December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

(Fwd) Re: Law enforcement and PGP ban in Australia (fwd)
by Rev. Ben 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Followup on the Ozzies banning PGP: ------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- Date: Mon, 07 Aug 1995 16:44:12 +1000 From: "Danny Smith, AUSCERT" <D.Smith(a)auscert.org.au> To: mauvais(a)ocelot.llnl.gov Cc: first-teams(a)CSRC.NCSL.NIST.GOV Subject: Re: Law enforcement and PGP ban in Australia Organization: FIRST, the Forum of Incident Response & Security Teams Reply-to: "Danny Smith, AUSCERT" <D.Smith(a)auscert.org.au> Paul (et al), > I'm curious about what people have heard about this? > > I'm trying to find out more from this end....doesn't look good... Surprised you didn't come to us first. :-) > Subject: Australia next to ban PGP I believe you can treat this as net.rumour. I have the paper now, and will read it tonight. I will also talk to the author whom I am led to believe is rather annoyed at the misrepresentation of the content of his paper. More information later this week. Danny Smith. ========================================================================== Danny Smith | Fax: +61 7 3365 4477 AUSCERT | Phone: +61 7 3365 4417 c/- Prentice Centre | (answered during business hours) The University of Queensland | (on call after hours for emergencies) Qld. 4072. Australia | Internet: auscert(a)auscert.org.au

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NYPotpourii
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Abject beg: it's easier for the 'droid to act on each item separately, do please request 1-by-1. 8-7-95. NYPaper: "A Cyberspace Front in a Multicultural War: Finding alternatives to a world where only English is typed." With the explosion of worldwide interest in the Internet, the dominance of English, stemming from the network's beginnings in the United States, has become a sensitive matter. A fear is that English, already the international language of business and science, is becoming the lingua franca of the computer world as well, further casting other languages in the shade. And some countries, already unhappy with the encroachment of American culture are worried that their cultures will be further eroded by an American dominance in cyberspace. A consortium of American computer companies has developed a universal digital code known as Unicode to allow computers to represent the letters and characters of virtually all the world's languages. SEZ_who "Digital Commerce: 2 plans for watermarks, which can bind proof of authorship to electronic works." Denise Caruso's column. As information becomes currency in the global economy, that so-called digital watermark technologies are beginning to appear. As with their paper and broadcast counterparts, the concept behind digital watermarks is to provide a secure means to certify the origin, ownership and authenticity of digital works. And by doing so, they can provide the first line of defense against piracy of digital media like music, photographs, film, words and video games. MUN_due "Windows 95's Big Value May Be as a Lure to Network System." Is Windows 95 a decoy? For all the attention being paid to the Aug. 24 introduction of the Microsoft Corporation's updated personal computer operating system, some experts think the software's true strategic value to Microsoft is not the few billion dollars in sales it is expected to bring to the company over the next few years. Instead, the long-term value may lie in luring customers and software developers into adopting the company's other operating system: Windows NT, for corporate computer networks. COY_ote "Selling Virtual Reality, in Indiana: The owners were shocked by how few understood the technology." "Seeing the potential for educating had an incredible impact on me," said John Hammond, an Indianapolis businessman who stumbled on Virtually Yours when he and his son went to the shopping center for pizza. Mr. Hammond wants Virtually Yours to supply expertise and equipment to Sunship Ministries, a group of Christian business executives developing a design for a school, hospital and church complex suited for missionary work in developing countries. Mr. Hammond sees virtual reality as a marketing tool for getting developing countries to welcome them; he sees programs re-creating Bible stories as a powerful tool for preaching to nonreaders. "You could let people interact with a virtual Jesus," Mr. Hammond said. GIT_rel "Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bonb." [Book review] In the author's view the story of the hydrogen bomb is only secondarily a technological one. What mainly drove American physicists to design the more powerful bomb was the news that the Soviet Union possessed an atom bomb. And the reason the Russians had achieved the bomb was mainly spying, Mr. Rhodes insists. So his story of the H-bomb is not so much technology as the interaction of politics, diplomacy, war, espionage, theoretical and practical physics and paranoia. JOX_onu

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Encrypted internet traffic to Singapore??
by Joe McGuckin 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

A client of mine wishes to set up a connection to their Singapore office using the internet rather than a dedicated leased line. They would like to encrypt the data going between the branch office in Singapore and the home office in California. I am considering using something like swIPe for this? Seem reasonable? The data is not very secret, they merely wish to foil 'hacker' type eavesdroppers. Also, what are the legal ramifications? Can I get an export license for this? Is there an encryption method that doesn't require an export license? What laws does Singapore have on encryption? Is swIPe legal? That is, are any patents being misappropriated by the current version? I see announcements on this list about DH and Public Key software being released. I would assume that these software tidbits are technically illegal for commercial use? Thanks, Joe

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Re: Two-faced Security Problem? Dammit Janus?
by Chris Brenton 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

In reply to: > > >After poking around for a week, I discovered that my home machine, >newray.digex.net, is listed in the Digex's nameservers TWICE! Once with the >IP address that my home machine is waiting for (199.125.128.5) and once >with some other IP address in the digex space (164.109.211.61). If you do >an nslookup on the name, you get both addresses. I believe that the >technically correct thing for someone to do is to choose one of the >addresses at random to distribute the load between two machines pretending >to be one. This explains the connection failures that happened half of the >time. > >This has led me to wonder, though, whether this is some sort of security >breech. For instance, could there be someone out there mascarading as me? >Normally I run Eudora, Netscape, Telnet and other outward bound >applications. It was almost a fluke that I noticed that there were two >entries. > More likely this is a matter of someone assigning a host name to a system without realizing it has already been taken. Yes it can be a security breech but as you experienced the connection is broken easily. If someone wanted to grab your identity they would more likely busy your system (by flooding you with ping requests or something similar) and then grab you IP address. >Does some software need to find its IP address in a DNS table? For >instance, does Eudora need to look up 164.109.211.61 to find >"newray.digex.net"? The lookup typically goes the other way around, from host--->IP address. Dependant on the cache hits either address could be returned.

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Re: There's a hole in your crypto...
by tcmay＠got.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 12:53 PM 8/7/95, Dr. Frederick B. Cohen wrote: >Issue 2: > >The notion that mathematics somehow excludes linguistic proofs >(forwarded I believe by a user with "may" in their email address) is >nonsense. Mathematics at its core is based on linguistic notions that Not this "May," so far as I can recall. --Tim May Special note: My ISP has changed its domain name from "sensemedia.net" to "got.net" (as in "got milk?"), so I have to again ask you all to bear with me and use my new e-mail address, "tcmay(a)got.net". ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay(a)got.net (Got 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: RSA/Perl Shirts
by Paul Foley 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

One thing I have to ask: Does wearing one of these shirts under something else count as carrying a concealed weapon? :-) -- Paul Foley <paul(a)gec.co.nz> PGP key 0x0D1C0E75 -----------------There's no government like no government---------------- Where they burn books, in the end they will also burn people. -- Heinrich Heine

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Re: Over 350 'Munitions T-shirts' Shipped
by tfs＠adc.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> Where are mine...I got the money to you via > Mario wojo???? at SUN... > I ordered 8 of the shirts > BTW > I am the publisher of PGP 1.0 the only person > who will be indicted with Phil or alone for PGP > what about MY defense fund???? > > Check Gov Access for my story Could you be a little more specific regarding your URL? Thanks! ******************************************************************************* * Just say know! Tony Sgarlatti thetruth(a)future.net * *******************************************************************************

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addresses
by Alan Pugh 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

thanks much to all who responded to my query on the problem i was having with the strange address. i think i have more than enough information to resolve this problem. amp ********************************************* * / Only God can see the whole * * O[%\%\%{<>===========================- * * \ Mandlebrot Set at Once! * * amp * * <0003701548(a)mcimail.com> * * <alan.pugh(a)internetmci.com> * * PGP Key = 4A2683C1 * *********************************************

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RSA/Perl Shirts
by Rev. Ben 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Has Joel Furr shipped his shirts yet? I see some people on the list have gotten shirts and i was wondering as I still have not gotten mine. Ben. ____ Ben Samman..............................................samman(a)cs.yale.edu I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.-- K. Gibran. SUPPORT THE PHIL ZIMMERMANN LEGAL DEFENSE FUND! For information Email: zldf(a)clark.net http://www.netresponse.com/zldf

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Re: ACLU Opposes Exon-Like Speech Crimes in Managers Amend. to House Telco Bill
by Carl Ellison 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>Date: Thu, 3 Aug 1995 11:06:19 -0400 >From: ACLUNATL(a)aol.com > The amendment would have the >effect of actually usurping control from parents in favor of a government >approval panel. Anecdote: I was in Cambridge MA this past weekend visiting old friends, some at church. I sat across from one such at lunch -- a young guy up from Texas going on about how good it is that people are fighting cyberporn. I brought up parental control in attempted rebuttal and he switched immediately to the idea that `parents usually *are* the child abusers and we need to protect children from them -- not give parents control over what gets communicated electronically'. I was surprised at the speed with which he switched to that line of thought. It's clear that this chess game opening has been played by or around him before. [Come to think of it now, it's completely consistent with the anti-abortion stand: that children (starting at fetus) are the property of Society and parents are required to serve Society as soon as a child is conceived (or perhaps as soon as they start having sex). If it's child abusers you're talking about, that line of reasoning can carry emotional appeal. However, I lived in Utah at a time when it was illegal for parents to instruct their children about birth control (I was told (I didn't read the law personally.)).] - Carl +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Carl M. Ellison cme(a)acm.org http://www.clark.net/pub/cme/home.html | |PGP: E0414C79B5AF36750217BC1A57386478 & 61E2DE7FCB9D7984E9C8048BA63221A2 | | ``Officer, officer, arrest that man! He's whistling a dirty song.'' | +----------------------------------------------------------- Jean Ellison -+

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