December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

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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Storm Signals
by cactus＠seabsd.hks.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- - -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On a social mailing list that I'm on, two things have been noticed in the last week: 1: Somebody's roommate (a Green Beret) has been called back into 6 months of active service. He was not told where he'd be. 2: GPS fine positioning has been turned off. This is only done during times of military operations (such as the 'invasion' of Haiti and the Iraq Massacre). It's also been highly correlated with Pentagon pizza deliveries. Anybody else have any clues as to what's up? No overt crypto relevence, but some parallels to traffic analysis could be easily drawn. - - -- Todd Masco | "life without caution/ the only worth living / love for a man/ cactus(a)hks.net | love for a woman/ love for the facts/ protectless" - A Rich Cactus' Homepage - -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBLxKkJhNhgovrPB7dAQGCqwP/YzFcuNDCoUDY4a8O5YuVryBZ51HisN6m PHwc5W2bmwXx8LLQs1fOu8J9d3SFZM8l47bBj8EZCIvXatrUCHPVIqnBWfE30z8w 7uQRBn+eTtct/vs9MgPTGDk+mNWgDtYHL7TQ8vfypkYVgrlWH3pNbEs4+EkRv/5l ayYaAPq3IoU= =YUo1 - -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- - --- [This message has been signed by an auto-signing service. A valid signature means only that it has been received at the address corresponding to the signature and forwarded.] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 Comment: Gratis auto-signing service iQBFAwUBLxLe7CoZzwIn1bdtAQHEcgGAm0rMUiMy+5bUX419XmkLtHFXNUjvV8e0 1YylcQ5G9C/HlWXYZett0tudtpBUGZsS =kfFB -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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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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Re: "safe" Internet access
by danisch＠ira.uka.de 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> If you want to access the Internet in a way that doesn't reveal your > physical location (much), buy access from Metricom. They sell > Internet access via radios. A small part-15 (900Mhz) $500 radio modem This seems to be one of these devices which use the celular phone network. In Germany they are also available ("Modacom") and use the D1/D2/E-Plus networks. These networks can localize a sender in many cases with a precision of about 20-40 meters. Not the best way to keep the physical location secret... Hadmut

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MEETING: Jan. 14th Bay Area Cypherpunks Meeting
by tcmay＠netcom.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

ANNOUNCEMENT ============ This month's Bay Area Cypherpunks Meeting will be held this Saturday, January 14th, from 12 noon until 6 pm in Silicon Graphics Cafe Iris, the usual place and time. Detailed directions are at the end of this message. The topic: Demonstrations The emphasis will be on hands-on, live demonstrations of items of interest. Several speakers will demonstrate products and tools on actual machines. I encourage eating, shmoozing, and general milling-around to be finished by 12:30 at the latest, so we can start discussion of general items, updates, etc. I'd really like to get the demos started by 1 p.m., and 1:30 at the latest. We have a lot of demos planned and some special visitors in town this week, and some special events that just happened. So, as I'm the rotating chairentity this month, I'll wield the gavel ruthlessly. The RSA Data Security Inc. annual conference happened this past week, so I expect several folks will want to provide updates and news announcments, e.g., the licensing of RSAREF, status of lawsuits, new results, etc.. Short updates are good, but we just don't have the time for this meeting to formally present recaps of interesting papers. If there were any *amazing* results, they'll surely keep for a future meeting for more detailed discussion (could be a theme for a meeting). Also, Phil Zimmermann may be at the meeting (he's scheduled), so hearing from him could easily soak up a couple of hours, which we just don't have. In fairness to those who've planned demos, we'll have to try to limit all these interesting folks to the first hour or so. Maybe a few minutes more. And maybe later in the day there'll be time. We have these demos planned. * Henry Strickland (Strick) will, in his words, "be demoing Skronk (transparent above-the-kernel encryption for TCP/IP) and Kudzu (the TCL toolkit)." * Jack Repenning of SGI will demo two interfaces. In his own words, "I'm planning to demo two interfaces, actually: the Emacs one (on an Indy), and the MCIP "MacPGP Kit" plus Eudora extensions, on a Mac." * Phil Zimmermann "will demo pgp 2.9 and possibly voice pgp," according to Katy Kislitzin, who is in contact with Phil. * Katy Kislitzin will bring up the "demo smosaic" she has. (Secure Mosaic.) * Raph Levien will demonstrate "premail," his remailer-chaining tool. * Other ad hoc demos of items of interest may happen. We'll have several machines set up, so those with interesting software or hardware can perhaps do some brief, unscheduled demos. If I left anyone out, anyone who sent me e-mail saying they wanted to demo, I apologize. I went back over my mail and these were the folks I found who'd sent me e-mail. Contact me at my normal e-mail address (tcmay(a)netcom.com) as soon as possible if you want to be added. (I'll be travelling to LA on Friday, for a television interview with the BBC on crypto, and so will be unwired that day.) The emphasis is on hands-on demos, to expose folks to tools, capabilitities, possible future products. Informality is fine. NOTE TO PRESENTERS: Make arrangements to have machines you'll need there. An SGI Unix machine is permanently in the room. Other machines will have to be brought. Because of my trip to LA on Friday, I doubt I'll be bringing my PowerMac 7100AV with me, but I will have a PowerBook 170 laptop Macintosh, if all else fails. Windows and DOS demo folks should bring their machine of choice. (Atari, Cromemco, Amiga, Altair, and Exidy Sorcerer users are of course on their own.) The overhead video system is often more trouble than its worth, but it will be available for at least some of the demos. Those wishing to tie into should have either RGB outputs from their machine, or NTSC composite video. I'll bring my Hi-8 camcorder, which can tie in, and thus allow me to zoom in on whatever machines are there and display the video on the overhead screen. Dinner plans will, as usual, be made in the last chaotic moments of the meeting. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- DIRECTIONS: Silicon Graphics, Inc. Building 5 (SGI Cafeteria) 2025 North Shoreline Boulevard Mountain View, CA >From 101 take Shoreline East. This is towards Shoreline Amphitheatre. It's also "logical east", and points more north that east. (That is, it's east with respect to 101 North, which points west near the exit.) If you're coming in on 101 South, you'll cross over the bridge. Continue on Shoreline and go past a whole bunch of other SGI buildings. Turn right onto Steirlin Court at the big red metal sculpture. There will be even more SGI buildings surrounding you--take note of the building numbers. Go almost to the end of this street. Building 5 is on the right.

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