December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Remailer at myriad.pc.cc.cmu.edu??
by Mark Terka 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I take it the above remailer has bitten the dust? I didn't see it in Ralph's last list.

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2048 bit keys
by Tony.Gurnick＠nzdairy.co.nz 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I saw a thread here a couple of weeks ago about generating 2048 bit keys after the 15-dec. I cant remember how to do it, can somebody please enlighten me??? T

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Name that phone
by Philip Zimmermann 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I'm trying to come up with a name for the secure phone software I'm planning on releasing. The software would turn any multimedia PC into a secure phone. I'm open to suggestions for the name. Some names that have been suggested: 1) Voice PGP 2) Pretty Good Secure Phone (PGSP) 3) PGP Phone I like 2 or 3. Does anyone want to suggest other names, or vote for which of these is better? Send your replies to prz(a)acm.org, with the subject line of "Name that phone". The winner will get a free copy. But then, so will a lot of other people.

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Re: Remailer at myriad.pc.cc.cmu.edu??
by L. McCarthy 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- - -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Mark Terka writes: > I take it the above remailer has bitten the dust? I didn't see it in Ralph's > last list. I asked about this on the remailer-operators list the other day. It seems Matt G. asked Raph to remove it from the list temporarily; I think he's just gone on vacation for a little while. - - -L. Futplex McCarthy - -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.1 iQCVAwUBLvT2d2f7YYibNzjpAQEPTAQAt5nqYycS//ebW9ZsISwshdUtYmMHlGox 6WdkaU0x27whC08ppk3MULMVERXmRRAxs7yUcFUeea/nmjQFGqnITprWGW0h2ONl CqL1XNvp7miky/L0ESbM1H+fm1e2bWObn1mh57LQuzuX5pW01EB+g7pw8L8yJgs3 qqH747EZfaM= =vz9F - -----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 iQBFAwUBLvT5AioZzwIn1bdtAQG8SgF/UK/GUXDynLdM3hv0sHs1ev75lPIKFRPz Yvv3BdJg8B9jlhf9nfIgfPaTnrmfPtn+ =h8gc -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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freedom+diversity=noise
by mkj＠october.ducktown.org 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- This list appears to be going through some sort of crisis. Tim May has quit, others are threatening to quit, and the messages criticizing the list itself threaten to outnumber those on all other topics! Frankly, I don't get it. What's everybody so upset about? A few arguments, some bad manners? Can we afford to be so sensitive? Now, I admit I don't read every message posted here (who has the time?), but I read a fair sampling, and I haven't seen anything half as bad as what I face every day on the subway. At least on this list, nobody has ever pulled a weapon on me! Personally I don't understand why some people are so bothered by the noise here and elsewhere on the nets. Sticks and stones and all that, you know? But a number of people here have even suggested that the Cypherpunks list, at least in its present form, is near the end of its useful life. I would like to go on record as strongly DISagreeing with that suggestion. Sure, I wish we were making more progress faster, but I think we are doing better than many of us realize. The job is not an easy one, and in my experience, I have found that difficult jobs demand perseverance above all other virtues. However, it seems that every time a forum, list, newsgroup or whatever becomes too popular, it reaches a "critical mass" at which people start complaining that everything is ruined, and soon thereafter the forum splinters and/or switches to a moderated format. Thinking about the phenomenon, I came up with the following brilliant (ahem) generalization, which I humbly dub "mkj's law": FREEDOM + DIVERSITY = NOISE Where "noise" is defined as any behavior(s) which a significant portion of the group finds undesirable. The above law appears to apply not only to network forums, but equally well to other types of social groups. (Note for example that mkj's law is inextricably linked with the old amateur-radio principle, "One Man's Signal is Another Man's Noise".) Mkj's law has disturbing implications, in that "noise" (which is normally considered a Bad Thing) is shown to be an inevitable consequence of the combination of freedom and diversity (which are normally considered Good Things). Mkj's law also states that there are only two ways to reduce the noise in any group: (1) Crack down on freedom (impose controls on behavior, the job of police in the physical realm or moderators/censors in the informational realm); or (2) Crack down on diversity (usually by restricting group membership, or perhaps by other means such as strong charismatic leadership). Note that this "mkj's law" stuff is a first-draft, brand-new idea for me; I'm not taking a firm position, just soliciting comments. ObCrypto-Philosophy: Clearly, at the root of the Cypherpunks agenda -- or any pro-privacy agenda -- lies a presumption that freedom and diversity are Good Things, whereas "noise reducers" like censorship, prejudice, and intrusive law-enforcement are Bad Things. I share this presumption. But it might be an interesting exercise to ask: If we can't accept with good grace the current noise on the Cypherpunks list, how are we going to like real life in a global society where freedom and diversity have been greatly increased by "crypto-anarchy"? Will the "global village" fragment into isolationist cliques? Even sooner, will the Cypherpunks? --- mkj P.S. Since I don't recall posting my public key to this list before: - -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Version: 2.6 mQCNAi3q+mcAAAEEAOKHMopu6yj57rtwamGwh79bpxAzcbysIJ17PNc/D902WEHG m81FyrcjZaWgj2jX+JYPKqPrOmy72arHJjP5wkAFd2VG5p+WdQjkwXtObOoJ5qfd l+twaRqZVvl4gDiBoFrdrwVSGxXGqAMLOP3VvcQk3uH4y6GmdF11Wd4tm8clAAUR tC5NYWhhdG1hIEthbmUtSmVldmVzIDxta2pAb2N0b2Jlci5kdWNrdG93bi5vcmc+ =Eb3a - -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBLvYFdl11Wd4tm8clAQH20AP9ESKpTtl3C926QDOzUZXISQLWDWY6hsxd 1i3g29cePDDfb29D4LweXp5GTJTpGwHE5saXpPuveFrsWUN8KUOBlJRG0g+Sj1JP ZR3QAb/hRlEJBoi7bgpZJQOijXdJIV2oevO5Q9CinRP56CEudCnAhi3xqX5dfMeL ikAwokXsB44= =Nl3X -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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List of reliable remailers
by Raph Levien 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I operate a remailer pinging service which collects detailed information about remailer features and reliability. To use it, just finger remailer-list(a)kiwi.cs.berkeley.edu There is also a Web version of the same information, at: http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~raph/remailer-list.html This information is used by premail, a remailer chaining and PGP encrypting client for outgoing mail, which is available at: ftp://ftp.csua.berkeley.edu/pub/cypherpunks/premail/premail-0.30.tar.gz For the PGP public keys of the remailers, as well as some help on how to use them, finger remailer.help.all(a)chaos.bsu.edu This is the current info: REMAILER LIST This is an automatically generated listing of remailers. The first part of the listing shows the remailers along with configuration options and special features for each of the remailers. The second part shows the 12-day history, and average latency and uptime for each remailer. You can also get this list by fingering remailer-list(a)kiwi.cs.berkeley.edu. $remailer{"vox"} = "<remail(a)vox.xs4all.nl> cpunk pgp. post"; $remailer{"avox"} = "<anon(a)vox.hacktic.nl> cpunk pgp post"; $remailer{"extropia"} = "<remail(a)extropia.wimsey.com> cpunk pgp special"; $remailer{"portal"} = "<hfinney(a)shell.portal.com> cpunk pgp hash"; $remailer{"alumni"} = "<hal(a)alumni.caltech.edu> cpunk pgp hash"; $remailer{"bsu-cs"} = "<nowhere(a)bsu-cs.bsu.edu> cpunk hash ksub"; $remailer{"rebma"} = "<remailer(a)rebma.mn.org> cpunk pgp hash"; $remailer{"jpunix"} = "<remailer(a)jpunix.com> cpunk pgp hash latent cut post ek"; $remailer{"c2"} = "<remail(a)c2.org> eric pgp hash"; $remailer{"soda"} = "<remailer(a)csua.berkeley.edu> eric post"; $remailer{"penet"} = "<anon(a)anon.penet.fi> penet post"; $remailer{"ideath"} = "<remailer(a)ideath.goldenbear.com> cpunk hash ksub"; $remailer{"usura"} = "<usura(a)replay.com> cpunk pgp. hash latent cut post"; $remailer{"desert"} = "<remail(a)desert.xs4all.nl> cpunk pgp. post"; $remailer{"nately"} = "<remailer(a)nately.ucsd.edu> cpunk pgp hash latent cut"; $remailer{"xs4all"} = "<remailer(a)xs4all.nl> cpunk pgp hash latent cut post ek"; $remailer{"flame"} = "<tomaz(a)flame.sinet.org> cpunk pgp hash latent cut post ek"; $remailer{"rahul"} = "<homer(a)rahul.net> cpunk"; $remailer{"mix"} = "<mixmaster(a)nately.ucsd.edu> cpunk hash latent cut ek"; $remailer{"q"} = "<q(a)c2.org> cpunk hash latent cut ek"; catalyst(a)netcom.com is _not_ a remailer. Last ping: Mon 19 Dec 94 6:00:03 PST remailer email address history latency uptime ----------------------------------------------------------------------- usura usura(a)replay.com +***++*+**** 7:47 99.99% alumni hal(a)alumni.caltech.edu *+*****+**** 4:24 99.99% c2 remail(a)c2.org +++-+++++-++ 41:24 99.99% penet anon(a)anon.penet.fi *****+*+**** 29:39 99.99% nately remailer(a)nately.ucsd.edu ++++++.+++++ 1:29:04 99.99% portal hfinney(a)shell.portal.com ************ 2:19 99.99% flame tomaz(a)flame.sinet.org ***+-++**+* 8:57 99.99% ideath remailer(a)ideath.goldenbear.com *-*++**+**** 11:44 99.97% bsu-cs nowhere(a)bsu-cs.bsu.edu -**++******* 5:59 99.96% mix mixmaster(a)nately.ucsd.edu **+++*.+++++ 1:26:32 99.96% desert remail(a)desert.xs4all.nl .--------.-- 14:21:48 99.99% jpunix remailer(a)jpunix.com ** +-++**+* 8:35 99.78% q q(a)c2.org *-+--++ 49:41 99.79% vox remail(a)vox.xs4all.nl --..-----. 17:07:50 99.99% rahul homer(a)rahul.net ****** ****+ 10:59 99.50% soda remailer(a)csua.berkeley.edu ._........ 10:05:18 99.41% xs4all remailer(a)xs4all.nl ****+ +**** 8:09 99.10% rebma remailer(a)rebma.mn.org *---___..-.- 30:10:54 82.77% extropia remail(a)extropia.wimsey.com -.-+ 5:00:06 27.26% For more info: http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~raph/remailer-list.html History key * # response in less than 5 minutes. * * response in less than 1 hour. * + response in less than 4 hours. * - response in less than 24 hours. * . response in more than 1 day. * _ response came back too late (more than 2 days). Options and features cpunk A major class of remailers. Supports Request-Remailing-To: field. eric A variant of the cpunk style. Uses Anon-Send-To: instead. penet The third class of remailers (at least for right now). Uses X-Anon-To: in the header. pgp Remailer supports encryption with PGP. A period after the keyword means that the short name, rather than the full email address, should be used as the encryption key ID. oldpgp Remailer does not like messages encoded with MIT PGP 2.6. Other versions of PGP, including 2.3a and 2.6ui, work fine. hash Supports ## pasting, so anything can be put into the headers of outgoing messages. ksub Remailer always kills subject header, even in non-pgp mode. nsub Remailer always preserves subject header, even in pgp mode. latent Supports Matt Ghio's Latent-Time: option. cut Supports Matt Ghio's Cutmarks: option. post Post to Usenet using Post-To: or Anon-Post-To: header. special Accepts only pgp encrypted messages. ek Encrypt responses in relpy blocks using Encrypt-Key: header. Comments and suggestions welcome! Raph Levien

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Secure Phone software
by xpat＠vm1.spcs.umn.edu 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On Sun, 18 Dec 1994, Philip Zimmermann wrote: > I'm trying to come up with a name for the secure phone software I'm > planning on releasing. The software would turn any multimedia PC > into a secure phone. OK, how about: IronClad StonePhone BuzzOff SpeakEasy SpeakFreely BlackHole BlackPipe SecurePipe MYOB (Mind Your Own Business, in the spirit of PGP) Wall To Wall (WTW) <--this gets my vote ---------------------------------------------------------------------- P M Dierking xpat(a)vm1.spcs.umn.edu |

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Name that phone
by blancw＠pylon.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

MMPCPGPVSP ( MultiMedia PC PGP-Voice-Secure Phone ) PGVEPCP ( Pretty Good Voice Encryped PC Phone ) Ho Ho Ho Ho Ho Ho Ho Ho Ho Ho Ho Ho Ho Ho Ho Ho Blanc

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NONE
by nobody＠rebma.rebma.mn.org 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Matthew Ghio, You've done a great job in the past and continue to do so, but for the past week some (all?) of your users have not been getting any mail. What happened? Post to cypherpunks, remailer-operators, alt.privacy or alt.anonymous.messages, alt.abuse.recovery (either one. You choose). Thanks. END

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MacPGP
by norm＠netcom.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Now I have something nice to say about MacPGP: It can take its input and output from the clip board. This makes it about half as much work as it was before. Look in "Dialog Shortcuts" under the "Options" menu.

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