December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: Stegno for Kids
by danisch＠ira.uka.de 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> and Crayola brand > secret writing pens (WOW!!!!). There are about 8 pens in the set. You write > secretly with two of them and develop the image with the other six. I had something like that as a toy about 20 years ago. A single pen with tips on both sides. One to write, the other to develop. Didn't they have it in America also? Hadmut

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Re: Book review: Codebreakers, the Inside Story of Bletchley Park
by wcs＠anchor.ho.att.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Another book with some insight into Bletchley Park is "Cloak and Gown" (I forget the author), about the relationship between Yale academics and the OSS, the WW2 predecessor to the CIA. Among the various Yalies who went into the OSS was James Jesus Angleton, who spent a lot of time at Bletchley analyzing information that might be useful for US Army and covert OSS activities, and trying to support counterintelligene work by correlating the information from intercepts of German understanding of US and British plans with the Allied sources and users of those plans, to try to find leaks, traitors, moles, spies, and other types that counter-spook spooks worry about. Besides the Enigma interceptions themselves, the big secret the OSS and British intelligence were paranoid about protecting was that all the known German spies in Great Britain had been caught and turned for disinformation use (or killed); almost everything Germany was getting from its spies was bogus. Bill

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Re: Fwd: Re: netcom discussion in news.admin.misc
by mpd＠netcom.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

johndix(a)ix.netcom.com (John Dix) writes: > I've mentioned to Netnews that a good first step would be to > make it harder to forge messages by changing the news > software to no longer accept a user-supplied "Sender:" line > in the article header, and he has agreed. However, I fail > to understand just *what* is taking so long to make this > (much needed) change. The problem here is that the news transport mechanism is not particularly resistant to arbitrary text being posted by a user. Newsreaders can check for forged "From:" or "Sender:" lines, but newsreaders then call shell scripts like inews and injnews to process their material. Users can call these scripts directly and bypass any checks by the newsreader. None of this requires any special privs, and only the lowest level of the news transport mechanism, relaynews, requires set-user-id netnews to function. The latest version of Tin does check for forged "From:" lines, but the version Netcom runs allows anything to be posted. Fudging the lower levels of the news transport mechanism to check "From:" and "Sender:" lines can mess up other things, since processes may need to inject news into the news stream which they themselves did not author. One solution to the problem is to have a secure level of the news transport mechanism add an "Originator:" line to every message which it handles. This will identify users attempting forgeries, and will not require munging of an existing header line. -- Mike Duvos $ PGP 2.6 Public Key available $ mpd(a)netcom.com $ via Finger. $

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Anarcho-Cap - Newt and Gorby?
by anonymous-remailer＠shell.portal.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

## From: sherbock(a)remailer.net -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Crypto-anarchy, many-to-many communications, inter- national/cultural communications, bandwidth price plummet, computer ubiquity, philosophical/ideological evangelism, freedom of speech/trade/association and other factors talked about on this list are together heralding huge transformations. With this as background together with the statement that I am somewhat of a "Frissell/Sandforth Optimist," let me present a short essay and ask a single political question. I want to propose that a change to more of a Snow Crash society with anarcho-capitalism as the norm is not necessarily being _caused_ by pressures listed above, but, rather, fit a grander historical destiny. What we are seeing and will see in the information age has been bound to happen all along. It is an inevitable follow-on phase to our industrial age. One way to view our (Cypherpunks) work is "lead, follow or get out of the way." What's happening is going to happen. I just want to be in the center of it! (I could write much more in support of this. Read Gilder, Rees-Mogg, etc. and much of the techno Sci-Fi suggested by Cypherpunks.) Hindsight is 20/20. Many experts have analyzed the collapse of the USSR. Many are quick to claim that the dissolution was inevitable, historical, even. Consider the possibility that the dissolution of large, centralized federal republics is also inevitable. (The Frissel/Sandforth Optimists have been arguing this exact point.) As an interesting specific, consider parallels in the roles of former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and the U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich. Gorbachev, by self-proclamation, was a communist first and foremost. He was in no way a destructionist. In fact, it can be argued that he never intended to weaken the central power of the Supreme Soviet. He introduced liberalization reform (parestroika?) with the intent only of heading off the foreboding economic collapse of his State. Gorbachev's reforms were little baby walking steps in a direction that the Bear already was poised to _run_. Mr. Gingrich is a REPUBLICan. From what I can see, he loves the Constitutional government process of the United States. His proclaimed intentions are for downsizing and deregulation. However, he does not seem to desire the dissolution of federal, central government. He has not openly claimed to be libertarian or anarcho-capitalistic. :) Will Newt's deregulatory reforms be baby walking steps in the direction Uncle Sam (and the world) is already poised to _run_? G. del Sherbock - -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Version: 2.6.2 mQBNAy8RoncAAAECAK5jkuO+3qNE4veGXrwKqgJs9GhJibpNBOOacLN/OueiDX4R w0+fvCNCwIGT49T6acJvgSb/Kej3BcJViw4fkRUABRG0D0cuIGRlbCBTaGVyYm9j aw== =RPy1 - -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQBVAwUBLxKvjAXCVYsOH5EVAQEXHQH+IT6n/vth2UcQrhJ9faEn8nfwU/XA/OyL 3qfXso1b7/NoivfSiuAvI8wQHasXQsWOheSwTE9c/TI7w6gAX4Yltw== =TJqU -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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RSA Licenses Commercial Distribution Rights to RSAREF (URLs to PressRelease)
by eric＠remailer.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I've been waiting for this, for oh, about two years now. Eric ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- RSA Licenses Commercial Distribution Rights to RSAREF ===================================================== RSA announces that it is licensing commercial distribution rights of its RSAREF software to Consensus Development, allowing for implementation of commercial Privacy Enhanced Mail (PEM) applications. Press Release -------------- REDWOOD SHORES, CALIFORNIA--JANUARY 9, 1995--RSA Data Security, Inc. and Consensus Development Corporation jointly announce today at the RSA Data Security Conference that Consensus Development is licensing the commercial distribution rights of RSAREF from RSA Data Security. RSAREF (pronounced "R.S.A. reff") is short for "RSA reference implementation" and is a cryptography source code toolkit designed to allow developers to create PEM (Privacy-Enhanced Mail)software and other encryption/authentication tools. Until now, RSAREF has been an unsupported RSA product approved for use only as part of freeware and not-for-profit software applications. Consensus Development will now be able to market and license RSAREF to commercial software developers, and provide software support and future enhancements to the RSAREF source code library. (continued in full text press release...) Full Text --------- A World-Wide-Web/Mosaic page for this press release can be found at: <URL=http://www.consensus.com:8300/RSAREF-PR.html> A digitally signed text copy of this press release can be found at: <URL=ftp://ftp.consensus.com/pub/consensus/pr/RSAREF-PR.txt> Discussion/Announcement List ---------------------------- Consensus Development will be creating an email discussion list for software developers interested in RSAREF. To join the discussion, send a message to <listproc(a)consensus.com> with the body of the message requesting "subscribe RSAREF-DEV-L firstname lastname".

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anti clipper graffiti
by Avi Harris Baumstein 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

check out: <http://wps.com/anti-clipper-graffiti.gif> and while you've got mosaic going, check this out on the same server: <http://wps.com/toilet/toilet.html> -avi

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Re: RSA Licenses Commercial Distribution Rights to RSAREF (URLs to Press
by Christopher Allen 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 10:21 AM 1/10/95, Adam Shostack wrote: > Its just another example of RSADSI trying to act more like a >government agency. :) I hope not -- one thing that I'm trying to do by taking over support for RSAREF is make it much more responsive to what developers demand. Like you I was disappointed by the slow progress of RSAREF, so that is why I worked so hard to get this deal going. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ...Christopher Allen Consensus Development Corporation.. ...<ChristopherA(a)consensus.com> 4104-24th Street #419.. ... San Francisco, CA 94114-3615.. ... o415/647-6383 f415/647-6384.. ...Mosaic/WWW Home Page: .. ...Consensus Home Page ..

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Re: How do I know if its encrypted?
by pstemari＠erinet.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 07:37 PM 1/11/95, Timothy C. May wrote: > ... (Quibblers, this is the place where your announce the precise compression > seen...) PKZIP (R) FAST! Create/Update Utility Version 2.04g 02-01-93 Copr. 1989-1993 PKWARE Inc. All Rights Reserved. Shareware Version PKZIP Reg. U.S. Pat. and Tm. Off. Patent No. 5,051,745 _ 80386 CPU detected. _ EMS version 4.00 detected. _ XMS version 2.00 detected. _ DPMI version 0.90 detected. _ Using Normal Compression. Creating ZIP: MAY.ZIP Adding: MAY.TXT Deflating (49%), done. A pretty good guess, actually. --Paul J. Ste. Marie pstemari(a)well.sf.ca.us, pstemari(a)erinet.com

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Why is WELL down?
by Bradley W. Dolan 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

My favorite net access provider, the WELL, is down and I can't get a straight answer from the normally frank WELL folks why. Is there a net.guru out there that might have any insight into whether this shutdown is technical or political? Brad Dolan

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Re: Why is WELL down?
by Jef Poskanzer 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>My favorite net access provider, the WELL, is down and I can't >get a straight answer from the normally frank WELL folks why. Is that sarcasm? "Never attribute to malice what can be explained by simple stupidity." --- Jef

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