December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Electric Communities (was: COS_sec)
by cman＠communities.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

FWIW, this is the company I work for. Not a bad article; more info is available at: http://www.communities.com/. Three of the nine people who work here are long-time subscribers to this list... I was recruited at a c'punks Bay Area meeting. --doug "member of the cryptographic staff" barnes > Electric Communities began work began in 1993 on the > Cyberspace Operating System, or COS, designed to manage > the resources of shared computing -- like security and > bandwidth -- just as operating systems like the > Macintosh OS or Windows 95 manage resources inside a > desktop PC. The team is inventing some technology, > including a programming language (compatible with Sun > Microsystems' new Java language for Internet > applications) and a design concept for software building > blocks which it is in the process of patenting. In > addition, staff cryptographers are weaving encryption > throughout the system to make it absolutely secure and > private. > > > COS_sec (6 kb)

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Rabin Patents.
by hallam＠w3.org 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Anyone know who is currently claiming Patent rights over the Rabin public key encryption and signature schemes? Is it RSADSI or Cylink ... or both? Phill

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Re: CJR returned to sender
by tcmay＠got.net 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 4:43 PM 10/26/95, Jeff Weinstein wrote: > The ITARs are currently keeping us(Netscape) from distributing >our US-only products to people within the United States. We have >asked for clarification from the government about network distribution, >such as how much verification of location and citizenship of the >recipient we must do, and have yet to receive a response. That >makes it more than just an export issue, at least for us. And I agree that this is a much more important issue than whether a t-shirt can get an OK for export or not. If the CJR for the t-shirt is ultimately granted, what useful information will be derived, or what implications for Netscape's question will be discovered? If the CJR for the t-shirt is ultimately denied, ditto? Distribution over networks--which is happening every day, and which is happening every time the Cypherpunks list contains code fragments and other useful comments on crypto tools--is a much more serious issue. The t-shirt joke is unlikely to help. (For all those who commented that wearing the munitions shirt is rilly, rilly kool, I say "Great!" Wear it in the mosh pits, just lie to people about how the t-shirt "has been classified as a munition." It hasn't been as of this writing.) --Tim May Views here are not the views of my Internet Service Provider or Government. ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay(a)got.net 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Higher Power: 2^756839 | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders are just speed bumps on the information superhighway."

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groupware position available in Boston
by Vladimir Z. Nuri 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I recently got word of an interesting groupware development position in Boston that someone here may be able to benefit from. feel free to pass on this info. (contrary to some here who are not impressed with groupware application potential, in my estimation groupware is soon going be a key "killer app" in cyberspace, perhaps the "next" one after Netscape, driving key technological advancement in network & software development... in my opinion virtually every significant and valuable aspect of the internet can be boiled down into a subset of the functions of groupware.) === From: mike(a)kni.mv.com (Mike Hren) ... We are starting a company called Emergent Systems and are looking for technical partners to help turn our vision into reality. We're developing a meta-groupware application that seeks to accelerate the learning of a workgroup. Called a Discovery Acceleration System, the idea is to use a text engine to synthesize the collective email dialogue (voicemail later) of a workgroup into its core concepts (Concept Map) that can be visualized, hypertext linked to related information sources, and used as a prioritizer of unsolicited email based on conceptual relevance. Just as knowledge is born of chaos, this Concept Map emerges from the workgroup's daily interaction--as opposed to being externally defined by a static knowledge base. In a dynamic sense, since the Concept Map is used as a distributed Linker and Lens between workgroups, it also enables a system of interaction to emerge at the organizational level. We are looking for someone with software development experience, and interest in information retreival, data visualization, groupware, or messaging systems. Since most of the components of this system are commercially available, integration is more important than theoretical development. Also, a desire to be part of a start-up effort is a must. .... If you or anyone you know might be interested, please email a resume and description of interest. Thanks for your time. Mike Hren President Emergent Systems, Inc.

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POINTER: The Money Laundromat
by Damaged Justice 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

J. Orlin Grabbe's essay, "The Money Laundromat", as published in the November 1995 issue of Liberty, was sent to me via e-mail by someone who prefers to remain anonymous. After checking for accuracy against my own hard copy, I have posted it to the following Usenet newsgroups: alt.security.pgp alt.society.sovereign alt.society.anarchy talk.politics.crypto I will be making this article available on my Web page shortly as well. The article covers both the threat and the promise of digicash, with much detail devoted to electronic surveillance and financial tracking via PROMIS software. This single paragraph summarizes rather well: "...the coming battle over financial footprints is inevitable, and perhaps inevitably bloody. But in the end it is the money laundering regulations that will have to go. For one thing, advances in the technology of anonymity are putting financial privacy within the reach of everyone. For another, there is a growing awareness that the existing laundering statutes have little or no effect on terrorism or drug-dealing, but instead are related to an upswing in government-sponsored harassment of targeted political groups." -- http://yakko.cs.wmich.edu/~frogfarm ..for the best in unapproved information S..O).... The statist wields a bad law! -- More -- @.../.".. You quickly protect your money pouch! -- More -- .$*...].. The statist vanishes in a puff of smoke. "Greedy bastard!"

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DigiCrime web page
by Matt Blaze 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Arjen Lenstra's startup, DigiCrime, full service criminal computer hacking organization now has a web presence, thanks to to the efforts of its theif scientist, Kevin McCurley. http://www.digicrime.com/ -matt blaze, president of vice

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Re: Need Mail-to-News gates
by User A. 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

You sez: : On Fri, 27 Oct 1995 bluebird(a)alpha.c2.org wrote: : > Could someone PLEASE netmail me some _known reliable_ gates that use the : > straight netmail address format (alt.whatnot(a)bosco.kollege.edu)? : If someone will direct me to sources, I'll try and setup a gate. (We use : INN). 'ftp.hacktic.nl/pub/replay/remailer/mail2news.shar -AJ-

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SSL Remailer interface w/premail
by sameer 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

https://www.c2.org/remail/by-www.html Note that this uses SSL and that messages are encrypted using premail -- the entire remailing chain is not in the clear anymore. This is still a single point of failure system, but secure against attacks which do not involve the compromise of c2.org. (Unlike the non-encrypting one on http://www.c2.org/remail/by-www.html) -- sameer Voice: 510-601-9777 Community ConneXion FAX: 510-601-9734 The Internet Privacy Provider Dialin: 510-658-6376 http://www.c2.org (or login as "guest") sameer(a)c2.org

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Diffie-Hellman Key Generation
by Rev. Mark Grant 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Does anyone know of software available outside the US for generating large (1024-bit or more) Diffie-Hellman keys ? The default key for CTCP is only 512 bits, and I'd like to be able to give out some larger keys (e.g. 1024 and 2048 bits) so that people have a choice of the level of security that they want to use. Alternatively, does anyone have any pre-generated large keys that I can put in there ? Finally, I'm basing this on comments in 'Applied Cryptography' that D-H keys should be at least 512 bits and preferably 1024. How does the difficulty of breaking a D-H exchange with a 512 bit key compare to breaking a 512 bit RSA key ? Mark

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Returned mail: warning: cannot send message for 4 hours (fwd)
by Moroni 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 27 Oct 1995 19:45:02 -0400 From: Mail Delivery Subsystem <MAILER-DAEMON(a)prufrocks.scranton.com> To: moroni(a)prufrocks.scranton.com Subject: Returned mail: warning: cannot send message for 4 hours ********************************************** ** THIS IS A WARNING MESSAGE ONLY ** ** YOU DO NOT NEED TO RESEND YOUR MESSAGE ** ********************************************** The original message was received at Fri, 27 Oct 1995 15:38:29 -0400 from moroni@localhost ----- The following addresses had delivery problems ----- majordormo(a)toad.com.uc.edu (transient failure) ----- Transcript of session follows ----- Warning: message still undelivered after 4 hours Will keep trying until message is 5 days old ----- Original message follows ----- To: majordormo(a)toad.com.uc.edu From: Moroni <moroni(a)prufrocks.scranton.com> Date: Fri, 27 Oct 1995 15:38:27 -0400 (EDT) subscribe Cypherpunks Deirdre A. Greene

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