December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Gelernter Op-Ed Piece
by Duncan Frissell 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I've received no cypherpunks mail for 24 hours so this may be old news but... David Gelernter, author of Linda and recent victim of the UnaBomber, writes in support of the DTI and Clipper. "Wiretaps for a Wireless Age" is on the Op-Ed page of the Sunday New York Times. I will be writing a Letter to the Editor and others should as well. Will someone who has access pick this up and post it. It's very important. It has some factual flaws: "What kind of half-wit criminal would...return a rental van that played a starring role in a big-budget terrorist spectacular?" But it represents as strong a statement of their position as Safire's column was of ours. Brilliant bit: "Privacy buffs are often big fans of gun control and the Endangered Species Act; some versions of gun control restrict the objects you may keep in your own home, and the species act has been interpreted in a way that drastically restricts the ways citizens may use their land." Of course many of us are not fans of gun control or the Endangered Species Act. --- WinQwk 2.0b#1165

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magic money
by Ice-Fox (aka Robert Sturtz) 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

could someone give me a hand compileing magic money?? btw many thanks too all those who emailed me adresses for pgp Yours in SYNC. Robert Sturtz __ __ __/// rsturt(a)wilbur.mbark.swin.oz.au (Ice-Fox on irc) __/// \XX/ Vice-President of Eastern Wargamers And Roleplayers Club \XX/

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Clipper keys - backup copy.
by GRABOW_GEOFFREY＠tandem.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Has anyone considered that there must be a backup copy of the keys somewhere? Granted that the keys are supposed to be securely held by two seperate agencies, but where are the backup copies and who has access to 'em? You can't tell me that there aren't any backups. Any info? G.C.G. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | Geoffrey C. Grabow | "What we demand are rigidly defined | | Oyster Bay, New York | areas of doubt and uncertainty!" | | | -------------------- | | grabow_geoffrey(a)tandem.com | Clipper, SkipJack & Digital Telephony | | | JUST SAY NO!!! | |----------------------------------------------------------------------| | PGP fingerprint = C9 95 0F C4 E9 DD 8E 73 DD 99 4E F5 EB 7A B6 1D | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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Re: Anonymous phone calls
by GRABOW_GEOFFREY＠tandem.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Thanks for all of the responses. A friend of mine who works for a baby bell has been helping me in determining if the suggestions work. As for lassie!jim%lassie(a)netcom.com's incredibly useless response and instructions on how to use a pay phone... let me guess... you just figured out how to use one and now it gives you a special thrill to inform everyone else. If you use that lump of gray matter you call a brain, you'll realize that the purpose of any truly anonymous system is to reveal NO INFORMATION AT ALL!!!!! If you use a pay phone, the location of the phone is available to the phone company before the call completes. However, I do not mean to put your idea down... if you ever need to make anonymous phone calls to avoid police detection, (or anyone else for that matter...) please feel free to use a pay phone and I'll be happy to visit you after you have been arrested. G.C.G. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | Geoffrey C. Grabow | "What we demand are rigidly defined | | Oyster Bay, New York | areas of doubt and uncertainty!" | | | -------------------- | | grabow_geoffrey(a)tandem.com | Clipper, SkipJack & Digital Telephony | | | JUST SAY NO!!! | |----------------------------------------------------------------------| | PGP fingerprint = C9 95 0F C4 E9 DD 8E 73 DD 99 4E F5 EB 7A B6 1D | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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Re: Server Incompatibilities?
by Bill O'Hanlon 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On Sat, 7 May 1994 15:04:18 -0400 (EDT) Matthew J Ghio wrote: -------- > Stuart Smith <Stu(a)nemesis.wimsey.com> wrote: > > > I am writing an automagic remailing chaining/ARA creating OS/2 > > REXX script. A short time ago, either in this group or on the > > cypherpunks mailing list, there was a post that some remailer > > would not work if the previous mailer was remailer(a)rebma.mn.org. > > I don't remember the remailer and I can't find the original post - > > could someone let me know which one it was? > > Yeah, it's remailer(a)rebma.mn.org. The reason is because the remailer is > on a UUCP feed and the mail gateway it uses mangles the headers. As Hal mentions in another note, this should be fixed, now. I believe I changed my mail config a couple months ago and did not test the remailer. It took a while for anyone (anyone == Hal) to notice and bug me about it. Sorry for any inconvenience. -Bill

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TEST
by tcmay＠netcom.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

This is a test to see if mail is getting though. If you get this, there are only about a dozen of us shown on Majordomo's listing, as you probably already know. Anybody know what happened? (I can think of some possibilities: Nalbandian's threatened 12.2 MB mail bomb, someone (LD or JN?) unsubscribed everyone with Majordomo, or a toad problem unrelated.) Exciting times in cypherspace. --Tim -- .......................................................................... Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay(a)netcom.com | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero 408-688-5409 | knowledge, reputations, information markets, W.A.S.T.E.: Aptos, CA | black markets, collapse of governments. Higher Power: 2^859433 | Public Key: PGP and MailSafe available. "National borders are just speed bumps on the information superhighway."

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No traffic received in two days...
by Christian D. Odhner 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Who got nuked, me or the list? Happy Hunting, -Chris. ______________________________________________________________________________ Christian Douglas Odhner | "The NSA can have my secret key when they pry cdodhner(a)indirect.com | it from my cold, dead, hands... But they shall pgp 2.3 public key by finger | NEVER have the password it's encrypted with!" cypherpunks WOw dCD Traskcom Team Stupid Key fingerprint = 58 62 A2 84 FD 4F 56 38 82 69 6F 08 E4 F1 79 11 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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My form letter
by tcmay＠netcom.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Here's a form letter I expect to send to people who I see asking about the status of the list. If someone has better information than I have, I'll be happy to use it, or to let someone else handle responses. THIS IS A FORM LETTER (to save me having to type the same stuff) You have asked what happened to the Cypherpunks list. I don't know, but as of Sunday night, 8 May, there were only about a dozen or so subscribers. Apparently something happened to the list. I have messages in to Eric Hughes and Hugh Daniel. The subscriber list may get restored. I don't know. You can also resubscribe by sending a message to majordomo(a)toad.com with this as the body: subscribe cypherpunks If this is successful, you'll get a confirmation message within a few minutes. Volume is likely to be low, until things get back to normal. I hope this helps. --Tim May, not acting officially on behalf of the list. -- .......................................................................... Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay(a)netcom.com | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero 408-688-5409 | knowledge, reputations, information markets, W.A.S.T.E.: Aptos, CA | black markets, collapse of governments. Higher Power: 2^859433 | Public Key: PGP and MailSafe available. "National borders are just speed bumps on the information superhighway."

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CNN POLL
by lassie!jim%lassie＠netcom.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On CNN there was a poll shown in a short segment about Internet. The question was "Do you know what Internet (AKA superhighway) is?" 32% had read or heard about Internet 68% had never read about or heard of Internet It is unclear whether these people are computer users or whether if they were whether they would use cryptography. One thing that is certain is they will probly not "FTP" anywhere to get any form of program. !!!FREE!!! get it !!!FREE!!! before it is gone! What is it? I don't know, but get two, they are free!!! -- * Spelling errors are intentional and international * Jim Nalbandian netcomsv!lassie!jim%lassie(a)netcom.com Tempe, Arizona, USA N7SZS(a)K7BUC.AZ.US.NA No free man shall ever be de-barred the use of arms. The strongest reason for the people to retain there right to keep and bear arms is as a last resort to protect themselves against tyranny in government. <-------- Thomas Jefferson --

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(fwd) apgp200.zip - AutoPGP: Offline e-mail encryption with PGP
by bart＠netcom.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Organization: Free Trial Software From: thomas(a)kjemi.unit.no (Thomas Skogestad) Newsgroups: comp.archives.msdos.announce Subject: apgp200.zip - AutoPGP: Offline e-mail encryption with PGP Date: Mon, 9 May 1994 06:30:38 GMT I have uploaded to the SimTel Software Repository (available by anonymous ftp from the primary mirror site OAK.Oakland.Edu and its mirrors): SimTel/msdos/offline/ apgp200.zip AutoPGP: Offline e-mail encryption with PGP AutoPGP v2.00 provides offline e-mail encryption with PGP. It supports XBoard and Offliner, as well as any QWK mail reader. Encrypts, decrypts and signs messages or part(s) of a message; inserts/extracts public keys and ascii armoured files + much more! Special requirements: PGP23A.ZIP. Author: Staale Schumacher (staalesc(a)ifi.uio.no) ShareWare. Thomas Skogestad thomas(a)kjemi.unit.no

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