December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

One effort for Internet Privacy
by Chris Avery 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On a lark, I dashed off a "letter to the editor" of the San Francisco Chronicle, quoted below, lo and behold it got published today. You will see I simplified and softened the message somewhat -- a little spin for the good guys never hurt: (published as lead letter, nice headline) "HOW FAR SHALL WE LET THE EAVESDROPPERS GO?" Editor -- Washington wants the right to "wire-tap" private communications on the Internet, and the issue is now being debated in Congress. I'm not raising the "content" issue, which can be handled by screening software or by ratings; this is instead the issue of privacy in person-to-person communications. The rationale for the bills before Congress is law enforcement, giving officials new methods to detect criminal activity. All well and good, but is it really wise to grant the bureaucracy access into this vital channel of personal communications before we fully understand its potentials? How far shall we let the eavesdroppers go? Beware, these aren't casual issues --- your rights are in danger. CHRIS AVERY Oakland

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The End of the Ecash Trial?
by Nathan Loofbourrow 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I have yet to see a date, but Digicash states several times in their press releases that Cyberbucks are only a trial currency, and that at some point in the future the trial will come to an end. Will the bottom drop out of the c$ market at that point? Without Digicash to authenticate currency, it would appear to be impossible to trade c$ coins. If and when Digicash announces an end date for the trial, I would expect to see quite a spectacular crash in the "real cash for ecash" market. The only way to preserve the market would appear to be providing an ecash-for-ecash exchange with a new bank, presumably a licensee of the Digicash software. Such a bank could, out of little more than good will and a desire to kick-start a new e-currency, offer to exchange c$ for the new ecash. Or, perhaps we just shrug our shoulders, kiss our hardly-earned Cyberbuck goodbye, and mumble about how it was fun while it lasted. Either way, in order to preserve the new e-currency's value -- and correct my economics where flawed -- we need the assurance that the money supply will not experience unreasonable growth. The ecash trial has Digicash's promise of a c$1M cap; is this trust sufficient leverage for the user to leave any amount of value in the Cyberbuck, or its successor? nathan

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Re: Linux brutessl client
by patrick＠Verity.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> I've been able to compile a working brutessl 1.02 cllient under linux > and gcc 2.7.0, but I get abysmal search speeds. > > My system is a pentium 60, which, according to the docs, ought to have > a speed of something over 14100 kps (that's what a 486dx2/66 with no > rotate left macro gets). > > brutessl -t reports that my system can do 11200 keys per second. <snicker> I only get 5900 keys/second on a SPARCstation 5:) Patrick _______________________________________________________________________ / These opinions are mine, and not Verity's (except by coincidence;). \ | (\ | | Patrick J. Horgan Verity Inc. \\ Have | | patrick(a)verity.com 1550 Plymouth Street \\ _ Sword | | Phone : (415)960-7600 Mountain View \\/ Will | | FAX : (415)960-7750 California 94303 _/\\ Travel | \___________________________________________________________\)__________/

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Fraud Control
by promotions＠web-promotions.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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brutessl client
by David K. Merriman 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Well, my 386SX-33 (w/FPU) is doing about 1000/sec, my Compaq Deskpro386/20e (w/fpu) is doing 1000/s, and my 486DX2-80 is doing 8100/s. The two 386 machines will be working on it full time, the 486 will be time-slicing with 'real work'. Now all I need is some keyspace :-) Dave Merriman This is a test (3 UUE lines) of the unconstitutional ITAR - 1/713th of the PGP executable. See below for getting YOUR chunk! ------------------ PGP.ZIP Part [015/713] ------------------- M=$<(&L`#*IPP",(G6(,,S,`P](<2RWU96XCW86/JBYV8A\D8@X'HB_9H#&\X MX'PCUB.,13B"X8`R?^J-:UB.M_`U\>[#)BS&5$0C,Y#^1CS>1`\T1QTXX6!3 M8H,),S$8G>&.WP(8IRA`-M['+`Q%&_C"">5-F%LX@<_Q$;*P'',Q$Z/AA[8M ------------------------------------------------------------- for next chunk to export --> http://dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/export/ <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> My web page: http://www.geopages.com/CapitolHill/1148

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New Remailer Announcement
by Intolerant Remailer 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

----x------------------x----x------x---------------------x-x----- ANNOUNCEMENT: The "Intolerant Remailer" is now fully operational! ----x------------------x----x------x---------------------x-x----- Remailer Policy --------------- Read the header, you lazy bastard. Remailer Help ------------- You won't need any. Read the fucking header, like I told you! Remailer Stats -------------- Why do you want to know? Are you a cop, or something? Remailer Abuse Policy --------------------- Fuck you! For Further Information: ----------------------- Don't bother asking. As a matter of fact, I've come to the decision that I don't want a bunch of assholes like you using my remailer. Get your own goddamn remailer! ----x------------------x----x------x---------------------x-x----------- "Intolerant Remailer" is a registered TradeMark of "Automated Anonymous Assholes, Inc.", for use only by the "Electronic Forgery Foundation." ----x------------------x----x------x---------------------x-x-----------

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PGPfone Release is coming soon! (fwd)
by gt7508b＠prism.gatech.edu 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> As you may have seen, the news media has picked up on the upcoming > PGPfone release. This note is to let you know that we at MIT are working > with Phil Zimmermann and the PGPfone team to distribute PGPfone from > MIT. We expect to have a *BETA* test version (Macintosh Only) of PGPfone > available shortly. Is there a unix version planned??? -- =-=-=-=-=-=-= Tom Cross AKA The White Ninja / Decius 6i5 */^\* -=-=-=-=-=-=-=- -=-=-=-=-=- TWN615(a)mindvox.phantom.com GT7508B(a)prism.gatech.edu =-=-=-=-=-=-= =- "Government is not a reason, not an eloquence; it is a force. Like fire, =- -=- it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master." -- George Washington -=-=

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Re: FCPUNX:'Telco Terrorism' -- Wired on Baby Bells v. the Net
by James A. Donald 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 10:18 PM 8/1/97 +1000, Apache wrote: > I note with great interest an independent provider in New Zealand which > has a better competitive market situation in this area than Australia > (and a lot of other things I might add) offers a user account with up to > 500kbs satellite feed for $79 (NZ) /mnth flat plus installation of $79 > plus you must by the satellite dish ($699). I would assume you can't > resell bandwidth on this set up so the two are not directly comparable. The (comparatively) free market telecom system in New Zealand is due to a LEFT WING, pro liberty, government, that adopted a strategy "let us privatize first and let the free market sort out the chaos later" The equivalent in America is almost unimaginable. Here in America left means statist, left means big brother is in charge. The same is true, or used to be true when I was there, in Australia, though not to the extreme that it is true in America. --------------------------------------------------------------------- | We have the right to defend ourselves | http://www.jim.com/jamesd/ and our property, because of the kind | of animals that we are. True law | James A. Donald derives from this right, not from the | arbitrary power of the state. | jamesd(a)echeque.com

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reuters crypto story (fwd)
by Lauren Amy Gelman 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Lauren Amy Gelman, USACM gelman(a)acm.org U.S. Public Policy Committee for the Association for Computing ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 01 Aug 1997 16:24:40 -0400 From: Aaron Pressman <aaron.pressman(a)reuters.com> Subject: reuters crypto story Human rights groups favor strong encryption abroad WASHINGTON, Aug 1 (Reuter) - Human rights activists came to Capitol Hill on Friday to tell lawmakers of their need to use strong computer encoding programs, subject to strict U.S. export limits, in their work outside the country. The debate over exports of encryption technology, which scrambles information and renders it unreadable without a password or software "key," has largely pitted the interests of commercial companies and civil libertarians against those of law enforcement and intelligence agencies. But human rights advocates said Friday they also had a critical interest at stake. Swift and inexpensive communications over the Internet "promise to destroy the ability of abusive regimes to silence their people, hide their atrocities and blockade the truth," said Dinah PoKempner, deputy general counsel for Human Rights Watch. "Encryption offers the most fundamental protection to those who seek to bring abuses to light in these circumstances," she added at a briefing for congressional staff. Those who report human rights abuses can become victims of abuse if discovered, so the availability of encryption to hide electronic mail messages or faxes can be a matter of "life or death," said Patrick Ball, who trains human rights activists to use the technology. The Clinton administration generally prohibits the export of strong encryption unless the products allow the government to decode any message by gaining access to the software keys. A variety of encryption-related legislation is pending in Congress, including bills that would overturn the Clinton policy and relax the export limits. Ball, senior program associate with the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), warned that the use of so-called key recovery features to give governments access to coded messages could compromise the work of human rights groups. "How can we ensure that intelligence and law enforcement groups in repressive countries will not directly or indirectly obtain human rights groups keys from the U.S. government," Ball asked. "Human rights monitoring is always defined by repressive regimes as a threat to national security." Congressional staffers attending the briefing also heard from leading cryptography scientists who said U.S. export controls stifled research on encryption, thereby slowing the development of more secure computer networks. Alex Fowler, project coordinator with the AAAS, said the presentations were intended to counter the portrait of encryption users painted by law enforcement agencies. "We want to reaffirm that cryptography is a science, not just a pastime of anarchists, terrorists and hackers," Fowler said. The export rules prohibit U.S. researchers from collaborating with foreign scientists on coding technology, according to Ian Goldberg, a graduate student at the University of California. In January, Goldberg sucessfully cracked a message in a few hours that had been encoded with the most powerful encryption allowed to be freely exported from the United States. A Canadian citizen, Goldberg said that he could collaborate with others or publish research on the Internet while home from school. "But I can't go home every time I have an idea --the plane fare alone..." he joked. --Aaron Pressman((202-898-8312)) For related news, double click on one of the following codes: [E] [U] [MNI] [NAT] [CAN] [US] [WASH] [BUS] [TEL] [DPR] [TRD] [ENT] [MUNI] [GVD] [DBT] [INT] [FRX] [CA] [LEN] [RTRS] Friday, 1 August 1997 16:04:06 RTRS [nN01204006] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender specifically states them to be the views of Reuters Ltd.

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Re: SSL CHALLENGE: Can't search with Win32 client!
by Peter Trei 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> I've got some keyspace, from various projects and test projects on the > server, but no matter what key range I select, I can't get the Search > button to be active (not greyed out). > Anybody else getting this? > Joe I did. If you look at 'properties' you'll probably find the data needs updating. click up 'update' to do this. It now seems to be working form me. Now if only I could get the 'search status' window to tell me something... Peter Trei Senior Software Engineer Purveyor Development Team Process Software Corporation trei(a)process.com

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