December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

RE: PROBLEMS OF ANONYMOUS . . .
by Sandy 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ SANDY SANDFORT Reply to: ssandfort(a)attmail.com . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Punksters, Hal Finney wrote: It's not even impossible that the government could someday try to paint the cypherpunks themselves as a subversive organization. Gee, Hal, that can't be right. I've always thought we were a subversive *dis*organization. According to my online dictionary: THE AMERICAN HERITAGE DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE Third Edition Copyright 1992 Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. subversive ======================================== sub*ver*sive adjective (1) Intended or serving to subvert, especially intended to overthrow or undermine an established government: "Sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities" Source: Erica Jong Sounds good to me. Say! Do you think we could work that sex part in somehow? ("I'll show you mine, if you'll show me yours . . . public key, that is.") S a n d y >>>>>> Please send e-mail to: ssandfort(a)attmail.com <<<<<< ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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Re: crypto technique
by Peter Wayner 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

There is a patent by a fellow named Walter Anderson on a public-key crypto system that uses a similar principle. I believe that his patent might even cover the technique described in your posting about multiplying polynomials together. I wish I had the number, but it came out very recently. Incidentally, I managed to break early versions of the system. -Peter Wayner

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Re: EFF servers down?
by composer＠Beyond.Dreams.ORG 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On the cypherpunks mailing list, Paul Ferguson wrote... > I noticed that the EFF FTP server (FTP.EFF.ORG/KRAGAR.EFF.ORG) appears > to be down. Is this a scheduled outage (servicing, etc.) or are they > having problems. It's a scheduled downtime. They're moving the machines from Cambridge, MA to Washington, D.C. The machines should be back up, hopefully, in the next day or so. Be patient... :) -jeff Jeff Kellem Internet: composer(a)Beyond.Dreams.ORG

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IRS LEARNING . . .
by Sandy 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ SANDY SANDFORT Reply to: ssandfort(a)attmail.com . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Paul Baclace wrote: Well, obviously he should have taken tip from Ollie North and paid a courier to fly back and forth with $9500 at a time. No laws against that. Well, yes and no. As Perry pointed out, there is no limit to how much you can take out if you report it. The trouble is, though it is legal to take out less than $10,000 without reporting it, you can't perform a series of such transactions in order to ultimately move out an amount greater than $10k. They call it *structuring*, and it 'taint legal. Of course, structuring may be difficult to detect, so as a practical matter, you might get away with it. (If, however, you are found with $9500 in cash, they still might seize it under our wonderful new "fruits of drug dealing" laws.) But in any event, there are better ways to accomplish the same result. My favorite *fun* solution would be to buy $80,000 in travellers cheques and then *burn* them. I leave the rest of the transaction as an exercise for the student. S a n d y >>>>>> Please send e-mail to: ssandfort(a)attmail.com <<<<<< ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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Re: IRS LEARNING . . .
by Duncan Frissell 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

To: cypherpunks(a)toad.com D.>Lets have a discussion as to what political organization we D.>ultimately want to bring about. If this has already been done, then D.>please send me references. Don't give this one away: Case 1 A<----------->B Free Trade - Free Market Case 2 A<----------->B "Fair Trade" - Regulated Market ^ | | C - A Government Case 3 ------------------- | A<----------->B | Free Trade - Free Market ------------------- ^ | _____| | | | | | | C - A Government | | | |--Strong crypto, anonymous networks, digicash, etc. We know what to call a political or economic system in which political intervention doesn't occur because it has been technologically excluded. It is called a free market and a voluntary society (to avoid the "A" word). Duncan Frissell --- WinQwk 2.0b#1165

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Internet show on PBS
by L. Detweiler 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

from author of `Zen & the Internet', don't miss it! ===cut=here=== Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1993 16:03:12 -0700 From: Brendan Kehoe <brendan(a)zen.org> The Computer Chronicles (a show on PBS) will be doing a program about the Internet, to be aired on your local PBS station the week of November 1st. It'll have stuff about World Wide Web (demo'd by April Marine at NASA Ames), virtual communities (with Howard Rheingold), the Net in general (me), Internet Talk Radio (with Carl Malamud), the gigabit testbeds [I think] (with someone from Bellcore), and something with Phil Kahn at ARPA. The producer of it is really psyched; it sounds like it's gonna be pretty cool. Brendan - -- Brendan Kehoe brendan(a)zen.org Stop the murder! Support dolphin-free networking. ------- End of Forwarded Message

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THE CYPHERPUNK CAUSE
by L. Detweiler 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

now I understand why `someone' told me in private email, `THERE IS NO CYPHERPUNKS CAUSE. GET THIS DELUSION OUT OF YOUR HEAD.'

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Re: on anonymity, identity, reputation, and spoofing
by jamie＠netcom.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> >1) how long they have been on the list in days, 0 if none at all >2) how many postings they have posted here >3) maybe a posting/age ratio -- some people seem to be very sensitive >or tune out people with a high one. >4) another idea: tracking the number of responses a given poster has, >average, per original post, measured by `re: [x]' subject tracking. > Each of these suggestions call for data that may contribute to identifying individuals, tracking their behavior or providing information useful to decypher some messages. This has a very NSA feel to it. -- ................................ Jamie Dinkelacker Palo Alto CA Jamie(a)netcom.com 415.941.4782

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Re: PSEUDOSPOOFING
by jrk＠sys.uea.ac.uk 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

An entity posting as "L. Detweiler" <ld231782(a)edu.colostate.lance.longs> writes: >PSEUDOSPOOFING > >the activity of misleading people into thinking that an identity is >unique when it really isn't! i.e. posting behind `real' addresses not >specifically noted as anonymous! Such as that posting itself? BTW, someone has claimed in email to me that they wrote the "cypherpunk mindfucking" rant as a satire. Still an utter waste of time. -- ____ Richard Kennaway __\_ / School of Information Systems Internet: jrk(a)sys.uea.ac.uk \ X/ University of East Anglia uucp: ...mcsun!ukc!uea-sys!jrk \/ Norwich NR4 7TJ, U.K.

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Monitor radiation overlooking.
by blaster＠rd.relcom.msk.su 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Hello! I read about overlooking of monitor radiation. Introder can scan the electron-beam radiation from electron-gun. He simple transmit this radiation to self electron-gun and sinchronize frequance. This method work with b/w monitor. The overlooking of color-monitor more dificult - introder will see 4 gradation of gray (all guns off, work one, two, three guns). But we can select spesial colors (red-blue or blue-green) and allways will work only one (or two) guns. In this way introder will see dark (or light) gray screen without any information!!! Is it corect? Do now present more improve overlooking system? Some words about DES - I spoke with one cryptoanalisyst from KGB and he sow, that for number crypto algotitm c(key, text) (key is keyLength tall) present f(key, text), that for all key1 and key2 present key with length keyLength, that c(key2, c(key1, text))==f(key, text). He also say, that now present f() for c()=des(), more f() wery like des(). That`s why for decrypting of des(k1, des(k2, ... des(kN, text) ... )) we must try 2^56 keys with spetial function. --- Victor A. Borisov aka blaster; Relcom R&D; Email: blaster(a)rd.relcom.msk.su; Phone: +7(095)-943-4735; +7(095)-198-9510; === Don`t panic! ===

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