December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: DES and RSA crypto hardware from the free world
by John Ioannidis 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I believe uti-Maco (a belgian company) has been using the Pijnenburg chips for their boards. However, last I checked with them (about half a year ago) the price of the boards was pretty steep -- of the order of $1K. Anyway, if the boards Peter is referring to are ready in the next couple of months, I volunteer to write drivers for Linux and *BSD*. /ji

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Re: Moderation experiment almost over; "put up or shut up"
by paul＠fatmans.demon.co.uk 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> > Here I can agree, I personally discriminate on the basis of sex, not > > in that I believe women inferior to men but rather that I believe > > each sex better suited to different tasks and vocations. > > That is not, however, to say that I believe women should be prevented > > from taking up lines of work that men traditionally hold. > > They are free to do so, but as in the example you give later > > I would feel uncomfortable having my car serviced by a woman. > > <flame-retardant suit on> > > Normally I would ignore this sort of comment (which probably belongs in > some soc. newsgroup), but I feel obliged to point out that: > > - The female <mechanic / scientist / engineer>, in addition to passing the > same exams as her male classmates, has probably had to put up with a fair > load of B.S. questioning her right and ability to be there. The ones that > keep at it long enough to graduate are the ones that *really* want to do > whatever it is, and IMHO are more likely to try harder. Not my point, I didn`t say I would refuse, as in my example, to have my car serviced by a woman, rather, that I would not feel comfortable doing so. This is not prejudice, it is a statistical judgement based on the fact that, as a percentage, I know few women who are competent car mechanics but I know a number of men who, by the same criteria, I would call competent. > Chicken and Egg: How much of "each sex [is] better suited to different > tasks" is due to little girls being pulled away from the Lego and toy > trucks, and encouraged to play with Barbies? Being told that they are > *pretty* not *smart* as a form of approval? Very much so, I did not intend, even though my post may have appeared that way, for one minute to suggest that women were *unable* to carry out certain tasks, just that they seem less suited to certain vocations that others. For example, I know a number of good female History or English students but very few good female mathematics or computer science students. This is not, I believe, because women are not "suited" to computer science rather that they have never been encouraged at high school etc. to learn about such subjects which are seen as male preserves. I wholeheartedly believe this should not be the case, and my original post may have been misleading, I just believe that in the current system very few women do become good at science/technical subjects. Datacomms Technologies web authoring and data security Paul Bradley, Paul(a)fatmans.demon.co.uk Paul(a)crypto.uk.eu.org, Paul(a)cryptography.uk.eu.org Http://www.cryptography.home.ml.org/ Email for PGP public key, ID: 5BBFAEB1 "Don`t forget to mount a scratch monkey"

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Re:
by Rich Burroughs 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 11:12 AM 2/15/97 -0800, owner-cypherpunks(a)toad.com wrote: > Wow, the entire text of these messages were deleted. And they came from the list owner! The censorship here is even worse that I had imagined... Rich ______________________________________________________________________ Rich Burroughs richieb(a)teleport.com http://www.teleport.com/~richieb U.S. State Censorship Page at - http://www.teleport.com/~richieb/state dec96 issue "cause for alarm" - http://www.teleport.com/~richieb/cause

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hacking
by Marc Lawrence 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

i'm a new minor hacker so do you think you could teach me a few things so i could get started on some small-time hacking?

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Re: Firewalls
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The only `culture' Timothy Mayo possesses is that cultivated from his foreskin scrapings. \\\^^^^^/// = 0 0 = -o00--( )--00o-- Timothy Mayo

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Re: DES and RSA crypto hardware from the free world
by John Ioannidis 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I believe uti-Maco (a belgian company) has been using the Pijnenburg chips for their boards. However, last I checked with them (about half a year ago) the price of the boards was pretty steep -- of the order of $1K. Anyway, if the boards Peter is referring to are ready in the next couple of months, I volunteer to write drivers for Linux and *BSD*. /ji

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FYI
by Frank J. Egan 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

This was posted to a financial information site on Friday: OPEN MARKET INC (OMKT) Yesterday, stock was given a modest lift from news that company received approval from the Department of Commerce to export its Internet-commerce software with a very strong version of encryption software, becoming one of the first companies allowed to do so without first agreeing to go along with a controversial White House requirement. Frank ********************************* **********Frank J. Egan********** *Chance Favors The Prepared Mind* *********************************

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Re:
by Rich Burroughs 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 11:12 AM 2/15/97 -0800, owner-cypherpunks(a)toad.com wrote: > Wow, the entire text of these messages were deleted. And they came from the list owner! The censorship here is even worse that I had imagined... Rich ______________________________________________________________________ Rich Burroughs richieb(a)teleport.com http://www.teleport.com/~richieb U.S. State Censorship Page at - http://www.teleport.com/~richieb/state dec96 issue "cause for alarm" - http://www.teleport.com/~richieb/cause

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hacking
by Marc Lawrence 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

i'm a new minor hacker so do you think you could teach me a few things so i could get started on some small-time hacking?

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Re: RRE: Cybersitter
by Alan Olsen 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- At 07:15 PM 2/14/97 EDT, E. Allen Smith wrote: >From: IN%"rre(a)weber.ucsd.edu" 14-FEB-1997 05:21:41.54 >To: IN%"rre(a)weber.ucsd.edu" >CC: >Subj: Cybersitter > >[Forwarded with permission.] > [snip] >Wallace says Solid Oak responded by adding his Webzine to its block >list. Learning of this, Wallace wrote Milburn and Solid Oak tech >support. > >"I pointed out that _The Spectacle_ does not fit any of their published >criteria for blocking a site," he says. "I received mail in return >demanding that I cease writing to them and calling my mail 'harassment' >-- with a copy to the postmaster at my ISP." > >Kanter acknowledges this. "He spoke to us more than once or twice -- he >continued to send mail -- mail like that is considered 'not wanted' and >is automatically sent back." Kanter has sent mail like this on a first message. I friend of mine who writes for a local computer magazine (Computer Bits) wrote to Solid Oak with a critical letter and got the same treatment. Nothing addressing any of the criticisms about the software or the company, just a nasty-gram to him and his postmaster. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 4.5 iQEVAwUBMwYhcOQCP3v30CeZAQE0zwf/QH6PaErjf7osoEvTd2rbRMFkO//tacAi iBGvBvVFfmmOjOulX+pc78BziT2wAlENRY2qDoMzf8GWAx6OBesgG+2QhpTqIuXb AxFzoVLuQBqWMRGxc+xeS8z1r7jBGcs9RSpw4al1dMecVze5WCMIsOX1MMA1CsaC ZQ3ph8kYGEhz69BagmEY94nL1ERbpCnPmeY4YaNAi+7obTJe88ypwyqE86eRbBBh hMc1H+4OKzs9ZU7Wi5bTcYLgjwEC+YAnK19NE9ZRNKSqq2CCFi3nv6o6IX9iUtLZ Ptie4DMvz2MSymBYWDPap0rwTLxPK+SOw31I5rUzPdpyA0gjaj/7/Q== =kkJ3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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