December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

SUBJECT: RE: MARKET BULLETIN!!
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17 Dec '03

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Fraud Alert - Frank Jones - Spyking
by James M. Atkinson, Comm-Eng 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Greetings, I regret to inform you that you may have been the victim of a serious hoax foisted by Frank Jones (aka: SpyKing). Many people, including the members of the media, have been swallowing what Frank Jones has to offer, simply because they neither understand the science or won't do even simple research on a vendor (hint: the TEMPEST, DATASCAN and similar products are an utter hoax). You may be interested in the following information regarding Frank Jones which we have listed on the … [View More]

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[OWC] Orangemen Wrestling Commision [ handbook v. 1 ]
by KevB428＠aol.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

=========================== Kevin Riley Productions Presents =========================== /¯¯¯¯¯¯¯\¯¯¯\ /¯¯¯¯¯¯/¯¯¯¯| / \ \ / /_____| | |¯¯¯| | \/¯\/ // | |___| | / \ \ /\ _ / ¯¯¯¯¯| \_______/ \___/ \___/ \_______| =========================== Orangmen Wrestling Commission =========================== Frequently Asked Questions v.1.0 =========================== ======… [View More]============ Table of Contents A. Foreward B. Cards & Titles C. Rules D. Roleplaying Tips E. Application F. Staff ================== ================== A. Foreward ================== Hello folks, I'm Kevin Riley, and I'm making my _last_ attempt at making a federation great. This is make-it or break-it time for me, and I really am determined to bring this federation into the bigtime. The OWC stands for Orangemen Wrestling Commision, which is a regional federation (similiar to MVW, and also a friend of that fed) that is run out of none other than Syracuse, New York. It will not be having cards in Madision Square Garden, as it will start off slow, like most independants, and hopefully work its way up. This fed will actually start off holding their cards in a local nightclub in Syracuse that we all know as the Rave, which seats about three hundred people. This federation will be run by Carson Bordon, the current OWC President. He and Riley got a huge loan from a bank in Albany, New York, and now have made their last attempt at making a major federation. The recruiting has started, and calls have been made, contracts sent. So, are you ready to join the OWC and face some of the toughest, and newest competition that you've ever seen? If so, welcome! ================== B. Cards & Titles ================== The New York State Heavyweight Championship - This is definitly the big one. The top dawg will be the man holding this title and it will definitly be a title that a lot of people will be contender for. This title shall be defended every two weeks. The Syracuse Heavyweight Championship - This is the secondary title, and we'll also be heavily competed for. This is for the people not quite ready to make it onto the world title scene yet. This title will also be defended once every two weeks. Warriors of Syracuse Wrestling - This is the card that will be held once a week, on Sunday nights. There should be around three to four matches on each card and as the fed expands, the amount of matches will as well. There will also be interviews, special appearances, and everything that you'd come to expect from a normal wrestling television show! It will take place in the Rave, a local Syracuse night club that holds up to three hundred people total. The first card will be presented to you on the twenty first of June. It will feature more matches than the normal card, and will attempt to get _every_ single wrestler in the federation, somehow participating in a match or something of some sort. It will be a sort of supercard, but will be on Sunday, and called, the Warriors of Syracuse wrestling, like the normal weekly show. ================== C. Rules ================== I will accept a maxium of two roleplays a week and one in-ring. To start the OWC off, we'll be going with the one card a week format, if we get pushed to two cards a week, then it will be two in-rings, one for each card. Please be reminded, that this plan of roleplays is tentative, and could be changed. Strats will play a huge role in setting up angles, and will also count towards your matches and my decisions as to who wins or not. Some wrestlers, specifically heels, are particulary good at drawing heat, and getting themselves known quicker than others. That will also help out your chances. This is a perfect time to repeat that phrase that we all know, quality not quantity! ================== D. Roleplaying Tips ================== * Content The content of one's roleplay is not the length the roleplay but the one or many message(s) that the roleplay gets across in that length. Content is by far the most important part of a roleplay, and must be looked upon as essential. A roleplay without any content is just jabber and jargon thrown into a file. You must always have some sort of content in your roleplays. When you begin a roleplay, you must set a goal for amount of content you want to cover during the course of your OWC roleplay. Tell yourself what, in a brief rundown, that you want to tell everybody in this roleplay of yours. If you want to tell the whole OWC that you are here to stay and to pledge your allegiance to the OWC, then remember that fact while you are writing your roleplay. Never write a roleplay with out any topics to write about. If you want to know if your roleplay has any content, then read it over and ask yourself what the message you got across was. If you can't answer that question in a breif sentance or two, then the chances are, you have no body and content to your roleplay and you need to start over and try again. The more topics you have to discuss, the better. You can never have enough content. If you have enough topics to write 5 pages or so, then so be it and go though with it. Also, you should learn to elaborate on your topics and make them into a 'big deal'. If your topic is "I want to challenge Klonis to a match" then ask yourself all the possible questions to stimulate ideas! Ask yourself why you want to wrestle Klonis. Ask yourself how good of a chance you have at defeating Klonis. Ask yourself what type of match you want to challenge Klonis to. Ask youself when you want to wrestle Klonis! The possibilities are endless, people! Cover every area and aspect you can! Sometimes when I'm going to write a roleplay, it helps me to make a breif listing of the different things I want to cover during the course of the roleplay in chronological order. I then procede to turn the breif sentances into dialouge and description and under normal circumstances I come out with a somewhat decent roleplay that has both a point and a decent amount of reasoning behind it. It makes sense, people. The main thing you have to remember, though, when writing your roleplay ... is that you must develop your character. Get a good idea of what your character's all about by re-reading your application to the OWC, and then put that all across in the roleplay. If you're wrestler is a happy goofball, then play him as a happy goofball and don't have him take matches or wins and losses too seriuosly. If you wrestler is a hard-nosed technical wrestler obsessed with winning, then have him take things seriously and be quite angry when he loses. It's all about character development and if you don't have any idea how your character should act, then it's probably time to create a new one. * Length Length certainly isn't the most important part of your roleplay, but it is something that you must seriously consider if you're a newbie. You're roleplay MUST be at least a k or two to get anything across, in my opinion. Although it is hard to find the happy medium between too long and too short, you'll get there if you follow these steps! First of all, don't wear your topic down so much that nobody is going to be interested in reading it anymore. Cover what you need but don't exasperate the subject. Nobody wants to read a roleplay that's 20k and has no plot! Once you stop having fun writing your roleplay it's probably finished. But also, you must not send in a roleplay that is 3 lines long or even a paragraph long. In the OWC, everytime you send in a roleplay that is 5 or less lines, that's pretty much an automatic loss. Make your roleplay to the point but long enough so it'll take a few minutes to read and leave the reader with a good taste in their mouth and a good idea what your character is about. Touch base with the subject quite a bit and make it long enough. * Detail The next thing that you newbies must learn is that you must always create a beginning and a conclusion in your roleplays! At the beginning of your roleplay, you must _always_ give a breif description of your wrestler's setting and describe that wrestler. A setting description tells the who, what, where, when and why of the roleplay. A beginning is also put inside action bars which are () or [] or :: :: or {}. In a beginning, you should describe what the character is wearing, what his mood is like, where his is, what he's doing there, ect. For example, read the next paragraph which is one of my less recent descriptions and was written when I was a newbie to e- wrestling. Most should be about this length and decency. Maybe better. [The screen fades in to Klonis. He's sitting in a dark living room rocking back and forth on an easychair. He's wearing his street clothes which consist of a pair of faded denimn jeans, a black tank top, and a nike headband. His black hair is slicked back and his eyes are squinted and feirce. The only illumination in the room is cast by a fireplace with the embers slowly dying out. The cameraman gives him a closup as signals to come over to him.] Also, you must remember to add a conclusion. The conclusion is more of the same except it would say things like, Klonis is fading out, ect. Be careful not to make these too drab. It can get tricky to think up the setting some times. <hint: the setting could have something to do with the content.> Another thing, is that you must watch the spelling in your roleplay and try to word things as efficiently and as nicely as possible. Go through the document numerous times to make sure you did not make any foolish spelling mistakes, make sure you add two spaces after a period, you inserted commas where needed, you did not have any fragments or run-ons. Don't make yourself look foolish by saying stuff like this: (Wrtler): "im cmin to getg you cuz of what you ded to me that tyme when u did dat thing.." ================== E. Application ================== IMPORTANT NOTE: This federation is taking a new approach. We will prefer that you all bring in _new_ characters that you've never before used. That way reputations and egos will not be as much of a problem. This is not mandatory, but I prefer it. * Your Name: (optional) * Your Age: (optional) * Your E-Mail Address: * Your IRC Nickname: * Wrestler's Name: * Age: * Hometown: * Hair Color: * Eye Color: * Height: (between 5'5" - 7'0") * Weight: (between 200 - 500) * Build: (stocky, muscular, trim, ect.) * Manager or Valet's Name: (optional) * Describe Manager or Valet: (optional) * Please describe your wrestler's ring style: (anything from technician to lucha to powerful, ect.) * Please describe your wrestler's gimmick/attitude/personality as much as you can: * Please give us a little background on your wrestler (perhaps a made-up history-- we just want to get a good idea of who your character is): * Entrance Music (please use an actual song, I don't want to see "The Giant's WCW Music"): * Describe your wrestler's entrance to the ring (does he have fireworks, special lights, anything he does before he gets to the ring... if you are creating a tag team, skip this category and fill out Tag Team Entrance on the Tag Team sheet instead): * Describe your wrestler's physical appearance (please be as descriptive as possible!): * Describe your wrestler's ring attire (again, please be descriptive!): * Taunts (does your wrestler do any taunts or celebrations to his opponent during the course of the matchup? If so, mark his celebrations here!) * What is the name of your wrestler's finisher? * What is the real name of the move? * List 10 - 15 moves your wrestler performs: ================== F. Staff ================== Fictional Staff: PRESIDENT - Carson Bordon HEEL COMMENTATOR - Max Femmia FACE COMMENTATOR - Nathan Liotta RING ANNOUNCER - Michael Morgan SENIOR REFEREE - Christopher Burk TIMEKEEPER - Otto Jeckel CHEIF OF SECURITY - Robert O'Connor Staff: PRESIDENT - Kevin Riley ASSISTANT BOOKER - Rick Baptist (Also a promoter, recruiter, pay per view writer.) CARD MATCH WRITER - Paul Clark CARD MATCH WRITER - ???????? CARD MATCH WRITER - ???????? PAY PER VIEW WRITER - Rick Baptist PAY PER VIEW WRITER - Jay Ralston PAY PER VIEW WRITER - Andru Edwards PAY PER VIEW WRITER - Thomas Smith PAY PER VIEW WRITER - Adam Graves ASSISTANT - Anthony Brigano (promoter, recruiter, and will keep rankings for the wrestlers and annals, which is a list of results for every card) [NOTE: If you can help in any of these spots, _please_ tell me. To keep this federation great, I'm going to need all the help I can get, this is _very_ important.] ============================= Special thanks to Anthony Brigano for helping me make this handbook, and helping make the macros, and well, helping recruiting! ============================= OWC, Orangemen Wrestling Commission Max Femmia, Nathan Liotta, Carson Bordon and all related names, characters and their likenesses are copyright and trademark Kevin Riley Productions (KRP) 1998. ============================= [View Less]

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The exponent of the RSA public key must be odd.??
by Luis Saiz 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

OS/390 Integrated Cryptographic Service Facility Application Programmer's Guide Version 2 Release 5 Publication No. SC23-3976-02 : http://ppdbooks.pok.ibm.com:80/cgi-bin/bookmgr/bookmgr.cmd/DOCNUM/SC23-3976… In several parts of the document it's specified that, as a restriction: > The exponent of the RSA public key must be odd. > It's there any (unknown to me) security reason to be this way, or itŽs an implementation/standard option??

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Public Key Royalties
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

[Forward] : : : Date: Thu, 28 May 1998 03:17:16 -0400 To: John Young <jya(a)pipeline.com> From: Vin McLellan <vin(a)shore.net> Subject: Public Key Royalties Hi John: You recently posted a note from a 5/7/98 GAO report[*] on federal (Bayh-Dole Act) funding for US research universities in which documented MIT's 1996 revenues from the commercialization of public key crypto. In an accompanying note, you raised a few questions about the historical background of PKC that I thought a … [View More]deserved response. The politics of crypto in the US is burdened with enough shadowy plots that it behooves those of us who try to track the history of the industry to keep a grip on simple historical fact whenever we can. I personally think the key figures involved in the discovery of PKC -- certainly Whit Diffie, Martin Hellman, Ron Rivest and Len Adleman -- have for years been exemplary role-models of personal and intellectual discipline, professional openness, and forthright political engagment (in the best sense of the word). I wouldn't like to see the public's understanding of their contributions lost beneath another layer of Byzantine conspiracy theories. You wrote: >In a recent GAO report on governmental funding of university research >there is this note: > > In fiscal year 1996, the commercialization of the public key encryption > method, which was developed under grants from the Navy and NSF, > resulted in $271,875 in royalties to MIT. > >Does this refer to RSA or PGP? Did the Navy underwrite RSA's PK work? >If so does the USG have a secret stake in PGP, Network Associates >and RSA? > >More: did the Navy guide PK researchers based on the secret UK PK work >before Diffie-Hellman? Quick answers to your first questions: (1) RSA. RSA Data Security Inc.(RSADSI), a company started by the three inventors of the RSA cryptosystem was given a contract by MIT to commercialize the RSA cryptosystem. Under the terms of that contract, RSADSI pays royalties to MIT, which still owns the RSA patent. (2) Nope. The Office of Naval Research (ONI) did staff the "contracting office" responsible for administering DARPA funding for the MIT labs where Rivest, Shamir, and Adleman did their initial work -- but neither the Navy, nor DARPA, nor the NSA, nor the CIA, nor the Feebees supported the subsequent development of public key cryptography at RSADSI (the company started by the three inventors which was subsequently given an exclusive contract by MIT to commercialize the RSA algorithm.) (3) No secret stake in RSADSI -- so say the sworn documents filed with the SEC before the 1996 merger of RSADSI and SDTI. PGP was not developed at MIT. PGP has never paid royalties to MIT. I don't actually know if there is, or ever was, any relationship or federal "stake" in PGP Inc. or Network Associates Inc., but I doubt it. (I also think your suggestion, without evidence, is a fairly gratuitous slander against all these firms -- given the historic interest of US government agencies in weakening non-government crypto and/or forcing independent cryptographic vendors to corrupt their designs with backdoors to allow surreptitous government access to encrypted messages and files.) As you may recall, I do a lot of consulting for Security Dynamics (SDTI), which purchased RSADSI in 1996. I sent your questions over to Ron Rivest, and he asked me to pass along his response: >The work on RSA at MIT was supported by NSF grant MCS76-14294 and ONR >(Office of Naval Research) grant N00014-67-A-0204-0063. (See the >footnote on the original RSA paper.) I note that the ONR is the >contracting office for a DARPA grant here; the "Navy" as such was not >involved. > >(The grants listed above did not even specify cryptography in their >proposals, and it was more of a courtesy than anything else to >acknowledge their support on the RSA paper, since they were supporting >other research in algorithms and such.) > >As a consequence of this support, the U.S. government does not have to >pay royalties on the "RSA patent" (U.S. patent 4,405,829.) This is a >standard arrangement for government-supported research; the government >doesn't want to have to pay twice for the work. > >There is no "secret stake" by the government in RSA. The royalty-free >license of the patent is their only involvement. > >There was no contact, influence, or involvement from any government >source regarding our development of RSA. Assuming (correctly, I >believe) that the Diffe-Hellman paper (New Directions in Cryptography) >was developed independently of any similar developments in the U.K., >then the academic development of the concept of public-key, and our >consequent development of RSA, were totally independent of whatever >developments happened earlier in the U.K. > >Indeed, given the reaction from the government that we've seen ever >since, trying to control and/or suppress public-key technology, it is >extremely bizarre to conjecture that the government in any way >encouraged it early on or gave technical advice based on work in the U.K. I suggest anyone interested in the work on "dual key" cryptography by British government cryptographers in the early 1970s will want to read Jame Ellis' fascinating paper, published last December by the British government, at: http://www.cesg.gov.uk/ellisint.htm There was also a brief but helpful NYT article by Peter Wayner, available at: http://www.nytimes.com/library/cyber/week/122497encrypt.html There have doubtless been numerous breakthroughs and great inventions in the shadowy world of government cryptography. Unfortunately, the hostility of this (and most governments) have shown toward allowing such privacy-enabling technologies to fall into the hands of mere citizens will probably mean that we will have to wait for those inventions to be rediscovered and thus made available to the free world by others. I think we were all lucky that public key crypto -- the necessary foundation for on-line electronic commerce, which in turn is seen by many as potentially the economic engine for 21st Century -- was discovered, or rediscovered, by mere citizens who looked first to its personal and commercial implications. I don't think there was a chance in hell that GCHQ, or the NSA (which also claims to have separately discovered PKC ten years before Hellman and Diffie conceived of it) could have recognized its personal or commercial potential... or would have allowed it to come into the widespread use we see today if, perchance, they _had_ foreseen that potential. Please feel free to post this. Thanks again for all your work collecting the treasure trove of documents you have at jya.com. It's an invaluable resource. Surete, _Vin ----- "Cryptography is like literacy in the Dark Ages. Infinitely potent, for good and ill... yet basically an intellectual construct, an idea, which by its nature will resist efforts to restrict it to bureaucrats and others who deem only themselves worthy of such Privilege." _ A thinking man's Creed for Crypto/ vbm. * Vin McLellan + The Privacy Guild + <vin(a)shore.net> * 53 Nichols St., Chelsea, MA 02150 USA <617> 884-5548 [End Forward] * See report: http://jya.com/rced-98-126.txt (184K) [View Less]

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USG to Sue Other Wintel
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

New York Times reports today that the FTC is shortly to file a major anti-trust suit against Intel, "charging the company with abusing its position as the dominant manufacturer of mircoprocessor chips." http://www.nytimes.com

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No Subject
by Sergey Bobok 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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RE: The exponent of the RSA public key must be odd.??
by Beattie, Doug 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The exponent must be relatively prime to (p-1)(q-1) where p and q are prime numbers. Doug On Thursday, May 28, 1998 4:14 AM, Luis Saiz [SMTP:LSaiz@atos-ods.com] wrote: > OS/390 Integrated Cryptographic Service Facility Application > Programmer's Guide Version 2 Release 5 Publication No. SC23-3976-02 > : > http://ppdbooks.pok.ibm.com:80/cgi- > bin/bookmgr/bookmgr.cmd/DOCNUM/SC23-3976/CCONTENTS > > > > In several parts of the document it's specified that, as a &… [View More]

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Mrs [Delicate Touch] Hanks
by bill payne 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Thursday 5/28/98 2:48 PM John Young J Orlin Grabbe On return from my walk this afternoon, I spoke with Mrs [Delicate Touch] Hanks http://207.33.92.15/art/va/artworkSearch.html$search http://www.eslawrence.com/Hankspage.htm http://www.artcorner.com/ http://www.sea-art.com/hadleyhouse/hanks/index.cfm http://www.eslawrence.com/hankprint.htm http://www.birchgrove.com/artists/steve%20hanks.htm http://www.artsource1.com/hanks.html http://www.nice-things.com/hanks.html who lives just down the … [View More]

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Payne v. NSA: Plaintiff's Motion and Objection
by bill payne 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

John Young Just saw whp052898.htm Payne v. NSA: Plaintiff's Motion and Objection May 28, 1998 at http://www.jya.com/crypto.htm THANK YOU SO MUCH. And for http://www.mckennacuneo.com/practice/Quitam/QU02519960901.html too! We need visibility to get this HORRIBLE MESS SETTLED. PEACEFULLY! There are other ways of settling matters. Aggrieved Shiite Muslims have a fair record at other means of settlement http://www.netlink.co.uk/users/impact/namir/martyrs.htm#allvictims I … [View More]

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