December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Applications of cryptography
by an41418＠anon.penet.fi 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

My apologies for getting caught up in the political momentum of the Private vs. Public debate on income tax. It was too tempting... Anyway, back to wondering. I am trying to compile information about the different applications of cryptography. I would like to create something like the handbook of cryptography. Some examples that come to mind are: digital cash, DC nets, coin flipping, mental poker, digital signatures, secure communication, encrypted file systems, etc. Any help will be appreciated. If people respond to me directly, I will post a summary to the list, and maybe distribute the handbook if it is a successful project in a few months. Thanks, Wonderer ------------------------------------------------------------------------- To find out more about the anon service, send mail to help(a)anon.penet.fi. Due to the double-blind, any mail replies to this message will be anonymized, and an anonymous id will be allocated automatically. You have been warned. Please report any problems, inappropriate use etc. to admin(a)anon.penet.fi.

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Re: (fwd) Clipper and Tipper on Route 666
by owen＠autodesk.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> To: tcmay(a)netcom.netcom.com (Timothy C. May) > Tim May suggests we called the "Data Superhighway" > > > "Route 666." > > In Unix file permissions 666 means the file is readable by > world. Apropos for a panoptic net where encryption is banned > or "Clipped". There is an actual route 666, its in New Mexico or Arizona. A t shirt manufacturer here in SF prints up a version of the sign on a black shirt. one of my favorite *cruising* shirts BTW :-) LUX ./. owen

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Re: Wired 1.6 is not yet publically available
by trestrab＠GVSU.EDU 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Tim May (tcmay(a)netcom.com) wrote: >A couple of you have asked about "Wired" and the availability of the >new issue, 1.6. Especially as the first "monthly" issue, 1.5, has >only been out a few weeks. (And it mentions a strange thing >called "BlackNet" on page 32, as sharp observers have >noted.) >I've been told by Sandy Sandfort that the issue is not yet on the >newstands, and may not even be sent out to contributor and >subscribers for a couple more weeks....so no point in >looking for it now. How'd I get one, then? "Wired" 1.6 was on the newstands in West. Michigan today. Jeff -- .......................................................................... 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: 2^756839 | Public Key: PGP and MailSafe available. Note: I put time and money into writing this posting. I hope you enjoy it.

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random dot stereo code
by Carl Ellison 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I have just uploaded to soda a file of code for generating random dot stereograms, as well as the following short description file. This is the code to which I referred a month ago or so. I'm going to play with the code myself as soon as I have time, but because of the expressed interest, I thought I'd give the rest of the list a crack at it as soon as I got permission. - cme ==================================================================== The file stereo.tar.gz holds code for generating random dot stereograms which I discussed earlier on the list. This code is not mine. I received it from a friend of the man who wrote it. She assures me that he doesn't care who uses the code or for what. I haven't run this code myself. - Carl cme(a)sw.stratus.com

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MPJ2 Encryption Algorithm
by mpjohnso＠nyx10.cs.du.edu 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

For a sneak preview of the MPJ2 Encryption Algorithm article I just submitted to the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, anonymous ftp to csn.org and look in the mpj directory or call my BBS at 303-938-9654. I used the same mechanism used by rsa.com to isolate the nonexportable stuff (source code, programs) from the Constitutionally protected publication (article describing the algorithm). Seems strange to me, but if it works for the Department of State and rsa.com thinks it won't get them in trouble, then I guess I'm not sticking my neck out too far. Any technical types among you want to take a look at the algorithm and tell me what you think about its security? I've been trying to break it for several years, but I'm just an amateur who reads a lot. Why MPJ2 and not just IDEA or 3DES? Never put all your crypto eggs in one basket. Besides, MPJ2 is royalty-free. Go build some useful code or hardware. (MPJ2 is faster and simpler in hardware, once the key is set up). Mike Johnson mpj(a)csn.org (aka mpjohnso(a)nyx.cs.du.edu) Never thumb your nose at a giant, but don't let the giant intimidate the life out of you. -- Jack's Goose.

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Elm Filtering on CC???
by hatzm＠bigbird.cso.gtegsc.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Is it possible to get Elm's filter to pick out messages that are cc'd to the cypherpunks list? I would like to keep all the cypherpunk mail in one place and have no trouble getting it properly copied when the message is "to" the cypherpunks list. I'm just not sure how to work on the CC part. Thanks! Mike

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New Cash Card Announced
by Duncan Frissell 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Today's WSJ reports that VISA USA intends to launch a "prepaid" travel card for use in ATMs and POS terminals. The card, meant as an electronic travelers check, would be yet another form of cash substitute. This would, in reality, be a Visa card you could purchase for cash. Presumably US sales of these cards would be subject to cash transaction reporting rules but not those in other countries. Interesting scenario. I buy one of these babies for $100,000 in Switzerland. I arrange to have it not yet "turned on." (Many of the new prepaid phone cards must be activated before they can be used.) I enter the US carrying a card worth $0. I order it activated. Suddenly I have a $100,000 cash card in the US without having imported $100,000 into the US. The nice thing about the explosion of payment forms that is going on right now is that the regulators tend to get swamped. It is hard to regulate things with 10 different payment forms (cash, checks, money orders, travelers checks, credit cards, ATM cards, debit cards, bank wires, consumer electronic money transfers, and bill payment services). When these new cards hit and all of the new electronic banking payment systems are up and running, the Feds will be hard pressed to even keep up with the bare outline of the payments system much less regulate it closely. Duncan Frissell "Dowd's the name, Elwood P. Here, let me give you one of my cards. Don't use that phone number it's the old one use the other number. I'd like you to meet a friend of mine. His name's Harvey. He's a Pooka." --- WinQwk 2.0b#1165

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Newsgroups, Sternlight-bashing and screaming children
by Bill Stewart 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

NCR - An AT&T Company ____________________________________INTRA CORPORATION From: Bill Stewart <bill.stewart(a)pleasantonca.ncr.com> Location: Pleasanton District To: cypherpunks(a)toad.com Location: cyberspace Subject: Newsgroups, Sternlight-bashing and screaming children I consider the Sternlight-bashing suggestions to be unreasonable; Sternlight may rave from a warped, pro-government viewpoint, but he is capable of carrying on civilized conversations, even when he's (continually) grinding the same axe. The coffee-house analogy is a very good one, and there *is* occasionally a screaming-children problem on usenet; I assumed the original poster was referring more to the perpetual-newbie types rather than to the newly arrived, chronologically-deficient college students, most of whom are either quiet, productive, or both (though a college student and the author apparently felt otherwise :-) I still prefer having this as a mailing list, in spite of the volume; I can read sci.crypt when I want to, though I'll probably have to get a netcom account rather than keep telnetting into my old system now that I've moved. Thanks; Bill

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the Amusements of Cypherpunks
by L. Detweiler 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Mr. Metzger, premier cypherpunk, undoubtedly derived great ecstasy from mailing me 16 copies of the following letter, apparently in response to my complimenting & commending him on his recently released RSA toolkit... Who was it that said something about `striking a nerve'? Was that J. Dinkelacker? I forget. ===cut=here===

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P. Metzger
by L. Detweiler 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Assuming you are not P. Metzger, please help him to understand how to implement a kill file rather than assaulting me with mailbombs. ===cut=here=== [insert minimailbomb here]

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