December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

No Subject
by Trevor Goodchild 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Dimi Vulis is just another garden variety KGB whore that has been misusing its `manhole' so badly that the overstretched sphincter cannot hold back the shit that all KGB spooks are full of and it spills out onto this mailing list. ,/ \, ((__,-,,,-,__)), Dimi Vulis `--)~ ~(--` .-'( )`-, `~~`d\ /b`~~` | | (6___6) `-6-`

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BXA to Newt
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Thanks to Greg Broiles we offer a December 1996 letter from BXA's William Reinsch to Speaker Gingrich with a Report to Congress on the purpose and plan of export controls of commercial encryption items. http://jya.com/bxahouse.htm One note of interest: a battalion of crypto enforcement troops is being trained to spot EAR EI violations and nab Bernsteins, Karns, Jungers and rogues.

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by announce＠lists.zdnet.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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WWW-Survey
by harka＠nycmetro.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- GVU's Seventh WWW User Survey: http://www.cc.gatech.edu/gvu/user_surveys/ Lot's of privacy/security questions etc.. Ciao Harka -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQEVAwUBM17ZWzltEBIEF0MBAQGYMQf9E6W8z9IifU0QD2/3pEEGE2yji7kndh59 aCJ5F5oVVlXF60gQmQ/wFc/24oXvLmS45zpYUgIXFYsi9Ja3y1BfRRe1kbnN1KFQ KII3TX4H7SrBXmnhxP1YErlsZenWTAwLW8HEvGjWSTwbKXIGQQkm6Shddj+Kzdue yN9ZUX3eIJeo60Km4JWJzi/fO0+6YPiaI3AcFxltmoNymDfOaviCbxXyL24wJ8B2 wlD1arsBVhT9bs5IB37bUoGDo6OWEzcMOBbY05s9UsAO+Vwp+/+IxAzCNxG8ab32 ed57SrfZSwk4D5oQX+7eZlelU0WvbJA3RsT23LCewwlS9QMmG4Jo1w== =c1+l -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: Post Office to act as CA, creator of keys
by dlv＠bwalk.dm.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Are the people at C2Net really this clueless, or is this a joke? Greg Broiles <gbroiles(a)netbox.com> writes: ... > >Who in their right mind would *trust* the Post Office to act as a CA? > > Have been trying to think of a legitimate reason for the CA to generate keys, > instead of the end-user; haven't come up with one yet. ... To keep a copy, obviously. > The database description doesn't list the private keys among the data that > the Post Office plans to retain. Let me see if I follow the C2Net shill's logic: USPS generates my public/private pair of keys. USPS doesn't list the private keys as the data USPS plans to retain Therefore I can assume that they won't retain it. I guess this fits with everything else C2Net's been doing and saying. --- Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM Brighton Beach Boardwalk BBS, Forest Hills, N.Y.: +1-718-261-2013, 14.4Kbps

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EU-summit Amsterdam 16-17 june
by tank 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

A HOT SUMMER IN AMSTERDAM On the 16th and 17th of June the Eurotop will take place in Amsterdam. During this gathering of European heads of state in the Nederlandsche Bank in Amsterdam work will be done on the creation of a single economic power. With the market as the key word social services will either be privatised or scrapped. Governing policies will be made behind closed doors by impenetrable power structures. This tiny group of national leaders will give all power to capitalism and at the same time all possibilities for democratic alternatives will be dismantled. This process will be helped along by increasing levels of control, both internal and at the external borders of Europe. The heads of state have big ideas for this European conference. They want to formulate the Treaty of Amsterdam, or Maastricht 2, a rewriting of the European Union treaty that was signed in 1992. In this treaty they want to abolish the right of veto for national cabinets and bring in new laws for foreign policy, judiciary and the police. The Eurotop is a blessing for Amsterdam's council. They will get the chance to rid the city of its image as a Sodom and Gomorrah full of slums, drugs and the sex industry and will instead be able to present the city as a respectable economically sound international city. In order to present this image to the government leaders and to ensure that the conference runs smoothly there will be thousands of extra police officers bought into Amsterdam and a large part of the city will be made into security zones. In these security zones people will be required to prove their identity and the streets will be 'cleared' of the homeless, illegal immigrants and other 'undisirable elements'. A view of the future perhaps? Fortunately there are a lot of people and organisations who are discontented with these plans and intend to show their disgust and carry out acts of resistance during the conference. People from other countries and cities are of course welcome. We have already planned a number of actions and events that will take place between the 12th and 17th of June. Here we have an incomplete list of events. These actions will be organised by a broad spectrum of progressive groups and individuals. Therefore each group is responsible for its own plans. The actions have been planned taking other groups and events into consideration, but it has been decided that there will be no 'central comitee' to organise everything. There will remain plenty of room for other spontaneous occurences. During the conference there will be a number of 'info points' in Amsterdam where people will be able to obtain information about what is happening. The addresses of these points is not available at this moment but can be obtained from our address after 1st May. We are unable to arrange sleeping places for everybody, you will have to do that yourself (or arrange thast people can come and stay with you!) Individual actions and initiatives are welcome, so that we will be able to show in all manner of ways that we are not happy with the current policies of the EU but want a different and more just world. It promises to be a long hot summer. AN INCOMPLETE LIST OF ACTIVITIES THAT WILL TAKE PLACE DURING THE EUROTOP IN AMSTERDAM. 14-6 Demonstration against unemployment, poverty and exploitation. From mid- April thousands of people will be marching to Amsterdam from various different countries. These marches will meet in Amsterrdam on the 14th as a demonstration against EU policy. 11-6/17-6 Top from the bottom. "Platform for another Europe', a collaboration of various progressive groups will be organising discussions, actions and theme days. This will be in the form of an alternative top with speakers from different countries. There will be workshops about unemployment, poverty, social injustice, feminist Europe, Europe and the south, Ecological Europe and so on. 15-6 Demonstration/Action at the Border Hostel. The Autonomous Centre will probably organise a cycle demonstration through the city which will end up at the prison for refugees in south east Amsterdam. Exact details of this action will be publicised later. 13-6/15-6 Chaos Days. Punks will be gathering in Amsterdam to turn the city upside down. 15-6 Demonstration at the Homomonument. A demonstration against the verdict of the European court that England is alloewd to make voluntary SM sexual practises illegal. This will take place under the slogan "Sexual diversity in Europe". Organised by Stichting Gala. 12-6/13-6 United Conference. The biggest NGO gathering of the European Year Against Racism. The themes of this will be "Fortress Europe", "Everyday racism" and "Institutional Racism", there will be speakers from various countries. This will be held in English. 16-6 Eurorave. LegalizE street party against the European drugs policy "and the other shit that they have got planned for us." 17-6 Euroblow A massive smoke-in at the Nederlandsche Bank as a protest against the European drugs policy. 17-6 Autonomous demonstration at the Nederlandsche Bank. Angry people wearing balaclavas in a tearing hurry to get to the Nederlandsche bank. Meeting point 14-00hours at the Dam.

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Effective blockade on the Internet impossible (AP newswire)
by Felipe Rodriquez 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

This was was sent in Germany on tuesday, i got the translation today: "Effective blockade on the Internet impossible" Frankfurt/M, April 22 (AP) Effectively barring information of a certain kind from the Internet is not possible. That is the outcome of a week long blockade by Deutsche Forschungsnetz (DFN) of the Dutch Internet provider XS4ALL (meaning Access for All), which was lifted Monday evening. "It has been demonstrated that an effective blockade of illegal information has not been within the bounds of possibility" said DFN spokesman Klaus)Eckart Maass to AP news agency last Tuesday. Other Web servers, according to Mr Maass, have set up mirror sites of the online edition of the underground magazine "Radikal", published via XS4ALL, that is, it has been copied and been made accessible to the public. But this only served to put "Radikal" really in the picture. Besides, he had been faced with a flood of protest and abuse from the Internet, Mr Maass said. "Maintaining the blockade was not feasible." With their measure of 11 April, DFN responded to a letter from the Federal Criminal Investigation Department, pointing out the illegal contents of the magazine. Issue no. 154 of the radical left wing magazine contains a "Short Guide to hindering railway transports of all kinds" a manual describing how attacks can be made on the tracks on which the nuclear waste transports to Gorleben take place. On account of the Telecoms Bill, which received its second reading in the federal parliament on Friday, he is obliged to bar access to material on the Internet as soon as he learns of any illegal contents, Mr Maass explained, provided this is technically feasible. Protests from Serbia's opposition broadcasting station B92 As suppressing separate Web)pages is technically not possible, DFN cut off all access to the Dutch provider, which offers more than 6,000 different information sites among which those of Serbian opposition broadcasting station B92 and several others in the scientific field. "I cannot undertake anything that hampers scientific developments", said Mr Maass. Three DFN users complained they were no longer able to reach archeological and other information at XS4ALL. DFN, to which all German universities are connected, is used by about 500,000 users to obtain access to the Internet. Protests also came from B92, as the broadcasting station found its efforts to further the cause of democracy in Serbia thwarted by the blockade. In September of last year several commercial Internet providers had already blocked XS4ALL temporarily out of concern, so they said, that the measures taken by the law could take on such dimensions as would endanger their very existence. This action gave rise to fierce protests on the Internet, but also caused XS4ALL to remove issue 154 of "Radikal" from the server temporarily. It has not come to that during this recent blockade. Speaking out on the renewed blockade, XS4ALL said they were surprised, stating that censoring measures on the Internet had repeatedly proved to be counter productive. "As a provider we take the position that we cannot curtail freedom of opinion", XS4ALL spokesman Felipe Rodriquez-Svensson said. If there are doubts about the legitimacy of "Radikal" in the Netherlands, they should be settled in a Dutch court. -- XS4ALL Internet BV - Felipe Rodriquez-Svensson - finger felipe(a)xs4all.nl for Managing Director - - pub pgp-key 1024/A07C02F9

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Re: The Net is Closing, the U.S. is becoming a Terror State
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> > [I sent this several hours ago, and it has not appeared at my site. I am > > sending it again. My impression, based on the past some weeks, is that > > cyberpass.net is an unacceptable replacement for toad.com.] > > I have found that subscribing to cypherpunks(a)sirius.infonex.com (it's > majordomo) works just fine. Tim's message was delayed for a few hours. The impatient may want to subscrive to cypherpunks(a)algebra.com (also majordomo).

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New Crypto Panel
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Federal Register, April 24, 1997: DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE President's Export Council Subcommittee on Encryption; Notice of Establishment The Secretary of Commerce has determined that the establishment of the President's Export Council Subcommittee on Encryption is in the public interest in connection with the performance of duties imposed on the Department by law. The Subcommittee will advise the Secretary, through the Assistant Secretary for Export Administration, on matters pertinent to the implementation of an encryption policy that will support the growth of commerce while protecting the public safety and national security. The Subcommittee will consist of approximately 25 members to be appointed by the Secretary to assure a balanced representation among the exporting community and those Government agencies with a mandate to implement policy regarding encryption. The Subcommittee will function solely as an advisory body. Interested persons are invited to submit comments regarding the establishment of the Subcommittee to Lee Ann Carpenter, Committee Liaison Officer, OAS/EA/BXA, U.S. Department of Commerce, MS: 3886C, Washington, D.C., 20230. Telephone: 202-482-2583. FAX: 202-501-8024. Dated: April 18, 1997. Sue E. Eckert, Assistant Secretary for Export Administration.

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[NTSEC] NT Displays Plain-Text Netware Passwords (fwd)
by Ray Arachelian 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

=====================================Kaos=Keraunos=Kybernetos============== .+.^.+.| Ray Arachelian | "If you're gonna die, die with your|./|\. ..\|/..|sunder(a)sundernet.com|boots on; If you're gonna try, just |/\|/\ <--*-->| ------------------ |stick around; Gonna cry? Just move along|\/|\/ ../|\..| "A toast to Odin, |you're gonna die, you're gonna die!" |.\|/. .+.v.+.|God of screwdrivers"| --Iron Maiden "Die With Your Boots on"|..... ======================== http://www.sundernet.com ========================= For with those which eternal lie, with strange eons even death may die. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 24 Apr 1997 01:37:49 -0500 From: Patrick Hayden <patrick.hayden(a)ibm.net> To: ntsecurity(a)iss.net Subject: [NTSEC] NT Displays Plain-Text Netware Passwords Windows NT 4.0, with Microsoft's Client Services for Netware, or Novell's IntraNetware Client for Windows NT, writes plain-text user-id and password information to PAGEFILE.SYS. The user-id and password apply to Netware, however, users commonly use the same logon information for both NT and Netware. It is possible to then recover the plain-text information by using a disk editor. Tests have been performed (with more pending) on these systems: Windows NT Workstation 4.0 w/SP1 and IntraNetware Client for NT (970214) Pent. 133 Laptop 24MB RAM 50MB PAGEFILE.SYS Windows NT Workstation 4.0 w/SP1 and Microsoft Client Services for Netware Dual Pent 166 64MB RAM 80MB PAGEFILE.SYS Novell Netware 4.11 Server 1. Set /MAXMEM=12 in BOOT.INI so as to force swapping. 2. Load NT; Authenticate to NT and Netware (I used the same ID and Password for both systems.); Verify connection by mapping a drive. 3. To ensure that sufficient swapping takes place, run a large program (this forces the user-id and password information stored in RAM to be placed into PAGEFILE.SYS.) 4. Exit NT; Boot to DOS; diskedit PAGEFILE.SYS 5. Search for one of the following strings (do NOT include the "" items): IntraNetware Client: NWUserName="user-id" WlMprNotifyPassword="password" "UserName" (if the username is alone, the password will follow very closely) Client Services for Netware nwcs"password" (the password is all CAPS and will immediately follow nwcs) In a "real-life" environment, most likely there will be enough swapping on the system that setting the /MAXMEM switch will be unnecessary. The switch is only to help confirm that this hole exits. If anyone has any knowledge of this, please post it to the list. Patrick Hayden Security Consultant Ernst & Young, LLP patrick.hayden(a)ibm.net

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