December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: Accounts payable
by nobody＠huge.cajones.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Date: Mon, 28 Apr 1997 From: Graham-John Bullers <real(a)freenet.edmonton.ab.ca> To: Huge Cajones Remailer <nobody(a)huge.cajones.com> Cc: cypherpunks(a)toad.com Subject: Re: Accounts payable Sender: owner-cypherpunks(a)sirius.infonex.com Reply-To: Graham-John Bullers <real(a)freenet.edmonton.ab.ca> On Mon, 28 Apr 1997, Huge Cajones Remailer wrote: I think Vulis needs each of us to send ten copies of this back to him. > Here, Timothy C[unt] Mayonnaise descends into total inanity. > He should have a cold shower and/or Graham-John Bullers. > > /////// > \-oo-/ Timothy C[unt] Mayonnaise > \--/ > \/ > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Graham-John Bullers Modulator of alt.2600.modulated ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ email : real(a)freenet.edmonton.ab.ca : ab756(a)freenet.toronto.on.ca ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ http://www.freenet.edmonton.ab.ca/~real/index.html ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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Corrected Printing of Applied Cryptography Now Available
by Bruce Schneier 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Wiley has finally published a corrected printing of Applied Cryptography, 2nd ed!!! They didn't correct everything, only changes that didn't affect page breaks. Still, I counted over 250 individual corrections. And under a dozen errors remaining. I'm thrilled that they finally did this. The fifth printing (or greater) is the corrected printing. To find what printing you own, turn to page iv (it's opposite the "Contents in Brief" page). The last line (under "Printed in the United States of America") is a series of numbers, counting down from 10. The lowest number is the printing. You have a fifth printing if your last line looks like: 10 9 8 7 6 5 If you want to buy a fifth printing, you have two options. One, you can go to a bookstore and find one. You can't ask the bookstore to buy a fifth printing; all he can do is order a copy of the book and hope for the best. I believe that the fourth printing is sold out (in softcover, at least), but I cannot be sure. The other option is to buy it from me. I have a large supply of fifth printings that I will sell at the usual 15% discount: softcover - $42.00 hardcover - $59.00 Postage is as follows: surface to US - $3.00 air to US - $5.00 Canada - $5.00 surface elsewhere - $5.00 Contact me if you want airmail overseas. It's expensive. Cheers, Bruce ************************************************************************ * Bruce Schneier 2,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,002,000, * Counterpane Systems 000,000,000,000,000,000,002,000,000,002,293 * schneier(a)counterpane.com The last prime number...alphabetically! * (612) 823-1098 Two vigintillion, two undecillion, two * 101 E Minnehaha Pkwy trillion, two thousand, two hundred and * Minneapolis, MN 55419 ninety three. * http://www.counterpane.com ************************************************************************

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ALERT: Groups urge passage of pro-crypto legislation (4/28/1997)
by Shabbir J. Safdar 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

============================================================================== ___ _ _____ ____ _____ _ / _ \| | | ____| _ \_ _| | THE HOUSE PREPARES TO ENSURE ENCRYPTION | |_| | | | _| | |_) || | | | AND PRIVACY ON THE INTERNET; SAFE | _ | |___| |___| _ < | | |_| BILL (HR 695) ABOUT TO BE VOTED ON! |_| |_|_____|_____|_| \_\|_| (_) April 28, 1997 Do not forward this alert after June 1, 1997. This alert brought to you by: Americans for Tax Reform Center for Democracy and Technology Eagle Forum EF-Florida Electronic Frontier Foundation Electronic Privacy Information Ctr. Voters Telecommunications Watch Wired Magazine _____________________________________________________________________________ Table of Contents What's Happening Right Now What You Can Do To Help Privacy And Security On The Internet Background On SAFE (HR 695) Why Is This Issue Important To Internet Users? About This Alert / Participating Organizations _____________________________________________________________________________ WHAT'S HAPPENING RIGHT NOW HOUSE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE TO VOTE ON "SAFE" PRO-INTERNET PRIVACY BILL The House Judiciary Committee is set to vote on a bill designed to protect privacy and promote electronic commerce on the Internet as early as the second week of May. The SAFE bill will also be considered by a Judiciary subcommittee this week and is expected to pass without difficulty. The House Judiciary committee vote on HR695 will mark a critical stage in the effort to pass real reform of US encryption policy in a way that protects privacy, promotes electronic commerce, and recognizes the realities of the global Internet. Although no bill is perfect, Internet advocates including CDT, EFF, EPIC, VTW and others, including the Internet Privacy Coalition, have expressed support for the bill. Supporters agree that the SAFE bill holds great promise for enhancing privacy and security on the Internet and have offered their strong support and suggestions to improve it in a detailed letter at http://www.privacy.org/ipc/safe_letter.html Please take a moment to read the attached alert, and make a phone call to urge the committee to pass the bill. _______________________________________________________________________ WHAT YOU CAN DO TO HELP PRIVACY AND SECURITY ON THE INTERNET 1. Check out the information on the SAFE bill below. 2. Call the Representative on the Judiciary committee from your state. Note that there may be more than one person from your state on the committee. The list is enclosed below the telephone script. SAMPLE SCRIPT You: <dial Capitol switchboard +1.202.224.3121> May I speak to the office of Rep. (INSERT NAME FROM LIST BELOW) Them: Hello, Rep. Mojo's office! You: May I speak with the staffer who deals with Internet or telecom issues? Them: One minute.. SAY You: Hello! HR695 will be voted on by the Judiciary committee in a THIS-> couple of weeks. I'm calling to urge Rep. Mojo to pass the bill because it's important to security and privacy on the Internet. Them: Thanks, goodbye! You: Goodbye! <click> If you have concerns about specific improvements to the bill, bringing them up when you're on the phone with the staffer is a good opportunity for raising issues. Judiciary Committee Members (from committee Web page) MR. HYDE (ILLINOIS), CHAIRMAN Mr. Sensenbrenner (Wisconsin) Mr. Conyers (Michigan) Mr. McCollum (Florida) Mr. Frank (Massachusetts) Mr. Gekas (Pennsylvania) Mr. Schumer (New York) Mr. Coble (North Carolina) Mr. Berman (California) Mr. Smith (Texas) Mr. Boucher (Virginia) Mr. Schiff (New Mexico) Mr. Nadler (New York) Mr. Gallegly (California) Mr. Scott (Virginia) Mr. Canady (Florida) Mr. Watt (North Carolina) Mr. Inglis (South Carolina) Ms. Lofgren (California) Mr. Goodlatte (Virginia) Ms. Jackson Lee (Texas) Mr. Buyer (Indiana) Ms. Waters (California) Mr. Bono (California) Mr. Meehan (Massachusetts) Mr. Bryant (Tennessee) Mr. Delahunt (Massachusetts) Mr. Chabot (Ohio) Mr. Wexler (Florida) Mr. Barr (Georgia) Mr. Rothman (New Jersey) Mr. Jenkins (Tennessee) Mr. Hutchinson (Arkansas) Mr. Pease (Indiana) Mr. Cannon (Utah) 3. *IMPORTANT* Touch base with us at http://www.crypto.com/feedback/ and let us know how the phone call went. Fill out the easy to use form to let us know what happened during your phone call. 4. Pass this alert on to others until June 1 You've taken the first step to being a part of the powerful political force of Americans concerned about the health and safety of the Internet, but have your friends? Forward this alert to them until June 1, 1997 and urge them to adopt their legislator at http://www.crypto.com/adopt/ 5. Be proud of yourself and relax! You've done more to protect the Internet in five minutes than many people will do this year. ________________________________________________________________________ BACKGROUND ON SAFE (HR 695) In early May, the Judiciary Committee will be voting on whether to send HR 695, the Security and Freedom Through Encryption (SAFE) Act, on to the full House of Representatives. The SAFE Bill, introduced by Reps. Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) and Anna Eshoo (D-CA), would promote privacy and security on the Internet by: * relaxing current export controls on encryption technologies; * prohibiting the government from imposing "key-escrow" or "key- recovery" inside the United States, and; * addresses concerns from law enforcement about the use of encryption in the furtherance of a crime. The SAFE bill enjoys broad bi-partisan support and currently has 78 co-sponsors. Although no bill is ever perfect, the SAFE bill, along with Pro-CODE, a similar bill in the Senate sponsored by Sens. Burns (R-MT) and Leahy (D-VT), represent the best chance yet of passing real reform of US encryption policy. The Senate Commerce Committee is expected to hold a markup on Pro-CODE soon. The Clinton Administration, through the FBI and NSA, is working hard behind the scenes to block passage of SAFE and Pro-CODE. The Administration favors an approach which would limit the availability of privacy-protecting encryption technologies and compel American Citizens to ensure law enforcement access to their private online communications. By passing the SAFE bill and sending on to the floor, the House Judiciary Committee will send a strong signal to the Administration that Congress is serious about passing real reform of US encryption policy, and would represent an important victory in the fight for privacy on the Internet. Detailed background information, including the full text of the bill, and analysis is available online at http://www.crypto.com/ ______________________________________________________________________ WHY IS THIS ISSUE IMPORTANT TO INTERNET USERS? Encryption technologies are the locks and keys of the Information age -- enabling individuals and businesses to protect sensitive information as it is transmitted over the Internet. As more and more individuals and businesses come online, the need for strong, reliable, easy-to-use encryption technologies has become a critical issue to the health and viability of the Net. Current US encryption policy, which limits the strength of encryption products US companies can sell abroad, also limits the availability of strong, easy-to-use encryption technologies in the United States. US hardware and software manufacturers who wish to sell their products on the global market must either conform to US encryption export limits or produce two separate versions of the same product, a costly and complicated alternative. The export controls, which the NSA and FBI argue help to keep strong encryption out of the hands of foreign adversaries, are having the opposite effect. Strong encryption is available abroad, but because of the export limits and the confusion created by nearly four years of debate over US encryption policy, strong, easy-to-use privacy and security technologies are not widely available off the shelf or "on the net" here in the US. A recently discovered flaw in the security of the new digital telephone network exposed the worst aspects of the Administration's encryption policy. Because the designers needed to be able to export their products, the system's security was "dumbed down". Researchers subsequently discovered that it is quite easy to break the security of the system and intrude on what should be private conversations. This incident underscores the larger policy problem: US companies are at a competitive disadvantage in the global marketplace when competing against companies that do not have such hindrances. And now, for the first time in history, the Clinton Administration has proposed DOMESTIC RESTRICTIONS on the ability of Americans to protect their privacy and security online. All of us care about our national security, and no one wants to make it any easier for criminals and terrorists to commit criminal acts. But we must also recognize encryption technologies can aid law enforcement and protect national security by limiting the threat of industrial espionage and foreign spying, promote electronic commerce and protecting privacy. What's at stake in this debate is nothing less than the future of privacy and the fate of the Internet as a secure and trusted medium for commerce, education, and political discourse. _____________________________________________________________________________ ABOUT THIS ALERT / PARTICIPATING ORGANIZATIONS For more information, contact the following organizations who have signed onto this effort at their web sites. Americans for Tax Reform http://www.atr.org Center for Democracy and Technology http://www.cdt.org Eagle Forum http://www.eagleforum.org EF-Florida http://www.efflorida.org Electronic Frontier Foundation http://www.eff.org Electronic Privacy Information Center http://www.epic.org Voters Telecommunications Watch http://www.vtw.org Wired Magazine http://www.wired.com _____________________________________________________________________________ end alert ==============================================================================

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

17 Dec '03

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off-topic/Flying cows
by harka＠nycmetro.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- I just had to forward this...<G> (translated from a german newsservice) -=> Quoting In:germnews@listserv.gmd.de to Harka <=- Last Page: Flying cow sinks japanese fishing boat Wladiwostok. A cow fell out of an airplane before the siberian coast and smashed onto japanese fishing boat, causing it to sink. That reported the German Embassy in Moscow in an internal note to the [german] State Department. Appearantly a russian military plane was flying over the Ochotskian sea with stolen cows on board; the cows started panicking and made the airplane instable in it's flight - they weren't tied to the walls. Therefore the pilots used the last possibility: they opened the back door and moved the cows out of the machine. One of the cows hit a japanese fishing boat and turned it over. The crew could save themselves to the coast, where they were arrested by russian guards, who wouldn't believe the cow story - until an investigation proved it valid. A russian official responsible for traffic is supposed to have mentioned this case to the German Embassy as a strange example for the terrible condition of russian flight safety. The State Department would neither confirm nor deny the incident. Ciao Harka /*************************************************************/ /* This user supports FREE SPEECH ONLINE ...more info at */ /* and PRIVATE ONLINE COMMUNICATIONS! -> http://www.epic.org */ /* E-mail: harka(at)nycmetro.com (PGP-encrypted mail pref'd) */ /* PGP public key available upon request. [KeyID: 04174301] */ /* F-print: FD E4 F8 6D C1 6A 44 F5 28 9C 40 6E B8 94 78 E8 */ /*<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>*/ /* May there be peace in this world, may all anger dissolve */ /* and may all living beings find the way to happiness... */ /*************************************************************/ ___ Blue Wave/386 v2.30 [NR] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQEVAgUBM2WN0jltEBIEF0MBAQErxwf/RYxrpCMrjqdd+PA7DU5E9i/sIIQguKnN +LlbHifsXXdPD6g5NIxbvUMH9ELagnld2qKScynJNtBDFiNYfIuyVWFJFUVOh4L0 VQjrM/6s3hLapHYS09JNBh2B6MgI3HbAfTngY5qwwU4gq7ia646d8Sj/B/Qb+MJz RYFAvF1VUzSC9oQUHZDeAnO/VwN5d2APQFS+6X0Qbo4lSbhSZiK2tV1xFoVcRN4D Kd17Ec6y/Um4Wwr6Y/yhfR4R8Z1xfojZhnQ/USq+hgPg+CqzIYHzpymQNHju2mvr /SAHJIh5KZTV692+Rdo/iHOrBVg0KoX+6fuVH+weYTw4+kBJtPKQjg== =nFLz -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- If encryption is outlawed, only outlaws will have encryption...

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Re: Netscape plans to support GAK
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Robert Hettinga wrote: >Yup. Looks like Barksdale(?) was right in his Pro-Excrow comments two years >ago in Boston after all. > >Mr. Weinstein's Black Rhino Ammunition Inc. "Mr. Kevlar" award went for >naught, I'm afraid... While it might be too touchy for Netscaper cryptographers to address openly, I wonder if there is not a scheme afoot to go along with the current restrictions in order to be better positioned to compete with others intending to launch robust encryption as soon as the leak in the dam globally breaks. There may be more to this story than appears in the PR of industry and government. The crypto fight may be a diversion. Suppose the governments intend to relax crypto restrictions once other technologies to monitor electronic transactions are in place and and enforcers have been trained to snare illegal transactors based on physical evidence of crime beyond the digital. Recall that that's what Peter Neumann and others on the NRC crypto panel suggested as an agenda for the FBI to forego undue crypto emphasis. Is it not possible that the US and other nations will allow strong encryption so long as other means are at hand to control any action merely cloaked in encrypted language, as has been done forever with stylistic literature and speech? To, as with its predecessors, tolerate the artist of cryptoanarchy but guillotine the actor.

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No Subject
by Mix 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Timothy Mayflower studied yoga back-streching exercises for five years so he could blow himself (nobody else will). o/ \ / \ / / \o / \ / \ /o\ / |\ / \

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Re: Fingerprint Stego
by Alec 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- At 12:37 PM 4/29/97 -0700, Mike Duvos thoughtfully wrote: |A funny story in last night's Seattle Times... | |It seems the INS and FBI are unwilling to grant US citizenship to |persons without legible fingerprints. [snip] Fingerprint escrow? Does this mean that, ipso facto (I love it), physically challenged individuals with missing or deformed hands are excluded regardless of other qualifications? What a monstrosity of a rule! Was this carried over the wire? AP? |"This is not something we take lightly," said INS spokesperson |Irene Mortensen. "We can't just arbitrarily give out citizenship |to just anyone." The fact that Irene Mortensen has citizenship at all proves her point. Is it not possible to retroactively _remove_ the citizenship of such an arrogant bureaucrat to test whether she could make the grade imposed on the rest of the world's "refuse?" "Dear Irene Mortensen: We regret to inform you....." Thanks, Mike, for the increase in BP. Alec -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 4.5 iQCVAgUBM2ZiXiKJGkNBIH7lAQH8CAQArOmQYxiaavj5FXdJUomjviRBcVfkxCRX PWCDZ/wMC68poOWEjKJECKYscVT0kMuw+FMOUKPYlMhR8kK33lvg4tOqbjMKyYMS LZbPU4M+jQNFq3y5c6hFUmtZg8zLATBIeb8lVRnWQ8qChSH8jdTSZLxhmTx8Azgt mrTXcnOk3dQ= =JZZe -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: Crypto Dongel
by Dave Emery 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Hal Finney wrote : > However if the system is designed to make it easy when it does become > necessary, it will probably be easy to at least occasionally activate the > feature accidentally. The result will be the loss of your keys. For what little it is worth, key zeroization is built into almost all US government crypto gear, usually with prominent switches on the front panel marked "zeroize" for emergencies. And most all of this gear has tamper switches that activate the zeroizing logic when any of the covers of the equipment are removed - and often there is more than one zeroize circuit in a system in case the primary one fails to work. My understanding is that the NSA has rather specific and detailed requirements for this feature in gear being designed for them, and one can certainly see why it would be a requirement in military systems that might have to be quickly rendered useless to an enemy in the moments before capture. So it is hardly a new idea. Dave Emery die(a)die.com

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Re: Anonymous Mailing Lists
by Peter Trei 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> Toto wrote: > > I'm not certain, being far from an expert on remailers and > > majordomos. I've had one person indicate that majordomos could > > be configured to keep all users anonymous, but didn't know > > if it could be done selectively in the case of anonymous > > remailers. He is supposed to get back to me on it. A few years ago, I maintained a low-traffic mailing list in which the users could be anonymous to each other - I was the only person who knew the recipient list. I used perl scripts to manage it, and manually edited messages which requested anonymity (it was a digest-style list). A perl script individually mailed copies to about 600 recipients. It worked, but was not scalable to higher traffic volumes. Peter Trei trei(a)process.com

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