December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: spooks on cypherpunks
by Jeff Davis 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Thanks for the hot fucking tip, Sparky. What was your first clue? I suggest you not only learn to live with it, you learn to compete at their level. You can ftp my Psychological Warfare Primer for Online Activists at ftp.eff.org /pub/EFF/Issues/Activism/psychwar.primer You have the right to free speech, and you have the right to dissent. Use it or loose it slick. Imagine some spook taking a shit in a public restroom. They're human. And they fuck up regular as well. -- PGP PUBLIC KEY via finger! JAFEFFM Speaking & Thinking For Myself! * eagle(a)deeptht.armory.com email info(a)eff.org * *** O U T L A W S On The E L E C T R O N I C F R O N T I E R **** ***** Committed to Free Public Internet Access for World Peace *****

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Digital_Auction
by nobody＠shell.portal.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> X-From: Sameer <sameer(a)soda.berkeley.edu> >> In that case one of us (who owns a machine directly plugged into the net) >> should set up an anon server that doesn't check for user/host names, or > Well starting sometime this summer I'm going to start selling shell > accounts, and I don't plan on spending much time verifying that there is a > TrueName associated with any given account. All I will care is that I get > my money and that the account isn't used to violate any security. What is the smallest unit of access? We should use that for digital cash. Let's say I purchase 100 units of access on your system. You issue a certificate that I have this access on demand. Then when we have an IRC digital auction for the blueprints of Megacorp's new xray laser, I can display my certificate and make a bid. -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Version: 2.3a mQCVAi2/ZzEAAAEEOQGMwT6H90aJMTmkf3bLdMVyJ3hyBDoh8ruQfa2x/8tTEPhs 0dyOMroWwMMFQHY5Gdc7etULE6G3W8Q8CGotwFIEUMCXEc9UBeePv3WaU3ovZ/Dz bdvnTeH8KYpQhV68bi1jvX3ahM2tk5jRwK8zP9+YHv5ZpbQlubVI6pRIYxGNuGfP zntP48UABRG0CG5lb24gPEA+ =CTOG -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----

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Re: spooks on cypherpunks
by lefty＠apple.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Some anonymous "contributor" informs us, without benefit of evidence, that > >NetSurfer <jdwilson(a)gold.chem.hawaii.edu> >Robert Mathews <mathews(a)gold.chem.hawaii.edu> are "spooks" and advises us to > >be aware to which the ever-popular Jeff Davis replies > >Thanks for the hot fucking tip, Sparky. What was your first clue? I can only suppose that you're asking this out of the sudden realization that you're in desperate need of one. >Use it or loose it slick. Imagine some spook taking a shit in a public >restroom. They're human. And they fuck up regular as well. Presumably this is as distinguished from taking a shit on a public mailing list. -- Lefty (lefty(a)apple.com) C:.M:.C:., D:.O:.D:.

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Re: Clipper hearings rescheduled - May 3 1994!
by an52210＠anon.penet.fi 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

mech(a)eff.org (Stanton McCandlish) once said: [duff steleted] ME> ejk(a)c-span.org is a real user, and doug(a)c-span.org might be (did not ME> produce a no-user message, but also did not provide an "In real life:" ME> answer, nor did it mention mail status or presence of a .plan, which it ME> did do for ejk. There's a c-span gopher also, that gives rather cryptic ME> schedules, look on the "All the Gophers in the Whole Wide World" thing you ME> find on most larger gopher servers, and it should turn up. Try 'telnet c-spac.org 25', 'HELO <your system>', 'VRFY doug'. Patrick ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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questions.
by sis2209＠sisvax.sis.port.ac.uk 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Date sent: 28-APR-1994 I am currently getting together resources for a research paper on the growth of encryption systems, from enigma to present day. Part of the paper will examine the direction taken by encryption schemes in the future (with particular reference to the likely acceleration of computing power, greater need for personal privacy, etc etc) The paper will be written from the viewpoint of an encryption-aware programmer, rather than that of an expert cryptanalyst! Plenty of example code and practical applications will form the backbone of this study, not pages of mathematics. Are there any papers currently circulating dealing with the future of encryption? Has anyone else on this list already investigated this area, I'd appreciate any information you can submit (ftp addrs?), via this mailing list or private email if you wish. Nick =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= System Operator of Psycho BBS, +44 483 418467 HST/v32bis Archimedes and PC shareware sis2209(a)sisvax.sis.port.ac.uk 885Mb online huttonnc(a)axpvms.pa.dec.com

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ITAR and non-US citizens
by rishab＠dxm.ernet.in 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

What's my legal position if I buy a 'munition' in NY and walk out of the US? What's my legal position if I ftp PGP from a US site? Who's violated ITAR? If I have, and it's proved, anything they can do? I don't suppose India, or any other government for that matter, will extradite someone for getting something out of the US that can't harm them. Can non-US citizens file CJ (or FOIA) requests? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rishab Aiyer Ghosh rishab(a)dxm.ernet.in Voicemail +91 11 3760335; Vox/Fax/Data 6853410 H-34C Saket New Delhi 110017 INDIA The National Short-Sleeved Shirt Association says: Support your right to bare arms! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Phil Z in the WSJ
by Duncan Frissell 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Get today's Wall Street Journal. Phil and PGP are profiled in the left hand "profile" column on page 1. Usual crypto errors. "PGP is more unbreakable than any code in history." They spelled our name wrong too. It's "cypherpunks" not cipherpunks. DCF

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ILF: Computers abort Titan launching
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Brought to you by the Information Liberation Front (Reuters) CAPE CANAVERAL - Computers detected potential trouble and aborted Tuesday's launch of a Titan rocket and its military cargo in the final seconds of countdown, the Air Force said. It was the second attempt in three days to get the powerful booster off the ground and into orbit with what is said to be the world's largest and most sophisticated eavesdropping satellite, called the Aquacade. Air Force officials said the rocket would not be ready for a third blastoff try before Thursday.

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Directory of 'punks
by Jim Sewell 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

As another thought, would there be interest in compiling a list of cypherpunks who agreed to be included, their occupations, and any notable experiences such as "Served for 3 years on the Foreign Affairs Committee" or whatever. With tools like a "press kit" and a directory of members we will become viewed as a cross-section of America, citizens with a point of view shared by many, contributors to the general welfare of society rather than a bunch of fanatical computer geeks that haven't given anything to society. (well, maybe...it's a tough battle.) Jim -- Tantalus Inc. Jim Sewell Amateur Radio: KD4CKQ P.O. Box 2310 Programmer Internet: jims(a)mpgn.com Key West, FL 33045 C-Unix-PC Compu$erve: 71061,1027 (305)293-8100 PGP via email on request. 1K-bit Fingerprint: 8E 14 68 90 37 87 EF B3 C4 CF CD 9A 3E F9 4A 73

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AT&T, Clipper, & Saudi Arabia
by paul＠poboy.b17c.ingr.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Dear AT&T: If you'll roll over for us on Clipper, we will suitably incentivize you. /s/ The Clinton Administration I suppose most of us would consider a $4B contract a "suitable incentive." While there's probably no direct evidence of a quid pro quo, it strikes me as a bit odd that the President is personally intervening in a purely commercial deal. OTOH this is the second time Clinton has intervened in a deal with the Saudis. On the gripping hand, I don't recall anyone intervening to get business for Boeing (Peace Shield, the Saudi C3I network), McDonnell (F-15s), and so on. Thanks a lot, AT&T. - -Paul - -- Paul Robichaux, KD4JZG | Out the 10Base-T port, through the router, perobich(a)ingr.com | over the leased line, off the bridge, past Intergraph Federal Systems | the firewall... nothing but net. Of course I don't speak for Intergraph. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.3a iQCVAgUBLb/JLCA78To+806NAQGPrwP+Jf+B7B/AXogJi/APH71KpgT1wGi8QahK Qn3rSx5baRxfpwlHafecV+3TV6OJt8L7je1VlSm3dIJp7vVDPmsKDvV8QD1/Skd9 u3eMIzpKsspje2hG9olS/6Dm6huPAPUHb+Lpx/jD5P2VuYcsiMhyO4shCZw9hMUU ZiiClgJuBf8= =XuPw -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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