronchi, gastrointestinal trace, bladder, and blood vessels; to secretary gland of the respiratory tract' and to endings of the sympathetic nerves to sweat glands (Newhouse, 1987; Simmons et at 1989). Exposure to large amounts of nerve agent may lead to loss of muscle control, twitching, paralysis, unconsciousness, convulsions, coma, and even death. The most common cause of death after acute exposure is respiratory arrest. Death may occur within minutes or take several hours. In terms of psychological functioning, moderate but nonlethal exposure to nerve agent produces severe impairment in cognition, vigilance, memory and language. Acute intoxication produces confusion, drowsiness, and difficulty in concentration (Newhouse, 1987). These impairment make it difficult to continue to perform may soldier tasks. Effects on cognition may persist after only a slight exposure. Performance improvement appears to correlate with the body's regeneration of acetycholinesterase, usually requiring several months. Neurophysychological testing (Newhouse, 1987) reveals that chronic exposure to organophosphates significantly impairs higher mental function requiring use of the frontal lobes, particularly the left lobe. Organophosphate poisoning selectively impairs memory of recently learned information, and this impairment is likely related to cholinergic involvement in the memory processes. The effects include defects in long-term memory, visual searching, and response alteration - effects similar to those caused by a frontal lobotomy. In chronically exposed individuals, speed of task performance and overall cognitive efficiency also declines. Persistent visual impairments are reported in workers poisoned with anticholinesterase insecticides, and acute poisoning impair oculomotor function. Poisoning with nerve agents may also cause psychiatric disturbances such as depression. Use of C-B weapons results not only in large number of physical casualties on the battlefield by in may psychological casualties as well. Concern over the mere threat that C-B weapons might be used raises battlefield anxiety of combatants and can produce a level of fear disproportionate to that evoked by countless alternative conventional battlefield means of killing or maiming, such a with guns, artillery, and bombs. Such anxieties can create large numbers of psychological stress casualties contribution to unit ineffectiveness on the battlefield and combat losses. Such adverse emotions may also cause posttraumatic stress disorders after combat ceases. DEVELOPMENT OF COUNTERMEASURES FOR THE COMBAT THEATER Modern military forces recognize the C-B weapons can be the attention-getting equivalent of a poor country's nuclear weapons. Such weapons can be counter-acted, however, and concerned nations prepare their forces to preserve their health and safety against C-B warfare. ... THE THREAT OF C-B WARFARE Although biological warfare was used centuries ago by the Romans and was used in the 14th century by the Tartars, who catapulted plague-infected bodies into cities under siege (Hewish, 1997), military forces have made scant use of biological warfare in modern times. The more recent innovation of chemical warfare dates to 1914 when the French used tear gas against unprotected German forces, who in turn introduced chlorine and phosgene in 1915 and mustard gas in 1917 against the British, who sustained 14,000 casualties in 3 months (Hewish, 1997). May World Ware I soldiers were grotesquely injured or died in gas war trenches in France and Russia; Russia's gas casualties exceed a half million, including 50,000 fatalities (Westerhoff, 1980). In 1925, many countries signed a Geneva Protocol prohibiting first use of chemical and bacteriological weapons. However, during the 1930s, several countries, notably Germany, encouraged chemists to develop chemical weapons as a by-product of insecticide research production. By World War II, Germany and powers stockpiled huge caches of chemical, but probably due to fear of in-kind retaliation, chemical weapons were not used in World War II. After the war, Germany's organophoshporous arsenal fell into Russian hands, and for the next 50 years, military forces relegated C-B warfare efforts to relatively quiet development programs for future battlefields. Since World War II, C-B weapons have been employed several times on a relatively small scale. In the 1970s, the Vietnamese used chemical and "yellow rain" biological agents in Cambodian jungles, the Soviets used chemical in Afghanistan (U.S. Department of State, 1980), Iraq used sulfur mustard and other chemical in the Iran-Iraq conflict (1979-1980), and Iraq used chemical in 1980 - this time against its own people, the northern Kurds (Stuteville, 1997). There have been periodic threats to use chemical weapons on a grand scale. In the 1970s, the Warsaw Pact possessed huge stockpiles of chemical weapons ( mostly soman, cyanide, and mustard gas), and Soviet chemical warfare teams openly conducted extensive training in gas warfare tactics. Such readiness for large scale C-B warfare was underscored in the Persian Gulf War of 1991, as Iraq threatened to use chemical (sarin) and biologicals (anthrax spores) against coalition forces and possibly against neighboring cities in Saudi Arabia and Israel (Begley, Barry, & Hager, 1991). By January 1991, Saudi Arabia had predug 50,000 graves planned for burying civilian (noncombat) casualties expected to succumb to Iraqi chemical poisoning from anticipated rocket attacks on Saudi cities oraerosols drifting from the battlefields (Kaplan, 1991). Although Iraq did not unleash such chemical, and the battles were ultimately short, many U.S. military personnel may been exposed to chemical during the March 1991 destruction of Iraqi weapon stockpiled (mostly sarin) near Khamisiyah, Iraq (Stuteville, 1997). The U. S. government continue to investigate whether exposures to chemical agents may have contributed to the so-called Gulf War illnesses experienced by many U.S. military veterans of that encounter. Exposure of soldiers to multiple chemical and and environmental stressors may be linked to psychophysiological illnesses that manifest in symptomatology such as disabling fatigue, insomnia, malaise, joint and muscle pains, skin sores, hair loss, and gastrointestinal and respiratory difficulties (Brown & Priest, 1996). Others asset that U.S. military personnel were exposed to Iraq chemical warfare from Scud missiles, artillery and aircraft (Stuteville, 1997) PUBLIC CONCERN Open, frank, public news of existent military chemical stockpiles, proliferation of chemical or biological weaponry, and periodic 'saber-ratting' threats to use such weapons amplify world public concerns over the enormity of what someday could be a horrific chemical or biological calamity. Unprotected civilian populations fear they may be deliberately attacked by chemical and biological weapons or inadvertently by aerosol warfare agents drifting into populated areas of a battlefield. Disastrous incident like the one in 1984 at a chemical actory in Bhopal, India, which killed over 2,000 people and sickened countless others, sensitized citizenry to the lethal potential of such chemical compounds. In 1995, terrorist attacks on the Tokyo subway, and news media discussion of possible use of nerve agents in terrorist disruption of public gathering like the 1992 and 1996 Olympics, heightened Public fears over such chemical incidents have become almost visceral. News of recent advances in genetic technologies (Dando, 1997) suggest use of future biological weapons with unprecedented insidiousness and specificity is possible. Moreover, the mass media and media expert sources remind the public that the United States may not be adequately prepared or trained to defend itself against chemical or biological warfare (Beal, 1997). ... I got a sick feeling when Hans Buehler phoned from Zurich on why he was jailed in the Evin prison in Tehran. You failed to mention the long-term effects of mustard-sarin. Or how the suits were to protect against biological weapons. I have an even more sick feeling now. bill Title: Untitled Document Viewing this page requires a browser capable of displaying frames.

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17 Dec '03

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Re: Fw: Missing the Big Picture
by WhatsMetaU 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

In a message dated 98-03-01 21:16:04 EST, paladin(a)lvcablemodem.com writes: << > I have noticed that many members of the list are missing the "big >picture" when it comes to fighting censorship. > >> You want to see the big picture? See my front page - http://members.aol.com/StanSquncr/ And if there are any " ... heads" on this list, you ain't got one. Stanley Rosenthal, saver of lists 'Methods of Moder(atio)n Censorship' http://members.aol.com/WhatsMetaU/ofir.html

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by cyper punks 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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One Nation update from GWB
by Global Web Builders 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

---------------------------------------------------------------------------- PLEASE NOTE: No unsolicited email is sent. If you do not want to be on the mailing list please say "REMOVE" in the subject line and return this message in the body. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear supporter in NSW, Birthday raffle: ================ The response to the Birthday Raffle has been tremendous... but get in quick before we run out of tickets (max 100,000 on offer)! Here again are the details for participating: The first prize is a QANTAS Global Explorer Holiday for two valued at $12,000 - a 23 day trip visiting Paris, London, New York, Los Angeles, Anaheim and Honolulu. The second prize is a 7 day holiday to Hawaii at the Outrigger Reef Hotel for two - value $5,000. The third prize is a 7 nights stay at the Novotel Palm Cove at Cairns - value $3,000. You can order a book of 5 tickets (minimum) at $10 per book (or $2 per ticket) by credit card by phoning 1800 620088. Winner's names being drawn at One Nation's Birthday Party at 7pm on April 11th 1998. Winners will be notified by phone and mail with the results being published in the Sydney Morning Herald on Friday 17th April 1998. It's Blair: =========== Pauline Hanson has confirmed that she will be running for the lower house seat of Blair in the next Federal election. Full press release details can be seen at: http://www.gwb.com.au/onenation/press/270298.html Some Internet addresses to keep an eye on: ========================================== "I'm so, so sorry Pauline" While everybody else is getting in on the "Sorry" act the treatment being meted out to Pauline Hanson by the media deserves an apology to our favourite lady. Here you can send an email to a moderated web page on which messages of apology and comfort are posted to show support for the valuable work that Pauline Hanson is doing to take Australia back from the brink. http://www.gwb.com.au/sorry.html ------------------------------------------------ The Australian National News of the Day: A daily on-line paper which follows the history of One Nation. With an extensive archive dating back over two years (archive available to subscribers) http://www.gwb.com.au/head.html ------------------------------------------------ The four corners of Australia's Trojan Horse: See how the Australian media are misrepresenting the news and distorting the truth to discredit Pauline Hanson with their willing partners the ALP and the Liberal party. References are taken from press articles that have run in the mainstream media. Let us remember it was the ALP and the Coalition who allowed Rupert Murdoch (an American) and Kerry Packer to gain the hold that they have today on our media. See what they get in return for these favours. http://www.gwb.com.au/gwb/news/onenation/news.html -------------------------------------------------- Pauline Hanson's One Nation: http://www.gwb.com.au/onenation -------------------------------------------------- Finally, as we approach the federal election we will be calling on volunteers to assist in mail drops etc... please get your friends and family to subscribe to this news letter so that we can keep them informed on how they can help Pauline and her team turn Australia around. REMEMBER only PEOPLE POWER is going to keep Australia **One Nation**. That means ALL OFF YOU!! D O I T N O W !!!! GWB Scott Balson Web master Pauline Hanson's One Nation web site

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Brickell and Sandia
by bill payne 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Wednesday 3/4/98 6:59 PM Orlin While trying to recover from the stomach flu, I am going over your stuff summarized at http://www.aci.net/kalliste/dcguide.htm You wrote at [Brickell-Gemmell-Kravitz.] http://www.aci.net/kalliste/sandia.htm Sandia National Laboratories have created the digital cash equivalent of the Clipper chip: an "anonymous" digital cash system that would give participants privacy from all viewers, except for the government agencies that would control the secret keys required for backdoor access. and Why is Sandia interested in digital cash systems? Well, Sandia is responsible for all non-nuclear components of nuclear weapons. The security of nuclear weapons depends partly on cryptology. The code- breaking National Security Agency (NSA), for example, is responsible for the communication security of the Minuteman missile, as well as the codes by which the President must identify himself to authorize a nuclear strike. Brickell and Simmons were in the COMPUTATIONAL/COMPUTER SCIENCES & MATH CENTER, directorate 1400, at Sandia. I worked in the ELECTRONIC SUBSYSTEMS CENTER, directorate 2300, division 2311, when I was project leader of the Missile Secure Cryptographic Unit, the small missile, [between about 1982-86]. All of the nuclear bomb crypto implmentation work was done in 2300, not 1400. The MAIN difference is that the 2300 people were a bunch of PRACTICAL engineers and REAL-PRACTICAL software types. NOT theoreticians. Gus Simmon once tried to get into the implentation business. Simmons bought an Intel 320 [?] development system. The Intel 320 was a piece of junk and nothing happened with Simmons implementation work. Simmons try, naturally, caught the attention of 2300 management, for business reasons, of course. I LOVE reading all of this stuff from a Sandia historical standpoint. The REAL WORLD of Sandia crypto stuff in pockmarked by some REAL SCREW-UPS. Which all of us implementers shared so as not to commit the same mistakes again. I asked my department manager, Kent Parsons, how the screw-ups affected him. He responded that it made him sleepy. These were MULTI- if not HUNDREDS- million dollar screw-ups. Later bill

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Re: AnyWho puts a reverse phone book on the Net
by Rabid Wombat 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I tried one of these when tracking down some dial-in system abuse being perpetrated by an ex-employee. It occurred to me that with the right hardware, a simple perl script could launch a cruise-missle strike in response to a dial-in to a phone number ... ;) (for a good time, call 1-555-2nukeme) food for thought for the paranoids and/or x-files fans. On Wed, 25 Feb 1998, Ross Wright wrote: > From: > > T a s t y B i t s f r o m t h e T e c h n o l o g y F r o n t > This issue: < http://www.tbtf.com/archive/02-23-98.html > > ________________________________________________________________________ > > ..AnyWho puts a reverse phone book on the Net > > And personal privacy slips a bit more > > If you live in the US and your phone number is listed, visit this > site [25] and type in your number. AT&T's AnyWho will return your > name and address. Is your street name linked? If so, click to see > names and numbers for all of your neighbors. Want a map to your > house? It's one click away. (Like most such maps, however, the > correspondence of street address with map location can be wildly > wrong.) The street proximity search will not show unlisted numbers, > 800- or 888- numbers, or "distinctive ring" alternate numbers. > > AnyWho is not the first reverse phone book on the Net -- 555-1212 > has that distinction [26] -- but it is the most feature-rich. It > has a "sounds like" match for last name lookups. It lets you edit > or delete your entry, and requires confirmation by a telephone call > from the phone number in question. And it combines white and yellow > pages -- 90M and 10M listings respectively -- though their output > remains separate. When you ask for a street proximity listing for a > business listing, you see only other businesses. > > [25] http://www.anywho.com:81/telq.html > [26] http://www.555-1212.com/whte_us.htm > > =-=-=-=-=-=- > Ross Wright > King Media: Bulk Sales of Software Media and Duplication Services > http://ross.adnetsol.com > Voice: (408) 259-2795 > >

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No Subject
by Fabio Rosetti 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Returned mail: User unknown
by Mail Delivery Subsystem 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The original message was received at Mon, 2 Mar 1998 14:07:36 -0500 (EST) from ts35-10.homenet.ohio-state.edu [140.254.114.193] ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors ----- <54689590(a)hotmail.com> ----- Transcript of session follows ----- ... while talking to mail.hotmail.com.: >>> RCPT To:<54689590(a)hotmail.com> <<< 550 Unknown user <54689590> 550 <54689590(a)hotmail.com>... User unknown Reporting-MTA: dns; mail4.uts.ohio-state.edu Received-From-MTA: DNS; ts35-10.homenet.ohio-state.edu Arrival-Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 14:07:36 -0500 (EST) Final-Recipient: RFC822; 54689590(a)hotmail.com Action: failed Status: 5.1.1 Remote-MTA: DNS; mail.hotmail.com Diagnostic-Code: SMTP; 550 Unknown user <54689590> Last-Attempt-Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 14:07:44 -0500 (EST) To: 54689590(a)hotmail.com Subject: REMOVE From: cypherpunks(a)toad.com Date: Wed, 02 Jan 1980 01:41:00 -0500 Reply-To: cypherpunks(a)toad.com

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FW: Business Week on encryption controls
by Mixmaster 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----Original Message----- From: Anonymous <nobody(a)replay.com> To: cypherpunks(a)cyberpass.net <cypherpunks(a)cyberpass.net> Date: Monday, March 02, 1998 10:47 Subject: Business Week on encryption controls >From > >http://www.businessweek.com/premium/10/b3568070.htm > >THE GREAT ENCRYPTION DEBATE > >>Is all this firepower necessary? Many veterans of the decade-long >>encryption battle believe Freeh's plan is too extreme to even take >>seriously. ''Proposals like this are a tremendous stalking horse, but >>are dead on arrival,'' says Kawika Daguio, encryption-policy expert at >>the American Bankers Assn. > >Many cypherpunks seem to believe it is only a matter of time before >crypto is made illegal in the U.S. But sophisticated observers think >otherwise. > >Frankly, the resolution is obvious: crypto-in-a-crime will be controlled. >If you use crypto in planning a crime, and you're convicted of the >crime (or conspiracy), then some years will be added to the sentencing >guidelines. Some cypherpunks will proclaim this the end of individual >freedom in our time. > >>Also, a compromise may be at hand. Senators John McCain (R-Ariz.) and >>J. Robert Kerrey (D-Neb.) are currently working on a bill, sources say, >>that would release exports from controls when similar encryption products >>are already available overseas. They could also add a ban on domestic >>controls. ''It appears McCain and Kerrey are searching for some way >>out of what appears to be legislative gridlock,'' says Commerce Under >>Secretary William A. Reinsch, who oversees the Administration's policy. > >Again, the results are clear to those with vision. Export controls >will be lifted, no domestic controls will be imposed on general use of >encryption. The only new limits will be in the sentencing guidelines, >which already consider dozens of factors in a complex formula. >Whether crypto was used will be a small change there, and won't effect >anyone's life. > >Remember, you read it here first. > This guy is living his elitist life looking through rose colored glasses, with blinders on, in a vacuum, with his head buried in sand, with his neck snugly supported by his sphincter muscles. "vision"?.... "sophisticated"?.... what is this? If people disagree or are more cynical about what the government may or may not do concerning cryptography we are less sophisticated and/or lack vision? What an idiot!! Wake up and smell the bullshit you and others like you are shoveling. McCain is a serious control freak (former AZ resident who has seen him in action) and will never, regardless of his vomitous, pendulous rhetoric, support a domestic "free encryption" standard without government controls, there will always be a catch. The glass is not even half empty, it's shattered.

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Accept Checks By Phone
by way＠utz.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Re: Win95 Dialer?
by Support 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

If you're asking if our internet connection service is available in the Win '95 version, the answer is yes. Otherwise, I suggest you call our help desk at 1-888-229-4733 (option #1) for a more complete answer. If you want the Win '95 software, they can send it to you. cypherpunks(a)toad.com wrote: > Can you use Windows95 Dialup Networking with Access Atlanta? > > -Jim

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Cryptobook: '98 update
by andrew fabbro 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Joel McNamara (author Private Idaho) has updated his Cryptobook page, which now has information on newer software. The configuration works much better under Windows 95 now. Check out: http://www.eskimo.com/~joelm/cryptbk.html I have a text file full of notes comparing different hard drive encryption software, if anyone would like a copy. I settled on Best Crypt, which uses BLOWFISH (or GOST, or DES if you're insane). So far it works well...except I haven't found a way to have Windows' swap file encrypted. Have fun... -- Andrew Fabbro [afabbro(a)umich.edu] [andrewf(a)jesuswept.com] http://www-personal.umich.edu/~afabbro/ 313.647.2713

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Warning: could not send message for past 4 hours
by Mail Delivery Subsystem 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

********************************************** ** THIS IS A WARNING MESSAGE ONLY ** ** YOU DO NOT NEED TO RESEND YOUR MESSAGE ** ********************************************** The original message was received at Mon, 2 Mar 1998 14:14:28 -0500 (EST) from ts35-10.homenet.ohio-state.edu [140.254.114.193] ----- The following addresses had transient non-fatal errors ----- <Remove(a)rmjent.com> ----- Transcript of session follows ----- 451 <Remove(a)rmjent.com>... rmjent.com: Name server timeout Warning: message still undelivered after 4 hours Will keep trying until message is 5 days old Reporting-MTA: dns; chemistry.mps.ohio-state.edu Arrival-Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 14:14:28 -0500 (EST) Final-Recipient: RFC822; Remove(a)rmjent.com Action: delayed Status: 4.4.3 Last-Attempt-Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 19:02:17 -0500 (EST) Will-Retry-Until: Sat, 7 Mar 1998 14:14:28 -0500 (EST) To: Remove(a)rmjent.com From: cypherpunks(a)toad.com Date: Wed, 02 Jan 1980 01:47:53 -0500 Reply-To: cypherpunks(a)toad.com

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No Subject
by Luckey Promotions 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Trial Class 1 VeriSign Digital ID
by VeriSign Digital ID Center 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

QUICK INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS ------------------------------- To assure that someone else cannot obtain a Digital ID that contains your name and e-mail address, you must retrieve your Digital ID from VeriSign's secure web site using a unique Personal Identification Number (PIN). Be sure to follow these steps using the same computer you used to begin the process. Step 1: Copy your Digital ID PIN number. Your Digital ID PIN is: 7278ce06ea0aedffb942b1b7468471a3 Step 2: Go to VeriSign's secure Digital ID Center at https://digitalid.verisign.com/getid.htm Step 3: Paste (or enter) your Digital ID personal identification number (PIN), then select the SUBMIT button to install your Digital ID. That's all there is to it! WELCOME TO THE CLUB ------------------- Congratulations on obtaining a Trial Class 1 Digital ID(sm) from VeriSign! As a Trial Digital ID holder, you join millions of users who can send and receive secure e-mail using the built-in features of the latest versions of Netscape, Microsoft, and other popular e-mail packages. You also gain easy access to popular websites using your Digital ID instead of passwords and one-step registration at websites requesting Digital IDs. Your Digital ID contains the following information: Name or Alias: RANDOM Q. HACKER E-mail Address: cypherpunks(a)toad.com To find out more about where and how to use your Digital ID, please visit us at http://www.verisign.com/ or visit our Help Desk at http://www.verisign.com/help/index.html. And don't forget that you can enjoy the benefits of a Full Service Class 1 Digital ID-including $1000 protection under the Netsuresm Protection Plan, directory services, and free replacement, renewal, and revocation of your ID 24 hours a day, 7 days a week --for only $9.95 (U.S.) a year. To upgrade, please visit our Digital ID Center at http://digitalid.verisign.com. Thank you for choosing VeriSign! We look forward to serving your future electronic commerce and communications needs.

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New Customers for your Neighborhood Business, Church, Practice...
by 10510344＠30330.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Is CDMF secure?
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Is CDMF secure? and, What sort of algorithm is it? Thanks.

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The Bioweaponeers
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The New Yorker magazine of March 9 has a long shattering essay on Ken Alibek, the former Soviet bioweapons expert, William Patrick, the US's counterpart, the state of Russian secret bioweapons development, and prospects for the spread and use of this WMD. It's far more disturbingly detailed than the New York Times and ABC PrimeTime reports, and presents a horrific spectrum of gruesome details of nearly unimaginable catastrophe fermenting in secret laboratories and deepest black storage tanks. If you thought nuclear weapons were terrifying, read this for a shocking introduction to evil which will give even thermonuclear warriors nightmares of helplessness. Where Strangelovian physicists once ruled, now reign Mad microbiologists. Richard Preston is the writer, featured on PrimeTime and author of The Hot Zone, on the Ebola virus. For those without easy access to the magazine we offer a copy: http://jya.com/bioweap.htm (62K)

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Shave Slaughter '98
by Perrin . 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I have shut down all paint factories in the area. Shaving cream war!! Pshhhhhh... splat! Ha ha! Who's laughing now?! I own all of the shaving cream companies! I own all of their stocks! Shave Slaughter '98 has started. Prepare to die. Hairface ------------------- I'm assuming it's the same rules as Paint War - Perrin ------------------ fixed by Perrin pleontks(a)hotmail.com http://members.tripod.com/~pleontks http://www.angelfire.com/az/69frank69 ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

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COSTUME BALL
by Sandy Sandfort 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ SANDY SANDFORT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cypherpunks, It's that time again. My next gala costume ball is March 14th. You are invited. The full invitation is at: http://www.c2.net/~sandy/98mar.htm Please read the invitation carefully. The devil is always in the details. This notice is being sent via the Cypherpunks Announce List. If you don't want to be on the list, DON'T e-mail me. I can't get you off the list. To get off the list, send e-mail to: majordomo(a)toad.com As the first line of the message, write: unsubscribe cypherpunks-announce Hope to see you on the 14th. Regards, S a n d y ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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Hard Drive Encryption Packages Comparison (Win 95)
by andrew fabbro 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Windows 95 Hard Drive Encryption Packages Comparison ---------------------------------------------------- by Andrew Fabbro <afabbro(a)umich.edu> 3 March 1997 I've had several requests to post this to the cypherpunks list, and I'm also posting it in the newsgroups where I originally asked for software suggestions. This list only compares FEATURES -- I have not done any independent analysis of these products' claims and have not even tried the evaluation copies of all of them. This was originally just for my own reference -- I've cleaned it up a bit but it isn't exhaustive, or necessarily fair. I'm sure there are other packages-- if you think I've left something significant out, please let me know. I'd also appreciate any corrections or giggles at obvious errors in thought. After getting some feedback/corrections, this will eventually be put on the Web. ---------- DISCLAIMER ========== I am just a Doc-Martens-and-earrings cypherpunk, not a security consultant! I am not a professional cryptologist, nor a Windows 95 expert. You should NOT take my opinions at face value -- you should evaluate these products yourself. This list is just designed to give you some starting points and save you some leg work. Of course, I take no responsibility, make nor warranties, blah blah... ---------------------------------------- INTRO: EXPLANATION OF LISTINGS AND TERMS ======================================== These packages all provide interface functionality beyond the simple file-by-file encryption available with, say, PGP. Either they provide a drive interface or they allow you to designate a list of files which are then transparently or automatically de/encrypted in some fashion. If you have only a few files or anticipate only temporary or infrequent de/encryption, then PGP or something similar would probably suffice. I've separated this list into two categories using my own made-up terms: Virtual Volume programs and File List programs. VV programs make a large file on your hard drive which is transparently available to Win95 as a drive (similar to the way DriveSpace/DoubleSpace works). Once you authenticate and mount the drive, everything else is transparent. With File List programs, you designate a list of files or folders that you want encrypted. The encryption package then en/decrypts these either on-the-fly as you access them, or in bulk at boot-time/ shutdown-time. Most offer individual file/folder manual operation as well. Unlike Virtual Volume programs, which pretty much all operate the same way, there is a greater variation in interface with File List programs, so evaluate closely before purchase. In practice, the difference between Virtual Volume and File List programs is not that great: you type your password once at login and everything else is handled by the software. The only difference is that with File List programs, you have to designate files or folders, which might be a more frequent task than designating a single drive. On the other hand, all of your sensitive files may live in only a few directories anyway, and File List programs let you place these files/folders anywhere on your system, mingled in with non-encrypted files. There were a few packages which appear to operate in a truly manual mode -- you decrypt before opening and then encrypt when you're finished with the file (assuming you don't forget, or become lazy). If you're going to do this, just use PGP, which is likely already on your system already, you little cypherpunk, you, and offers CAST, IDEA, and Triple-DES. Packages with manual-mode operation are under "Manual-Operation Packages" at the end. Norton is so vague about the operation of "Your Eyes Only" on their web page that it is listed in this section. "Preview" refers to an evaluation copy-- if one is available for download (be it crippleware or whatever), this field is marked Yes. ---------------- MY PERSONAL PICK ================ I'm still evaluating, but will likely settle on Kremlin. Even though virtual volumes seem easier to me, Kremlin has one must-have feature I haven't found elsewhere: it addresses the Windows swapfile issue. Windows' swapfile has raw hunks of memory swapped out to disk, which which could contain anything from any open file. These swapfiles are not reliably deleted at shutdown-time, or in the event of a system crash, and in any event Windows certainly doesn't securely (DoD-style) delete them. Some snooper with a boot disk, file recovery utility, and hex editor could stop by and read previous memory images...talk about data leakage. None of these packages allow you to encrypt the swapfile while Windows is running, but Kremlin's Sentry does the next best thing. At shutdown-time, it securely deletes the swapfile and other temp files, wiping the drive DoD-style. The fact that Kremlin's design was obviously thought out from the perspective of an integrated platform and took this issue into account gives me a warm fuzzy feeling. Also, Kremlin offers the most diverse array of algorithms and has some nice extras, such as a secure Recycle Bin, which is easier to use than having to remember to run a special secure delete command from the context menu. And it's only $35! If I were administering a site-wide encryption program, I might choose something that was designed for that environment and offered more administrative options. I've made notes on packages which address this situation and its issues. ---------- SIDE NOTES ========== BLOWFISH was specifically designed to be fast in software implementations on 32-bit processors and would likely be the fastest algorithm you can pick. I've not noticed any lag when using BLOWFISH-based systems on a 486-66 w/32MB RAM (hardly a fast machine). Some publishers only specified a "Genuine RSA Encryption Engine," displaying a RSA-licensed logo. This isn't snake oil, but I'd sure like to know more about the crypto. ----------------------- VIRTUAL VOLUME PACKAGES ======================= Product : BestCrypt Manufacturer : Jetico, Inc. Type : Virtual Volume Crypto : BLOWFISH, GOST, DES Features : timeout close, hotkey close, secure delete Cost : $89.95 Preview? : Yes - 30 day trial, after expiration, volume becomes read-only Web : http://www.jetico.sci.fi/np_new.htm Notes : Joel McNamara (Private Idaho's author) picks this for his Cryptobook specification (see http://www.eskimo.com/~joelm/cryptbk.html) A completely free and very well-designed DoD-spec file deletion utility is available at Jetico web site, too, as a separate freeware package (BCWipe - get it!) Product : SafeHouse Manufacturer : PC Dynamics Type : Virtual Volume Crypto : BLOWFISH, FAST, DES/Triple DES Features : Configurable passwords/expirations, optional key recovery, C++ developer's toolkit available. Cost : $79.95 Preview? : Yes - free trial version with 40-bit DES Web : http://www.pcdynamics.com/SafeHouse/ Notes : key recovery is optional- you can choose to "brand" the volume or not. Product : Private Disk (in beta) Manufacturer : Private Data, Inc. Type : Virtual Volume Crypto : Not specified - "strong" versions for US/Canada Features : Cost : not listed Preview? : Beta participation program Web : http://www.privatedata.com/ Notes : I mention this only for die-hard cypherpunks who want to try new toys and might be interested in beta participation. ------------------ FILE LIST PACKAGES ================== Product : Kremlin Manufacturer : Mach5 Type : File List Crypto : CAST, IDEA, BLOWFISH, RC4, Safer SK-128, DES, and NewDES Features : Automatic Decrypt/Encrypt at Login/out, includes a secure text editor/e-mail package, secure Recycle Bin, Sentry program to automate swap/temp/other-file wiping. Cost : $35 Preview? : Yes Web : http://www.mach5.com/kremlin/ Notes : This is a very nice package and my personal pick -- see my notes in the intro. Product : RSA SecurePC Manufacturer : Security Dynamics, Inc. Type : File List Crypto : RC4 Features : Trustee threshold key recovery system, boot lock, screen lock, network support, password expiration/rule management Cost : Not listed, and I was too lazy to make a phone call to find out Preview? : Yes Web : http://www.securitydynamics.com/solutions/products/securpc.html Notes : The key-recovery system is very well-thought out and involves trustee thresh-holds -- i.e., you can decide that three (or seven or whatever) administrators' signatures are necessary to recovery a key...prevents malicious admins' snooping. The admin support (for site-wide usage) is also nice. This product was formerly published by RSA, who now licenses it to Security Dynamics. This looks like a very well-designed package with many extras for group-use situations, though more crypto options would be nice. Product : SecureWin Manufacturer : Cipher Logics Type : File List Crypto : RSA Public. No further details were specified. Features : SecureWin is more of an integrated security environment than just a hard drive encryptor -- it also includes secure deletions, e-mail integration, a password keeper, etc. There is an extensive access-control facility. Operates via a "secure Start menu," a taskbar add-on. Network support. Cost : $29.95 Preview? : Yes - 30 day evaluation download. Web : http://www.securewin.com/ Notes : Very well done from a user interface point of view and has numerous cool add-ons. I wish more information was given on the crypto and its implementation. Product : F-Secure Desktop Manufacturer : Data Fellows Type : File List Crypto : Triple-DES ("168-bit"), BLOWFISH Features : Cost : $99 Preview? : No Web : http://www.datafellows.com/f-secure/desktop/ Notes : Normally, you specify a set of folders/files to be de/encrypted at login/out. Alternatively, you can list files as "Top Secret," which means you must manually de/encrypt them via context menu. Product : DataGuard Manufacturer : Secure Services Link, Ltd. Type : File List Crypto : IDEA, SEAL Features : extensive class-based access control, trustee-threshold key recovery system Cost : $69 Preview? : No Web : http://www.sls.net/dataguard_v2.html Notes : The class-based access control lists appear to offer highly configurable access control: classes of data (e.g., workgroup or by sensitivity or whatever), with access rights offered by right to select users. You can also set "minimum eyes" thresholds for groups-- e.g., all members or certain members must be present for access to be given. Encryption or decryption rights can be separated. This would be very nice for site-wide situations, except...the basic package does not offer network support. "Pro" and "Net" packages which do are slated for April '98 release. ------------------------- MANUAL-OPERATION PACKAGES ========================= Product : SAFE Folder Manufacturer : GlobeTech Catana Type : File List, Semi-Manual Crypto : BLOWFISH Features : Cost : $58.75 Preview? : Yes - password fixed to "DEMO" Web : http://www.globetech.se/safe/ Notes : From the web page, I infer that you have to manually de/encrypt files. It can operate at a folder level, which is at least some improvement over file-by-file operation. I didn't see any reason why this product would be better than any of those listed above. Product : Your Eyes Only Manufacturer : Norton (Symantec) Type : File List, Manual? Crypto : It uses a "Genuine RSA Encryption Engine". Features : boot-time lock, screen lock, uses context menu, network support Cost : $89.95 Preview? : No Web : http://www.symantec.com/yeo/index_product.html Notes : I couldn't tell if this operated in some sort of transparent or automatic fashion like other file list programs, or if you had to encrypt/decrypt each folder manually. A screen shot shows a user using a context meny that has "Enable SmartLock Folder" and "Disable SmartLock Folder," which implies some non-manual mode of operation. E-mail to Symantec asking for more information (and details on their crypto) went unanswered. There is also an administrator's version of this program. Product : Stealth Encryptor Manufacturer : Tropical Software, Inc. Type : File List Crypto : BLOWFISH, DES ("64-bit") Features : installable crypto modules (via .DLL, development kit available), secure delete, e-mail integration Cost : $34.95 Preview? : Yes Web : http://www.tropsoft.com/stealth/ Notes : This package's unique feature is its support for drop-in crypto modules. Theoretically you could write your own .DLL with another crypto system of your choice and Stealth Encryptor would integrate it. If you have a burning desire to do this, you might look into this. SE also features "Stealth Media Encryption" which is "super speed" for image files, executables, etc...presumably with weaker crypto. Product : SecureStore Manufacturer : Selom Ofori Type : Manual Crypto : BLOWFISH, DES/Triple-DES, CAST, RC4, Diamond2 Features : Cost : $30 Preview? : Yes Web : http://www.freeyellow.com/members/renegade/ Notes : SecureStore creates archives into which you can place files. From what I saw on their web site, to access aid files, you have to pull them out of the archive again. While the screen shots show some nice displays (e.g., which crypto used, compression ratio, etc.), this mode of operation does not appeal to me. Product : Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) Manufacturer : PGP, Inc. (well, Network Associates now, I guess) Type : Manual Crypto : CAST, IDEA, Triple-DES Features : Too many to list. Cost : Free Preview? : Yes Web : http://www.pgp.com/ Notes : Listed just for the sake of completeness. And it's not at all bad for manual encrypt/decrypt -- version 5.5 has a nice toolbar and tray interface. But you'll want it for all the other messaging features anyway...

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Crypto Law Survey updated
by Bert-Jaap Koops 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I have just updated my survey of existing and envisaged cryptography laws and regulations. See the Crypto Law Survey at http://cwis.kub.nl/~frw/people/koops/lawsurvy.htm This update includes: -update on European Union (ETSI on TTP; Eckhert statement; COM (97) 503 "not important"; Birmingham conference), Council of Europe (PC-CY), Belgium (law amended), Canada (crypto policy discussion paper), France (Lorentz report), Gemany (Sandl statement; no backdoor in Pluto), Israel (export revision), Netherlands (proposals to extend decryption command; TTP project; encrypt to "seize"; use remains free), Scandinavia (PSS no longer Nordic), United Kingdom (policy announcement delayed; SfL resolution), United States (interim export rule; California resolution; czar travels; Compsec Enhancement Act; Kerrey McCain revised; AES conference) -corrections on Estonia (controls were reported), Switzerland (telecom > radio) -clarification on Wassenaar Arrangement (General Software Note), Germany (export), Israel (case-by-case decisions), Sweden (Internet export), US (SAFE versions) -URL added to Canada (gov PKI), Hong Kong (export) Kind regards, Bert-Jaap --------------------------------------------------------------------- Bert-Jaap Koops tel +31 13 466 8101 Center for Law, Administration and facs +31 13 466 8149 Informatization, Tilburg University e-mail E.J.Koops(a)kub.nl -------------------------------------------------- Postbus 90153 | This world's just mad enough to have been made | 5000 LE Tilburg | by the Being his beings into being prayed. | The Netherlands | (Howard Nemerov) | --------------------------------------------------------------------- http://cwis.kub.nl/~frw/people/koops/bertjaap.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------

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Medical Privacy Alert
by JWRCLUM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF MASSACHUSETTS 99 Chauncy Street, Suite 310, Boston, MA 02111 (617) 482-3170 Fax (617) 451-000 CONTACT: John Roberts (617) 482-3170 http://users.aol.com/mcluf/home.html BENNETT-JEFFORDS BILL PLACES MEDICAL RECORD PRIVACY AT RISK The confidentiality of the doctor-patient relationship will be totally undermined as medical records become widely available without patient knowledge or consent. BOSTON - February 27, 1998. On Thursday 2/26/98 the United State Senate's Labor and Human Resources Committee heard testimony concerning a bill proposed by Senators Bennett and Jeffords that, if passed, would license the widespread disclosure of personal medical information contained in files held by doctors, hospitals, employers, educational institutions, and others. The bill which purports to be a privacy bill is, in fact, just the opposite. It places virtually no restrictions on the disclosure of personal medical records within health care entities (no matter how large and geographically widespread) or to a long list of other entities and agencies including the following: - any agents or contractors of the health care entities - Public Health Agencies, Oversight Agencies - Health Care Accreditation Agencies - State Health Care Databases There are major loopholes in access provisions for - Health Care Researchers - "Outcome" analysts ("cost/benefit" analysts for hospitals, HMO's, insurers, etc) Even law enforcement agencies will have easy access to browse computerized medical record systems for so-called "legitimate" investigatory purposes. This will make every American's medical record part of a new massive law enforcement database. The bill will destroy the confidential "doctor-patient relationship" and replace it with a new "patient-health care industry relationship." "This bill serves only the interests of the burgeoning health care industry," said John Roberts, Executive Director of the ACLU of Massachusetts. "It allows the transfer of your medical records to many entities that stand to profit from its information. Gone is doctor-patient confidentiality. Your doctor cannot protect your most sensitive medical information from many entities outside your medical facility. Even employers who have health plans are considered 'health care providers' in the Bennett-Jeffords bill. How many of us want our employers to have access to any of our medical records without our knowledge or consent?" The bill will also - Impose requirements that patients sign blanket consent forms for release of information as a condition of getting treatment, even for self-pay patients - Redefine "treatment" to make the patient's record a subject of continuous research - Blur the boundaries between individual patient care and the so-called "Population Management" and "Disease System Management" The bill will pre-empt all state laws which may be more protective of the confidentiality of medical records. The bill will not apply even its own minimal privacy protections to so-called "non-identifiable" medical records information. But...interestingly, the bill also refers to issuing "keys" to re-identify previously purportedly "non- identified" information. A formal logical analysis of this reveals that the bill itself admits that what it calls "nonidentifiable" medical record information is actually identifiable (i.e. containing patient information). The ACLU of Massachusetts believes that what is really needed for medical privacy protection would be the following: - Federal law should set a foundation or floor of privacy protection - State laws which are more-protective of patient's rights should not be preempted - No "Unique Patient Identification Numbers" - No electronic "linkage" of patient records stored in various sites - Computerized patient records must be encrypted with keys provided only to those directly involved in the individual patient care - The right of the individual patient to contract directly with physicians and health care providers regarding the privacy of the patient's medical records. -end-

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No Subject
by Michael Camp 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

help b093161c(a)bc.seflin.org

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Original Sources for Echelon
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Duncan Campbell has posted the message below on Echelon. Would anyone happen to have a copy of the 1988 New Statesman article? If not, I'll dig it out of a library. More importantly, as Duncan asks, does anyone know of other original info on Echelon? ---------- Date: Mon, 02 Mar 1998 23:35:59 To: ukcrypto(a)maillist.ox.ac.uk From: Duncan Campbell <duncan(a)gn.apc.org> Subject: Original sources regarding the ECHELON sigint network >>The New York times has recently run a story regarding a "telecommunications >>interception network" operating in Europe. >>My recollection is that news broke about this some time last year, thanks >>to revelations in New Zealand. Sorry, I don't have a good reference to >> hand. The original and primary source for information on ECHELON is an article I wrote in New Statesman magazine ten years ago : NS, 12 August 1988 : "They've got it taped". In 1991, a UK World in Action programme added an important new detail about the network, namely the presence of a DICTIONARY computer (a key part of the system) at GCHQ's processing centre in Westminster. In 1993, I produced a documentary for Channel 4 - "The Hill" which related ECHELON to the work of the Menwith Hill NSA field station near Harrogate in Yorkshire. In 1996, Nicky Hager in New Zealand described in his book "Secret Power" the presence of DICTIONARY computers at two New Zealand sigint stations, and gave extensive details of the local programming and tasking of the ECHELON "dictionaries". Apart from these sources, so far as I am aware all the reports that are around are derivative and reprocessed. The European Parliament STOA committee report from the "Omega Foundation" is in this category and was in fact submitted rather more than a year ago. If anyone is aware of any other *original* publication on this topic, could they post it. The arrival in the public domain of original information in this area is a rarity, yet is the foundation for the only things we "know" about the scale of NSA/GCHQ surveillance and processing. Duncan Campbell

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Fwd: Thoughts
by Perrin . 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Not So Deep Thoughts Should vegetarians eat animal crackers? If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you. The pen is mightier than the sword -- if the sword is very small and the pen is real sharp. If you throw a cat out a car window, does it become kitty litter? Call me insane one more time and I'll eat your other eye! I didn't fight my way to the top of the food chain to be a vegetarian. When it rains, why don't sheep shrink? The two biggest problems in America are making ends meet and making meetings end. Stupidity got us into this mess. Why can't it get us out? The trouble with doing nothing is that you never know when you are finished. Money isn't everything, but at least it encourages relatives to stay in touch. If a stealth bomber crashes in a forest, does it make a sound? A single fact can spoil a good argument. Growing old is mandatory, but growing up is optional. I do whatever my Rice Krispies tell me to. Why do we sing "Take me out to the ball game" when we're already there? ---------------- fixed by Perrin pleontks(a)hotmail.com http://members.tripod.com/~pleontks http://www.angelfire.com/az/69frank69 ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

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Fwd: Taglines
by Perrin . 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

*** Some Funny Taglines ***** 2 rules to success in life. 1. Don't tell people everything you know. A good pun is its own reword. A penny for your thoughts; $20 to act them out. After silence, music comes closest to expressing the inexpressible. Alcoholic: Someone you don't like who drinks as much as you do. All things are possible, except skiing through a revolving door. Any man who can see through women is sure missing a lot. Apathy Error: Don't bother striking any key. Blessed are the censors; they shall inhibit the earth. Budget: A method for going broke methodically. Can you think of another word for "synonym"? Circle: A line that meets its other end without ending. Civilized people need love for full sexual satisfaction. Cole's Law: Thinly sliced cabbage. Conscience is what hurts when everything else feels good. Consider what might be fertilizing the greener grass across the fence. Death and taxes are inevitable; at least death doesn't get worse every = year. Defeat is worse than death because you have to live with defeat. Despite the high cost of living, it remains popular. Does Time pass? Yes, it does. How else can you explain Visa bills? Don't use no double negatives, not never. Don't sweat the petty things, just pet the sweaty things. Don't eat the yellow snow. Down with categorical imperatives. Either I'm dead or my watch has stopped. =20 Electricity comes from electrons; morality comes from morons. Everything in moderation, including moderation. Familiarity breeds children. Fast, Cheap, Good: Choose any two. Fools rush in -- and get the best seats in the house. Give me chastity and continence, but not just now. -- St. Augustine Have an adequate day. He has the heart of a little child... it's in a jar on his desk. He who dies with the most toys is nonetheless dead. He who laughs last didn't get the joke. Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defense. Horse sense is the thing a horse has that keeps it from betting on = people. Hospitality: Making your guests feel at home, even though you wish they = were. How come wrong numbers are never busy? I bet you have never seen a plumber bite his nails. I do a lot of thinking in the john. Says a lot for my thoughts. I have had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it. -- = Groucho Marx I have seen the future and it is just like the present, only longer. -- = Albran I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I may not be the world's greatest lover, but number seven's not bad. -- = Allen I never forget a face, but in your case I'll make an exception. -- Marx = I will meet you at the corner of Walk and Don't Walk. I never made a mistake in my life. I thought I did once, but I was = wrong. I used to be lost in the shuffle. Now I just shuffle along with the = lost. I want to die in my sleep like my father, not screaming like his = passengers. I will always love the false image I had of you. I would give my right arm to be ambidextrous. I would like to help you out. Which way did you come in? If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried. If at first you don't succeed, you probably didn't really care anyway. If at first you do succeed, try to hide your astonishment. If it wasn't for muscle spasms, I wouldn't get any exercise at all. If it were truly the thought that counted, more women would be pregnant. If there is no God, who pops up the next Kleenex? -- Art Hoppe If time heals all wounds, how come bellybuttons don't fill in? If today is the first day of the rest of your life, what was yesterday? Illiterate? Write for free help. In order to get a loan you must first prove you don't need it. It doesn't matter whether you win or lose -- until you lose. It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. -- Albert = Einstein It is better to have loved and lost than just to have lost. It is not an optical illusion, it just looks like one. -- Phil White=20 It was a brave man that ate the first oyster. I'll procrastinate...tomorrow. I'll race you to China. You can have a head start. Ready, set, GO! Keep a very firm grasp on reality, so you can strangle it at any time. Keep stress out of your life. Give it to others instead. Knocked; you weren't in. -- Opportunity=20 Know what I hate most? Rhetorical questions. -- Henry Camp=20 Laugh at your problems; everybody else does. Laugh, and the world ignores you. Crying doesn't help either. Lead me not into temptation. I can find it myself. Life is like a fountain... I will tell you how when I figure it out. Life is like an analogy. Make a firm decision now... you can always change it later. Male zebras have white stripes, but female zebras have black stripes. May you die in bed at 95, shot by a jealous spouse. Money DOES talk -- it says good-bye. Most of us hate to see a poor loser. Rich winners, though, are worse. Mr. Bullfrog sez: Time is fun when you're having flies. My name is Annie Key. Ouch! Why are you hitting me?! My mother is a travel agent for guilt trips. My opinions might have changed, but not the fact that I am right. Never deprive someone of hope; it may be all they have. Never put off till tomorrow what you can ignore entirely. Never forget: 2 + 2 =3D 5 for extremely large values of 2. Never hit a man with glasses. Use your fist. Next time you wave at me, use more than one finger, please. No prizes for predicting rain. Prizes only awarded for building arks. Nobody ever goes there, it's too crowded. (I've actually HEARD this!)=20 Nothing cures insomnia like the realization that it is time to get up. One good turn usually gets most of the blanket. Our policy is, when in doubt, do the right thing. -- Roy Ash=20 Out of the mouths of babes does often come cereal. People who think they know everything greatly annoy those of us who do. Politics: n. from Greek; "poli" - many; "tics" - ugly, bloodsucking = parasites. Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur. (Anything in Latin sounds = profound.) Radioactive cats have 18 half-lives. Some people would not recognize subtlety if it hit them on the head. Someday you will get your big chance -- or have you already had it? Sometimes you're the bug, and sometimes you're the windshield. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. -- Sigmund Freud=20 Stealing a rhinoceros should not be attempted lightly. That was Zen; this is Tao. The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance. The trouble with political jokes is that they get elected. The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that, you have it = made. The death rate on Earth is: .... (computing) .... One per person. The most enjoyable form of sex education is the Braille method. The number watching you is proportional to the stupidity of your action. The trouble with being punctual is that no one is there to appreciate = it. There are 3 kinds of people: Those who can count and those who can't. There must be more to life than sitting wondering if there is more to = life. They laughed when I said I'd be a comedian. They aren't laughing now. This aphorism would be seven words long if it were six words shorter. This will be a memorable month -- no matter how hard you try to forget = it. This is the sort of English up with which I will not put. -- Winston = Churchill This sentence contradicts itself: no, wait, actually it doesn't. To err is human. To admit it is a blunder. To err is human. To blame someone else for your errors is even more = human. Toe: A part of the foot used to find furniture in the dark. -- Rilla = May=20 Two wrongs don't make a right, but three lefts do. Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it is just the = opposite. We aren't sure how clouds form. But they know, that is what counts. What is mind? No matter. What is matter? Never mind. -- Thomas Key=20 What if there were no hypothetical situations? --Andrew Kohlsmith=20 When you are in it up to your ears, keep your mouth shut. When professors want your opinion, they'll give it to you. Where there is a will, there is an Inheritance Tax. Why don't "minimalists" find a shorter name for themselves? Why is "abbreviated" such a long word? Why take life seriously? You're not coming out of it alive anyway! Why isn't "phonetic" spelled the way it's said? Winning isn't everything, but losing isn't anything. You simply *must* stop taking other people's advice. You can fool some of the people some of the time, and that is = sufficient. You have the capacity to learn from mistakes. You will learn a lot = today. Your lucky number is 364958674928. Watch for it everywhere. ---------- fixed by Perrin pleontks(a)hotmail.com http://members.tripod.com/~pleontks http://www.angelfire.com/az/69frank69 ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

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Barry Smith (FBI) to speak this Friday at 3:30pm
by Dr. Alan Sherman 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The UMBC Security Technology Research Group presents A Law-Enforcement Perspective on Encryption Policy Barry Smith Supervisory Special Agent, FBI moderated by journalist Peter Wayner 3:30pm - 5:00pm Friday, March 6, 1998 Lecture Hall III University of Maryland, Baltimore County http://www.cs.umbc.edu/events/spring98/crypto.shtml The second lecture and discussion in a two-part forum on encryption policy. Journalist Peter Wayner will introduce and moderate the event, which is free and open to the public. In Part I, freedom activist John Gilmore and Fritz Fielding (Ex-Associate General Councel, NSA) gave their divergent views, focusing on the Burnstein case. Barry Smith will articulate the needs of law enforcement to conduct lawful wiretaps; he will advocate the use of key-recovery techniques to achieve this end as a way that provides adequate privacy to law-abiding citizens. Schedule: The event will begin with a brief (10 minute) introduction by Peter Wayner. Following Barry Smith's talk, which will last approximately 45 minutes, there will be an opportunity to ask questions for approximately 20-30 minutes. Questions: Attendees are encouraged to ask questions in advance by sending email to sherman(a)cs.umbc.edu Directions: Take Exit #47B off interstate I-95 and follow signs to UMBC. LH III is in the Administration Building, adjacent visitor's parking lot near the I-95 entrance to UMBC. Host: Dr. Alan T. Sherman Associate Professor, Computer Science sherman(a)cs.umbc.edu http://www.umbc.edu (410) 455-2666 This event is held in cooperation with the UMBC Intellectual Sports Council Honors College Phi Beta Kappa honors society CMSC Council of Majors IFSM Council of Majors ACM Student Chapter at UMCP

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Re: DDJ Crypto CD has arrived!
by Unicorn 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

--- On Mar 02, Random User apparently wrote ----------------------------------- > On Mon, 23 Feb 1998, Peter Trei wrote: > > > Well, it's finally here. > > It has also arrive in Canada. So when will it arrive outside of the US and Canada? ;-) --- and thus sprach: Random User <mctaylor(a)privacy.nb.ca> --------------------- Ciao, Unicorn. -- ======= _ __,;;;/ TimeWaster (GSM: +31 653 261 368) ========================= ,;( )_, )~\| A Truly Wise Man Never Plays PGP: 64 07 5D 4C 3F 81 22 73 ;; // `--; Leapfrog With A Unicorn... 52 9D 87 08 51 AA 35 F0 ==='= ;\ = | ==== Youth is not a time in Life, It is a State of Mind! =======

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Senator plans to ban .gov porn-parodies; new crypto-campaign
by Declan McCullagh 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 4 Mar 1998 13:15:35 -0800 (PST) From: Declan McCullagh <declan(a)well.com> To: politech(a)vorlon.mit.edu Subject: Senator plans to ban .gov porn-parodies; new crypto-campaign More on Gates in NYC and the FBI's antihacker crusade is at the URL below. --Declan =========== http://cgi.pathfinder.com/netly/afternoon/0,1012,1782,00.html The Netly News / Afternoon Line March 4, 1998 Loin-cloth One lawmaker who doesn't seem to have much of a sense of humor about titillating web sites is Sen. Lauch Faircloth (R-N.C.). When his presumably technology-impaired staffer stumbled across whitehouse.com and found not Hillary Clinton's child care proposals but a doctored photo of Hillary in leather, Faircloth decided to take action. "I plan to introduce legislation that would ban the assignment of popular government agency names to anyone," he told The Netly News after speaking at an Internet child safety seminar this afternoon. "Can you imagine how many people have thought they were contacting the White House only to see that?" A better question might be which site is the more popular one. --By Declan McCullagh/Washington Might Makes Right Congress rarely does the right thing for the right reason.Instead, lobbyists vie to make voting the wrong way too politically costly for legislators. Now a new coalition, called Americans for Computer Privacy, is trying out this strategy on encryption legislation. The group of high tech firms and nonprofit groups aims to convince lawmakers that supporting restrictions on either the domestic use or overseas shipment of encryption productions is too politically painful. "We would not turn the keys to our front doors over the government. Why should we have to turn over the keys to our computers?" asked ACP counsel and former White House lawyer Jack Quinn. To convince Americans that ACP's answer is the right one, the coalition has gathered together an advisory panel of former spooks and law enforcement agents. Quinn told the Netly News that his strategy has already won results: "Senior officials at the National Security Council and the vice president's office" this morning signaled they're willing to sit down at the table for a friendly chat about crypto-laws. --By Declan McCullagh/Washington

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DES bitslice S-boxes
by mkwan＠preston.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I've been a bit out of touch with the subject for a while, so could someone please bring me up to speed in the state of the art of DES bitslice. In particular, what are the best gate counts for the S-boxes? About a year ago I produced S-boxes with the following counts S-box S1 S2 S3 S4 S5 S6 S7 S8 Gates 95 84 89 77 96 87 86 88 (You can download them from http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/~mkwan/bitslice) However, I was recently told that these have now been beaten by a significant margin. I thought about it for a while, and came up with some ideas that should improve the count, but I'd like to know what I'm aiming for. Any improvements I make will also be made freely available, so you have an incentive to help me ;-) mkwan

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Re: ed yourdon on Y2k armaggedon
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>That said, I'll bet the first taker a dollar against a doughnut that 90% >of U.S. nuke plants sail right through into the new millenium and don't >even trip for any technical reason. (I won't bet against >*political* reasons.) > >Why do I think so? > >Nuke plants are much less computerized than you might think. > >Many still use electromechanical relays to provide important logic >functions. Relays have a lot going for them - for instance you never have >to worry about introduction of stupid software bugs. What about real bugs introducing themselves into relays? :) A few years ago a nuke plant wanted to build a computerized control system and USNRC absolutely gave them hell, requiring them to document every damn line of it and prove that it could handle all special cases. But they did finally approve it.

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Win95/NT attack in CNN news
by David Honig 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9803/04/internet.attack.ap/ Hacker attack crashes Windows systems coast-to-coast March 4, 1998 Web posted at: 10:05 a.m. EST (1505 GMT) SAN DIEGO (AP) -- Computer security experts blame hackers for an Internet attack that caused computers running Microsoft's Windows NT software to crash from coast to coast, mostly in government and university offices. While no real harm was done, it was too early to gauge the full extent of the attack. Experts said the far-flung glitches could only have been the result of a deliberate act, The San Diego Union-Tribune reported Wednesday. The crash Monday night affected computers running Windows NT -- the operating system for larger computers and networks -- and Windows 95. Problems were reported at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Northwestern University, the University of Minnesota and University of California campuses in Berkeley, Irvine, Los Angeles and San Diego. Unclassified Navy computers connected to the Internet also crashed on Point Loma and in Charleston, South Carolina, Norfolk, Virginia, and elsewhere. "It happened so fast," said Craig Huckabee, a research associate in the Computer Systems Laboratory at the University of Wisconsin. "In our department, I would have to say about 90 percent of the machines were affected." Despite the coordination of the attack, the computers that crashed could be restarted without losing information, computer security experts said. The attackers used the Internet to broadly distribute a snippet of deliberately malformed data, said Ron Broersma, a civilian computer security expert at the Navy labs on Point Loma. The prank exploits a glitch in the Windows NT program by instructing the computer to devote excessive memory resources to solve a problem that can't be solved. Microsoft security manager Ed Muth said the company is working on a software patch that fixes the vulnerability in Windows NT programs. An unidentified Microsoft executive told the Union-Tribune it was unknown if the attack was related to Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates' appearance Tuesday at a Senate hearing where he defended his company against allegations of antitrust violations. ------------------------------------------------------------ David Honig Orbit Technology honig(a)otc.net Intaanetto Jigyoubu "But if we have to use force, it is because we are America; we are the indispensable nation." ---Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright http://www.jya.com/see-far.htm

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Re: Digital Bearer Settlement
by Bill Stewart 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Nice article, and I'll have to see if I can get Ian to talk about HINDE for this month's Bay Area Cypherpunks. One thing I noticed while reading it, though, is that you still have "and then you go to jail" at the end of some transaction failure branches, though most of the failure branches end with "Nothing happens". While you're not doing book entry at every step, bearer instruments still depend on the maker honoring them, whether it's exchanging the bank note for gold pieces or trading the digicash bits for Federal Reserve Notes -- "then the banker goes to jail" can still happen, and a digicash world may not have as many S&L Bailout political favors as the Reagan Years provided. Also, there are the transactions where you trade digicash for goods&services, and there's still the problem of making sure the goods&services got delivered, making sure the payment got delivered, and dealing with poor quality products. For purely digital products, like consulting hours, movies, and microcode, there are protocols that can take care of the exchange, but for goods&services involving real stuff, like pizza delivery, there's still an element of trust required. Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, bill.stewart(a)pobox.com PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639

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RE: Your Trade Posting
by 01088496＠17733.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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List of college and graduate courses in crypto and security
by Avi Rubin 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I maintain a list of college and gruaduate level courses in security and cryptography at http://www.cs.nyu.edu/~rubin/courses.html >From time to time, I like to update the list. If you know of a full semester course in crypto or security that is not on my list please let me know. URLs are especially useful. Also, if you see something on my list that is out of date, let me know. Thanks, Avi ********************************************************************* Aviel D. Rubin rubin(a)research.att.com Secure Systems Research Dept. Adjunct Professor at NYU AT&T Labs - Research 180 Park Avenue http://www.research.att.com/~rubin/ Florham Park, NJ 07932-0971 Voice: +1 973 360-8356 USA FAX: +1 973 360-8809 --> Check out http://www.clark.net/pub/mjr/websec/ for a new book on web security (The Web Security Sourcebook). *********************************************************************

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by Ekkoh1 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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by debiloo＠juno.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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No Subject
by Ken Williams 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Hello, I have more of a general privacy rather than a crypto question. I am trying to set up "tripwires" in the various computer accounts that i have so i will know if a superuser or sysadmin has accessed them. (it should be taken for granted at this point that all sensitive or personal data is encrypted and/or stored on floppies) i of course am only concerned with doing so for accounts that i don't already have su access with. i have accounts on various flavors of UNIX, but i am most interested in tripwires/scripts for Solaris 2.4-6. so far, the best i have been able to come up with is a couple of very ineffective tripwires. 1. a few lines in .Xlogout that write the host/date stamp to a file that is hidden a few directories deep. - this of course only works if someone logs in to my account using my own login/passwd, and it doesn't work over dialup at all. 2. i have a .environment file that will write all of the relevant user info to a file if that user adds my directory with the "add" command - this will catch all superuser accesses *if and only if* they add my directory. they could simply cd into my directory to bypass it. anyone have any ideas for tripwires or any other methods i can use, having only regular user access, to monitor ANY accesses made to my account, especially by superusers/sysadmins? thanks for your consideration of this question, ken

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Feds bust Inet gambling
by David Honig 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

All parties were consenting but the Fed doesn't like it. First the virtual betting parlors. Then the virtual banks and cryptocash. http://dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/technology/wired/story.html?s=n/reuters /980304/wired/stories/gambling_1.html Wednesday March 4 4:56 PM EST U.S. authorities launch Internet gambling crackdown NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. federal authorities charged 14 people on Wednesday with running gambling sites on the Internet in violation of federal laws. In complaints unsealed in Manhattan Federal Court, the U.S. Attorney's office charged the 14 with using Internet Web sites and telephone lines to bet on U.S. football, basketball, hockey and baseball games, charging a 10 percent commission per bet. At least some of the defendants were scheduled to appear before a U.S. magistrate judge later on Wednesday. The defendants were charged with using Internet sites to open bettor accounts, usually with a minimum deposit of $500, and then accepting bets on games and game score spreads and maintaining accounts for clients. Client funds were directed to banks or addresses in such offshore locations as Antigua, Curacao, Costa Rica and Panama, where betting is legal. But the complaints alleged that the six operations conducted much of their business within U.S. borders. One defendant, Steven Budin, 27, of SDB Global (www.sdbg.com) said his business used the Internet only for marketing, not to take bets. "We don't take wagers over the Internet," he said. ------------------------------------------------------------ David Honig Orbit Technology honig(a)otc.net Intaanetto Jigyoubu "But if we have to use force, it is because we are America; we are the indispensable nation." ---Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright http://www.jya.com/see-far.htm

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No Subject
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

In doing a search on the "RELIGIOUS FREEDOM AMENDMENT", Lycos popped over 2000 hits. In checking out several sites, this one seemed the most rational in discussing the issue. http://www.religioustolerance.org/const_am.htm

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by jic 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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