December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: Zimmermann legal fund
by liberty＠gate.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- - -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Mike wrote: <snip> >Interesting idea ... > >1st question or thing I would want to be certain of is the stability of the >currency of the realm so to speak. I wouldn't want to bank in a country that >had a weak currencey (sp) or was subject to roller coaster economics. > <snip> Who knows...An international free market in banking might eventually lead us back to the evil old gold standard and slowly make the bureaucrats of the Federal Reserve obsolete. How awful. <grin> JMR - -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 Comment: Freedom isn't Freeh iQCVAwUBMBxLLW1lp8bpvW01AQGw8AP/fAWaHgPO064Pv/4JoqcrLDmBBytGR0Tz MfArYuG7/yogyewbZaRkW/MAk7T4IsfXO3BnCQu8PS2MoaGTpTNE3qd30CP6G0v8 4ljZVUCgA+BW8yXfZVWUm+rsoZ8xXkZvtu6Ug8PKMjLzOoeSm+ET4Oq47SUKqSVC mHQVFh92asQ= =L5vT - -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- Regards, Jim Ray "This year or next, for the first time since the end of World War II, we will spend more for interest payments on the debt than on defense. Quite a stunning thing." -- President Bill Clinton "I'm sure as hell stunned!" -- citizen Jim Ray - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PGP key Fingerprint 51 5D A2 C3 92 2C 56 BE 53 2D 9C A1 B3 50 C9 C8 Key id. # E9BD6D35 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Support the Phil Zimmermann (Author of PGP) Legal Defense Fund! email: zldf(a)clark.net or visit http://www.netresponse.com/zldf ________________________________________________________________________ - --- [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 iQBFAwUBMBxQGioZzwIn1bdtAQFwzQGA1rJZcc07cuvSS9T0ktCECLfZYuPboy3n u00aBTPNMYTLXNc6V4vtHYAn85QOn7dT =bQfM -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Another Newsgate Dies
by kdf＠gigo.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Looks like mail2news(a)bham.ac.uk is also dead now (wait, isn't the utexas gate _also_ dead, or was it so problematic that it was not advised?): +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=++=+=+=+=+=+=+ * Originally from news2mail(a)sun4.bham.ac.uk (1:203/2) to John Erland. * Original dated: Jul 30 '95, 04:05 This reply has been automatically generated by the mail-to-news system. Your message was not posted to Usenet because this facility has been withdrawn. Use a different mail-to-news gateway, such as the one at cs.utexas.edu (mail news-group-name(a)cs.utexas.edu) The text of your rejected message is below... ---- -- : Fidonet: John Erland 1:203/8055.12 .. speaking for only myself. : Internet: kdf(a)gigo.com

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PRZ Interview in Infobahn Magazine
by K. M. Ellis 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I generally try to avoid buying anything with the word "Infobahn" on it, but in the premiere issue of this new magazine there's a 5-page article about Phil Zimmerman written by Jeff Elliot (of the National Review...but it's a good article anyway ;). It's pretty good--if anyone is new to the ongoing Zimmerman drama it's a good sum-up. -=Kathleen M. Ellis=- (This message also serves as a test for the new DC-Cypherpunks list server.) kelli(a)zeus.towson.edu http://zeus.towson.edu/~kelli/ GAT d? H+ s+++:-- !g p? !au a- w++@ !v@ c++++ UL++ P+ L+ 3 E---- N+ K W--- M-- V-- po- Y++ t+ 5-- jx R G'''' tv- b+++ D-- B e+ u** h* f++ r--- n+ z** Diverse Sexual Orientation Coll.Towson State University DSOC(a)zeus.towson.edu BigBrotherSystemsBBS........BigBrotherIsWatchingYou.......(410)494-3253#11

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Re: The little sex kitten
by dmandl＠panix.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 11:57 AM 7/29/95, Philip Zimmermann wrote: >JUDGE RULES ON E-MAIL PRIVACY CASE > >TULSA, OKLA -- The Oklahoma Supreme Court has ruled on a case that many >legal experts believe clearly delineates the e-mail privacy rights of >computer users in the workplace. Judge Stan Musing declared that employees >have a right to expect that their empolyers will refrain from monitoring >e-mail messages transmitted on company systems. Far as I can tell, this is meaningless. If you sign a paper "consenting" to email monitoring by your employer, they've got a green light, period. And under those circumstances, I'd think very few companies would be foolish enough not to just ask you to sign. So the only ones who have to worry are those who don't get your "permission" first, and probably more and more companies will just be more up front about it in the future. The tightwad, privacy-loathing scumbags I work for sprang just such a document on us recently, and after squirming and bitching about it for a while, I actually did sign, simply because I wasn't prepared to lose my job at that point. My fear, based on well-established tradition, is that eventually this will become widespread and more and more employers will monitor email, with coerced "consent." --Dave. -- Dave Mandl dmandl(a)panix.com http://wfmu.org/~davem

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U.S. Banks are not all that bad
by tcmay＠sensemedia.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Hate to disagree with Lucky, but.... At 11:05 PM 7/30/95, Lucky Green wrote: >Six years ago, you could walk into a Bank, show them your driver license, >and open an account. >Today, you need several pieces of ID. I've cashed checks at Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Comerica (whatever _that_ is), etc., without having an account at these banks, and without having to pay any fee, and without any more ID than a driver's license. (I have no accounts at California banks, so all checks sent to me are, perforce, not checks drawn at "my" bank...and yet I've never had to pay a dime to cash a check. The times I've gotten out of state checks, I've of course not expected third parties to cash them for free for me...usually I just deposit them by mail.) >Three years ago, you could withdraw money from your own account without >having your checkbook on you. >Today, they make you pay for a "counter check". Hasn't happened to me. >One year ago, you could walk into a bank an cash a check drawn onto an >account at the very same bank. >Today (Coast Federal), they make you pay a $10 check cashing fee. Hasn't happened to me. I walk into banks, present the checks drawn on their own bank, ask to have it cashed, and all they want is to make sure I'm the person to whom the check is drawn. No fees, no refusals to cash. >The US banking industry has gone to the dogs. The day a non-US bank offers >an account that can be accessed over the net will be the day I close my US >accounts. Maybe I have the magic touch. I find U.S. banks to be marvels of efficiency. (But then I can remember running out of cash on a Saturday and having no way to get any more cash except by borrowing from friends...the ATM revolutionized things around 1980.) I'm not speaking of "interesting" banking applications, which, I fear, are not permitted by current U.S. banking laws. --Tim May .......................................................................... Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay(a)sensemedia.net | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero 408-728-0152 | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Corralitos, CA | black markets, collapse of governments. Higher Power: 2^756839 | Public Key: PGP and MailSafe available. "National borders are just speed bumps on the information superhighway."

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Re: Zimmermann legal fund
by shamrock＠netcom.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- In article <199507302224.PAA10093(a)blob.best.net>, jamesd(a)echeque.com ("James A. Donald") wrote: >Many years ago I obtained a US account by mail >from overseas, using cheques made out to me from >US sources. > >I did this with the bank of America. No big problem. But as >time went by, their ability to handle financial events that were >out of the ordinary deteriorated spectacularly. > >Perhaps this is partly because things tightened up, but >it is also that most US banks have developed a monolithic >and obstructionist bureaucracy that is incapable of handling >any event that is out of the ordinary. Six years ago, you could walk into a Bank, show them your driver license, and open an account. Today, you need several pieces of ID. Three years ago, you could withdraw money from your own account without having your checkbook on you. Today, they make you pay for a "counter check". One year ago, you could walk into a bank an cash a check drawn onto an account at the very same bank. Today (Coast Federal), they make you pay a $10 check cashing fee. The US banking industry has gone to the dogs. The day a non-US bank offers an account that can be accessed over the net will be the day I close my US accounts. - -- - -- Lucky Green <mailto:shamrock@netcom.com> PGP encrypted mail preferred. - --- [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 iQBFAwUBMBwQDCoZzwIn1bdtAQGqHQF8C1QShMuN0Eq74mMI5rculIym8xjzYV8C mErjtB8tJ7UseKD9bmNY6dpWqBviplMp =aBGi -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Quicken's new version
by Christopher Smith 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

If I am out of place for posting here, forgive me; however, I do believe this germane. Compass Bank here in Alabama is joining twenty other banks around the country to offer dial-in banking via Quicken's new software release. Does anyone know or have heard of the security mechanisms which are to be built in to this product, specifically authent and encryption?

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Re: pkzip cracking
by lharrison＠mhv.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- At 05:17 AM 8/2/95 UTC, an264373(a)anon.penet.fi wrote: > >Does anyone have a utility to crack password encrypted/protected zip >files? Or an address to download one? All replies / flames / >pointers appreciated. Sauroth - Did you ever get a response and, if so, what was the answer? Regards - Lynne -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBMCT4GD5A4+Z4Wnt9AQEdGAP+Nne+hetfsjLPNjNeAoWOHCIe14lqWOm3 iXYE8ol7PCf/B0CypYYShkpzX9Y1+319veAPLe6nzHU95TQkEGffwEJpFrLt2IA8 k0azeeRJvEERTVCC+4WUWXvE9ugsAXBn755Eg4HW6lEu1qNp/K3zn4fWGuNLeFna Wt+Co+O7iQ0= =s0hA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ******************************************************************** Lynne L. Harrison, Esq. Poughkeepsie, New York E-Mail: lharrison(a)mhv.net Lynne.Harrison(a)Execnet.com "Say not, 'I have found the truth', but rather, 'I have found a truth.'" - Kahlil Gibran from "The Prophet" ********************************************************************

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Questions about SMTP and NNTP
by Joey Grasty 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

C-punks: While working on the SMTP and NNTP clients for the WinSock remailer, I have uncovered two questions I don't know the answer to. Here they are: 1. When sending a message to the SMTP server, I use scenario 4 as shown in RFC821 as a basis for my client. There seems to be a huge security hole in SMTP. I can use just about any name when sending the VRFY command. For example, I could connect to "sensemedia.com" and pretend to be "tcmay". Is there something I'm missing here or is there really that big a security hole in SMTP? 2. How do you do user authentication in NNTP? There's nothing about it RFC977. Is there a later RFC that describes how to do user authentication? All of my newsreaders support this function, but I haven't been able to figure out how to do it. Any help you can give me would be appreciated. ObWinSock Remailer: I have the POP3, NNTP and SMTP clients functional now. With luck, I'll have an alpha test version of the remailer in two or three weeks. ObCypherPunks: Is the list down? I haven't heard a peep since about noon. I send a "who cypherpunks" to majordomo and received a quick reply which shows I'm still subscribed. Any idea? Regards, -- Joey Grasty jgrasty(a)gate.net [home -- encryption, privacy, RKBA and other hopeless causes] jgrasty(a)pts.mot.com [work -- designing pagers] "Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin." -- John Von Neumann

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Re: MS Money password problem
by tcmay＠sensemedia.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 7:34 PM 8/21/95, Matt Miszewski wrote: >We recently lost (ok fired) our office manager, but not before she put >nifty passwords on all the MS Money data we had and now she has, of >course, gone on a three week vacation. I have all the relevant WP >password retrieving mechanisms but not one for MS Money. > >Anyone with pointers or programs, your help would be greatly appreciated. This, of course, is the rationale for the "key escrow" systems (as opposed to the government-mandated "key escrow" proposals, which are not an "escrow" sytem of this kind). "Escrow" is sufficiently overloaded with real estate connotations that I wish the industry would adopt a different term. Carl Ellison's "GAK" is cute, but is hardly likely to ever be adopted widely. (No, I'm not calling for another round of suggested names, just opining that "key escrow" is a terrible name.) --Tim May .......................................................................... Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay(a)sensemedia.net | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero 408-728-0152 | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Corralitos, CA | black markets, collapse of governments. Higher Power: 2^756839 | Public Key: PGP and MailSafe available. "National borders are just speed bumps on the information superhighway."

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